Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*
How about this: actual POD is the Kabul Expedition after the First Anglo-Afghan war is massacred and that reduces EIC hold over the Indus/Hindu Kush. They pivot to getting the Qajars to keep control over Afghanistan. With EIC help, the Qajar Restoration begins…
Persian troops in Delhi keeping the Mughal emperor in captivity waiting for a British delegation to arrive and accept his surrender? If anything, Persia is actually getting the raw end of this deal and giving up half of the territory they occupy just so Europe will recognize their claim.
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
The reason people accuse Trump of creating distractions is because that does kind of look like what he's doing, but that's a misdiagnosis of the data. Trump isn't cultivating a distracted media environment; he's a victim of one. He doesn't cause distractions; he's just the most distracted man alive.
More than twenty women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct over the decades. Twenty. In any sane society that number alone would trigger relentless investigation. Instead the American press has largely
Maybe what happened was a far worse Sepoy Rebellion where the UK actually needed to reconquer India and the Qajars helped?
the “no smoking” light in an airplane shines a man anxiously sits with his tired eyes glued to the signal, waiting to light a cigarette. “cmon… turn off…” he thinks
Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.
She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.
Gallup Poll (3/5/26):
Do you approve of $8 gas
No: 99%
Yes: 1%
Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy
No: 46.6%
Yes: 38.9%
Unsure: 14.5%
“antivaxxers can’t be convinced by calling them shitty people” is also not the same as antivaxxers not being shitty people, and please show me the research that actually shows this is true, because I searched google scholar yesterday and couldn’t find anything.
if your approach to a fascist movement that has successfully captured the state is "healthcare providers need to effectively combat misinformation!" you have already lost because the fascist state will try to force healthcare providers to spread the misinformation
when our time comes we will make no excuses for the pronouns
The vast majority of detransitions are due to things like being unable to find a job or getting kicked out of your parent’s house at 16. Social pressures that discourage transition. Things like the government considering your existence to be bad policy from former governments.
They might have been on a lark and chickened out when presented with actual transition or threatened out of it with severe social consequences like their parents telling them it’s a misogynist fantasy and one of the worst things a person can do.
As an example, the 2019 Cochrane review for epilepsy surgery indicates that "most studies provided moderate or weak evidence." The authors "judged evidence from the nine RCTs to be of moderate to very low quality." This is useful information, but does not on its own warrant banning epilepsy surgery.
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now).
This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Since when is 75k the bottom? You’ve got a real skewed view of what a struggling family looks like.
The “Rob Malley” thing is a common Yarvin move. Cite an obscure thing that your audience won’t know about (putting them in awe of your erudition), and imply that if they knew their entire world view will shift on its axis. The oldest intellectual charlatan trick in the book. bsky.app/profile/seth...
reading theweleit and this... actually makes perfect sense to me. he's not describing reality, obviously, but this formation, that all these perceived forces of deadly chaos are in alignment despite how silly that sounds, is hardly unique to yarvin.
Most cis people deep down believe that trans people are mentally ill recruiters.
We want nobody to experience gender dysphoria, cis or trans.
The result of putting a cis kid through the wrong puberty is gender dysphoria.
We would never inflict that upon anyone. Yet cis people don't believe us.
Trump as dong zhuo meme
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They’re saying nobody has ever done a national suicide as beautiful as mine. They say to me, eyes full of tears, “Mr President I’ve never seen a country kill itself as bigly.” And I smiled to myself. Think of that. Killing yourself. I’d do it. Maybe I will do it right now, who’d stop me? I wouldn’t.
The job title "farmer" has always been intentionally slippery in how most Americans use it.
But in the occupational stats, it's people who own the farm. (They may own all the land, rent some, or event rent all of it, but the farm is still their business that they own & operate.)
That is because they were NOT with the counter, despite Tisch initially describing them as counterprotestors. They ran up and threw an IED, failed to throw another.
Media is saying ISIS with reason: As one was picked up following arrest, he said “By God’s will, the Islamic State remains.”
