This is another case in which, unfortunately, simply repeating what these men who are objectively in power have said is considered conspiratorial in the US.

It is perhaps easy to forget but Smotrich held a talk in France *before Oct 2023* with a map on the lectern that had Israel in control of all of Jordan. This required an apology from Israel's MFA to the King of Jordan.

It is a bit disgraceful, for example, that the first person to ask the US Ambassador to Israel where precisely he considers the borders of Israel to be is....Tucker Carlson.

I know dems are sensitive to politicize the fbi but director using position and government resources to party in Italy while parent of high profile celebrity continues to be mia seems likes a scandal

“Working class America was destroyed by free trade” and “sanctions against Cuba are evil” is an oddly common set of simultaneous beliefs

hasan thinks this is good but i have it on good authority that pyongyang is just putting up luxury condos so gentrifiers can make the rents unaffordable for the nomenklatura

My most deranged opinion is that like sixty percent of the world’s problems with America would be solved if France tested a nuke in the Canadian wilderness.

it's only in early access but a) Menace is excellent and b) the fandom is already first class

It's extremely funny to try and explain to people that reunification sentiment is extremely KMT/right-wing coded in Taiwan now, especially to American Republicans who want le based Chiang (see Jeb/Rubio's sword) when the pan-green *liberal* DPP is the main force against unification now.

For people unaware of Taiwanese history: the Lin Family murders was when the daughters of Lin Yi-hsiung (all of whom were under the age of 10) were attacked and murdered by (likely Guomindang) forces while Lin was under arrest by the KMT, likely out of an attempt to terrify the family

@sharonk.bsky.social out of curiosity, why do you still use the KMT abbreviation while spelling it Guomindang?

Abbott: Ha, wouldn’t it be funny to explain spheres to creatures that grew up in a two dimensional space? It would probably drive them crazy. Wouldn’t it be weird if we encountered four-dimensional beings? Lovecraft: oh fuck... what if we encountered four dimensional beings… they could be Irish

People think Buddhism is the secret Not A Religion religion which is like Reddit atheism except with kung fu and you get to be a Jedi and smoke weed. I do not think that’s how it actually works.

genuinely astonishing how many people have fallen for the Bhutanese 'happiness index' over the years. Yes, this isolated absolute monarchy that doesn't allow visitors unless strictly controlled and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign is definitely somewhere that sincerely values happiness!

Shadowrun happened

Bluntly, the problem isn’t that they’re socialists. It’s that they are socialists who can’t properly seize on the world’s richest man doing a genocide by neglect because technically killing USAID was on their wish list too so all they can do is mumble the international committee can be silly.

Just beat Menace on Ironman. Think I'm going to call it for now, wait for a big update. Still, 80 hours of entertainment out of a 40 dollar early access game feels like a good rate

One thing that is really amazing about tariffs is that no one who supports them cares if they actually work for the purposes they claim, which is suspicious

Got the starting positions for the narrative warhammer campaign I'll be running at my LGS mostly set up. Just need to add capital cities, and of course the realm names are mostly placeholders. #warhammer #nerdlings

@w0lfertinger666.bsky.social hey, weird question, but like, what’s it like being plural? Can you all talk with each other? Can you see what’s going on while someone else is piloting? Can you choose to not see if what’s going on sucks and the one piloting is willing to take one for the team?

not a novel observation but worth repeating every time - there are basically half a dozen things a day, every day, that would have been the biggest scandal of every administration for the first 30 years of my life.

This bizarre homophobic rant from WIRED is a perfect exhibit of how Woke 1's normalization of casting general aspersions on 'privileged' groups was easily, trivially turned into just indulging whatever gutter bigotry you feel like, but leftishly. Misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism, you name it!

Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.

The pop-history account of how France chose violent revolution and Britain chose gradual reform always slides over the fact that Britain fought its own very bloody revolution(s) over the same issues, they just did it a few centuries earlier.

maybe liberals aren't lying to you about policy constraints and "I would simply do good things instead of bad ones" was actually just child logic

Of course, this is just motivated by the servile tendencies of this site- many of its users desperately want an absolute monarch, provided they called themselves the First Citizen and said that their power flowed from Karl Marx and not God.

No, the country with an active monarchy and no codified human rights is not "out-No Kingsing" us. Monarchies have a history of feeding unpopular and insignificant members of the royal family to the mob to preserve the institution.

Tell me Mr. Edgeworth... just what am I supposed to believe in? #aceattorney #aai2

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The Fetterman revisionist history is crazy. In the real world he’s a Senator today because the left wing rallied for him because Conor Lamb was seen as a centrist establishment stooge.

The crunchy granola Khmer Rouge is real and it's literally running our national public health policy right the fuck now. These ppl were never harmless cranks--b/c they managed to keep whispering in the ears of gullible-on-this-topic tyrannical regimes--like the PRC. Or even more terrifyingly: MAGA.

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

The more I think about the DC press slagging AOC for a lack of FP depth while Donald Trump is President, twice, is making me angry enough to explode. The fuck is wrong with the journalists that they're like this

tbf belligerent, extravagantly stupid responses to perceived slights are one of the hallmarks of a warrior culture. this is why warrior cultures are bad

I maintain that if the world destroys itself in nuclear hellfire because it could not tolerate the existence of democracy, then we, as a species deserve it. I would unironically. Rather die in a nuclear holocaust than have the authoritarians win.

*getting burnt as a Cathar by the church in the Albigensian crusade* this is capitalism's fault

This infant is an American citizen so they just fine murdering American babies. That’s where we’re at now

Being placed in a social environment where the key to popularity is never upsetting a bunch of tankies has had dire, if predictable, effects on a lot of you

Every conflict where we translated military success into long-term success was because we had warrior-diplomats who brought together all elements of national power to do so.

Its incredible that Sideshow Bob absolutely lanced the American public through 30 years ago and the situation has not changed materially

Florida used disaster funds, which are limited to begin with, to pay for an immigration detention center that was shutdown. Remember this when it asks for $150b for the next hurricane.

“The subordination of the political point of view to the military would be contrary to common sense, for policy has declared the war; it is the intelligent faculty, war only the instrument, and not the reverse.” -Carl v Clausewitz

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

That can’t be right. I was informed Kamala got eleventy seven heckin‘ Pinocchiorunos for saying Trump had anything to do with Project 2025.

If it was based in any country other than Greece the Spartan polity would be referred to as a "chiefdom" or some other derogatory term for a moribund half-state

It's actually amazing how Laconophilia has successfully laundered the reputation of a polity whose maximum size in population and territory was smaller than that of an average medieval kingdom with an infinitely smaller cultural output and far fewer military successes

imo Dems should treat these people the way they claim we treat them