chapotraphouse

Years of videos and headlines like this have really started to get grating. Like those “heartwarming” stories about kids paying off each others’ lunch debt in America or whatever.

I don’t want to be “built different”. I want people to stop pointing at me when horrible shit keeps happening to (and around) us. The sax man looks cool, but like do you know how hard it is to get a good gig as a saxophonist here? My guy wants to eat good this week. He’s a professional. You need to have nerves of steel to survive.

My friends from around the world sent me the video over and over, wow you guys are so badass, as if half a city wasn’t razed to the ground by more munitions than an actual battle’s worth mere months ago. Maybe it’s badass to stare a killer in the face. But that shit wears on you.

If you run to your car and drive home when you see this shit in the sky and you’re the target you’re dead anyway. Of course we keep dancing. In moments like these we feel like we’d be better off dead anyway. I see shit in the sky all the time now. I only finally understood I had no faith when I saw drones getting shot out of the sky from the window of a plane, when I understood that for me, if this is it, this is fucking it. What the fuck else can I do in that moment.

I get that you’re saying something positive here, but I just want to literally not have a rapacious snarling serial killer pushing the cold metal of a Glock against my forehead for twenty fucking seconds of my life, I want to be known for who I am and not for the inescapable Russian roulette jigsaw trap I’m stuck in, that has to be reasonable, right? I’d love to hear about some horrible dystopian hell technology called “Dad is Here to See his Loving Kids❤️✨” and not immediately think fuck my life there isn’t a chance in hell I’m not in that database.

Addendum on “that shit wears on you”: seeing unhinged LinkedIn screenshots of rattled genocide fans bragging about working from home in the bunkers under their houses. Nothing says peace lovers like living in war infrastructure. My bunker is a bottle of gin and an eclectic mix of old Arabic songs and YouTube videos of two goofy South Australian men jerry rigging an old Fiat back to life. Fuck you.

On the topic of something you explicitly mentioned here. There’s some unpleasant but critical subtext about people dancing “two blocks away” from a man made Hell on earth. Some people believe that they are from the “good” ethnoreligious community and that they won’t get bombed, and that their “forbidden lovers” on the other side of the border are cleaning out the rabble to some extent. The shit I’ve heard people say... I lost friends this past year, and these friends I’ve lost are alive and well. Let’s put it like that.

I need it too, because it's a jam

yeah it was surely a malfunction, but the IRGC was trolling by releasing that statement about developing secret new strategy lol

Yeah this type of AD tends to produce misfires like that. Happened several times in Ukraine, even one where they hit a hospital with their own AD and blamed it on Russia.

Like a lot of reasons why you shouldn't put this shit near civilian infrastructure. IIRC Iron Dome, David Sling and Arrow systems are all mobile, but they have them parked in dense residential areas. Pretty much guaranteed to kill at least of a few of their own people, but then, who am I to tell zios not to bomb themselves?

Afaik Israel mostly has a stockpile of absurdly expensive ammunition, and burns through it pretty fast whenever missiles start flying.

I would have thought Israel would have a stockpile that was absurd compared to anything the world has ever known

You mean before or after they spent most of them slaughtering families in Gaza? They spent the vast majority of them raining them down for almost two years now; it's even become a point that America has to keep sending them more cause otherwise they're gonna run out. The amount of devastation they've applied, causing it to be compared to Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Vietnam all combined is what it looks like when they earnestly just run out their stockpiles. Iran on the other hand has clearly barely touched their own.

Most likely it is. The anti-missile munitions are more complicated and more expensive than the actual missiles. They have to be fairly sophisticated to essentially intercept a speeding bullet mid-air. They cost more and are slower to produce. It is easier to engineer and produce at scale missiles that hit a stationary target.

Belevie it or not north Korea, they manufacture something like 60 percent of the world's missiles and artillery, american, russian and Iranian production is not as good because they are libs. The best outcome for this war is one in wich Iran transitions to military socialism, if they do that then it's over. Some faction in the militia have been pushing for this, but the technocrats refuse.

The strikes in Iran currently appear to be surface fired ATGMs and drones from with Iran itself. There is a video of a Iranian motorcycle cop in a high speed chase with a van. Presumably it is driven by Israeli operatives. The cop is shooting at the van like a scene out of GTA. Another of Iranian cops shooting down a Israeli drone with small arms fire.

There are also videos of trucks being used to smuggle in explosive devices and drone parts and another where Iranian intelligence is documenting a drone manufacturing warehouse they discovered within Iran.

Also at least two videos circulating where you can clearly see a missile launched from the ground at a nearby target. The Israelis have got some serious ground operations happening there and the Iranians are running around trying to catch them. Official statement from an Iranian government source as well warning all Iranian citizens to report any home rentals to foreign nationals in the last few months.

I saw a post recently where apparently Iran revealed they'd been using decoys to lure attacks to worthless targets (people even point out about the videos of those attacks that you don't see secondary explosions because Iran wasn't keeping their missiles there); they had radars (or something) giving off pulses to draw Israel to targets of Iran's choosing