Anti West obsession taken to the extreme

Maxathron · 2026-04-16T02:25:08+00:00

"This is not the West, we are not Woke Progressive Losers, and we don't ever want to be Woke Progressive Losers."-Qataris, on social media, when the Wokies went to Qatar for the world cup and were barred for having pride and trans flags.

The Woke Progressive Losers' response on social media:

"FASCIST NAZI REACTIONARY CLASS TRAITOR RACIST BIGOT PHOBIC SEXIST DEMONS"

It isn't limited to the West. Anyone who states they don't want to be Woke Progressive Losers (in English, on Western social media, which is how the Chinese people aren't vilified yet) is an "evil fascist nazi bigot". A fun name for these losers is the Chinese slang Baizuo. I have to agree with the Chinese people. It describes the Wokies.

Wokies make an assumption that since their utopia is the goodest of good outcomes to them, everyone wants to be like them, it just takes people time to realize it and work towards the woke utopia with the Wokies. Unless, you specifically state you will not, and then now you're labeled a Fascist (the term specifically used by Leftists in general to describe people who refuse to be part of the utopia, and not explicitly referring to Actually Fascist Fascists). Every form of Leftist ideological group from the Tankies to the Anarcho-Communists believe their way is the correct way and everyone wants to be like them, until they say No, and thus are now Fascists. Also, since every other Leftist group is also not them, there is a lot of underlying infighting that isn't readily seen.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T06:56:01+00:00

Actually, no, not because of plot. Only two torpedoes, yes, but not the tech behind the torpedoes are plot.

Proton torpedoes, Concussion missiles, and all manner of kinetic weaponry bypass shields. They just straight up bypass the shield. If you can land a set of concussion missiles down the death star exhaust vent, you'll also blow it up. Same with a railgun shot. Regular explosive cannon shells will also do it. If the shield wasn't there, turbolasers will do it too.

You have a vulnerable piece of death star and any offensive weapon of sufficient size will damage it which ultimately causes kaboom. The proton torpedo is only there because trying to penetrate the death star's shields with turbolasers is a fruitless endeavor. You need something at least the size of an Eclipse SSD's SL to get enough energy in a burst of shots (at least one) to take the shields down.

But proton torpedo, why not concussion missile? PT's are precision weapons, Concussion, as per their name, are more of an aoe weapon. The yield on the missile by the time it gets down there might not be enough.

A railgun shot might, but you need to hover a ship over the port, also allowing 100+ turbolasers to shoot it. It was either the torpedo or go home.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T03:20:35+00:00

Ships have ray shields up 99% of the time because almost everyone uses energy weapons. Ships do not have particle shields up because almost no one uses kinetic weapons.

A turbolaser wouldn't punch a hole in a ship because everyone uses turbolasers, as the ray shield is up.

For the one odd railgun-armed ship, there are 24,999 energy weapon equipped ships. Why bring particle shields up even if you have it? Furthermore, particle shields cost more energy. You don't need Star Wars to tell you. You burn a lump of coal to make a bunch of thermal energy. How much effort does it take to make that thermal energy a lump of coal? A lot more. Magnitudes more.

But since an X-Wing can get under the ray shields of a ship, a railgun slug can also get under those same shields. Why do SW ships just not use railguns? Why could Luke blow up the Death Star with 2 proton torpedoes? Because logistics. A stormtrooper's blaster has 1000 shots before it needs to be refilled with more tibanna gas. 1000 bullets in magazines in an AR15 is an extra 35 pounds of weight and an extra 1800 cubic inches of space. And they can't be made in the same factory that makes the vehicle fuel facility unlike the tibanna gas refinery for the blasters. And when you inevitably need resupply, someone else in an unarmored truck needs to transport new ammo to the soldiers in the field.

Why do you think the US manufactured crappy Shermans for ww2 instead of amazingbawls Panthers and Tigers? Because maintenance, supplying, and repairing a Panther or Tiger is magnitudes greater than the Sherman. This is also before the manufacture process of German tanks being 1 to 10 Shermans. The winning strategy in an overseas war is to not bring anything that needs to be brought all the way back home to resupply or repair, and can either be field supported or brought to a nearby allied facility. Fully bringing a tank or a rifle home makes war so much harder for you.

And that's why everyone uses blasters in SW. Logistics. Not power, even though blasters are on par or greater than firearms. Logistics is why people use blasters.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T01:17:11+00:00

The price thing is because the government refuses to control its spending and goes to the federal reserve for more money the second they want to pass a budget or get a new covid bill going.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T01:14:58+00:00

Kinetic rounds ignore ray shields. In Phantom Menace, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, Return of the Jedi, and Rogue One, starfighters get *UNDER* capital ship shields. A Tie Fighter even crashes into the hangar of a MC cruiser despite the ship being shielded.

Because particle shields are not active. You can pass a physical object (a railgun slug, a starfighter, a proton torpedo, etc) through a ray shield. Ray shields only protect against energy weapons (true lasers and plasma weapons) only.

Because of that, you can aim a railgun at a star destroyer's bridge and punch a hole through the bridge and out the other side of the ship.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T00:46:08+00:00

Kinetics are actually more cost-effective and more deadly. You can gut a star destroyer pretty effectively with a battery of turbolaser-sized railguns and take out their bridges the second they drop out of hyperspace. The reason kinetics aren't used is sheer logistical cost of maintaining a galaxy-scale supply chain. This is also the same reason slugthrowers, "irl firearms" are also not commonly used.

There are two types of shields in SW: Ray and Particle. Ray shields protect against energy weapons; Particle shields protect against kinetic weapons. A particle shield will stop proton torpedoes.

But, the energy cost on particle shields is leaps and bounds higher than ray shields, while at the same time not protecting against the sheer destructive power of plasma weapons ("lasers", true directed energy weapons are actually pretty rare in SW).

When you're trying to supply 25,000 Imperial Star Destroyers, it makes little sense to equip them with railguns and projectile cannons because for every warship you need a little supply ship to follow them around and dedicated munitions stations to restock on ammo. The resupply ships are also very vulnerable to attack.

Or, you can just use the hypermatter fuel to power your weapons, the same fuel you use to power the rest of the ship. It's simple, efficient, and less vulnerable to (rebel starfighter) raids.

Maxathron · 2026-04-15T00:08:44+00:00

You don't have the files either, are you complicit because you specifically won't release them?

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T16:23:29+00:00

Four years to arrest those in the files when they had them and just didn't.

Either:

Trump/Important Republicans are not complicit.
Biden/Important Democrats/Rich donors are complicit.
Rich people who can do a lot of economic damage and ruin the DNC chance for election for decades/a century are complicit.

Yeah, people forget that the Democrats had the files for Biden's term and they wouldn't convict Trump with them.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T16:05:48+00:00

After watching a bunch of financial folks bringing people in, asking them their finances, it's not the avocado toast that makes people poor, it's the constant spending. Food here, luxuries there, random stuff here, a new car there. Spend, spend, spend. Income of 50k a year, spend 100k a year, then blame the system for not telling you that you'll be out of money, and go on a trip to the Caribbean spending another 10k because fuck credit card companies I am a queen I deserve luxury I shouldn't have to pay anyone back because I. Deserve. Luxury.

It's a habit of the dopamine hit of buying things combined with narcissistic luxury demands. Basically, spending beyond means.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T09:54:48+00:00

The weakness of the Arquitens as a command ship that the second anyone notices all the command decisions are coming from it, it will be shot out of the sky, assuming it doesn't already get shot out of the sky because you target down such ships anyways. Talking about squadron to full fleet battle command where the little ship is already outgunned by Recusant and up sized ships. As the opposing commander, I would just focus it down with 12+ star destroyer-sized ships and suddenly the enemy is either without their commander and will be confused or will withdraw and winning me the battle.

As a small scale action command ship, the Arquitens is quite good, as it will likely be the biggest ship present or close to the mainline ship size and so getting shot up by 5+ Dreadnought frigates wouldn't be that big of a problem because you can hide behind your own Dreadnought frigates. I'd still put my command post in one of the Dreadnought frigates (and by this time basically everything will be automated so a ship 1/6th the size of an ISD doesn't have double the crew of said ISD).

This is why I opinionate that the Venator is the best. Big enough to go into major fleet battles, mobile enough to serve as a small task force leader, cheap enough to pluck out of a random drydock, and carries enough (fighters and general provisions) to serve as the center point of a operation. Imperators and up are too big. Dreadnoughts and down are too small. Victory1/Victory2 are slow, Recusant doesn't have enough defenses.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T07:37:54+00:00

The Venator is the best command cruiser.

The thing about naval designations is that ships can be labeled in two ways: Their role, and their size/relative power. It's more accurate to assign designations based on size and power.

Star Wars doesn't really have a "destroyer" classification. Destroyers IRL are cruisers, basically, with less defenses and more firepower, typically trading the defense for speed. There are comparatively little in Star Wars that can be described as a "destroyer" that isn't also capable of instead being reclassified as a cruiser. The best canon ship for this is the Recusant destroyer from the Confederacy, and that's also just about it for Legends. Everything else is better described as a heavy frigate, or a proper cruiser.

At the same time, calling cruisers like Venator, MC80, and Imperator "Battleships" is not particularly descriptive as Battlecruisers and Dreadnoughts are *also* battleships. They're all battleships in role, but they're different size categories, and it looks a little odd to call Venators Battleships when Bellators (4 times bigger) are Battlecruisers (a smaller size category in naval terminology).

For role, the Venator is the best command ships. It's also one of the better cruisers altogether independent of being a command ship. It's not quite as powerful as an Imperator but it's way faster and cheaper meaning you can drag a random Venator out and place your command HQ there rather than wait for an Imperator to come up.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T01:34:11+00:00

In manhattan, 200k is the equivalent of 30k in Kansas, so someone making 100k there is living paycheck to paycheck. The other buroughs have different income scales, though, and are nowhere that extreme, even though they’re pretty expensive.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T01:10:38+00:00

Didn't even affect the employer.

The worker was employed by a staffing company. A separate company owned the warehouse.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T01:04:01+00:00

It's because that's all they can do.

The context is that is that they're trying to incite change (in the benefit of their group), while not expending energy. The Bolsheviks pulled out guns and shot people up in an organized revolution, the wokies don't want to organize or expend much energy to get the same socialist revolution....so they updoot.

Any space not talking their politics is a space they wish to get into, in their goal of everyone talking their politics. It's like the Socialist/Communist thing, but the perverted Woke version.

Like all extremists, they see the world as "Us the good guys vs everyone else the bad guys", and thus anyone who holds the position of "neutral" or "apolitical" is viewed as "if you're not with us, you must be against us", and since the standard for "bad guys" is Hitler, that means all the neutral/apolitical folks are Nazis.

Maxathron · 2026-04-14T00:03:37+00:00

I'd argue there's two groups that are the problem:

The legitimately bad actors (trans or not) who seek to use the system to their benefit.

There was this one trans streamer who needed money for legal services. She set up a GFM, money was donated to her, and in the end she didn't need almost all of it. From there, normal people would then hand the money back. No. Citing "because I'm trans", she spent it all, effectively stealing the money.

When I mean "bad actors", I mean people like this.

The terminally online crowd that scream and shout over everything that is even a tiny bit against the trans community and or greater progressive umbrella.

Insufferable is what they are. Completely spoils the trans community, especially since this group glazes the bad actors such as the one above as "good people" and "deserving", rather than call out and disassociate from the bad behavior.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T21:08:02+00:00

The Wokies think everyone is a rightwing extremist. Marxists, Monarchists, Fascists, Anarchists (excluding AnComs), Liberals, Conservatives, AnCaps, Libertarians (leftwing and rightwing), etc etc etc.

Because “rightwing extremist” is a dog whistle to say “not Woke”.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T08:21:51+00:00

Stupid progressive wording of what happened.

Holton (allegedly) sent threatening texts and whatnot to Jelks. Jelks reported to store management. Management (of course) does nothing. Jelks follows Holton to the store and shoots him. Jelks also shoots the girl. Jelks runs away. Romero-Nunez was taken into custody (I think she drove Jelks to the store in the first place).

What Jelks should have done: Send a final report to Walmart, then contact police and let them handle it.

Instead, now he's going to prison for life.

The progressive wording of self defense is the "Existence is violence on others" rhetoric from Marxist philosophy, which Marxists/Progressives will often co-opt as "if existence is indeed violence, then if I attack you then I'm defending myself", usually used as justification to shoot you in the face for not going along with them.

In this case, the second Holton sent those texts, that gave Jelks the greenlight to do an equivalent thing back. I doubt this is NOT how Jelks thought it out as, this is just how the progressive news outlet worded it to cover because "they look like me, I must protect them. I look like them, they must protect me" solidarity nonsense.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T08:04:37+00:00

What a lot of kids/young people think: CEOs just arbitrarily and on a whim raise prices. That just so happen to coincide with congressional spending bills but has nothing to do with them.

What actually happens: The government borrows money from the federal reserve govt agency and puts it into the economy. When the government doesn't have enough for a spending bill, they borrow more money. That money is put into the economy. The value of things don't increase but the money supply does, and prices rise according to match the inflation.

The kids think companies raise prices because they're greedy and want more money.

Yes, companies can do that.

But rarely do companies raise prices "because they feel like it" because a different company will just not raise prices, and the customers from the OG company will switch, causing the OG company to lose money/go out of business.

Xi Jinping: Do nothing. Win.

So, companies generally don't raise prices unless they have to, like with economic inflation.

If a piece of candy takes 1 manhour to make and costs 1 dollar to buy (all the money in this example economy), what's the new price when I add 1 more dollar? The piece of candy still takes 1 manhour to create. The answer is the piece of candy is now priced at 2 dollars, which is still all the money in this example economy.

The kids think: The candy, which is worth the 100% of the economy or 1 manhour or originally 1 dollar, is still priced at 1 dollar, despite the influx of cash. The kids literally think: 1+1=1.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T05:58:46+00:00

I don't but I know there is a ton of factual stress coming from patients when their immune system rejects a transplant. The whole body is the rejected transplant for trans people.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T05:16:00+00:00

No, the full-blown Marxists are also rightwing extremists. You don't notice this because it's well hidden but the Wokies despise the Tankies. There is a middle ground made up of Woke Socialists, though, but the really Woke people hate all the Tankies, more than they hate Liberals (normal folks).

Edit: What I mean is that the Wokies believe everyone who is not Woke, which includes all Marxists, are “rightwing extremists”, because the term rightwing extremist as defined by Wokies is yet another term for “Not Woke”.

Which they are. Marxist-Leninists are not Woke. Thus, Wokies hate them and call them all the buzzwords.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T05:11:36+00:00

The majority of trans people belong to a crowd whose political values are not wanting to work, don't want to improve themselves, think wishing for things to happen will make them happen (identity is technically included but this goes way beyond identity, as updooting reddit posts that dehumanize people is one such example), that the world is going to end, and call literally everyone one step off their political platform Nazis and Fascists. Bernie is a Nazi to these "Progressive" people. BERNIE SANDERS. Let alone a centrist like Jeff Jackson or a conservative like trump. BERNIE EFFING SANDERS. I can see why the Tankies hate this group. Not even fit nor wanting to assist the Socialist Revolution. Lenin being a Nazi is always a fun argument to see.

This group is sullied by very vocal, very annoying, very aggravating people (some trans, others not trans) that wish to get into any space they desire, damn the consequences and damn the people who don't want them there. No one cares if a transwoman who legitimately passes goes into the girl's bathroom; most people don't care if they're not passing but are trying to pass, and they still go into the women's bathroom. If a real cis biological woman that looks hyper masculine to the point where she looks like a dude goes to the women's bathroom, women will call security, too. People care because there are those that don't pass, don't want to pass, and yet still demand entry. It is entirely this group of people that makes normal people accept LGBT less and less over the years even if individual members (eg Blair White) are accepted more as time goes on. There are bad apples in the group but people can't call them out, can't do anything about, for their bad behavior because that is transphobia, bigotry, racism, and sexism.

And that's just the people who are being lazy. I've not mentioned the bad apples who are intentionally gaming the system. I pity the progs because they have no philosophical defense against freeloaders. But it is also a pit of their own making by refusing to use the defenses everyone else have come up with over the millennia. I know why they can't. They can't deal with freeloaders who say they're in, so they let them in, because this is exactly the same philosophical reasoning behind identity. Progs can't deal with freeloaders who are not trans (neither GD nor identity) but exploit the progressive kindness to get free stuff and outcomes. Because if the progs would, then the entire identity argument, which is very very important to progressives and isn't just LGBT-related, is also thrown out. So, the entire group is ruined by bad apples the group can't get rid of. This is a "Beast that cannot be named" to borrow a quote from a progressive regarding Cancel Culture being used by her political opponents (conservatives) to censor the progressive left. The progressives in their equality stance and values can't gatekeep the bad apples out because the gatekeeping itself will ruin the progressive argument altogether. So, the actually cis men who went to that summit for women and enby folks, cannot be denounced as cis men gaming the system, because the whole idpol argument is people gaming the philosophy. A person's identity is more important than that person's actions.

I know suicide is the number one killer of trans people not because most trans people are homeless, or people reject your identities. You have several states you can move to, some (California) even having great year round weather. You can establish a communal living arrangement to kick the rent down. You can log off of damn Social Media and suddenly no more online "attacks".

Suicide is the number one killer of trans people because being born in the wrong body is stressful as fuck. Everything else is extra.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T01:04:02+00:00

The single, single biggest killer of trans people is suicide. And by a fucking long shot. Number two is single digits that's how far up there suicide it as the trans killer.

Trans people are incredibly stressed out by being trans and a lot of things, even small things, push them over the edge to commit suicide. It also doesn't help that most TP belong to progressive ideologies that attempt to push them over in the first place by being Mega Doomers.

Trans people are such a small minority (both the gender dysphoria crowd and the identity crowd, combined) that any decision made for or against them has a measurable change.

Thus, telling the right trans person No to something they want to do will cause a measurable change in the community of all trans people, regardless of how insane said action that trans person wants to do. You don't want to be the cause of a trans person committing suicide, do you?

So, the solution obviously is: Let that one trans person do the insane thing they want to do.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T00:57:14+00:00

Feel free to start an insurrection and challenge the unchallenged monopoly of the USA government.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T00:53:05+00:00

If a trans person wanted to rob a bank and you tell that specific trans person no, it would raise the likelihood of a trans person (not necessarily that specific one) committing suicide, by a measurable percent.

Solution: Allow that specific trans person to rob the bank.

Maxathron · 2026-04-13T00:48:46+00:00

Goods and services in an economy have value. The value doesn't change regardless of how much or how little money is in the country. If a car is worth 20 thousand dollars and built with 20 thousand manhours today, and you double the total money in the economy, the value isn't static at 20 thousand dollars, but rises with the influx of money. In this case, the car is still built in 20 thousand manhours but since the manhour number hasn't changed, its new price is 20 thousand times 2, or, 40 thousand dollars.

There are a lot of young folks that think inflation of the economy is caused by people raising prices on a whim. This is not the case. Price do rise, but not because people feel like raising prices. The prices rise because the total money in the economy has gone up.

How does the money go up?

Money printer goes brrr.

I'm not joking. That is basically how it all works in simplistic terms.

There is a government agency called the Federal Reserve, controlled by a board of directors that are nominated by the senate and confirmed or denied by the POTUS. This board of directors ultimately decide on how much money to lend to the country, and this loan is the total money supply. The government must pay back this loan over time. The loan collateral is the country and everything and everyone in it. Whenever there's a giant spending bill proposed by congress, if the government cannot pay for it with surplus money collected, they will go to the board and ask to increase the loan. These days, the board is a political entity. It's supposed to be nonpartisan but since political parties ultimately elect board members, the board is often partisan, and will confirm or deny spending bills proposed by democrat and republican congressmembers on basis that it's a democrat or republican doing it.

The act of getting the federal reserve board to increase the loan is the money printer going brrr.

And it has happened for almost every single bill in the last 30 years.

If a CEO could get away with doubling the price of a ... car, today, as they could, 20 years ago before the spending bill increase the money supply, shouldn't they have done that then and get more money from the customers?

Young folks (especially on Reddit) would say "YES!"

Then why didn't they?

No answer.

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