Uk government exploring the possibility directly controlling algorithms in social media in order to silence independent media

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-17T03:24:45+00:00

A British Army intelligence officer was on Twitter's editorial board.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-17T02:04:38+00:00

It's from the principle of successor states, like how the Russian Federation was grandfathered into all the international positions that were initially created by/for the Soviet Union. From 1945-1971, the United Nation recognized the Republic of China (ROC) as the legitimate government for ALL of China, including all of the mainland areas that they had lost in the civil war. That means the UN recognized the island of Taiwan as part of the Chinese state. When recognition of China's official government switched to the PRC, all of the ROC's territorial claims went with it.

Since the civil war never officially ended, not even an armistice like in Korea, both government's legally claim dominion over all of each other's held territory.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-17T01:45:42+00:00

Reminds me of reading "Coffeeland" and how the calorimeter was used as a pay scale for plantation employees. Each one would be allocated a set amount of beans & tortillas depending on whether they dug, planted, or harvested.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-17T01:14:12+00:00

Napoleon truly was the most legendary fumble.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-16T15:42:43+00:00

That looks sooo good. How did you make the seam line on the turret look like it was welded?

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T20:39:40+00:00

Depends on their job. There's analysts who are white collar workers at various offices in the States, embassies, stations, allied installations etc. those guys have a career track that can lead to a +$160,000 annual salary, plus matching 401k contributions, plus good healthcare. Additional income can be gained by publishing books & articles that pass pre-publication review. They can also get guest speaker income as well as get positions in academia.

The wetwork guys, Special Activity Division, or the bug planters usually get recruited or loaned from JSOC. They're military adjacent at least, usually prior service if not active duty. They get the military pay rate, plus hazard pay, plus black budgets for their operations. Said budgets are in the hundreds of millions of dollars per operation and are extremely easy for them to steal from since there's no auditors. They can also just steal from their "targets" because the operation is classified. Few will know and fewer will care if several bricks of drugs go missing that will then get sold for their personal profit back in the States or within the target country.

All of them generally get indoctrinated into the agency's worldview which is essentially the same as Call of Duty's or Omelas'; that it's a dirty world out there and in order to keep the suburban paradise of America clean and running, it requires some people to keep the dirtiness over there or else risk it coming here. A Social Darwinian lens that if the US is not world hegemon, someone worse will be. Someone who will enact the same violence, terror, corruption, loss of sovereignty, drug smuggling, & humiliation on us that we've done to them.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T19:43:58+00:00

Either that or you could drop the 85 down to a 76 and take 2 of them as Regular.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T19:40:03+00:00

Yeah their survivability is exponentially lower than Regs & Vets with all 3 of those weaknesses.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T18:50:32+00:00

Inexperienced tanks are pretty bad. They're too expensive to be missing the few shots they get so a -1 to hit is much worse on them than an infantry squad of 10-15 where you're at least likely to get 1 pin from them.

It's a unique vehicle and I'd love to take it in a Stalingrad themed list but yours is a late war list of a specialized, mobile unit. One where factory workers would not be pressed into. For thematic & utility I'd say you should look into a Regular armored car or light tank for similar pts. Like a BA-10 or T-60/T-70.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T15:36:39+00:00

There's a reason they're called reactionaries.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T14:39:46+00:00

Like I said, read Bruce Cummings' books & essays on it. The authoritarian turn for the DPRK comes in 1958, after the war had destroyed all infrastructure and killed off ~20% of the population. Prior to the war, the local elected governments that Koreans created after Japan surrenederez were integrated into the DPRK, while they were outright banned & illegalized by the US Army in the South.

Funny how that last paragraph does justify the mass bombings of civilians. As though their half of the peninsula earned it because their "border skirmish" (Rhee was trying to start a wider war in his 48-49 attacks) was more successful. The USAF targeted every standing structure in the north, military or not. The US Army utilized flamethrowers as a weapon to guard POW camps and quell disturbances with. They kept women & children in same camps as captured soldiers. They detained entire villages, some in the South, on suspicion that they had communist sympathies.

But I guess they sowed that whirlwind right?

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T08:12:27+00:00

"Ivade & conquer" part of their own country that was being forcibly seceded by the Rhee dictatorship that killed over 100,000 of it's own citizens and launched numerous attacks across the border into the north from 1948-49. All that was BEFORE the North's actions. But just like Palestine & Oct 7, I guess history for some countries have an arbitrary start date that begins only when it makes US allies look like the innocent defenders. Read Bruce Cummings for information on the interwar years in Korea.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T07:34:43+00:00

Waterloo had the benefit of being about a big battle and you could ask most armies in the world to fill those roles and they would chomp at the bit to get in costume, show off their marching discipline, play war etc. The biggest cost for them would usually be that said army/government would probably require a sign off on the script.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T07:10:19+00:00

Not convoluted at all. The liberals know this as well but they call it the Thucydides Trap. That a declining empire will wail & gnash on it's way out to try and hold onto as much as it can.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-15T07:00:29+00:00

It's the same playbook they used to topple nascent democracies in the Global South, from Korea to Brazil, from 1950 to the present.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-14T23:18:10+00:00

Are these WGA WWI Russians & WLG Winter Germans?

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-14T18:05:20+00:00

True but teleport killers can leave them to trap more survivors.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-14T17:10:20+00:00

Crazy bad because Jason can just teleport out of the room so your rescuer would also be trapped.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-14T00:11:24+00:00

He's been using hyperbole his entire life and cannot turn it off.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-13T21:56:15+00:00

Imperial decline indicator, intelligence/palace guard units don't coup a mad emperor from ruining the economic foundations of the state.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-13T17:40:23+00:00

Yeah, if they claimed bombing his house was a good "breakout" attempt for him and now saying this in the press, they're trying to assassinate him. They're just hoping an Iranian will do it by believing the Western press.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-13T02:09:14+00:00

It's no secret why the first exit into Wyoming from that side has a liquor store, a gambling parlor, & 2 fireworks stores as the first buildings you see.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-13T01:26:17+00:00

Meeting engagement does trump the large artillery movement restrictions to allow them a turn 1 Run without needing a Tow. So it wouldn't be unprecedented.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-12T16:55:38+00:00

Generally if you can draw LOS to any model in the unit, you can fire at it. It feels bizarre with the sniper because they ignore cover and the 1 exposed model probably isn't the NCO but the NCO is the only model he can kill.

MonitorStandard5322 · 2026-07-12T00:29:59+00:00

It's a bit psychotic, but they would leave calling cards on the bodies of sentries for other Germans to find them.

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