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2024-03-11 at 7:59 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Prince
Originally posted by Meikai You do software engineering stuff right alja? If anyone should understand the golden rule that is "big money attracts big talent", it should be someone in your industry.
Big Money attracts big talkers who are obsessed with status and have no problem lying and grifting.
Originally posted by Meikai I'm talking about Silicon Valley corporate capitalism armed to the teeth with the latest and greatest the MIC has to offer. SpaceX, but for rockets that land on people's homes.
SpaceX is a terrible argument for capitalism, it literally only exists thanks to government grants and contracts and spillover capital from TESLA from the same.
Originally posted by Meikai Disney Death Squads washing away all resistance in a sea of blood. The Bezos Brigades winning the first armed Lunar conflict.
DISNEY is failing as a company even without getting into an industry where employees can bring automatic weapons to collective bargaining negotiations. Amazon became dominant because it was able to operate at a lower cost to almost all of its competitors.
Originally posted by Meikai Google GIs, not Google AGI. A glorious, bloody future.
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2024-03-11 at 7:47 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Prince
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2024-03-11 at 7:34 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Prince
oh no why am I shitting up my own thread -
2024-03-11 at 7:33 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Prince
Originally posted by Meikai And yet they still command the strongest and most capable military on the planet. They employ a lot of people with guns. And people who can pilot aircraft carriers.
lol, lmao
Originally posted by Meikai And turn the keys at nuclear silos. What happens there?
last few nuclear missile tests failed. maybe balloons pop out?
you're suffering the same failure as Prince, money doesn't solve everything because a human is not just a walking stomach. there's more to the world than material wealth, and people tend to consider that more directly when they're risking death or trying to kill others. -
2024-03-11 at 7:25 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Princehe also thinks Blackwater could've won Afghanistan for 5% of the upkeep cost of the US Military mission.
the guy makes some interesting points but he doesn't even touch on how mercenary armies would function in a peer or near-peer military encounter; every example they talk about is small groups of mercs with extreme fire superiority defeating retarded African militaries (in the Bush war, Rhodesian infantry kept finding rifles with the rear sight dialed to the max, to the point where you couldn't even call it direct fire. when they asked prisoners why, it was because they thought dialing it up 'made the bullets shoot harder').
he's basically just a capitalist, individualist America First kind of guy but more open to bands of mercenaries and pirates being accountable only to themselves... so long as they're 'the good guys'. -
2024-03-11 at 7:18 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Princeoh yeah Prince tries to sell his privacy-focused phone halfway through, lol.
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2024-03-11 at 7:17 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Prince
Originally posted by Meikai 'cause I'm sorry: the Mickey Brigade is going to outshoot Blackwater every time. The McSpecialForces would fuck on Wagner so hard it's embarrassing. PMCs are a stopgap measure for a world too cowardly to embrace full scale corporate militarism.
that's ridiculous, Disney's eating itself as a media company because they're more interested in political messaging than they are in producing quality media. what do you think happens if they employ a bunch of people with guns?
Farfour eats Mickey's face off his dead body, that's what. -
2024-03-11 at 6:11 AM UTC in Military Genius Zelensky wants Ukrainians to throw molotovs at Russian tanks
AFU sends a group of artillery and tanks to shell Belgorod, get absolutely rained on by Iskanders and Lancets -
2024-03-11 at 5:44 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Princeguy is literally Sundowner, half expected BAP to play Red Sun in the intermissions
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2024-03-11 at 5:43 AM UTC in Bronze Age Pervert Interviews Erik Princehttps://glycineputler.libsyn.com/caribbean-rhythms-with-bap-episode-157-erik-prince
first half is free, can upload the rest if anyone wants it.
Prince thinks a mercenary force outcompetes a national standing military in every metric, compares Blackwater to the East India Company and thinks the best way to 'create stability' is to use relatively small, well-equipped mercenary bands to take control of resources and draw manpower away from enemies by offering to let the fighters work the mines for a 20% pay rise.
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2024-03-11 at 3:36 AM UTC in How are you feeling at the moment..
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2024-03-11 at 3:23 AM UTC in What are you listening to right now, space nigga?
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2024-03-11 at 1:53 AM UTC in 💀🎺.comdoot
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2024-03-11 at 12:01 AM UTC in Horrific Ukrainian Cunt (not GG)
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2024-03-11 at 12:01 AM UTC in Horrific Ukrainian Cunt (not GG)wtf, just tell them no, treat them like the kids they are
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2024-03-10 at 2:59 PM UTC in Petabyte Disks to replace USB storage mediasthey're more expensive, more brittle and harder to safely transport in a warzone
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2024-03-10 at 2:57 PM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israel
Originally posted by Donald Trump The IDF blasted their own music festival with helicopter gunships, killing at least 1,000 jedis. This is in keeping with their Hannibal Doctrine, which seeks to deny the enemy hostages above all. It makes perfect sense, kill everything to deny Hamas hostages. They totally did it, and I know cos I would do it too.
first time I've heard this but the IDF reported that 28 attack helicopters emptied their entire munitions loads on that one day. -
2024-03-10 at 2:46 PM UTC in Petabyte Disks to replace USB storage mediasa lot of cheaper ATGMs still fly by wire but afaik none use fibre optic because they don't need to
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2024-03-10 at 2:45 PM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israel
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2024-03-10 at 2:45 PM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israelanother especially fun one I've been following is the UNRWA.
before they stopped keeping a public tally (December I think), israel had killed around 150 UN workers and bombed 60+ UN designated aid facilities. as per the previous wars, the UN gives israel the GPS locations of their sites to prevent attacks and israel just uses them as targeting co-ordinates.
israel later claimed that the UNRWA was an enemy organisation because several of their workers were either supporters or members of Hamas, and that they'd been arrested. UNRWA says they can't do intense security checks on all low-level workers and it's possible, but that they have been given no evidence or explanation.
now the UNRWA has come out and said no evidence or explanation has been given to this day, but that the condition of the workers who were released from 'interrogation' implied that the others only admitted to crimes under extreme torture.
