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!jannies we need a toggle to turn that shit off like yesterday

I don't think I've ever seen a Twitter dispute that was so one-sided. All the people who understand tech, on both right and left, are on one side, and the other side is just anonymous accounts and political commentators.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) December 26, 2024

My son graduated with honors with electrical and computer engineering degrees in 2023. He can not get an interview, let alone a job. Any white male he knew in college can't get jobs either. Many are currently working in data center jobs that don't require their education.

— DRG (@suspended1233) December 25, 2024

This guy isn't wrong, however there are a lot of r-slurs I have to deal with applying and interviewing for these jobs. I'm eternally grateful that I graduated before COVID-19.

Vibrator is fully charged pic.twitter.com/mMsE44ugGc

— boors (@notsolittyditty) December 26, 2024

The X Space was way too much. Elon confirmed he is Adrian. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing… pic.twitter.com/5luHMly0d2

— Lady Michigan (@LadyOfMichigan) December 27, 2024

He also was caught on mic getting orders from a sexy Indian dude off mic, still looking for that one.

Found it

Dalton mogged tf out of Adrian Dittmann 😭 pic.twitter.com/j1mmddAOut

— 𝔼𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣-𝕎𝕒𝕧𝕖 (@etherXwave) December 27, 2024

Musk is Adrian dittman, the one with a gay lib Brit accent screeching shitlib talking points and acting like a redditor

Dude lmao

Dorontabi/Mammoth is an anime artist who is an icon within pedop- I mean Lolicon/cunnystrags community for basically creating banger tweets like this back in the day

This creates a wave of memes within the community even reaching mainstream weebs.

If you ever wonder why crying emoji are posted below little anime girls or using terms like "darn brat" "r*pe correction" and "Uohhh" this is the guy who origin of the meme.

This time he is also the target of Korean feminists during "The 578th Korean feminist/incel war - battle for Blue Archive". They figured out that he outright admitted to hoarding Japanese child gravure

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>the frick is child gravure

It has become illegal even in Japan these days of course. MORE screenshots from the Korean feminists, very disturbing imagery even when censored beware

🚨짤 역겨움 주의
아카라이브 공론화되는김에 도론타비도 파묘해야함
-여자애 강간당하는 성착취물 패러디
-아동 그라비아 사진 소지
-아동 이미지 참고해 성인물 그림
참고로 블루아카 일러레로도 활동했음 https://t.co/Jk19jZbsEr pic.twitter.com/2UvPhrGwEm

— 곧감 (@holy__667) September 2, 2024

this guy posts these around online and there is no major call-out, It's crazy.

but these are again posted by notorious Korean feminists so Idk how to confirm the validity of these screenshots

More info on the lolcow farm (female Kiwifarm image board) with details

the guy deleted everything but is now back with https://x.com/agbdrhr5325ntf3/ recently

So what do you dramatards think? Are the Korean feminists full of shit and he is a true honest Lolicon libertarian or a full-blown libertarian libertarian. Inb4

Edit: Turn out Rdrama covered him back in the day https://rdrama.net/h/vidya/post/224595/korean-femcel-vs-incel-gender-wars

I know a guy that married at 18 year old Thai girl he imported. He helped her to become a doctor, they decided to build career first before having kids. 20 years later they now coping with childfree memes since it looks like they now can't have children

New DeFi broker reporting regs are out. They are ass. Everything is pinned on "front end" providers for information reporting.

As much as I want to dig into these and start formulating strategies to deal with them, it seems really unlikely they will ever go into effect, given…

— Alex Golubitsky (@DumbApe69420) December 27, 2024

Lots of bitching about ruined holidays.

Does the IRS do anything but ruin people's holiday's (and every other day)? 💀

— Hermes Psychopomp, JD. (@Cypherpunk69) December 27, 2024

IRS TARGETS FRONT ENDS IN FINAL CRYPTO BROKER REPORTING REGS

Today, Treasury and the IRS issued "part 2" of the crypto broker reporting regs. Part 1 primarily addressed CEXes and other custodial actors and is summarized in the below-linked tweet. https://t.co/LIdSD0rWv7

1/12

— CryptoTaxGuy.ETH (@CryptoTaxGuyETH) December 27, 2024

Noticed email about Sony year wrap out so decided to check what I played the most, clicked on that link, it opened the browser and to view the wrap out I had to login in, understandable. Entered the email address and then the 30+ long password with all the requested symbols, no biggie. They saying "looks like you trying to log in with a new device" like how did they knew that's exactly the same device I always log in to psn ? so they will send me an sms with pass code, cool. So I didn't receive any sms, no biggie I clicked to receive pass code to my email. They wrote they send me passcode to my email. So I opened my email and their was mail from Sony with no passcode, obviously but with information that someone from my location tries to enter my account and if it's not me to do something about it

Tldr: So path tracing dlsr mlrs petaflops AI decided that I am using new device so I can't now enter my account

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Info- So is that all he got you for Christmas or was that just a side secret Santa thing? (43)

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INFO: Was the candle the only gift he got you? (27)

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Good on you! NOT an over reaction at all. I'm a pretty low key kinda girl. I know I'm a bit hard to buy for. But my husband does try and today I got some very nice things from him. But if he'd done that? I'd be incredibly hurt. Really upset. Just shows no concern or love for you at all. He did not even try a little bit. That's just awful.So sorry you are having a shit day now. And nope. I wouldn't want to be hosting any darn dinner for anyone. Block the whole lot of them after sending them all a text telling them to frick off and leave you alone. And after only 3 years of marriage? Your husband is like this? That's very bad sign, Frankly? I'd review my marriage to that man. YOu are too young to already be stuck in a marriage where your husband treats you like shit. I've been married 30 years and we have had our ups and downs. But he has never treated me that disrespectfully and with such lack of kindness or decency. Think hard whether you stay with that man. Truly. (1)

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NTA for being upset about getting a thoughtless present from your husband. Been there. It hurts. But ABSOLUTELY YTA for cancelling dinner for EVERYONE??!! Wtf? Grow up! You ruined Christmas and you need to get out there and apologize to an entire family. If you're gonna be petty, you should've opened that candle in front of his family and started tearing up and excuse yourself until someone came to check on you.  You should've waited for someone to b-word at your husband FOR you. That wouldve made him the petty selfish one, not you.  (2)

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Why would the box with 'The Warlords' gift be under the tree?ETA: For everyone who keeps explaining why they keep non-family presents under the tree, none of you are explaining why a present for an online friend would be kept under the tree instead of posted to them directly. (7962)

That's not the only thing too. A blown up phone with everyone in his entire family telling her she's selfish and just being completely obsessed with her as if they don't have anything better to spend their time on. At Christmas Eve at all times. Secret Santa with names on the tags so it's not anonymous. Plus a $100 requirement "Hosting Christmas dinner every year for his family" even though they've only been married for 3 years.Last but not least is glazing a ham all day. What in the goddarn frick, nobody does that to a ham all day long. OP needs writing lessons. And someone to tell them to never, ever do any kind of elaborate crime. They will be caught within minutes with all the holes and arrogant stupidity throughout their obvious fake story. (545)

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— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) December 25, 2024

Every year Egyptian !football player Salah posts a picture of his family with a Christmas tree and every year it causes Muslims to chimp out

Last year

https://rdrama.net/post/232074/the-annual-marseytaliban-chimpout-at-salahs

And the year before

https://rdrama.net/post/134140/egyptian-footballer-mohammed-salah-celebrates-christmas

@Merryvann

Fk u

— Khaled. (@k7vak) December 25, 2024

والله محد فخر العرب غير @Mahrez22 💚

— الجازي🦌🇸🇦 (@jzo_99) December 25, 2024

@Hamad_Alain_1 انتهى موسمكم

— عمــر (@oa3370) December 25, 2024

دا احنا ها نشوف صياح للصبح 🎄🔥🤌

— 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗜𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗙𝗬 (@Monir_Wasfy) December 25, 2024

الله يهديك ويصلحك يارب

— فيصل | نوتنغهام 🇧🇷🌲 (@NFwrst) December 25, 2024

Salah posting Christmas pictures yet again even though he knows it’s 100% haram?

This is why we’re clear. https://t.co/BW2K4slgAc pic.twitter.com/7f99R11E3n

— Dirshe²⁰🇸🇴☪️ (@LFC_Wirshe5) December 25, 2024

What kind of muslim salah is?
I don't Understand.

— Lii🇸🇴 (@LibannLFC) December 25, 2024

https://t.co/FgA3zCoQBp pic.twitter.com/xmAHh9m4mA

— يحيى (@Yahye17092) December 25, 2024

frick this guy https://t.co/cgdiFDGmRb

— numaan (@luconum) December 25, 2024

Couldn’t even bother to open eyes for Eid https://t.co/hGKT00d1sL pic.twitter.com/nbu1QbQhxR

— 🇸🇴 (@defact0_) December 25, 2024

كل سنة المنحط يحاول يكرر فعله الشنيع
وانت لا توقف بتبيان الحقيقه pic.twitter.com/Be1j5ZyirE https://t.co/hBpIxTGrBG

— ابو أصيل | صلوا على النبيﷺ (@6x7z1) December 25, 2024

خلاص محمد صلاح تأثر بشكل مرعب من بعد ما وصل لبريطانيا من هذي الأفكار و اكيد يدري انه غلطان

الله يتوب علينا و يهدينا كلنا

— SAIF ALSIYABI (@saifalsyabi1) December 25, 2024

والله مستفز ياخي مستحيل انه مايعرف انه حرام !!!!!!!!

— A7 (@A79816680294436) December 25, 2024

خلاص والله زودها كانه قاعد يستفزنا الكلب ذا

— عبدالرزاق | صلو على النبيﷺ (@klaus_jr7) December 25, 2024

حسبي الله عليه وعلى كل من مثله وشاكلته ويقول انه مسلم

— إبراهيمو (@iIbrahimooo) December 25, 2024

ياخي بس كل سنة نعيد نفس كلام في اخير مصار شي موضوع صار مقرف

— Razine Triki (@razine_tri49678) December 25, 2024

this guy is a kafir and will put his religion down multiple times just to twerk Christians on the internet. disgusting behavior man. https://t.co/fKLm4xvd6a

— notakteer (@notakteer) December 25, 2024

May Allah punish you accordingly and dismantle Liverpools season as punishment. Shirk shall never prevail https://t.co/LUFCI7rE1Q

— sacre (@280120A) December 25, 2024

الاحتفال او التهنئة في عيد الكريسمس يعتبر مشاركة صريحة بأن سيدنا عيسى عليه السلام ولد في هذا اليوم وأن المسيح هو ابن الله الذي تم صلبه.

وهذا الأمر مخالف لجميع نصوص القرآن وعقيدتنا الإسلامية، نفتخر كثيراً بمحمد صلاح داخل أرضية الملعب ولكن هذا الأمر غير مقبول ومخالف للإسلام.… https://t.co/GSumccPcbX

— أبو فيصل (@Nssr___9) December 25, 2024

There's about 20k replies already, you could go through these all day if you wanted

Backstory

Basically, I am really good at doing puzzles and decryption of ciphers and things of that nature. Won a few competitions in HS and got offered a job straight out of HS at *** with a starting wage at *7 (censoring first letter so this won't show up in *** scrapes). Can't say specifics obviously. Took it and was there for a few years.

You have to pass and have TS to have job, but there arw additonao specific classifications (actual term is different, unfortunately again, I can't include this information or I will be doxxed or hounded by people who keep track of ex*** members) needed that are only obtainable after 2 years to up to 5 years depending on path and promotion cycle. Basically, those classifications derive huge value on civilian (non gov, this career field is also available for certain officers in military, so its typical to say "civilian" when referring to it) world, so they make you wait to get classification so they can retain people and so people don't just jump ship after TS & classifications clear for contractor work.

So I left after getting classifications around 2 year mark (promoted moderately quickly from within), left to work at a few different places. Was able to solve a lot of cool cypher/puzzle/codes, (not exactly what was being done, but closely related).

After which I took hiatus, because i was burned out and honestly the job is nasty work. I was offered a scholarship previously to an unnamed university in HS, but turned it down, so I applied there. Surprisingly I got a full ride which was better than whatever like 30% at most I was offered in HS. Found out work I did while working for gov was acceptable for credit hours, so I was able to finish my bachelors pretty quick within 6 months, since I also gamed the online courses for prereqs. Not gonna say my major, but it was not what you think, weirdly enough, which is why I was surprised my gov work qualified as credit hours for some of the classes.

Anyway, got my masters and trasnferres out to different schoolf or doctoral program since tenured professor I was studying with was pushed into retirement. Got my dcotorate. So curently I was around age 28 with doctorate had a decent nest egg, old friend bet me 100k I couldn't solve Zodiac cyphers. Took the bet obviously, he was serious, but only because he knows me and because I was sort of known a a prodigy at this type of thing. Had published already multiple papers with 50+ citations while still in grad school, (luckily was able to avoid having the cute twink associate professor list his name first, douchebag did that to all his students published studies but I went to faculty head (guy who got pushed out) and told him if I don't get my name first I was transferring). Lol I ended up transferring anyway, as I mentioned earlier, which caused the dean to call me... I wish I was joking, very embrassing.

idk, why I wrote all this, but I just want to make sure you guys understand my creds. I am not a genius or anything, more like just really, really good at solving puzzles and creating heuristics. Being good at heuristics is probably more important than anything, because they usually can be used through various transformations (if they are precise while maintaining reasonable accuracy) to form the actual algorithmic solution.

Actual Solution

So when I solved the first cipher, my friend didn't believe me. Obviously, the most progress towards the real answer anyone had made in 51 years. And was conflicting with previous "answers" from blowhard cute twinks.

I mean it wasn't all the way completed so let's just say we all were half correct. Anyways I kept at it, and eventually hit a jackpot on a few hidden clues, then not only solved the last unsolvable cipher, but went back and resolved the cipher claimed to be solved in 2020, that was solved incorrectly! That dude was on TV and got a job with the FBI and leases out his software and he's riding a complete lie!!

I swear dude blocked me the other day on the cicada 3301 post , when I tried giving him a pointer, and I hadn't realized it was him until he blocked me!!

So I solved all 3 of thier ciphers , actually figured out the zodiac killers as they made title, the fardowsi connection, the ciphers solutions and letter games and tons of hidden content from the group that was "the zodiac" 3 hidden treasure locations, and tried giving them this information absolutely free, minus the "key" that deciphers the ciphers (because there's some treasures booby trapped and ppl could get hurt or worse)

But they banned me because they'd rather sell books guessing at thier new suspect of the year , every year for the rest of eternity. They'd rather make Netflix series where they interview a bunch of crusty burnouts and speculate on yesterday's news.

I guess i sound like I've got salt in areas men usually don't possess and get salt into.

Yeah , I guess.

So I'm just gonna give you the quick answers, because frick those guys. Z13 in a scytale zig zag placement turn to Alexander the great. You can run a ceaser cipher with the transposition alphabet and end up with a saying from fardowsi,(in persian english) that says he spits on you from the heavens.

The z340 is a board game, it's the death machine list inside a play area that's much like a 5 point star. The word search of the list will designate the area. Then you play the game and the key is made. You can decrypt the 340 ,the 13,and the 32 with the key. You can even flip some ciphers upside down and use a mirror filter on the text and it will decrypt with the 340 key and make sense.

The z32 bomb is 4in and 4in and 2 radiens (it triangulates) and is at Oakland even though it should have blown by now. You can hold the map with a lot of other letters and discover spots this group hid treasure at 50 years ago (lol) like 9k in a rusty spitoon on the side of the road. (Dust by now).

Mr seawater the seawaters libertarian dad was the 1st zodiac.

Allen was the 2nd.

And nate and TC were both going for the title.

There were like 11 - 13 people involved in the zodiac crimes. Tom C was a killer. Mrs Seawater was involved. They killed people who had names that matched names in fardowsis' "shanameh" and some locations matched locations in the poem. The similarity to the poem to the murders is wild. The ciphers are a masterpiece in my opinion and I did have a great time solving them. There's something else, and it's borderline paranormal I want to say... metaphysical perhaps?

Whatever. I wrote enough. Will add more later. Just typing this up quick.

Epilogue

Friend is currently also consulting a few professors at my alma mater, but he says he is leaning towards paying me even though he has some issues understanding some specifics with my solution.

Being a little vagur, but just want to flex a bit, because this will be news soon, but you won't hear my name.... Certain reasons I can't explain. I just want some type of documentation and proof it was me, when this gets released. Probably be a few years (?) not sure how long they will wait. A lot of moving pieces.

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Full disclosure: I am a leftist in the USA and while I don't have an issue with the rich or ultra-rich existing, I do have an issue with people existing in abject poverty in the richest country on the planet. (41)

Can you give an example of someone in America living in abject poverty?Medicaid, food stamps, section 8 housing, free k-12 education. Plus local and state programs for internet and phone subsidies. Unless you are mentally unwell and not able to manage these programs, you should never be in abject poverty. (-11)

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No. Inequality is the killer of Capitalism. People forget the real value of money is not living a more comfortable life; it's power. When a small group of people are able to hoard all the money, it means they hoard all the power. When that happens their immediate next step is to close the door behind themselves to prevent other people from getting power, followed by disenfranchising all of the people who could threaten them. This naturally creates an authoritarian state (Socialism, Fascism, Feudalism, etc. are all different flavours of authoritarianism) where a small crowd that thins to a single person who is given control over the destiny and freedom of every person in the state.It's not about giving everyone a decent standard of living; that's a consequence of them having power. It's about keeping the different levels and layers of society functioning and competing to keep things in balance. (134)

This… makes no sense. You get richer by trading/leveraging others' strong qualities while lending them yours - in good faith (do it in bad faith and people will stop trading with you - and you will fall behind no matter the initial edge). This is the opposite of "closing door behind yourself once you get rich". If your theory made slightest sense people would never get rid of slavery, for example. Nor would developed countries invest in underdeveloped ones (that themselves become developed as a result, mind you). (-17)

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Tax them properly. Solved. (7)

But then who will we blame for all our problems if not the rich? (0)

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I am wondering where all this poverty is. Not only do I not see it, ever, but we have vast welfare programs that provide all the necessities and more. Our welfare state provides food, clothing, spending money, housing, healthcare, and probably a bunch of other stuff I am completely unaware of. So how is it we have poverty and where is all this poverty?I think the left has mental problems. They suffer from a sick sense of envy, hatred, and greed. Those problems are focused on anyone they currently deem to have too much regardless of how much the individual worked for what they have. They are authoritarian and want to decide how much money an individual can accumulate. They also want to decide how much everyone is afforded regardless of how little they work. They would literally give able bodied people free everything even if those able bodied people sat on their asses all day long and did nothing. (-6)

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I am wondering where all this poverty is. Not only do I not see it, ever, but we have vast welfare programs that provide all the necessities and more. Our welfare state provides food, clothing, spending money, housing, healthcare, and probably a bunch of other stuff I am completely unaware of. So how is it we have poverty and where is all this poverty?I think the left has mental problems. They suffer from a sick sense of envy, hatred, and greed. Those problems are focused on anyone they currently deem to have too much regardless of how much the individual worked for what they have. They are authoritarian and want to decide how much money an individual can accumulate. They also want to decide how much everyone is afforded regardless of how little they work. They would literally give able bodied people free everything even if those able bodied people sat on their asses all day long and did nothing. (-6)

It's the lower income working class where the poverty is at. Due to rising costs in housing and health insurance, middle income earners are slipping into poverty as well. Car insurance and home insurance rising costs are going to bring even more workers into poverty. I would say the high number of adults who don't have kids or are not into marriage/dating are often victims of working class poverty because often they realize they cannot afford family/children, so why bother dating in the first place. (2)

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I think there's two problems here:2 - All the measures I've seen to lower income inequality ultimately just harm potential business owners and house owners the most.3 - Anecdotal but it feels ridiculous how Leftists get mad at people having money. Like an athlete offers a service and gets paid [X] amount of money for it. How's he at fault for someone else being poor? (3)

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@Redactor0 grandpa confirm what I got wrong

Nothing fam. Just like I expect from you. Let's see if there's a few points I can elaborate on slightly.

USA Navy forces were not immediately aware of the ramifications the Battle of Midway would have upon the momentum of the Pacific Theatre

Keep in mind that both sides didn't even know how what ships the other had. They were getting bullshit intelligence from their own pilots all the time, so for example the Japanese were overestimating how many carriers they had sunk and had no idea we still had 3 left in the Pacific at that time.

the sheer dominant magnitude of the influence an aircraft carrier would as a weapons platform would supercede even the wildest prewar speculations

I gotta push back on this just slightly. Battleships were going obsolete but it wasn't completely over quite yet. Notice how important they were at Leyte Gulf on both sides and that was near the end of the war. This is one thing where I actually got some insight from computer games. Like so often, that comes in the form of actually getting the geometry involved. A battleship at flank speed could get about as far overnight as a carrier-based plane could fly (I'm oversimplifying here, but you get it). So you could actually dash in and catch them with a little luck. Especially if there were a few clouds out.

But it was really marginal. At the end of the war the proximity fuze for AA shells came out which helped the battleships a lot but also jet engines and guided bombs. And just planes that could fly farther. So it was really obvious by 1945 that within a few years they would be totally useless for fighting other ships.

the Royal Palace in hue

The bastards got there before Old Man Redactor could take pictures of it. But there was a lot of beautiful stuff left in Hue even after the battle.

this upcoming deafeat would be the greatest blow dealt to the US for the entire war

That's a really good way of putting it. You must have some angloid DNA.

It was the single greatest massacre of VC forces to the extent that they literally ceased to fricking be a political power within the communist sphere in Vietnam entire and Cambodia. From then on the North Vietnamese had near absolute control of military operations.

The VC were never really an independent force. At least not at the top level. There were lots of commies in South Vietnam at the beginning of the war of course, but the leadership was always directed from Hanoi. What was really changed by Tet is that all these low-level commies native to the South got killed off. After that, there was no longer any pretense that this was a guerilla war. By the time the old man got there (I think 1970) it was completely a conventional war between the North and the South fought with advanced high-tech weapons. He wasn't hauling an M-16 around when he was on his photography trips to old historical buildings in Hue because there weren't any guerillas to be scared of. Those people were all dead.

The Phoenix Program was also very helpful here. Just using basic 1960s police and office work they rooted out the commies in the villages. This was basically just turning the tables on them. Going after everyone who is on the enemy side. Except we didn't use terrorism the way the VC did, chopping off the head of the mayor's kid and shit like that. The cops just arrested people in 90% of cases. (Statistics on the Phoenix Program are quite interesting, something to go into more detail about someday.)

The US and ARVn performance was absolutely spectacular, perhaps one of history's great battles like fricking Cannae or Waterloo or something

Let's not suck our peepees too hard here. Old Man tells me a story second hand of a guy who had been in some big base around Saigon during Tet. He complained that he never got to shoot anybody because they were all slaughtered by .50 cal machineguns before they even got close enough. This wasn't Hannibal or Wellington we were dealing with.

us Air Cavalry (helicopter troops)

My dad will swear up and down that he hated everything about the Army but this is exactly the kind of comment that would draw him out. The 101st was airborne, it was NOT cavalry!

the lies and deception of the military a and 2 administrations about how good the war went

That's what the real crisis was. If it wasn't Tet it would have been something else to trigger it. They kept saying the war is about to end and they were clearly lying. This is a generation that wasn't beyond sacrifices. Everyone's parents had been in WW2 in some shit job sweeping asbestos off the floor of a shipyard or on the side of the world fighting. A lot of them never came back. But there was a purpose. People will sacrifice a lot for a purpose, but if they're getting jerked around, they notice real fast.

Old Man's story about this is listening to the radio where Nixon is saying that we're not bombing Laos and he's looking up in the sky and there's planes above him heading west. It didn't take fricking Descartes to guess where they were going.

unexpectedly brought low USA civilian morale to continue to send their sons overseas into the meatgrinder

A lot of the conventional wisdom about this isn't always right. We had something like half our casualties after Tet. (One third, I dunno.) And popular support for the war wasn't really eroded all that much if you look at the polling data.

Keep in mind that there's a certain class of people who dominate the discussion of the Vietnam War. Specifically: Guys who dodged the draft so they didn't have to go there and know anything about it. There's an extreme level of self-serving bullshit they claim. Like that the "Anti-War Movement" (lol you sure cared about the Vietnam-Cambodia war) had any impact at all on anything other than being so disgusting they helped get Nixon elected in 1968. These are the last fricking people on Earth you should ever believe. I trust the guys fighting on the other side 1000x more than them.

By the time 2023 arrived the most critical munitions would be basic artillery shells

So my two things I was saying going into this is ATGMs are gonna be important (because of experience in the Middle East in previous decades) and basic b-word artillery shells. There was this cult of precision munitions from Desert Storm. The thing I never heard anybody explain is: What if you don't know exactly where the enemy is tho?

Unironic WW1 bunkers and trenches also came to dominate the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine from Donbass to Crimea, with static artillery war and massed charges for both sides being the most popular strategy, on a grinding stalemate similar as to the ending phase of 1952s Korea War.

The last full-scale war we had between two opponents that was a fair fight was the Iran-Iraq War and it was a heck of a lot like this. I keep telling everyone, but nobody believes little old Redactor. I guess I gotta post more Chronicles of Victory.

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