Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fiøht is in their backvard. If vou are not willine to

I urge more senior US officials to publicly dress down the allies they dragged into a war all of them hate, that’s getting them bombed. Really grind it home: their security is dependent on the whims of a bunch of clueless, pissy old men who don’t give a damn if they get the entire region melted.

40% of the US population supports the Iran War because Trump started it despite it being a naked disaster with zero justification, I think the mandate is real and sane Americans just don't wanna admit it.

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

If this war were really about "freeing Iran," we would've done something when the protests were at their height instead of waiting until everything died down and then saying the quiet part out loud about oil

When's the last time the US Congress declared a war? It's been delegated to the president since forever.

Does it really matter what the constitution says if it's been superseded in practice for a century?

Not even Reddit occupied Government could make something this embarassing. This is Roblox Occupied Government.

I'm def a wanker, a pseud and a midwit but I just don't have the hustle to be a grifter

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DIdn't Perot literally hand over his sword to Sanders?

"Forget abundance. By crashing the world economy, Donald Trump will teach us how to appreciate what we already have"

Approaching a dangerous convergence where these guys discover the business secrets of the hidden Imam

@ebeggin.bsky.social thoughts?

Estoy intentando aprenderlo mejor ahora.... Si te manejas bien en inglés, "The Basque Language" de Alan R King es probablemente el libro mas completo que hay para estudiarlo por cuenta propia.

If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.

Yo soy vasco y me costo dios y ayuda llegar a un nivel básico de euskera, la de dios de haber tenido que haber estudiado 3 lenguas co-oficiales mas.

¿Que quitamos para darlas?

the onion newspaper is worth it for the ads

don't care, upzoning the homes

Oh wow people don't want to venture out in a popular uprising as we rain death and destruction from the skies?

Remembering telling Claude about the Palantir sponsored military parade, it wouldn't believe it, said official military parades never accept corporate sponsorship and that it must be something out of some satirical piece

The issue isn’t that the College Board (or accreditors) is good and deserves defense (I’m not arguing that). It’s that a far-right partisan movement seeks to control the admissions and quality assurance regimes. It’s about seizing civic institutions; turning the US into a totalized party-state.

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

Various pro-war arguments of the form "Did you know the Iranian government is very bad actually!???" betray a Marvel film level understanding of international relation (tbh probably _less_ sophisticated than the better of them!) and are a painful reminder that journalists learned nothing from Iraq.

Idk why these people don't develop an unhealthy fixation with the idea of time travel to deal with this feeling, it's what I did.

So much online conservatism these days is just "I miss being a kid"

the main reason to be against the laws is primarily more so because of the de-anonymizing role they play more than the actual intent, i think

He is playing the long game. If he gets Iran wrong he gets to write another book in five years time.

Early Internet was wild you had Hunter S Thompson spitting fire at the Bush administration on the ESPN blog.

i think this is part of, why, again naive realism shouldn't be goal of fiction