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3 days agoThe US is collapsing that is why.
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32·4 days agoWow this whole time I thought conservatives were dumbasses and yet silly me look they are so smart they figured out how to see into the future!
Those some megalodon oreos there
You mean bullshit destroyers?
Yeah those people are usually called Science Educators.
Which is why one of the lagrange points of Comfort is Horror.
7·10 days agoOrg Mode shall set you free
huh? I don’t remember the airplane looking like that
wait no THIS is an airplane I think?
Ha, those damn Millenials all they do is play video games they don’t have any practical life skills. Who cares what they think? Why don’t we just fuck them over and get rid of the social safety net we had so we can be filthy rich and have a lavish retirement? What are they going to do about it anyway?
Oh fuck run run run run run run AHHHHHHHHH how do they already know how to fly these so well!?!?!???
7·12 days agoThey were already too spored of the conversation to be listening.
1·15 days agoGeographically, I think the US military and allies pretty much have the Atlantic buttoned up (the Arctic aside) compared to the vastness of the Pacific along with its many potentially opposing powers with long reaches on the other side of it.
Politically, Big Tech is in California.
You ever heard of a narco boat? One of those rigged to launch shahed type flying bombs would work wonders on US politics for Republicans.
Even if the boat was a piece of unproperly prototyped trash, just the imagery of it washing up on the shores of California broken would make the price well worth if for those that want to accelerate rightwing extremism on both sides of the Iran-Israel/US War.
It seems absurd to even entertain the idea that Iran would send drone strikes to California.
I know it seems absurd but my point is that this is a collective delusion the US is putting itself through.
This attack wouldn’t be some kind of devastating hit on the US, in terms of impact yes having to launch an attack across the world would make it only feasible for Iran to make a handful of small strikes, but that is irrelevant to the US media and political ruling class. All of that would be completely and utterly invisibilized in the media panic and political narratives as the imagery of a couple of shahed attacks on US soil was repeated over and over again.
Further the nano second attacks like these happened on US soil the government would baselessly declare them intimately tied to Antifa “radical leftists” and up the violence against peaceful protestors in the US tenfold while Chuck Schumer and the mainstream media cheered them on. ICE violence against migrants and perceived migrants could also be raised tenfold without any accountability. Finally, they can integrate the new kid on the block “Narcoterrorists” into the story with immediately baselessly claiming it was narcoterrorist groups in central america that helped facilitate the attack for Iran and that was why murdering the fisherman on boats was necessary blah blah blah… Does this sound familiar?
“Truth be told, this is just a narco boat. You know, we stole the idea from friends down south,” Brig. Gen. Simon Doran, who is currently the director of strategy and plans for the Marine Corps, said in 2024. “And so this is, you know, 55-feet long, completely autonomous. It’s able to go hundreds or thousands of miles. It’s able to carry weapon systems that we have that are new. It can carry fuel. It can carry food. It can carry pretty much anything you want to put in it.”
https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/04/alpv-autonomous-low-profile-vessel-marine-corps-diu/
I have to ask… were you really not paying attention during the 9/11 US years because this is the same bullshit repeated over and over again?
As a final note on this part of what you said…
Are these things capable of flying across the ocean? If so, why would Iran send them across the Pacific instead of the much closer Atlantic? It would make more sense to hit Washington or New York than California.
…let me point you to the Bar-Tailed Godwit
On September 28, one small bird completed a very long flight. An adult, male Bar-tailed Godwit, known by its tag number 4BBRW, touched down in New South Wales, Australia, after more than 8,100 miles in transit from Alaska —flapping its wings for 239 hours without rest, and setting the world record for the longest continual flight by any land bird by distance. And 4BBRW isn’t even done yet. In the next few days, the Godwit is expected to end its southbound migration in New Zealand after its well-earned island stopover, says Adrian Riegen, a builder from West Auckland and a passionate birdwatcher.
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The exact distance traveled varies from flock to flock and individual to individual. The birds make navigational decisions to optimize favorable winds and avoid severe weather—and one tenth of a degree of difference in the starting angle could add or subtract mileage. Even with all these variables, godwits are startlingly accurate and consistent, returning to the same sites year after year and setting off on their migrations within a window of a few days. “There’s one particular bird that goes [north] almost exactly on the 25th of March every year and has done for 13 years,” Riegen says.
Distance is an illusionary barrier for small unmanned vehicles.
https://nextgendefense.com/us-firm-hybrid-seaglider/
https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/ukraines-drone-boats-are-now-aircraft
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55694
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/kraken-to-develop-stealthy-naval-drones-for-us-special-operations/
No, me neither for the record. Kash Patel is a joke as Director and the FBI failed to stop an armed coup organized on facebook in the open from happening… and the FBI was worse than useless BEFORE those things even happened.
However I think the warning here is real, the fundamental design advantage of a shahed-like flying bomb is that they can be built and then launched from almost anywhere. There is no hunting down every drone and launch point the way you could conceivably do so with say missile trucks.
The key point Ukraine has underlined over and over again is that distance is no matter to long range strike drones, even smaller ones can cover large ranges and take circuituous routes to targets, this makes the natural impunity to attack most people in the US assume we have an illusion in a way it never really has been up until this point. Ukraine is thoroughly teaching Russia this lesson the hard way for Russia, the rest of the world would do well to elect to learn these lessons proactively before shit hits the fan for them.
Iran could not likely seriously hurt the US, but it could fly a couple of shaheds into targets and exploit the media coverage to send the whole country into a panic and that would unfortunately likely be enough for the US to completely have amnesia about the existential dangers of supporting fascist domestic politics and Islamophobia. see Iraq and Afghanistan Wars…
I want to emphasize, I am not advocating for being terrified Iran can fly a drone into your house, fearmongering about terrorists from the middle east invading our shores are indeed very dangerous narratives to feed into given the long brutal history of Islamophobia in the US. What I am saying there is the political possibility Iran could leverage a handful of very small scale strikes on the US to impact world politics.
Look at the tiny little fluffy song birds every year making massive migrations up and down the Americas that put to shame any kind of journey you have ever undertaken and think about how that applies to North America’s vulnerability to small aerial UAV attack based on the basic physics logic being expressed here by the counterintuitive reality “tiny thing go far”.
Almost none of Trump’s policies are popular in the US.
So, no, not really.
I see a fascist coup.
- Newsom isn’t a candidate
The DNC will use the last bit of power and relevance it has to force Gavin Newsom on us as our only option, mark my words.
The only people surprised by this are insufferable centrist liberals.
1·19 days agoApparently soon after it became the neglected responsibility of adults to parent billionaires.
1·19 days agoTired: Age verification system.
Wired: Automated child finder with initial AI chat functions to assist billionaire pedophiles.
If I understand things correctly airborn troops are specialized in mobilizing quickly whether that be literally parachuting or not is different.
1·26 days agoThese strikes on Iran ARE AI slop, it hardly changes the meme, extremist hardline elements in Iran will only be strengthened by this.
If only helicopter parents understood the basics of the double slit experiment!