OK they can play with some joke memes but I'd guess Iran / Afghanistan / China are still largely autonomous of Western meme-sphere. These likely include decentralized cryptocurrencies (see. “@powerfultakes Treating traitors worse than enemies is normal and correct + an act of mercy is much more powerful coming from a force that makes the enemy jump out of windows to avoid being captured (like in Soledar). @powerfultakes May 12 Prigozhin has no independent power base and is completely beholden to Putin, Wagner is an extra-legal organization, and is responsible for extrajudicial executions (murders) in territories the RF claims as its own. @powerfultakes”@powerfultakes "Wokeness is the tribute that meritocracy pays to human dignity. It was long rather obvious, but more and more confirmation that Putin is genuinely uninterested in his own war. Though possibly the Ukrainians only count professional Army, not terbats, who are known for being the cannon fodder. “To equip and munition this expanded force Russia will need to transition to more of a war economy. For all of Russia's 🍌, the US is too. @powerfultakes. I wouldn't risk ruin over a speculative hypothesis in your shoes. I don’t grudge him picking a more lucrative career. Yes Russia's army sucks but the same people saying it doesn't. Russia's war in the Ukraine is no threat to the EU. 2“There's nothing surprising about this. @powerfultakes May 4 I think it's important to do this because nobody apart from Robin Hanson seems interested in making the AI optimistic case in a somewhat sane/rational way and it increasingly seems I'll have to do that even if the main effect is to force controllists into addressing them. ”(3) Initiate Kessler Effect to degrade American SIGINT. @powerfultakes. @powerfultakes. me. @powerfultakes Consequently, the idea that US aid will to Ukraine will dry up anytime soon seems quite absurd, though sadly quite telling that this is the copium parts of the Z sphere have been reduced to, relying on the. ”We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. It/it. The EHC take: Curiously, duller whites (2018, but true generally) are more supportive of pro-Black AA in hiring decisions than smarter whites, though very smart whites start becoming steadily more supportive again with the top performers being least opposed to it. I do respect Azovstal heroes though, they're based. ”@powerfultakes · 18h. 4. ” @powerfultakes One of those is obscurantist ramblings, while the other is the logical future of governance in an even more digitized world; credibly neutral and permissionless decentralized ledgers being the only rigorous framework for property rights in the digital realm. Anatoly Karlin @powerfultakes. ”@powerfultakes · Jun 13. @powerfultakes STRELKOV THREAD (ongoing) The May 25, 2022 (!) post on which extremism charges vs. There are more lurid allegations and conspiracy theories, ranging from MChS BTRs. Why would they? Wagner is better armed and lies less than the MoD. 1. Too many people are living in a world that does not exist. @powerfultakes Again kremlins' total aesthetics failure would be irrelevant had kremlins actually been militarily competent, all sorts of cringe causes & talking points become based when accompanied by victory (strong horse principle), but problem is, что ни делает дурак, все он делает не так. “@powerfultakes @shanggyangg @lndian_Bronson @devarbol Pofigism is not a separate value, but lack of them. What's that colorful right wing term for such behavior again? - ah, right: cuckoldry. @powerfultakes It is highly implausible that an IR scholar at the DVFU would engage in "hateful conduct"; if anything, he had a tendency of being far too kind to trolls, almost never Blocking them (this may have literally cost him his account). If you have Telegram, you can view and join акарлин right away. Duck Blobsky@powerfultakes Assuming the war lasts that long, I hope it's pretty clear that Biden would be better than Desantis for Russia, and Trump would be worst by far (Russiagate x10). @powerfultakes American SIGINT is an invulnerable (because no 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 war) force multiplier worth factors more than all the Cold War surplus supplied to Ukraine. Some populist but economically ill-advised stuff, plus the truly schizo "defense of the Russian language, multi-national culture, and friendship of peoples. ) Energy Absorption through Water. United Memedom staying stronk: "Big Poz Load. China didn't see it fit to try and fix the most glaring issues with Russia and Russia by itself turned out to be too dysfunctional. Me and Anatoly had the same journey. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 1. Would guess Russia needs to trade rather better than even for Ukraine to break first manpowerwise. TLDR, if Russians couldn't defeat Ukraine when they had massive materiel superiority, that's certainly not happening now; not when kremlins are either ideologically or organizationally incapable of implementing a war economy. Harvard should admit more people like him. Going to be a downer. Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features! @powerfultakes 7% KIA from alumnae of a non-military college is a pretty amazing number and supports some of the higher Ukrainian casualty estimates, as well as further suggesting that the stock of ideologically-motivated volunteers has run out. More relevant would be a Russian victory giving China a chance. The West has few reasons to withdraw the bulk of the sanctions in the event of a Russian withdrawal (concessions for promises), economic pain is already baked in, meanwhile all regime loyalists will be demoralized & uninterested in defending it come the 2024 elections protests. [email protected] { background-color: #FFF; color: #0F1419; max-width. “@powerfultakes And so, his "plays" become assumptions of both his worst qualities, but also the worst qualities of his opponents in the market. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom; Click again on or Share Via icon; Click on Copy Link to Tweet; Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"! More info at Twitter Help“@RichardHanania Probably around 13k and 50k now, respectively. I have to give credit to @powerfultakes, for seeing the failures of Russia and right-wing populism for what they are, and coming to appreciate the upsides of globalism and gender fluidity. I thought that was the case 24 hours ago. Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯. Have you heard of fan death? That's what this will sound like to a. As long as they don’t abolish democracy like right wingers enjoy doing due to their racism I’m optimistic about Poland. We don't know what unipolar China would do, but chances are once it was unconstrained it would be able to assert its power and act badly like any other country would. (heh) - recently described to me by a frog as an "nrx paradise". This is more than Nazi Germany lost in 6 years of war, Ukraine's population within current borders was ~35M in 1913/14, now close to 30M. S. ”Perhaps there's KSE like percentages of KIA from, say, Mordovia Penal Colony #17, but human capital adjusted, the exchange isn't exactly 1:1. ”@powerfultakes · Jul 11. ”@powerfultakes. Update on Kalibrs: Limitless. Anatoly Karlin (Анатолий Карлин), (1988–) known as powerfultakes, is a Russian white nationalist, anti-vegan activist, homophobe and self-confessed drug addict who supports the Russo-Ukrainian War. The mass of younger people seem to be fine with well run diverse megapolises, they feel at home there. ” @powerfultakes · Jun 13. @powerfultakes. Anatoly Karlin 2022-11-29 03:03:48. @powerfultakes. Not really. @powerfultakes. One deranged nuclear war scenario I thought up a few years ago. 1. @powerfultakes · 15h. (2) Hardware caps now, all else is useless cope talk. Replying to @CraigWilly06. @powerfultakes. Hey this account is called powerful takes for a reason. So might really be more of a pointed message by Lukashenko to Russia. And now we're in a partial 3rd reboot. @powerfultakes. They’ll never consider you one of them. 1. Also contra popular delusions military equipment doesn't rely on high end chips. Could make for a sci-fi book. 11:41 PM · Jul. In 2018, Karlin described a black. " Truth in advertising? 6:07 PM · Sep 2, 2020. Funny thing though is that Z's will be nearly all pro-Trump while 's will be predominantly pro-Biden. @powerfultakes. ” @powerfultakes · Jun 15. @powerfultakes. ” “Anatoly Karlin (@powerfultakes) is one of the most overrated midwits on this platform and for some reason being taken by many as an exemplary Russian nationalist, being a noviop muttified to an unrecognizable extent. “@powerfultakes And this is why I consider Russia's actual objectives to be still very much achievable, as is, on the flipside, the scenario where the February borders are returned to (Crimea is too much of a stretch as the Russian collapse would probably have to be Bolshevik Revolution-tier). And the calculation comes down to can I get by on a combination of my absolute minimal capacities against my opponent's? Sometimes it actually works3/x”“The jackals around Russia's borders smell blood. Or Thailand, etc. Bookmarks. Interesting times indeed. 2. “@powerfultakes lolwat? I never said anything dismissing the importance of censorship resistance, I just. Instead you got a cauldron of astroturfed corporate motivation seminar (logo "Z") events from the. 2. Binoculars are cyborg, transhumanist tech ffs although I get going internal is supposedly different but is a chip that different from eating food or drinking, inhaling something or getting pregnant”@powerfultakes. @powerfultakes To expand on this, you have Americans using AI to sift through Russian non-encrypted comms for the Ukrainians; individually noisy chatter and irrelevant as the Russians assume, but all put together, I'm sure the picture put together is a very accurate one (see Alexa, Target, etc) “@primalpoly @powerfultakes It's a famous internet meme about a WoW character called "Leeroy Jenkins" who ruins a raid by running in early and getting everyone killed. ”See new Tweets. Sign upRUSSIA'S WAR ECONOMY (OR LACK THEREOF) I have been expressing skepticism about Russia's war economy for months now. . as a personal heuristic, it’s absolutely useful ofc (the black homeless guy isn’t a secret genius). It’s fallen behind the rest of Asia in growth for the first time since Deng’s reforms. 10:35 PM · Jul 12, 2023. @powerfultakes STRELKOV THREAD (ongoing) The May 25, 2022 (!) post on which extremism charges vs. Foreign policy wrt Russia is still stuck in victorian/British great game stuff. People respect winners and hate losers, literally everything else is secondary, I have always said this, you can drop nukes on people and their children will adore you for it. @powerfultakes Mar 17 However, at least to the extent they extract rents from the Russian people to fund their lifestyles, their opportunities for signaling their moral superiority before ordinary Russians by way of their association with the Western "holy lands" will be sharply curtailed. Highly amusing this has floated into public discourse at precisely the moment I became almost entirely uninterested in it (short AI timelines), having wrecked my social reputation over the last decade with this stuff. @powerfultakes. @powerfultakes Having played with GPT-4 today, what I can add now to previous commentary is that a lot of social interactions are going to be automated and this is going to happen quite soon. 3. Andreas @ichbin_Andreas. ” As predicted, expect accelerating idiocracy from 🐵🍌 as prioritization of regime stability over war effectiveness reaches levels previously unimagined. Quotes. There's also the noted Chinese tendency to be. " @powerfultakes Subscribed I think anonymity is fine but the one thing that's an issue is that many of them develop feelings of entitlement and equality if not superiority towards those who are not, demanding they endorse or boost their most based (demented) takes to prove they're not cucks or whatever, while having zero IRL social capital. Why would you expect otherwise? Average IQ in the military is about 100, Marine officers - low 120s. Wind W 1 mph. Suspect tracks are probably still >>> legs. @powerfultakes American SIGINT is an invulnerable (because no 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 war) force multiplier worth factors more than all the Cold War surplus supplied to Ukraine. Assuming the war lasts that long, I hope it's pretty clear that Biden would be better than Desantis for Russia, and Trump would be worst by far (Russiagate x10). I am ~99% certain there won't be a Russian invasion of Ukraine. My theory on this from when you first posted it. Which is yet another piece of evidence that the decision to go to war with Ukraine was only made in summer 2021, but I digress. Eth @Roko__eth - Rattibha“@powerfultakes I understand that, but you want to be a historically great figure you take risks. “@BretWeinstein @elonmusk Literally nobody cares. 242 likes · 3 talking about this. The Russians have a surplus of Soviet tech, tech that was meant to be used by the Red Army, which had the manpower pool of the entire USSR, which is bigger than the manpower pool of the RF, thus the Russians are using up the Soviet equipment before it is unusable and obsolete. He's now made a direct address to his troops t. 17“@powerfultakes It’s not comparable. ”@powerfultakes One funny thought that just came to mind is just how Americans played a key role in building the early Soviet industrial base (Bolsheviks having killed or exiled many of the local qualified cadres), they also contributed prodigally to ideological underpinnings of late Putinism. Are you ready for this scenario? 11:41 AM · Jul 21, 2023. Evidence-albeit. So the elite is percieved like any other elite. It weakens Russian positions everywhere. Click to read Nooceleration, by Anatoly Karlin, a Substack publication. One deranged nuclear war scenario I thought up a few years ago. “Russia decoupling from the Anglo. To take but one minor example, this seemed like a really prospective project in the mid-2010s when I got involved in it,. Mobilization. 2. 7/ Mikhail Delyagin, 'A Just Russia – For Truth' State Duma deputy, who is accused of saying that the ruble might devalue Vladimir Solovyov, who is said to host a nightly "gang rape of the authorities" on his show on the Russia-1 channel@powerfultakes · 18h. @powerfultakes Apr 16 This ties in to a point I made in another recent thread, generous access to the American techno-noosphere multiplies Ukrainian state & military capabilities well beyond what you'd expect of what is otherwise a rather antiquated and poor polity. But as of today, risks of a Pacific War II have gone up drastically IMO. Quote Tweet. Not sure if Putin's offer was made in good faith or not, but now he can sell that he was trying to be reasonable with Ukrainian gov't, just trying to make the already existing pre-war de facto situation de jure. “@JgaltTweets Alameda ganbled on shitcoins is underwater and will pop like Celsius when BTC goes below $15k. . Hey this account is called powerful takes for a reason. More relevant would be a Russian victory giving China a chance. This Tweet is from a suspended account. ”As @powerfultakes noted several years ago, Western historiography and popular consciousness is shifting into a bizarre sort of revisionism where Russia (mind you, "Russia", not "the Communists") will end up being solely responsible for. Replying to @RokoMijic. @powerfultakes @CraigWilly06 Modern farming is an industrial miracle that relies on long supply chains. As I keep saying, Russiagaters are perhaps the most hardcore Americanophobes on this planet. the more lurid prewar Western media. China didn't see it fit to try and fix the most glaring issues with Russia and Russia by itself turned out to be too dysfunctional. Oh yes it's time. ”We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The best hope Russia currently has is on the growing anxiety of a part of the U. "”See new Tweets. Poland is primed and funded by anglo-americans for taking over kaliningrad, west Ukraine (if Ukraine is defeated) and increase its sphere of influence in eastern parts of Germany. In 1994, it became the MChS, and got control over Russia's firefighters in 2002. Craig Willy @CraigWilly06. “QUICK CRYPTO UPDATE BOOM. This is kind of false but false in a way that ironically confirms your point and more convincingly and much more entertainingly than your own argument. “@powerfultakes Prigozhine won't be running any war if his coup succeeds. Prolly need 30%+. Marc Chagall's Green Goat @AstralPreobraz1. @powerfultakes One funny thought that just came to mind is just how Americans played a key role in building the early Soviet industrial base (Bolsheviks having killed or exiled many of the local qualified cadres), they also contributed prodigally to ideological underpinnings of late Putinism. He deserves it. The aircraft industry was expected to grind to a halt with western sanctions, and you can speculate on how they managed to resolve the bottlenecks.