It’s darkly impressive that city council members who live in a country that’s fighting for its life against a genocidal invasion would pull bullshit like this, but humans gonna human.

An appropriate response, but in the context of the current regime: genuinely, what’s the point?

Wall Street:

best I can do is tuning my HFT algos so I can bail out with max profit right before all the bag holders get fucking stomped

It’s true, but Putin could wipe his dick all over orangeboi’s face and orangeboi would thank him for it

And you might get a bit damp if you jump in the ocean.

Jesus. I shudder to imagine what he was subjected to.

Oh hell yeah. That sweet/savory got me all

But what’s the frame rate in crysis

Juste pour voir ce que ça fait

Fair point; I tend to be overly cautious when using that broad of a brush, but I don’t disagree

Oh, I’m well aware, but I also do my best to avoid sweeping generalizations. I do agree that Russian society and culture on that front is… shall we say, deeply problematic.

Though I don’t doubt many do, it’s important to remember that it’s more or less illegal to not support the war. Not an excuse, but a reason.

I have a friend whose mother took a LOT of it and permanently fucked up her heart and liver. Can’t walk more than 25 feet without getting winded. They have to periodically search her cabinets because she still believes that idiocy and tries to take it if she can find it.

/c/noncredibledefense

He’s switching parties, I’m calling it now

In Texas…? Where the state government flagrantly and theatrically displays full-throated enthusiasm for the worst aspects of the current federal regime? The fuck are you smoking my guy?

They are absolutely hanging those guardsmen out to dry intentionally. They’re very literally trying to get some of them killed.

Lmao dude what the fuck would you propose be used against a quarter million kamikaze UAVs?

And more importantly: the defenders need to get lucky every single time. The attackers only need to get lucky once.

How many Standard + SEARAM + ESSM + CIWS rounds do you think a single base and two surface flotillas could expend in a sustained saturation attack like that? Not how many in the magazines - how many can be effectively expended over a given span of time. Also, take into the account that a part of this strategy typically includes salting the mix with much more modern and capable and fast ASMs/AGMs.

Saturation attacks are the strategy the Soviet (and now Russian) Navy centers their doctrine upon for a reason. And that reason is the USN CVBG. Cheap, numerous drones make that strategy a lot more effective.

I mean, that’s good, but fuck me, the fact that that’s even necessary is appalling on multiple levels