Obviously muted this when it blew up but I did scroll the QTs and look, people advancing their own reasons or whatever fine but the true Brain Geniuses are the leftists getting mad at the ideology part who entirely unironically need to Read Theory

Solar and wind is an expensive boondoggle, which is why we should spend billions rehabilitating infrastructure in a failed states with active left wing militias so we can get shitty oil refiners don't want

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?

Ah, so indistinguishable from every other day then

I reiterate my opinion that to the extent I disagree with Bluesky moderation it is that they do at least an order of magnitude too little

A very important distinction between the Trump Admin and successful competitive authoritarian regimes is that the latter focus heavily on redistributing material resources to their supporters while the Trumpers keep the wealth for themselves and try to buy the rabble off with content and slop

Thinking again about how the administration sees its self as content creators first as it becomes clearer that we don't have a plan in Venezuela

So -wade through a year and a half of shit football under a new manager -let him exile several of the team's best prospects for obscure reasons -he finally gets the team playing reasonably well -sack him at full cost because he complained in public about transfers www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

Look I understand the team is very comfortable with 3 at the back right now but I just worry his formation of choice is going to cede too much in the midfield and going forward

Because I’ve seen the opposite view a few times out there, worth underlining that there is virtually *nobody* less qualified to speak right now than the likes of the DSA or Owen Jones who have literally spent years demonstrating just how little they give a shit about the Venezuelan people

i think people are wildly overestimating the level of strategic thinking behind what just happened in venezuela

GUNGAN FRONTIER! GUNGAN FRONTIER!!!!

Can’t believe they abandoned the plan, and only a year and a half before it would have paid off!

Old Trafford apparently chipper tonight, I’m told. As the derby ends, they’re “utterly convinced” Ruben Amorim will turn the team around with just one more 3-4-3 training session

Why, did something happen

My theory on why people are so invested in the idea that Venezuela's oil is good and profitable is because they all bought into the Chavez-era propaganda that Venezuela's oil industry was great and helping the poor because it was nationalized, and they're still seeing everything through that lens.

Getting 7k likes for saying “NO MORE STRONGLY WORDED LETTERS! I’m going to back… a strongly worded letter we’ve already sent twice!!!” really is the dominant Bluesky political culture in a nutshell lmao

Just remembered this particularly baffling front page

Only one thing to do at this point: fire Amorim mid season and hire a new tactically inflexible coach whose system fits the existing squad poorly

Viceroy you say?

THEN: Age of Empires II: The Conquerors / Star Wars Jedi Power Battles NOW: Majora’s Mask

The geniuses at Manchester United starting to wonder in January 2026 whether perhaps Ruben Amorim might be a tad tactically inflexible

I know RUK ignores NI, but surely there should be more public horror and indignation about the fact that not 6 months ago part of the UK saw a pogrom that drove an ethnic group (the Roma) out of a sizeable town

Commentator didn’t even get to finish saying “slide”

@abradacabla.bsky.social !

god this off-season is so boring

Someone got very angry at me on here yesterday for suggesting most Americans have no idea who Maduro is and insisted it was ‘cope’. For the record like 33% even say they have any opinion of him when asked, which almost certainly overstates it as people don’t want to say they don’t know

Younger Palaiologan MFs will really be like "you believe in submitting to Ottoman suzerainty? That pales in effectiveness compared to my strategy, which is driving back the Turks by force of arms" and then not drive the Turks back by force of arms.

Not sure if this is ‘encouraging’ exactly but it’s actually remarkable to go back and read contemporary commentary in say the 1970s UK and see just how much everyone then was obsessed with the idea that Britain* would be in a civil war any day now then too. *as opposed to the one in NI…

Glem is a prime example of someone who decided that nothing dovish Biden did mattered so long as Biden was still marginally dedicated to containing Russian expansionism - either a very strange priority indeed or a blindingly obvious one, depending

Pitching a new interactive experience where you too can replicate the feeling of the 1994 thriller ‘Speed’ by going on a car ride with my baby, who immediately begins whining and complaining at the slightest deceleration and breaks into tears if the car stops at all, even momentarily at a red light

The mentions under Ken Martins statement aree full of ppl both deriding him for not calling for impeachment as well as ppl deriding him for sending out "yet another strongly worded letter" & this site really needs to decide whether it likes or dislikes performative actions w/o material consequence

anyway Trump has for whatever reason decided not to back the opposition in Venezuela, probably because he doesn't want to back a loser and doesn't want to commit to continued military action, which means that "Maduro sucks but WTF" is a free space for Dems.

Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!

Honestly the thing I find most nightmarish about all this is that the Trump admin seems to have absolutely zero idea how the transition is going to work at all. This is a country of almost 30m.

I consider this The Nute Dawn experience, serious political discussion mixed with Star Wars shitposting, just need a lament for the Mets and an arch but undeniably true remark about The Wrecker Brown to complete the set

Well well well, I see NOW you people have a problem with a bunch of dissolute thugs secretly storming a palace and abducting the leader at gun point!

One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter

This but for different reasons now

Dick Cheney would be loving this

Alas

Not the actions I'd expect from the winner of the Fifa Global Peace Prize, tbh.

I realise this sounds snobby but the thing that gets me most about Weiss isn't even the ideological side, it's just that she is so fucking obviously unqualified! These people endlessly whine about DEI and meritocracy and then given a whiff of power, they install people with *zero* expertise

Leftists love to complain about Democrats “getting more right wing” but the single most damaging and regressive policy shift within the party over the last decade was becoming warm to anti-trade crank horseshit

Then: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader Now: STAR WARS: GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS / Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader

Absolutely yes to Tucker, no questions asked