Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. hail president field marshal bezos!
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  2. wendover does his part in the war effort by throwing maximum shade on the russian military.
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  3. whether you consider logistics or just combat experience, I have generally been surprised by the apparent lull in american combat deployments in the past ~5 years, because it seems clear to me that america has deliberately kept fighting wars since WW2 in part to constantly keep and demonstrate extremely high combat readiness. it seems to me like this american combat readiness must now be lower than it has been for decades (though the break since the last major combat deployments hasn't been long yet, and moat of the same soldiers and weapons could still be used today). of course there also is the military-industrial complex driving america to keep attacking others all around the globe, but I think a lot of it has actually been a political choice to emphasize america's threatening military posture. which russia may now have started to do a lot more, and china is 100% guaranteed to start soon (my guess is >50% chance that china invades taiwan this year to make use of the west's diverted attention and economic weakness from sanctions - taiwan's invasion season is april-july).
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  4. I feel like it should be possible to establish learned crowd behaviour that stops crowd crushes. what would be needed are widespread awareness of crowd crushes as a deadly threat, understanding that this is what is meant by phrases like "crowd crush", "crush", and "people being crushed", and understanding that the problem can be solved if the entire crowd moves back a few steps, which can be achieved if everybody passes a crush warning from the front of the crowd all the way to the back of they crowd - somewhere in the back, people have plenty of room to step back, and once they do, the people in front of them can step back, and so on. it would most likely make sense for those relaying message verbally to also push backwards and gesture to prevent the message getting lost. I'm sure that in every crowd crush, people near the crush already try to do exactly this, and apparently it often fails to work. I believe what is lacking and what can be improved with education at events is a preexisting awareness of some sizeable portion of people of this practice of passing along that warning. they need to expect the potential of having to relay the message, and need to understand that the issue is important enough to warrant the effort of active participation. the practice needs to be recognised as a collective effort to save people's lives, and a sort of civic duty. I believe this could be achieved through efforts such as stage performers making a habit of frequently telling their audiences about this at some opportune moment during their time on stage when they have the crowd's attention. even better, if you have stage performers do it during live performances, then for a performer willing to really commit to the bit, an especially high uptake of the information could be achieved by getting the audience to give ot a try and step back. doing this following inatructions from the stage would of course not be the same thing, but it would probably still require some audience members to tell others to move. and for stage events, having the crowd decompression achieved by instruction from the performer could also often be a workable solution, the effectiveness of which will also vary depending on prior education about the issue. I think it should be possible to convince many stage performers to make a habit of telling audiences about this, since if they can gain the right sort of attention from the crowd, it should only take two minutes or so, and it would surely be good for a performer's public image to be known for doing this often to keep their fans safe.
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  5. 16:07 what an utterly bizarre ironic choice of russian propaganda imagery!
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  6. opposition to nuclear energy might be a good guide for how nimbyism will influence lithium mining...
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  7. MrNicoJac because that's when the weather and currents in the taiwan strait are favourable to amphibious landings
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  8. Samzel Gibson russia only has the second most powerful military if you count nukes (with nukes specifically it's unclear who is number one since russia claims to have a bigger number of warheads and some extra terrifying new weapons, but it's possible that most of their delivery systems and defense systems would underperform compared to america's far better financed arsenal), otherwise it's china. within the next 15 years, china will have tge world's most powerful military and will replace america as the global empire.
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  9. US: "blabla rules-based international order blablabla" also US: "join your international convention? does it mean that any rules apply to us? then no, obviously not." tangential fun fact: out of all commonly recognised countries, the US is the only one to not have ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child. certainly mny others aren't implementing it either, but still... as the ancient american proverb goes: "come on, man! that's malarkey!"
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  10. Arush Reddi field marshal is a sort of extra special supergeneral military rank. I'm basically referencing egyptian president field marshal abdel fatah al-sisi, one of my personal least favourite current dictators.
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