the F-35 is a soldier plane. it does impersonal violence at an incredibly long distance & never dogfights. the A-10 is a warrior plane. it destroys tanks with the largest machine gun ever invented, filled with half-pound bullets made of uranium. if the wing goes through the engine it's no big deal.

this guy knows what he is talking about

i do this! i have a RAG which i throw everything i write into. "what if you could keep every idea you ever had and you never had to organize it" is a perfectly good idea.

tired: pentagon pizza index wired: culture war grindr outage index

it's sort of weird that people are putting it in 2020. by 2020, i feel like almost everything everyone said on the subject was reasonable. i feel like the peak was whatever the year was before Shanley was a joke. like 2015 or something.

Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

i genuinely do think a big part of triangulation discourse is people avoiding that inflation was the biggest pain point for swing voters

I do *not* think that Mitt Romney was unfairly maligned: he ran for president, politics is a contact sport, & he gave as good as he got. But I do think that a certain kind of relatively low-info person on both the right & left doesn’t grasp just how big the gap between someone like him & Trump

It still sort of boggles my mind that Hegseth lies about committing war crimes the other way around from like everyone else

This book details all of that and will result in you regularly being jumpscared by some of the worst characters in the Fox News expanded universe who now have cabinet positions

as a lifelong democrat, i didn't know what to make of charlie kirk. i've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. the reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me Show more

i feel like we're learning why this is a mistake

Incredibly glad that we have the ADL to stop this kind of thing by uhhh organizing to have college students who say Free Palestine deported

right now, teachers are being fired because a Nazi pedophile -- two things which Milo Yiannopolis has admitted to being -- is finding that they are insufficiently sad about the death of an antisemite

he's also a rapist, for what it's worth.

enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

statistically, he's got to be in the top 1% of sex offenders, right?

this barely even made the news! www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

donald trump is bad relative to 'we gave every convicted felon in the united states a slip of paper with a number on it, drew one of those numbers at 8 PM on the first tuesday in november, and declared the winner our new president.'

one of the reasons they are invulnerable to criticism is that an entirely neutral description of their personal conduct, and their conduct in office, sounds like deranged slander.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

Primaries in New York are extremely high value because of how much of the party, media and donor class live here.

As many other ppl are pointing out, an actually good way to break Trump voters away from Trump/Rs is to make it clear to them that voting that way is bad & will hurt them and that they will not be rescued from feeling those consequences if they make that choice.

A big reason why we're in the mess we're in is bc for years we have been told that we need to treat Trump voters like innocent little children who dont mean it instead of adults who made an active choice w their vote to be shitty while telling themselves theyd never face any consequences from that

he has written repeatedly about wanting a non metaphorical civil war, and his church teaches that once the right kind of Christian is in charge, non-Christians will "become to us Amalekites," notable for being a people whose genocide God commanded

a lot of what's going on is that Pete Hegseth is a monster who can only get an erection when thinking about rape or murdering civilians.

Last year, prominent conservatives accused Charlie Kirk of antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

he is trying to ensure that there aren't Black soldiers because he thinks they won't massacre protests

he is at war with America

Interesting angle here is that not only are they not standing up for NYC, which needs a strong and unified electeds to battle Trump. Dems outside NY see their NYC leadership doesn’t serve the national party, either. Answer: New leaders. www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/s...

if neither you nor anyone you know is on a visa it is impossible to appreciate how badly greencard holders take being directly targeted

If you’re interested in how 2024 non-voters broke, this is to my knowledge the state of the art at present in terms of size and data quality.

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

i don't think there's anything more to this than an ignorant and adolescent need to destroy but to the extent that there is, it's that a closed-off country of poor, low-wage workers is easier to control with imposed hierarchies (see: the american south, 1890 to 1965)

im tired of pretending these people are my equals, we tried letting them live their gross, inbred little lives in peace and they keep tryinf to kill us anyway oppress the yokels tbh

he's referring to ministers who were more or less "liberal for 1960s Alabama," not "liberal" -- people who had to attend both to white-chauvinist populist constituencies and their private conviction that resistance to integration was itself disordered.

in theory you could say "admissions and aid should be class, not race based". in practice the actually-existing conservative movement has sued and otherwise indicated opposition to totally race-blind things like income based scholarships because they might inadvertently privilege non-whites more.

this is the intellectual conservative two-step: pretend that because they are raising an issue where people of good faith with broadly shared principles could disagree, that we have to pretend the actually existing conservative movement consists of those people. no. we don't.

in principle an entire nuanced discussion to be had about what the appropriate use of demographic characteristics in things like admissions, with many grey areas. that is not the actual debate as it exists in the real world, that is "should Black people be allowed to be Drs" and their answer is "no"

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

he was a racist piece of shit.

Why bother negotiating with some who is telegraphing on national television that he will cave?

The American right operates on a remarkably sophisticated level of subliteracy that involves holding up pictures of words and playing the sounds of words to each other while agreeing not to treat those words as language.

I see a lot of smart people mistakenly thinking that AI “hallucinations“ are due to errors in training data—a “garbage in, garbage out” kind of problem. No! What goes “in” could be exhaustively vetted, but what comes “out” will still sometimes—not often, perhaps, but unpredictably—be garbage.

it’s less flattering to your self-image to see yourself effecting change by getting dumb assholes who don’t pay much attention to politics to sit this one out rather than mobilizing the forgotten, but end of the day points on the board are all that count.

yeah people who work professionally in politics can’t say this for a variety of reasons, but I’m just some guy so I can: by now the data shows that Trump has a lot of marginal low-turnout voter support, persuading them to *not vote* is basically as good as getting them to switch.

i don't think the right actually wants to experience uplift and even if they did Kirk could not provide it

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening