"The exercise in question required ships not to carry any ammunition. Normally, the Dena carries various missiles and guns, including anti-ship missiles. Because the U.S. also took part, it would have been aware that the Dena was unarmed."
The post that DropSite is quoting eventually goes on to blame the Laconia order on those dastardly Americans.
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No more takes. Ban takery.
The latter is emphatically not true
This is not accurate. In fact, no country required its submarines to rescue survivors, due to the risk of surfacing and/or limited space to keep prisoners in the very small, cramped subs. What they were expected to do was not attack survivors in the water.
they wanted something to go boom, big boom.
War crimes are a positive good in the Hegsethian worldview. They are a manifestation of uncompromising masculine strength.
He basically says this in his book, in which he also argues that greater brutality would have won the GWOT if not for those pesky liberal lawyers.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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It’s called “vetting,” asshole. You’re running for a high-profile U.S. Senate seat with zero political experience. Of COURSE they’re gonna dig into your past. That’s standard.
Once again: Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t have a clue how anything works.
Exactly right.
The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.
"Unconditional surrender" is what the Union got from the Confederacy, what Putin demands from Ukraine, and what Trump thought he got from Venezuela, so that's what the US is demanding now from Iran. It sounds tough on TV, you see.
The Trump Administration can’t even impose its will on Minneapolis when the full force of the federal government was focused on it, but surely they will be able to pacify and remake Iran, a nation of 90 million people halfway around the world.
And they say there isn't fascism (fetishization of violence).
Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill the owners of Drop Site News are pushing Nazi Revisionism. Stuff you need to spend two minutes searching to disprove too.
true but it's also already quite long!!!
it's odd to endlessly hear "liberalism has failed to inspire people" during heroic mass resistance to state violence & some of the largest protests in history
thoughts inspired by toby reading another academic book on 'post-liberalism'
this by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social perfectly captures my feelings on the genre
Another good bit:
"Similarly, conservatives may be violent, fascists must be violent. That violence is necessary is a core claim for them in a way it isn’t for even quite radical conservatives. For these reasons conservatives can exist within democracy, fascists cannot."
This is a thought-provoking definition of conservatism
"This, in a nutshell, is conservatism: The ideology does care about upholding the social order, but only those parts of it that are considered extra-human in origin, man-made deviations from that are to be disdained, rejected, or even purged."
yeah it was your own side that was most likely to pick you up, incl via spotter plane.
the Nazis so disliked the practice of humanitarian rescue sometimes practiced by the Kriegsmarine that they *explicitly banned it*
The Laconia order is on the other line.
at others. But in reality they’re neither. Both are means to attain power in order to enact a deranged project of rebirthing the racial nation."
This article by @polphilpod.bsky.social is 🔥, esp this:
"Fascists just don’t care about economics. To them, it’s entirely secondary to the project of racial domination. They can sound vaguely ‘populist’ and anti-corporate at times, ruthlessly capitalist/
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Important and correct by @polphilpod.bsky.social Toby Buckle at @liberalcurrents.com Liberal Currents.
The "all conservatism was always already Trumpist and fascist" line is ultimately a way to normalize Trump, and should be resisted.
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NO THEY DIDNT AHAHHHHAHAGAHAHAHAHAGAHGSHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAGAGGAHAHAGAHGAGAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHGAHAHAGHAHAHAHAHGAHAGHAHAGA
They did sir
Holy shit
But the general truth of WWII sub warfare is that taking survivors was rare. This was true of the US sub war against japan.
Well…wrong war, but ya
