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Cake day: January 12th, 2024

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  • There’s a nice story i heard a while ago about why russian street infrastructure sucks so much.

    Russia was worried about getting invaded by the US. Invasions (permanent ones especially) happen over the land, more than over the air. So they have to move a lot of land troops (soldiers, vehicles, tanks) over a significant distance. By keeping the russian infrastructure weak, any invader would face significant logistical difficulties, where they couldn’t move troops through the country quickly.

    By the winter, the troops would get stuck, food re-supplies would be difficult, and they would starve.

    Or so i was told. Maybe it’s a myth, but i like the idea: Invaders (especially if they have more soldiers, more weapons, more power) are best fought by disabling their biggest advantage: their flexibility and speed. Disable the street infrastructure. Make it difficult for cars to pass in and out of the area.

    A nice analogy for today might be to not take on ICE agents directly (i.e. one-on-one fist fight or sth), but instead disable their mobility. Slash their car’s tires. Put obstacles in their paths. Park other cars in front of theirs while they are operating. They might be surprise-predators, but their biggest advantage is that they appear out of nowhere, abduct someone, and leave. If you can slow them down, make them stuck for an hour, bystanders / community has a chance to organize and fight back.


    Here’s what i meant by “russian street infrastructure”, in case anybody finds it interesting :) (i do)






  • MAGA still lives in the times between 1680 to 1880, mentally.

    A time when people had 6 children on average, the mindset that we call “conservative” today worked out, men did blue-collar jobs while women stayed at home and cared for their children.

    That was a prosperous, interesting time from the point of view of white settlers. MAGA still things back at that time, and thinks, if they can just behave the same way that people back then did, they’ll have the same, prosperous way of life.

    Fact is, that way of life stopped working because the circumstances changed. All of US is settled, there’s no more space, people can’t have 6 children anymore, it doesn’t make sense for women to stay at home anymore.

    MAGA has yet to realize that.