An army that rapes and massacres as a tool of war will rape and massacre as a tool of occupation. A government that engages in ethnic cleansing against a combative citizenry will do the same against a docile citizenry.

— Michael Stahlke (@MichaelStahlke) April 16, 2022

Why this is not obvious to people, I do not know. So many people putting on clown makeup as a result of this war. Strangely enough, a lot of re-application is not necessary because much of this by the same people who already had the clown makeup on from Covid panic.

This shows how quickly we would run out of most munitions and be back to old dumb stuff in a big war. (Ukraine is not a big war.) https://t.co/0c4NzQCFer

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) April 17, 2022

This motherfucker is just ridiculously wrong. That’s only about Javelins. Tons of other things can kill tanks, including Hellfire missiles, which we have 10,000+ of. We also can do JDAM on any old unguided munition and convert it to precision-guided in a few hours.

We have something like 20,000-30,000 JDAMs and 50,000+ dumb bombs that can be converted to precision-guided with those kits. You do the math on that. There is also JASSMs, GMLRS, and Tomahawks, all of which we have thousands of. Every single one of those can disable or kill tanks or really anything else an enemy can field.

And then there is artillery, of which the US has 4,000+ artillery pieces in service and more than enough rounds for them. (Artillery is devastatingly accurate, even with unguided munitions, unlike what you see in movies.) Also, many artillery pieces are capable of firing guided artillery rounds.

That leaves out also so, so, so many other weapons and systems. And that we can build more them, too, and would ramp up in a larger war.

Ian Welsh knows not a thing about any of this, and it shows. Fucking clown.

"Why doesn't Ukraine just surrender?," some ask.
And today, someone asked me why outgunned Ukrainians would keep fighting for Mariupol even if it means likely death.
The answer: they doubt surrender offers a better fate, and they know delaying Russia in one city helps others. https://t.co/hYaeQvCReF

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) April 17, 2022

Sometimes surrendering is the right answer. Sometimes running away and retreating is. But that the default left position is for Ukrainian surrender is nothing more than cowardice combined with believing every ill in the world is American-caused. Liberalism has utterly failed in really despicable ways.

I used to visit Ian Welsh’s Twitter because I liked the commentary. As he went nuts, I did it for comedy reasons. Now, I do it to find out what the latest Russian propaganda is.

It really is a nice summary of what the Russians are putting out there.

With porn as an option, men are not motivated to go out and approach women IRL and channel their sexual energy into the creation of families & life.

They can be sexually gratified without bettering themselves

It cannot be overstated how much porn destroys society

— Julie (@juliewrites) April 11, 2022

I don’t think porn is ruining society, but for most men porn is far superior to getting (often brutally) rejected a thousand times — which is the average male experience.

I’m rewatching all of Friends with my 14-year-old daughter. We are on season 2. Here is a running, but incomplete, list of all the things I have needed to explain to her:

— Rebecca Makkai (@rebeccamakkai) April 16, 2022

I have a few younger friends (24-27 years old) and I’ve had to explain these things:

• Burning CDs
• How much 9/11 changed the US and the world
• What the Berlin Wall was
• The TV show All in the Family and how it altered culture at the time
• The X-Files*
• How very pervasive casual homophobia used to be
• How difficult it used to be to find information
• VCRs

I am sure there are more, but those things are nearly completely unknown or forgotten by Gen Z. I like having younger friends, though. Helps me see the world with different eyes.

*Because I said to my friend, “We’re like Mulder and Scully!” And she was like, “Who the hell are Mulder and Scully?”

Spent an hour diagnosing a network problem – turns out Windows 11 has added a "Green Ethernet" mode which throttles you down to 10% except when it thinks you're watching Netflix, and you have to go into admin mode and turn a number of settings off.

— Monsieur le Baron (@Mssr_le_Baron) April 17, 2022

Oh, what the fuck is this?

DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY