I look forward to American recognition of the separatist people's republics (kill me)

Kinetic decarbonization underway

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

i think basically that I wouldn't care about the war if it was just a matter of gas prices going up by a dollar right now and six american soldiers dying. This sort of rhetoric just makes it so easy to not give a shit, it encourages total political apathy

The insider betting machine is now allowing government employees to bet on the use of thermonuclear weapons thereby financially tying the use of thermonuclear weapons to an unregulated betting market that has already been shown to be used by governmental entities to make massive money of decisions.

Any argument that it should not be legally permissible to buy a property previously used as a church and repurpose it as a mosque is an argument that this property, perhaps because of its cultural significance, should not be tradable at all, or controlled by any sort of priest.

Really really noteworthy that in Foushee's victory announcement she mentions ending arm sales to Israel as being something her constituents want— she already is a cosponsor of Block The Bombs Act but this is the kind of rhetoric that you likely wouldn't see without her barely winning against Nida.

Btw if I were a soldier and my commanding officer started schizoyapping about a crusade to bring the end times, I would consider this incontrovertible evidence I'm about to die in the stupidest way possible for no benefit or legible purpose whatsoever and instantly desert.

People can’t grasp that Christianity is like 2,000 different religions wearing a trench coat.

The gulf countries doing the "I'm not touching you" routine are ridiculous. There are armed attacks launched against Iran from military installations in their territory, with their express consent, by a hostile state. They are voluntary co-belligerents in a war of aggression.

It is really hard sometimes to keep the big picture in mind but whereas it was noteworthy that just two people were elected to Congress in 2018 who were openly and hyper critical of Israel, in 2026 it will be more than two dozen.

One of the overwhelming biases of the right is basically that their preferred, often personalist, top-down hierarchies are the only mode of organisation possible, along with the erroneous inference that, therefore, the leader is paramount even in the context of institutionally mature structures.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Best part of all of this is that Jasmine Crockett's successor in the House will be a Black pastor who called Israel an apartheid state in Oct 2023

God aipac must be so mad right now lol

It took a few hundred dead schoolchildren, but the US may have managed to replace Khamenei with Khamenei. Lib-presenting warmongers rejoice.

We also just murdered this guy’s parents, his wife, and his son so good luck getting a peace deal

-We await your orders, Ayatollah -[resigned voice of one who has to deal with US - Israel] send the gas prices to paradise

Frankly, a lot of what is happening here is that many US Liberal Jews have views about Israel that do not fit into a liberal framework of universalist human rights, they find this acutely uncomfortable, and so there is a lot of special pleading and contortion to try and obscure that from themselves.

A baseline approach which enforces minimum of international law (*all* settlements are illegal, *trade* with those settlements is illegal, *arms dealing* that involves end-use in the oPT is illegal) is punitive insofar as it means Israeli Jews no longer have zero consequences for ruling my people.

You can be overdramatic in your responses here but at core Nathan gets at the core of a certain problem here: unless you actually literally do agree with the Israeli assessment of the situation, you are not required to coddle it.

They are not obliged to send it weapons, they are not obliged to back its adventurism abroad, they are not obliged to do anything to facilitate those delusions.

I'm not really taking a position on whether what Akiva said slots into what Nathan is talking about because I dont know Akiva well enough, but here goes, here's what yall are missing about N's post: if a country has delusional opinions about what makes it safe, others arent obliged to indulge it.

*Just in the LAST WEEK*: - Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them - Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license - Scouts agreed to ban trans kids - Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids - SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents

All power to President Sanchez

The real existential threat to the labour party are not the greens, it's the labour party itself, which is a bit of a problem for them, because you can not ruthlessly smear yourself to save yourself from your own dreadful public image.

On the mark

hop in boys we’re doing a crusade

They got Aaron Rupar posting like this it's so over

When I see people defend starting a war (a process in which the grave violation of peoples' rights at scale is inevitable even when pursued with the utmost care for jus in bello) to "protect peoples' rights", Glados starts singing in my head: "For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead"

Trump lied, school girls died.

Don't occupy Iran, just change the regime immediately

Iranian attacks on US and UK bases in the gulf countries and Cyprus are actually legal. There are armed attacks that constitute acts of aggression against it coming from the territory of those countries, with the consent of those countries. These are valid military targets in ongoing hostilities!

as far as I can tell the US wants Iran to become Venezuela, while Israel wants it to become Libya

Gender critical folks also don't believe us when we tell them "sex-based rights" is an idea they themselves made up in just the last handful of years.

The goal *is* the wasteland-ification of much of MENA so that Israel and the Emirates can rule over rubble.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

tbh I'd like Martin to take a break from not working on winds of winter to focus on various ASOIAF prequels, to instead not work on winds of winter to focus on a story set in the far future of the ASOIAF world

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

That's why we pay the CIA the big bucks, to deliver hard hitting news like this Also doesn't hurt to target opposition figures like Mousavi and to hit political prisoner wings in Evin too! That way you ensure there's no legitimate opposition figures available, just clowns in Fairfax.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s... "There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

his time is eternal. www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/s...

greens aren't against air travel. we just think frequent fliers should be levied. this wouldn't impact the average person going on holiday once a year. just the ppl who use flights like taxis.

As we plunge headlong into another catastrophic war, Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries’ throat clearing and process critique only serves Trump and the war machine. Democrats should speak clearly and with one voice: no war.

The LANCET cover, March 2026, says it all... RFK Jr’s “radical transparency”: comments scrapped, advisers & whistleblower gone, data buried, junk science elevated, states rejecting CDC guidance. Trust: 83% → 63% Every congress member who enabled this bears generational blame for U.S. health.

I remember when someone told me two and a half weeks ago that the US and Israel would never indiscriminately bomb Iran