Day: April 27, 2022, 11:32 PM

Cloak

Chill Uncategorized

It’s another way of seizing power under a moral cloak. An effective one, at that.

Female Fragility

Chill Uncategorized

Who cares if they were female or not? I don’t want some mook watching porn next to me and I’m not a prude at all (nor am I a woman).

This doctrine of female fragility that many women (themselves) push does women no favors at all. In fact, it’s very harmful to women. Why can’t feminists see and understand that? Or perhaps they want it? It is very tempting, after all, to demand equality where it benefits you and something else where it doesn’t. This seems to be what feminism has settled for.

Much Impress. So Strategy. Wow

Chill Uncategorized

This is Ian Welsh’s “impressive” Russian military at work.

The VDV – Russia’s airborne forces – spearheaded the invasion. In December, specialist units of the VDV had wargamed out their role in the repression of Ukrainian civil society alongside the 9th Directorate of the Fifth Service of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).9 The VDV assault units received the plan three days before the invasion and started excitedly talking in anticipation of their daring operation. VDV commanders started discussing their primary objective at Hostomel in clear. When they landed, therefore, they were met with Ukrainian artillery and a coordinated counterattack, quickly being driven from the airport. Meanwhile, to the north, Ukrainian units fought a delaying action with considerable success. The Russian motor rifle and Rosgvardia troops had received their orders less than 24 hours before the invasion. As a consequence, they did not fight a methodical campaign of breakthrough and exploitation by successive echelons as their doctrine dictated, nor were they supported by sufficient artillery as is considered essential. Instead, they were pushed forwards along two main resupply routes (MSRs) towards distant objectives without reconnaissance or screening to their flanks.10 The Rosgvardia, intended to provide rear-area security,11 sometimes ended up advancing ahead of combat units.12 The speed of some armoured units allowed them to drive into Kyiv’s suburbs only 48 hours into the war, but, as they were miles ahead of the main body of Russian ground forces, all this achieved was their isolation and destruction.13 With little opportunity to prepare, psychologically or practically, many Russian units broke when they met serious resistance.

That is almost comically terrible. Not quite comically because it meant a lot of people dying. But still…that is amateur-level shit.

Yeah, Moral. Sure, Buddy

Chill Regular-ass Post

I didn’t realize it until well into adulthood, but a lot of “moral” stances people hold is about elimination of competition!

This applies to everything from requiring college degrees, to the belief that age gap relationships are bad, to the moral panics that grip Twitter about who has the right to tell a story or to espouse some view. In other words, a lot of what people do is about using pseudo-morality to knock their rivals on their asses while preserving some justification for doing so.

It’s done because it works.

That Way

Chill Regular-ass Post

It not me. I barely care what anyone says about what I do, positive or negative. I just fundamentally do not give a crap and never have, in a way that is so deep it’s hard to even describe to other people.

I think this might be my primary disparity that makes it hard for me to relate to others, come to think of it. It’s clear how much this motivates others and I just have none of it. It’d probably be better if I did as then I’d be able to follow set paths better. But I’ve just always been that way.

Too Much Makeup

Chill Uncategorized

Gawdamn what a clown. Can’t remove that much clown makeup ever. As if those maps tell you anything actually useful.

Hint: it’s very profitable in a war to allow your enemy to advance, if their logistics are already stretched thin, and then attack their supply lines and weak points. In fact, if I were the Ukrainian military that’s exactly what I’d be doing. (Another hint: This is what they are doing!)

Territorial gains are meaningless if you can’t hold them afterwards. Air power is meaningless if you can’t use it without being shot down. Bombing cities is meaningless (in the strategic sense) if it does not destroy military capacity.

The best way to understand the war in Ukraine is to read Ian Welsh, and then assume the exact opposite is true. Because he is 100% wrong with literally every single thing he posts about this. He’s become such an idiot and it makes me sad. Though it’s also entertaining.

Housed

Chill Regular-ass Post

We’ve turned housing into a luxury good and this is a huge mistake. We seem to want to do nothing about it, either.