gagarin just parachuted out of a plane and told that farmer he went to space

It would be cool to see the YJ-21 in action. I hope someone takes videos

In addition to what others have said, I would argue that both cars and suburbs (which go hand-in-hand) atomize society and divide people from one another, while trains and dense cities are both pro-social. This may not have been intentional, but it nevertheless plays into the hand of the ruling class by preventing social socidarity.

The single family home in the suburbs trains the homeowner to behave as the lord of their little manor - neighbours are at best an unwelcome intrusion into this manorial fantasy (good fences make good neighbours), and at worst are petty enemies, whose housekeeping, yardkeeping, or decoration could affect my property value. Apartment living doesn’t have any shortage of potential problems with neighbours, of course, but they’re the ordinary interpersonal issues rather than bourgeois concerns about investments and property values.

Suburban living also trains the homeowner to be suspicious of any passers-by, as they could be potential enemies. Are they supposed to be here? Are they causing trouble? Vandals? Casing out targets for home invasions? When you’re the lord of your little manor, any outsiders walking the street are a potential army of marauders looking to sack and pillage. Trayvon Martin was murdered for walking around in the wrong neighbourhood, and his killer was acquitted - after all, why was he there? He looked (i.e. black) like he didn’t belong. Every suburban homeowner has an internet-connected doorbell camera, enabling them to keep watch for potential invaders, and that footage as a matter of course feeds directly into the surveillance panopticon.

Cars work in roughly the same way, in that they’re a little living room that you drive around town. An isolated purely private space into which any kind of intrusion is unwelcome at best and an attack at worst. All the other cars, despite being driven by other people, are faceless things which are once again an annoyance at best (they’re in your way, preventing you from driving at the speed you want) or a threat at worst, and since they’re multi-ton steel machines being driven by fellow self-centred suburban assholes like yourself, they literally are a threat. Every other person on the road could potentially kill you due to carelessness or malice. This promotes an atmosphere of pervasive distrust in which everyone else is an opponent of some kind - either an obstacle or actively hostile.

Cars and suburbs act synergistically to suppress community and social solidarity. You live in your isolated manor and pilot your carriage to your destinations, all the while insulated from the ouside world and from other people. Anything outside the car is not your problem so long as it doesn’t come back to your castle, so any time you see the rot in the poorer neighbourhoods of the inner city you only hope that it stays contained and your neighbourhood stays isolated. Public transit, especially mass transit via light rail, is therefore a potential disease vector for them to enter your neighbourhood. It must therefore be opposed.

Bullet trains are of course not light rail and don’t enable the poors to invade the suburbs, but to the suburban subject, it is still unwelcome - it wastes their tax dollars which could be better spent for them on their private affairs - the manor, the car, and other toys. Overall societal benefit is after all not a concern, the concern is with the private sphere.

never really got into friends, seinfeld was better

I posted basically the same thing in a similar thread, but since this popped up on my feed I will repost it.

Your stupid little fake elections dont matter, yankee. Nothing in the world matters less than the kabuki theater contest between your democrats and your republicans. For over a century both your parties have lead campaigns of slaughter and pillage across the world, but now you’re being kicked out of the middle east. Your power is failing, and soon enough you’ll be kicked out of everywhere else too. Your fake parties and fake elections will be your problem and your problem alone. Welcome to the american century of humiliation.

and you have no idea what it is like living under the thumb of a government that doesn’t respond to your wants or your needs at all.

I will refute this, Canadians as well as most westerners know what that’s like, just maybe not quite as much as Americans.

dilbert

that’s how the rules based international order works. a resistance group building tunnels under a walled-off ghettoized city is “using human shields”, but the most powerful army in the world* putting up troops in hotels to avoid them getting targeted at base, thus making the hotels targets, is just a reasonable tactical move.

*formerly accurate, now in question

As I recall the NYT admitted that the US had moved troops to office spaces and hotels, but only as a bare statement of fact with no mention that it entails using civilians human shields and is a war crime

Is it your business whether the Iranian regime falls?

Pizdets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvR6-SQzqO8

Huh, I looked it up and it was worse than I thought. Still only 10% of the population compared to 20% of the population in North Korea, but still very bad. Nevertheless, the Soviets did it once, while the Americans did it a whole bunch of times.

He might invade Greenland, he might invade Cuba, he might invade Canada, he might invade Mexico. At this point, we may as well adopt the mindset of the Yemenis:

"We don’t care, we don’t care. Make it a major world war! My heart longs for Mausers and assault rifles.

They’re going to do what they’re going to do. Will they open up more fronts? Well that went great for Germany, so I’m sure it’ll go great for them.

Yeah, but it’s not comparable to what America did in Korea or Vietnam

Well she clearly wasn’t a viable choice, was she?

Right back atcha!

I agree entirely except for the thing about the USSR

sacrifices must be made, they’ll have to be wrinkly

I wouldn’t be so sure. You have a lot of money, a lot of people, and a large military, yes. But the money is fake, the people by and large aren’t doing anything productive, and the military is less and less effective. You don’t have the industrial capacity to be anything more than a regional power - what has made up for it in the time since you moved all your industry to China is your financial power, but that is dependent on, among other things, the petrodollar, which is now under direct threat.

Your neighbours will still have to worry about you, for a time at least, but outside of the western hemisphere you’ll shortly be as relevant as you were 200 years ago or so.