This shit Bouie touched off is shameful, and whether he wanted it to happen or he's simply thin-skinned, got angry, and didn't give a shit is irrelevant.

Pair the below with this and it seems the "plan," to the extent there is one, is to hope Iran descends into chaos as no clear successor makes competing factions fight for power. Good odds what happens instead is the current structure remains but with a more radicalized leadership.

Israel loves two things: bombing schools and bombing hospitals

is going "hmm i don't know about this, need a better explanation" on an issue polling at 20% popularism

For those in the US, the correct position is to be anti-war and anti-imperialist. The US does not have the right to conduct regime change to either destroy the country or install a puppet. If US sanctions / war are constantly on the neck of the Iranian people, how can they ever achieve freedom.

libs can plausibly be smug over Trump's terrible immigration policy but trying to stick it to the left over Venezuela and Iran is kind of ridiculous considering both the Democratic Party's history and WHAT THEY KEEP SAYING RIGHT NOW

Tbh this is cultural whiteness in a nutshell "Something bad happened, my feelings are hurt, therefore I am owed the murder, destruction, and suffering of every living thing until I feel satiated" I Keep telling yall- republican jesus is a blood god that only understands sadism and consumption

It's incredible how often this claim is made. Settlers are members of the Israeli cabinet, hold the finance ministry and much of the defense ministry, are in charge of the national command of the police, and there are settlers who have served on the high court. The president himself is pro-settler.

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top. just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

Thing is, we don't actually know that it's good for anybody, and conceding this in Trump's favor isn't helpful. Yes, everyone at the top of the Iranian government was bad. But this does not necessarily mean unilaterally killing them improves the situation! It could make it much worse!

The idea that Israel wants a Middle Eastern Mandela is genuinely ludicrous. They have Marwan Barghouti locked in a dungeon.

I actually could not be convinced to bomb a little girls' school under any circumstances

It meant nothing. He was thrown into the meatgrinder for capital and you probably cheered as it happened

today on bluesky, multiple pundits tried to mulch a trans woman in a failed attempt to curry favor with the NYT. the NYT was too busy manufacturing consent for murdering school children with fire bombs to notice. so it goes.

this is not a difficult concept if you equally value all human life. children in countries outside the imperial core don’t deserve to be murdered. Renaming the DoD to the Department of War is perhaps the most honest thing Trump has ever done.

You know, at first I didn’t particularly buy the idea that the New York Times keeps a small handful of progressives around as controlled opposition to shield their org against principled critique. Sounded too elaborate. Imagine my shock when that exact scenario played out today on Bluesky.

[8 months of nonstop war crimes later] ah well nevertheless

lol, come on, man. 1. Iraq and Iran are different countries? 2. Dude died because his tank fell into a river!

Yeah we're going to kill the government officials, also we're going to kill the opposition, also we're going to kill the retired politicians, also we're going to bomb a school of children.

Easy way to determine whether someone is a bloodthirsty hack or not is to ask them how Ahmadinejad was a military target

Look do I like that my job makes me harvest children? No, of course not. Do I like that the company I work for is the #1 child harvester on earth? Doubly no. But I had no control over any of that when I took a multi-month application to work at Child Harvester Inc.

Do liberals know that people in other countries are human beings? Like, do they actually know that? Genuine question.

As a veteran, you can kiss my ass with that shit. I’m sick of it. This kind of propaganda has been getting people killed my entire life. And the thing I hate about myself the most is that I bought it at one point. Civilian lives, especially children, matter more than any soldiers “sacrifice”.

ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

JD Vance’s close friend 👇

one of the funniest "stupid evolutions of language" things is how "tankies" is now just used to mean "critics of imperialist wars"

Harris declared Iran the number one enemy of the United States but okay

This is a reminder: when ICE says someone rammed their vehicle for no reason, they're almost certainly lying. If people were out there trying to harm ICE agents, they wouldn't be trying to hit massive SUVs with their cars. That math just doesn't work.

The absolute worst crime a politician can commit here is telling the press they wouldn’t immediately punch the big red “bomb” button if they were in charge

Iranian people aren't NPCs that we get to just trade for our own convenience. The whole point of war as a LAST resort is that in war, innocent people die. So even if every civilian death is necessary to accomplish your military aims, even if "collateral damage" is minimal...THAT'S STILL MURDER.

the world has never been less safe, it makes you feel crazy watching people cheer on war and destruction and destablization for profit and land. one day it will end

We not only killed the leader of a sovereign nation we killed his daughter his grandson his son and law, many civilians and children It’s despicable

Not to stan too hard for my friends, but this remains a top-of-all-time anarchist banner:

The only courageous military members are the ones that refuse to commit war crimes and the ones that blow the whistle on war crimes. And along with that, the only veterans that deserve respect, are the ones that come out of service as anti-war.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

"if you quit things are hard" oh is that right. it's brave to kill kids if it would get you in trouble to refuse to do it, is that right. that's okay then. cheer the very brave soldiers, doing the most convenient thing for themselves even if it is evil

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

I think “most normal people cannot be expected to remember who all the Nazis are” is a valid point only in conjunction with “so the best way to avoid retweeting a Nazi is to get off X, the 1488 app”

Read please

For my entire life, the people protesting US wars have always been ultimately vindicated and that being right is completely forgotten when the next war comes.

“telling an ICE agent to quit? during the worst job market in years?? why that’s just not reasonable!”

Starting to think all these people defending the New York Times might also support all the evil it has advocated in favor of for decades.

One thing Bluesky has really demonstrated to me is how ossified the policy apparatus is. Any suggestion that left-leaning foreign or economic policy has merit is dismissed as unserious out of hand; the only acceptable solutions to social problems are deregulation at home and hegemony abroad

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

If the assumption of the Israelis is that they can expand the mowing of the graas doctrine out to the entire Middle East, from Tunisia to Iran, permanently, they will end up being wrong sooner rather than later.

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation