ok so i did die immediately after this
06.03.2026 16:47
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ok so i did die immediately after this
bruh
this is nuuuuuuts
lots of interesting and critical replies to this, and also this polling thread. making me rethink this take somewhat - but i maintain that it's important that when people disliked the Vietnam war, they *did something about it*. idk. bsky.app/profile/gell...
properly fucking lost it at the bit-a-thon in the last 10 minutes of this. extremely good to have this in my life
this is, i suppose, cause for hope (??)
exactly
to the people responding - correctly, in part - that it's because there aren't "boots on the ground" - yeah, and what's terrifying, again, is the way this suggests you can just bombard chunks of the world at will and people will shrug and go "yeah that's not a real war"
part of what seems most fearful is that the *lack* of real objectives - which is one of the most obscene things about this all - seems like it may fuel people's passivity about. "what are we fighting for? dunno" is hard to care about, protest about
yeah, this is what i said wrong in that post. it's more that it's clear, even if it has gone down worse in the, like, abstract, people don't care as much and/or it doesn't matter that they care? is 'salience' the jargon i'm looking for?
yeah, it's not that it's popular, it's just that it doesn't *matter*
or rather, reprecussions are for Iranian schoolgirls only
and i *know* that this has always been true - i'm not stupid. i also know that norms aren't a battle worth fighting. but it does feel in line with all the Trumpian stuff where you can just... be corrupt, etc. there aren't really any "real" reprecussions. turns out the same is true for war.
this is what i was fumbling towards saying here, maybe. but also it's not just the build-up. it's the revelation that we live in a world where our allies, the west, the developed world, whatever you want to call it, can just start breaking shit en masse at will bsky.app/profile/cine...
this is difficult to articulate but i think the present "war" with Iran is almost unfathomably disturbing because of the way it was just presented to us on a plate. it's barely caused a ripple. half the coverage here is about people holidaying in Dubai, the other half is just "this is happening"
first run went surprisingly - even suspiciously? - well
It's this (and other excellent coverage on the same excellent site) www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
can we go one day in this country without a new moral panic about the youth
more like Slay My Productivity 2 amirite
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happy (!) memories. god, i'd love to go see it someday. great pictures
for those of us for whom the build-up to Iraq was politically formative, one of the most disturbing lessons from this war seems to be that in fact if you don't bother to spend months building consent it actually goes down *better* with the public. you can just start blasting and nobody will care.
*extremely* stupid for the US press to fall into this trap. what would you have learned from this fuckhead's press conferences anyway? he'll just say what he likes, the questions are irrelevant. now they've got you back in the building under their new rules
since ancient Athens, philosophers have asked
fair play, it's quite a funny bit to get all the war nerds going "uhhhhh, well, of course, we've always known that the Sri Lankan front would be pivotal in this conflict. Sri Lanka, as I'm sure you know [sound of typing] is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southw--
"quick! find him a picture of a big jet going zoooooooom in the sky!" - Keir Starmer, to the foreign office
lmao
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