yogthos

hopefully

I'm really excited to play it. I'm going through Planet of Lana 2 right now, and this one's next on my list. Good to hear it's a lot like DE in a fantasy setting.

I'm a bit surprised the bubble kept going as long as it did. It's absolutely wild how investors just kept throwing hundreds of billions at tech that didn't have any clear business model, no market fit, and wasn't making any substantial revenue.

may we see more in the coming weeks

We're now clearly seeing that the whole narrative of liberalism being a more free society was pure nonsense all along. The only reason there hasn't been much censorship in the west before was due to the fact that mainstream liberal narrative was dominant. When majority of people willingly believed it, there was no need to do policing at state level. In fact, people would effectively police themselves, we still see this happening all the time today. Liberals will generally refuse to read news from sources outside of mainstream media, and automatically dismiss any information that comes outside their usual information bubble. This has been particularly prominent with the conflict in Ukraine, where despite all the predictions in western mainstream consistently being wrong, people would continue to cling to the narrative. Meanwhile, people with different views and perspectives would generally choose not to voice them for fear of being ostracized from polite company, having their social status affected, or having their careers ruined. Those who would dare to question the system would be pushed to the fringes. Dissident academics such as Michael Parenti would find it difficult to keep positions in universities, get tenure, or get published. And so, the west ended up with a greatest propaganda narrative about freedom of speech and right to expression.

But now that the mainstream is shrinking. More and more people falling due to decline in their material conditions, and non western media is becoming increasingly easy to access. Chinese media is now penetrating into the US exposing people to completely different perspectives. All of a sudden there's a need for censorship to keep the official narrative going. Now that the media advantage is fading, and people are increasingly starting to question things, the system of self policing is no longer sufficient to keep people in line.

Show us a single example of when a US intervention made life better for people. What Americans want is to destroy Iran, and they're not even hiding it https://youtu.be/ogt9g-rTa3o?t=376

If you want Iran to be turned into another Libya or Syria then you're just piece of human garbage. Scum like you enables every western atrocity.

lol yup

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Yeah, taking any single city isn't going to change anything. Also, they have developed a whole mosaic defense strategy to decentralize command specifically to prevent the possibility of any sort of decapitation strike https://www.palestinechronicle.com/explainer-what-is-irans-mosaic-defense-strategy/

That could be an aspect too.

There are other factors too. The US has a limited number of bases in the region which Iran is systematically taking apart right now. These provide logistics for staging, ammo storage, early warning systems, air defenses, and so on. These bases took decades and trillions to build, and they simply cannot be replaced. While Iran is simply too big to bomb into submission, the same logic doesn't apply to the limited US assets in the region.

Another huge factor is that the US has to ship weapons across the ocean, which is slow and expensive. Iranians are fighting on the home turf, and they effectively have unlimited weapons by comparison. And of course there's the fact that Iranian weapons are simply more efficient. The US is forced to use multiple multi million dollar interceptors to take down each drone that costs a few thousand to make. It's obvious that Iran can pump out drones faster than the US can pump out missiles.

Finally, the whole idea of ground invasion is a fantasy. Iran is a country of 90 million, with difficult mountainous terrain. For context, Ukraine is a third of the size, and Russia has an army of 1.5 million fighting there.

They're absolutely operating with insurance. They're just insured outside the west.