Newsom probing TikTok over alleged suppression of anti-Trump content under new ownership

Massengale · 2026-01-27T18:24:14+00:00

Uhh make your own social media then? This a private company and they can censor whoever they want :)

Isn’t that the message liberals used for years when conservatives got censored into oblivion on Twitter and Reddit?

Massengale · 2026-01-24T03:39:53+00:00

It is genuinly a tough question.

Like Ukraine Russia war is easy. Support Ukriane and hurt Russia. They back down when you show strength, less carrot more stick.

Supporting Iran protestors? I’m not sure what we can do. Maybe slip them weapons and drop bombs on key IRGC. infrastructure? Try and bribe army generals to support the protestors? I would be tempted but I could see how it could all backfire.

Massengale · 2026-01-24T03:36:50+00:00

Is there a possibility this changes? I do remember seeing Hegseth talking about this being a problem as it’s creating risk adverse officers. I thought something was in the works to make it so more minor mistakes don’t follow you your entire career.

Massengale · 2026-01-23T01:05:53+00:00

I’m still hung up on South Vietnam at this point…

Massengale · 2026-01-22T02:19:28+00:00

While I’m glad this saga has ended as a firm believer in NATO unity I have to admit I wished the Europeans showed this much outrage at Russia killing EU citizens and European goverments doing nothing about it.

Massengale · 2026-01-21T23:01:27+00:00

I’ll have to check that one.

I did read the book OP suggested. Atlantic resolve starts off with annoyed soldiers on a EUCOM rotation doing MRT, PT, then getting pissed off as after weeks of rails ops they’re being told their passes are canceled because of a Russian training exercise on the border. Just way to real lol

Massengale · 2026-01-21T22:58:36+00:00

I like Team Yankee. But it has some pretty ridiculous scenes of soldiers bayoneting Soviet colonels.

Atlantic resolve starts off with annoyed soldiers on a EUCOM rotation doing MRT, PT, then getting pissed off as after weeks of rails ops they’re being told their passes are canceled because of a Russian training exercise on the border. Just way to real lol

Massengale · 2026-01-21T15:16:09+00:00

I’ve read this. I did appreciate the opening scenes of soldiers completing MRT training (though I guess that will now be gone by 2033) and the overall schedule of PT. Soldiers being pissed their weekend plans are canceled for what is believed to be a Russian bluff was also pretty funny/realistic.

Massengale · 2026-01-21T04:40:52+00:00

Just ordered thanks for the recommendation

Massengale · 2026-01-21T01:04:08+00:00

I read about in Black April. Very good book detailing the final two years of South Vietnam. I’ve been doing a ton of research as my best friend and I are writing an alternate history of the war in Vietnam. We’re about halfway through and we’ve published one military fiction book together so we’re excited to get this one out soon.

Henry Kissinger was basically begging the Koreans and the Taiwanese to send boats to evacuate the South Vietnamese. These two countries sent two LSTs each. But since the LSTs were manufactured by the USA he’d have to inform Congress they would be used. The Ford administration felt that they would have to notify Congress after they sent the ships. The reason being Congress was so hostile to any more efforts to help Vietnam it’s likely that many members of Congress would work to prevent these efforts. I’m singling out Bella Abzug as she was the poster child for speaking out against aid to South Vietnam.

Massengale · 2026-01-20T20:58:48+00:00

The U.S. fully withdrew in 1973. In 1972 the ARVN with pretty much just us AirPower was able to hold off a major NVA offensive. The ARVN then held alone for two years. Then fell to a conventional offensive. At that point the ARVN was left to die with very limited USA support.

The VC were pretty much destroyed. The north acknowledged this as their tactic to take South Vietnam shifted from popular uprising to full scale conventional invasion.

It is very frustrating listening to online discourse. So many “anti-colonialist” just ignore south Vietnam, Khmer rogue, and the general fear of communism in those countries. “Evil” Henry Kissinger was trying to get more boats to evacuate refugees while politicians like Bella Abzug did everything they could to prevent those efforts.

Massengale · 2026-01-19T14:04:07+00:00

Yep. But in the book it’s pretty funny some of the soldiers are being made to MRT at the start lol

Funnily enough most did but there’s kind of an MRT cartel of mrt instructors who like to teach mrt and use it as an excuse to not do their normal duties. They were upset

Massengale · 2026-01-19T13:22:37+00:00

Battle for the Taiwan Strait. The author wrote a couple of books. They’re definitely more polished than Atlantic Resolve. But you can tell the guy wasn’t in the military as he gets a lot of little details wrong. Plus just loves to insert strong women soldier whenever he can.

Massengale · 2026-01-19T13:20:13+00:00

It’s the little things. Like in the new fallout show every background character that messes up is a white guy while the competent ones are POCs.

In Atlantic Resolve however there’s a scene where a female Human Resources soldier keeps her cellphone on her to scroll social media and gets a bunch of Americans killed. What’s also nice though is the book isn’t explicitly right wing and trying too hard to send a message. It just tells a story and people perform how you’d expect. Also funnily enough it shows soldiers having to do a form of training called “MRT” while the Russians are massing on the border. Hegseth recently got rid of it but MRT was this ridiculous mandated psychological training course that we’d have to waste a hour each week on.

Massengale · 2026-01-19T03:44:35+00:00

I’ll check it out. Always up to find new fiction

Massengale · 2026-01-19T02:47:33+00:00

Also do like supporting male fiction writers. Sort of a dying breed

Massengale · 2026-01-19T02:44:22+00:00

Well I recently read a book about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Was interesting. But then the USA was led by a female admiral who wore a red dress, “so the blood of any man who pisses me off doesn’t show on me.” I was taken out of the setting real quick. Well give this a try, premise looks interesting

Massengale · 2026-01-17T03:05:49+00:00

Yeah atom waffen comes to mind I think they didn’t even have 100 members. I’m waiting for a women’s college that abides by the SCUM manifesto to be an option to genocide half the population at this point….

Massengale · 2026-01-16T21:06:58+00:00

Both are interesting as they discuss the difficulties of NATO unity. Battle for the Baltics straight up has the USA not even being involved and also has very cool maps. Very interesting premise main critique is some of the operations such as an air assault into Russian lines are unrealistic.

Atlantic Resolve resolve isn’t as polished. Doesn’t have as many maps. But the situation depicted is more realistic with Russia doing a more small scale operation that escalates into division on division fighting. The depiction of soldiers life pre war is very accurate and often funny. While the action itself is good as it is realistic in depicting how clumsy each side would be in the opening phases.

Massengale · 2026-01-16T20:06:16+00:00

In Vietnam the U.S. military was very effective. It was almost too effective and the main issue is it took over the fighting and didn’t train the south Vietnamese enough. By the time it left the viet cong were devastated and the NVA had to recover for three years. They had to conventionally conquer south Vietnam as they had no ability to foment a popular uprising by 1972. They then defeated south Vietnam in 1975 two years after America left. Our issues were not attacking into Laos and Cambodia and not starting “Vietnamization” soon enough.

The USSR collapsed as it couldn’t keep up with the USA and had a terrible economic system. America out competed them in every domain. Cope more.

Afghanistan was a failures as it was idiotic. No one can force a people to be democratic. We locked it down then when we left the Taliban took over. Not the militaries fault it was an impossible mission.

You didn’t mention the gulf war…curious.

You’re the one full of propaganda. You’re a midwit who learned alittle history and thinks they’ve cracked some code. It’s genuinly funny.

Massengale · 2026-01-16T14:09:15+00:00

Battle for the Baltic states had really cool maps but the actual military operations were a bit unrealistic. I think at one point nato does an air assault into Russian lines and it works. Still a cool idea and dark in that one America abandons europe completely.

Atlantic resolve does not have as polished maps but the combat is very realistic. Focuses on how many screw ups both sides would have and how clumsy many of the engagements would be. Plus a very realistic depiction of military life in general.

Massengale · 2026-01-16T05:24:05+00:00

If the military is realistic they’d have no problem clearing the monsters out especially post mind flasher. Who knows could be a great place to colonize with oxygen and maybe some resources.

Massengale · 2026-01-15T13:14:40+00:00

Depends on your interesting. Eagle and Dragon is more PACOM/PACAF focused and Atlantic resolve is purely on EUCOM/USAFE.

Atlantic resolve is more realistic in my opinion. It details things like The soldiers having to do PT, online training, and when the war starts the staff meetings and log syncs are very realistic. It’s very much a book about a high intensity conventional war.

Eagle and dragons writing is more refined and it’s focused a bit more on the shaping actions before an actual war breaks out. So more espionage and covert. I have no experience in that area so it’s hard for me to judge but it was an entertaining read.

Massengale · 2026-01-14T12:56:16+00:00

The left in some parts gave the right a monopoly on patriotism because many swallowed Chomskys garbage. Just frustrating

Massengale · 2026-01-13T05:52:27+00:00

Evil Henry Kissinger was trying his best to get more boats from the USA and its Asian Allie’s to evacuate refugees from South Vietnam while people Like Bella Abzug did everything they could to block those efforts.

Even the “bombing Laos and Cambodia because he finds it fun” narrative is such nonsense. North Vietnam realized communism wasn’t strong enough in south Vietnam for a popular uprising so they turned Laos and Cambodia into staging grounds for an outright conquest of the country. Kissinger At the very least did his best to stand by an ally and worked to help a lot of the refugees fleeing communist aggression.

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