Yeah, my mind went to similar scenarios tbh

What a year this month has been

Holy fuck, if I want to pay $15 for a burger, I have a number of places around my city I can get a great one, and none of them are a fast food joint.

I simply don’t think there’s a way out of this without some level of violence - primarily because I don’t believe anyone in the regime is going to allow a fair election to occur again - let alone a peaceful transition of power if they lose. If by some miracle they DO hold an election, and it’s fair, and it’s unadulterated, and they lose, the shit they’ll surely pull will make J6 look like a fucking kindergarten play date.

I am absolutely certain that the tens of thousands of attendees will record anything that they try to pull from tens of thousands of angles.

Is it going to have a guest appearance by Vance, who will then openly grab her ass and make out on stage in front of Vance’s wife, too? Because that would be both hilariously gross and peak comedy.

I do think there’d be more than a few mutinies and refusals to follow orders all across the board. Perhaps even to the level of the president trying to nationalize (for instance) the Minnesota National Guard, and their commander responding with a hearty “fuck you, eat shit”.

The fact that they’re doing this, combined with orangeboi skipping the game, makes me think they’re planning something for the game. As in, it will probably escalate to a mass casualty event, with ICE fuckheads firing into crowds, inciting a riot, causing a stampede, or something of that nature.

Well, yes and no. The people who are appointing the leadership at the CDC and other health agencies in the US are doing it for the votes/memes/whatever. But the people who are appointed are absolutely kool-aid-chugging ivermectin (et al) enthusiasts, and it would be genuinely difficult to overstate their idiocy and anti-intellectualism.

Also, aside from the absolute, categorical failure of French strategic planning and leadership at the start of the Second World War, the Free French forces significantly contributed to a ton of campaigns during the war. Not to mention: WW2 was a divergence from the norm for France. Before, and since, they have been and still are a strategic military powerhouse, are able to punch far above their weight, and have pointedly maintained a serious domestic defense industry - which, nowadays, is showing very clear and obvious benefits.

I get that they’re taking advantage of people coming from developing countries… but seriously, at what point will everyone start to be like “hmmmm maybe I should rule out that Russian job offer because they’re just gonna shanghai me into military service”?

Ah yes, let’s apply punishment to the symptom instead of looking for and addressing any root cause issues that are causing this shit.

Side note: if any Swedes here want to share some insight and nuance into what’s going on up there and how it got to this point, I’d be very interested to hear.

No - issuing a court order for ICE to depart the state of Minnesota immediately, and that any agents remaining in the state have no jurisdiction or legal standing as far as the state is concerned, and that they can and must be arrested by local and state authorities for breaking those orders would be “something”. Frankly, given that order, it would be completely warranted if cities in Minnesota started responding to ICE reports by dispatching SWAT teams. And hey - that’s actually a way that might significantly improve the public perception of their police forces: actually using their authority to protect citizens from an agency that’s clearly decided laws do not matter to them whatsoever.

Also, yes, that would 100% be a “constitutional crisis” in terms of states challenging the power of the federal government… but…

Really, I’ve lost count. I have no idea where the constitutional crisis count is at this point.

Ok, I’m sorry, but this is so fucking dumb. How do journalists expect to be taken seriously when they try to present any of our current writ-large political situation with any level of moral nuance? The point is ethnic and political cleansing, and those orders are coming from the fucking top. That’s the answer. That’s the only answer. Pretending it’s anything else is at best willfully ignorant, and at worse active perpetration and propagation of fascist propaganda and apologia.

Lmfao holy shit this is gonna get absolutely fucking wild. I would not be at all shocked if ICE incites a mass casualty event - either through just firing into crowds, or inciting a riot, or causing a stampede, or any number of other things.

The US does not command Korea’s military. They’re a large contributor to SK defense posture, sure, but Korea is a major economic powerhouse in its own right (see: chip foundries), builds their own AEGIS-parity ships - and generally have some of the most advanced and productive shipyards in the world - and the largest standing army in the world at 3.6M active personnel. They have a thriving international military arms trade in terrestrial units and munitions (see: Poland). They are also beginning to roll out an indigenously produced 5th gen fighter, amongst many other interesting technological and military products and advancements.

Getting absolutely stomped twice in rapid succession (by Imperial Japan - saved by the fall of Imperial Japan; by NK - saved by UN (though primarily US) intervention) tends to focus one’s priorities on defense.

Also, strategically speaking, their huge chip foundries are an incentives for allies to pitch in, for the same reason Taiwan’s chip industry is a huge incentive for allies to pitch in - the entire rest of the economic world basically revolves around what they can make. And nobody wants their economy to crash, so there’d be a lot of assistance for SK if NK (or anyone else) decided to try to wreck them again.

Japan is to some degree in the same boat - though I dare say if the US pulls back from allies in east Asia, I do think there’s a good chance they’d set aside some of the historical animosity out of sheer pragmatism and the potential for mutual defense (a fringe benefit of being involved in the US-centric arms pipeline for so long is implicit system compatibility - if not direct, then much easier to adapt and modify for compatibility).

As to Europe: we’ll see how that goes. The EU seems to be partially waking up and taking things more seriously, but they’re also for the most part world fucking champions at bureaucracy-ing themselves to death. At the same time, the Brits and French have nukes, which, if they actually fully commit to continental defense (and if nukes proliferate more), is a bit of a trump (no relation) card.

Or just work with MBDA and Thales to set up a domestic production lines for Meteor and SAMP/T. And then collaborate with Europe more on aerospace and defense. And then make some deals with Korea and Poland for some of their hardware that they’re currently churning out. And then set up a joint production and rapid iteration project with Ukraine, since they’re essentially the best in the world at that shit these days. And then talk to France, Germany, Sweden, and/or Japan about getting some attack subs and perhaps SSGNs.

There’s lots of possibilities once you free yourself from the economic yoke of the US. We did kinda wreck your defense aerospace industry (the Avro Arrow was the absolute tits, and it’s a damn shame we crushed the project). But now’s a great time to reinvest in that stuff.

It’s californiabama. And yeah, it’s a heinous place. There’s a reason everyone drives 100mph (not really much of an exaggeration) on I-5 to get through that shit as quick as possible.

I’ll believe they’re trying to tone it down when I see it. And essentially everything I’m aware of at this point indicates that they have no intention of toning it down whatsoever.