By this logic, the government should be on 4Chan. A fucking insane position to take after the last couple of days.

For at least a decade we've been in the period of American history that will cause later historians to say "a lot of these stories have to be false" like Suetonius writing about Caligula and Nero

"why isn't the csam machine making more headlines?" brother it is extremely simple; the people that make the headlines are addicted to the website that built the csam machine

miller is truly just a dead-eyed Nazi freak. this shit makes no sense to normal people. just insane grievance coming from the richest country in the history of the planet. this man clearly has some bespoke pathological mental disorder.

"Vassal" talk is a bit much, but those Starmer (and other EU leaders tbf) statements read like all these people still believe, if we can just hold our breath for three more years, this nightmare will be over and we'll be back to singing Atlantic Kumbaya

the NYT (and WaPo but that’s less interesting) knowing about this ahead of time and spiking the story preemptively without even so much as an angry call from the pentagon tells you about where the american journalistic class is.

i'm increasingly convinced this is all a fucking pantomime so these guys get to feel strong and the remaining officials in maduro's government get to excise him and try to clean up their image by opposing trump

#Bloodborne Our eyes are yet to open

Remember: It is a mystery to every journalist and pundit why this Labour government are so roundly and universally detested.

It’s sobering to look back on the run-up to the Iraq war—a period of unceasing chattering-class debate, elaborate official lies, media complicity, unavailing global protest, in the end a giant stitch-up—and have it seem like some sort of paradise of public deliberation compared to these gangsters.

Rubio seems to have managed to convince Miller to go after VZ because it murders brown people, Hegseth because it's a war crime, and Trump because it's a rape which no one can contest

Even the so-called distractions now have distractions. You might want to consider that these are not distractions. At all.

It’s amazing how no one remembers the ancient history of February 24, 2022. They tried to do exactly that with Spetsnaz units, who were shot to pieces by the Ukrainian National Guard at Hostomel Airport.

there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.

Disgusting violation of basic sovereignty and I hope everyone who hedges even one bit on this has their careers ruined in the end

European and Canadian politicians tomorrow when they get asked to comment on this

Maduro has overseen the largest refugee crisis in Latin America, and at one point the second largest in the world. That still does not allow Trump to launch military attacks against a sovereign nation. If the benchmark was the leader was an inhumane arse then everyone would be invading America.

Wait, what?

I think the rapid capture of Maduro bodes very poorly for American democracy and the world. All questions of legality will be swept aside, and it will be treated as vindication for further military adventures If this was as quick and bloodless as it seems, why not solve all their problems this way?

[january 3rd voice] god what a fucking year

its about oil but not in the sense of them wanting to get rich off Venezuelan oil(it sucks) so much as them wanting to feel like big boys and taking back what they see as rightfully theirs

You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.

This feels like a culmination of several deep pathologies: congressional passivity, executive aggrandizement, national security exceptionalism, politics as theater, war as theater.

Most of the derangement about Mamdani is for the obvious reasons but part of it is also that a surprising amount of people were committed to the Cuomo rehabilitation project because they hated the idea that anything could have consequences for men of the right class.

There have been no good reasons for staying on Twitter for years now, but at this point you will have to follow up any of your remaining excuses with “…and I don’t care about the child pornography.”

Oh well, at least we made operating a small forum so potentially legally onerous a load of people gave up.

as we've now learnt, the implausible part of the Emperor's appearance is that his staff should be claiming he's in the best health of any politician ever, and he should regularly be referencing his own physicals.

So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

The NYC Caliphate has begun in the year 1447 AH

happy new year!

just out and out blood libel style scapegoating against somalis at this point

It's not about immigration, never has been. Immigration is just the acceptable way into a debate about far darker policies. Just look at how remigration is seeping into acceptable discourse. Labour needs to stop chasing these voters, they're gone, no way to satisfy them that isn't monstrous

Attempting to strip someone of citizenship is always a transparent and hopeless effort to avoid responsibility for the underlying problem you claim to object to. Their citizenship is *why* they can be held accountable for the actions you object to.

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

I always hated people using the term PDF File as a euphemism for pedophile but Trump being 100% confirmed as a pedophile because of the sloppy retractions in a PDF file is making me lose my mind

its all just so stupid that it loops back around to being believable

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"I was only involved with the criminal financial part of Epstein's dealings, not the other stuff" will be an interesting position a lot of these guys are going to take.

As people who actually followed up on Iraq realized, 'war for oil' is not only abhorrent but ineffective; from an oil company perspective it's a huge investment into inherently uncertain circumstances

its p funny seeing Trump turn into Dubya 2, both the real and the caricature.

kinda funny how we just kind of hate everyone. only person that isn't net negative can't even really get into parliament lol

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

America and China are more alike than they are different, point 105, I guess. ”Elon Musk is becoming a role model” is a sentence that should have everyone involved quarantined