Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

It’s called we do a little trolling

The miltwit gov in exile liberation army has developed and will sustain the resources required to wage, and win, a two front total denial strategy of mean and bad poasts against both the Cheese and Dort indefinitely.

I have contingencies

You spend all this time, reading Clausewitz and Mahan and Thucydides, studying campaigns and thinking hard about the roots of victory and defeat, the experience of war and what that means for policy and then you look over and the policy movers are strategy cheese and infantrydork.

This is part of what I see as the biggest obstacle to Trump consolidating authoritarianism. He has been as successful as he has because people see what they want in him. This amorphousness makes it very difficult to enforce the kind of discipline needed to consolidate.

If you say something like this you’re too emotional to be trusted with power.

The short-sellers are the revolutionary vanguard heighten those contradictions comrades o7

Still drives me fucking bonkers how much of a thing this became

Excellent piece by Kiran Pfitzner on Kegseth and his incompetency; in particular his focus on "lethality" aka killing as a primary goal. Recommended.

There is and was only one Curtis Lemay and one Thomas power Jr. So why is every Hollywood portrayal of the SAC/STRATCOM commander the same: a man deep in Nebraska who is ready to initiate Armageddon at a moments notice without deliberation or hesitation? I explore in my latest⬇️

As usual, SecDef Rock not only can’t miss but has broad critiques layered into the razor sharp way the bullshit is sliced apart.

Cynicism usually ages better than optimism, but the Knopes of the world are the load-bearing pillars of democracy and civic life; sorry that they aren't cool. Also "neoliberal shill" lol she literally fights back against the growing power and negative health effects of Sweetums and Paunch Burger.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

Honestly, one of the great American poems. Arguably the great American poem.

They won’t be laughing when the Catholic majority on the Supreme Court gets their instructions.

WE’RE GONNA RULE LIKE AUTOCRATS WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT THE PRESIDENT IS GOD Average libbed out intelligence officer:

As the great warrior poet ice cube once said “if the day does not require a GOP victory, it is good”

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Very shocked this VAGOP strategy did not work

ah, america

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The hysterical terms in which it’s fashionable to condemn Cheney and others involved with the Iraq war are unproductive. They’re bolstered primarily by conspiracy theories that the war was about oil or defense profits. They did what they thought was just. They were wrong. Others paid the price.

Report suggests, but not accurately. The Costs of War Project is highly politicized, and it counts every single death in every conflict that America had even a peripheral role in during the last 20 years as a "War on Terror death." It's shoddy history and borderline propaganda.

My immigration policy is open borders but we performatively make everyone go to Ellis Island for processing so it’s a return to tradition

Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development

Clausewitz fighting with the Prussian Reactionaries on this exact issue

A theory visualized

We are reaching levels of generation kill posting never seen before

Bluesky cooking up election takes for the next 24 hours:

In this article about why Harris lost in 2024, Ross Douthat does not mention "inflation" a single time.

I've always been on the fence about Bernie, but every once and a while I'm reminded of what an awful judge of character he is.

I say as I condemn a Ukrainian peasant to starvation by confiscating her last mule

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's what they've been doing. And that's the reason they refuse to swear in Representative Elect Adelita Grijalva."

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform. Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

I actually think this kind of “infighting” may be somewhat helpful to Democrats in that it can make the wings legible for voters. There are voters across the country who do not like Mamdani and it’s easier to vote for Democrats if they know not all Democrats like him.

We cannot allow a slop gap!

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup: - ancient & medieval history and/or - histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe Pitches to: [email protected] 🤗🤗🤗

There’s danger for a big escalation if people start shooting back and don’t get caught/convicted. That’s the American troubles recipe.

This is an *amazing* level of derangement about generative AI. We are headed for weird anti-AI purity movements where ppl turn on personal computing entirely and start LARPing as Dune mentats, because they think the magic fascism math is hiding in every transformer, search algorithm, and BART.

I would add that I suspect a significant number of people who ask "why aren't Dems talking about this?" don't actually follow any Dems, but do follow a lot of people who like to criticize Dems.

The English civil war was about oil The Seven years war was about oil The Punics wars were about (olive) oil

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

The quote is “there at least three.” and when asked to name them he said “don’t play games with me kid.” It’s the platonic ideal of politician shutting down a bad faith question on social issues. 1. Don’t give them the soundbite 2. Don’t throw anyone under the bus