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Gerrard59:
Looking back at this thread and the latest technological advances from China, I am glad my predictions have come to . Next up is the EUV machine - as I stated, e go become pure water. Expect to see one at Ladipo when it becomes public.

Learn Chinese today. This is the Chinese Century.

Heard this mind-blowing stat on Bloomberg and had to share it.

50% of undergraduate research in AI globally originates from China.
38% of AI researchers in the US are of Chinese ethnicity (37% are native Americans many of which are of course Asian).

China is competing with itself.

Credit to the US, the elite let Trump have the floor to begin rapidly overhauling America's economic ties with the rest of the world, allies inclusive. This is why I caution many. Sure, multipolarism is here to stay. But don't completely write off the Hegemony just yet.
The speed and flexibility with which the US reoriented to become economically hawkish is laudable.
Trump started the tariff dance. Biden kept it. Trump 2.0 is going for broke. Listen hard enough and you'd notice silence from the powerbase.
Jamie Dimon was essentially saying the investor and capitalist class should get over the tariffs. That's a significant development.

This is the Chinese Century. But boy am I excited about the competition that'll heat up to 11.
I'm also now looking forward to the next crash of the US economy.
A new cold war is well underway. Invest. Invest. Invest. US and China are prime destinations. But satellites like Vietnam. Brazil. Thailand. UAE. Israel. Norway. Singapore. will eat good in the coming decades.

Just look at what transpired after DeepSeek's mic drop.
Big Tech embraced it wholeheartedly. Zuck said on META's earnings call that he'll implement DeepSeek's innovations in the next Llama iteration. Microsoft and Amazon added R1 to their cloud services.
The infrastructure buildout in China and US is insane.
No one is talking about energy conservation in the US anymore. It's like a switch flipped.

This is what the first cold war should have been like. A proper economic fisticuff.
This duel will create unfathomable wealth and technological advancement for the species. And I'm here for it.

-Lord

FPVdrone:
🎯✅ ‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 US International Order Is ‘Dead’, Trump Ready to Make Concessions to Putin and Xi on Ukraine, — Foreign Affairs

▪️Newly elected US President Trump seeks to return to the power politics and spheres of interest of the 19th century, where great powers would dominate without regard for the interests of smaller countries.

Matter wen we don already foresee since two years ago.

Good morning, Foreign Affairs.

I don't know if these foreign policy wonks do not have dictionaries.
Multipolarism has a clear, easily digestible definition in any dictionary of their choice.

Trump is only accepting the new rules of engagement.

-Lord

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You could count on one hand the number of folks defending the ATC.
The ATC is a determined id**t.
Maybe it was his bad day, but he was bent on being a screwup and his career should be over.
But with the civil service protections, who knows?

The helo pilots though were the only competent folks in a position to prevent a catastrophe after the ATC screwed the pooch.
And they could have. I mean they should have.
Yes, it's a busy airspace. Yes, they focused on the wrong jet.
But I'm going to need a of Black Hawk pilots to confirm that they wouldn't have had visuals of the doomed jet prior to the collision.
It just doesn't seem likely to me.
These are elite US military pilots flying in restricted airspace.

Trump should not have brought up the DEI point in the briefing.
I expect Wiles to set him straight on that.

bemeruca:


ATC FTC radar shows imminent collision 30 seconds before the crash. ATC did not following any mandatory FAA guidelines to avoid it. The jet has priority over that airspace, the jet is not aware of the traffic (Heli), ATC did not give the Heli assertive commands to stay clear of the jet's flight path. Asking if the Heli has visual of the jet is not enough if he can clearly see they are about to collide.

From the situation, even if they did not collide it would have been a near miss.

First, a near miss should not be a thing.
It's preposterous that they seem to tolerate it.
All it takes is one mistake as we've just witnessed and all goes to sh*t.

Second, visuals should be enough to request a flight path update.
Helos can hover and are more maneuverable than a landing jet.

The jet did everything right.
The offending parties are the ATC and helo.
I see you're trying to pin it all, or at least most of the blame on the ATC.
I think they both share the blame. The ATC should of course end up in an Amazon fulfillment center.
But if the helo had taken a different course of action, more than 60 souls would have been saved and the ATC's error would not have been fatal.

I get that it's a helo and not a fighter jet. It'd have been easier to see a descending airliner from a fighter jet cockpit.
But I just find it hard to accept that both copilots on a training flight, more of a recertification flight, failed to see the jet. That's pilot error.
In fact, they were training to avoid this type of accident in the first place and they had more than 1000 flight hours between them.

It all goes back to the FAA and the airport's control tower higher-ups.
If you've had a near-miss on more than one occasion, why the f*ck is fixing that not a top priority?
Are we to expect more near misses in the future? Because apparently a solution does not exist. If it does, why are we waiting until after an accident to implement it?
They're going to can the ATC and his/her supervisor but the suits should have rectified the situation rather than play Russian roulette.
And I'm particularly miffed at the "career staff". The cunts that yell over everyone about the importance of "institutional memory" and other diatribe. Here's a situation when they should have put their superior knowledge and wealth of experience to good use but they couldn't be bothered.

Biden was increasing the workforce, but somehow the FAA couldn't fill up flight controller vacancies.
Should the US remove the citizenship requirement and establish a new visa class to import talent before they do what's right.
Tell you what, if they're operating the nuclear and bioresearch labs with the same skill they displayed here, America is f*cked.

-Lord

bemeruca:


The helicopter route is their normal route, they should fly below 200 fit, they were flying 300 fit just before the collision, the radars usually have collision warning, in a situation like this, an experienced TCA should not allow both planes cross path so close. They always control altitude of flights to avoid collision, they didn't do that. They could have ask the helicopter to maintain an altitude of 150ft or less from the get go.

Like is said, both the helicopter and TCA made a mess out of this. The helicopter went up to 300 fit just before collision, TCA gave no warning of possible collision despite seeing everything on rather. Situations like this, they can also ask the helicopter to reduce speed just enough for the jet to . After all, the redirected the jet to land on that run way which is not the initial runway they were supposed to land on

I have avoided commenting on the crash because the more I read about the accident, the madder I get.

To find out that near misses have occurred multiple times in that sector, the FAA flagged it internally; and for whatever reason they failed to fix it.

Add this to the growing pile of evidence why the Fed civil service should be gutted and rebuilt.
Incoming overhaul in operations should have been done after the first 3 near-misses.
Instead, the incompetent f*cks who are religiously against RTO were receiving fat salaries in their pajamas and waiting for a tragedy to light a fire under their a$$.

The culture in the federal service needs to change, and especially at the DoD.
The frequency of accidents involving the military in the last year has been outrageous.
Here you have three pinocchios T-boning a jet during a training flight because I guess the helo's radar was faulty or they're all sharing one pair of eyes.

This accident was avoidable. There must be ability.

-Lord

afrodoc2:


This is not a lie.

For many revolutions, it is either the original instigators have a secondary ulterior motive OR the revolution is hijacked by opportunists who have ulterior motives, and in many cases, conditions do not change much for the lowest classes.

And because no economic, political, or religious system has the capacity to cure all ills, there is always fodder for some punk ass to spark a revolution.

Reason why history may not repeat, but certainly rhymes.
Never ending reruns of a sh*t show.

The truly exasperating part is that progress requires reforms.
But the existing upper class at anytime prefers to slow walk if not out rightly reject reforms.
As reforms mean someone benefitting from the inefficiency takes a L.
In the unlikely event that the upper class accepts and carries out transformative reforms, it only buys them some time.
Reforms are not one and done. They're a recurrent play.
Ultimately, conditions will develop that'd be perfect for instigators to cause chaos.

Our species is pretty much doomed to have these inflection points.
They're inevitable.

-Lord

afrodoc2:


If you know about the Protestant Reformation in Europe in the 1500s, Dan Fodio's revolution was a bit similar. He did not believe that they were practicing Islam the right way and wanted stricter adherence to Islamic Fiqh as well as the complete eradication of idolatry. The Hausa at that time used to practice Islam the way many Yorubas still practice it. You have your Islam as your starting striker but if things get dicey you fit sub Obatala in to nick a last-minute winner.

He also criticized the rulers for their greed and over taxation of the lower classes, which led to him gaining popular for his revolution.

The cynic in me thinks he also just wanted to replace the Hausa rulers with his Fulani brethren but then maybe i just get bad mind.

Virtually all revolutions have a common theme.
An opportunist leverages existing poor conditions to rally popular and attempt to dislodge the ruling class.
If successful, the opportunist and their lieutenants seek to entrench themselves as the new upper class "to preserve revolutionary ideals".

Rarely do revolutionaries fix the societal ills that fueled their rebellious zest.
A revolution is more often than not a bloody hustle for power and riches.

-Lord

WriteerNg:
⚡Trump is now planning to displace 100,000 Gazans to Albania after Egypt and Jordan refused his proposal.

Wake me up when he asks Aliens to accept Gazans.

-Lord

seankafor:
Deepseek AI

One doesn't need to break the bank 🏦 to build or access AI

Exceptional iterative progress on a budget is China's specialty.

The market is puking this morning. NVIDIA is down 10%. The equivalent of Nigeria's GDP erased.

Wall Street and Silicon Valley are stunned by DeepSeek.
There is "surprise, but was always a possibility" and there's "WTF just happened. How?"
It's the latter in the US. And I think that's more about the Americans having a poor read of the AI race than China having a "Sputnik" moment.

-Lord

WrriterNg:
All Putin has to do is sit back, grab his popcorn and watch the drama unfold.

Oh and build more nukes while at it.. Hehehe 😁😁

The commotion is godsent for Iran.

-Lord

WrriterNg:
⚡Colombian President Petro:

You can use your economic power and arrogance to attempt a coup, as you did with (Salvador) Allende. But I will die standing by my principles. I’ve endured torture, and I will endure you.

You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed long before yours, in the Americas.

You don’t like our freedom, fine. I won’t shake hands with white enslavers.

From today, Colombia opens its arms to the world.

Them don already fold.
That is if recent White House correspondence is to be believed.

https://x.com/PressSec/status/1883716584843391025
Colombia's President retweeted it.

Trump used an economic tactical nuke.
Sanctioned everyone in the government, ruling party, and their families.
Made access to finances harder for Colombia globally. Flights into the US restricted.
And worse, every single product and Colombian national entering the US will be treated harshly with extra checks and inconveniences.

The silver lining in all of this is that BRICS will be getting a heck of a lot busier going forward.
Heck, EU countries may start seeking observer status.

Putin and Xi buried the old international order.
Trump is saying the prayers.

-Lord

budaatum:


Modern day slaves for cheap labor.

Makes me think the illegal immigrant sentiment is gaslight for the voters, since wage payers need and want them.

Two things can be true.

1. Undocumented migrants are tolerated by vast swathes of the population.
2. Migrant influx under Biden crossed the threshold of what was permissible.

Trump was elected to cull the herd, so to speak.

You could tell by the frantic scrambling of the Biden istration at the twilight of his term that they were blindsided by the swift change in public opinion. They neither expected it nor believed the warning signs.

-Lord

ono:


Adam’s, nice write up. When I think about the abortion epidemic ravaging the western world, influx of Palestinian Arabs and Arabs of other countries and all the criminals pouring into the US and Europe from Guatemala and elsewhere, I feel bad that the West allow abortion to thrive at all. Won’t abolishing abortion check influx of illegals - or there’s more to it than I know?

Nothing could stop Roe v Wade. The Overton Window had shifted significantly enough that abortion had to be legalized.
In the same way that decriminalizing weed federally is not a partisan issue anymore.

I don't think criminalizing abortion will fix the West's demographic challenge.
It might help, but I wager it'll be negligible. I'm pro-choice, so maybe my bias is clouding my prognosis.

The bottom line is that the American upper class want migrants. Where they differ along ideological lines is vetting.
However, there is also a concurrent effort to increase the native birth rate. It's not one or the other. They desire both.

-Lord

Ibime:


There are special visas for farmhands. No inch of soil in UK is unarmed yet we don't have illegals. There are very short term visas they issue to Romanians and co to come and pick

But we're not talking just farm in Yankee. Every area of labour, they seem to have illegals like gardening, construction, cleaning, carwash etc

Yankee is way closer to the second and third world in their treatment of the undocumented.
Illegals can live a pretty decent life as long as they don't run into ICE.
Late last year, California considered a bill that would permit illegals to access the State's zero down payment mortgage program.

Illegals are pretty much a permanent underclass tolerated across the political aisle.
Their kids become citizens and social mobility will change the family's class in only one generation.
It also works because when you have pervasive abs of welfare (both in Red and Blue states), epidemic of addicts, and a rising percentage of the populace that does not pay federal income tax in a perennial growing economy; you need an underclass that'll grease the labor wheels, perform the less glamorous jobs, and keep the economy humming.

Illegals are the helots of the US.

The pushback and change in public opinion was triggered by Biden's brainless excessive open border policy.
Obama maintained a happy balance. Heck, Trump 1.0 kept the inflow down but barely made a dent on the existing illegal population.

Geography helps the UK.
Everyone deals with the undocumented. Mainland Europe has been grappling with it. Saudi Arabia resorted to shooting migrants.
Before the Crocus terrorist attack, the Russians turned a blind eye to the influx of migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia.

-Lord

Ibime:


Imagine a farmer coming out to give interview that his business is suffering because he doesn't have illegal immigrants to pick his crops. And he even gave his location

Americans are naturally criminals, that's why they give work to illegal immigrants with impunity

In UK, 95% of citizens won't dream of employing illegals

If you really want to crack down on immigration, put punishments in place for citizens who employ illegals. And the punishment should be tax fraud since you as an employer should be remitting tax for all your employees.

Just do that and overnight you'll solve 80% of immigration problem.

Slap fines or not, farmers, factories (like meatpacking plants), restaurants still need cheap labor.
H2-A visas were introduced to address farmers' needs.
Between the onerous rules and fees, whatever labor a farmer would get via the program ain't gon be cheap.
The labor sure as hell ain't convenient to acquire. What, with the filings and sh*t.
The porous border and remote nature of farms make illegals a no-brainer.
Keep that up over decades and it becomes "how things work". That's how you get to the point where taking out illegals from the equation f*cks up the financials of the entire operation. Inertia!

The farmer still has payments to make on their million dollar John Deere equipment and loans. They've got produce contracts to honor.
The government allowed the issue to metastasize.
So before punishing farmers, the feds have to reform the system.
That reform will ultimately lead to the current reality except today's illegal alien farm workers will be tomorrow's legal nonimmigrant farm workers.

Netherlands, , Israel all deal with the same issue.
Israel flies in farmhands from Africa and Asia.
The US has all the labor it needs at its doorstep. They only need to revamp the immigration system.

The US needs holistic immigration reform. But we're still in the "don't care about the deets, just get most of them out" stage.

-Lord

WrriterNg:


All appears to be calm right now, apart from ambushes from former Assad soldiers on HTS group.

What are you getting?

A Shia Crescent channel shared that report.
Claimed the intel was obtained from local sources.

Still searching for a source that'll corroborate.
It'll be a shocking development.

So far the HtS terrorists have refused to face off against the SDF. Only the SNA and Turkish aviation are conducting operations against the SDF.
They know a hot war with the SDF will lead to them being picked apart by the various armed factions. From the SDF to the Eastern militants to ex-SAA.
If they're withdrawing from the West Coast. That'll be two vital regions lost.

-Lord

WrriterNg:


Exactly.

They make the US richer, defend the US, back the US in everything.

They're suffering from inferiority complex.

Many of them grew up with stories of how the US liberated them from the Nazis, due to American propaganda.

What are you getting on Syria's West Coast?

Some reports are saying HtS terrorists withdrew from the West including Latakia and Tartous.

-Lord

Bevelyn Williams is home.
These ingrates locked up a pro-life activist sister.

Next up: Confirming Bondi and her lieutenants.
We've got scum to investigate and indict!

-Lord

WriteerNg:
I see some new folks ing us here.

WELCOME GUYS!!! 🎊

Our thread is really growing.

I really wish we'd have more Pro NATO guys here.

The thread seems greatly imbalanced... 25 Pro Russia vs 5 Pro NATO.

We need more sensible Pro NATO folks.

Quality over quantity.
The current noisemakers need brain transplant.

-Lord

Ross Ulbricht is coming home!

Promise made: Promise kept.

-Lord

Olatunji1929:
are you proud of yourself?

Leave our clergyman alone!

-Lord

A40:

It was epic and glorious TV I tell ya. To think Trump had already began doing their work before yesterday.

Much credit to Americans for smartenin up and kicking out the rudderless, incompetent and lifeless leadership or lack thereof of this iteration of the Democrat party

Every last one of these people's plans failed and failed spectacularly

JD Vance and Usha are Millenials that's also historic. There's now a first generation and second generation immigrant first and second lady, another one for the anti immigration warriors to take note

You know what's funny, Trump later quipped that was the toned down version.
Apparently, Melania and Vance pleaded with him to dial it down a notch.

If that's the tame variant, the OG speech must have been something.
Vance and Shapiro are 2028 front runners.
It'll be interesting to see how the field evolves over the next 4 years.

-Lord

BlueRayDick:
I saw a video of Trump taking questions from state house correspondents while g the executive orders yesterday. He was talking about the US imposing 100% tarriff on businesses BRICS nations do with the US.

I hope the idea of Nigeria ing BRICS/Intending to BRICS will not against us as a nation considering how Trump seem to be moving in this his second term sha?

Ib.ime, Raum.deuter, Lord.Adam16, and other of the house, what do u think?

Blue, the Global South and the Golden Billion (North America + Europe + AU/NZ) are on a collision course.
It's set in stone.

Nigeria is hanging out with the BRICS crowd because it is and will remain the premier geopolitical forum of the Global South.
We have no choice. Even Chile, an OECD country and firmly keyed into the Western economic system is seeking entry.

These are the fundamentals.
So when we made the decision to get in, Aso Rock had done the calculus on risk and what not.
The potential of a future hawkish POTUS has been factored in. It'll be bewildering if we didn't take that into .

Now, with Trump as #47, and this applies to any other confrontational POTUSes, it's all about deft skill in geopolitics.
India, Brazil, and UAE are not going to be treated as harshly as China or Iran. All are BRICS .
Brazil needs the West for Embraer. Ambani, India's richest man, was at Trump's inauguration.
We want carve outs and if we play our cards right, we'll get them.
Essentially, it's not as much about BRICS as a group, but what we narrowly do via our bilateral ties with the West.
Else, we'll sleepwalk into a b100% tariff while even China is getting exemptions. We'll be the example dangled about as a cautionary tale while the ringleaders with more cachet get a slap on the wrist.
That's how Biden enacted global chip export restrictions and an ally like Poland (third largest military in NATO after US and Turkey) got shafted.

That's the danger.

I'm not that concerned about it because Tinubu is a failure but not an id**t.
It'll take a monumental screwup for that worse case scenario to come to fruition.

A 100% tariff will hurt us.
Trump wants all of the Global South to perform a pilgrimage like less powerful nation states did when a new Shahanshah, Caesar, or Qing Emperor came on the scene. Essentially, tell me why you shouldn't have a target on your back.

In Trumpian fashion, the delivery is bombastic; but it will happen with most POTUSes going forward because BRICS has the potential to be a check on the US's socioeconomic influence. The folks at Washington simply cannot have that.

The chip export restriction I mentioned earlier shows that this is the bipartisan way the US plans to relate with an increasingly economically vibrant Global South. Biden dropped the hammer and I don't think Trump will rescind the executive action.
I've been looking into a hobbyist rig to natively run open source AI models. It could become a serious challenge to future-proof the setup because the richer second-world countries will set up shell companies in third world countries to buy and redirect our quotas.
If the rest of the world can't get the GPUs, we can't create service exports in an emerging industry that'll define human civilization. Probably worse than a tariff even.

So, it's not like this is not something we have to think about. Or it's exclusive to Trump, ergo it's peculiar and a more run-off-the-mill POTUS wouldn't put us on notice.
Frankly, things are headed in a direction where we'll ultimately either be a target or collateral damage. No in-between.
Might as well be a target; there's safety in numbers. We play the game and deal with the fallout.

-Lord

basilico:


Gen Milley portrait removed from. Pentagon.
All 49 living of the 51 former intelligence officers who openly lied about the laptop from hell being Russian propaganda have had their security clearance revoked. Hayden has a firm that does data business with the IC, he should be most affected. Especially singled out was John Bolton too for his book that relied on partly from his security clearance.

Biden pardoned all J6 Committe, their staff and all witness. Michael Byrd who shot Ashley Babbit and later promoted to captain is also pardoned.
He didn't pardon Pelosi

Part of me wants the dark J6 episode to be put to rest with the pardons.
But we're in a target-rich environment and retribution should be meted out liberally.
They didn't hold back. We shouldn't. Figuratively, no turn the other cheek; make them visit a maxillofacial surgeon.

#47 singled out four Biden officials an hour ago to test his signature "You're FIRED" quip.
Hundreds more firings in the pipeline.
That's the spirit.

-Lord

Of all the executive actions of yesterday, I'm most pleased about the J6 Pardons.

Even Tarrio and Rhodes are being let out early.

Terrific news for the political prisoners and their families.
They're coming home.

-Lord

GloriousGbola:


saved for the future. hopefully we will all be here a year from now.

Why are you waiting a year.

Biden had months to force a deal on Satanyahu.
Months. He said one thing in public and did another in private.
Trump forced a deal on Satanyahu that threatened his coalition.

It could well be a head fake, but Palestinian children are not dying as we speak because Trump said "no".
Biden could have said "no". He didn't. Had plenty of time to draw up pardons for his family though.
Kamala did not impress on Biden to say "no".

So why are you waiting a year to take stock of a situation that he changed remarkably before he even took office?

-Lord

GloriousGbola:
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-cancels-sanctions-far-right-israeli-settlers-occupied-west-bank-2025-01-21/?utm_source=reddit.com



Cc LordAdam16

Small potatoes.

As long as the ceasefire holds and hundreds aren't murdered daily, I'm good.
IDF soldiers are still fleeing vacations and have self-imposed sanctions on themselves globally.

Palestine is inevitable.
No POTUS can prevent it.
But POTUSes can stop carnage as Reagan did with Begin.
Satanyahu essentially took the same deal he refused for months. Thousands murdered needlessly.
Biden had the power to force him to take the deal, but he is no Reagan or Trump.
Kamala is inferior to all three.

-Lord

A40:

The man stood on the podium and was cooking Biden and Kamala to their face with fish grease. That was what I enjoyed most

True to form!

It's the least he could do after they went to great lengths to bankrupt and imprison him.
I can only imagine the imprecations he directs at them in private.
Dude stared at the machine and didn't blink.
Earned his flowers for sure!

On a lighter note, Usha Vance was eye candy.
Had the first-time-at-Disney, "I'm not sure how we got here, but I'm loving every minute of it" mien that was fun to watch.

-Lord

A40:
They tried and tried but they failed.

No amount of wailing and lamentations. #47 ti takeover

Four years of lamentation!
Let the records show that we don't give a flying f*ck!

#45/47 on the beat.

-Lord

ono:


Biden has pardoned his family ehhhh!!!

😄

-Lord

basilico:


They committed crimes and judges were involved. If Trump nullifies the pardons they will get a favorable judge to block him.
If he pre-emptively pardons every member of the incoming istration, some judge will block it .

Let them try!

-Lord