Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Not defending Platner, but saying he “just woke up one day” to espouse these opinions is not really correct, given we also have his Reddit history. His positions have been set for a while at least from what we can see.
Does the fact that the ship was deliberately unarmed as part of military exercises (notably but unimportantly that the US was also involved in) change that calculus at all?
If Trump wants Zelenskyy’s help against drones, I think JD Vance to have to fly to Kiev, and sit in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Oval Office and say, “Thank you.”
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
"Hey Kurds, it's the United States. Remember us, from all the betrayals? Anyhoo, would love it if you all could march into this thresher for us. Let us know."
theyre just all so fucking stupid and we were told we had to be respectful and treat their stupid fucking opinions seriously even though we knew its all bull shit and now here we are
I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”
you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this
Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.
Trump/Hegseth operational security: at Joe’s Stone Crab, a restaurant a 2-minute walk from the White House, someone was having a conversation about the attacks on Iran that were going to start in 6 hours. Loud enough for the founder of @TMZ.com to recount it in real time with his podcast cohost.
Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up:
Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.
Real credit to Ro Khanna here too. The cycle sometimes works.
Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.
If this is airstrikes only, who are they supposed to surrender to, and who are the 'forces of liberation'?
This kind of commentary ignores that CNN has a whole website and news bureau.
If you are an elected Dem and your reaction to this is "Let's downplay DC statehood," let me suggest an alternative:
Do Your Job.
You have 3 years to build support for an institutional reform agenda that clearly must include DC statehood. Stop cowering in fear of a toss-up issue and get to work.
Yeah, now you’re infantilizing an adult, while also just choosing to ignore the facts. I’m not the one grasping at straws here.
Why does he have to apologize for existing as a person with a disability, exactly?
Demanding someone apologize for having a disability is incredibly ableist
No, I’m not the one trying to dismiss the facts to justify my baseless anger.
I don’t think you do
Nope. But again, thanks for admitting you lied.
I’m not the one whose credibility you’re attacking. But good try, anon
Way to entirely miss the point
No, that’s exactly how it works:
bsky.app/profile/asht...
So you don’t know what the word taboo means?
Oh the irony
“Tourette’s syndrome cannot be cured, but potential triggers can be identified, and treatment can help manage the symptoms.”
People with it say things they know taboo. You literally don’t understand at all. But good to know you lied about watching the video.
