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supersnoop

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DuckDuckMoose said:
Mainstream hip-hop is absolutely dead and been doing for the greater part of the last 25 years. At one point the subject material was a reflection of the grim environment of the streets now its glorifying street violence and debauchery. Now one of the hit songs is "my coochie pink, my bootyhole brown." That's why now I just listen to old school rap and listen to indie underground artists. They deserve our more of our support than throwing in the towel and saying there's no good hip hop and R&B left. A lot of people just want to be accepted for listening to what's popular instead of valuing substance. African Americans have largely accepted exclusion from mainstream in other genres despite being the blueprint to rock, electronica, and country, but you do have the rap to pop pipeline with artists like Drake and Nicki Minaj.
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Top most played songs are “Burn Hollywood Burn” by Public Enemy and “F*** the Police” by NWA.

Patchwork_Chimera said:
When a bunch of immature teenagers with no other life experience are told they're the hottest shit since Hiroshima after completing a socially mythologized initial training (which, if my own 13 week vacation aboard BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY Parris Island remains indicative - is really not that bad), and then when those teenagers are thrust into a unit that is unwilling to properly enforce its own CI rules for fear of rocking the boat and making their leadership look bad, in a role that grants them near unlimited access to the most sensitive information in the fucking country - done so because recruitment and retention is in the shitter (due in no small part to fucking abominable decisions by senior leaders) and no politician is willing to reform our security clearance system - leaving no other real choice; and those teenagers have a completely separate social life that they value above their duty to not randomly shart all over our national security, from which they are able to extract admiration, praise, and respect by flaunting the exclusivity and perks of the role, and all without any real reason to "buy in" to the success of their unit, their branch, or their country (after all, why should they pass on a dopamine W for the sake of an institution they know doesn't give a fuck about them?)... It's more of a surprise that something even worse didn't happen even sooner.
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Harshing on bros that became weekend warriors because they thought the m249 in CS was BOSS.
 
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BoraTas

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Patchwork_Chimera said:
When a bunch of immature teenagers with no other life experience are told they're the hottest shit since Hiroshima after completing a socially mythologized initial training (which, if my own 13 week vacation aboard BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY Parris Island remains indicative - is really not that bad), and then when those teenagers are thrust into a unit that is unwilling to properly enforce its own CI rules for fear of rocking the boat and making their leadership look bad, in a role that grants them near unlimited access to the most sensitive information in the fucking country - done so because recruitment and retention is in the shitter (due in no small part to fucking abominable decisions by senior leaders) and no politician is willing to reform our security clearance system - leaving no other real choice; and those teenagers have a completely separate social life that they value above their duty to not randomly shart all over our national security, from which they are able to extract admiration, praise, and respect by flaunting the exclusivity and perks of the role, and all without any real reason to "buy in" to the success of their unit, their branch, or their country (after all, why should they pass on a dopamine W for the sake of an institution they know doesn't give a fuck about them?)... It's more of a surprise that something even worse didn't happen even sooner.
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From my few years in a well-known defense industry company in the Netherlands, I know you need a positive clearance for everything in Europe. Unless you are in a really high-ranking position, you only get to know what you must. I got almost no classified info beyond the subsystem of a project my group was working on.

People talking about almost a million people having a top-secret level clearance in the USA was quite shocking for me. Then I heard, in the USA, you could become a communications personnel in unit headquarters in your 19, which would mean getting a top-secret clearance, access to messages of the unit commander, and to the cryptographic tools. I don't know what to comment. I am not sure if this is a case of trust on personnel that I should be impressed or a case of institutional dysfunction.
 
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Chevalier

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Biscuits said:
It's the twisted mentality of those that never grew beyond primitive authoritarian civilizations, or only aped surface traits from more advanced civilizations while not changing in their core mentality. That is what makes them so easily colonized, because they don't have a loyalty to ideals or the group, only loyalty to whoever has power.

To these cultures, giving them independence and freedom means you're weak, while abusing them and showing off your authority in vulgar ways proves that you're a strong patriarch worthy of being looked up to.

Vietnam and Japan are examples of cultural groups outside China with this mentality. Tibetans and Uyghurs are examples of cultural groups inside China with this mentality. Why do the latter groups love China and the former groups love America? Because China clamped down hard on the latter groups, while America did the same on the latter.

The key to making them like you is as simple as that.
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It reminds me of certain females who want to be dominated and will hate you if you do not abuse them, hence the 50 shades fantasy. Effectively, these equatorial cultures exhibit feminine slave mentality.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688765681716617216
 
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Overbom

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Chevalier said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1688765681716617216
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The points are all correct, and that's what we have already discussed plenty of times here in SDF.

However, I call bollocks that this is a RAND report. Western think-tanks and foreign establishment apparatus aren't that blunt. They use coded phrases and words to convey their intentions.

For example they won't say, "destroy Germany economically" but instead say:

"Together with our valued allies and partners in Europe, we will support a robust and comprehensive sanction package to cripple Russia's ability to wage war in Ukraine.

We hear our partners' economic concerns, but we have to understand that some economic pain is necessary to defend the international rule-based order and the territorial integrity of Ukraine against Russia's aggression. United States stands ready to help our European partners to start talks for the supply of LNG from our companies"
 
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Fatty

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Eventine said:
Nigeria has a population of 200+ million and is one of the wealthiest countries in Africa, while its target has a population of merely 25 million, and is one of the poorest countries in Africa. What reason do we have that this war won't be another Saudi Arabia in Yemen situation?
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The Nigerian military has been getting embarrassed by Boko Haram quite literally on a monthly basis for the past decade and a half. I would not put money on any successful military intervention by them
 
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Biscuits

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Overbom said:
The points are all correct, and that's what we have already discussed plenty of times here in SDF.

However, I call bollocks that this is a RAND report. Western think-tanks and foreign establishment apparatus aren't that blunt. They use coded phrases and words to convey their intentions.

For example they won't say, "destroy Germany economically" but instead say:

"Together with our valued allies and partners in Europe, we will support a robust and comprehensive sanction package to cripple Russia's ability to wage war in Ukraine.

We hear our partners' economic concerns, but we have to understand that some economic pain is necessary to defend the international rule-based order and the territorial integrity of Ukraine against Russia's aggression. United States stands ready to help our European partners to start talks for the supply of LNG from our companies"
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Also far from any "genius geopolitical move", this shows American desparation if nothing else. EU are their literal slaves who would obey them in any situation. If you're slaughtering your lapdogs so you can have meat on the table, you might want to admit that you're about to starve.

A strong and prosperous EU would be a far more serious threat to China, but alas, America is unable to retain stability both in its core territories and the colonial territories.
 
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