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Comment · 1 year ago
Calling people Nazis is lazy, and way more often then not, wrong.

That being said, acting as if actions and words can exist in a vacuum and immune from any sort of criticism, feedback, or debate is an incredible amount of arrogance.

What DHH said about London is deeply problematic, bigoted, and frankly doesn't make any sense. If he doesn't want any criticism for his views he shouldn't be saying them! Free speech goes both ways. Either take the lumps on the chin and quit complaining about people being mean, or shut the fuck up. Does not make him a Nazi though.

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Comment · 3 years ago
First, there are very few aircraft that could beat an F-16 in a rate fight, but the likelihood that 2 aircraft enter a merge are extremely low, and even if everything went wrong and two aircraft entered the merge the ability for modern missiles to fire absurd off-bore shots kind of negates the requirement to get nose on.

You might point to the early days of the Ukrainian War as a sign that BCM is not dead but that wouldn't track these days. Russia is sitting with MiG-31's flying over Belarus and Western Russia firing extremely long rage missiles. The enviroment is simply not permissive enough for the type of aggressive CAP that might result in BCM.

Comment · 3 years ago
Lol.

When shit hits the fan it's the PT gods that can grab their shit and hump it in the boonies who are going to survive, not some pencil neck weekend warriors with guns and ammo and a motorcycle.

Comment · 3 years ago
Barring all of the arguments for or against why reddit is doing what it is doing, why does spez keep lying? Like he must realize that emails don't disappear and phone calls can be recorded?
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Comment · 4 years ago
What does or doesn't make sense doens't really matter if there is literal evidence of Russia firing S-300 missiles in ground to ground strikes.

> Those reports were from ukrainian rockets which failed to intercept attacking rockets

This doesn't track either, if that were the case it would be incredibly suspicious that these intercepts are failing and just through sheer bad luck that the failed intercepts consistently land on Ukrainian forces or residential areas at incredibly high rates.

> Don't you think it's kind of ironic to have title "Russia’s stock of weapons running low" just when Russia bombarding entire Ukraine with hundreds of rockets as I write it.

No, whatever Russia may constitute necessary reserves to actually fight a war with NATO and simply running out of missiles are two different things. Much like the reports of Russia going to the DPRK to ask for assistance in providing artillery shells, it is literally not the case that Russia is running out of artillery shells, but more likely Russia seeks to backstop the current usage to maintain necessary strategic reserves.

And it doesn't really contradict the notion that Russia is in fact running out of PGM's, given that the S-300's are being used for ground attack, which Russia has massive stockpiles of and aren't really needed in the current conflict.

Comment · 4 years ago
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There have been plently of reports of Russia using S-300 missile systems in the ground attack configuration.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-63247287

And it is not unreasonable that the missiles may have originated from Belarus, since Russia has sortied out of the country throughout the war.

Comment · 4 years ago
One, nobody thinks that, and two, a rather glib response to a rather complex satistical issue.
Comment · 4 years ago
Probably so that if there was an issue people are paying attention and not screwing around on their phones/listening to music
Comment · 4 years ago
"Buddy was acting strange, must be cheating".
Comment · 4 years ago
It's by definition a promise
Comment · 4 years ago
And that current mayor of Toronto and former Rogers executive John Tory was called in to mediate the family dispute.
Comment · 4 years ago
I wouldn't describe Japan as a "happy" country.

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