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Even when his reporting seemed reasonable on other subjects, it always had major crank energy. The flashover was inevitable.

If this place isn't an echo chamber then the term has no meaning.

Civ 6 USA T Roosevelt Theme music Full YouTube video by Civtv

I was absolutely enraptured by this. For the Roosevelt character, it was an old folk song called Hard Times Come Again No More.

I remember listening to a Dan Savage podcast 15 years ago where he said something along the lines of, "I've been to plenty of poly weddings but I've never been to a poly 5th anniversary party", and nothing I've seen/heard since has caused me to question that observation.

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Baltar: [Some insane technobabble stitched together with a conversation he’s having with his dead girlfriend]

Adama: [Thinking: Fucking… whatever. Should have retired two years ago.] Fine. Lt. Gaeta will assist you.

From Gavin Newsom. 😂

A double-tap can theoretically have military value if you have a good reason to believe that the people who will swarm the area after the first attack are also valid targets, but the practical reality is so often that it's first responders that they've developed an evil reputation.

I think they call that a roof knock. A double tap has a well-understood meaning of a first attack intended to kill, and a second attack intended to kill whoever arrives in the area as a result of the first attack.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Kind of the opposite, I think - Platner is confirming that artillery is an infantryman's worst nightmare.

I would *also* be less keen to be combat infantry in an artillery-heavy war.

“We destroyed 30 ships.” Does that mean ships can pass through the strait of Hormuz? “We dropped dozens of 2K bombs on underground launchers.” Does that mean commercial airliners can fly through?

There was really no need for MMA to catch a stray in this summary.

It's the most effective martial art in human history, and covers situations wrestling does not, like "what happens after someone gets flipped onto their back?"

I might be missing the joke, but it wasn't a war crime to shoot the crew as it bailed out. They were running, not surrendering.

Definitely a war crime to shoot the SS guy who'd surrendered after hanging all those kids, though.

Hey quick question was that the goal of the war? Like, after all the ballistic missile launchers are destroyed, does the regime surrender?

>indefinitely at war with Persia

Yeah that checks out

None of these guys look like they love eating burgers. They look like MBA types who got into the burger business for money. Now Dave Thomas, that was a guy who looked obsessed with giving you the greatest square-patty burger you could ever imagine at an extremely good price.

I don't think "this is an illegal war" has much merit after Congress was given an opportunity to weigh in and explicitly refused to constrain the executive in any way.

Trump now has the consent of Congress.

"I'm at the Kurdish Uprising of '91."

"I'm at the Bay of Pigs."

"I'm at the combination Kurdish Uprising and Bay of Pigs."

My take for awhile now has been that the political spectrum is effectively a slider with empathy on one end and pragmatism on the other.

The thing is, when your empathy drops too low, one of the symptoms is in fact an inability to model a response from any other party.

It may not have been a war crime, but humiliating India by blowing up their guests is not exactly a brilliant strategy given the general state of East Asia.

Doubly so because the INC represents the only real hope of *not* having a violent Hindutva regime in South Asia for the foreseeable future.

absolutely not locking in today, sorry. loosening out, if anything

For you younger posters out there who wonder what March 2003 was like: Picture the exact way the government, Fox & CBS are acting right now BUT ALSO 70% of your neighbors and Glenn Greenwald believe them.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

'those movies where people watch a video because it's supposed to make you die in a week are unrealistic' I say as I watch another person take a Chotiner phone call

I assumed, which was silly in retrospect, that there was a plan for aerial bombardment at least as intensive as the three-month air campaign that led the Serbs to retreat from Kosovo.

"We've bombed Iran for three days and we're all out of ideas" is madness.

On reflection, the error on my part that permitted far more hope than was reasonable was that I did not comprehend #3: just how limited munitions stockpiles were.

Liz Truss was PM longer than US munitions stockpiles lasted.

You attempted to overthrow a sophisticated regime (i) on the other side of the planet (ii) using strictly air power (iii) with stockpiles for only a few days of bombing (iv) without a plan for handling retaliation and (v) without anticipating that they might simply refuse to surrender?

I forced myself to initially feel hopeful about the potential outcome of American intervention because I wanted to be better than my younger self who actively rooted for American failure in the Iraq War.

But I think I've hit my limits. The war plan was even dumber than I realized.