Hot damn. That is pretty amazing. Those air defense systems are actually great and defeating them is not trivial.
America Fuck Yeah
Bound
For a very large, developed economy, the US is fuckin’ rocking it.
Gonna
I like that philosophy. That’s pretty much been the ethos of my life.
Charged
The UK leccy prices are wild. No wonder no one can afford a damn thing over there.
Build
Degrowth is a horror show. Let’s build stuff. A lot of it.
Land
We should’ve bought Greenland. It’s always nice to have one or two of them in reserve.
Accipitridae
Hailey Welsh does seem like a genuinely fun, authentic person. Like someone you’d want to be friends with. Well, at least I would. She saw her shot and took it. Competently, I might add. There’s nothing more American than that.
7s
Dang. WHERE Y’ALL AT?
Pol
It’s amazing what some fuckin’ industrial policy can do.
Eurnope
Dang, Europe got more problems than a mackerel that showed up at the shark convention by accident. Demographic-related, immigration-related, stagnation-related, war-related. They are fucked.
It makes America’s prospects look rosy by comparison.
Europe Clip
Yeah, I used to believe that too. But it’s not true; American workers are shockingly productive compared to European ones, even when you take hours worked into account. And having worked for a German company in the past, I can see exactly why (too long to go into here).
Darth Invader
Is it true that the USA is basically immune to foreign invasion?
Immune? No. But invading the United States would be enormously difficult and would nearly require the cooperation of Mexico or Canada (or both). And like most countries with nuclear weapons, we’d nuke the shit out of our own territory before we’d allow the country to be fully taken. And here I am not just speculating — that exact scenario in war games is often the only time that nukes are used.
Any foe that attempted to invade the US would pay such a heavy price it’d almost never be worth it and the chance of success is low. Also, the US is gigantic and its geography extremely challenging.
And then if you somehow as an invader won against the organized military, you’d have to deal with a well-resourced and capable resistance after that.
Good luck with all that.
PSFM
According to modern pseudo-feminists, what Dorsa did is unfeminist. The compulsion found in modern feminism to worship the gender-based restrictions of radical Islam and to condemn those who do not has been some strange shit to see, hasn’t it? I sort of understand how it developed but damn it still makes no sense.
Anyway, good for her. It takes real guts to abandon your culture and country and live more freely. In this I agree with Noah Smith: we need many more smart people like her here.
Toil
It is worrying that countries like Germany, Canada and the UK have thrown their whole economies in the toilet and don’t seem inclined to do much about it. We were strongly considering immigrating to Canada, but with their downward trajectory it’s not even a real option any longer.
The US at least is on some sort of track to try to correct the worst of this tendency to self-destruction. But if we could just defeat rampant NIMBYism, we could do a whole lot better.