I also agree with this but want to add that this has been the direction and the Internet has been heading towards ever since engagement ads were a thing.

There are structural flaws to the Internet that some have tried to solve with grifts (crypto and web3) or with smarts (Tor, p2p ipfs) but the main one is that there is little to no actual moderation. This worked to gain users in the short term but once advertisers rolled in, the taboo internet had to be crushed and commodified (not eliminated, but packaged in a way that invites that benefits capital). Of course, fuck anyone in the crossfire as capitalists can hire labor aristocrats and proles to do this social networking for them or be so impervious to public opinion anyway (musk route)

Things like gamergate (I'm sorry) were also milestones as the Internet became a favorite spot of reactionaries to actually organize and launch attacks. Donald Trump got his momentum from this and every subsequent candidate is trying to conquer the Internet.

In this new Cold War against China and Russia, we will see every country adopt some level of Internet control that China has (the difference will be in implementation and resisting western color revolutions), they'll have to in order to survive as LLMs are able to used in cyber warfare. I would recommend that AES and the wider Global South seek to outlaw euro american social media as soon as possible, leaving it to only trusted people within the government and instead adopt government controlled networking sites (the libre software movement has been tirelessly experimenting with this often in liberal contexts though in the west).

The "chud to leftist" internet pipeline is going to be a dream of the past in only a few years. "Breadtube" (public category for nominally leftist internet personalities) has already been running defense for the Zionist occupation.

Pro zionist great firewall

Join us. We're Libbing Out.

Not winning anyone with your first name being "Jerusalem"

“Wounded after exposed to sniper fire during a battle” is up there with “kidnapped from a tank” in Zionist passive voice

The Nobel Peace Prize is western liberal bullshit not too disimilar from the Economics prize and Obama + Trump winning them only serves to deligitimize them more.

We should not pay attention to that any more than we pay attention to the Oscars or Grammys or whatever.

he's got a decent claim to the prize right now

For sure. But Trump would need some sort of ceasefire in Ukraine and Gaza soon, and one that is viewed as legitimate by European high society in both cases, to solidify a claim there. This is the website of the chairman of the Nobel committee who award the peace prize, so that should give you an idea of the type of person that needs convincing.

With regards to Iran, military action there can be viewed positively by the Europeans if viewed in the light of "denuclearisation" and "threat reduction". The AEGIS ashore sites in Europe, especially the one in Romania, aren't just there to defend against Russia, but also a limited ballistic missile attack by Iran.

India and Pakistan can also be viewed in the light of preventing two nuclear powers from breaking out into large scale war. Pakistan will support Trump because while they won the initial battle, they were losing the war by the end of it. Cambodia will support Trump because he saved them from a military humiliation by getting Thailand to ceasefire.

Azerbaijan and Armenia is a much bigger deal than most think as well. The DRC and Rwanda is also a big deal. In both cases the US capitalised on "own goals" by Russia and South Africa respectively.

By the "rules based order" Trump has certainly done more to earn the prize than Obama, whose major accomplishment was not being named Bush. The prize is European high society nonsense anyways, which is also the biggest obstacle to Trump getting it, Trump is the personification of everything that European high society hates about the USA.

For example:

It’s just incomprehensible to award a peace prize for ‘solving’ one conflict while they’re simultaneously committing a genocide. The ‘nobel peace prize’ is a bullshit prize anyways, so anything can happen. Why not give it to Putin for ending the war if it does actually end.

The Nobel peace prize is awarded by the Norwegian government and they're not fans of Trump.

pretty sure India and Pakistan basically agreed to peace themselves and the US role was minimal, neither country wanted to endure the cost of escalating the conflict and both had made their point

its cool how in that map belarus and russia are attacking from every direction except the real southern axis

I dislike falling back on ideological reasons for people doing things... but I don't have an explanation for European leaders being quite this deluded. It's like they simply cannot process the idea of losing a war.

If accurate both locations need to evacuate defensive lines quickly as they only have one exit road each and both are being threatened. These are no longer defensible positions and defenders at both locations are at risk of having no way out.

The giant rabbit actually got pushed back to quite a significant degree, didn't it? A fairly effective counter-attack in that case (not hugely surprising since the Russians haven't shown any capacity to advance quickly since the very start of the war, even if they had anything more than infantry in that attack). The duck is interesting and Suriyakmaps was speculating that the rate of advance in other areas may pick up with the best Ukrainian troops being redeployed, so this would make sense.

"I owe you an apology, Zelembsky, I wasn't really familiar with your game"

Well their base boycotted the elections. The unions and Indigenous organizations are still very organized and I think they are likely to pursue other strategies since they effectively boycotted electoralism

From super majority to near Nil is something beyond a "blow out".

What about it is "an unprecedented move"?