Rewatched Russian Doll this week and it was very apparent to me that every single character in it would have voted for Trump by 2024 if not 2020.

Policing is a necessary social good, so I'm not on the "abolish police" train, but I'm all for "use federal authority under the Guarantee Clause to dissolve all state and local police forces, and replace them with Dem Juche loyalists"

dunno if 10 hours of livestreamed garment rending and teeth gnashing by the weirdest people on earth is gonna change the fact that they woke all their dragons day one. you're already literally invading america! oh is a second set of gloves coming off? have we seen the end of your famous restraint

It’s unfortunately become pretty clear that the defence establishment is living on another fucking planet.

technologically advance a band Jefferson Starship

donald trump is bad relative to 'we gave every convicted felon in the united states a slip of paper with a number on it, drew one of those numbers at 8 PM on the first tuesday in november, and declared the winner our new president.'

G’night friends.

I used to be really into fandom versus forums when I was a teenager, and almost without exception all the most dishonest shitheads in debates about Star Trek or Halo or whatever always ended up being MAGA later on.

the running joke is that samuel huntington has a theory of the apolitical military professional who basically does whatever civilians say and do even if it's unethical/political to everyone with eyes and ears

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

when computer people say something has a ‘simple solution’ half the time it’s “change two things in system settings” and the other half it’s “first, install Linux”

feminist IR undefeated. honestly feminist IR didn't need critical theory for most of it. pure empiricism works well

Wow. Finally, someone answered the question of what the Gettysburg Address would have been like if everyone involved had lead poisoning.

Gay

This is woke

Because AirPower is feminine, real men attack without air based fires

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t avoiding this exact situation the reason freedom of speech was so widely agreed to be so precious and inviolable by our side?

Low key the best part of Skyrim is how the rebels are like WE FIGHT FOR THE OLD WAYS TO PRESERVE OUR WAY OF LIFE FROM GAY ELF SHIT LIKE MAGIC AND BOOKS and if you pay literally any attention to the game at all, you notice reactionary Nord culture is a post-Oblivion invention.

Technologically advance a band: Videohead

The idea of forcefully retaking Bagram is so crazy because if would basically be a recreation of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ except with the added modifier that your enemies also have all the thermal optics you left behind

All the Taliban fighters who were bored their office jobs after winning hearing about the Bagram news:

yeah people who work professionally in politics can’t say this for a variety of reasons, but I’m just some guy so I can: by now the data shows that Trump has a lot of marginal low-turnout voter support, persuading them to *not vote* is basically as good as getting them to switch.

a literal cabal of nazi pedophiles have declared war on us and don't you just wish someone would actually *fight* that war on your side, and maybe *win* it, too, for a change

Playing with a propane torch in a wet jungle versus sparking with flint on a drought stricken field of tall grass.

corporate leaders prefer it to having to keep their hands off their secretaries

“Young woman converts to heinous clown world distortion of Christianity on the monied behest of an atheist who romanticizes and champions the antichrist” is truly beyond parody. Bleak stuff.

worth noting that the magazine she quotes here is literally a peter thiel tradcath funded psyop. gotta say, it is not good being on a website that lets you get flooded by this sort of shit constantly.

Why does the government think there’s some kind of useful middle ground between recognizing Palestine and recognizing the genocide Israel is committing there?

Yes, I checked, this is actually real lol

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening

this is just two solid minutes of him being a total piece of shit.

I enjoy how sometimes you see left of center people talk about "the excesses of peak woke" like they're talking about the Great Terror or Stalin's Purges

CUSMA negotiations going that badly huh

fundamentally, the modern new right is Schmittian and i'm not sure our contemporary domestic or international political elites know how to rationalize this tbh

It is kinda funny that they made the F-35 Good Actually just in time for the entire techno-strategic globalized empire it was built around to start collapsing.

The calamity of the 12th century for islamic civilization is really one of those wild things when you put all the pieces of what was happening together

We really do have a giant accountability crisis, made worse by the fact some of this is so insane that it's makes you sound even more insane that people haven't been punished for it

The funniest thing about intra-left anglosphere political disputes is that both sides are basically mad at the other for not doing Clintonism hard enough. ‘No YOU abandoned working class kitchen table politics to chase boutique activist causes!’

The Interregnum is great because everybody knew the world was in the middle of an existential transition away from the Old Order but nobody knew what was going to come out the other side yet, so you just get this endless insanity bubbling up everywhere.

During the 1930s and 40s the punditocracy would throw out shit like "we need a world federation governed by an aerial world congress of the SKIES" and now they can't even imagine reforming the Supreme Court or Renovating the Palace of Westminster

A new party! How does he come up with these brilliant and original ideas?

Always a red flag when an author finds something in the world that annoys them and calls it a “religion”

In this regard we are as British as we ever were

Isn’t the Egyptian regime staunchly pro Israel? What is going on?

The old men of the Bolshevik Revolution were in their *forties*. It's shocking how many people in small-d democratic politics are willing to keep talent sidelined to keep leaders in their 70s and 80s in the big chair. The few "young" political leaders we have are almost always the bootlicks, too.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

These guys yearn for a world where every land is a prison and we ought to howl like football ultras for the one we're trapped in out of love for its barbed wire

Whatever your feelings on communism and anticommunism, I think we should all agree no left of center candidates should have a KGB file in the future for the simple reason the USSR was dissolved on December 26, 1991 and the KGB did not keep files on twelve year-olds.