This whole article is insane, but this one part stood out. Is it an argument for Witkoff negotiating with the russians instead of actual career diplomats, or is it advocating to replace Churchill with a literal birthday clown in 1943? Who can tell?

You see, this is why I can only live in Alberta.

So much of Trumpian foreign policy seems to come from a fever dream where some 1940s technology is the result of American Exceptionalism (and russian, Chinese, British, French, and okay, also Indian, Pakistani, Israeli, DPRK...). Other countries without it should just accept they're lesser.

The world wide non-Epstein Class rn:

I know we’re just starting to go through the files, but I just have to say, Epstein had a really unique taste in interior design that I’ve never seen elsewhere.

The guy only posts bangers, but this thread, wow.

This is the way. The path to peace for the Free World lies in constructing and supplying an orc flesh grinding machine across the Ukrainian front. russia has agency, and unfortunately they have chosen to use that to waste generations of their people. We must help them meet their destiny.

my negotiation strategy with russia is kill more russians

Unilaterally declaring a No-Fly zone and a naval blockade of a foreign country that didn't commit any act of aggression against us is conduct unbecomming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

it drives me crazy that the preferred solution for these guys to ostensibly avoid war is to return to the world order and social structures that gave us 100% of prior World Wars

I often think about this video that the Three Arrows YT channel uploaded 6 long years ago. In the timestamped link, he explores the discourse in a "hypothetical country" that is grappling with how to deal with an influx of asylum seekers. The segment is only a couple minutes long and worth watching.

We should drive them out of power and if they keep fighting after that we should run over them with tanks

It’s why it isn’t just imperative for Ukraine’s survival that Russia is defeated on the battlefield, but that it happens in such away to set the conditions for Russia to be broken up & its population reeducated to reality. If the latter is even possible. 5/

Eagle Nebula. I get what they were going for, but that's more of an outraged turkey vulture. And to be honest it should be Advertising Studio-Lit Display of a Sex Toy Nebula.

It was unacceptable to do this to terrorists. It is unfathomable that this would be done to migrants.

A lot of well meaning people in the US still don't *get it.* As I mentioned before, there are long-term attitudinal shifts happening amongst US allies - and they are happening at all levels of society. Trust has been burned. Countries have been humiliated, sneered at, dismissed as losers.

Imagine the "cutting Starlink while a Ukrainian strike package is inbound" incident if he also had a few million hedged on "failed Ukrainian strike in the Black Sea"

I don't think "assume Republicans are acting in good faith" should be a legal requirement for evaluating their actions.

One of the great things about South Park's decision to take on the Trump regime is their incredibly nimble production cycle, allowing them to spend an entire episode attacking Pete Hegseth while he's in the news.

When I look back at photos of cities like London shrouded in smog, I think to myself that our children will look back at our information environment and marvel at the pollution we tolerate.

This entire leadup to war with Venezuela keeps making me feel like I'm 15 again, screaming at Colin Powell through the TV. "Artist's renditions? Are you f*cking kidding me??"

"Professor Summers, are you scheming to fuck anyone in this class right now?" or "What does the nickname 'Peril' mean?" are two questions I would love to hear a student ask.

That “with your permission we’re going to move forward” without actually stopping and getting permission is his favourite pickup line.

The great thing about how nakedly terrified Trump has been of the Epstein Files so far is that if there’s not a smoking gun in it, we’ll know it’s because they purged it, and his base knows that too.

It’s not an “ideal complement”. I keep seeing this stuff. It’s a 4.5 generation aircraft. The F-35 is markedly superior by most measures. It is flown by almost all of our major allies. It is extremely advanced & supported by a global spares system. But with Trump, the Gripen is the right move.

“The justification is survival”. This is the dumbest shit I’ve heard today. The US doesn’t get an SMO as a treat. The russians being orcs doesn’t justify other countries being orcs. This is vatnik-tier delusion.

What's up with Paul Gosar?? Is it meth?

You see how they write headlines that don't hedge when someone can't punch back.

This is what non-interventionism looks like. The slaughter of innocents.

Probably a good way to manage Trump, but imagine if Carney did this. It would be catastrophic domestically. Especially after the debacle with the Korean factory workers getting kidnapped.

What do you think a guy with a Nazi tattoo means when he says oligarchy

Guys, I swear, there's candidates just as good as Platner that didn't proudly have a Nazi tattoo for 20 or was a Blackwater merc. Its 8 months from the primary...what the fuck are we even doing here?

I reject the notion that we must coddle and support people who don’t want to live near people who speak other languages, and it’s not clear to me how this is significantly different than “it’s fine not to want to live next door to someone of a different ethnicity or religion.”

These lefties trying to find a way to say "no actually see, Ukraine is all Nazis" are exhausting. No, it isn't. No, we don't care about your weird-ass conspiracy theories. Yes, we know it's just soviet pining. Fuck off and simp harder for Platner.

No kings but Zohran.

I'd be so mad if I was Canadian. Trump is taking away your chance to burn it down again.

My feelings about my military service are complicated and ever evolving, but one thing that I’m certain of is that my experience of war, of doing violence and having violence done to me, all for no reason whatsoever in the end, has left me with an almost crippling empathy for my fellow human beings.

This guy is truly the best to ever do it. I wake up every morning with a faint malaise until I check to confirm that the sun has risen and derek remains on our side.

I don’t understand why some people’s reaction to Platner is “well that seems kind of implausible, but I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt”. If there’s anywhere you should have low trust to the point of seeing conspiracy theories, it’s around Nazis. They conspire. It’s what they do.

*person handing me a shit sandwich with wonder bread and shit smeared on both pieces of bread and more shit on top of that with a diarrhea condiment*: what are you? a sandwich purist?

Bernie's implication that a veteran is just expected and allowed to be awash with toxic masculinity had me thinking today about the time I read @lorencrowe.bsky.social (one of the gayer men [laudatory] I'm aware of)'s jaw-dropping Silver Star citation.

It really concerns me how getting a Nazi chest tattoo is being described today as just a youthful indiscretion. I think the state of X is responsible for a lot of it. DUI with resisting and assault on an officer is a youthful indiscretion. Nazi chest tattoos get you lined up by the wall.

What a contrast to what he has to say about the heroes defending Ukraine.

It's wild to see how many Calgarians hate blanket rezoning. Like "fuck the 'character of your neighborhood' Barbara, we're building housing now". Nothing makes me welcome a metaverse of boomers jacked up on soma like people fighting to live in a sea of bungalows until the end of days. #Calgary

Why do all these people look like russophiles? By which I mean pedophiles. Why do all these people look like pedophiles?

Congratulations to the people of Madagascar after the president flees the country. The military refused orders to fire on and instead joined the demonstrators, of whom 22 had already been killed. Heroyam slava.

Sometimes, when I talk to people, I feel like a boxing couch watching his fighter stand puzzled as he takes haymaker after haymaker. On the buzzer, I advise them to defend themselves, but they stubbornly insist that protecting themselves would be a provocation. The judges, they think, will admire it

Seeing him defeat the legal system is a crucial factor in all this, yes. It made various actors less concerned about punishment for lawbreaking, and less confident that the law can protect them.