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Champion of the sun. Author of THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024). He/him. Author site: armoxon.com Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.

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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

06.03.2026 03:06 👍 780 🔁 214 💬 23 📌 24
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 👍 8782 🔁 2253 💬 1409 📌 354
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca

“Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but if that military leaves today and it’s not defunded, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.”

05.03.2026 22:18 👍 71 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Primary all Nazi collaborators.

05.03.2026 22:10 👍 495 🔁 112 💬 14 📌 0
Michael Palin and John Cleese in the classic Monty Python dead parrot skit

Michael Palin and John Cleese in the classic Monty Python dead parrot skit

“Lovely bird the secretary, lovely plumage.”

“The plumage don’t enter into it—she’s finished.”

“Nah she’s retired. Need their beauty rest, the secretary”

“She’s not bleedin’ ‘retired’, she’s fired. Canned. Sacked. Shown the door. She is Noem more. She has ceased to be. This is an ex-secretary.”

05.03.2026 19:35 👍 308 🔁 50 💬 10 📌 1

Markwayne Mullins can become two guys named Mar and Kwayne. If you hit him with a stick they separate, slam them together and they remerge.

05.03.2026 19:22 👍 148 🔁 9 💬 16 📌 2

He’s every bit the same deliberately ignorant nightmare person as she is, but at least she’s sad and abandoned lol, go sit in the gravel pit, puppykiller.

05.03.2026 19:01 👍 231 🔁 25 💬 10 📌 2
Reader responds: “Your point seems to assume that men don't hurt other men?”

Reader responds: “Your point seems to assume that men don't hurt other men?”

on my knees begging people to work on their reading comprehension skills

05.03.2026 17:50 👍 342 🔁 10 💬 11 📌 1
Kip from Napoleon Dunamite peeks out from behind a computer monitor

Kip from Napoleon Dunamite peeks out from behind a computer monitor

“Napoleon don’t be jealous because I’ve been defunding the military with hot babes online all day.”

05.03.2026 17:35 👍 135 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 0
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"I'll tell you what I'd do. Defund the military and DHS at the same time."

05.03.2026 17:04 👍 287 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 1
Robert DeNiro in Heat

Robert DeNiro in Heat

“Guy told me one time, don’t fund any military you are not willing to turn your back on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.”

05.03.2026 17:14 👍 84 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1

I. Drink. Your. Military funding.

05.03.2026 12:48 👍 71 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
John McClane yelling out a broken window.

John McClane yelling out a broken window.

“Welcome to defund the military, pal!”

05.03.2026 12:43 👍 104 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 0

“America First.”

05.03.2026 15:23 👍 188 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 0

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.

Men: What a scary time for men this is.

05.03.2026 15:08 👍 3138 🔁 652 💬 33 📌 16
Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982) in the rain.

Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982) in the rain.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to defund the military."

05.03.2026 14:21 👍 98 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

05.03.2026 14:00 👍 1795 🔁 516 💬 8 📌 10
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"You know how to defund the military, don't you? You just go to the appropriations committee and blow."

05.03.2026 12:58 👍 117 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Julia Roberts in Notting Hill

Julia Roberts in Notting Hill

“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to defund the military.”

05.03.2026 12:31 👍 223 🔁 15 💬 9 📌 3

Are you suggesting that I’m saying “please hammer don’t hurt ‘em”

05.03.2026 12:28 👍 260 🔁 4 💬 6 📌 0
Dante from Clerks (1994)

Dante from Clerks (1994)

“And do you know what the worst part is? I haven’t even defunded the military today!”

05.03.2026 12:17 👍 101 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
James Van Der Beek (RIP) character (Mox) from Varsity Blues confronts his father.

James Van Der Beek (RIP) character (Mox) from Varsity Blues confronts his father.

"I don't want your level of military funding!"

05.03.2026 11:52 👍 51 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A scene from They Live!

A scene from They Live!

I'm here to defund the military and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum.

05.03.2026 11:54 👍 115 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross stands in front of the ABC chalkboard

Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross stands in front of the ABC chalkboard

“ABC. A always. B be. C closing military programs. Always be closing military programs. ALWAYS be closing military programs.”

05.03.2026 12:19 👍 209 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
The “get in loser, we’re going shopping” shot from Mean Girls.

The “get in loser, we’re going shopping” shot from Mean Girls.

“Get in loser, we’re defunding the military.”

05.03.2026 11:39 👍 164 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0

yes, like Yglesias he's a rightest who poses as a Democrat to inject right-wing ideas and framing into the narrative

05.03.2026 11:37 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Young Henry Hill in Goodfellas wearing his new suite for his court date.

Young Henry Hill in Goodfellas wearing his new suite for his court date.

"As far back as I can remember I always wanted to defund the military."

05.03.2026 11:36 👍 208 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 0
Wooderson in Dazed and Confused

Wooderson in Dazed and Confused

Hey man ... did you defund the military? Be a lot cooler if you did.

05.03.2026 11:30 👍 302 🔁 30 💬 25 📌 2

Sure seems like it would buy a whole lot of everything without killing a whole bunch of everyone if we defunded the military.

05.03.2026 11:26 👍 1854 🔁 366 💬 29 📌 10

come on, these are bad points offered badly

05.03.2026 11:23 👍 478 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0