Ah yes "Courageous troops"

This is an underrated but really important factor, because it means that when pressure starts to build (horror of horrors) to defy orders or quit said cushy jobs, we get loud declarations that it's simply impossible and how dare anyone even ask.

This is exactly the kind of campaign directly targeting the war machine that we need more of, all around the country: mondoweiss.net/2026/02/powe...

I wish more anti-war groups around the country would pivot from symbolic marches to targeted campaigns against companies that form the pillars of the US war machine.

Pope Leo at Roman parish this afternoon: “I'm deeply concerned, and we don't know how many days it will last, about the situation in the Middle East. War again! We must pray much for peace, live in unity, and reject the temptation to harm others; violence is never the right choice.”

Okay but “CBS didn’t become conservative, liberals just stopped watching” is actually worse for a television network

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

It's a sign of an administration that has no understanding of power other than 'Celebrity' as a barometer.

The Iranian air defenses are countering the American and Israeli airstrikes. Footage from recent minutes 👇

mainstream democrats have no compunction about attacking iran, their only complaint is that they didn't get a chance to say "yes"

I can’t get too deep into it because I use this story for stand-up but I shit you not when I say that nothing both surprised me more & also taught me about how the world works than being approached by a recruiter when I was a freshman in community college & it was my high school bully

This infantilization over past years about “doomscrolling”, and “not seeping into despair” is so... You need to feel uncomfortable. The ignorance is bliss mentality that brown people can watch their own innocents being killed, but you got to take a mental health break every time from reading news?

nazis frothing at the mouth in bloodlust swinging their war boners around liberals glad it happened but mildly disapproving of the lack of paperwork socialists being told to shut up about it because it risks the midterms somehow. yep just like every other resource war of imperialist aggression

Without any exaggeration, he is one one of the most cancerous people to become a Democratic Senator in my life. No one pretends Fetterman is a hero but this clown...

Democrats love all the same shit, just with a veneer of legitimacy

Tehran. Heavy strikes.

“the US military is a smol bean who just wanted to go to college” we just murdered 80 schoolgirls

Mass shootings are inherently fascist. In the country that is home to the most billionaires and imperialist warmongers, we have come to expect indiscriminate violence against schools, Black churches, shopping centers, movie theaters, concerts, and night clubs. The violent are not targeted.

Horrors everywhere you look. This is life in the dying empire.

rip timothy jr, jimothy and plimothy mcveigh. the mcveigh triplets

I'm going to hold off my praise for the military because I'm not sure I believe they would disobey orders to attack Americans if Trump commanded it.

It was “promised 3000 years ago” but also they gotta get on a plane and go back to their homes in Europe and America now, cuz bombs.

90% chance a MAGA gold star parent would hang a boilerplate autopen letter from 'Trump' above their kid's triangular flag. They'd probably be more giddy about possibly getting to meet him than sad they lost their child or mad he made their kid die. The republican party is a death cult.

straight up, theres a chance that even if their own kid died they would still say that they're fine because they died "for their country". this is how they think the world should work. this is the world they think they want.

She (like you) still think the US can act as a benevolent empire. There are no benevolent empires. The problem is empire. Arming your friends to fight your enemies is empire. Read some books.

This is a bit depressing. Even the anti-imperialist US Americans want to keep doing imperialism. Imperialism-lite is less of an upgrade than you think.

This is what the standard socdem thinks, they are wrong, don’t know why they’re wrong, and refuse to read a single thing to learn why they’re wrong. In essence, they will cave to everything in congress and change nothing, but they’ll make some pretty progressive speeches!!

Those are rookie numbers, gotta get those numbers WAY up

Dying for a pedophile in an illegal war? lol. Sucks 2 suck. Try ignoring illegal orders next time.

Look at this evil moron

They don’t care, don’t you get it? Until one of their children is drafted into the army and blown up and sent home in a box, they will never care about the amount of carnage and terror America rains down on the world. They are bloodthirsty cowards who live in constant fear and panic

Amazing how the US has never been involved in any imperial warmongering until now. I'll inform the people of Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Syria and Libya to name a few

I don't like the guy, but when he's right he's right.

They fell over the side of the USS Gerald Ford whilst trying to take a shit

Why did Iran hit Beit Shemesh? Sdot Micha Airbase, the “secretive” Israeli Air Force missile base and storage depot, officially known as Wing 2 or Area 209, whose existence Israel neither confirms nor denies, is located right next to Beit Shemesh in the Jerusalem District.

you shouldn't be all for any sort of gambling, since it ruins lives and is a spit in the face of all the workers who actually created the 'wealth' being arbitrarily thrown around

If people want to gamble on something not human controlled like the timing of an earthquake, I'm all for it. All these "prediction" markets for human influenced events are offering payment to make the thing happen... when making the thing happen would require crime that should be criminal.

folks we’re going to see some wild litigation between the world’s worst people

a non-zero chance someone outs themselves as using classified information for their gambling addiction in their own lawsuit. can’t wait.

oh fuck oh no did some american soldiers die when the US ordered israel to bomb iran? that's so weird, what were they doing in iran

in no reality am i going to prioritise the precious feelings of men and women who signed up to power the imperial blood machine, in no reality do they matter anywhere as much as the people they slaughter. even setting up the comparison makes me sound stupid because there simply isn't one.

i don't care about your troops. quit or die. you are evil

não acredita em meritocracia mas acredita que "a esquerda só vai conseguir vencer quando finalmente dominar as estratégias de comunicação dentro das redes sociais"

#BREAKING | A drone crashed directly into the American base in Kuwait.

More, please!

Don't get it twisted: The claim that Trump tried diplomacy is bs. In fact it was Trump who ordered the bombing of Iran in a joint operation with Israel on Saturday while US and Iranian negotiators were still engaged in talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. Don't believe their lies.

These people always speak as if they were drafted or some shit. There hasn’t been a draft in a long time. They all volunteered for murder factory.