| 12:09 | signpost | https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-warships-steam-caribbean-ukraine-tensions-go-global << whole planet's going full retard. |
| 12:15 | PeterL | Everybody is talking about what is happening in Gaza, we need to drum up the "Save Guayana" protests! |
| 12:18 | signpost | the empire's going to end up drawn and quartered, walking itself right into it. |
| 12:18 | signpost | ukraine, middle east, essequibo, taiwan |
| 12:19 | signpost | whatever other moronic wars I forgot to mention. |
| 12:20 | signpost | bled in each with "inferior" weaponry, aka cost effective. |
| 12:20 | signpost | quick google suggests one himars unit was about 5mil in 2018 dollars |
| 12:21 | signpost | PeterL: did you catch tucker's bukele interview yet? sense I got was that bukele genuinely can't understand why a place he once admired would do this to itself. |
| 12:22 | * | signpost same. |
| 12:27 | asciilifeform | signpost: 'to itself' is artifact of fundamentally broken model: lizards don't live in $country in the sense that humans do |
| 12:27 | signpost | fair point |
| 12:29 | * | asciilifeform observes that the # of megayachts torpedoed, or their owners' jets/helis SAM'd, appears to remain 0 to date |
| 12:30 | asciilifeform | 'lords fight, but it is peons' heads that crack'(tm)(r)(ru) |
| 12:32 | signpost | they'd certainly let a few nukes fly to soften us up, and sleep well that night. |
| 12:37 | asciilifeform | signpost: would've 'let fly' 50+y ago if were confident that will be 'a few', and the system they built would not pop |
| 12:40 | PeterL | I'm not so sure about letting the nukes fly, since they were first used is has been shown to affect the health of the entire globe, and that is too close to affecting the lizzards. Much better use conventional bombs on targeted peons and churn the inventory for the MIC. |
| 12:41 | PeterL | (Military-Industrial Complex) |
| 12:41 | signpost | they did the shots, and the virus before it. |
| 12:41 | signpost | plenty of blowback on that too |
| 12:42 | signpost | seems like a mixture of planned action and imperial decomposition |
| 12:43 | asciilifeform | PeterL: less re 'health of globe' and moar re fact that they rely on 7e9 bonsai kittens comfortably masturbating in delicate 'glass house', 'not rocking boat' |
| 12:44 | PeterL | and throw in some "don't let a good crisis go to waste", if you can focus the populaces attention on trivial stuff, it's easy to sneak other stuff under the radar |
| 12:45 | PeterL | I don't mean "health of globe" as the environment, I meant it as in the individual health of each person. Lizards don't want to increase their risk of cancer if they don't have to. |
| 12:45 | asciilifeform | asciilifeform's summary of the 'planned' component fwiw. |
| 12:55 | asciilifeform | PeterL: the 'health' thing is overhyped, modern thermonuke has fissile primary smaller than what popped in hiroshima (which, note, rebuilt & habitable in '50s) |
| 12:57 | asciilifeform | the 'health' lizards concerned with, is of the 'glass house', where millions of labourers effectively support 1 palace fuck, and with next to ~0 expenditure on overseers, barbed wire, etc. req'd |
| 12:58 | asciilifeform | where the proverbial 'bank accts in monaco', jets (req quite elaborate infrastructure), printola (not need to invest in successfully managed physical processes to have inf dough) etc |
| 12:59 | signpost | https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/wall-street-admits-biggest-economic-shocker-all-jobs-past-year-have-gone-illegal-aliens << yup |
| 13:00 | asciilifeform | signpost: headline could just as easily (and imho moar honestly) be 'all jobs were for strawberry pickers' |
| 13:08 | asciilifeform | the eternal wank re 'the mexicans!' imho is lulzy. if the proverbial strawberry picker somehow had to be paid 'white man's wage', berry would cost 10+$ ea., e.g. new roof -- 100+k$, etc |