Much like American Jews really need to understand why Palestinians in the Diaspora are often really hostile to Israel, including supporting pretty evil shit in the interests of Palestinian liberation, Persian Jews don't like the Iranian regime for pretty damn good reasons.
not exactly the point, but believing in good vs bad ethnicities is just vile stuff. Like there’s been a real push in the US to say the Kurds are ontologically good guys against Arab majorities. I very much sympathize with the Kurds, but they also were the primary genocidaires of the Armenians
"forget touch what if I duct tape my hand to the stove and turn it up high as it goes"
a way to lend legitimacy to future war crimes tribunals against the Trump administration is to also charge Biden officials for abetting war crimes in Gaza. Also let’s put finally try John Yoo.
What if Platner had gotten a really disqualifying tattoo, like a picture of Hillary
In retrospect, it seems like changing the department's name to Department of War was a strong signal of what this administration wanted to do, huh
This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”
And this is not AI writing. No AI screws up syntax like this. A human being wrote this, and another human being read and approved it.
Trump and post-Trump politics will be a mix of populist vibes and material conditions (utterly detached from anything politicians actually *do* for the most part)
Donald Trump: renewable energy's strongest soldier
Unconditional surrender was the standards the US sought with Japan in WWII and led to the dropping of the only two nuclear weapons in the history of warfare . . . . and even then Japan was able to obtain conditions including the continuation of the Imperial line.
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
Of course Platner knew what his Nazi symbol was. It changed his life. His tattoos were reviewed when he asked to return active duty; a trained officer looked for violations. The sleeve tattoos were OK. The Totenkopf was not. Platner chose to keep it. Somewhere in DoD, it’s all written down. 5/
This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands
AXIOS: RUBIO TOLD ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS THAT WASHINGTON'S GOAL IS NOT REGIME CHANGE AND THAT IT WANTS DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY
it's insane that my country's current position is that, if we don't like the leader of a sovereign nation, not only do we get to kill them we get to pick their successor
Bob Hoskins on Super Mario Brothers:
‘I didn’t even know it was a game, my kids told me. ‘What are you doing next, dad?’
‘Super Mario Brothers.’
‘Oh, that’s a game.’
‘What?’
And they showed me this thing jumping up & down.
‘This is you.’
And I thought: ‘I used to play King Lear.’
The Candace Owens vs. TPUSA saga has trickled down to the Scottsdale City Council race because a Candace stan is running for a seat and the entire TPUSA industrial complex is knives out for someone who had a collective social media following of like 100. Surely that won’t backfire.
This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.
I feel really validated in my decision to just refuse to pay the tariffs
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
you should come to her live shows! they're dope! I went to one a few years ago and got an "I got a question right on Depths of Wikipedia Live and all I got was this sticker" sticker, which now adorns my laptop
>indefinitely at war with Persia
Yeah that checks out
It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"
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