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Posted in slop because of the over-the-top writing style.

Imagine this: no electricity on Taiwan’s western coast. Government ministries offline. Internet gone. Airport systems shut. No explosion heard. But order collapses just the same.

waow-based

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 94 points 8 months ago (3 children)

In a town near Novi Sad in 1999, an elderly Serbian man lit a candle for his dying wife. Their respirator had stopped. Not from shrapnel. Not from bombing. But because NATO dropped filaments of carbon on the power station miles away. He didn’t know the word “graphite bomb.” All he knew was the darkness.

Starts off with this admission of NATO/US using these weapons that result in civilian deaths, then quickly does the pivot to China without any further thought.

classic who-did-this

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 50 points 8 months ago

China will steal our torment nexus which is why we need more funding to build an even more tormentuous torment nexus!

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago

Yeah dude what the fuck that jumped out to me too

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was like that for the whole Cold War, this isn't that much different

"The US used nuclear weapons against Japan, which cost many thousands their lives, some in horrific fashion" then the next twenty paragraphs are about what the USSR might do with their nukes, despite never having done anything

Just recycling old material

[–] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 65 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Third, reject the myth of the “clean weapon.” There is no such thing. All war harms. If a blackout kills a patient, the line between bomb and sabotage vanishes.

I don’t disagree but find it funny that the same people that will say this about China having a graphite bomb would not apply the same logic to something like sanctions or the deaths that capitalism causes by keeping the working class poor.

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Liberals view morality in terms of teams instead of actions/consequences.

"If the evil Reds do it, it's because they are evil and want to cause suffering. But if we justice seeking Blues do it, it's because it was the just thing to do and any causalities are an unfortunate cost we have to pay" and if you point out their hypocritical view by giving examples they cry about so called what-about-ism.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

exactly how words like "autocracy" and "authoritarianism" work. if a state we support does something, then we acknowledge the difficult context of the decision and how justified and necessary it is. if an enemy state does something, just use the Bad Label. they're Bad and did it because they're Bad. there is no actual content that doesn't come back to "they are illegitimate because they are the bad guys and we are legitimate because we are the good guys."

(fuck you Anne Applebaum)

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago

Fucking Parenti, always relevant!

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

Oh... so Anne Applewood's article "The Bad Guys are winning" was an encapsulation of that mentality. Lmfao she does that all the time?

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

While also obsessing over calling out hypocrisy. Like, if youre gonna be a hypocrite dont be hypocritical about it. I want good things to happen to my friends and allies and bad things to happen to my enemies, this frees me up entirely to hold double standards. Like it's okay for us to kill nazis and billionaires and if the system doesnt like it, fuck that system. But I will also be mad at that same system for letting billionaires kill us. The moral high ground is a sad place to be and I dont advise seeking it. Play to win.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Liberals spend 100% of their time talking about the hypothetical murders China might do at some vague nondescript point in the future and 0% of their time talking about the actual murders daddy USA is doing right now

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"Be very afraid of this new weapon China could use! BTW, NATO has used it a dozen times. 🤭"

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

These are not brute-force tools. They are archetypal trickster weapons. Devious, non-linear, disruptive. Not designed to win battles, but to upend balance. Their job is not to kill soldiers. It is to unnerve populations.

parenti-hands

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

I sure do love 19th century vintage yellow peril

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

>weapon

>designed to win battles

gee willickers!

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

USA develops modern weaponry

so-true OMG LE EPIC WUNDERWAFFEN TO KILL THE CHICOMS!!!1!!!!!1!11!11 GLASS THE UNTERMENSCHEN HAHAHA

China develops modern weaponry

wojak-nooo No you can’t do that! That’s not fair!

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This video is very educational on this topic if you want to understand exactly how these bombs work: https://youtu.be/_2i5TUR9jRk

The US used a graphite bomb in Iraq. US doctrine is to widespread target civilian infrastructure.

Worth noting, Russia has never done anything like this, in fact Russia has avoided damage to civilian infrastructure and actively working to maintain power to regions they do not occupy despite occupying the powerplants supplying those regions.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 39 points 8 months ago

I have seen next to zero mainstream agitprop when netanyahoo was given a standing ovation in the congress (I think?) but there was a relentless barrage of it for the resent Trump-Putin meet speaking as if Putin is an indiscriminate mass murderer. There is zero connect to reality.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can literally tell reading it that they used AI to help write this, and i get to the bottom to see this. "This article took 12 hours to research & write — and 3 decades of lived insight. If it gave you something valuable, consider tipping €2. That’s almost the cost of a coffee — and it fuels the next story."

lol

[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

followed by "you're not just x, you're y". em dash and GPT emoji too. wonder how much of this is AI

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

not to blast, but to blind

not a step forward in warfare. It is a shift

not a test. It is a message

not brute-force tools. They are archetypal trickster weapons.

Not designed to win battles, but to upend balance

not to kill soldiers. It is to unnerve populations

not tools of conquest. They are tools of doubt.

not about full-scale invasion. It is about narrative control.

not war crimes in the traditional sense. But they are acts of war.

not kill cleanly. It kills indirectly.

foucault-madness

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

Haha holy shit, what a pattern.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 8 months ago

sounds like a self-help coach tbh

[–] AtmosphericRiversCuomo@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really wild when people can't even tell their stuff sounds like this. I wonder if they think they got away with it?

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

They’re so hooked on the gippity it’s literally cooked their brain to the point they can’t write anything without it, they genuinely think it sounds 100% perfectly natural

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My guess is it's the entire thing, and they just edited the AI article a bit, and copy and pasted stuff into different areas. Maybe did a few prompts and merged them together.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

i hate this so much. even after writing some personal smutty slop with LLM i have to purge my memory so i don't pick up it's writing style

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 8 months ago

Soft-Kill Weapons and the Trickster Archetype

me when i play a bard

[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

so it's just a bomb filled with a ton of Ticonderoga Number 2 pencils? got it...

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This article took 12 hours to research & write —

Your emdashes suggest otherwise, chatgpt I presume?

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

you don't know how many times they sat there refreshing to re generate a response to their initial prompt "make up a boogieman about China that doesn't implicate NATO" (it implicates NATO because it doesn't understand)

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

don't worry everyone the Trump admin is preparing to counter this by.... not approving any new solar/wind power projects????

fucking china stay winning. god damn.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

in what would could americans imagine the west coast of taiwan lmao

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

Intern drops a toner cartridge

Weapons manufacturer: "WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!"

Writes that down and looks at the pencil: "WHAAAAAAAAAA"

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Skye@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, the thing is NATO loves doing it

The US Navy used sea-launched Tomahawk missiles with Kit-2 warheads, involving reels of carbon fibers, in Iraq as part of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War in 1991, where it disabled about 85% of the electricity supply. The US Air Force used the CBU-94, dropped by F-117 Nighthawks, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia on 2 May 1999, where it disabled more than 70% national grid electricity supply. The supply was restored in less than 24 hours though was later disrupted by a further attack on 7 May 1999. It was again used following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

So all western controlled human rights agencies just say it's "questionable" or it's cool because power supply is of dual use, like Human Rights Watch:

Coalition forces did, however, identify certain targets as "dual use," including electricity and media installations. Human Rights Watch's investigations found that air strikes on civilian power distribution facilities in al-Nasiriyya caused serious civilian suffering and that the legality of the attacks on media installations was questionable.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

I mean if NATO is doing it it's definitely a war crime

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

what the use of an emp(in effect) equivalent that doesn't kill people(directly)? or that it would target civilian infrastructure (like conventional weapons also do)?

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I thought targeting civilian infrastructure was a war crime

Like if you black out an entire region people are gonna die

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

i posted about my work crap and how collective punishment is a crime against humanity re: the Geneva convention and it's really only a matter of a person's interpretation as to whether or not mass infrastructure attacks constitute "collective punishment" against whatever "enemy" (they do)