1. I keep seeing people say "if the war itself is illegal, then no act committed in that war can be legal, so why bother to distinguish between legal and illegal acts." This is profoundly mistaken, and let me explain why.

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Second-campist American leftists are insanely gullible. Completely unable to see AI slop. They're the mirror image of gullible MAGA imperialists. I still see people sharing that obvious fake "US bombed F4 drawings" pic, where the planes are bigger than the buildings. Insane.

Worth emphasizing that the rapture is a mostly American Evangelical Christian phenomenon but because of the way that American popular culture rounds Christians together we get people assuming that Catholic priests are anticipating it and uh they are extremely not.

Blaming voters for their choice to put us all in this situation is moral. Neither their ignorance nor their selfishness is an excuse.

God, please do. Kicking all the trans troops out so their hands are clean then drafting the cishets who were making memes about how Kamala was going to send them to fight for Israel would be the funniest thing of all time.

I think Donald believes being mean gives you superpowers but someone somewhere has to know how to do the boring stuff.

If you let an aggressive dog off the leash, you don’t get to wash your hands of it if he bites someone.

These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.

The quote skeets and replies are blaming Republicans for the lack of literacy and I must once again tap my sign that the Democrats and Democrat-leaning institutions were primarily the ones responsible for nonsense whole language reading instruction curriculum like three-cueing.

I mean the thing is they blew up a school then Hegseth openly bragged about how he got rid of all the targeting restrictions on TV so at some point I feel like a conversation is in order about when deference to da troopies is no longer owed cuz you can’t be ride THEY SPIT ON US AFTER NAM forever.

Current voting discourse is once again a fun reminder that "participating in the democratic process should be considered qualitatively different from being a consumer in a market economy" apparently is an offensive statement to parts of the American left

Ultimately, they are doing this because the big accounts do not want to admit they aren't smol beans. They do not want to admit that they have been reinforcing a toxic miasma around the Democrats, because that would mean they might have swayed people into not voting (which definitely happened).

Today I learned from JD Vance’s muse that Iran’s Islamic, fundamentalist regime is a manifestation of the same leftist political energies as those which animate Brooklyn leftism. Ok dude, sure, whatever

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

"state department officials are killed because the plane they were supposed to leave on got chartered for Andrew Tate instead" is a live possibility

The Khamenei dynasty has now ruled for the same number of generations as the Pahlavi dynasty did.

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

who the fuck is outside my window shouting “restart history! we’re bored!”? show yourself coward, i will never restart history

And then I, Jake Tapper, will host Republicans after the vote to lie about the war & platform the view that Democrats are voting against the troops. I have no agency of my own. I am but a humble mirror reflecting public opinion & conveying The Questions that Must Be Asked of The Democrats.

Jake Tapper is such a fucking disingenuous hack

Jake Tapper enlist bitch challenge

Jake Tapper is seriously a horrendous person

God I hate this idea. People are not one more image of a dead baby away from radicalisation. We don't lack will, we lack any real means to act on our will because the left has ceased to be a political project and become a few thousand people trying to Post their way out of Posting.

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It's legitimately silly to think that the most likely outcome right now is societal-collapse level oil prices, but imagining that Trump never causes the worst case scenario is falling into the same memory hole as every voter in 2024.

it's like everybody forgot how tariffs went yes the doomsday scenario didn't happen (mostly because he backed off) but the economic story since Liberation Day has been "literally the only parts of the economy that are growing is healthcare services and AI stuff which is exempt from tariffs"

I think its probably bad we just treat this level of unhinged disconnected from reality as kinda normal in our political discourse also I think its bad for humanity that "genocide" has been stripped of any meaning and is just an insult now

It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:

New Jersey used to make basically every single manufactured good on earth (at one point iirc the state accounted for like 25% of total manufacturing output globally) and in the early 20th century the disposal plan was “throw it in the river” Hence, NJ is just sorta like this now

But you know we shouldn’t overlook how tough it must have been for Grim to finally find a sexual assault allegation against a political candidate credible for the only time in his career

“who the fuck is outside my window shouting ‘restart history! we’re bored!’? show yourself coward, i will never restart history” —francis fukuyama in 2000

"Superman as an unstoppable apex predator evolved to destroy worlds who unexpectedly learns to love all mankind" isn't terrible, actually

like, I'm sorry, but of all the people who were Very Wrong about 2024, the Gaza + Undecideds were definitely the wrong-est, it's plain as day for everyone to see now, and they keep arguing about it because it's the only thing they can keep doing to make themselves feel better about being Very Wrong.

Superman was born on Krypton and landed in a small town named Smallville in Maryland, and later worked as a reporter at a major newspaper in Metropolis, Delaware

When all the other time travelers are busy killing Hitler, I’m gonna take out Laura Ingalls Wilder.

It's amazing how everyone on Earth looks at Trump and thinks "ah, he's transactional, I bet I can get him to give me stuff on my side" and then is shocked when he does the dumb stuff he said he'd do. American voters and international leaders alike! Maduro was reaching out to him in 24.

Alt headline: "Trump blames Iran but US military investigators think American forces were likely responsible for deadly strike on girls' school" When the story itself has the much needed fact check, it's journalism malpractice to write a headline like this one:

So I’m not going to dismiss the reports out of hand, but keep in mind that Dropsite News is Ryan Grim, the guy who helped make up rape allegations about Biden to help elect a rapist

books as products which can and must be described entirely as ticking a series of yes/no boxes this is a book. it does not have a nail file so i refuse to purchase it.

We all made fun of "Guy in your MFA" but it turns out they were the only thing holding lit fic together

"TikTok is validating people who want to be enormous babies—" We can stop there and its an accurate statement

None of the horrors of the past two months would've occurred under a Harris Administration; that's just a fact. But there were so many people who needed to renew their "Fell For It Again" awards for believing in Donald The Dove/Dem Lady's the Real Warmonger.

Now the way you could tell a real good one of these is that the thing was made entirely of rust

like that's basically the thing: if i listened to Jewish Currents i'd believe that Graham Platner wasn't a problem and that Epstein was the head of a Jewish conspiracy and if i listened to Jewish Insider and the ADL i'd believe that Mamdani was a problem and Musk wasn't

However problematic at least Pahlavists have some kind of tenuous link with the world as it is, but the Trump administration bringing a deluded political cult like the MEK into this would be a recipe for a far worse disaster than where things are already

It feels like all the bad parts of the Bush II years are back without any of the Trump bad things going away, which feels grossly unfair.

In hindsight the "Wait until an uprising gets crushed, then attack to incite an uprising once they're all dead or in jail" gambit may have been ill-conceived.

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.