Antigravity Afro

#They will still vote for them....

So.......

"the overweaning, haughty morality of Peak Woke"

You're writing an article about the vile, open abusiveness of the MAGA movement to women but naturally you couldn't stop yourself from taking a shot at the people doing the most to oppose them.

I don't think she was a "liberal" to start with, maybe more centrist than those around her. That said, she needed to be immersed in that circle before she realized how misogynist it is? How much hate for everyone but white males they have? She couldn't see that forest from a distance?

the most awful women on earth want sympathy?

I’m old enough to remember when we had experts at many levels of government, but they’ve either been fired by DOGE or replaced with MAGA loyalists.

Good conversation glad I asked the first question. Well here's hoping that you and I are completely wrong about the future trajectory of the US. Especially you since your predictions are darker then mine. But I am nothing if not an eternal optimist.

This is another point I'll concede the climate change denial anti-intellectualism, and anti science currents are going to take half a century to rid ourselves of. But only if we spend gobs of resources and time to do it.

Most of all of this has been accepted as normal since the end of reconstruction. Kent state happened before I was born and the Pinkerton's gunned down the rednecks on the govs orders before my daddy was born. And I'm black I've never not experienced racism.

This part I'm more amenable too. We've shown our partners that no matter how rational we act it's just a facade and the next president will come in and blow everything up. Nations plan in decades and centuries but you can't trust the US for more than 8 years. Going to be a lonely island with just us

Ah so a doomer take. Not surprising but at least you stand by your predictions. Well whatever happens we're in the shit. IDK if "civil unrest" is inevitable at this point. I think we've got a few off ramps before that but I'd agree we are uncomfortably close to it being true.

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IDF soldiers anally raped the Palestinian man with a knife and were caught on camera. They also severely beat him. The victim required surgery for a perforated rectum.

The IDF is now dropping charges because of the outcry from the Israeli public IN SUPPORT OF THE RAPISTS.

White folks losing their business because they don't want to get it out the mud, lol.

Ok so what's the answer?

if i were running dem party comms, all our people would today be talking about the president having a dance party while our soldiers are being shot at while gas prices go through the roof

Gave up all of the currency and promise of the “idea” of America (however flawed), in exchange for “we kill people. We kill lots of people.”

The Americans, who really don't like public enterprise and are highly suspicious of government, have launched themselves into a war, the largest public enterprise of them all. Everyone involved, from the most senior admirals to the newest recruit, is a public servant on the government payroll.

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them.

It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

Eh. I feel like the real culprit here is that every non Carrier surface ship procurement program has been a complete and total clusterfuck.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

"Why won't the Iranian just give us a ceasefire when we broke our not!treaty with them and keep attacking them every nine months? Why don't they take us at our word??"

its cool how we’ve spent decades anticipating this exact scenario where a cornered iran would mine or otherwise deny access to the strait and the US gov is just like “woah, no idea they’d play this card in response to [operation: no iranian government official left alive]”

I actually think it’s cool @mikeblack114.bsky.social has a better sense of what’s going on than the chairman of the joint chiefs, this site has the juice

Oh we’re weighing options *now*

Two of the possible outcomes of the Iran War:

• An Iranian regime with greater popular support than before and a single-minded focus on obtaining nuclear weapons for the purpose of deterrence

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• A failed state, which would be a humanitarian disaster and a destabilizing force for decades

It’s always disappointing to finish a book, where it wasn’t terrible enough to stop reading mid-book, but once you’ve finished, it was decidedly not good.

This is the most blasé admission of a war crime by a US president in history.

Trump has just disclosed, without prompting, that the US Military committed a war crime - literally just to brag & make his Republican audience laugh about unnecessarily killing 100+ Iranians instead of capturing them.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

By the same token, it is not discriminatory to discriminate (say by excluding the experiences of native americans or black people in the study of history) it would only be discrimination not to exclude them. Total inversion.