That’s not how it works. If they come to you with a warrant you can’t just say you’d rather not. You have to turn it over or else your people will be arrested and your company if located in a state amenable to such orders raided. It all sounds good and fine until one of these people empty-mindedly takes a vacation to the US and an under seal warrant is opened and they are arrested and jailed until the company complies at which point they’ll buckle.

The only solution as with VPN providers and copyright infringement is for them to have no data to turn over so when asked they can tell the truth and say there’s nothing they can do to help because they have no relevant information.

Otherwise you’re just one very long arm of US law or a hack by activist reactionaries away from all this data being available to anti-choice authorities. The only solution is keeping it all local and this company should be tarred and feathered for this pathetic pinkwashing of unnecessary and invasive data practices.

I think Inquisition is pretty good. People have criticized it over the years for various things but as someone who’s played RPGs and MMORPGs in the past it scratched a lot of things for me. It’s the type of game that is really worth the money. You can easily lose a hundred to two hundred hours in a complete play-through if you take your time and do all the expansion and side content and with multiple romance options and certain branching parts of the story it takes multiple play-throughs to see absolutely everything.

I do recommend trying to take your time if you can or go back later. The story and scenery are pretty interesting both.

Apple podcasts on iPhones, iPads and Mac computers has transcripts that are shockingly good even for highly technical jargon and unusual names. Unfortunately no way to access it outside of Apple devices and no way to copy it as they’re concerned about copyright.

Otherwise I’d try whisper.

Wait, she’s a pedophile too?

(I want to be clear there is no evidence she’s a pedophile. But Vaush is, hence the joke)

I see so many people stanning her on hexbear after the Palestine thing.

Once again showing the limits of understanding of a liberal worldview informed by western propaganda narratives that cast Russia (and China) as “authoritarian” and these nebulously defined bad anti-liberal actors while the west is cast as unquestionably good at its core despite openly supporting the most obvious and undeniable genocide in decades.

She’s been good on Gaza lately but maybe she like so many in the west is doomed to inhabit an ignorant, anarchistic anti-war-ism that leads to the victims gulping down and vomiting back out western propaganda and suspiciously supporting a number of western uses of violence as “necessary”.

There are Ukrainian fascist snipers who have been imported to Georgia recently…

Stay safe comrade.

I’ve said before the west wasn’t going to stop at Ukraine, they have every intention of using Georgia in the same way and unfortunately they seem to have many willing pawns there (as in many places) who are willing to throw their country on a pyre in the name of liberalism.

Depending on how things go, if you have any exit plans you might want to consider how to implement them, at the very least be very careful and thoughtful and I hope you’re able to remain safe.

Here’s another archive link in case 12ft stops working (I tried archive.today but lately because of the internet archive stuff the queue is over a thousand long): https://ghostarchive.org/archive/c7Ozh

Frankly speaking, the story about “thousands of North Korean special forces troops disguised as Buryats” was first made up by the author of this article over a year ago. At that time, I got a call from some scammers who asked me if I knew that my granddaughter had withdrawn 800,000 rubles from my bank account. They claimed that this money might have been stolen and demanded my bank account details and the keys to the apartment. However, my improvised response took them by surprise: you see, I told them, my granddaughter is studying to become a military translator and is secretly accompanying a unit of North Korean special forces troops which is about to be sent to the zone of Russia’s special military operation. But some logistical issues have come up. North Korean soldiers are used to eating dogs, but if they start catching and eating them in Ukraine, they’ll reveal themselves. So the dogs have to be bought and transported at my own expense, and there’s nothing criminal about this money being withdrawn from my bank account for that very purpose. Apparently, though, my little prank has gone out of control.

Lmao. Russian humor is really something.

This is because of western sanctions. Chinese contributors are much more numerous and more important than any Russians ever were; and they’re also not a sanctioned country, so I highly doubt it

Uh they are sanctioned with more being added literally every year and once the US kicks off the planned war and decoupling against them in the next 4-5 years they’re going to throw down a wall of sanctions just like the one they threw on Russia and I bet you that Linus will cite legal once again in an opaque decision to remove them while crying about how evil the Chinese government is for oppression of Uyghurs, for reclaiming Taiwan after it declared independence at American urging and offered to host American nukes, etc, etc.

Oh they’ll let some back in, after they’ve signed a pledge that they are not associated with the Chinese military in any way (working for a company that supplies systems that are used by another company in a product that sells to the military counts), that they denounce their government and the communist party, that they are not Uyghurs or in Xin’jiang or associated with companies in Xin’jiang (as all enlightened westerners know all Uyghurs that were not killed in the totally real genocide are slaves so it’s not acceptable to use their work) and so on and so forth. Which will mean a shocking amount of their devs will be out and Linus will shrug and claim they made a choice to not take the simple step of siding with the west against their own people and therefore got what they got.

They of course hope to use such sanctions to force companies to gut-punch and weaken the Chinese military and state but having them choose to decouple from the west instead is also perfectly acceptable.

The west is pulling all its might to it, while it still has strength to do so. It will cut out Chinese developers but that doesn’t matter. If Linux desktop crashes and burns no matter because they only really need it for servers and Red Hat and other alphabet agency adjacent companies will keep those distros humming along on approved Intel/AMD/western hardware configurations.

They aim to then cut out China from Linux and hope the whole thing collapses and cannot be used for their own hardware meaning they’ll have to support a hard-forked kernel which many western planners doubtless think they won’t be able to do or it will at least hinder them badly for some time and more important draw a strong digital divide, a digital iron curtain between western Linux and users thereof and Chinese/Russian Linux and users thereof.

The planners of these things don’t care about some minor consequences, they’re in a life or death struggle, winner takes all, west comes out on top for another century+ of dominance and exploitation with western capital at the helm and white supremacy triumphing OR the multi-polar world emerges victorious and western hegemony and power collapses and with it their DoTB and their entire way of life and privilege.

Reshoring includes reshoring software jobs and if it’s important their thinking is someone will get paid to do it by some company, if it’s not paid for it clearly wasn’t important. This could cause problems for western corporations but it would likely be a down the road thing and most likely Valve or others would desperately try and keep Linux afloat just to have an alternative to Microsoft so they’re not destroyed by Windows locking down sales and apps via Windows store sales.

Russia the Yemeni people yearn for freedom and mutual trade and cooperation, please send s-400 anti-air defense systems. After all if the west can man air defense systems like patriots in Ukraine without being in a war with Russia then surely Russian crews can shoot down American planes in another country without being at war with the US. Right?

The zionist regime has been murdering very, very, very effectively the leadership of Hamas plus Hezbollah for a few months now so it’s not one of those things likely to be a lie. It’s among the most pointless kind of lies to tell too as if it is untrue the enemy can just record a video showing them opening up a news website this afternoon and make them look silly and untrustworthy and incompetent. They certainly lie about casualties of the resistance’s fighters because that’s hard to disprove and same with their own casualties but sadly these kinds of claims are very unlikely to be false.

Fact is this is a real problem the resistance has. Leadership changes create chaos and opportunity. There’s every reason to believe the zionists have some compromised assets they’re trying to maneuver into place of leadership in these groups. Not necessarily outright spies but let’s say compradors or incompetents who would either rather elect to lay down in the face of the zionists and give up their arms for a bad compromised peace that won’t last OR make strategic blunders because of a bad way of thinking that leads to the same kind of loss or fragmentation of the resistance and power struggles which leads to weakness and more opportunities for strikes and elimination of planning and organizational/supply capabilities which if degraded enough take them out of the fight.

So while one decapitation may not work to destabilize a disciplined and ideologically committed group, with enough of them things can start to come undone and every time it happens it’s a threat and crisis for the organization as reshuffling has to happen and in that reshuffling people make opsec mistakes, people chatter and talk, further mapping of the people and command structure of the organization becomes a threat as meetings occur, power struggles may happen, factional splits are widened, previously settled disagreements come out, and so on.

Just goes to show though that the US led by the genocidal Biden-Harris regime has no intention of actually forcing the zionist entity into negotiations with Hamas that lead to peace because you don’t let your underling constantly murder the leadership who they’d in theory be negotiating with if you want peace.

So angry. This anger I will carry inside me towards liberals, towards Democrats, towards soc-dems and reformists and so on for the rest of my life. redacted

May we live to see the zionist settler state fall.

Only somewhat IMO.

The US has mobile bridge units and rebuilding corps for crossing areas and exceptional experience in doing this kind of work over the past 70 years. Let’s recall for example the battle at Lake Changjin so well depicted in recent Chinese cinema. The reason that Chinese forces didn’t eliminate US troops there is because the US flew a bridge or parts of it straight from Japan to the battlefront to give them an evac route after the Chinese blew up the original bridge. That’s the kind of force they’re dealing with. So at best it slightly slows them down. Mining does a lot more but one must consider that the US and occupied Korea may not even try to use land routes for the first few weeks of conflict. In the original Korean war turn-about for the running dogs of imperial Japan/US was achieved via massive naval landings and use of air power. Given how much coast Korea has I think that’s probably part of any strategy.

In my opinion it’s as much about sending a message in the vein of closing off roads, burning bridges, that kind of thing of their resolve about the south being a hostile and threatening state.

India of course wants to compete against China’s electric car market. The west will likely not allow them to displace domestic manufacturers in the US but the US may coerce them into opening plants in the US using their lithium supply to allow their brands to penetrate, the US also I would guess promises them to help drive out Chinese brands from global markets and to give those markets to the Indian firms or at least that’s how the Indians will understand it and probably the desire of the US (with an intent to eventually take control of those companies or at least ensure western bourgeoisie own a huge chunk to earn most of the profits).

Regarding China’s rise and partnerships with African states. While there are clear-headed leaders who understand the history of colonialism and reach for China, there are just as many mercenary leaders and those of a comprador, western-boot-licking nature in Africa who will taken some token debt relief in exchange for selling out their people and resources to the west. So China’s ascendancy through win-win cooperation is by no means guaranteed. For that to work both sides must have long-term visions and understandings of history which is something liberals are terrible at in both directions (past/future).

Let us recall history and remember that the USSR was starting to make inroads with former colonies and victim nations of imperialism after the second world war and that the US used coups, installation of brutal dictators, ethnic conflicts they fanned the flames of, compradors, threats of economic sanction and later in the century terrorism and extremism to blunt this type of independent thinking that would have helped the USSR. That hope has been crushed before as detailed for example in William Blum’s excellent “Killing Hope” book and in fact was systemically killed in the 50s through 70s with a new wave with new tactics of broad regional destabilization based off for example the Grand Chessboard type of thinking really taking root from the 70s to 90s.

The road for China is not as smooth of sailing as many like to sell it here. The US still has a lot of potency and strength coming right off the back of its era as a unipolar hegemon. That strength exists economically for coercion and sanctions, in military terms including its NATO navy and air force which polices the world and can enforce sanctions (also including hundreds of bases across the globe in nations that submit themselves to the US boot from Jordan to those in Africa itself even with the loss of the AES/sahel states), as well as dollar hegemony, and the fact they are the gatekeepers with the final say for access to the advanced and wealthy markets of the US/Canada, EU, and their occupied Asian vassals of Korea and Japan, as well as their southern hemisphere long-time colonies Australia/New Zealand which is a part of the economic strength but one that bears underlining.

The population of China+Russia is 1.5 billion but both are experiencing demographic problems from lowered birth rates so that’s expected to fall (the west by contrast is all too happy to bolster its populations via immigration for purposes of exploitation and domestic labor discipline so isn’t as vulnerable to the kinds of sharp drops Russia/China may be) and we must remember though China has done a great deal in lifting hundreds of millions out of absolute poverty and creating a thriving middle class that several hundreds of millions of those people are not consumers for various goods due to still lacking economic mobility as well as being adapted to say village as opposed to city life. A young Chinese person in a city is going to buy all kinds of goods but a Chinese person who is in their 70s, who grew up in poverty, who lives a simpler life in a village and who isn’t terribly well off even if not in absolute poverty isn’t necessarily a customer for an electric car company or for many other types of consumer goods that China produces. The real amount of people that China would have in a decoupling and 2-camps situation between themselves, Russia, and a few friends like Vietnam as a market for its production of consumer goods is likely more in the 800 million to 1 billion range which puts it roughly on par with the combined west of USA, Canada, EU/NATO, Australia, NZ, Japan, occupied Korea.

So then you have a situation of two roughly matched populations with one having the benefits of pre-existing hegemony and power and concentrated wealth as well as access to India a population of 1 billion to exploit selling western brands and making cheap goods for export to the west. So the road for China and BRICS (well BR*CS+ because India is all too happy to sell out to the west while pretending to be shrewd and getting deals) is a potentially rough one. We are looking at the strong possibility of a second full cold war or echoes of one at least with strong economic and trade barriers put up by the west and effectively two blocs plus bystanders who lean one way or the other.

There are positive headwinds compared to last time around after WW2 of course. The US is no longer an empire in its ascendancy phase as it was, it has (hopefully) peaked (if it hasn’t it means the destruction and looting of China and barbarism reigning forever over humankind), there seem to be many in the global south who’ve learned the lessons of last century and want cooperation with China. China is exceptionally strong and well developed, the US is looking exceptionally winded in military technology for instance, the gap is widening somewhat in China’s favor.

But the US and co can and still are going to put up a tough fight and China is still left contending with the fact that many in the west would rather nuke the whole world than let it fall to communism, than give up white supremacy and their own primacy and rule and thus left placating them and trying to stall for time and put off the confrontation and avoid provoking them too much. From such a position China cannot exercise its full strength.

He believes they remain secure even after the successful assassination of Nasrallah. He discussed in an interview with Judge Napolitano that the attack was the result of a humint breach (he saw the fact that Netanyahu approved it from the US the opportunity presenting itself through new intel) and stressed that it’s hard to get senior people to do things like never use cell phones (Note that an Iranian Republican Guard members were also killed in the same meeting; it’s possible the breach came from the Iran side).

This tracks with my thoughts.

And that interview was well worth the listen.

What do people make of the fact that every time they do this and claim most penetrated and that they hit objectives on the ground causing destruction and then in the US it’s just denial, that 99% of them were stopped actually and the only ones that got through hit a Palestinian man walking his dog or some shit.

On the one hand I get they want to make the zionists look strong, but on the other wouldn’t it lend itself to greater urgency and frothing rage if they met the Iranian narrative half-way and said that actually a number got through and damaged a fighter plane or two and therefore this is why we must immediately approve another 500 billion for the arms manufacturers?

Is it just that the zionists cannot admit that the iron dome failed and the western sources have to tail them and repeat whatever they say verbatim despite it being contrary to the interests of the warmongers?

Or is Iran inflating its numbers a bit?

Because thinking about it, if Iran’s attack were to mostly fail or get intercepted and they don’t want escalation (clearly they don’t, all along they’ve been trying their hardest to back away) wouldn’t it be in their interests rather than admit their attack failed and that they have to up the ante to instead just lie, say it worked instead? That way they can save face and act like they achieved something while not actually really provoking the zionists much thus preventing escalation?

I don’t know what to believe here. There are too many parties who benefit from lies out of either end for me to decide. I’m sure they didn’t get 100% interception rate but Iran’s claims of taking out multiple F-35s also seems rather rosy.

That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death – not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.

That Israel’s ideological extremism – its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum

I suppose those who would stand to suffer most from seeing this would be most reluctant to act but to me it’s been obvious based off the fact the leader of the zionist regime is very likely headed for prison and disgrace the moment the crisis ends that there are no off-ramps and never were. Add on that the nature of the colony is to do just this and its simply speeding up its long-term goals to exploit a crisis that they probably let happen (Oct 7) on purpose for their own ends and well the picture is pretty clear. We’re basically a year in and by the time they started antagonizing Iran it became obvious they were fishing for a larger fight to draw the US in.

So not fighting them is pointless in my opinion. Conserving strength only works if you can actually conserve it. If they start decapitating your leadership structure using unprecedented mass supply-chain interdiction terror attacks it’s time to get things into gear because they’ve declared war on you. You can’t conserve your strength against an enemy like this, you can only lie down before them while they murder all your leadership and anyone else they can and are great at identifying sadly as they are a very good hacking regime.

There are basically two choices here in light of the reality and one is to stop any antagonism of the zionist entity, stop firing rockets, stop trying to drive their settlers out, stop trying to tie up their forces in the north to help Hamas in the south and basically take off your militant clothes, bury your weapons and plan to revisit the matter in 4-5 years as otherwise you’re just lying down to be slaughtered which makes them stronger while you grow weaker. The other is to acknowledge the reality, acknowledge you’re in a life or death struggle, that by attacking them as they engage in a genocide and by virtue of them striking back and decapitating your leadership in a mass terrorist attack and to fully commit. To hunker down, to distribute command structures, to not wait for them but go on the offensive against them and their backers.

Those are the only two logical choices. I can see why Hassan Nasrallah didn’t move quickly, he struck me as a thoughtful man. I really can. He had such responsibility but the pager attack should have shown that they were not going to stop or back down or negotiate, that they had good intelligence, that they’d penetrated everything, that they probably knew everything including locations of command bunkers and that it was a now or never. At that point they’d tried to kill him and he and those around him couldn’t do enough to keep him alive from their second attack even knowing it was imminent. This is the tactical reality they exist in. But Nasrallah was a good man, a man who didn’t want to bring more bloodshed. And for it he was killed in a bunker that wasn’t enough to protect him, along with allegedly we are now learning an Iranian official.

I am deeply suspicious that the Iranian official led the zionists to where Nasrallah was, unwittingly of course. But it does raise an interesting if disturbing thought and that is what if there are those highly placed in the Iranian government who want to conspire with the zionist entity to remove their conservative and hard-liners. To sue for a secret peace with the entity as well as their backers by making sure all those who would get in the way of them lying down before the west would be out of the picture beforehand. There is no evidence for this as of yet and we shouldn’t really seriously consider it, but the fact is the zionists do have an incredible penetration of Iran on an intelligence level as well as that of the rest of the resistance and it’s a damn big problem.

People talk of the zionist entity’s fall being imminent, to the contrary I think they’ve not been stronger in some time. They’re butchering their enemies while those enemies stay their hand because the US is near at hand glaring all the while also lying and claiming peace will come soon to keep their hands stayed. Yes it might be the beginning of a shift of public opinion in the west against them but they could care less. And it is a problem for the latter end of this decade or next. The zionist public opinion apparatus is so strong and entrenched I wouldn’t be shocked that once the genocide is over their approval numbers go up and there’s never a growing movement in the west to boycott, divest, and sanction them. The far right will recruit from those disillusioned by this, spread actual anti-semitism which the zionists will be gleeful to see. It’s all going better to plan than it has in a long while for them. Public sentiment against them doesn’t matter, it just pulls their people together more cohesively and they see it as a tool to recruit more Jews from abroad to them.

I doubt it. Nothing so far has caused the resistance to lash out. I mean we are seeing escalation but it’s entirely driven by the zionist need to escalate.

I really doubt Iran is going to get involved, there isn’t going to be WW3, just more little people suffering from the genocidal violence of a white supremacist settler state.

Absolutely awful. He was a good man from all I read. I’m angry and frustrated. It shows the Zionists can and will get to anyone who resists them even someone deep in a bunker of vital importance and top security. It shows the area and the world they are strong and will punish those who challenge them and kill them without any doubt due to their extensive intelligence and infiltration. As they have done with indiscriminate terrorism with the pager attacks.

And still the resistance does nothing.

The Zionists have completely decapitated the command structure of Hezbollah and much of Hamas. They’ve murdered top Iranian commanders and still they sit on their hands.

What are they waiting for? What more could the US do other than inflict itself on civilians harder than the Zionists. They keep saying their response will come but who will plan it? As waiting has allowed the Zionists to kill most of the top leadership everywhere but Yemen. Within 6 months they’ll probably kill another high ranking Iranian because they can. And the genocide of Palestinians will continue. And the bombing of Lebanon into submission will continue.

It is disgraceful if this great man dies without being avenged, if all those who’ve died in the resistance are not avenged. If the Palestinian genocide is not answered.

Rest in power. A true hero of the anti-imperialist resistance.