I think it's about time to bring back anti-AnCap memes.
"I'm a peaceful guy, I don't ever violate anyone else's rights, ever. Rights are important! But if you so much as breathe the air on my property without paying for it or criticize my slave-mine populated by child-workers who I abuse I'll nuke the entire neighborhood and salt the earth!!!"
Best comment is:
"Don't worry, we're celebrating our 10 year anniversary"
If y'all really think about it. Both Candace Owens And Brandon Tatum are the perfect example of cats. That Go from One Political And Moral Extreme to the other Political And Moral Extreme.
Not to mention them bein' flat out Frauds And Grifters. They're right wing versions of Amanda Seales And FD Signifier.
Left-wing gays may rub people the wrong way, but right-wing gays are some of the most sociopathic people, I swear.
Something about actively being against their own group while simultaneously using that identity to rise up among the ranks is just.....It's sick.
You want to talk about "mental illness"?
> "IdPol is bad!!!"
> "I'm a GAY Republican, THAT means you can TRUST me!"
Hrm........Now what group that I regularly talk about on here displays similar behavioral patterns???
Republicunts a few years ago: "Dems are elitists, they come from the universities, we're salt of the earth uneducated working class people"
Republicunts now: "Dems don't have good enough university degrees. They aren't elite. We are the elite. Dems are disgusting working class plebians!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv1UCZqTe8k&ab_channel=TheMajorityReportw%2FSamSeder
I used to be sympathetic to the Russian position because they used the argument that they were protecting people from attack.
It wasn't about conquering Ukraine, but about guaranteeing rights for Russo-Ukrainians.
Crimea could be negotiated on in the future. LPR/DPR could become autonomous zones within the Ukrainian state, as long as they were guaranteed minority rights.
Now it's evidently clear that was never the case. All the territory taken by Russia will not be given back (unless they are defeated and forced into conceding it).
This was all about a wider geopolitical revenge fantasy against "the West" (particularly Europe). And the Russian government deliberately sacrificed and continues to sacrifice large amounts of their own people as well as "brother Ukrainians" to fulfil that fantasy goal.
If you didn't accept it before, you have to accept it now.
"Pro-Russians" are living in a state of truth-flux. They are one moment the victim, but then the aggressor, but in a "justified" way.
One moment they don't "threaten Europe", but the next they say "we'll do a pre-emptive nuclear strike".
One moment they say Europe is a pathetic dumpsite, but then say that they're threatened by Europe.
One moment they say they care about Ukraine and Ukrainians and want a negotiated settlement, but the next they say only "total capitulation" of both Ukraine and Europe will satiate their appetite.
It truly is crazy.
The only thing "consistent" about the Russian position at this point is that it is inherently inconsistent.
And that inconsistency is there because they can't admit to themselves that they shouldn't have done this; that this war was a massive tragic mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAaSaqZCBg8&ab_channel=BBCNews
From a purely military perspective, it is amazing how the Somali forces appear to have not stepped into the "drone age".
Much like the SAA did, they rely on mass of (artillery) fire as well as airpower and numbers (maneuver units) to "win". These military tactics are from 20 years ago (based on both Soviet and Western doctrines).
HTS ("ex"-AQ) took advantage of this weakness in their lightning offensive that ended Assad's rule. Drones were used extensively to monitor and attack enemy positions.
If the Somali government did use drones (for recon, at least), they would have seen Al-Shabaab militants hiding in the bushes on either side of the road.
Meanwhile, there is some info out there that Al-Shabaab actively uses drones for recon (although apparently they can't kit them out for attack.....yet).
An example of what I mean.
There are at least 1-3 videos like this, practically every single day.
One of the aspects about the conflict in Somalia that I don't think is talked about enough is that Al-Shabaab has almost as many fighters as the various individual pro-government forces. They are at least the second-largest individual military formation, if not the largest. They are also, I would argue, the most professional in terms of military skill.
Everyone acts surprised when they do a major attack ("how could they, they are just a small group!"), but in reality, the fighting is a very near-run thing.
I check war monitors on social media almost every day, and there is always a video from Somalia of Al-Shabaab attacking/raiding Somali units.
People also seem to forget that Al-Shabaab maintains territory, and weirdly has a pseudo-relationship with various international humanitarian organizations (this relates to things like preventing disease among the civilians, providing aid etc...).
Tl;Dr: Al-Shabaab, for all the terroristic violence they engage in, have "legitimized" themselves to a large degree.
A few years ago, I made the mistake of attacking someone over a related issue. I realize now that I was way out of line. I was simply uncomfortable with their openness, and that's what set me off. In retrospect, I look like the sort of "White Knight" cuck that they made fun of.
I should have never attacked them. I apologize. If they ever see this message, I am sorry.
2017 me most likely would have found this (infamous) video by Amos Yee to be unwatchable. I would have just exploded in an "anti" propaganda-fueled rage (even though, at that point, I was probably jacking it multiple times every day to loli porn).
2025 me realizes that there is no fundamental issue with his argument. It is practically rock-solid (pun intended).
Resist all the tyrants of the world
And declare yourself a human
Or you will live in humiliation
And surely die a coward
Do not negotiate.
Advance and resist.
Do not negotiate!
Advance and resist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtMRsgriwA&ab_channel=Kornet
The ultimate religion-pill is that Baal was a benevolent deity, and that the Canaanites (who live on in the form of Palestinians) were, and remain, the good guys.
All the shit that's happened, for thousands of years, is due to the bad guys winning the original "duel of fates"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlYCxbBZUCY&ab_channel=TheSpiritofOrchestralMusic
A very interesting (although rarely covered) aspect of the original "Alt-Right"/"Dissident Right" sphere was the open discussion of child-sexuality and many of the elements that come from that.
Richard Spencer had a discussion where he talked about "ethical child porn".
Richard Hanania was posting about how a society which jails a female adult for having sexual contact with a 13 year old boy was "sick beyond belief".
There was a libertarian-type guy who tried running for office, and he basically was advocating for legalizing CP and child-prostitution. I can't remember whether he was sent to jail or killed by police in a shootout...
Most of the AnCap people were in the same camp as the aforementioned lolbert.
Many actual (as opposed to fake) "Free Speech Absolutists" invariably end up like Amos Yee, advocating for at the very least decriminalization if not outright legalization.
If you go on RationalWiki, they actually point all this out in their pages on "Alt-Right" figures.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Basically, discussions about normalizing things "polite society" would consider "pedophilia" were actually quite normal among dissidents, back in the day.
Of course, nowadays, "right-wing" people are in hysterics over the "pedo menace". "A 17 YEAR OLD IS A CHILD!!!!!!" etc... etc...
*Sigh*
What could have been........
The real "Trad" position is to support and expand children's rights, to be open in discussions about child-sexuality (and sexuality in general), and to rekindle the view that consensual non-abusive relations between children and adults are normal.
Many "Trad" LARPers are only "Trad" in a supposed Christian context.
Yet non-Christian tradition (i.e. Greco-Roman) goes back way further, and the further back you go, the "Trad-er" you are.
And even then, many "Christians" get caught over and over again for being pederasts or pedophiles.
Yet Christian "Trad" LARPers hyper-focus on Jews and Muslims, as if they are the only ones who engage in such practices.
Original Milo Yiannopoulos (before his "gay conversion therapy") was right. Pederasty/pedophilia is actually a non-issue. The "harm" that comes from it is due to social responses and stigma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJhHwspZGcg&ab_channel=TheProvidence
I don't know man, whatever...