The gulf countries doing the "I'm not touching you" routine are ridiculous. There are armed attacks launched against Iran from military installations in their territory, with their express consent, by a hostile state. They are voluntary co-belligerents in a war of aggression.

This whole idea that someone could be peer-pressured into transitioning, and that this pressure would come from medical professionals, it just fails the smell test on so many levels.

This has been part of the trans-kids moral panic for years, gay adults going "If I grew up now, they'd convince me I'm trans." If your movement had real evidence, you wouldn't be pointing to alternative-universe hypotheticals! Child psychologists know the difference between gay kids and trans kids

Where? How? These people have been pooping this stupid myth back and forth for so long that they don't even bother to provide basic evidence anymore. It's the *premise* of the article, how did an editor not ask for specific numbers and peer-reviewed studies on this alleged phenomenon?

Straightforward right-wing agitprop. The idea that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries because the left shuts down debate is a laughable conspiracy theory. The overwhelming social pressure is to be cis, not trans!

I enjoyed Hyperion but yeah. Yeaaaaah.

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Young men want one thing, and it's disgusting (home building)

Trump has set off a chain reaction and anyone who claims they know how this all ends is lying

OH MY G-D

we need to treat Israel not like a compromised ally but as one of our most important geopolitical enemies

Sucks to suddenly learn you're living in the Zone of Interest.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Chat, is it good when your superior officer starts talking about Armageddon

If we get power again, we should go back and viciously dehumanize the southern aristocracy and the poor whites who fought at their behest at these monuments, memorials etc

root causes of the world wars world war 1: clash between imperialism and rising nationalist sentiment world war 2: resentment from ww1 treaties, rising fascism world war 3: feminist youtuber made a video saying lara croft should have smaller boobs

Testosterone is blamed for rape culture because of racist white women, jsyk. it’s nice to see obvious truth confirmed, but do not argue on their own terms with abusive hypocrites—Testosterone Aggression is a racist lie now weaponized to sexually abuse trans men the way it is used to abuse Black men.

These guys were selling t-shirts until they needed a war to cover up the intentional damage they did to the economy and the president's involvement in a pedophilia scandal.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

We are all born into a web of inescapable mutual obligation, it turns out!

Carney: “I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where the large, main power, is submitted to no limits, no constraints.” Also Carney: “Canada supports the USA committing war crimes by bombing Iran.”

the clear incentive here is to never negotiate with the US in good faith, nuclearize as fast as possible, expect that even if you have a deal - potus might decide to murder you for content

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

If it was me I’d shoot the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem. Simply not interested in seeing where that goes.

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

I think it’s ok to take a break from the “here’s what this all really means” takes. We don’t even know what’s happening.

Eine im menschlichen Blut nachgewiesene Kohlendioxidüberladung deutet auf eine potenziell toxische Atmosphäre innerhalb von 50 Jahren hin. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Underrated just how much the US and Israel have been desecrating the very idea of diplomatic engagement by doing these obvious bait and switches. This is the third time now that negotiations were used as cover to prepare for a war already decided. The lesson is to never speak to the US.

Our way of life as we knew it could not even be bothered to defend itself against an explicitly-stated existential threat. We have to find a mode of ourselves that believes in our right to exist.

This is practically an endorsement of Iranian proliferation www.axios.com/2026/02/28/t...

blah blah Murc's Law, these guys wanted this war they were just too cowardly to say it openly. they certainly did fuck all to prevent it.

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes. what could go wrong

it’s crazy how executions are one of our only ways out of this lol

I’m an internationalist in the sense that I think DC should be occupied by coalition forces

I’m an internationalists in the sense i think Tel-Aviv should be occupied by coalition forces

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

These officials took an oath to uphold the laws of the Republic. You cannot discharge such an oath by appealing to procedure. Procedure and norms do not secure Rule of Law. You cannot legislate Rule of Law into reality. Relinquishing the government to traitors and criminals is a dereliction of duty.

Looking at a woman's instagram posts like they're the entrails of a goat to divine how much she gets around is breaking new grounds in incel shit

Maybe it’s scarier for them to take an honest look at who they are and figure out how they might change that, than to bathe, exercise, and change their clothes.

dsa national co chairs are on majority report rn www.youtube.com/live/3oghR8s...

Kat Abughazaleh: "We need to, first off abolish and prosecute ICE and DHS and we return DHS' responsibilities to Departments of Justice, State, of Treasury, of Transportation. All of these responsibilities that were taken from those departments... We need to repeal the Patriot Act."

Tag line for philosophy as a discipline

I don't think Democrats of conscience have much of a choice but to start pushing back because how far we've slipped is pretty undeniable

One of the things that makes the partisan gender gap convo so frustrating is centrists giving preference to men by talking about how we need to listen to their “very real concerns” when the concerns (driven by a bad media diet) are women have rights, can vote however they want, & can say no to sex

the problem with so many crimes being committed is that it will take too long to list and litigate them before punishment comes down, and in that they will just find their way to a pardon before justice ever comes our courts are not prepared to handle white collar and govt crimes at this scale

(the median Republican is a threat to all life on earth)

its so funny how trump keeps going “btw the mayor of new york is a communist and he rules” like that must be doing psychic damage to every gear of the superstructure.