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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Straight up propogandapropaganda. US is chasing our tail out of the entire region. Bases, satellites, radar destroyed in the wake of Iranian attacks. Bessent threatening to attempt to destroy the world economy over the loss, but the last time we took action on the Chinese (the people who buy all the Iranian oil) they fucking cut off our rare earth minerals. We lost, we are impotent in our loss and will rage until a new president is in office who WILL pay the restitution the Iranians are demanding to put the world as close to back together as possible post Trump.

    This isn’t some pocket win that’ll come to fruition in 3 years. It’s not just Iran at risk of starving, it’s the world with the lack of fertilizer. Iran is in a position of relative power having just defeated us entirely. American hegemony is broken, that’s what we will see the results of over these years.















  • This is a you’re not wrong, just an asshole situation. There was actually a cluster of free solo deaths in 2024 in Colorado cause this shit was getting popular.

    Free solo climbers used to be an incredibly small group with a death rate that rival people who use those gliding suits and thread the needle under bridges. It’s a community of people like cave divers, they understand death is a likely part, the people attracted to this (no matter what they personally say) are either ok with dying or have disassociated the risk so much that they don’t take it seriously enough.

    Alex Honold will get more people killed by getting them interested in free soloing, traditional rock climbing by comparison is like tennis level safe.


  • That’s fair, this is gonna be long, this is a particularly interesting tpoic to me. Although Japan has been very much removed from the world through much of its history, isolated. Even pre-Sakoku the nation rarely showed an interest outside of the islands around it, and Korea a couple times. Japan is a fascinating country when you look at the education and militarism.

    It’s helpful to understand the Japan of the period around the world wars to understand Japan now. Japan had their arms forcibly removed from them after a period of extreme imperialism, which lasted from the period post the Sakoku policy beginning in the 1850’s until the post ww2 period.

    Japan went from a nearly pre-industrialized fuedal style system to a fully industrial nation with a modern military during the Meiji Restoration over a period of like 40 years. After the first Sino-Japanese war they attained an incredible amount of power, resources and reputation. What followed was a period of colonial effort with a sort of Japanese supremacy bent to it that was notable in it’s cruelty and effectivness.

    The last 20 years Japan has been re-militarizing. They started on the 1950s, but truly didn’t start building real capacity until mid 2010’s. Since 2022 they’ve been building a full military in earnest, to the point where China is treating them like the US is trying to treat other countries, not selling them the really good stuff for aggression and defense.

    Much like the US, Japan doesn’t exactly see itself as the bad guy in all of that, they teach that aggression had consequences, but the amount they omit about what Japan DID over there during from 1890-1940 is vast. They are still a resource poor country that relies on trade, but unlike the Japan of the past, the current Japan seems terrified of conflict, with a youth who seem unwilling to die for the country.

    But again, even at the heights of their aggression and colonialism, they were a drop in the bucket compared to the West (including the US), or China, or Russia (in all it’s forms). It’s not even a comparison to the US, the US is still and has not stopped being bloodhungry imperialists.



  • Sometimes for the Japanese, the person you are replying to is right. America had a super sketchy relationship with Japanese POWs, the largest sea rescue was like Midway, I think America saved maybe 2 Japanese pilots who would end up being POWs and like a few dozen Japanese ship engineers.

    That’s with us really looking for Americans in the water, because the according to reports (you gotta take these with a grain of salt, maybe a whole silo sometimes) the Japanese got ahold of 3 Americans, tortured and killed them.

    Americans were absolutely going out of their way to capture nazi POWs, and other axis groups. Not the Japanese tho.