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SmokeyTheBear

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  1. Siap Came across this and it gives an interesting look at Bradley and Abrams vs soviet tanks.
  2. Well fuck, that's enlightening....in a really dark way
  3. It's so weird that Fox News has a trend of having to fire their top talent every couple years. Rush, O'Reilly, Beck, Tucker.
  4. Would be glorious if the right cancels Fox News cause this
  5. I agree with almost everything you've said on this page, I just think you have to factor in an autocrats desperation to stay in power. It's a wildcard in a situation we all see going one way logically. The past couple years, and I think the next couple years, the world seems to be in an inflection point. So many new and extreme circumstances happening regularly. My main fear is that within this adjustment of globalization, there is a shrinking window for China to get to the next step of their main goals. The west is having a cultural and economic push away from them, their biggest ally is faltering, the west is reuniting and building in power, Japan is starting to build a military back, and all with tons of internal issues. That's a shit load of challenges. The logical play is that he rebuilds his partnerships with the west as best he can, but at this point, it wouldn't be a real partnership anymore than the partnership we have had with Russia up until the war. I'm not saying he is going to attack, but fuck, if you have learned anything in the past few years, it should be that any crazyfuckingthing is possible.
  6. It makes sense to try to own the market on chips when the rest of your industry is being moved to other and cheaper areas of the world. They may see it as the only way to survive economically. IF they succeeded in conflict, they have a good hand to negotiate with. I think it's the wrong play, lots of people do, but like with Putin, they are seeing the world differently than the rest of the world and will act based on one man's personal opinion. The personal opinion who has only been told what he wants to hear for the past decade.
  7. Not him or some AI generated image
  8. It's a slippery slope my friend
  9. In the future, when the AI becomes sentient and asks the value and relevance of human life, it'll look back at this time where, when presented with a new revolutionary technology.....humans used it to make pictures of former world leaders in jail looking like a geriatric Adonis. And I'm here for it.
  10. Some Op Ivy members started a new group
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