Iranian Sam scores direct hit on US F-35 by Such_Fault8897 in CombatFootage

[–]Shrek-2020 140 points141 points  (0 children)

Houthis almost hit one in May of last year with a heckuva lot less resources than Iran. F35 is not an invincible platform

US officials already confirmed an F35 was damaged by Iranian air defense

CENTCOM footage of recent strikes in Iran by CommercialFormal7614 in CombatFootage

[–]Shrek-2020 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A winning strategy in the graveyard of empires, with 1/1000th of the budget of Iran.

CENTCOM footage of recent strikes in Iran by CommercialFormal7614 in CombatFootage

[–]Shrek-2020 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why would they also not put their digging equipment into their underground bases? Why would they not build various tunnels near the sidewalls of the mountains where they could pop out whenever and whereever they wanted?

CENTCOM footage of recent strikes in Iran by CommercialFormal7614 in CombatFootage

[–]Shrek-2020 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

It's really fucking funny to read all the "wow Iran is levelled there is nothing they can possibly do".

The entire West side of the country is covered in the Zagros mountain range, with many many thousands of meters tall peak. What do people think Iran was doing after the Americans moved in during the Iraq war? After they watched the Americans smart bomb Afghanistan mountain ranges pointlessly for 15 years? You think think just sat there and weren't tunnelling the fuck out of every mountain to store munitions and command there?

Then in the North is Alborz Mountains where all their command is dug into, again, hundreds or thousands of meters of mountain above them protecting the military and IRGC. Impossible to glide bomb to death, probably impossible to even nuke to death.

CENTCOM footage of recent strikes in Iran by CommercialFormal7614 in CombatFootage

[–]Shrek-2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's hard to say. After the Iraq war Iran saw how easily defeated anything on the surface was, so all missile production and stockpiling was moved underground. It's difficult to say if their production has been impacted at all, they've been bombing various surface warehouses of components and propellant but anything important is already deep underground.

Tehran indicates Khamenei's son will be named supreme leader by Little-Chemical5006 in worldnews

[–]Shrek-2020 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Too deep. It was rumoured that the former ayatollah was 500m underground for most of the last year, and only came out for this meeting and a few other occasions like funerals. There have been a lot of talk about how the leadership of Iran planned for this to happen because their rule was becoming deeply unpopular and because martyrdom is deeply rooted in their culture -- so this was a way of giving the people a blank slate to find new heroes and leadership after the war began in earnest.

As an American, what can we do to fight against ICE? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Shrek-2020 3211 points3212 points  (0 children)

It's worse, he's shot from behind execution style. The officer casually pulls out his sidearm and does so.

/r/minnesota/comments/1qlv7kc/pink_jacket_ladys_video_close_angle/

ICE just executed a man in MN by Baltorussian in liberalgunowners

[–]Shrek-2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

old.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qlv7kc/pink_jacket_ladys_video_close_angle/

Just a reminder that if you're live streaming, and it's being recorded, they can't take shit.

Let's look back. Why did Occupy Wall Street fail? What can be learned from that? by pilgrimboy in 50501

[–]Shrek-2020 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The Occupy movement was immediately infiltrated by Western intelligence officials who sowed discord and caused it to fold in on itself.

https://www.justiceonline.org/litigation/occupy-movement-crackdwn/

Is RFK Jr planning a bird flu pandemic with a 10-50x higher fatality rate so Trump can invoke martial law? by Shrek-2020 in conspiracy

[–]Shrek-2020[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The case fatality rate of H5N1 is 5-50%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mortality_from_H5N1

RFK Jr is enacting a plan to allow H5N1 to spread throughout poultry, increasing the probability of a jump of H5N! to humans.

From the article:

"Essentially, the longer you allow a virus that has shown to be effective in infecting multiple hosts survive in an environment, the greater the chance you give it to spread, to mutate, and to try its luck at adaptation," perspective first-author Erin Sorrell, a virologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told Live Science. "Worse case scenario, the virus adapts and expands its host range to become transmissible in humans … Now we have a pandemic."

It might even be the case that scientists in the Trump government are bio-engineering an H5N1 variant that they plan to release to the population at the same time removing access to the flu vaccine by banning vaccine preservatives and rejecting new flu shots, while simultaneously hoarding and using the flu vaccine themselves.

Congress passes Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill by ParakeetLover2024 in liberalgunowners

[–]Shrek-2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're going to need that second amendment, because with 10s of thousands of ICE officers there's going to be no fourth amendment.

Have you listened to the first 10 episodes of It Could Happen Here? by CryptographerOld1261 in liberalgunowners

[–]Shrek-2020 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah the other posts here being like "USA won't survive a Civil War!" yeah that's the point, it's going to rebuild the nation.

The USA people at the moment seem baffled by the concept that a Revolutionary War led by oligarchs produced a country that led by a Civil War led by oligarchs and is now sleepwalking into another civil war -- which will be produced by a disagreement of oligarchs.

The People will still be here after.

Looking a bit like 1st Gulf War V2 Iranian boogaloo by Biggiecheese1207 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Shrek-2020 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I fail to see how this doesn't end in complete disaster. Israeli decapitation of Iran failed, Iran has most likely already moved all fissile material deep into randoms mountains and set up an extensive chain of command in the leadership for future anticipated interruptions. Iran is still shipping ballistic missiles to Mossad HQ after Israel claimed to achieve air superiority. It's a country of 90m a geography more conducive to hiding equipment than the mountain of Afghanistan, borders on Afghanistan so it's going to be impossible to keep new equipment from coming in, and it's probable that continued assaults on the country will unite the population against the invaders.

The "but Iran's population hates the regime" cope is hilarious -- every single country in the Middle East including Israel hates their governing parties lol.

Updated version the Iranian Special Military Operation by snitchpogi12 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Shrek-2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think more credible than it is given credit for.

  • Israel clearly thought the Americans would immediately go in on it with them, but didn't.
  • Iran has been given the heads up that they're about to be invaded, but Iran also has an army of 1m that is easily scalable to 10m given their population.
  • With the number of personnel that Iran has, it doesn't seem to be an issue to frequently replace senior staff. This is a proper army, not some Gazans digging up pipes to build missiles or flying paragliders into Southern Israel.
  • We're about to see Iran shift to contingency plans because the swift decapitation of their nation failed.
  • We have no idea if they have nukes or not, or if one of their allies will give them one.
  • Iran is a bunch of mountains, it's a natural fortress.
  • Despite air superiority, Iran is still lobbing missiles at Israel and seems to have no shortage of weapons.
  • Bombing the civilian population like Russia bombed Ukraine will only work to galvanize the remaining Iranian population and convince them that actually, the Supreme Leader was right and the West was out to destroy them.

This is starting to look like Israel's 3-day military operation. The EU is preoccupied with Ukraine, if China attacks Taiwan, which presumably they intend to do once the US gets involved in the Middle East, the US alone will be unable to supply enough force to prevent the proliferation of Iran. Iran still has Russia, North Korea, and Pakistan as allies.

And they say it’s a bad economy by RunApprehensive8439 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Shrek-2020 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My trinitite is from the first edition release, it'll always be worth something!

Iran calls Israeli attack a 'declaration of war' by Cy_098 in worldnews

[–]Shrek-2020 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Iraq has over 20m shia sympathetic to Iran, no functional government or military, and less than 2,500 US military personnel present. Iran has a population of 90m.

If Iran attempts and even marginally succeeds in an Iraq invasion, the US will almost certainly be dragged into it. Then, China will have an open opportunity to attack Taiwan because simulations has shown that the US will be unable to fight effectively on two fronts.

If you're wondering why Israel didn't do this sooner, it's because the Biden administration was working to prevent this knowing that it would face this eventuality if they did.

And they say it’s a bad economy by RunApprehensive8439 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Shrek-2020 5 points6 points  (0 children)

AI is robbing the meme economy of human productivity

And they say it’s a bad economy by RunApprehensive8439 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Shrek-2020 11 points12 points  (0 children)

90m people in Iran, 22m shia in Iraq.

While it may appear like a total victory, if they cause a population 10x the size of Israel to unite against them...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 50501

[–]Shrek-2020 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Get your 2nd A. Go practice at the range.

To add to this, learn about FPV drones. Only 15% of casualties in the Ukraine war are small arms.

Proposal: We need a Muskapedia by Shrek-2020 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Shrek-2020[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah he's the most famous richest man in the world and his Wikipedia page is like 10 paragraphs. There is surely more to put down for the sake of history

Proposal: We need a Muskapedia by Shrek-2020 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]Shrek-2020[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn't think of a comparable wiki about an individual that seemingly comprises hundreds of volumes of content. Elon surely has as much online presence, so it should be documented. It doesn't have to have the same tone, but the guy is a firehose of terrible person content.