I am so relieved Hegseth has reassured me this won’t be a quagmire!

Seriously. Before 2024 it was not unreasonable to think that owning your own nuclear weapons was an unreasonable expense given the cost and global situation. But now, given that the largest nuclear powers are behaving like freaks it’s at least worth considering. Get some numbers on n paper, at least

Moral injury doesn’t exist in a vacuum. I think most people with a functioning brain can agree that moral injury in the military often begins with leaders’ cavalier attitudes towards ROE & the LOAC.

📜 From Old Books, 18th Century "O Lord, whose holy Name is the Most Compassionate to all servants Pardon the sins of Your erring servant, the humble scribe, and grant him joy In Your grace, have mercy upon his mother and father as well And upon all believing men and women, O Lord of all creation"

Just a matter of time before one of our more putinized Trumpers calls this a "special military operation"

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This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.

Ten years later, & they're still doing exactly the same bit. They know it's a bit. We know it's a bit. They know we know it's a bit. Etc. It would all be just pathetic & maybe even mildly entertaining, were 🇺🇸 democracy & the rule of law not dying, along with innocent civilians at home & abroad.

Again, the aim is to just collapse the country into ungovernable chaos, exactly as happened in Libya, Syria and Iraq. The toll in human misery for that will be enormous, which is why I keep saying Donald Trump should get the electric chair for doing it, for fun.

The suggestion I always tell people is to call after hours - that way you know nobody will be picking up the phone. You can just read a script, or even say, "My name is BLAH, my zip code is BLAH, I am a constituent of yours and I do NOT agree with BLAH. Thank you."

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Nothing in Donald Trump's life has ever suggested that he would actually face consequences, of any kind, for any act of wickedness, of any kind, down to & including kidnapping the president of another country & murdering more than 130 people on the high seas. Why would he hesitate to attack Iran?

but her emails

Oh yes

Hmm was this them moving ops to Maryland? Or something else?

(this is why DS9 is so great and worth watching in this era because Major Kira goes from being a resistance fighter/terrorist to being an official in the new government and is absolutely punched in the gut and torn in all directions by how hard and complex that is.)

“humanity hanging from a cross of iron”

The aim here is to collapse a country of ninety million people into an ungovernable warlord hellscape. People are right to doubt the good intentions of the openly gleeful supremacist fascists prosecuting this war.

Shouldn’t be too hard to find a personal injera lawyer who will take the case.

Be there or be square! “Likes don’t count”

Also the gutting of public education

Thoughts and prayers for putin's useful idiots in Western policy circles and academia who tirelessly predict that russian victory is near/imminent/inevitable while ignoring that putin is losing one international ally after the other, wasting thousands of soldiers, and running out of money to burn.

I am very serious when I say that every columnist who endorsed and joined in the Cancel Culture bullshit should now be flogged and put in stocks in their town square. It is the very least they deserve.

Literally doing the Futurama bit.

It’s late-game Rome: Total War or Stellaris, when you’ve conquered the map and there’s nothing left to do but fuck with minor empires because you’re bored and you don’t want to switch the game off yet

Pay attention to Marc, he's far sharper on the Mideast than pretty much anyone else on bluesky

Seems to be the pattern…

I note that nobody is making any effort to convince the public the new Iran war is good and moral. It’s just far rightists and wingnut crackpots forming a great raging circlejerk composed entirely of themselves and each other, having a whale of a time together.

Plus ça change, suckers.

I miss when those quaint bygone days when this thing called the JCPOA kept us out of a war.

Cry HERP DERP and let slip the dogs of war

"They were careless people ...."

Maybe, and hear me out here, maybe the far-right — grifters, leaders, voters — do not really care about the budget deficit, foreign policy, inflation, etc. 🙄 #whitesupremacism #itstheracismstupid

Come out of an all day mock trial exercise where we used the rules of evidence & criminal procedure in service of the rule of law, and see we have targeted & killed the leader of Iran and others, in a regime change of air strikes, and I worry about all of us and the rule of law.

Always found it more damning there were more pictures of Trump smiling alongside Epstein compared to pictures of Trump smiling alongside his own kids

*nods head slowly in agreement*

Well, it looks a lot like the aim is to simply collapse every state they can’t buy off into ungovernable anarchy, to make them easier to dominate, tipping tens of millions of people into lawless poverty. It’s the type of stuff that they should send you to the electric chair for.

It seems highly unlikely that being attacked in another war of aggression will convince the Iranians that the best thing they could do would be to chillax and invest in wind farms

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Big if true, but as my grandfather used to say, “I believe you, but thousands wouldn’t.”

thanks to people in replies.

Once again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics, & have since at least Iran-Contra, is because there are never any actual legal, personal, or professional consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Devastating to the both-sidesers.