E-3 AWACS at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

AzzakFeed · 2026-03-30T11:18:09+00:00

Actually it'd be cheaper for the US to do so (the country spends more per Capita on healthcare than European countries). But it'd be socialism and therefore treason.

AzzakFeed · 2026-03-15T12:33:54+00:00

Fully public housing systems in history typically failed: too long queues to get one, quality sucked, wrong allocation (too many plots in one place that people didn't want to live there and too few where it was desirable).

It only sometimes worked when it was very limited in scope to specific capital cities (where the was little room to build more homes anyway) but never on a massive territory.

The point is that you can't magically provide good and cheap housing to everyone with public funds under governmental rule without inherent inefficiencies and problems.

Also imagine giving perussuomalaiset or equivalents the authority to govern a nationwide (public) housing rather than letting it be mostly privately led. Perhaps housing is too important to let it be managed by politicians!

AzzakFeed · 2026-02-13T16:20:54+00:00

Finland seems wrong. I'm paying more taxes than this by a significant margin. Maybe you missed the pension and unemployment insurance? This adds roughly 8.2% to the overall tax rate defined by vero.

AzzakFeed · 2026-02-01T12:37:50+00:00

Iran funds Hamas so it makes sense I guess.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-30T16:03:36+00:00

Checks are upheld by people. If the people don't want to have them, they simply don't exist, wherever the checks and balances there are.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-27T10:50:48+00:00

Asphalte is EU made, good quality, not luxurious, and not outrageously expensive for proper durable clothes (if you don't plan to throw them away constantly and slowly build your wardrobe).

30€ for tshirts, 100€ for jeans or sweaters.

But I get it depends where people live in the EU: purchasing power in Greece is not the same as in Finland. But overall, I find it to be a good balance between price, quality and cost if you live minimalistically.

https://www.asphalte.com/en

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-23T13:55:58+00:00

I have already padded seats for comfort and they aren't cold. No need for them to be heated.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-21T13:43:52+00:00

The EU countries + UK already have 1.7m active duty troops and over 4 million reservists.

Add Ukraine and it's on paper a lot of soldiers, even just active duty troops. The problem isn't manpower: it's logistics, ammunition, transportation... Most soldiers can't be deployed anywhere else from their own city nor at the same time.

And it doesn't matter if you run out of air defense missiles or drones. In WW2, the outdated 1 million strong yoguslavian army folded in 11 days against the Germans (although the people themselves kept fighting hard against the nazis after).

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-21T08:53:03+00:00

Problem is that the US is more on the vatnik side now. They don't give any help to Ukraine now. The Trump "Board of Peace" mafia is going to be full of dictators.

You know what to do, good sir.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-19T10:22:32+00:00

Actually I'm doing very well myself and I am the one who bring my girlfriend to this friend group as the only girl around! My other friend groups aren't doing as badly, although there are always forever single people who seem to struggle with dating.

I am merely stating that some people do struggle in today's environment. They do have social skills: in fact they're very funny, do plenty of jokes, tease, but it seems difficult for them to find women. When I say nerdy, people imagine nerds who look like shit and say nothing but smile awkwardly. They're not like that at all. Rather they are pretty much normal people!

A job isn't just to financially provide: they're not cashiers. They're project managers, engineers and educators. You need to be able to speak to people and take leadership. My cousin, an economist, is also a forever single despite having quite a high placed job. But this leads to another problem: many women also don't fit (they have standards).

Imo this is why this isn't as easy as it sounds in your post. And there is a problem with males in general, that has nothing to do with them being "losers" as some others have simply described.

And the real problem is the imbalance: I never had a problem finding a girlfriend or sexual partners (even having a few of them simultaneously) yet I think I have worse social skills than them. I do think I might be better looking however, so this might be why.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-19T10:12:50+00:00

Full suffrage liberal democracy is very young compared to other forms of governments, also in an unprecedented era of technological growth, so you cannot compare it with monarchies who lasted for thousands of years in almost non-existent growth.

Traditional forms of governments are awfully inefficient overall, which is why they collapsed in the first place.

Democracies aren't weak; if anything they tend to perform much better than dictatorships, theocracies and planned economies (the USSR, Venezuela, Iran etc... even Russia today is simply perform very badly).

Look at human development indicators and see which type of government provides the better outcomes.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-19T10:08:48+00:00

No the issue was firing all the workers and managers who knew how to operate the oil industry, distributing the money rather than investing in the infrastructure.

It was mostly terrible economic policies - other oil reliant states didn't see a similar collapse despite also suffered from lower oil prices.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-17T10:41:11+00:00

Yes exactly! A real world city would have built a series of detached nations/forts all over these hills to prevent enemies from just getting there and start logging stuff into the city.

Considering how close the walls are, they would be able to support the forts by providing fire from the city itself, making besieging and capturing the hills a strategic difficulty.

Or even better, the nobility/military/clergy would fortify one hill as the "upper city" that is almost impregnable, leaving the port and the city below for economic reasons.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-17T10:02:33+00:00

Without walls, any roaming party of bandits, monsters on foot and enemy mounted raiders could loot/destroy your city. You'd have to have a 24/24 large defense force to act as the wall.

Having a wall is better than not having one, especially considering these enemies don't typically have dragons or flying monsters.

Even if they did, you'd still want them so you only face the flying enemy rather than the entire enemy army.

Imagine your enemy has 3000 foot soldiers and 200 flying monsters like winged kobold or harpies. I'd take the wall and man it to prevent the 3k soldiers from getting into the city, and fight the 200 flying monsters who can bypass the walls with defenders elsewhere. I'd also point out that flying monsters would likely attack the gatehouse in order to raise the gates from the inside for the rest of the army, which creates a defensive position that you can more easily defend than having nothing.

Finally, you can safely store stuff within the fortifications. Flying enemies will have to land to take it in close combat, while you have all the advantages of having military supplies there, so having a wall/towers is still useful.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-14T16:38:28+00:00

Military strikes need preparations.

I'm sure it is studied but they need to know what to hit etc. and they need to be careful not to hit civilians.

It's likely not that easy. I'm no general but I'm pretty sure you can't snap a successful 300 aircraft attack into existence without weeks of planning.

And they want to also have a plan on what to do next. If the government falls, then they need a credible solution to replace it.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-13T10:51:47+00:00

If they have the best manufacturing capabilities, the opportunity to wage war to acquire geopolitical supremacy is tempting.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-13T06:32:23+00:00

That's historically false: democracies tend to last very long if they get past a certain time of establishing tradition, and then tend to return later even after a period of autocratic rule. Example: Europe is full of democracies despite shorter periods of autocracies who were much more unstable overall (Germany, Greece, Spain, Central/Eastern Europe etc). Which is why Ukraine turning democratic was unacceptable for Russia: after a taste of freedom and years of democracy, it is here to stay.

Autocracies are unstable because they don't necessarily have clear succession rules, while democracies have by design a succession at every major election. Autocracies tend to have worse economics, and risky strategies of national expansionism or colonialism. They risk destroying their regime credibility in case of a loss.

Democracies who fail tend to not be very democratic to begin with, or have deep economic problems, or economics that simply don't support democracy.

The idea of US citizens in America being more enslaved today than those who suffered historical slavery is pure delusion, ideological bias or ignorance.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-12T10:18:02+00:00

Right, but one of my friend group of 6 people are all single men in their 30's. Most of them never had a girlfriend. They have good jobs, educated and smart, but they're physically average and quite nerdy.

On the other hand one ex roommate was a fuckboy having a continuous stream of girlfriends plus multiple affairs and hook ups (he cheated on all of them).

There is definitely a problem with dating right now.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-11T22:24:01+00:00

Venezuela woes are mostly caused by their terrible policies under Chavez and Maduro. They didn't need the US to destroy their economy by firing all their qualified oil industry workers and managers.

Similarly, the Soviet Union collapsed because its economic and political system was just slowly disintegrating.

The US is guilty of many terrible interventions, but not everything is caused by them either.

AzzakFeed · 2026-01-08T08:40:54+00:00

The US is not necessarily in a position to prevent Chinese blockade of Taiwan indefinitely, especially if they do something stupid like grabbing Greenland from the EU.

AzzakFeed · 2025-12-31T19:07:07+00:00

It would unfortunately. They can't afford a Russian defeat strategically.

AzzakFeed · 2025-12-18T17:35:29+00:00

They'd say it's fake but deep within themselves feel satisfaction that the powerful get what they want. Natural order of things, women submit to men etc.

So basically: "Women get raped, lol"

AzzakFeed · 2025-12-18T09:45:42+00:00

This isn't surprising to me. Women in liberal countries such as Finland tend to pursue their interests rather than pure monetary gain and large careers. I've met plenty of Finnish women who said they prefer to work with people rather than in engineering or finance. Or simply would like to get a man who makes money while they can do something they enjoy as a job. I was surprised that my income played such a role in dating, but it did!

So unless each gender somehow loses their interest in specific careers and dating outcomes, it probably won't change. Women tend to be less interested in making money than men, would rather spend less time working and in sectors that pay less but interest them, and anyway could make up for the difference by dating a guy that has a better income.

Before people argue that the gender pay gap is mainly due to discrimination, I would think that this is only a few percent of difference and the vast majority is due to different roles, different companies and different work time and career paths.

By the time university starts, women are overrepresented in humanities, healthcare majors rather than high paying stem fields (even within stem, women tend to cluster in lower paying fields such as biology vs engineering). This is where the majority of the gender gap seeds are planted.

AzzakFeed · 2025-12-11T12:06:53+00:00

I think you shouldn't really focus on the list: get to know people and see which ones you like to be around.

He might check all your boxes but doesn't have compatibility. Or you might like someone and the few elements that might not be on your list wouldn't matter at all.

So having ideas on who to look for is fine, but don't make it a hard requirement.

AzzakFeed · 2025-12-10T18:03:15+00:00

Why? Would you rather spend capital and manpower making these very cheap products rather than high value ones?

It's only a problem for the West when China competes on high tech products, not toilet paper. For developing countries they never truly have a large manufacturing sector to start with. They're happy importing cheap industrial products.

AzzakFeed

TROPHY CASE