You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty

People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam. Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.

it is very interesting that it has never been easier in the history of the internet to set up a fun looking personal website and have it accessible across the world but despite this most of the internet for people has been reduced to social media

More than any leader in the Democratic party has done

It’s not a distraction they’re just fascist Hitler didn’t invade Poland to distract people, he invaded Poland because he wanted to occupy Poland Begging even good Democrats to call a spade a goddamn spade

The funniest fucking thing about battletech to me will always be the incredibly eighties decision that several of the industrial concerns making mechs are irl companies fast forwarded several centuries. What the fuck do you mean the Hunchback with it's giant shoulder gun is a fucking Nissan

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

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Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

Lucy has assured me three separate times that she was not pursuing repossession of the football. Clearly, she is not being straight with Charlie Brown. Lucy must brief Charlie Brown about her objectives and her plan to protect the football’s safety and wellbeing

> “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. > "So do I," said Gandalf, "this shit fucking sucks.”

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

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me every single day

This is a shitty and gutless reaction. Why is it so hard to say "This was a crime against international law which we cannot support." Maduro is a son of a bitch but we can't just kidnap him and claim we're in charge now! That's not how things work!

Not that crazy IMO ➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office ➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result

i honestly really hate the "this is just what america always was" attitude, like, no, it can change, it has changed in many, many, MANY ways, and it has the potential for further, positive change, but checking out and resigning to "the country is unsalvagable and must burn" is just giving up

Like if we’re at a point where the executive can unilaterally and illegally put boots on the ground in a country we’re ostensibly not at war with to kidnap and depose their leader under false pretense and lay claim to their resources and no one in the world cares… where *is* the line, exactly?

I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here. It will only embolden them.

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

every single press release from democratic leadership is like "it's charlie brown's patriotic duty to try and kick the football, and everything else is a distraction"

reasons xcom is so good 1) stories. star sniper missing a shot out of nowhere, then the rookie who bailed the team out of the fire with a well timed grenade 2) the tactical puzzle of trying to decide what to do and in what order 3) soldier fashion 4) the perfect blend of mil/scifi aesthetic 1/87

Every single human built hell exists because people made it - this is pretty depressing, when you think about it. But it does mean that if we made it, we...can also fix it. It's not natural, it is not an extension of some immutable facet of reality. We made it up. We can make up something better.

they've declared victory even though they have achieved what is literally just a tiny tiny element of the purported aims. it's hard to even predict what happens next because this is so bizarre, it's like a kayfabe of a war

I’m still really hooked on Kirby Air Riders. I usually move on from a game by now, but City Trial is just so enjoyable I keep returning. I’m glad they didn’t go all “live service” with it, because I think they’d genuinely have caught me in the predatory net here. Also, Marx. Marx is the best boy.

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libshit wikipedia editors are trying to neutral voice the current illegal aggression against venezuela only to get told by a venezuelan editor that he is literally being bombed right now. un-fucking real

Capitol switchboard (202) 225-3121 Call your reps. Demand impeachment. No illegal war in our names.

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

I’m not sure how to even express my feelings at how absolutely terrifying what Trump is doing right now. It’s so blatantly illegal, intentionally so, and so flagrant and disgusting. Fuck this man, and fuck this country’s imperial machine.

For real though, if you're in the US and posting right now Call your reps. I just did. Their staff are out so leave a message condemning this. Demand Trump and Vance be held accountable for this flagrant violation of the constitution and international law.

one of the things that's still super weird about writing a period piece set in 2014 is that it feels less like writing the past and more like writing a hyperreal of the present; it's got all the things we have today but in the forms society largely pretends they still have, if that makes sense?

"No Further Military Action" sorry what

18 USC 1201 Again, not joking, there's very clear language that makes it quite applicable to those involved in this, especially if the Admin fiddlefucks whatever kangaroo court charges they're going to try for with this

Congress hasn't formally declared war for 83 years, ever. This *is* the reality and all it took was a clown to make the farce obvious

Democracy holds no sway. It can't stop pouring money into a CSAM generating machine owned by some rich guy. It can't fix bad water pipes. It can't stop bombing a country and kidnapping its leader. You are already living in the aftermath of the system's death

Project 2100 type Long Range Patrol Craft(LRPC) of the Brotherly Nations Cosmic Fleet (FKBN). It served mostly with the Exosphere Command and in several civilian roles. While it possessed a limited offensive capability, its main role was space surveillance and early warning

Oh. Oh they kidnapped Maduro. Holy shit holy fuck holy shit holy fuck. This is BAD!!!

If Mexico can come out with a statement like this, on the eve of CUSMA renegotiations no less, Mark Carney has no excuse

Fiddling with the next Hard Wired Island KS and thinking about the scammer that popped up on my last project. What I need is a plausible-sounding high-level bait tier for the next scammer to squat so they don't deny someone a "create a sample PC" slot

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

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

This was a point that @ldfreedman.bsky.social made as soon as Russia invaded Ukraine: wars often seem simple solutions, are easy to start but very difficult to predict or finish. The same applies here. Trump's White House clearly didnt get the message

there's been several cycles of violent American imperialism in my life and, like, it feels like each one has used less justification and more naked force

Honestly, I've been thinking about what we've been doing to Venezuela as Trump's Ukraine for a couple weeks now... It's fucking insanely evil.

He was killing innocent fishermen and there was nothing coming from the opposition and the media scrambled to justify the murders however they could. The most that they’ll say about a war at this point is that it didn’t follow protocol.