Louis Loftus

It’s really a bummer that a genuinely great Adrian Smith building in one of the world’s most beautiful cities is tarred with the name of the world’s worst person

My doctoral advisor got quoted in the Times piece on Trump’s monstrous ballroom www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So long as we’re invoking a “50 year war” with Iran, might be worth recalling that in the 1980s stage of this “ongoing conflict,” we sided with Sadam Hussein in his own illegal invasion of Iran, supplying him with aid, equipment and intel over 8 years leading to half a million deaths. Fwiw

Engineer (mom) and worked for the phone company (dad)

You may find you always need him—I’ll be impressed if you always love him

This feeling will fade

Trump saying the quite parts of US empire out loud ironically undermining its imperial power going forward

The trauma of “being exposed to geopolitics” for the first time while on a business trip selling drone technology to a foreign dictator staying on the hundredth floor of a building on an artificial island built by slaves

I mean, in trumps speech he said that Iran would soon be able to strike the United States and Witkoff was going around saying they were just a few weeks away from having a bomb. (Tho, unlike Iraq, I don’t think these lies were really meant to be believed)

This is cope. The president is just overdue for his bloodletting. They’ll drain him tonight and he’ll be back to his natural pallid lustre

Yes, exactly.

Less than 2 months ago EU leaders were insisting on strategic independence from an increasingly aggressive US demanding territorial expansion in Greenland. Now, they're tripping over their heels to join that US in an illegal war of aggression and regime change. What weak cowards with short memories.

The deaths of over 100 children in Minab are obviously tragic, but the fault lies with the Iranian regime who purposefully built a school near a major military installation

Those who speculate that without IRI the US will finally clamp down on Israel's transgressions in other arenas are deluded beyond comprehension. If one takes the likes of Blinken, Lew, Hochstein and McGurk at their word, which their word is nearly identical to that of Kushner, this will not happen.

Terrorism committed in your name with your money

At least this will incur the hatred of all sides, right left and center

Claims not even believed by those making them and not really intended to be believed by anyone. They want you to know they can do this for whatever reason they choose or none at all

Mmmm

We are entering into what might be called the « zone of interest »

You have to remember, Joe and his listeners don’t necessarily have the same norms as the rest of us

“Are you wearing—“

“The Duomo-Ponte Vecchio-Colosseo-Torre di Pisa body suit? Yeah, I am.”

I’m still getting nothing, even trying that. Hopefully will be fixed by morning … 😬

Is GoogleBooks search function working for you at all rn? (I also use it everyday for work)

It’s a pretty mediocre thing, which I love—& have come to love more living in DC—has always been my view. What’s happening now is like if your boomer uncle with somewhat tedious 60s era nostalgia was at risk of becoming a born-again Nazi.

Yeah, search also not working for me—hopefully just a temporary glitch (extremely screwed if not …)

Israel’s Gaza policy in three paragraphs

I wanna go

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

“Might we ask what it is within the, shall we say, Nordic? disposition, which endeeears them so to the collectivist, and agitating elements within our society, one’s so much [cough] darker than themselves?”

“Where in the video do you see that he was assaulting law enforcement? Because from everything we’ve seen, law enforcement was assaulting him.”

“Dana, law enforcement doesn’t assault anyone”

This is an essential aspect of the fascist mentality—cops can’t assault people *by definition*