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@blablarg18 said in Trump is destroying America's hegemony:

Time to go nuclear?

That is THE ONLY WAY left.

I call BS on that.

What happened to "Know thy enemy"?

You could try learning something of Russia side of story.

Even if you disagree, "Know thy enemy".

I could say the same to you. If you think Russia will stop its aggression if they are allowed to win this round you clearly don't know thy enemy.

You act as if I don't know the historical events you posted but I'm well aware of all of them. It just doesn't convince me in the slightest that Russia's invasion was justified or that they will leave it at that.

The US interference in Ukraine (which I also condemn btw) can at best be seen as a flimsy excuse for Russia to do what it wants, but they didn't even use that excuse. Overtly they invaded, not because of US meddling in Ukraine, but because "there are Nazi's in Ukraine!", remember?

Search "Budapest Memorandum"

You mean the one where both Russia and the US agreed to respect Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine handing all their nukes to Russia?

Sure, you could argue that the US violated that with their meddling, which gave Russia a free pass to violate it 1000x worse by trying to conquer the whole country. But it's not like Russia needs much of an excuse... The people there would rather be with us? We'll take it! There are far-right people there? We'll take it! Know your enemy my ass...

@blablarg18 said in Trump is destroying America's hegemony:

Problem is not that Biden-Kamabla withdrew.....but that they messed it up. Sudden. Careful plans thrown out. Lives & 85B equipment (we are told) left behind.

I agree they totally messed it up, but that wasn't the only problem. Even if they had executed it properly, Afghanistan would've been worse off than before and all the money and lives lost would've been for worse than nothing.

Good hegemons don't do 20 year wars. "Forever wars"

I also agree that they shouldn't have started it in the first place, and that the 20-year way it was conducted was really bad. But they did start it and they did drag their heels for 20 years so then the question becomes: which path leads to the best outcome now?

Pro's of pulling out: no further US lives lost.
Cons of pulling out: it was all for nothing and we made everything worse.

If you think that was the best outcome to be had from this mess I suppose that's your subjective prerogative.

Ukraine defeat "Debatable" - Fine, you need more convincing. Day by day, week by week, more comes.

That's just a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we let Ukraine lose then they will lose. That much has always been certain. Not exactly sure what it's supposed to prove though... That Russia is bigger and stronger than Ukraine? I didn't need a war to show me that.

@blablarg18 said in Trump is destroying America's hegemony:

No, better to say Biden-Kamabla drove Russia & China together

That I agree with.

Military-wise, Ukraine war is lost. (Unless you want to go nuclear, 1000x loss.)

Debatable. This is the one-sided view Trump is pushing, yes, while Zelenskyy pushes the other side of that perceptual coin. The truth is somewhere more in the middle (but definitely not good for Ukraine, and it was never going to be, we knew that from the start).

However diplomacy-wise the war doesn't have to be the total loss that Trump wants to make it. He could apply a lot of pressure on Russia to force them into concessions. Instead he puts zero diplomatic pressure on Russia and maximum pressure on Ukraine to simply hand them their victory. That is why I say Trump's policies benefit Russia. What he's advocating for is giving Russia exactly what it wants, so that they will be satisfied and stop the war (for now).

Good hegemons - if we go that way, decide we like hegemony - know when their proxy war failed & it's time to pull out.

Like Biden did in Afghanistan?

Good hegemons don't do things halfway. They either don't get involved in the first place or they follow through until completion (as was done with Germany and Japan). The situation in Afghanistan would've been better if the US had never gotten involved, and it would've been better if the US had put its foot down and finished the job. Pulling out with the Taliban alive and kicking just left Afghanistan way worse off than before the US ever got there (and with it US influence in the region).

@brettw97 I can only speak for my own European country but over here nothing has changed. We've always had our own domestically produced cultural media supplemented by US culture as the only significant foreign offering (except maybe some music from direct neighbour countries that share the same languages) and today it is still exactly the same. Stuff from other countries gaining any prominence is quite rare (Squid Game would be an example of that).

However the US cultural influence is probably somewhat filtered by our own media hegemonies (and has been for ages). Granted, most of the culture being exported from the US has always been left-leaning, but if there was a successful conservative movie in the US it wouldn't be propagated over here, nor are our radio stations ever going to play successful country songs from the US. All of our culture / media institutions are completely run by left-wingers so they won't promote anything that doesn't align with their values.

@brettw97

Culturally, no one is buying our culture anymore like they used to. Look at box office numbers, closing of theaters, ratings for Awards shows, etc. We've been culturally bankrupt on the world stage for about a decade now.

Although it's true that Hollywood's reputation and numbers have taken a hit, the US still maintains its cultural dominance (no idea why but they do). People all over the world aren't watching Russian movies or listening to Chinese music. They're watching Netflix and listening to Taylor Swift. Further evidence of this cultural influence is that within a few years of the US pop culture going full woke, all the European countries had gone woke as well (and for us it wasn't something that had been building up in our institutions for decades, we all just followed your cultural lead). So it may be dented but the cultural hegemony is still very strong.

I'll go make some popcorn and wait for @blablarg18 to see this.

My take on it:

• The conclusion that the "America first" thing is not entirely genuine and at least partially used as cover for ulterior motives (and to pander to a voter base which salivates over that idea)? Undoubtedly true.
• The ensuing explanations of "he wants to get rid of democracy", "he wants to be in power forever", "they like the Nazis" etc? That's just the typical left-wing panic / fearmongering pulled completely out of thin air.

In my opinion Trump is not a great choice for president, but the majority of people in the US prefer him because the alternative the Democrat Party currently provides is just so atrociously bad. But rather than looking inward and correcting their own failures they are using all the media influence they can muster to discredit him. And some of those accusations have truth to them, because he's not the perfect president many of his followers laud him as, but most of it is just a desperate hate-fueled attempt to bombard him with the worst accusations they can think of.

At least that's what it looks like to me, from across the pond.

I don't know about China, but it seems clear to me that Trump is trying to benefit Russia with his policies. I draw this conclusion mostly on his stance that he will only provide support to Ukraine if Ukraine stops fighting back against the Russian invasion and lets them keep the territories they stole. This is, after all, exactly what Russia wants. I'm just not buying all his talk of saving lives and bullets flying across flat land until they hit someone. There are ways to force this war to an end and stop the bloodshed other than simply demanding that Ukraine accepts they've lost, seemingly with zero expectation of any concessions from the Russian side.

Unfortunately I don't think any one of us has seen a selfless unicorn president who truly acted in the best interests of the country in our lifetimes. The ones in recent memory all governed in ways that advanced their own interests in one way or another. Same goes for rulers in other counties I'm afraid.

More shocking videos:

• https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1898434658712596881
• https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/1898126510156136511
• https://x.com/Osint613/status/1897998153078464813
• https://x.com/HamasAtrocities/status/1898259129531060554
• https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1898055574433972671
• https://x.com/stillgray/status/1898174089304457618
• https://x.com/BrotherRasheed/status/1898180902003310608
• https://x.com/Fundji3/status/1898502517769818391

The more I see from the "religion of peace", the more I am convinced that it is an ideology of pure evil and hate.

@blablarg18 A few personal thoughts on this whole thing... (not arguing against you, just sharing my views in general)

war is retarded, unnecessary, & Europe's problem

That's an incredibly short-sighted position to take (even from a purely selfish national point of view). It's also ironic that this is the exact opposite of what many in the US consider to be their finest hour enacted by "the greatest generation".

Zelenskyy is a dictator

Not going to argue with that, but scolding him as one while not treating Putin the same way (even though he is arguably a much bigger dictator) makes the US look like massive hypocrites (and makes Trump look like all the libdem slander about him being BFF's with Russia was actually true).

His position is terrible

Undeniably true, but the same could've been said for every European country that was overrun by the Nazis.

His people hate him.

Not the ones I've spoken to (both currently living in Ukraine and in other European countries). This seems to be one of those media narratives.

"You're gambling with World War 3"

How ridiculous would it have been if the US had told European countries & the UK in the 1940's: stop fighting back and just make a deal with Hitler, you're risking world war 2! If you can't defend yourself for fear of war then that just means signaling to every aggressor that it's open season and that they will get away with it, which encourages more war. Case in point: Russia took Crimea in 2014 and was allowed to get away with it. Did they stop there? Of course not, why would they... Drawing firm lines with overwhelming consequences is what actually stop wars from happening. Weakness only invites them.

He was being disrespectful

Maybe, but not nearly as disrespectful as Vance and Trump were being to him. Oval office or not, treating foreign leaders with respect is a two-way street and Zelenskyy wasn't the one shouting at his counterpart.

I like Trump a lot on most things.
I can respect his position of putting America first.
I can respect his business-oriented view of who has the weaker hand in this conflict.
But the way he appears to give zero consideration to right & wrong, to which side is trying to invade and annex the other and which side is fighting to protect their homeland from being conquered... That really makes me lose a lot of respect for him. If the shoe was on the other foot and the US was being invaded I'm sure he would advocate for fighting back with everything they have instead of capitulating, but if it's another country then they're the bad guy for not simply taking the loss? Ridiculous.

No surprises there... The left is all about appearances and perception, not actually doing the right thing. It's crazy that so many people still vote for them.

Why they're doing it is no mystery of course...

It baffles me that it's actually legal to change a democracy in your favor by importing voters en masse.

Say you have a video saved locally that you want to post in the forum (e.g. to ask "Who is this?") but it's not substantial enough to warrant creating a torrent for it, and you can't find it anywhere online to link to... Any good places we can upload them to?

...and apparently not in this subforum.

Was about to edit to add in: welcome to the world of the talking!

@cp2000 You can edit or delete them by clicking the 3 dots at the bottom right, but I believe only for a short time after posting.

He looks like he might've seen some dicks up-close...

Somehow it always feels like even more of a shame when the hot ones turn out to be brainwashed idiots I blame the left for every hot guy they ruin.

@veenx0704-0 Looks like I don't have anything from his accounts. Thanks for sharing!

@blablarg18 All three in that order...

• taken over by CCP / Communism

This has already happened, just a less extreme / more concealed version of it that we call socialism. But the globalist left-wing uniparty maintains its grip on governance through its relentless propaganda narratives (both in the media and in education) which demonize any opposition that could threaten their control, and the average citizen hands over the vast majority of their income to the state (far more than they realize due to all the hidden taxes and inflation etc) so it's essentially 90% communism.

• taken over by Islam / Africa

This will inevitably happen. Demography is destiny and there are many examples in history that teach us what will happen: the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the 1989 coup in Sudan, the Algerian Civil War, even the recent Taliban re-takeover of Afghanistan. Each time the Islamists formed alliances with naïve (left-wing) opportunistic parties, then as soon as they became strong enough they either sidelined their former partners completely or murdered them outright. The Islamists are also straight-up telling us what they intend to do once they grow numerous enough in Europe. We should believe they mean what they say.

• taken over by Christian revival. "Make Europe Great Again"

This one isn't guaranteed but I believe there is a decent chance it will happen eventually, because the peace-loving Christians & co will run out of other countries to flee to and be forced to make a stand. It remains to be seen if there will still be enough of them left to mount an effective resistance by that point. If it does happen it will almost certainly be through civil war rather than through the democratic process, because it's essentially a race between Westerners waking up and Muslims growing in numbers, and so far the left has managed to keep the latter outpacing the former. By the time most Westerners realize what's about to happen they will be too few in number to change course democratically. Either way the potential Western revival is still decades away, possibly centuries.

PS: I run the IT systems for childcare benefits in my country so I have access to all the data and can make pretty solid projections for the future. The indigenous population is already a clear minority in the new generation. Within a few decades we will be an absolute minority in the total population.

I scrape quite a few X accounts. Here's a list of posts I have on record from accounts that contain the word "dig": If anyone else is looking for content from suspended / deleted X accounts feel free to reach out, maybe I have something.

hugecardigirth  | 69
Pr0digyyy       | 67
XXXDiggory      | 56
dignitygay      | 23
GonediGuys      | 10
DiggNDeeep      |  8
Digg_boyy       |  8
oralprodigy410  |  7
digitt6         |  7
vicdigp         |  5
DanteDiggz      |  4
yuhdig33        |  4
felixinthedigis |  3
johndig333      |  3
MaxProdigal     |  3
digbickstephen  |  2
itsprodigioo    |  2
noiadoemendigo  |  2
Digoloqpienso9  |  2
BanDiglett      |  2
Digital_Digii   |  1
inndigold80     |  1
ailfdigital     |  1
CardiGeneration |  1
digitaIarchive  |  1
digitaIboys     |  1
digitalxhunk    |  1
officialdigbick |  1
digoube00000    |  1
Drew_Diggs_     |  1
Diglioluca17    |  1
JodiGolinsky    |  1
DuquediGaliano  |  1
Mendigoeoutros  |  1
diggoryfans     |  1
xetdiger        |  1
Baian0indigesto |  1

That's not even accurate... Males can be inseminated too!

Oh wait that was probably the point.

And just to reiterate, because I can't stress this enough: ratio doesn't matter, bandwidth is what matters (raw GB's).

A 1GB torrent with a ratio of 50.0 means you've gained 49GB.
A 300GB torrent with a ratio of 3.0 means you've gained 600GB.

Sometimes size does matter, because that's what determines how much you can download. The same is true for global ratio. For example my ratio may be 5.070 but that's with 28.63 TB up / 5.65 TB down, which means I can download 30.15 TB before reaching my minimum ratio. This means I'm much better off than someone with an identical 5.070 ratio but with 253.5 GB up / 50 GB down, who can only download ~257.9 GB before reaching their minimum ratio.

Here's what I do to maintain my healthy ratio (currently at 5.070):

• Make sure you have at least 1 torrent seeding 24/7 even if it's not uploading anything, because you gain 0.5 seed bonus points for every hour the system registers you as a seeder. It's not much, but it slowly builds up over time.
• Keep a healthy stack of seed bonus points on the side so you can use them to buy upload GB's if your ratio ever drops too low.
• Ideally you want more to have more torrents seeding all the time. How many depends on your available disk space, upload bandwidth etc. I would target 20-100 for most users.
• Prefer seeding larger torrents if you have the disk space for it, so your torrent client doesn't get bogged down with seeding hundreds of small ones. A single downloader for a 300GB torrent requires the equivalent of 600 downloaders for 500MB torrents. They may be fewer and further between but they more than make up for it in sheer bandwidth.
  On the other hand, smaller torrents tend to get higher ratios (since they get downloaded more often), so they can be preferable if you are trying to get the most upload bandwidth out of limited diskspace (or limited download capacity).
• Search for freeleech torrents periodically (every day if you can). Sort them by freeleech start time. Your prime targets are the ones with the most recent freeleech start time, as those will not have a lot of seeders yet and most of the interested downloaders have yet to come across them.
• After a suitable torrent has finished downloading, leave it seeding for a few weeks/months. Evaluate your seeding torrents every few weeks/months. Look at their ratios and total upload bandwidth relative to the time they were added to your torrent client. Keep the good ones, remove the bad ones to avoid bogging down your torrent client.
• Do not change which torrents you are seeding often. Stick with the ones that worked even if they haven't seen any traffic recently. Most torrents automatically settle down to a small number of seeders over time. You want to pick your horses and stick with them (rather than constantly dropping them and finding new ones) for two reasons:
  1: It benefits you to become one of those few consistent seeders for a given torrent, even if it's not very active anymore. Other seeders will jump ship over time, so when a downloader does come by you will be able to provide a significant amount of the bandwidth (rather than just 1-2% on a more active torrent).
  2: It benefits the ecosystem and avoids torrents dying, which benefits us all. We can't all seed 10k+ torrents. Each of us is technically forced to pick a handful to seed, so switching around all the time just causes interference with other seeders.
• In a crunch, you can always recommence seeding on a torrent you've already deleted from your client (so long as you still have the files intact). You can redownload the .torrent file if necessary, then pause it immediately, move your existing files into place, and choose "recheck files" in your torrent client to get it back up to 100% right away and go back to seeding.

I hope that helps.

Historically every totalitarian regime that has ever infringed on the privacy of its citizens did so on the basis that it was necessary to protect society... What's chilling is that they demand to bypass all checks and balances. No court orders, no requests for data, no transparency, no jurisdiction, just unlimited access for state bureaucrats to dig through the private data of anyone anywhere in the world.

It really goes to show that the people in charge have abandoned all libertarian values in favor of authoritarian ones. I can only hope that whichever government comes after them will swiftly abolish that power, but not before using it against their predecessors who instated it. Not out of spite or vengeance but to remind people that you shouldn't do it to others if you don't want it to be done to you.