Cass

Shot and chaser

We're building a portion of the left that's becoming as wildly antisemitic as the far right.

The president of the United States keeps ordering his military to strike civilians, and then ordering them to post videos of it to social media. Congress has even hauled asses into hearings over it.

And people keep calling this "Israel's war."

I want everybody who assumed that it simply had to have been Israel to shut the fuck up for five minutes and think seriously about what precise prejudices led them to that assumption.

So wait, I thought Platner's story was that he got his Nazi tattoo one drunken night while he was already IN the military? Why is he claiming he had it when he joined now?

Lmfao yes these two things are exactly the same. God it must rock being born yesterday.

That’s two in one day.

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.

Love that the red-brown-alliance ratfuckers are just doing open disinfo now.

FAFO

look man i cant lie to you, i hate israel with all my heart, and i want it gone in my lifetime, i hate it so much it physically hurts if i think on it too much, i hate every single israeli citizen and i hate the institutions that enable that state to persist, and i hate you for your smug ambivalence

Buddy I think you need therapy not posting or doomscrolling

Here’s the thing you absolute dumb shit.

“Orange Man Bad” should’ve been enough.

Especially considering you had a whole disastrous first term to use as reference.

But because you’re stupid and don’t want to admit you’re stupid you’re making up a bunch of bullshit to hide it.

And fuck you.

I am begging people to be more media literate

It has to do with the source it's coming from. If you're gonna sit here and tell me that IRGC/IR state media arms are more reliable than independent papers of record like the TOI or JPost, then you just want to push a narrative

If people actually knew anything about the French Revolution, they wouldn’t be horny for guillotines. Like, seriously people. It’s not even hard or onerous to learn about. Just listen to the French Revolution season of the Revolutions podcast.

Fun fact- the overwhelming majority of people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror were French peasants who were killed *en masse* as a result of political power-plays between factions of the Revolutionary Government.

This is also an extremely pertinent point: China is basically the country most dependent out of anyone on the Strait of Hormuz being open for business. With Iran responding to attacks by exploding like a hornet's nest, it has essentially forced most of the developed world into alignment against it.

temperamentally, i'm not sure there's a single worse choice in the entire senate to throw into an agency that stephen miller is running in all but name; mullin gets absurdly angry at even the *suggestion* that anyone else gets to tell him what to do, he's, like, notably oppositional defiant

i think he's potentially willing to be even worse than noem, but i also think he's significantly more likely to beat the shit out of stephen miller in the oval office at some point

i'm glad noem got shitcanned, but it's probably worth mentioning that markwayne mullin is legitimately even less qualified to run DHS than noem is. noem at least had executive experience.

wonder what's going on over at fox news HQ

also sort of think the other marines who were allegedly with him and also got tattooed is a dog that hasn't barked, fwiw

it's worth looking at the calendar and remembering that this isn't when you drop the most damaging oppo you've got, you hold it until you need it, and mills doesn't need it yet, they've got five debates coming

tattooers are fucking catty bitches, man, if you give someone a nazi tattoo by *accident*, you're never, ever going to live that shit down

part of the *reason* for this is that, unless the tattooer actually *does* tattoos for nazis on the regular, no tattooer wants to end up on IG or reddit or even out in the neighborhood for having *accidentally* given someone a nazi tattoo, it makes you look terrible to potential customers and peers

my bandmate is a tattooer and i literally cannot count how many stories he has told me about having to talk customers out of an idea because of how it will be perceived — not just nazi shit, but any ill-considered idea in general. it's a service-based business!

it just enrages me to see all these asshole pundits be like, "oh, this is just dumb young man stuff". no it isn't! i literally *was* a dumb and heavily tattooed young man! i was there! those guys don't go here!

like, if you go in and want to get lightning bolts on your neck because you love frankenstein, your tattooer is going to be like, “hold up, maybe you don’t want this because”, but this *specific* design is *universally* understood to mean one and only one thing

this is what's so insulting about the obama bros or yglesias or grim claiming that this is just normal working class rough guy culture, it's not! i've had more wage jobs than all these dudes combined and have more tattoos than all of them combined, and i've only *ever* seen this on out-and-out nazis

this is also very stupid because the totenkopf, specifically, is maybe the *single* skull and crossbones design that you could pick which is *unambiguously* nazi shit, out of the infinite number of skull and crossbones designs you could get tattooed, that's the *only* one that has *no* other meaning

this whole thing is incredibly insulting to everyone's intelligence, but i'll say, from experience, that if you get a tattoo which might have even the slightest hint of a hidden meaning, every rando who thinks they know anything about tattoos is going to mention something to you about it

oil spiking, american citizens trapped in war zones, no clear offramp for an illegal war, but, sure, let's hear from the secretary of state about college football, seems like a great use of everyone's time, especially his own