Under Trump America stopped fighting its own wars in the Middle East, and switched to fighting the wars of its most valued allies and clients in the region - Israel and the Saudis. During his first term Trump started renting out the US military as mercenaries to his buddies.

Okay now let’s apply that theory to Crimea and the Donbass

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

The urge to make a British Union of Fascists force for "A Very British Civil War", and make the force leader a fat comedy writer who's really angry about his divorce.

I'm skeptical about products called AI, but this is nevertheless a good example of why companies are leaving money on the table by not taking advantage of the anti-Trump consumers out there.

The Median Voter

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

This is... interesting. People who have just enough ethics to switch their LLM use, but not enough ethics to stop using LLMs (on their phones, so this is probably not even work use). The people bragging about their new ethical stance on X, home of CSAM Grok and DOGE Musk, are especially fascinating.

These soldiers died for a war no one wants, for a war no one is entirely sure why we are fighting and for a commander-in-chief who basically said at the start: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

While operations are coordinated at a members-only, private beach club — in between fundraisers and parties.

One of the most insane things about this line of argument is that Harris has put out of the strongest anti-war statements of any prominent Democratic politician.

Also while America has been a bad ally recently, they're still a better ally than Russia or China. Seriously despite all their dealings with Iran they have basically left them to hang out to dry.

Putin doesn't just want Ukraine. They want Ukraine, the Baltic states, and the east bank of the Vistula because they'll soon have too few young men to defend their current border (probably already the case). From that position, there is no peace treaty they can accept.

The (not) funny thing is that current American leadership is making similar arguments about Canadians.

An important part of Putin's ideology is that Ukraine is not a real identity. he said as much to Bush in 2008 when he called it an "artificial country." He will not be satisfied unless Ukraine is just "the border province of Russia" and Ukrainians are treated as "just Russians who got notions"

Take Ukraine. There is a reason one of their major demands for peace with Russia is membership in NATO/EU because that would be the easiest and most effective way to deter future Russian invasions. And it's also why Russia is wholeheartedly against it.

so it’s been an open secret shes an out of control alcoholic for a while but it seems notable that it’s gotten so bad that Omar’s aware of specific times her staff tried get her to Log Off

Turns out that "learn to code" was not such great career advice

uhhh oh my god

This basically has the same amount of support for annexing Greenland.

I guess i have to remember that legalizing the killing and eating of children would probably poll well with 1/5 of respondents

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If you see this post a Knight.

In "fairness," it does come from a fairly accurate read of the electorate. "Authoritarianism but I get to live in Star Trek off the backs of an oppressed low wage migrant class we can tyrannize at will" is basically what the 2024 election said people wanted.

Trump does unpopular thing in direct violation of a campaign promise, part #976348 It’s not a mystery why his approval rating is 37% and Dems are leading by 10 on the generic ballot in our latest poll. Break enough promises and people start to notice

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

Harsh, but true.

So very close...

Reading the "What if" and then reading the "Summary" gave me literal whiplash.

Fucking Ferguson.

Georgia's regime shut down its best university, criminalized foreign funding, and made it illegal to protest on a sidewalk more than once—all in weeks. Georgians have protested daily for 450 days. Regime's response: go after everything at once. Universities, NGOs, pharmacies, car imports, sidewalks

Yes in this particular moment the blame is 99.9% on Republicans. A dozen R’s in Congress could together end this presidency now

Don't let this get lost in the news deluge: Israel is using the Iran bombing as an excuse to starve Gazans of food, water and medical supplies.

Guys, China’s risk calculus on Taiwan is not determined by some global scale of the acceptability of aggression

Its "luck" in that he's President of the most OP country at a time with lots of countries in precarious positions. Why did Trump attack Iran? Because they couldn't stop him. Why did Trump attack VZ? Because they couldn't stop him. Why will Trump attack Cuba? You get it.

Operation Sea Lion remains implausible.

tapping the "they need sealift capacity" sign

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

Interesting that the fiercest defenders of Israel's "right" to occupy the land of three or four different countries at once are also of the belief that Ukrainians don't want to live under Ukrainian rule.

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meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Like there is a bunch of guys who created their own website just to yell at Dems about polls. They occasionally jump onto Bsky to yell at us about polls! Are they jumping on Truth Social to yell about Trump's bad polls?

If Khamenei is dead - and presumably has been dead potentially all day, the fact that the Iranian military has been continuing to launch strikes (and is reportedly launching more as I type this) should give anyone thinking otherwise pause about how likely his death is to lead to regime collapse.

Its really cool how people will scream at the Democrats about polling numbers, but Trump can just do what he wants regardless of polls and no one seems to feel the need to scream at him.

Historically, these are TERRIBLE polling numbers for day 1 of a major US use of force, particularly against a well known and disliked adversary. Usually it only goes down from the start

on one level, there are a lot of geopolitical factors at play and I have no idea what direction politics will take in the wake of this devastating change to the global status quo and on the other level, it's bad when the evil guy does a war even if the other side is also bad guys

I do not for the life of me know how I got on this list. It happened in the last 7 hours so I am not sure what right wing opinion I said (given what everyone has been posting about today). I certainly didn't say a god damn thing about UFOs like wtf?