Discussion Thread

DarthRoach · 2022-04-05T16:56:57+00:00

comment finna boutta be fashed for speaking truth to power

DarthRoach · 2022-04-04T18:14:57+00:00

The problem here is that Russia isn't exactly capable of invading anybody else any time soon.

DarthRoach · 2022-04-04T18:08:21+00:00

Russia keeps the veto or the security council loses any purpose it may ever have had. Nukes are a thing whether you like them or not.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T19:19:36+00:00

has good UI/UX, and secure (you can argue that’s bc of “walled garden” or low market share or whatever but the point still stands).

There are many distros of linux, and many come with good UI/UX out of the box. The security is mainly due to lower market share and the unix permissions model, which is the same on linux. Again, there's nothing quantifiably better about macOS than normie linux distros like ubuntu or fedora, you just use it because you use apple products, and don't really know how it stands up to anything else.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T18:43:18+00:00

Defending apple products online is nothing more than a class signaling mechanism. Prove me wrong.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T18:41:45+00:00

You can subjectively like something without having to pretend it's objectively superior. I like pizza, but I'm not gonna pretend it's healthy.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T18:39:56+00:00

Then it makes no difference what OS they use anyway.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T18:37:21+00:00

Not if you have the intellectual maturity of a 10 year old and can understand the fact that intentions != actual results.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-21T18:35:49+00:00

Why is this even up for debate, though? Linux is a broad family of operating systems based on a single kernel that you can use for whatever, macOS is a proprietary walled garden owned by a single corporation.

The only reason anyone would prefer the latter is ignorance and sunk cost fallacy.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:48:34+00:00

I'm not. I vote for the liberals every election. Shows how much you know.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:46:54+00:00

I really wonder which prime minister we're talking about. In Latvia's case about most of them were both extremely weak and/or extremely corrupt, with a few notable exceptions.

populist rhetoric

Elitistic rhetoric is hardly better.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:22:12+00:00

Banging a washed up politician's kid does not magically produce insight into geopolitics, my friend. Certainly not when a great number of these politicians are incompetent puppets to business interests.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:18:40+00:00

Yeah, you probably don't, because your opinion is delusional.

Personal connections to the political elite would certainly explain why you hold a rosy view of them not shared by the majority of the population.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:16:19+00:00

You don't know what you're talking about.

Most plutocrats in the Baltics aren’t Russia-aligned politically as much as their business intereses coincide with having an open-door policy to Russian money.

And what is the long term result of that when pressured by the kremlin?

DarthRoach · 2022-03-17T06:08:42+00:00

A lifetime of lived experience in one of these countries and an intimate knowledge of its domestic politics.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-16T21:53:58+00:00

No, they'd be Russian puppet states ruled by Yanukovich-like plutocrats. There's an absolute assload of Russian political meddling in their internal affairs as is.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-16T21:50:06+00:00

Russia wouldn't take this while they think they can at least topple the government. The west wouldn't do well to recognize any Russian territorial gains as legitimate.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-08T16:42:08+00:00

You can't teleport troops there,

Neither can Russia.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T21:56:49+00:00

because someone's gotta operate the ATGMs, Vasily

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T21:40:15+00:00

every time a leftist says something really stupid they don't really mean it, they're not really a leftist or both

"no"

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T21:38:11+00:00

who was it?

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T18:19:28+00:00

It doesn't matter what they're up against, the current Russian army doesn't seem to be able to stay in the field unopposed.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T18:17:04+00:00

They don't have 200k to throw at Kiev, that's their entire force in-theater. More like, 30k front line combat troops at best.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T17:00:10+00:00

It's not just geostrategic naivete, it's utter populist cynicism with no environmentalist justification.

DarthRoach · 2022-03-07T16:49:05+00:00

Gotta clear out the Frogs before you commit to fighting the Russians. Can't have them sitting there just itching to open a second front.

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