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Unfortunately Russia is figuring out that they can’t handle high tech, but they can handle lots of low tech.
“Quantity is a quality of it’s own”.
Quantity is a quality of its own if you have unlimited manpower, i.e. if you are a low-tech agrarian society with naturally high birth rates and an effectively limitless pool of expendable serfs the Czar can press into canon-fodder service whenever he needs to wage war. Unfortunately for the current Czar, these things no longer hold, and no amount of pontificating about “traditional values” will turn this around by itself.
To be careful: I am not a supporter of Russia. Let’s be clear on that.
Agreed he can’t do this forever, but he only needs to hold out long enough for funding to run out, and is happy to spend lives and low tech equipment in the meantime. Look at the losses in avdiivka.
So for all interested porpoises, he did have unlimited lives and gear
All we can do is hope trump doesn’t win and whatever Congress is next doesn’t hold funding hostage
*its
If I had a dime for every time autocorrect swapped to the incorrect form of “its,” I’d have enough to fly to California and drown Tim Apple and Richard Google with dimes.
If you accidentally change your keyboard layout to italian it will autocorrect all kinds of stuff that makes no sense. Was kinda funny at first and then grew to be annoying
should be labeled tankies but yea
Yep. Tankies love it when you refer to all communists as tankies.
I maybe don’t get the meme, but why would western communists like modern russia? the most supporters of russia I know irl are far right
It’s not a very good label for this. There’s a certain subsection of the left that sees anti-Americanism as an ideology, and therefore any state that opposes America is categorically good.
They’re not common, and they tend to overlap with the sort who’s mom found their weed stash and made them throw it away. Lacking weed, they turn to making a lot of loud noises on Lemmy.
They’re not common, but annoyingly a shockingly large number of them use Lemmy.
Lemmy exists because of them. Dessalines and crew didn’t make Reddit for Leftists as a mere coincidence after r/ChapoTrapHouse got banned.
Didn’t most of r/ChapoTrapHouse end up on hexbear.com instead of lemmy.ml? Or was it just the 12-14 year olds on that sub that ended up on hexbear?
Hexbear is more sane than it seems but their loudest voices are… Quite loud. Generally because of the tools they had that other instances don’t and just come off as annoying to anyone outside of the community.
The problem with judging where the Chapo diaspora ended up is that while Hexbear started from the sub ban it has become a fairly different community and there’s also quite a lot of shared users between Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad, and Hexbear, and then there’s the fact that the exit of the radical left from Reddit was about more than Chapo alone.
Look up “accelerationism”.
Which is basically ’ I’m only pretending to be an asshole’ aka ‘it’s just a prank bro’
Anyone claiming to be fucking things up because they belive it’ll magically fix everything is a liar and an idiot.
It’s literally foreign propaganda aimed at the mid-wit segment; a way to lever the vaguely leftwing-but-angry via formal sounding philosophy.
It’s also why you really only find it discussed on Lemmy or 8chan, etc.
Accelerationists are just Socialists who accept reality.
Accelerationists are socialists who think it’s fine if a ton of gay people are killed right now, as long as it means there’s a chance they won’t be later
Fuck accelerationists
Hi, western communist here. Russia is a christo-fascist state but some fellow commies have accepted the position that any faction against US global dominance is one worth supporting regardless of their actual policies and humanity. The idea being that the #1 goal should be the distruction of the hegemony that has oppressed many of the worlds nations in the hopes that communism can rise out of them now that they would be free to make that choice.
Most communists in the West are not like this. This is a specific subsection of communists who want to knowingly support christo-fascists. Most western communists fucking hate Russia.
You hearing this Xi? Yladivostok is up for the taking in a “3 day special military operation.” You can go protect the large minority of Han (Chinese, but the type they actually care about) citizens, score an easy military and political victory, regain territory that China lost in like 1900, and pull attention away from Taiwan, all at the same time.
Deng Xiaoping missed his chance in 1989, the last time we bankrupted The USSR/Russia. Don’t miss your chance to regain glorious Chinese territory!
I’m not a tank guy, but didn’t half of it’s gimmicks didn’t work or were hopelessly outdated in the first place?
half of its* gimmicks
*half of it is gimmicks
The thermal optics are outdated shit that the French offloaded on them after pulling them off the Leclerc.
The “Active protection system” requires manual input from the crew. I don’t really need to elaborate on why that’s bad, right?
The engine was never designed to be used in a vehicle. It’s meant for running fuel pumps. There is no evidence that it can hit its stated top speeds.
The internal electronics are all visibly outdated, and have no backups. If the monitors go down, the crew are blind.
The autoloader is just the same tech they’ve been putting in tanks since the sixties.
To be fair, the B1 bomber (which we never actually used in action) was also built to fuel economics and enrich plutocrats.
Then there was the Sea Wolf attack sub, created not because we really needed a replacement for the Los Angeles class, but our small society of submersible-savvy engineers needed to stay in practice making submarines, so the US gave them a project to do.
Wut? The B1 saw plenty of action. For example:
In the first six months of Operation Enduring Freedom, eight B-1s dropped almost 40 percent of aerial ordnance, including some 3,900 JDAMs.
Make no mistake it was an expensive program and didn’t deliver what was hoped, but it’s seen plenty of real world use.
So I was entirely ignorant about the project to refit B1s for conventional weapons starting in the George H. W. Bush administration. So, the last thirty odd years. I had thought we’d gone from B52s to B2s regarding conventional strategic bombing.
Pretty sure the B-one was used significantly in Afghanistan.
Should we also hear the same headline, but for Su-57?
