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Guest wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 11:30 pm I am a sexist, and a proud one at that. I am not a misogynist as that is someone who actually hates women and I actually love women, they are a lot of fun when they are not being insufferable. What makes me a sexist is that I actually understand women and how they think and what drives them. A misogynist may think that you can understand women or you can love them but you can't do both. I being a sexist understand that you actually can understand women and also love them. Before anyone calls me a butthurt incel who can't get women as is usually the insult thrown at any man who thinks that women are not perfect beings that can't do any wrong, I have never had a problem getting women and the girlfriends and wives that I have had have been high value smokin hot babes, the kind of women that everyone notices when they walk into a room. One of the reasons I have been able to do this even when I have been so broke that I was almost homeless is because I understand women and for example I do not let them get away with any BS.

I wonder what the WWII generation would think of the events happening in the world today.

A pianist whose forte was popular music, Baker usually wrote the lyrics and Regney composed the music for their collaborations. But the roles were reversed for the Christmas tune they wrote in October 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were locked in a confrontation over the Soviets’ placement of ballistic missiles in Cuba.

Inspired by the sight of infants in strollers on the streets of New York City, Regney opened the song with the words, “Said the night wind to the little lamb, ‘Do you see what I see?’ ” and included the line, “Pray for peace, people everywhere.”

“Noel wrote a beautiful song,” Baker told an interviewer years later, “and I wrote the music. We couldn’t sing it, though. . . . Our little song broke us up. You must realize there was a threat of nuclear war at the time.”

The song was first recorded by the Harry Simeone Chorale and sold more than a quarter-million copies upon its release just after Thanksgiving 1962. The next year Bing Crosby made it an international hit. The song has been recorded hundreds of times since then in nearly every conceivable musical style.

Guest wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 11:39 pm On the hypersonic missile problem. I have seen videos of them in action and I don't think we have anything land based that can stop them or on surface ships. I was thinking of something we could use to counter the Chinese in battle even if they have hypersonic missiles and I thought about using submarines and sub drones. they would be much harder to target and and could also bring a lot of power to bare in a battle against China. What do you guys think of this idea?

This would include the USN and probably the Japanese Navy as well.

Trevor wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 6:02 pm This doesn't necessarily have to play out the way the two previous world wars did. It'd depend on the circumstances. If China launches a Pearl-Harbor style attack, then yes, we'd be out for blood with China falling into nationalistic fervor.

Trevor wrote: Sun Dec 07, 2025 6:02 pm If things break out in the South China Sea over miscalculation, rather than a mass assault that galvinzes both sides, our public isn't likely to have much enthusiasm for the war. Yes, we'd mobilize and build up to some degree, but we're spending far more on a social safety net than was the case in 1940 and certainly 1914. Unless the conflict is seen as a matter of survival, people won't tolerate it being dismantled, and to fight a total war, this would be a necessity. Europe's found mobilization impossible for this reason and if we fight China for unclear reasons... people might sign up to fight regardless because they have no other way to support themselves, but this is a poor long-term motivation. This is also a dynamic that could lead to civil war.

Trevor wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:53 pm Despite hopes to the contrary, Putin is not going to stop so long as there's a single breath in his body. So long as he's in power, he's going to keep pushing. Russia's burned through its Soviet stockpiles, often reduced to launching attacks with motorcycles and civilian vehicles. There are few operational tanks on the front, and their industry isn't going to be able to replace these losses for a decade. Desertion's a major problem for both armies, but Russia has the population to spare.

Still, if he can annex Ukraine's territory, he'll be able to replace his losses with new cannon fodder. Russia's already doing this in the parts of Ukraine they do occupy. Europe would need a massive shock to rearm in any significant way and we've washed our hands of the whole thing. For all their words, Europe isn't as pro-Ukraine as they'd have us believe. They're running low on equipment to send and it's politically impossible to increase production at more than a snail's pace.

While I hope they can win, I do think Ukraine is likely to collapse at some point. You've got a couple hundred thousand dead, perhaps half a million irrecoverable losses, which is unsustainable for a country with collapsing demographics. It looks like a stalemate... until it suddenly doesn't.

Trevor wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:53 pm Frankly, I don't care what "legitimate points" you might think the likes of Nick Fuentes has. This is someone who admires Hitler, admires Stalin, spews racial hatred to an audience of million, and is an open misogynist. He was nobody 5 years ago, but now he's become one of the leading figures of the conservative movement. I'm not a believer that the arc of history always bends in one direction. White supremacists have learned that the more they mainstream, the more effective their message is.

Trevor wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:53 pm Until 2020, I would have considered the left the greatest threat, but since January 6, the right's taken that spot. When it comes to immigration, they don't care whether it's legal or not; they oppose it, period, especially from "third world shitholes" (I.E. non-white countries)