If two parties were identical in every respect except one was going to send a tomahawk missile into a school full of little girls and the other wasn’t, that’s actually still a substantive difference and you should vote for the better one

"You can just solve every problem with brute force" -- dumb guy who has never in his life had to do that bsky.app/profile/mmfa...

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

any end to the U.S. war on Iran is going to look unfair, *because the United States is a far more powerful country that has the ability to inflict horrendous destruction on Iran*. Establishing some form of demonstrated deterrence via the Strait is a win, in relative terms.

Sure. Makes sense.

separately what is this hyphen-use bullshit

The U.S. and Europe have to someday realize that what the Israeli government envisions for Iran is the largest humanitarian catastrophe of the century so far

This is tangential, but accepting "smoking" and "eating meat" as things that I do sometimes and feel bad about (for different reasons) is how I've managed to mostly quit smoking and eat a mostly pescatarian diet; trying to quit entirely made me counterproductively resentful of the whole project(s).

If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.

We’re gonna end up doing something really stupid like the Iraqi no fly zones, aren’t we?

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding.

The ‘interceptors are more expensive than the thing they’re intercepting’ stuff is true but sometimes gets a little too clever by half. The shit that the munition would be destroying is probably even more expensive. Also assumes protracted war of attrition that launcher can sustain forever.

they should invent a kind of ad that doesn't make you less interested in the product it's advertising

“still punk as fuck” I whisper as I steal a keto vegan gluten free cookie

not to blame every problem in the world on social media but i honestly think it's less of a problem that people are paying bell pepper prices for their poblanos than that they get an illicit thrill out of bragging about it

Yeah exactly, the act is far less offensive than the bragging about it.

But yeah one of the worst aspects of Woke 1.0 was “this minor/moderately anti-social thing that I do is Actually Very Brave/Cool/Bohemian/Not my fault/Praxis” etc etc

one of those things that sort of makes you understand how society is a communal effort that you have to opt into is realizing that if you don’t look obviously poor and don’t ever steal anything you can’t pay for, shoplifting is a risk free crime.

Somebody asked me on my birthday last month if I felt old or if I missed anything from my youth and my incredibly no-fun killjoy not-in-the-spirit-of-the-question answer was that my dad passed away at 39 so it's very hard for me to feel old because I'm very happy to be the age I am ^_^'

“Reading old books”

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Continuing on the theme of “the American capitalist class is too stupid for capitalism to work.”

Obviously possible to over do it, but a little guilt is healthy. It’s the lubricant that lets you have an honest assessment of yourself and your actions while still believing in some kind of greater morality. Jews and Catholics got this right.

The “oh sorry do you have a problem stealing from Jeff Bezos?!” people are so funny. As though it personally deducts a little from his personal bank account every time and he fumes about it and then goes “rats, well no choice but to totally absorb this loss”

Really need to bring back doing a very mildly bad thing and feeling an appropriate small guilt about it. Not everything is Actually Very Brave. Sometimes you just do a small bad thing.

Which is just the boring lib position. Oh everyone look at this square, not stealing from whole foods. It's fine, you can execute me when the revolution comes

a lot of people have deeply internalized classic American "selfish asshole libertarian" politics but left coded because they liked Bernie in 2016

For the record my position is people saying "I should be allowed to steal/drive dangerously/litter/do xyz other antisocial things because the world is FUCKED UP" have a basically reactionary worldview and if that's the way you go through life you might as well go MAGA bc that's the way they think

Looking at the other quotes going "actually stealing from whole foods is based based based" it seems like this prediction will not be borne out

I'm lost. Was he radicalized because this made him horny or because it didn't make him horny?

Trying to understand the right in twenty twenty six:

Man if this is what did it, your soul is fucking weak as hell.

i wonder how dort will rationalize boots on the ground if Trump says so

lol

I feel like he has been radicalized for longer than 2 days.

as someone who grew up during the period where politicians and cranks treated videogames as toys at best and murder simulators at worst, watching RFK Jr use smash bros. for generic health messaging is the very definition of a pyrrhic victory

hmmm think this is going to be very NotPoggers

Rip to möther

Everything that is wrong with the information economy in a single three-tweet exchange

Listen I used to sometimes steal cheese from the grocery store when I was in college and kind of broke. This doesn't make me a monster but was also mildly antisocial behavior that I am ashamed of now! I was being stupid and shitty.

Like does it not chafe your conscience to lie like this on what seems like a regular basis? And for what, like the equivalent of a 5$ coupon on your lunch?

To be clear this isnt calling for broken windows policing in the self checkout line its more like people should expect more of themselves and their friends

Vice is corrosive to the soul especially when not forced by necessity

If you want a virtuous civil society you should probably do something about your friends of means shoplifting for the hell of it

this is basically how gen-x ended up the way we have [derogatory]

The Doctor warned us about this

It is kinda funny that “taking over” Hormuz has become the get out of jail free card, the strait is merely the shortest part of the gulf, there is still hundreds of miles of coastline that Iran can lob drones and missiles from

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