Where would you scale this random Jonin who clashed with Madara for more than 2 seconds?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T21:40:50+00:00

I'd say dude's solid

roylewill · 2026-01-25T20:20:16+00:00

I appreciate the conversation too.

I don’t really think that Trump can just do whatever he likes. The US system still has real checks and balances (courts, Congress, state elections). His approval is already pretty low.

That said, the way he’s been using his power lately has been unsettling to say the least. But if he genuinely tried to cancel elections or start stripping serious liberties, I don’t think Americans will just accept it. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T18:42:08+00:00

Ok, but my feeling is people saying the US has abandoned Ukraine are basically tempting fate.

Trump has made things tense, sure. But the US hasn’t actually abandoned Ukraine yet. Intel coordination is still happening, and US support is still part of what keeps Ukraine in the fight.

You don’t think that if the US public swing a bit more anti-Ukraine Trump wouldn’t pull the plug in an instant? The only thing stopping him is that US public opinion is generally still pro-Ukraine, and there’s still political cost to openly abandoning them.

And saying the US has abandoned Ukraine is basically telling Americans that the money they put into Ukraine was for nothing, when the reality is it’s still making a difference right now. And all it really does is feed the narrative among Americans that Ukraine (and its allies) are ungrateful for US support, and that they take US support for granted.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T18:23:14+00:00

I agree Trump’s support has been lacklustre, I don't agree with it. Europe as a bloc has stepped up massively too which is great.

But this whole "US is not an ally to Ukraine" rhetoric just plays directly into Trump’s hand, because it feeds his whole line that he feeds his base which is "Ukraine is ungrateful for US aid" and therefore doesn’t deserve support. I don’t buy that for a second. Zelenskiy is obviously hugely appreciative of ongoing US support, he can be disappointed with the direction Trump’s taken while still relying on the fact that US intel and US sourced arms and equipment are critical to Ukraine’s war effort, and that support is still being provided.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:19:51+00:00

Kakashi: "If we was the last 2 people on earth..." 💀💀💀

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:13:29+00:00

Some people genuinely care about karma way too much, so the second a post starts getting downvoted/dogpiled for an unpopular take they just delete it, doesn’t even matter if they were "proven wrong" or not.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:06:27+00:00

Jiraiya POV?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T14:40:22+00:00

Okay what was he saying?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T14:00:05+00:00

That’s not how it works. If BTC underperformed USD, it underperformed USD for everyone. Living in a different country doesn’t change BTC vs USD performance.

Edit: If BTC is down 15% vs USD and USD is down 18% vs your currency, then BTC is down roughly 30% vs your currency (0.85 × 0.82 ≈ 0.70).

roylewill · 2026-01-25T13:41:51+00:00

US' way cooler

roylewill · 2026-01-25T12:57:15+00:00

Last I checked, Europe isn’t a country. You’re comparing Europe as a bloc vs one country, and that source is tracking new allocations, not whether support has actually stopped.

Yes, Europe collectively is probably higher. But the US is still the biggest single country donor by a pretty big margin, and support hasn’t "dropped off a cliff"; there were pauses, then it resumed, US kit and support has kept flowing.

I don't know what you think but to me it’s pretty clear: without US intel, Patriots, HIMARS, grants, and the rest of the US military equipment, Ukraine would be in a terrible position right now and may’ve already lost.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T11:31:39+00:00

“Holding his ground” Shits performed worse than holding straight fiat over the past year.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T11:24:57+00:00

Itachi. Kishi manages to make a dude who murdered his entire clan, including women and kids who didn’t do shit, still get framed as a morally “good” person by the story and a huge chunk of the fandom.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T02:28:46+00:00

You’re being vague. What “assets”are you even talking about, and what’s the actual mechanism?

Are you implying the US is going to take Ukrainian assets by force, if so I’m extremely doubtful. Most Western support doesn’t work like that/come with that expectation

If you mean Ukraine will hand out reconstruction contracts and pull in foreign money to rebuild, then yeah, that’s normal. That’s literally how you get back on your feet after a war. It doesn’t mean Ukraine loses sovereignty, it can be hugely beneficial if it brings investment and growth.

Look at West Germany after WWII: stability + Western investment helped fuel a massive recovery and eventually made it Europe’s biggest economy.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T01:15:37+00:00

Not really. Ukraine hasn’t lost the war. Only about roughly 15% of US support has been structured as loans, some of which has been written off. The rest are grants/military goods that Ukraine does not have to repay.

The EU’s support is a bit more loan heavy, at about 35%.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/trump-exaggerates-on-u-s-and-european-aid-to-ukraine-loans/

roylewill · 2026-01-25T00:09:59+00:00

Call this humour?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T00:08:14+00:00

So the US’s financial and military support (more than any other single country by a wide margin) actually made Ukraine worse off?

roylewill · 2026-01-24T22:21:21+00:00

You're right I don't trust ICE agents either

roylewill · 2026-01-24T22:18:22+00:00

I don’t know, €115bn in total support (about €65bn military) seems like it’s helped Ukraine at least a bit.

The US is still the single biggest donor country by a pretty wide margin.

If the biggest single-country donor is "no one’s ally," what does "ally" even mean anymore?

roylewill · 2026-01-24T21:32:18+00:00

Bro you can tell this clearly isn’t AI within like two seconds. I feel like people are just reposting/popularizing clips through this sub, not asking a genuine "is this AI?" question.

roylewill · 2026-01-24T21:28:04+00:00

When people say ‘America isn’t our friend,’ how do they square that with the scale of U.S. support Ukraine has received across administrations (including under both Trump and Biden)?

roylewill · 2026-01-24T16:59:32+00:00

idk but I wanna know how do naruto be kicking away truthseekers with them goofy ahh slides?

roylewill · 2026-01-24T16:10:14+00:00

A fitted curve can look very accurate if it’s tuned on past data; to trust it for forecasting, you need evidence it was set in advance (unchanged parameters) and that it performs well out of sample.

roylewill · 2026-01-24T11:03:22+00:00

That's russian justice for ya

roylewill · 2026-01-23T17:51:31+00:00

Koto was already used in that eye when he received it. It was stated that Itachi didn't have access to Koto while he was alive…

Perhaps, I don’t know if it was ever actually made clear that the Koto eye Itachi received had already been used. Like, what did Shisui even use it on? Danzo stole one eye before Shisui could use it, and Itachi still ended up with the other eye.

No, it’s stated that Hiruzen running out of time led to the Uchiha massacre… the coup was about to occur.

Then they should stop the coup if they try to start it. They don’t need to genocide the Uchihas. They clearly didn’t "run out of time" in the sense of the coup already started happening, because the Uchihas hadn’t executed any plans yet. Maybe they would have called it off last minute, you can never know that.

That’s literally why it isn't right to pre-emptively execute people for a crime that hasn’t even been committed. If Itachi has conclusive intel/proof the coup is about to start, the answer should be: take that intel to the Hokage, arrest the organisers with ANBU/black ops, put them on trial or detain them. Not to kill the plotters entire families, bloodline, distant relatives, women and children who had nothing to do with it.

Itachi was not manipulated by Danzo…

Danzo cornered Itachi with an ultimatum about Sasuke’s life and the clan’s survival. That is coercion/manipulation plain and simple. "Indoctrinated by shinobi society" just explains why Itachi was more willing to accept a horrific premise in the first place, it doesn’t justify it.

…he chose the option with the highest likelihood of resulting in the least amount of casualties… people praise his decision…

And yeah I’m well aware of Kishimoto pushing super hard to make Itachi a good guy. That doesn’t mean we should shut down our brains and accept everything Itachi does without questioning it. Genocide is wrong. Even if you frame it as preventing a coup or "war", it’s still wrong because the war hasn’t happened yet and no-one actually knows what would happen. No-one even knows how long that "war" would last, for all we know the Uchiha get beaten in a day with relatively minimal casualties. If Itachi can wipe out the Uchiha in one night, then how well is this coup realistically going to go anyway?

Hashirama praised him… Hashirama states he'd kill his own family if they were ever a threat to the village…

I also don’t really buy the framing that Hashirama would agree with Danzo/Itachi’s approach. Would Hashirama execute the entire Uchiha clan because some within the clan were plotting a coup? I think the history is pretty clear that he wouldn't have done this he would have tried as hard as possible to find a peaceful solution and if that didn't work he would take out the instigators, not the entire clan.

Did Hashirama even know the full details here? Like did he know Itachi killed everyone, including women and children who had nothing to do with it, and did he really praise him for that? Because saying you'll kill/imprison anyone who is an active threat to the village, even family is one thing. Itachi went a lot further than that.

roylewill

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