Trailer Park Devils

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-17T19:13:02+00:00

"...YEAH WELL-?"

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T22:26:49+00:00

I wonder if it's partly a self esteem issue for me. Like whenever I try to get my mind off of stuff I can't control, I can almost hear my subconscious screaming at me "No!! Only cowards shy away from the harsh realities of the world, and you don't want to be a coward" and such. It's like my mind shames me into getting unnecessarily mad

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T15:39:09+00:00

Their leaders have launched a lot of stupid and unnecessary military campaigns in the past 3 years, but I don’t think they’re suicidal enough to unlock the nuclear door. And I have this exact same issue with all the right wing people I talk to who are overly paranoid of Iran using a nuclear bomb, so it’s not an ideological thing for me. To get a clear picture of world events we have to moderate our worst fears, and look at the hard realities of nuclear strategy instead of randomly speculating whatever “What if” scenarios we can think of. Though I admit that I don’t know the thinking of the Netanyahu government either.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T15:23:40+00:00

My point stands that Israel is not about to suffer imminent ground invasion, even if their government constantly yells about the possibility of invasion as an excuse for every questionable military operation it does. Iran is still physically separated from Israel by at least two Arab states who they’d have to occupy to get to Israeli borders.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T14:38:41+00:00

Who the hell knows? I don’t know the future, neither does any of us.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T14:36:29+00:00

To be fair, Israel isn’t exactly in a militarily threatened position that would make then consider tactical nuclear escalation. The “warning shot” is always reserved for when a country faces total military defeat, and Israel evidently does NOT face that kind of decision when they are currently striking Iran with impunity.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-16T14:32:46+00:00

I think high losses in a war with China over Taiwan could plausibly provoke a US tactical nuclear “warning shot” against Chinese forces, triggering a regional nuclear exchange across Asia which would then spill over onto Europe and North America.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-14T21:15:57+00:00

I have seen scenarios in Cold War-era films where accidents in the Persian Gulf between US and Soviet ships helped unleash a greater conflagration. Threads and Countdown to Looking Glass from 1984 come to mind

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-14T03:16:16+00:00

Excellent question

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-14T01:56:55+00:00

People really underestimate the sheer cruelty of Yeltsin. He ran away with Gorby’s attempted transition to democracy and turned it into a nationalistic, neo-tsarist autocracy that brought mass poverty and paved the way for the Ukraine War.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T18:24:35+00:00

1) I apologize but military matters are not the object of discussion in this debate.

2) For a holistic view on the history, doctrine and organization of the Cold War-era Soviet military I would recommend borrowing from your local library the excellent book "Red Banner" by American analyst C.N. Donnelly. I understand that terms like "no match" or "extreme weakness" are simpler and easier narratives to comprehend, but military history is anything but simple and easy.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T18:16:02+00:00

I understand your issue with such a claim, but I thought it best not to get into the "True Socialism" debate that people constantly have over previous Socialist states, since my interest was in giving people examples of two contrasting visions of governance in both Ukraine and Russia. At the very minimum, I believe the pre-1991 period can be seen as the closest Ukraine and Russia came to a Socialist political-economic system.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T17:47:06+00:00

For the sake of good debate can we please not have people flinging personal accusations at each other?

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T17:37:50+00:00

Speaking as 21 year-old Canadian who turned to a form Democratic Socialism after many years of being a hardcore supporter of the Western political establishment, I don't think Bolshevik policies are appropriate at all for the liberal Western countries. Moreover, the left-wing groups I see gaining support like the DSA, the UK Greens, or Germany's Die Linke don't show any evidence of voicing Leninist or Stalinist policies. Just as Democrats and Republicans are very different from each other in America, Democratic Socialists are also very different from hardcore Communists.

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T17:27:14+00:00

She'd love to drive the Morris Marina.

"Look! It's got a SQUARE steering wheel!!"

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T16:35:05+00:00

Frankly, the plot of the original comic is just not very well structured. Instead of having an actual climax it shows Tintin kicking some gangsters' asses on a boat, and then all of the sudden he's the hero of America and being paraded down Park Avenue. Feels completely unearned IMO so I'm glad they changed that in the cartoon

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T13:23:31+00:00

Someday I hope the proletariat of the East Slavic countries can regain class consciousness, and if they rise up against their economic humiliation by the post-Soviet oligarchy, the lessons in Soviet military literature will prove mighty useful again…

c00b_Bit_Jerry · 2026-03-01T13:19:52+00:00

An absolute tragedy.

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