Posted in slop because of the over-the-top writing style.
Imagine this: no electricity on Taiwan’s western coast. Government ministries offline. Internet gone. Airport systems shut. No explosion heard. But order collapses just the same.
In a town near Novi Sad in 1999, an elderly Serbian man lit a candle for his dying wife. Their respirator had stopped. Not from shrapnel. Not from bombing. But because NATO dropped filaments of carbon on the power station miles away. He didn’t know the word “graphite bomb.” All he knew was the darkness.
Starts off with this admission of NATO/US using these weapons that result in civilian deaths, then quickly does the pivot to China without any further thought.
China will steal our torment nexus which is why we need more funding to build an even more tormentuous torment nexus!
Yeah dude what the fuck that jumped out to me too
It was like that for the whole Cold War, this isn’t that much different
“The US used nuclear weapons against Japan, which cost many thousands their lives, some in horrific fashion” then the next twenty paragraphs are about what the USSR might do with their nukes, despite never having done anything
Just recycling old material
Cool timeline we have here…
Third, reject the myth of the “clean weapon.” There is no such thing. All war harms. If a blackout kills a patient, the line between bomb and sabotage vanishes.
I don’t disagree but find it funny that the same people that will say this about China having a graphite bomb would not apply the same logic to something like sanctions or the deaths that capitalism causes by keeping the working class poor.
Liberals view morality in terms of teams instead of actions/consequences.
“If the evil Reds do it, it’s because they are evil and want to cause suffering. But if we justice seeking Blues do it, it’s because it was the just thing to do and any causalities are an unfortunate cost we have to pay” and if you point out their hypocritical view by giving examples they cry about so called what-about-ism.
exactly how words like “autocracy” and “authoritarianism” work. if a state we support does something, then we acknowledge the difficult context of the decision and how justified and necessary it is. if an enemy state does something, just use the Bad Label. they’re Bad and did it because they’re Bad. there is no actual content that doesn’t come back to “they are illegitimate because they are the bad guys and we are legitimate because we are the good guys.”
(fuck you Anne Applebaum)
Fucking Parenti, always relevant!
Oh… so Anne Applewood’s article “The Bad Guys are winning” was an encapsulation of that mentality. Lmfao she does that all the time?
While also obsessing over calling out hypocrisy. Like, if youre gonna be a hypocrite dont be hypocritical about it. I want good things to happen to my friends and allies and bad things to happen to my enemies, this frees me up entirely to hold double standards. Like it’s okay for us to kill nazis and billionaires and if the system doesnt like it, fuck that system. But I will also be mad at that same system for letting billionaires kill us. The moral high ground is a sad place to be and I dont advise seeking it. Play to win.
Liberals spend 100% of their time talking about the hypothetical murders China might do at some vague nondescript point in the future and 0% of their time talking about the actual murders daddy USA is doing right now
“Be very afraid of this new weapon China could use! BTW, NATO has used it a dozen times. 🤭”
These are not brute-force tools. They are archetypal trickster weapons. Devious, non-linear, disruptive. Not designed to win battles, but to upend balance. Their job is not to kill soldiers. It is to unnerve populations.
I sure do love 19th century vintage yellow peril
>weapon
>designed to win battles
gee willickers!
USA develops modern weaponry
OMG LE EPIC WUNDERWAFFEN TO KILL THE CHICOMS!!!1!!!1!11!11 GLASS THE UNTERMENSCHEN HAHAHAChina develops modern weaponry
No you can’t do that! That’s not fair!Such AI speak
This video is very educational on this topic if you want to understand exactly how these bombs work: https://youtu.be/_2i5TUR9jRk
The US used a graphite bomb in Iraq. US doctrine is to widespread target civilian infrastructure.
Worth noting, Russia has never done anything like this, in fact Russia has avoided damage to civilian infrastructure and actively working to maintain power to regions they do not occupy despite occupying the powerplants supplying those regions.
I have seen next to zero mainstream agitprop when netanyahoo was given a standing ovation in the congress (I think?) but there was a relentless barrage of it for the resent Trump-Putin meet speaking as if Putin is an indiscriminate mass murderer. There is zero connect to reality.
There is zero connect to reality.
Unfortunately this is so hard to break, evey encounter I’ve had where I try to explain these things is met with “Oh so you think Putin is a good guy?” It makes me sad that no matter how much you explain, it is very hard to break this conditioning.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Soft-Kill Weapons and the Trickster Archetype
me when i play a bard
I can literally tell reading it that they used AI to help write this, and i get to the bottom to see this. “This article took 12 hours to research & write — and 3 decades of lived insight. If it gave you something valuable, consider tipping €2. That’s almost the cost of a coffee — and it fuels the next story.”
lol
followed by “you’re not just x, you’re y”. em dash and GPT emoji too. wonder how much of this is AI
not to blast, but to blind
not a step forward in warfare. It is a shift
not a test. It is a message
not brute-force tools. They are archetypal trickster weapons.
Not designed to win battles, but to upend balance
not to kill soldiers. It is to unnerve populations
not tools of conquest. They are tools of doubt.
not about full-scale invasion. It is about narrative control.
not war crimes in the traditional sense. But they are acts of war.
not kill cleanly. It kills indirectly.
Haha holy shit, what a pattern.
sounds like a self-help coach tbh
Really wild when people can’t even tell their stuff sounds like this. I wonder if they think they got away with it?
They’re so hooked on the gippity it’s literally cooked their brain to the point they can’t write anything without it, they genuinely think it sounds 100% perfectly natural
My guess is it’s the entire thing, and they just edited the AI article a bit, and copy and pasted stuff into different areas. Maybe did a few prompts and merged them together.
i hate this so much. even after writing some personal smutty slop with LLM i have to purge my memory so i don’t pick up it’s writing style
This article took 12 hours to research & write —
Your emdashes suggest otherwise, chatgpt I presume?
you don’t know how many times they sat there refreshing to re generate a response to their initial prompt “make up a boogieman about China that doesn’t implicate NATO” (it implicates NATO because it doesn’t understand)
so it’s just a bomb filled with a ton of Ticonderoga Number 2 pencils? got it…
in what would could americans imagine the west coast of taiwan lmao
“Imagine the horrors of a war where bombs cannot harm anyone and no one needs to die.”
don’t worry everyone the Trump admin is preparing to counter this by… not approving any new solar/wind power projects???
fucking china stay winning. god damn.
Intern drops a toner cartridge
Weapons manufacturer: “WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!”
Writes that down and looks at the pencil: “WHAAAAAAAAAA”
Isn’t this a war crime
Nah, the thing is NATO loves doing it
The US Navy used sea-launched Tomahawk missiles with Kit-2 warheads, involving reels of carbon fibers, in Iraq as part of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War in 1991, where it disabled about 85% of the electricity supply. The US Air Force used the CBU-94, dropped by F-117 Nighthawks, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia on 2 May 1999, where it disabled more than 70% national grid electricity supply. The supply was restored in less than 24 hours though was later disrupted by a further attack on 7 May 1999. It was again used following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Coalition forces did, however, identify certain targets as “dual use,” including electricity and media installations. Human Rights Watch’s investigations found that air strikes on civilian power distribution facilities in al-Nasiriyya caused serious civilian suffering and that the legality of the attacks on media installations was questionable.
I mean if NATO is doing it it’s definitely a war crime
what the use of an emp(in effect) equivalent that doesn’t kill people(directly)? or that it would target civilian infrastructure (like conventional weapons also do)?
Yeah I thought targeting civilian infrastructure was a war crime
Like if you black out an entire region people are gonna die
i posted about my work crap and how collective punishment is a crime against humanity re: the Geneva convention and it’s really only a matter of a person’s interpretation as to whether or not mass infrastructure attacks constitute “collective punishment” against whatever “enemy” (they do)
