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    Military Will the American Oligarchy Accept Limits or Choose World War Three? by Conor Gallagher

    source To quote a commenter; The problems are obvious, our nation's capacities have been hollowed out by zero-sum globalism and our leadership are imbeciles who quite probably will prefer a nuclear ragequit over multipolarity. So the question is, what can be done?
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    Tabletop Apocrypha_now's Tonks
    Threadmarks: Bill Making Stuff and PKT Crafts

    Tonks is a miniature wargame designed to simulate tank battles created by Apocrypha_now and freely released onto the internet, where it's been taking the sculpting community by storm due to its encouragement of designing your own extremely customizable gamepieces, the titular tonks. The rulebook...
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    What If? discovery of a lost civilization

    Scenario: Tomorrow, expansion of a shaft at Olympia Dam breaks through the ceiling of an artificial structure. Originally a salt dome cavern, it had been converted into an arcology which between a fission reactor as a power source, mining infrastructure to acquire and enrich uranium ore as fuel...
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    The Titanic possibly claims five more victims as contact is lost with a submarine full of tourists

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65953872 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/titanic-submarine-missing-rescue-mission-underway-newfoundland-canada/ https://www.reuters.com/world/titanic-tourist-submersible-goes-missing-rescue-efforts-under-way-2023-06-19/...
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    Versus Match Adam Smasher (Cyberpunk 2077) vs Nimbus (Destiny 2)

    Arasaka's killing machine equipped with his standard Dragoon cyberbody and missile launcher vs the defender of Neomuna with his nanite-based cyberbody and transforming combo deathray/shield/surfboard thingie.
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    What If? Logistics of Gnome Civilization

    Assume a ROB-altered "gnome" species. Biologically and mentally identical to normal humans although proportionally reduced in size by a factor of 36 (Scale 1:36). Meaning, a 183cm (6') man will end up being 5cm (1.96"). Strength and food requirements are proportional to a human of equivalent...
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    Destiny WI - The Young Wolf accepts Oryx's Throne, how do they do against later invaders?

    Scenario: After killing Oryx, the Lone Wolf takes Toland's advice and claims the job opening available. This gives them, in addition to their preexisting powers as a Guardian: Control over Oryx's brood of Hive. Control over the Taken and Oryx's ability to Take victims. Control of Oryx's...
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    East Palestine Ohio Train Crash & Poison Gas Plume Megathread

    I'm surprised we didn't have a thread on this disaster and the consequences thereof yet. CNN Article BusinessNews Article Basic rundown, last Friday a Norfolk Southern-owned tanker train carrying highly carcinogenic vinyl chloride derailed in East Palestine Ohio. Due to the risk of an...
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    Germany’s position in America’s New World Order by Michael Hudson

    source Or in simpler terms, claiming that Germany, or all of Western Europe for that matter, aren't actually sovereign nations per say. Evidence being, their committing economic suicide on Washington's orders with nonzero chance that they'll follow it up with literal suicide in nuclear war.
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    Economics The Case for the Trumpers’ Anger by Dean Baker

    article on the Center for Economic and Policy Research archived backup
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    Economics Neronian Ruling Class Fiddles While West Burns by Rod Dreher
    Threadmarks: article posted in two parts because of number of media links (part one)

    source
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    Commit to a Real Future, Not the Disaster of a Dying Empire by Jason Ross

    Article at the LaRouche Organization It excellently makes the point that, since our countries no longer produce anything but hyperinflating fiat currency, if our leadership forces the rest of the world into a choice between being isolated from our economic system or from the economic systems of...
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    EU Dutch Farmers Protest Megathread

    So, anyway, I noticed we didn't have a dedicated thread on this yet despite it falling under our purview. Euronews Article ABC News Article Bloomberg Article Basic explanation, the Netherlands goverment decided that to follow EU regulations cutting down on oceanic nitrogen blooms of toxic...
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    Culture Are millennial leftists aging into right-wingers? by J.J. McCullough

    article I find it hilarious how the status quo propagandists recognize the problem staring them right in the face, that "social issues are artificially focused on and propagandized by the oligarchy to prevent people focusing on economic justice and preemptively sabotage the formation of any...
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    Discussion on the Future of Energy Policy

    I'd been assuming it was a propaganda campaign against orbital solar. Look at the propaganda anti-nuclear anything already receives, they want something similar with hordes of morons protesting against powersats because the petrodollar can't have credible competitors.
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    Culture Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets by James Pogue

    source An interesting article I was linked via r/stupidpol and thought was worth crossposting here for discussion.
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    Military US Military Is Scared Americans Won't Fight For Globalism

    A Crisis of Low Morale: Support for the Military in America’s Working Class A Monograph by COL Zachary D. Kerns U.S Military research center publication about declining support for endless wars to prop up globalism among the working class due to the effects globalism has had upon them.
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