really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
this is what happens when you get one of those really crazy national spirits buffing a specific weapon type
Going and fumbling is an existential threat to Xi, senior leadership, and the state cus they've staked so much on reunification. Not gonna pull the trigger on that unless the outcome is as closed to rigged as you can get
This is really the most important takeaway from On War
Proposals like this make up about 40% of Churchills memos during ww2
Off the top of my head (how can answering this horribly complicated and weighty question off the cuff go wrong), I am willing to fight. I have not a damn clue how to convince people that there are times and places for the legitimate use of force. (As usual, I’m not actually naming a country here.)
You see both were members of the powerful Ayatollah family (in Iranese the family name comes first)
read the essay
[hoi4 voice] you can never have enough cas
The War Powers Resolution needs a complete overhaul because it's obviously failed, but at the end of the day, there's no procedural trick around having a Congress that's willing to stand back and watch a president flagrantly break the law and the Constitution and do absolutely nothing about it.
Two photos. The first shows Catturd tweeting: Name one US inspired regime change that hasn't ended in absolute disaster The next tweet shows him posting an AI illustration of Khamenei turned into a pile of dust. It says "I'm eliminated."
Two tweets. The first shows Laura Loomer promoting her show, where she says "A message has been sent that we are not interested in going back to the way politics were prior to Donald Trump, prior to 2016. We don't want warhawks. We don't want any more Neocons. We want American First. Period. End of discussion." The next tweet says: Today is a great day. Our military is amazing. @PeteHegseth is an absolute killer. Now you see why the Deep State worked so hard against him. It’s great having a Sec War who has Infidel literally tattooed on his body. He actually gets it. God bless him.
Two tweets. The first shows Will Chamberlain tweeting: The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars. If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position. The next tweet shows him posting "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead." The tweet has a USA flag attached.
Two tweets. The first shows Gunther Eagleman tweeting: "Warmonger Lindsey Graham just rushed to Fox to advocate for U.S. involvement as soon as he could. He is also pushing for a US-backed regime change in Iran. I would like to renominate Graham to get a one-way ticket to the frontlines of every war he wants America involved in." There's an attached video of Graham speaking. The next shows Eagleman tweeting: UST IN! President Trump is HARD AT WORK all weekend after the massive strikes on Iran! He’s already on the phone with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte! Trump is a machine!" There's an attached video of a news segment about the war in Iran.
manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers
this is the same SCIF where they had twitter open for Absolute Resolve
wait for the tankoids to arrive
aside from the free spaces on the bingo card "ukraine" and "taiwan" this instantly raises a lot of tough questions. it's time we started fucking asking them
but as @loudpenitent.bsky.social notes, this creates a genuinely uncomfortable situation for a lot of iraq-brained natsec libs. are we willing to fight for freedom? what does that actually mean? who do we fight, where, how?
it sucks actually that right now there are just two going concerns in foreign policy, "america is the Great Satan and everything we do is Wrong" vs "america is King Rapist fuck you"
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but recognizing how unbelievably fucking stupid this is is very painful for most blob creatures
the whole thing is that "the rules based order" was always a fucking lie. the "rules based order" was always just "america gets to do whatever it wants, pinkie promise it'll be okay" married to the even stupider "we let authoritarians into the club because it will make them democratic Automatically"
the thing is that people see it as "us vs the Establishment," and don't understand that even the Establishment is largely fucking pissed about this, not least because they think Iran has it coming and an effort to liberate the Iranian people is being squandered by an evil President.
you want to here an unpopular take? the iranian regime sucks. the venezuelan regime sucks. THE TRUMP REGIME SUCKS. as liberals we need to dig out heads out of the paper bag and remember what our principles really are
it's not good for you
lay off the gorilla glue kids
the level of people currently scrambling to blame democrats for trump's attack on iran is off the fucking charts
Anti white racism as a white person feels a little cringe these days but anti semitism still has that little frisson of naughtiness that makes it fun!
X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...
thing is we're already here babe
"This is not late Cold War I with its well-defined blocs and ossified rules of the game. Rather, we are in a situation more like the interwar period: a trans-national ideological brawl with battle lines that run straight through domestic politics." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...
but isn't that *precisely* a merely voluntary restriction on presidential power?
“We have left behind a world divided between a rules-abiding "Core" and a lawless "Gap" and entered an age of renewed imperialism, colonialism, and conquest. This ambition is shared, in practice, by the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-delusion...
