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Amazing thread explaining Russian logistical difficulties, and perhaps the entire course of the war, by looking at tires!

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And useful addendum in the replies here:

Today I learned more about tires than the last time I tried to drive in a Michigan blizzard
And here's another point:

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Noah Smith πŸ‡πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Profile picture
Mar 3
People who still fantasize about "exit" from America should look at what's happening to the Russian economy.

Two weeks ago, Russia was seen as a place people could exit TO. Now it's a place people are scrambling to exit FROM.
Libertarians need to realize that whether state capacity is high or low (and America's is a lot higher than they think), there is no practicable alternative to state capacity.
Yes, you can try to duck out the back door with your sack full of crypto-gold. But your meatsack still needs somewhere to eat and sleep. And the crypto-gold will be less liquid than you think.
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Mar 3
I'm this post from 1 year ago, I predicted that leftists, frustrated that they were having trouble bashing Biden's bold economic agenda, would switch to focusing on foreign policy so they could bash Biden for being a "hawk".

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I think that happened, and you could see that in the eagerness of leftists to blame the Russian military buildup on NATO expansion.

Then Russia rolled into Ukraine and started blasting cities, and the "blame America" line was proven to be ridiculous.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/a-moment-of-…
So now leftists are left with very few avenues to bash the Biden administration and the American establishment in general.

They can still bash the Right and the GOP, of course, but every normie lib does that too, so that doesn't let leftists bash the Dem establishment.
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Mar 1
Every piece of Russia's seeming incompetence in this war -- the bad logistics, the desertions, the poor planning -- seems to come back to the fact that the people making the plans felt ashamed of what they were doing, and knew that soldiers would feel ashamed too.
The reason they didn't tell Russian soldiers what they were doing -- leaving them confused and disorganized and demoralized -- was that they knew they were ordering them to do was bad.
Ultimately, the justice or injustice of a war's cause matters a LOT. It takes years -- or decades -- of mass indoctrination to get an army to fight wholeheartedly for a bad cause. You don't just order them to slaughter their innocent cousins and neighbors and assume they'll obey.
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OK, how the hell is the Gulf of Mexico a "gulf", Hudson Bay a "bay", and the Sea of Okhotsk a "sea"???
And how is the Arabian Sea a "sea" but the Bay of Bengal is a "bay"? They're basically twins!
And let's not even talk about the Baltic "Sea" vs. the Persian "Gulf"...
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1/Everyone talks about diverse casting in shows like Witcher, Wheel of Time, LotR, etc. like it's all because of wokeness.

But I think the biggest factor is that producers want to show audiences a world where the people look like the people those audiences are used to seeing.
2/I live in a country where the people are about 60% white, 20% Hispanic, and 20% Black, Asian, and other. And I have spent most of my adult life living in cities that more or less reflected that ethnic mix.

That is what is "normal" for me to look around and see.
2/If I am in a place where everyone is white, I don't think "Ahh, the people around me look normal". I think "I am in a foreign country." Because I can't even remember being in such an environment in the U.S.
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Feb 23
1. A thread of online leftists getting mad at Bernie Sanders for condemning Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

2/Bernie literally and repeatedly said he wanted the U.S. to be like Denmark, which is a social democracy. Where was this "mask"?

(Also being a social democrat is good, obviously)
3/Remember, a very large fraction of this "ideology" is just dumb-butt anti-Americanism.
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