"When Israel invokes Amalek this is genocidal rhetoric and words are violence. When based French revolutionary talks about pyramids of skulls for glorious revolution this is based and good because he's Catho-er um uh..."

I mean you instigate one little Reign of Terror and that’s all anyone wants to talk about amirite?

Again my minor knowledge about obscure people becomes relevant (Virginia politics edition)

The slopaganda war continues. Also, this is a pretty poor sign for the fate of any real or alleged negotiations.

The difference between ICE and the IRGC is that the IRGC is competent at mass-murdering civilians.

Never underestimate the oppressor's obsession with nullifying the will of the voters. meidasnews.com/news/virgini...

You might as well announce that your first strike had destroyed all of the Roman elephants or fully disabled Chinggis Khan's navy. Like, neat, but that's not really the center of gravity, now is it? And you really ought to have known that IN ADVANCE, huh!?

You'd really think they could have at least tried to study the Iran-Iraq War and apply lessons from Ukraine to guess what Iran would do by air and sea. It'd be much closer than trying to redo the Battle of Britain.

In the same year lebanon blew up in his face, he invaded Grenada. Reagan was open about his proclivity to seek military solutions to various problems on the campaign trail and then acted accordingly, there was no media distortion.

-defense buildup, but the actual deployment of US forces, particularly in the middle east. Reagan tried to use the Marines to solve the Lebanese civil war!

Also the Carter camp was 1 trillion percent correct that Reagan would be a war monger, he just didn’t go to war with the Soviets. In the long view, it’s very easy to see how the Reagan years laid the groundwork for the remilitarization of US foreign policy after Vietnam, not just with the-

Another great example(courtesy of Sarcasmitron)

The Tanker War is one of those really weird corners of history that actually happened. Iraq really does successfully sink a US ship....and the USA shoots up Iran instead.

(Notice how he only got tough on Iran after the arms deals were exposed)

The Galaxy of Fear kids' lit series and that Death Trooper novel don't count?

how DARE you

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Pretty important oversight here and a very important point to bring up. Second largest continent, now host to multiple new megacities and Silicon Valleys of its very own.....and the reporting just ain't there.

We absolutely should! I talk about this all the time.

Among other things, you are the one who gets a record

He make a contract with Nagash? The dude's dead.

okay so the nyt is gonna spend the next couple months trying to make piker public enemy number 1 and An Indictment of Democrats and he’s going to basically shitpost in response

JOSH fucking BARRO is the voice of *reason* here. This is how far gone we are lol

Hasan is transparently the type of guy who got into radical politics because he thinks it will get him pussy

Wah wah wah is right you fascist freaks. Mock their pain, shame it, this is what spurs change We got away from “shame” as a tool to modify and reel in poor behavior, and we need to bring it back bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Idea: A modern remake of Don Quixote about a comics obsessive who believes he is a superhero called Quix. A growing audience of streaming fans (some out of malicious voyeurism, some just to keep him from getting killed) contrive to play into his delusion of having powers.

The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.

As Confederate general George Pickett's division moved north toward the town of Gettysburg, he was instructed by James Longstreet to keep the "captured contraband" with him. These were Black men and women captured by Confederates in Pennsylvania and Maryland, who were supposed to be sent back south.

The person you're trying to get to vote isn't the one you're scolding. It's the 98% of people who aren't posting but are scrolling.

Look, i rag on "an hour with David Petraeus brought to you by CNSISA and the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Qatar" a lot...but, man fuck you

The mechanism that removes Trump from *power* is destroying his own legitimacy--once you give orders like that and they're not obeyed, you're *finished* one way or another. 14AS3 offers a legitimate legal route to formalize what will happen--Trump's removal from office and apprehension.

Also the more he embarrasses himself and proves himself very vincible after all, the fewer gutless cowards will be willing to show up for a lost cause. Every single one scraped away like a barnacle off the American ship of state counts.

you're going to need more than two space marines tho

Notably, he's just fired his homeland security secretary. He's just fired his attorney general. He's about to fire his national intelligence director. Not the sort of thing I'd want to be doing as an authoritarian consolidating power when I can barely get a Fed chair approved

Worth noting that so many people like him (if not him himself) demanded Biden quit staying in power while this is the third Dem in two years to die in office of old age. This ain't healthy, it ain't right, it ain't realistic, and it ain't good.

Okay buts what funny is that Parker actually proved the point he was trying to make. She whines about being forced to support Harris begrudgingly and then cited the Lake report:

HARRIS LITERALLY PROMISED PRICE CONTROLS these are not people you can just some how message better

I frankly prefer the scenario where Vance cooperates and is the lamest of lame ducks imaginable, giving Dems time to decide our new platform in an election rather than suddenly be responsible for all of Trump's messes.

Trump take sex

fascinating that he often trots out abe lincoln to justify his views on moderation when abe lincoln’s commitment to principle — no fusion with anyone who wasn’t firmly antislavery — is the reason he became president

The actual answer is "these are different situations" but they're not different situations to academics who view things through an ideological lens to the exclusion of the boring facts on the ground

(Most hated post ever) academia's unabashed hatred of Israel is not unrelated to their quiet but profound disappointment with post-apartheid South Africa

dear God is it depressing to have people reacting to this like 'oh wow he just said it haha!' about just flagrant antisemitism

Hey, @washingtonpost.com: Fuck off. Repubilcans started this. You thought it was fine when they did. Oh, and you don't beat a bully by giving in. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

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