Every gulf state that has an interest in high oil prices can close Hormuz by poking Iran now, but I’m sure it will all work out fine because a bunch of MBA mediocrities said so.

This all happened before when John Dolan / Gary Brecher went anti-anti-MAGA alongside Ames and Taibbi. Sucks because some of those War Nerd articles were great. We -should have- hanged more Confederates.

I phrased that weirdly. Dem admins are not unwilling to leave Iran alone, but R ones are. So the leaving was Trump taking an unwanted sabbatical from command.

This -is- the status quo! We assassinated Soleimani in 2020, left for four years (unwillingly), and then bombed Iran in June of 2025.

jewishinsider.com But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. "He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way." The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled. Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance.

“Oh, this is my Totenkopf.”
—Graham Platner, 2012

I mean, there’s so many moving parts here. A big reason Platner isn’t being sunk is “Maine voters are proud of being idiosyncratic weirdos” and there’s no way he weathers this the way he has in, like, New York. Or even DC.

today’s environment being generic Dems polling at +30 and oil heading to $150 a barrel?

what if being immune to oppo is only true of white cis men?

*Warhammer pots

jewishinsider.com But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II. "He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way." The exchange occurred in 2012 at Tune Inn, a popular dive on Capitol Hill where Platner later worked as a bartender and was a frequent patron while he attended The George Washington University on the G.I. bill, according to the former acquaintance. He would often take his shirt off drinking with friends late at night at the bar, and on at least one occasion had stated he knew what the tattoo represented, the former acquaintance recalled. Platner gave varying accounts of the image during this time, saying at one point he was aware it was a Totenkopf when he had first gotten the tattoo several years prior and at another time claiming he had not known, according to the former acquaintance.

This would be the same bar where showed off his Nazi tattoo and called it a totenkopf?

Heavy Gear is like this on tabletop but less like this in the PC games.

she could be literally smoking crack

Thank you for holding the line on this “phrases mean things” bit.

I got shouted down on LGM for being mad that everyone called the two strikes on the alleged drug smugglers a “doubletap.” No, it was a second strike. Nobody new arrived. Nobody exited.

this is making me laugh so hard

Yes, it seems bad that the tape of MLK allegedly being in the room for an alleged rape is going to be released by Trump.

okay

so Kurdistan is actually on the table, then, after all

ISAAC CHOTINER: People imagine you happy. So, are you?

SISYPHUS: I dunno. This fucking boulder. What can I say? What is happy, anyway?

CHOTINER: Well, how did you feel when you asked the Oracle of Delphi for tips on killing your brother?

SISYPHUS: Hey, I asked for tips on getting AWAY with it.

the comic with the dude shaving his head and getting a swastika tattoo and saying “i feel bullied, really” from here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi it’s by Matt Bors but i said that in the skeet already

anti-anti-LLM folks are doing their own version of the classic Matt Bors comic

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

holy fuck this one has -levels-

maybe chasing down a Black jogger with a shotgun was not an outlier? maybe his socialism was always a bit volkisch?

yes, yes, all of the nationstates that control the areas that would make up Kurdistan are violently opposed to allowing Kurdistan to exist, which is why the Kurds keep falling for the ploys of America, who could theoretically bully those smaller nationstates into submission (but won’t)

Iraq -also- won’t allow it, as shown by Iraq squashing the Kurds after the US pulled out.

… but that means that the Kurds need a safe homeland even more now, which is why this is a perpetual motion machine dedicated to grinding up Kurds …

Did they smear an SS Totenkopf -onto- Platner?

the kurds need a kurdish nation-state so america stops rugpulling the kurds so they fight for american interests to establish that nation-state and then we rugpull them

It’s a perpetual motion engine as long as there any Kurds left.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Whether or not “AI is real” is completely and utterly orthogonal to the threat of “AI mass surveillance.”

We already have facial recognition leading to multiple false arrests, and that was before the boom.

We already have Israel picking strike targets via AI relationship mapping.

pseudo-monopolies sure seem to be pretty much as bad for the public as true monopolies

ceej @ceej.online • 1/10/2024 scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? Al e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

feels like a cousin of the ceej skeet

aw man i came here to make the same “joke”