TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]

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  • Oh yeah the Ghost of Kievyviv personally killed every Russian pilot ever

    Ukraine has no air force left, it’s been reduced to begging for cast-off early gen 4 fighters from around the world just to maintain some semblance of an air force. It was clear from the outset how crippled their airforce was: when Russia outran their supply lines and ended up stuck in some huge hundred mile long convoy, there were exactly zero air attacks on it, even though a pair of Su-25s would have fucking mulched that line

    What are you even talking about



  • So let’s say that hypothetically, China actually was going for a mass data harvesting. There’s of course no concrete proof of that, but let’s, for argument’s sake, say they are

    Of the two options, what is the least harmful to an American:

    • giving their personal data to their own government, which has been revealed to have been spying on their citizens for literally decades, and has been known to use this data to target minority groups, in exchange for free software

    Or

    • giving their personal data to a completely unrelated government that will not share it with the west and that most people will never ever interact with otherwise (barring a visit to China or the person is a member of the diaspora), making it impossible for this data to be used against them, in exchange for free software

  • It’s not about actual annexation, it’s Trump’s “unique” deal making style

    He’s known for issuing outright absurd demands on people, then watching the reaction. When they dismiss it, he doubles down on the absurdity until they start to take it as a serious threat. Once the deadline approaches the other party will offer deep concessions that they otherwise never would have, allowing Trump a 2 part victory: he gets more than he wanted and gets to look strong while doing it

    What’s going to happen is that Denmark will give Trump everything he actually wants with Greenland (mineral rights and Danish subsidized US bases) without actually annexing it

    This tactic fails miserably without leverage like having the largest army in the world, of course