Bulletins and News Discussion from October 14th to October 20th, 2024 - Paper Tigers
Image is a frame taken from this video of Iranian missiles raining down on Israel without interception due to a weak and depleted air defense system after a year of war and genocide.
Mao, 1956:
Now U.S. imperialism is quite powerful, but in reality it isn't. It is very weak politically because it is divorced from the masses of the people and is disliked by everybody and by the American people too. In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of, it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger.
When we say U.S. imperialism is a paper tiger, we are speaking in terms of strategy. Regarding it as a whole, we must despise it. But regarding each part, we must take it seriously. It has claws and fangs. We have to destroy it piecemeal. For instance, if it has ten fangs, knock off one the first time, and there will be nine left, knock off another, and there will be eight left. When all the fangs are gone, it will still have claws. If we deal with it step by step and in earnest, we will certainly succeed in the end.
Strategically, we must utterly despise U.S. imperialism. Tactically, we must take it seriously. In struggling against it, we must take each battle, each encounter, seriously. At present, the United States is powerful, but when looked at in a broader perspective, as a whole and from a long-term viewpoint, it has no popular support, its policies are disliked by the people, because it oppresses and exploits them. For this reason, the tiger is doomed. Therefore, it is nothing to be afraid of and can be despised. But today the United States still has strength, turning out more than 100 million tons of steel a year and hitting out everywhere. That is why we must continue to wage struggles against it, fight it with all our might and wrest one position after another from it. And that takes time.
So there is an American Football Game going on, and I was right under the fighter jets flyby path. That was one of the loudest things I've heard. I also can't help but to realize this is the sound millions of people around the world hear and assume it is their death.
totally normal country where military jets (that consume thousands of dollars just to fly for a couple of minutes) and other resources are mobilized for a handegg game. the people yearn for the F-22 flyby while they drink shit bud light and watch a boring ass sport
Yeah,had one fly over my house
Even when they're there to supposedly "defend" you,it doesn't feel like you're being defended
You are being defended. Please do not resist.
If you hear the plane you are already in the clear (for that plane)
I live near where they have an annual air show (read: military parade) and all of those jets are so loud for the week that they’re here.
Same it's absolutely miserable
Yeah i live in a shitty little mobile home close enough to a major AFB that their routine air patrols frequently have a pair of F-16's flying suuuper fucking low over my house like every day for a week straight at times. When i say low i mean that i can clearly see the pilots face if i stand outside and look at them, i could probably hit them with a decent rifle and a little practice. I flip em off just in case they happen to look down.
It makes everything shake like crazy, the first few times my cats freaked out but now i think they've gotten used to it. I hate this country so much
I was at a playoff baseball game the day the zionist invasion of lebanon begun, and we had a fighter jet flyover. Im used to the noise after living and working near an air base but yeah, the irony of that situation was weird.
The week after, we went again and the only plane they had was some refueling tanker, so i guess the jets were needed...elsewhere