Comments on: Open thread 12/4/2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832876 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:27:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832876 Here’s an interesting one:

“Model Collapse: The Entire Bubble Economy Is A Hallucination”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/model-collapse-entire-bubble-economy-hallucination

Guess we’ll find out pretty soon…

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832860 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:54:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832860 Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs.

–Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey

]]> By: Niketas Choniates https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832852 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:30:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832852 On-topic: Yorkshiremen are like Scotsmen who’ve had their generosity squeezed out.

@David Foster, @huxley: The US practiced unrestricted air and submarine warfare in the Pacific in WWII–meaning attacking any ships whatever without warning and without attempting to rescue survivors, even going so far as deliberately sinking their lifeboats, even though they ended up killing over 10,000 Allied POWs and slave laborers in addition to Japanese soldiers, sailors, merchant seamen, and fishermen. As one American soldier said in a different war

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

American war crimes in WWII are not fiction or revisionism. It’s good that we make more efforts to avoid them and punish them nowadays, but wars aren’t won by saints and angels.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832824 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:07:58 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832824 David Foster:

As I recall, the massacre of Japanese sailors after a successful strike on their ship was a plot beat in Wouk’s “War and Remembrance.”

]]> By: David Foster https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832809 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:02:43 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832809 The issue about survivors of the attack on the drug boat reminded me of something…

A Japanese fighter pilot said the when other Japanese pilots had to bail out over their own country, American fighters would regularly machine-guy them while they were hanging from their parachutes.

The justification for this was presumably that the Japanese pilots were not and could not be surrendering, since they were over friendly territory, and hence they could return to combat.

And indeed, I believe American forces did at least sometimes rescue Japanese sailors and airmen at sea after their ships had been sunk or their planes had been shot down.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832771 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:08:12 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832771 The “pipe bomber”, if he knows anything they’ll move heaven or hell for him, if he. knows nothing he’ll burn.

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832760 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:18:24 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832760 This might be very interesting, shed some light, etc. (She’s already unloaded on Canada’s Carney…):

“Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss launching new show on Just the News podcast network“—
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/hld8a-former-british-prime-minister-liz-truss-launching-new-show-just-news

(Wasn’t sure whether to post it here or in the next thread—who knows, maybe she’ll talk about her digs…)

+ Bonus (talk about shedding light…)

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5632354-shapiro-harris-memoir-dispute/

]]> By: buddhaha https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832759 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:16:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832759 “They got the pipe bomber”.
It was ignored for so long, I’m convinced it was a (D-contolled) government psy-op.
Did this guy do it, or is he a patsy?
At this point, I don’t trust anything being said.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832757 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:01:26 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832757 They(Monty Python) called it a long time ago with ” Call Me Loretta”!

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/04/open-thread-12-4-2025/#comment-2832756 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:59:13 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=145948#comment-2832756 We haven’t the final word from “Two Sheds”!

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