The Morning Rant: Will Europe Grow Up?

One of the more corrosive aspects of American foreign policy with respect to NATO and Europe has been the infantilization of Western Europe. After World War II they quickly became militarily subservient to America, which, while understandable, created the conditions necessary for their massive welfare states and an equally massive shift toward cultural passivity. No longer did they see themselves as defenders of their countries and their lives...that was America's job, while they enjoyed six weeks of vacation and cradle-to-grave social services. Never mind that their medical care was awful, and their standard of living lagged far behind America's...everything was being done for them, including protecting them from the consequences of their passivity...the loss of martial spirit, patriotism, love of native culture, etc.

The results are clear! Europe is being subsumed under a tidal wave of third world immigration, led by the revolutionary political philosophy of Islam, that without some cataclysmic change will soon rule the UK, France, Belgium, and perhaps others.

Regardless of America's previous domination of European defense, it is high time that their cultures mend themselves and take responsibility for their military failings. It is axiomatic that a country that cannot defend itself cannot long survive, even in our post-modern malaise. The hordes crashing Europe's borders care not a whit about self-actualization and pronouns and transsexualism and gay marriage and policing free speech. They care about conquest, and they will succeed!

ECFR Poll: European Trust in US Defense Commitment Plunges

Europeans are increasingly questioning whether the United States would come to their defense in a military crisis, according to a new survey showing confidence in America's security commitment has fallen to record lows.
The poll, released Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), found that only 11% of respondents across 15 European countries now view the United States as an ally "sharing our interests and values," down from 22% in November 2024.
Researchers said the findings reflect "deep European distrust in the U.S." ahead of upcoming G7 and NATO summits.
While most Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner," majorities in every country surveyed said they no longer believe the U.S. would necessarily come to their aid if they were attacked.

This is magnificent news! It is the first step for Europe moving out of America's basement and finding its own place in the world! The real question is whether the existential ennui that infects most of Western Europe can be banished as they see the consequences of their subservience to American power.

Will France regain the martial spirit of de Gaulle? In 1966, he demanded that all American troops must leave France, and France left NATO's integrated command structure, leaving it as a free agent. Good or bad...it was national self-determination, and it stiffened the backbones of the French.

Will The United Kingdom regain the cold resolve of Margaret Thatcher, who dispatched the Royal Navy 8,000 miles to defend the Falklands? That was the last gasp of patriotism in the UK!

Will Germany return to the Germany of the 1980s; with a superb armed forces that knew it was first to do battle with the Soviet juggernaut, and was determined to succeed?

Time will tell, and the smart money is against all of that, but rejecting American dominance and accepting that they are all independent countries is a good start.

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Hiya!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:00 AM (X8xt3)

3 Nato. HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

4 Not First!

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at June 11, 2026 11:00 AM (VkY89)

5 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

6 No Europe will get taken over

Posted by: Skip at June 11, 2026 11:01 AM (L32bK)

7 >>This is magnificent news! It is the first step for Europe moving out of America's basement and finding its own place in the world!

Heh. Cutting off the hotpockets, kid, time to put don the videogame controller, get a job and your on place!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:02 AM (X8xt3)

8 But it would all be ok if we have a commie president. Then they are rolling in dough and everything is sunshine and puppies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:02 AM (mPXxA)

9 Will Europe Grow Up?

Not before the native population is exterminated.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2026 11:03 AM (ExV1e)

10 Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner"

Sexually

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 11, 2026 11:03 AM (Kt19C)

11 All these assholes that keep telling me we need to import the people from impoverished and hellhole nations really should be spending their time, efforts and money FIXING THEIR SHITHOLES instead of turning MY country into THEIR shithole.

Dipshits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

12 The Brit Defense Secretary just resigned this morning over Starmer putting off releasing the DIP report.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (5P5DO)

13 Europeans are increasingly questioning whether the United States would come to their defense in a military crisis
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The chickens are coming home... to roost!!!

Not God BLESS Europe... naw naw nawwhhh....

(does steppin fetchit dance)

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (5QtDN)

14 > Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner"
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Only because we have money.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (jehhT)

15 Aaaaaand the UK is choosing and authoritarian dystopia:

@BullTheoryio BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

16 Europeans are increasingly questioning whether the United States would come to their defense in a military crisis, according to a new survey showing confidence in America's security commitment has fallen to record lows.

Trump has been warning you for a decade to start increasing your defense expenditure as a part of NATO. You still haven't.

Reap it, Eurofags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)

17 They'll hate us until it's time for us to pull their chestnuts out of the fire - again.

It's cyclical - William L. Shirer noted that he found French anti-Americanism depressing. In 1932.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (amcLV)

18 Europe is increasingly irrelevant.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (1z8ji)

19 >>The Brit Defense Secretary just resigned this morning over Starmer putting off releasing the DIP report.

What is a DIP report?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

20 Europe sucks... I stayed on topic but now I have a question.. Wasn't SCOTUS supposed to rule on late ballots today ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (FtULh)

21 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

Ditto.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

22 It's amazing how well Marcuse predicted/planned the future.

He saw the ghetto and third-world poor as the hope for a future advance guard of Marxism.

So, this could actually be why the West is "importing the third world".

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:06 AM (Fi81e)

23

What is a DIP report?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

Starmer. Dick In Pooper?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Lizzy, defense budget and preparedness.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (5P5DO)

25 All these assholes that keep telling me we need to import the people from impoverished and hellhole nations really should be spending their time, efforts and money FIXING THEIR SHITHOLES instead of turning MY country into THEIR shithole.

Dipshits.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
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That goes double for the migrants that are being forced upon the rest of us.

They'd be far, far better off improving their own nations. But they prefer to subsist as locusts on the rest of us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (gnNyN)

26 Willowed.

185 171 Tom Homan@HomanNews - 1h

Trump just made a MAJOR move — and it could change everything.

He’s adding the SAVE AMERICA ACT into a massive $350 BILLION Pentagon reconciliation package.

Reconciliation.

Which means?
Only a SIMPLE MAJORITY needed to pass. 🔥
“No games. No delays. No weak compromises.”
That’s the message.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:58 AM (EQ+Vz)
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Parliamentarian: "Overruled!"

Thune: "Oh darn."

Posted by: WisRich at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (G0vdT)

27 Hiya!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:00 AM (X8xt3)

Didn't realize you knew Karate.

Raylan Given: Yes. And two other Japanese words.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (5QtDN)

28
Not
A
Tangible
Organization

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

29 The British government thinks the worst thing about the attempted beheading is that the video was so easily shared online

THAT'S their takeaway from the incident

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

30 Europe sucks... I stayed on topic but now I have a question.. Wasn't SCOTUS supposed to rule on late ballots today ?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (FtULh)
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SCOTUS must be waiting on the mail-in votes from the liberal justices...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 11:08 AM (gnNyN)

31 Note that their distrust is probably not that we would do something to them.

But that they cannot depend upon us to rescue them.

You know, with our "backwards politics" and not-even-all-that-Marxist left!

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:08 AM (Fi81e)

32 Take a poll of each European country whether they like and trust the USA. Any country that polls under 50% we cut off and move our resources to the countries that poll over 50%.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:09 AM (GseMx)

33 Which means?
Only a SIMPLE MAJORITY needed to pass. 🔥
“No games. No delays. No weak compromises.”

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Not to worry!
the Republicans will scuttle this plan. BET ME

Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2026 11:09 AM (ZxPkt)

34 I never really cared much for Europe. Too many "we are better than everyone else" snobs.

Posted by: Case at June 11, 2026 11:09 AM (+zXtV)

35 The British government thinks the worst thing about the attempted beheading is that the video was so easily shared online

THAT'S their takeaway from the incident
Posted by: Don Black at June 11, 2026 11:08 AM (ZxPkt)

They want whitey dead because they think they can better control brownie. They can't, but they're too stupid to see it. They think lowering the national IQ to the 60s will make it easier.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

36 26 Willowed.

185 171 Tom Homan@HomanNews - 1h

Trump just made a MAJOR move — and it could change everything.

He’s adding the SAVE AMERICA ACT into a massive $350 BILLION Pentagon reconciliation package.

Reconciliation.

Which means?
Only a SIMPLE MAJORITY needed to pass. 🔥
“No games. No delays. No weak compromises.”
That’s the message.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 10:58 AM (EQ+Vz)
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Unfortunately we have enough RINO's to kill it

Posted by: It's me donna at June 11, 2026 11:10 AM (FtULh)

37 15 Aaaaaand the UK is choosing and authoritarian dystopia:

@BullTheoryio BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)
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China's Xi: *nodding approvingly* "Now that's how you do it. "

Posted by: WisRich at June 11, 2026 11:10 AM (G0vdT)

38 All directly on your phone.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

I would imagine it applies to wypipo and Christians only.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:10 AM (5QtDN)

39 *fistbump*

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (NcvvS)

40 I never really cared much for Europe. Too many "we are better than everyone else" snobs.

Posted by: Case at June 11, 2026 11:09 AM (+zXtV)
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I care about them despite the predominance of that attitude.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (Fi81e)

41 Thanks, Ben Had!

I assume it's bad news Starmer wants to ave away?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)

42 That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

That takes effect, I'm throwing my phone in the Thames.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

43 As it stands now. Europe is committing suicide.
Not only do we need to kick the UB scum out of our country. We need to withdraw from NATO. All our money, personnel and equipment. They have proven themselves to be worthless and feckless.
In my more angry moments, I would remove even the men buried in the cemeteries there and in Tunisia. England any anywhere else that hates us.
Leave no one behind. Open a new and beautiful National Cemetery here in the states. Certainly not in any dumocrat run locale. Leave the vacant, open graves there. They will not understand but, the whining will be spectacular.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 11, 2026 11:12 AM (0+1tY)

44 I assume it's bad news Starmer wants to ave away?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (X8xt3)
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Yup. Like cancellation of their needed new destroyer program.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:12 AM (amcLV)

45 >>The Brit Defense Secretary just resigned this morning over Starmer putting off releasing the DIP report.

What is a DIP report?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:05 AM (X8xt3)

In Starmer's case- Dickheads In power

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (snZF9)

46 >>I would imagine it applies to wypipo and Christians only.

Naturally.
This makes one want to become a luddite and ditch the phones altogether.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (X8xt3)

47
Will Europe Grow Up?

___________

Grow up? They don't even recognize any problem. They'd just say it's the US is falling apart.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (/PoEN)

48 42 That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

That takes effect, I'm throwing my phone in the Thames.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe EVERYONE there should switch to OTC paid for by cash phones.

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (Gqar8)

49 > That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
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Pretty sure the National Security Agency can do this now. Whether they're collecting it on everyone is debatable, but...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:14 AM (jehhT)

50
Naturally.
This makes one want to become a luddite and ditch the phones altogether.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (X8xt3)

Just get the disposable phones and phone cards.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:14 AM (GseMx)

51
Maybe EVERYONE there should switch to OTC paid for by cash phones.
Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM

They will have surveillance footage of your purchase.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Aaaaaand the UK is choosing and authoritarian dystopia:

@BullTheoryio BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM

I was a man ahead of my time.

Posted by: Zombie Oswald Mosley at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (kgE5c)

53
MLGA: Make Landlines Great Again

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (/PoEN)

54 What is a DIP report?"

Defense Investment Program

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (zBgIx)

55 Maybe EVERYONE there should switch to OTC paid for by cash phones.
Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (Gqar

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Oh, I'm sure they'll be outlawed as well.

(But a thriving black market will exist for everyone *except* native British--being caught with one will be grounds for immediate imprisonment followed by summary execution.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (gnNyN)

56 They'd be far, far better off improving their own nations. But they prefer to subsist as locusts on the rest of us.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 11:07 AM (gnNyN)

Look at how much aid has been shoveled to Africa in the past 80 years. Look at what happened to South Africa or Rhodesia. Look at Empire of Dust.

They cannot grok what it takes. It is not in them. It makes no sense to them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (mPXxA)

57 Uhhhh?
@Polymarket
JUST IN: Hazmat teams responding to hazardous materials emergency at the Pentagon, several floors evacuated.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

58 I'd like to have a citizen exchange program between the US and Europe.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (GseMx)

59 Everyone gets portable Starlink and an IP phone running VPN.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

60 51
Maybe EVERYONE there should switch to OTC paid for by cash phones.
Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM

They will have surveillance footage of your purchase.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

Had not thought of that. Really, England is Airstrip One now, in fact. Orwell, the Prophet.

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (Gqar8)

61 The United States has zero business pursuing alliances with Europeans. This is the 21st century, ferpetessakes. They ceased being a military force almost a century ago. They ceased being a cultural force 50 years ago. We are living through the time when they are permanently winding down their economic power, and soon they won't even be Europeans anymore, but Arabs.

In no world does it make sense to waste time, effort or money on these useless eaters, and there is huge downside potential to it... you might as well say "I was thinking about eating this shit sandwich. I mean, sure, it tastes like shit, but at least it could make me extremely ill."

We need to wind down our military commitments, withdraw our nuclear weapons and demand, menacingly if necessary, their own denuclearization. From there, we need to seek to diplomatically and economically isolate these nascent Arab States.

It's time to quarantine this diseased corpse, not prop it up for an extremely gay remake of Weekend at Bernie's.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (BI5O2)

62
Second look at one-time pads?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (/PoEN)

63 They have fallen in love with AI because they know it will help bring on their jerkoff fantasy Surveillance State.

How do I know? Because I've been on this since before almost anyone even knew what AI was.

For a long time natural language comprehension was the only barrier between monitoring some things, and monitoring EVERYTHING.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (5QtDN)

64 @Polymarket
JUST IN: Hazmat teams responding to hazardous materials emergency at the Pentagon, several floors evacuated.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

I would say Biden shit his pants again, but.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

65 As it stands now. Europe is committing suicide.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at June 11, 2026 11:12 AM (0+1tY)
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Which is precisely what spurs me to doubt White superiority.

The Lord built the West, flesh helped where we did.

Man without God just gets stuck on spin cycle, trying to ape the principles he dragged us to--and fucking it up royally.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (Fi81e)

66 Second look at one-time pads?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (/PoEN)

Incontinence problem?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

67 Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (Fi81e)

Whites are still just 16% of the world's population.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (GseMx)

68 "it stiffened the backbones of the French"

Frontbones remained flaccid.

Posted by: gp at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (Jr5Lq)

69 Will The United Kingdom regain the cold resolve of Margaret Thatcher, who dispatched the Royal Navy 8,000 miles to defend the Falklands? That was the last gasp of patriotism in the UK!

Starmer should give the Falklands to Milei. The residents would be *far* better off that way, given this phone thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (2ocoG)

70
I'd like to have a citizen exchange program between the US and Europe.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (GseMx)

____________

There's one going on now. They get our deadweight leftists, we get their entrepreneurs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (/PoEN)

71 Well, I will say I liked Monty Python back in the day.
But that's all I got.

Posted by: Case at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (+zXtV)

72
Look at how much aid has been shoveled to Africa in the past 80 years. Look at what happened to South Africa or Rhodesia. Look at Empire of Dust.

They cannot grok what it takes. It is not in them. It makes no sense to them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (mPXxA)

Reverend David Manning has a few thoughts on that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFr0qvpxKI

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 11, 2026 11:19 AM (5xuJ/)

73 JUST IN: Hazmat teams responding to hazardous materials emergency at the Pentagon, several floors evacuated.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

If it's linked to Iran and not just some dumbfuck lib or Candy Ovens supporter (BIRM), and Tehran isn't in flames by 8pm EST, then I will lose quite a bit of respect for Trump. For the record I don't think Iran is dumb enough to go there, so it's probably a leftard terrorist.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:19 AM (5QtDN)

74 Naturally.
This makes one want to become a luddite and ditch the phones altogether.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:13 AM (X8xt3)

Go long on tin cans and string.

Seriously, in that situation, use your phone only for absolutely uncontroversial purposes, doctor appointments, routine business, etc. No chit-chat at all. Disable all the cameras on your phone. Maybe consider having a "muffle bag" for the phone, equipped with a white noise generator, so its microphone cannot listen in on conversations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:19 AM (1z8ji)

75 Thx CBD.
Pax Americana has caused the Europeans to be able to try every stupid government idea , while we defend them. The cradle to grave welfare state won't survive either the migrant invasion and/or the economic downturn caused by the destruction of much of their energy sector. Time for them to stand on their own or not .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 11, 2026 11:19 AM (6V12Q)

76 There's one going on now. They get our deadweight leftists, we get their entrepreneurs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (/PoEN)

Not enough of our Leftists going there permanently. Just to vacation.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (GseMx)

77 Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:16 AM (Fi81e)

Whites are still just 16% of the world's population.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:18 AM (GseMx)
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But the primary witness to most of what anybody might call "progress".

Our governments progressed. Our technology progressed. Our standards of living progressed.

But that's not fair to the rest of the mass of humanity.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (Fi81e)

78 2 That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:04 AM (X8xt3)

Boy, they are going to be SOOOOO bored looking at all of the images on my phone....

Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (ZLP/c)

79 Maybe consider having a "muffle bag" for the phone, equipped with a white noise generator, so its microphone cannot listen in on conversations.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:19 AM (1z8ji)

Faraday box when not in use.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

80 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (ZLP/c)

*hugs*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

81 NATO should have been disbanded in the mid 90s. But like all giant bureaucracies, they never die, even when their mission no longer exists.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (cZDTf)

82 I'd like to have a citizen exchange program between the US and Europe.

The World Cup is priming some Europeans for that. If you haven't followed the story with the German dude who went to a WC thing at Auburn's stadium and then hit up Buc-ees it's great.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

83 I think it's entirely possible that there is too much grift and fraud in European public budgets for them to be capable of defending themselves, until their existing Ruling Class is removed from power, root and branch. And that might not be possible either. What if the replacement clique would just immediately go about duplicating the lazy beak-wetting of their predecessors?

That could happen if it's engrained in their culture now. Their whole nations could simply be too corrupt muster resistance to an invasion of lightly-armed barbarians, let alone field a First World military.

And if that sounds far-fetched, I refer you to California's bespoke, artisanal cougar/butterfly bridge, that crossed the $100M mark and still wasn't done, when other states provide the same function for $15M. That gives us a baseline floor of at least 85% of their budget being grift, fraud, and waste. And Europe's public administrator cultures are much older and more entrenched.

They could be even *worse* than California. It sounds like fiction, but I am dead serious when I say that the same countries that made whole continents burn not 80 years ago, could now be incapable of stopping a rubber boat.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 11:22 AM (Sy6m/)

84 While most Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner," majorities in every country surveyed said they no longer believe the U.S. would necessarily come to their aid if they were attacked.
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Why should we? You didn't come when we asked for you help with Hormuz. In fact you laughingly shunned us. Hello Europe, Fuck You.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:22 AM (EQ+Vz)

85
The World Cup is priming some Europeans for that. If you haven't followed the story with the German dude who went to a WC thing at Auburn's stadium and then hit up Buc-ees it's great.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

Tommy Robinson went to Buc-Ee's while he was in Texas. He was in awe of it, to say the least.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

86 This is what the data centers are for - 100% survealance and recoding.
The AI is to make it easier for Karen to found laws you broke today

Posted by: Operator Error at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (RyDL4)

87 84 While most Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner," majorities in every country surveyed said they no longer believe the U.S. would necessarily come to their aid if they were attacked.
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Why should we? You didn't come when we asked for you help with Hormuz. In fact you laughingly shunned us. Hello Europe, Fuck You.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:22 AM (EQ+Vz)

Where was Gondor when they burned the Westfold???

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar8)

88 But the primary witness to most of what anybody might call "progress".

Our governments progressed. Our technology progressed. Our standards of living progressed.

But that's not fair to the rest of the mass of humanity.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (Fi81e)

Again......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pFr0qvpxKI

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (5xuJ/)

89
Hello Europe, Fuck You.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

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Now go get your shinebox.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (/PoEN)

90 Why should we? You didn't come when we asked for you help with Hormuz. In fact you laughingly shunned us. Hello Europe, Fuck You.

Moreover, they rely on the Hormuz oil. We don't. So they wouldn't/couldn't even help themselves.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (2ocoG)

91 Uhhhh?
@Polymarket
JUST IN: Hazmat teams responding to hazardous materials emergency at the Pentagon, several floors evacuated.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

A Hazmat Emergency need not necessarily be an act of terrorism. Could be somebody spilled a bottle of duplicator fluid. and they are simply using a minor incident as a training exercise.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (1z8ji)

92 Why do 500M Europeans need 330M Americans to protect them from 140M Russians?
Can someone explain that to me?
I just don't get it.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (MNCvZ)

93 I was stationed in Germany from 75-78 and the german military was at it's post war peak then. Since then they have steadily declined on purpose are at the point they can no longer defend themselves. They pay us to patrol their airspace because they lack the required numbers of combat aircraft capable of doing it themselves.

The Michigan National Guard could take over the country in about two weeks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM (0N4FZ)

94
Buc-ee's, the Pride of Lake Jackson, TX

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM (/PoEN)

95 Even though France is militarily independent, I just assume all their military equipment is crap. If the French way.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM (GseMx)

96 "The hordes crashing Europe's borders care not a whit about self-actualization and pronouns and transsexualism and gay marriage and policing free speech."

I keep thinking about the "hard times create strong men" progression, and hope we are there. There are glimmerings here and there, but we need a lot more.

The "good times create weak men, weak men create hard times" cycle has allowed the complete inversion of Maslow's hierarchy, and much of the "elite" west has so little concern with being fed, sheltered, and warm that they have been able to create that vast shrill needy medicated cesspit of self-actualization in which we have all been stewing.

Here's to some strong people building things back.

Posted by: barbarausa at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM (enw9G)

97 Now go get your shinebox.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (/PoEN)
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That...did not end well for the guy who said it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 11, 2026 11:25 AM (amcLV)

98 UK is going to have to just quit waiting for elections. They are going to strap a rat cage on your face if you don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:25 AM (mPXxA)

99
The Michigan National Guard could take over the country in about two weeks.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM (0N4FZ)

____________

The Gun Thread could take over the country in about two weeks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:25 AM (/PoEN)

100 92 Why do 500M Europeans need 330M Americans to protect them from 140M Russians?
Can someone explain that to me?
I just don't get it.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at June 11, 2026 11:23 AM (MNCvZ)

Because they suck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:25 AM (mPXxA)

101 And of course, it goes without saying that the Lafayette and Kosciuzsko were the last Europeans who did anything positive for the US.

Since the founding of the country, all they've been is treacherous fair weather friends who heap their sins on our backs like we were fucking pack mules, when they aren't actively trying to harm us.

Even if they still had some of their former redeeming qualities, I'd still advise kicking them in the balls, throwing them out the door, and slamming it behind them.

But they don't, which makes it easier to do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (BI5O2)

102 Faraday box when not in use.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

Not very practical if one routinely takes incoming calls, say from work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)

103 >>Seriously, in that situation, use your phone only for absolutely uncontroversial purposes, doctor appointments, routine business, etc. No chit-chat at all. Disable all the cameras on your phone. Maybe consider having a "muffle bag" for the phone, equipped with a white noise generator, so its microphone cannot listen in on conversations.

Farraday bag, only take out for the fe times it is used.
Srsly, after the OMG undercover conversation w/the Nationals Community Relations guy, I am wondering how often our phones are used by random companies to immediately profile us?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (X8xt3)

104 Your mom has a Faraday box

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (5QtDN)

105 15 Aaaaaand the UK is choosing and authoritarian dystopia:

@BullTheoryio BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy
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That never works the way that the commissars think it will. Soviet Union still fell, in part, because like belief in the UK government two party monopoly, no one believes in them ruling elite anymore.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)

106 Look at how much aid has been shoveled to Africa in the past 80 years. Look at what happened to South Africa or Rhodesia. Look at Empire of Dust.

They cannot grok what it takes. It is not in them. It makes no sense to them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:15 AM (mPXxA)
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It was in the 1600s when Locke had to point out if you're not killing Muslim merchants and diplomats despite their sharp difference of beliefs, you shouldn't be killing Christians for their shades of differences and accents.

And Samuel Rutherford writes Lex, Rex in this century as well.

Adam Smith comes in the 1700s.

That's what makes White supremacists so stupid. It's not like we adopted our shit overnight. WE were plenty stupid.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:27 AM (Fi81e)

107
The Gun Thread could take over the country in about two weeks.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:25 AM (/PoEN)

The TxMoMe could sweep Europe in a week. Hell, Spawn of Lin-duh could take England, Denmark, Norway and The Netherlands on her own.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

108 We should have left Spain a year ago and cut them off from all trade .

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (GseMx)

109
Before the Mussulmen slit their throats, the last living act of the Europeans will be to sneer at the US.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (/PoEN)

110 I miss landlines.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (mPXxA)

111 Even though France is militarily independent, I just assume all their military equipment is crap. If the French way.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:24 AM

On paper their LeClerc MBT is better than our M1A2 Abrams so is the german Leopard A2. I doubt either country has enough to form a battalion of them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

112 This is what the data centers are for - 100% survealance and recoding.
The AI is to make it easier for Karen to found laws you broke today

100% surveillance happened at least 25 years ago, it's why "Bob from the NSA" is a sock here.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

113
Not very practical if one routinely takes incoming calls, say from work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (1z8ji)

Back to the office and landlines or old school 2-way Walkie-Talkies.

They want their shit, I'll go back to the stone age. F*ck em.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

114
Europe is to America what Lucille Bluth is to her kids.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM (BI5O2)

115 I have long assumed everything I say, every place I go to on phone or computer is logged, somewhere. And yet I persist. We have had a surveillance state for quite a while now.

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM (Gqar8)

116 Re: Buc-ee’s

I’ll give the French credit here. Their “interstate” rest areas have some amazing food options. Not Burger King crap, actual prepared, restaurant quality food.

I personally don’t get the Buc-Eees thing. Yeah it’s big and shit. But at the end of the day it’s a gas station. Just a reaaallly big gas station. I dunno it doesn’t wow me. 😀 My kids dig it though.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM (cZDTf)

117 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (/PoEN)

Brit Lass has been saying for 25 years that if they ever get her, her last words will be to tell them "Mohammed is a wanker and Allah fucks goats". And she would. So there's that.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (5QtDN)

118 Even though France is militarily independent, I just assume all their military equipment is crap. If the French way.

Did they ever fix their aircraft carrier that was fatally irradiating the sailors?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (2ocoG)

119 On paper their LeClerc MBT is better than our M1A2 Abrams so is the german Leopard A2. I doubt either country has enough to form a battalion of them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)
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Quantity has a quality all on its own...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (gnNyN)

120 Rumor mill is starting to solidify around anthrax. Multiple people in multiple offices here have said that's what the hazmat guys are telling them.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (Kdi1r)

121 Still only rumor though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (Kdi1r)

122 TxMoMe could sweep Europe in a week. Hell, Spawn of Lin-duh could take England, Denmark, Norway and The Netherlands on her own.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Well, she is a pretty fast shooter... you should see all awards!!!🥇🥈🥉

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at June 11, 2026 11:30 AM (EneHm)

123 The west progressed because enough Westerners eschewed the concept of 'good enough' .

Unfortunately I think the influx of third worlders is diluting that attitude.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:31 AM (GseMx)

124
A Hazmat Emergency need not necessarily be an act of terrorism. Could be somebody spilled a bottle of duplicator fluid. and they are simply using a minor incident as a training exercise.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Could be burning evidence before Hegseth gets to it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:31 AM (EQ+Vz)

125 Are not tanks becoming obsolete in modern techno warfare?

Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:31 AM (Gqar8)

126 Back to the office and landlines or old school 2-way Walkie-Talkies.

Landlines and walkie-talkies are even easier to surveil.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:31 AM (2ocoG)

127 Rumor mill is starting to solidify around anthrax. Multiple people in multiple offices here have said that's what the hazmat guys are telling them.

Fauci showed up for a visit?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (2ocoG)

128 That's what makes White supremacists so stupid. It's not like we adopted our shit overnight. WE were plenty stupid.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:27 AM (Fi81e)

Oh absolutely. BUT (and this is a big but) we learned. Tribalism gave way to city states. City states gave way to empires. Empires subsided into nations.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (mPXxA)

129 The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy

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So in other words what Google already does?

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (cZDTf)

130 I have long assumed everything I say, every place I go to on phone or computer is logged, somewhere. And yet I persist. We have had a surveillance state for quite a while now.
Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM

This has been proven. A guy walked around DC with two phones. One with all radios off, the other with radios and location on.

The one with radios off STILL tracked all his movements, only waited to report them AFTER he turned the radios back on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

131 This is what the data centers are for - 100% survealance and recoding.

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AM has 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

So it will be important to get big data centers.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (Fi81e)

132 I think the question is Will Europe and the UK defend their women or let the immigrants “take them”. So far it’s been You can have some unmarried young ones for your group pleasure. Tell me if I’m wrong.

Posted by: High tech at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (37cEZ)

133 Farraday bag, only take out for the fe times it is used.
Srsly, after the OMG undercover conversation w/the Nationals Community Relations guy, I am wondering how often our phones are used by random companies to immediately profile us?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 11, 2026 11:26 AM (X8xt3)

When it's in the Faraday bag, it cannot receive a call. On order for cellphones to work at all, they have to ping and be pinged by cell towers on an ongoing basis. So your location can be known by the authorities. But if you can prevent the phone from scooping up images and audio of your daily life, and conversations with other people in meatspace, you have some degree of protection.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (1z8ji)

134 115 I have long assumed everything I say, every place I go to on phone or computer is logged, somewhere. And yet I persist. We have had a surveillance state for quite a while now.
Posted by: tubal at June 11, 2026 11:29 AM (Gqar

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (mPXxA)

135 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

What's on paper that makes it better?

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (GseMx)

136 Burst transmitters and burn bins are still a tough nut to crack.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (BI5O2)

137 > This is what the data centers are for - 100% survealance and recoding.
The AI is to make it easier for Karen to found laws you broke today
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All the videos that those Flock LPR cameras take. A surveillance system built on the same concepts used in prisons to monitor the general population. The cameras can be accessed in real time. Some of these surveillance cameras are pointed at playgrounds, swimming pools, etc. No safeguards on who gets access to the systems that are municipal (city, county, state) sponsored.

We're already being monitored 24x7.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (jehhT)

138 On paper their LeClerc MBT is better than our M1A2 Abrams so is the german Leopard A2.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

Possibly. Our crews are better trained, and add our amazing CAS and I would not want to be a French or German tanker fighting Americans.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (iERP6)

139 The World Cup is priming some Europeans for that. If you haven't followed the story with the German dude who went to a WC thing at Auburn's stadium and then hit up Buc-ees it's great.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (2ocoG)

Tommy Robinson went to Buc-Ee's while he was in Texas. He was in awe of it, to say the least.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:22 AM

I love watching videos of Euros who visit America and fall in love with it, realizing they've been lied to about America all their lives.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

140 "While most Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner," majorities in every country surveyed said they no longer believe the U.S. would necessarily come to their aid if they were attacked"

That's like basements dwelling adults worrying mom and dad will no longer bail them of their poor life choices.

Posted by: Ripley at June 11, 2026 11:35 AM (GUOwU)

141 I love watching videos of Euros who visit America and fall in love with it, realizing they've been lied to about America all their lives.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

Hell. Just watching them trying Ranch Dressing for the first time......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

142 138 On paper their LeClerc MBT is better than our M1A2 Abrams so is the german Leopard A2.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)

Possibly. Our crews are better trained, and add our amazing CAS and I would not want to be a French or German tanker fighting Americans.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (iERP6)

Didn't the Germans send some Leopards to Ukraine? I must have missed them rolling into Moscow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (mPXxA)

143 Even though France is militarily independent, I just assume all their military equipment is crap. If the French way.

Did they ever fix their aircraft carrier that was fatally irradiating the sailors?

They are developing plans for a new carrier, hopefully with lessons learned from their mistakes with the De Gaulle, including EMALS, larger size, and better nuke plant. We shall see. Then there's the matter of the planes that will fly from it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uanSDo2bS4E

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

144
I love watching videos of Euros who visit America and fall in love with it, realizing they've been lied to about America all their lives.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

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The "reporters" for their state-run media never leave the cities and depend on even more anti-American stringers for their information.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (/PoEN)

145 If the euros were as smart as they think they are, that trust of America being there to pull their asses out of their own fire for a fourth time would be at under 3%.

Europeons have already been conquered by islamists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (xvV+O)

146 Posted by: High tech at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (37cEZ)

The only people that will defend women and the rest of humanity en masse are the Christians. Before I offend any Jews please note I said en masse. Been shown time and again.

So no, the demonic leftist death cult has no intention of defending anyone, let alone women or girls.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (5QtDN)

147 Srsly, after the OMG undercover conversation w/the Nationals Community Relations guy, I am wondering how often our phones are used by random companies to immediately profile us?
Posted by: Lizzy
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Lizzy, there are a lot of things one can do to protect your privacy online, EFF has some suggestions. But in reality, all governments, including even places like East Germany, run into the reality you cannot arrest all of your citizens--sooner or later they are going to do what they are going to do and the only thing you can do is tamp it down a bit.

I think what we are seeing is effectively the death of Labor and the globo homo regime in Westminster. Sweden, which used to be ground central for globo homo, has shut the doors on refugees as have the Danes. Eastern Europe is not going along with the EU, Greeks are using the new EU law to kick out refugees to Africa etc. before they are processed.

Starmer and his ilk's time has run out. Same with the Tory do nothings and when it comes out that the Sudanese head hunter was granted asylum by Sunak's policy along with Reform UK Braverman who was Tory Home Sec at the time, etc.,

Restore becomes the default option.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (E4rtv)

148 I'm sure the media will report the truth about what's going on at the Pentagon so let's just wait for them.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (5QtDN)

149 Are not tanks becoming obsolete in modern techno warfare?[?i]

IMHO they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

150 This has been proven. A guy walked around DC with two phones. One with all radios off, the other with radios and location on.

The one with radios off STILL tracked all his movements, only waited to report them AFTER he turned the radios back on.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (Zz0t1)

If the radio was truly OFF, the tower network could not track him. But if the phone had GPS, that system could track him, and report back when the radio was enabled. Make sure your phone has no GPS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (1z8ji)

151
Didn't the Germans send some Leopards to Ukraine? I must have missed them rolling into Moscow.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (mPXxA)

There was a video of some Ukrainian tank rolling around with scan codes for TEMU shopping all over it. The Chinese drones used by Russia would supposedly drop to the ground and start shopping.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

152 We are upgrading to the M1E3 Abrams by the way. 'On paper' it looks good but only the USA, Israel and Russia can truly judge their tanks right now.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM (GseMx)

153 I love watching videos of Euros who visit America and fall in love with it, realizing they've been lied to about America all their lives.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:34 AM (kgE5c)

One thing that is always interesting: they never grasped the scale. They cannot conceive that it takes 13 hours to drive between Texarkana and El Paso. And people do it all the time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM (mPXxA)

154
If the radio was truly OFF, the tower network could not track him. But if the phone had GPS, that system could track him, and report back when the radio was enabled. Make sure your phone has no GPS.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (1z8ji)

I don't believe they'll truly allow you to shut everything off, even with the phone 'powered off.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

155

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

156 134 115 I have long assumed everything I say, every place I go to on phone or computer is logged, somewhere. And yet I persist. We have had a surveillance state for quite a while now.
Posted by: tubal
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They have the data but storage and filing/allocation is massive. Mostly, unless your name is inserted into the search feature your activity will be dormant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:39 AM (EQ+Vz)

157 The overarching difference between the US and Europe is comfort. We live in a comfortable world. Big houses, multiple cars per family vs small apartments maybe 1 car per family if even that. And of course air conditioning.

Things we take for granted are often luxuries to the average European.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:40 AM (cZDTf)

158 155

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

Seems someone forgot their Mitch McConnell sock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Europeans are always surprised at how outgoing and friendly Americans are, because most Americans don't travel abroad.

So they haven't been to Europe or gotten a taste of how much they hate us.

I have, so they don't need to worry about any surprises from me... I make sure not to be as rude and nasty as them, this is a civilized country after all, but they don't ever see a smile on my face.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (BI5O2)

160 Oh absolutely. BUT (and this is a big but) we learned. Tribalism gave way to city states. City states gave way to empires. Empires subsided into nations.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:32 AM (mPXxA)
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And praise God we did. It was this "city on a hill" that allowed men to see what was possible through Biblical principles.

And we gradually lifted our ceiling on what could be brought into our lives.

Tribalism is a *huge* factor against this.

But the thing is that at the same time that we have had the stopwatch ticking on Africa to develop, we've had another whole portion of our culture telling them and everybody else that if you disparage their culture of tribalism, that is it's own form of tribalism.

And during that time of course, "globalists" became neo-tribalists or meta-tribalists. Their tribe became "globalists", such that being not-as-global became sin.

Because they waged wars in the flesh, because other people with other ideas became a hindrance to Man's enterprise of Globalism.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (Fi81e)

161 If you watch the First 48 you know that half the murder cases are solved because of the perp's cell phone.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (GseMx)

162
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (y9nCu)

163 >That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.
Posted by: Lizzy

INGSOC FTW!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (NgqoH)

164 149 Are not tanks becoming obsolete in modern techno warfare?[?i]

IMHO they are.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (Riz8t)

I am not sure yet. Drones may seem like the hot new thing and they may well displace some aircraft, but I think defense has just not caught up to the offensive capabilities yet.

Military technology has always been a race between defense and offense. If there is parity then training and tactics rule the day (see: Romans.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (mPXxA)

165 Burst transmitters and burn bins are still a tough nut to crack.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:33 AM (BI5O2)

Also pre-arranged plain language code phrases: "Aunt Sophie's got hives again". "My cat horked up a hairball on the throw rug".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (1z8ji)

166 Make sure your phone has no GPS.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:37 AM (1z8ji)
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How could they find their ass?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (EQ+Vz)

167 The overarching difference between the US and Europe is comfort. We live in a comfortable world. Big houses, multiple cars per family vs small apartments maybe 1 car per family if even that. And of course air conditioning.

Things we take for granted are often luxuries to the average European.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:40 AM (cZDTf)

We recently learned that more people in the EU are killed by heat than are killed in the US by guns.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (Kdi1r)

168 Sorry, couldn't resist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (EQ+Vz)

169 > I don't believe they'll truly allow you to shut everything off, even with the phone 'powered off.'
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Pull the SIM card. Without it I don't think it'll "talk" to the cell towers. Thus, whatever it's recording goes nowhere. GPS might be another matter.... tracking wise.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (jehhT)

170 Europeons have already been conquered by islamists.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious

Not really, even in the UK it is about 6-7 percent. Right now, what we are seeing and why the resistance is that these invaders were concentrated in major dying UK cities like inner London, Manchester, Liverpool, etc. but are now being distributed around the country. Much as happened during the Biden administration where they dumped illegals in small towns, etc.

The native populations are now realizing that their government intentionally means to harm and replace them and there is nowhere to run away to anymore. This concentrates the mind when the insulation from bad government choices is stripped away and why I think you will see far more burning out the illegals as the tactical choice in Ireland, UK, Netherlands, and Germany. In France and Belgium, it is perhaps too late for anything other than military action to expel the invaders as they have literally taken over many urban districts and cleansed them of whites as no go areas.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (E4rtv)

171 And drone have probably made man scouts less useful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (mPXxA)

172
So they haven't been to Europe or gotten a taste of how much they hate us.

____________

I'd like to think there are quite a few who aren't the Eurotrash type. You never hear about them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (/PoEN)

173 > 81 NATO should have been disbanded in the mid 90s. But like all giant bureaucracies, they never die, even when their mission no longer exists.
Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:21 AM (cZDTf)

Yep. It should've been shitcanned the moment the Soviet Union ceased to be a going concern.

And you're right... they never die, no matter whether governmental or "non-profit".

For example, the March of Dimes was organized to fight polio.

Polio hasn't been a serious threat in the developed world since 1955 or so. 70 years.

Did the March of Dimes say "Yay!", throw a big party, and shut itself down?

Hint: it did not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (IG3/x)

174 Pull the SIM card. Without it I don't think it'll "talk" to the cell towers. Thus, whatever it's recording goes nowhere. GPS might be another matter.... tracking wise.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (jehhT)

They've moved away from the removable SIM in newer phones. My Samsung has some internal thing that I was allowed to 'transfer' to.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Eastern Europe, esp Poland & Hungary, have chosen not to go down the same path as France, UK, others. Neither culturally nor militarily.

I derive some hope from that.

Posted by: mnw at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (RCjYY)

176 We are upgrading to the M1E3 Abrams by the way. 'On paper' it looks good but only the USA, Israel and Russia can truly judge their tanks right now.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM

Russia is completely out of tanks at this point. They pulled anything they could get running out of old depot storage stocks and those have literally run out of tanks. Last I read they were working on on the last stock of T-62 and T-55 tanks to see what they could get running.

That Israeli Merkava III tank is a beast. It can take direct hits from 120mm cannons and the crew will survive. It also has anti drone measures built in.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (0N4FZ)

177 Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

Exactly.

Posted by: ... at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (5QtDN)

178 Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (mPXxA

It is my understanding that the upgraded M1E3 has drone defense capabilities.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (GseMx)

179 I don't believe they'll truly allow you to shut everything off, even with the phone 'powered off.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

That can be a problem alright. Look up the Fairphone.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)

180 One thing that irritates me is how smug euros say only 30% of Americans have a passport. Yeah and? Within the us I can go to tropical beaches and the arctic circle. I have Disneyland and world class museums. Basically anything you can imagine that people travel for is available.

Not to say you should never leave, and I’ve traveled a lot I get rationally. But if Germany had tropical beaches a much smaller percent of Germans would bother with passports.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (cZDTf)

181 Did the March of Dimes say "Yay!", throw a big party, and shut itself down?

Hint: it did not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (IG3/x)

They're ALL the SPLC.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (mPXxA)

182 Interesting we've sorta stopped routine finger pointing at Davos.

The 56th edition brought together (Jan. 2026) approximately 2,500 to 3,000 global leaders, including nearly 65 heads of state and government, as well as top corporate executives, civil society voices, and academics.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte strongly defended the relevance of the trans-Atlantic alliance. He pressured European nations to rapidly increase defense investments, scale drone manufacturing, and integrate AI into military operations.

(There were also panels about Greenland 'friction' & calls for greater regional economic sovereignty in Europe.)

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy delivered a blunt special address questioning NATO’s readiness to respond to raw aggression. He advocated for a unified European "coalition of action" & an integrated European military force. He noted plainly that "no security guarantees work without the US."

Zelensky announced a foundational deal regarding post-war security guarantees had been reached, setting the stage for trilateral peace talks in the UAE.
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(But he will not cede Donbas for a US security link.)

Somehow, Z is always the fly in the ointment.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 11, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

183 But if Germany had tropical beaches a much smaller percent of Germans would bother with passports.

You know who else didn't bother with passports?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:45 AM (Riz8t)

184 One thing that is always interesting: they never grasped the scale. They cannot conceive that it takes 13 hours to drive between Texarkana and El Paso. And people do it all the time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM

See, for example, my favorite America-phile Portagee couple, marveling at our lakes.

https://youtu.be/Yaz1RNyt7LQ

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:45 AM (Wnv9h)

185 I have, so they don't need to worry about any surprises from me... I make sure not to be as rude and nasty as them

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 11, 2026 11:41 AM (BI5O2)
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And to think that I had to endure a bunch of bluster when it was "ugly Americanism" to hold the opinion that America was more pro-free-speech than other countries.

But just 10-15 years after that time, they have proven all our notions correct.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)

186 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (0N4FZ)

Yes the Merkava is outstanding. And Russia has been measured and been found wanting.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:46 AM (GseMx)

187 On paper their LeClerc MBT is better than our M1A2 Abrams so is the german Leopard A2. I doubt either country has enough to form a battalion of them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 11, 2026 11:28 AM (0N4FZ)
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On. Paper.

Neither one is actually battle tested like the M1.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 11, 2026 11:46 AM (xvV+O)

188
One thing that irritates me is how smug euros say only 30% of Americans have a passport.

___________

On the one hand, they sneer at Americans with no passport. On the other hand, they sneer at Americans with passports who visit Europe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:46 AM (/PoEN)

189 And to think that I had to endure a bunch of bluster when it was "ugly Americanism" to hold the opinion that America was more pro-free-speech than other countries.

But just 10-15 years after that time, they have proven all our notions correct.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:46 AM (Fi81e)

The commie's defense of free speech was always a ruse until they felt like they had the upper hand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:47 AM (mPXxA)

190 I think what we are seeing is effectively the death of Labor and the globo homo regime in Westminster. Sweden, which used to be ground central for globo homo, has shut the doors on refugees as have the Danes. Eastern Europe is not going along with the EU, Greeks are using the new EU law to kick out refugees to Africa etc. before they are processed.

I think that's the overall trend, but OTOH the guy who replaced Orban in Hungary has agreed to sign the EU's unlimited muslims treaty.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

191 Europe is what happens when you have whole populations living on welfare for generations, with nothing to look forward to but getting high and following sportsball.

See also Detroit, New York City and Baltimore.

Posted by: Napoleon The 14th at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (ZR74N)

192 Polio hasn't been a serious threat in the developed world since 1955 or so. 70 years.

Did the March of Dimes say "Yay!", throw a big party, and shut itself down?

Hint: it did not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Code pink’s mission was the end of the Iraq war. It ended 15 years ago. Code pink is still a thing.

Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (cZDTf)

193 Pull the SIM card. Without it I don't think it'll "talk" to the cell towers. Thus, whatever it's recording goes nowhere. GPS might be another matter.... tracking wise.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (jehhT)

You can still call 911 without a SIM card. The system recognizes your phone's hardware via the IMEI number. The SIM just verifies that you have a provider account, and on newer phones, they have an e-SIM which is built into the OS.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (1z8ji)

194 > Pull the SIM card. Without it I don't think it'll "talk" to the cell towers. Thus, whatever it's recording goes nowhere. GPS might be another matter.... tracking wise.

YMMV
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:42 AM (jehhT)

They've moved away from the removable SIM in newer phones. My Samsung has some internal thing that I was allowed to 'transfer' to.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)
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True.

I have a smartphone that I bought on Amazon for $50. I use it to fly a drone. I've never "activated" the cellular service on it, and therefore I can't use it to make calls... but all the other services and capabilities are there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (jehhT)

195 But if Germany had tropical beaches a much smaller percent of Germans would bother with passports.
Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM

To say nothing of their Speedos.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (kgE5c)

196 Europeans are lazy limpdick soyboys and gay theater kids. But who can blame them for leeching off the USA for 75 years?

They got away with basically stealing our money and resources and using it to fund nascent -- and now almost fully-risen -- socialism and stagnation.

We never said shit about this, and some presidents (Obama) rewarded them for it. It wasn't until Trump came alone that anyone made any serious bones about it. And even now, I think Trump is too indulgent to these leeching cocksuckers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

197 13 Europeans are increasingly questioning whether the United States would come to their defense in a military crisis
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The chickens are coming home... to roost!!!

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsChickenRun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-PressWithBothHands
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-SaveDaWorldTakeTheGun
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-lordBASSuraHasSPOKEN

More 9/10 thinking for 6/11/26? Who could imagine?

LET's GO BRANDON!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 11, 2026 11:48 AM (V1j+k)

198 The SPLC is a good example of what happens when the problem your organization handles goes away.

"Hey, why don't we pay people to do and write racist things!"

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:49 AM (Fi81e)

199 I think that's the overall trend, but OTOH the guy who replaced Orban in Hungary has agreed to sign the EU's unlimited muslims treaty.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2ocoG)

Yeah, I remember all the assurances that he was 'more conservative than Orban- and had none of the authoritarian baggage!' and he just seems like a good stooge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:49 AM (mPXxA)

200 One thing that irritates me is how smug euros say only 30% of Americans have a passport.

The lower 48 states have more geographical and cultural diversity than the EU. (Euros sneer when that's pointed out because Starbucks exists in Chicago, LA, and NYC, so clearly the entire US is homogenous).

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:49 AM (2ocoG)

201 I have long assumed everything I say, every place I go to on phone or computer is logged, somewhere. And yet I persist. We have had a surveillance state for quite a while now.
Posted by: tubal
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They have the data but storage and filing/allocation is massive. Mostly, unless your name is inserted into the search feature your activity will be dormant.
Posted by: Braenyard
===
A long time ago, in the early 2000's, I worked with big databases and before that smaller ones that tied to bigger units. The major problem with interconnected data is ratty/bad data that reduces the certainty of any summary report. So an individual can easily introduce ratty data into their own dossier by a number of tactics--pay cash for things every now and then, take your phone at times, don't take it at times, sign up for the favored customer crap but don't use it all the time and use different variations of your name and addresses. Particularly abbreviations so the OCR/data gets messed up. Spell out dRIVE instead of DR and so on--use the general zip instead of the zip plus four, get a commercial service to delete your name from every bit of databrokers you can afford, etc.

Make your data ratty.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

202 I have an "E-SIM" card in my new Samsung.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Fi81e)

203 One thing that is always interesting: they never grasped the scale. They cannot conceive that it takes 13 hours to drive between Texarkana and El Paso. And people do it all the time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:38 AM

Lake Superior is the same size as Portugal.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Kdi1r)

204 One potential downside to scrapping military support for the Eurotrash:

Do we REALLY want a re-armed Germany? That's ... caused problems ... more than once.

On the other hand, these are not our grandfather's Germans. If today's Germans rolled into the Sudentenland it would be in the form of a Pride parade.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (IG3/x)

205 I don't have a passport and don't ever plan on getting one at this point.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:51 AM (GseMx)

206 Europeans are lazy limpdick soyboys and gay theater kids. But who can blame them for leeching off the USA for 75 years?

Yeah. That's my position on Social Security, more or less: it's a Ponzi abomination, but if they're offering the money you'd be dumb not to take it.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

207 The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Simple. Brick every phone in the country. Sell no phones in that country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 11, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

208 I don't have a passport and don't ever plan on getting one at this point.
Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:51 AM (GseMx)

Speaking of passports, I need to renew mine. Thanks for the reminder!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:52 AM (1z8ji)

209
I have no business to conduct in Europe and no desire to go anywhere I'm not welcome. No passport.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:52 AM (/PoEN)

210
Will France regain the martial spirit of de Gaulle? In 1966, he demanded that all American troops must leave France, and France left NATO's integrated command structure, leaving it as a free agent. Good or bad...it was national self-determination, and it stiffened the backbones of the French.

It's not as much about De Gaulle wanting to turn France into a free agent, it was more like, De Gaulle could read a map. If the Sovs came west, they'd have to go through West Germany and the other NATO powers before they ended up on the French border. So France would be defended from the Sovs no matter what, and the Frogs leaving the NATO military structure saved them money and allowed them to continue trying to rebuild their overseas empire. And as they'd never left the NATO political structure, they had a say in how NATO was run, without concrete military obligations.

Best of both worlds.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (y9nCu)

211 > Lake Superior is the same size as Portugal.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Kdi1r)

Texas is larger than France.

That comparison really seems to grind their gears. Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (IG3/x)

212 While most Europeans still see America as a "necessary partner," majorities in every country surveyed said they no longer believe the U.S. would necessarily come to their aid if they were attacked.

C'est la vie. Commie ci, commie ca.

This wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wVcYX)

213 Do we REALLY want a re-armed Germany? That's ... caused problems ... more than once.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (IG3/x)
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I've considered that more than once. But I think, WWI and WWII really aren't different wars.

WWII comes from the complications of how we "ended" WWI.

I don't think there is a whole lot of social desperation left over from WWII. As we rebuilt more of Germany after WWII, and learned our lesson about excess restitution from a single party.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Fi81e)

214 De Gaulle saved France from becoming officially communist but fuck that arrogant French prick.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:54 AM (GseMx)

215 I'm old enough to remember when the Frogs first got short-range missiles.

They were set up to nuke the shit out of Belgium.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (IG3/x)

216 I read that Germany cannot begin conscription because, just statistically, they would draft too many head choppers who would immediately train their weapons on the real Germans. Tough place to be in.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (l26NL)

217 and it stiffened the backbones of the French.

While the product I repped can be efficacious at stiffening some things, backbones, whether French or GOPe, are, unfortunately, not among them.

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (0sNs1)

218 Lake Superior is the same size as Portugal.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Kdi1r)

Texas is larger than France.

That comparison really seems to grind their gears. Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (IG3/x)

It's not the size that counts, it's the... no. Wait. It's the size.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (Kdi1r)

219 Texas is larger than France.

That comparison really seems to grind their gears. Heh.

There was a pretty good French comedian on America's Got Talent a week or so ago who said something like "You can drive 10 hours starting in Texas and still be in Texas. If I drive 10 hours starting in Paris I'll be in Moscow".

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (2ocoG)

220 I think that's the overall trend, but OTOH the guy who replaced Orban in Hungary has agreed to sign the EU's unlimited muslims treaty.
Posted by: Ian S.
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I think when it comes time to actually agreeing, that Hungary will start giving excuses. That PM was formerly a member of Orban's party and has not done much on globo homo as expected.

The tide is going out and the desperation that the left and their uniparty right is exhibiting by trying to ban, revote, etc. destroys the very legitimacy of these governments to actually rule.

They don't actually have the coercive forces that the old Russian/Eastern Bloc has--it is mainly threatening and browbeating with occasional people being made examples of.

So like a person confronting a bear without a firearm, they try to puff themselves up to be as big as they can appear to scare the bear away. If the bear is hungry or mad enough, that doesn't work.

Soft authoritarianism is in many ways, the weakest when push comes to shove because no one believes in the ruling regime anymore--they just go through the motions from stasis.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

221 I have no business to conduct in Europe and no desire to go anywhere I'm not welcome. No passport.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 11, 2026 11:52 AM (/PoEN)

There are friendly countries elsewhere in the world that one might want to visit. Argentina, for example.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:56 AM (1z8ji)

222 Let us remember the show of force European NATO showed the US when discussions on annexing Greenland forced them to send an unit...

.... comprised of a half dozen soldiers. Without weapons.

Who arrived on a US built C-130. And could only manage a 5 day stay.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 11, 2026 11:56 AM (jehhT)

223 One thing that irritates me is how smug euros say only 30% of Americans have a passport. Yeah and? Within the us I can go to tropical beaches and the arctic circle. I have Disneyland and world class museums. Basically anything you can imagine that people travel for is available.

Not to say you should never leave, and I’ve traveled a lot I get rationally. But if Germany had tropical beaches a much smaller percent of Germans would bother with passports.
Posted by: Heroq at June 11, 2026 11:44 AM (cZDTf)
______

The 30% figure is complete bullshit too. It's at least 50% now. And what do Euros need with passports anyway? They don't need passports to travel in the EU. Most of them have passports to travel to ... the USA. Some of the biggest tourist destinations in the world -- and I think the biggest -- are in USA.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 11, 2026 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

224 Lake Superior is the same size as Portugal.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Kdi1r)

Texas is larger than France.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (IG3/x)
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That reminds me of this SCTV skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqKkYYALMU

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:57 AM (Fi81e)

225 Zelensky announced a foundational deal regarding post-war security guarantees had been reached, setting the stage for trilateral peace talks in the UAE.
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(But he will not cede Donbas for a US security link.)

Somehow, Z is always the fly in the ointment.

Neville Chamberlain says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 11, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)

226 Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Fi81e)

Directly the fault of France. There was a reason the US (Congress ) would not ratify the Versailles Treaty.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 11:57 AM (GseMx)

227 Didn't the Germans send some Leopards to Ukraine? I must have missed them rolling into Moscow.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 11, 2026 11:36 AM (mPXxA)

In a Morrisettean irony, I believe some did make it to Moscow, but as trophies. Our media embargos covering Russia at all, really, but I sometimes read some other people like Simplicius, not because I agree with everything they say, but to know what they're saying. And he has good sources. So that's how I know about the spectacles they create, showing off captured war machines in Red Square.

Posted by: SciVo at June 11, 2026 11:58 AM (Sy6m/)

228 Eurofags are starting to get it. They'd have gotten it a little sooner, but they are retarded Eurofags.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 11, 2026 11:59 AM (J4Dwc)

229 204 One potential downside to scrapping military support for the Eurotrash:

Do we REALLY want a re-armed Germany? That's ... caused problems ... more than once.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Over the Zelensky's troops? Sure.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 11, 2026 11:59 AM (NFX2v)

230 I read that Germany cannot begin conscription because, just statistically, they would draft too many head choppers who would immediately train their weapons on the real Germans. Tough place to be in.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (l26NL)

Simple solution: draft everybody, wash out all the muzzies first week of basic training as "incompetent".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 11:59 AM (1z8ji)

231 I read that Germany cannot begin conscription because, just statistically, they would draft too many head choppers who would immediately train their weapons on the real Germans. Tough place to be in.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (l26NL)

I read that the Canadian military is quite f*cked because they're recruiting too many goat f*ckers and they're warring amongst themselves depending on their sect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

232 This wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wVcYX)
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That's the worst kind of languor.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 12:02 PM (Fi81e)

233 This wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wVcYX)
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That's the worst kind of languor.
Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 12:02 PM (Fi81e)

Bernhard Langour is a German golfer on the Senior PGA Tour.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

234
I've considered that more than once. But I think, WWI and WWII really aren't different wars.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Fi81e)

Campaigns II and III of the 75 year Great German Reunification War.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (y9nCu)

235 226 Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Fi81e)

Directly the fault of France. There was a reason the US (Congress ) would not ratify the Versailles Treaty.
Posted by: polynikes
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Most people skip to the Treaty of Versailles without regarding what happened after the Franco Prussian war. Essentially Germany got the same reparations terms that France did after losing that war and since WWI was mostly fought on French soil, France in WWI was far more devastated.

In comparison with the whinging Germans after WWI, the French paid off a truly massive reparations bill (which coincidentally aided Germans in building a massive military), early in a couple of years. Damn near broke the country and caused worldwide panics due to its affect on currency markets. And the Germans took for spite, Bismarck disagreed with it incidentally, Alsace and Lorraine from France and promptly sought to ethnically cleanse it.

Germans complain way too much about Versailles and like most bullies, ignore what they did before WWI--the main reason WWII happened is that the Allies blinked when they could have stuffed Shitler right when his meager troops crossed into the Rhineland at little cost.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

236 *Languor

You really f*ck the joke when you can't spell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

237 231 Sponge, I think the infighting in the Canadian military is based more on country/tribal differences than religion.

Posted by: Bulg at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

238 Sponge, I think the infighting in the Canadian military is based more on country/tribal differences than religion.

Posted by: Bulg at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

Fine.

Still f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

239 I read that the Canadian military is quite f*cked because they're recruiting too many goat f*ckers and they're warring amongst themselves depending on their sect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah. Some French-speaking Quebec regiment needed French-speaking recruits, so they got Africans from several former French African colonies, who hate each other's guts. LOL.

And those are the troops that the Fedfagz will send against us when Alberta does a unilateral declaration of independence.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (1z8ji)

240 >>There was a reason the US (Congress ) would not ratify the Versailles Treaty.

Several. A big one was that Wilson refused to bring any Republicans and the Republicans had got control of the Senate. Oops!

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (NcvvS)

241 If you have to recruit new arrivals into your military, use the dreaded S word. Segregate. See the 332nd Fighter Group, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Brit's Gurkha Regiment. Just make sure they won't turn on you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (gm9Sb)

242 This wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wVcYX)
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*sob*

Posted by: Les violons d'automne at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (amcLV)

243 It's hard to keep an educator girlfriend if you don't have a passport and the financial means to travel abroad.

Turned out for the better, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (wVcYX)

244 LOL. Some "influencer" stopped Jerry Seinfeld and demanded he say "Free Palestine". Seinfeld said "It doesn't exist".

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

245
And those are the troops that the Fedfagz will send against us when Alberta does a unilateral declaration of independence.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (1z8ji)

Trump will laugh, offer you territory status, then send in a platoon of Marines to fart in their general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

246 Passing through

FoxNews

Hazardous Materials incident at Pentagon

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Sco7b)

247 Military Times, Muslim Americans as likely to join military as other groups, poll says

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Studies from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding show that 11% of American Muslims express a willingness to serve in the military, a rate that is equal to or higher than that of Catholics, Protestants, and non-affiliated Americans.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (NFX2v)

248 read that Germany cannot begin conscription because, just statistically, they would draft too many head choppers who would immediately train their weapons on the real Germans. Tough place to be in.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 11, 2026 11:55 AM (l26NL)

I read that the Canadian military is quite f*cked because they're recruiting too many goat f*ckers and they're warring amongst themselves depending on their sect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's definitely happening. It's not just because of the goatfuckers. They have a lot of African recruits from former French colonies. Tribe X despises Tribe Y (and vice versa) and would be more likely to kill each other than Canada's enemies.

And all the Africans hate women and think they're property to be treated like whores. So they get alonw great with all the ladies in the service!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

249 Some "influencer" stopped Jerry Seinfeld and demanded he say "Free Palestine". Seinfeld said "It doesn't exist".
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

Props to him. Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

250 Just watched Trump call-in to Fox. Damn, I'm getting sick of his pissing and moaning about how badly the media treats him! He sounds like a pussy! Fuck the media... we elected him - worry about us, dickhead!

Know what I really worry about?! I don't know why the fuck he doesn't finish of Iran!! Quit yapping and start kicking ass!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (UWN7z)

251 CNN says false alarm here.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Kdi1r)

252 I read that the Canadian military is quite f*cked because they're recruiting too many goat f*ckers and they're warring amongst themselves depending on their sect.
Posted by: Sponge
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Dot Indians, Chinese, Africans, and Muzzies from around the world. Not a stable mix. Diversity is never a strength unless you forcibly through three generations destroy the newcomer's culture and make them replace it with the civic culture of the nation. See Rome as an example.

Otherwise, blood and soil seem to be more stable systems. Empires of unrelated cultures and peoples always fail over time.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)

253 The British Defense Minister just resigned over lack of funding for the military.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (aD4fx)

254 CNN and MS Now too.

Shelter in pkace orders at Pentagon

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (Sco7b)

255 246 Passing through

FoxNews

Hazardous Materials incident at Pentagon
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Sco7b)

Saw that confirmed...it's weird b/c the air traffic controllers in that area have had similar incidents this spring...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (tOcjL)

256 >>Germans complain way too much about Versailles and like most bullies, ignore what they did before WWI--the main reason WWII happened is that the Allies blinked when they could have stuffed Shitler right when his meager troops crossed into the Rhineland at little cost.

They also forget what they did to the Russians in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which was enormously more heinous.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)

257 This wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 11:53 AM (wVcYX)
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*sob*
Posted by: Les violons d'automne at June 11, 2026 12:04 PM (amcLV)

If you're gonna play in Texas
you gotta have a fiddle in the band

Posted by: Count de Monet with a hat tip to the band Alabama at June 11, 2026 12:07 PM (wVcYX)

258 Nobody here is saying false alarm yet, but it's in the press.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 12:07 PM (Kdi1r)

259 LOL. Some "influencer" stopped Jerry Seinfeld and demanded he say "Free Palestine". Seinfeld said "It doesn't exist".
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

Opportunity missed. He should have responded, "with purchase of two Palestines of equal value?"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 12:07 PM (1z8ji)

260 251 CNN says false alarm here.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Kdi1r)

Yeah, saying over now.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 11, 2026 12:07 PM (Sco7b)

261 I think the new tanks are diesel. They don't burn through fuel and the engines don't burn up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 12:07 PM (EQ+Vz)

262 Some "influencer" stopped Jerry Seinfeld and demanded he say "Free Palestine". Seinfeld said "It doesn't exist".
Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (2ocoG)

Props to him. Well done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
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Good for him. He lives a few blocks from me. I've seen him quite a few times. Yuge Porsche collector. When you see a truly exotic Porsche on the upper west side, it's a good bet it's his.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 11, 2026 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

263 Simple solution: draft everybody, wash out all the muzzies first week of basic training as "incompetent".

The Soviet Union just put the Muslim draftees into construction battalions.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 12:08 PM (aD4fx)

264 Diversity is never a strength unless you forcibly through three generations destroy the newcomer's culture and make them replace it with the civic culture of the nation. See Rome as an example.

And that didn't go very well either.

Posted by: Alaric at June 11, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

265 Trump will laugh, offer you territory status, then send in a platoon of Marines to fart in their general direction.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Hah. I would be happy for Alberta to become a U.S. territory or protectorate. We can pay our own way. That would be a novelty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 12:10 PM (1z8ji)

266 They also forget what they did to the Russians in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which was enormously more heinous.
Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (NcvvS)

Now it's an enormous breast thread. Normal order has been restored

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 11, 2026 12:10 PM (wVcYX)

267 Diversity is never a strength unless you forcibly through three generations destroy the newcomer's culture and make them replace it with the civic culture of the nation. See Rome as an example.

In other words, you have to remove the diversity to get the strength.

The etymology shows that "diversity" is from the Latin for "to tear apart", same root as "division" and "divisive". Which caused me to realize that "diversity is our strength" is correct if you interpret "our" the same way as "our democracy".

Posted by: Ian S. at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (2ocoG)

268 The Soviet Union just put the Muslim draftees into construction battalions.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at June 11, 2026 12:08 PM (aD4fx)

Useful as sandbags.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)

269 Nood

Posted by: Scott_T at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (2waQ7)

270 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

271 Nude savage goatfuckers

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

272 262 "What's a good Jewish boy like Jerry doing with all those Porsches? Next thing you know he'll buy a Ford!"

Mrs. Katz, lives down the street from Jerry

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (gm9Sb)

273 Africans and Indians are good fighters if you pick the loyal one's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 11, 2026 12:11 PM (EQ+Vz)

274 >>Now it's an enormous breast thread. Normal order has been restored

LOL. Paging Bulg...

Posted by: Nazdar at June 11, 2026 12:12 PM (NcvvS)

275
Military Times, Muslim Americans as likely to join military as other groups, poll says

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Studies from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding show that 11% of American Muslims express a willingness to serve in the military, a rate that is equal to or higher than that of Catholics, Protestants, and non-affiliated Americans.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at June 11, 2026 12:05 PM (NFX2v)

The 11% are the lazy mohammedans that aren't willing to engage in crime to get their hands on machine guns, they're expecting governments to provide them.

Only about 1-2% will actually be accurate with them though. The other 9-10% will spray-and-pray from the hip, no matter how much you train them. From what I've read, that was a constant complaint of US troops working with the Iraqis or Afghans. They'd eventually start shooting accurate, aimed fire at the range with a lot of training, but as soon as they were out in the field? Mag dumps from the hip.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 11, 2026 12:13 PM (y9nCu)

276 Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

The starving and freezing Germans in the Ruhr didn't care what happened 40 years prior. France's insistence that they get every last drop of blood from Germany set the stage for WW2. And they knew they did because they were expecting Germany to retaliate eventually.

Both France and Germany were typically retarded European but one had a chance to end the cycle.

Posted by: polynikes at June 11, 2026 12:13 PM (GseMx)

277 In a Morrisettean irony, I believe some did make it to Moscow, but as trophies. Our media embargos covering Russia at all, really, but I sometimes read some other people like Simplicius, not because I agree with everything they say, but to know what they're saying. And he has good sources. So that's how I know about the spectacles they create, showing off captured war machines in Red Square.
Posted by: SciVo
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The war has been a strategic disaster for Russia as the meager tactical gains have not been worth the destruction and cost of the war. He was too arrogant, like the Germans in WWI, to figure out that his military could not match his bravado.

Reminds me of the pointless Iran-Iraq war in the 80's--both sides lost . Ukraine could never 'win' against Russia but won in a strategic sense by simply surviving. Russia possibly could have 'won' but its decapitation strike failed . Since then it has become a war of attrition and Ukraine, being the weaker party, has become adept and more nimble in leveraging tech than Russia has to replace lost manpower. So stalemate essentially on the battleground while Russia became a pariah internationally forcing NATO expansion.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

278 >>>The Morning Rant: Will Europe Grow Up?

No.

Posted by: m at June 11, 2026 12:19 PM (6wpGE)

279 Both France and Germany were typically retarded European but one had a chance to end the cycle.
Posted by: polynikes
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And the French resented the Germans taking their land and ethnically cleansing French, the Belgians resented their neutral country being invaded in violation of a treaty which Germany declared it would never do. Basically, the Germans fucked around and found out. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Germans in WWI. They precipitated the crisis and documents captured post War indicate clearly that Germany was intent on invading France--the earlier Moroccan crises just about lit off the war early. But the whole Von Schiefflen plan rested on invading neutral countries and destroying France before pivoting toward the Russians to destroy their armies.

I have no sympathy for Germans either in WWI or WWII for their deaths and sufferings--they brought it upon themselves. Just like France did with Napoleon and before with the endless wars over religion. Being stupid trying to gain territory/resources/reparations by violence using total war became strategically stupid when mass armies were created.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:19 PM (E4rtv)

280 Otherwise, blood and soil seem to be more stable systems. Empires of unrelated cultures and peoples always fail over time.

Posted by: whig at June 11, 2026 12:06 PM (E4rtv)
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Because they're being normal, not pursuing some closer alignment to abstract ideology, and breaking their people to fit into a mold.

That is always going to work better. But that doesn't mean that mixing can't work. Just the ideology of mixing could very well be artificial.

Posted by: Axeman at June 11, 2026 12:20 PM (Fi81e)

281 "ECFR Poll: European Trust in US Defense Commitment Plunges"

Huh, you European twats may be smarter than we give you credit for after all.

Posted by: deadrody at June 11, 2026 12:33 PM (qf6NU)

282 Sorry about being so long, I've been sick for a while. Hope you can let me back in.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 11, 2026 12:41 PM (ZRzmB)

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