The question was never "can they hold this togather", but "what's everything going to look like when they fail?"

A rich and powerful man voluntarily bearing a cross onstage, but adding wheels so it's not remotely difficult, is the perfect picture for our country.

Hey, me too! That would have been *something*.

Sometimes, Discord gets heated.

Maybe Trump can just take the airbase itself, surrounded for like a thousand miles on all sides by people with this expression

Wonder if the Chinese, being obviously threatened by Donald Trump's reasoning for retaking Bagram, have enough military equipment to ship to thd Taliban to make a difference? Of course, that would require China to have an ally with a land connection and historical ties to the Taliban. Do they?

For a bastard? Good people, mostly.

Lol people arguing about CAS when artilleryvand infantry are criminally small and have no personnel or equipment to grow. If the F-35 isn't sufficient CAS, then the soldiers are likely screwed regardless, because that means a protracted conflict. Protracted, from the Latin for "America loses."

Board for one of our two Warmaster games today is done. The scenario? Dark Elves and Beastmen are going to parlay about an alliance. But both of them are planning to betray the other, and fall upon one another while their guard is down.

Ah yes, grace and empathy. Something Trump voters have always been very receptive to and positive about.

Anyone familiar with this? @semperfitrex.bsky.social

The trickle down there must be taking its sweet time, because the millennials i grew up with haven't experienced any change. I wonder what the population wealth breakdown would look like if you broke it up into brackets?

I assume the Post agrees with me that Afghanistan must be reinvaded for comedic purposes. Otherwise, it doesn't make any sense.

Watching George Takei shit out one of the worst performances I've seen in a Rifftrax. Thanks "Oblivion 2: Backlash!"

Dems need to be out there saying the social contract only holds if the rights of ordinary people are protected. The corpulent elites are only protected by their money and the laws and violence that buys.

The old men of the Bolshevik Revolution were in their *forties*. It's shocking how many people in small-d democratic politics are willing to keep talent sidelined to keep leaders in their 70s and 80s in the big chair. The few "young" political leaders we have are almost always the bootlicks, too.

No reason why the UK left can't have a big bright future, with its own Zohrans, AOCs etc. But that will only happen if Certain People are not involved in leadership and organisational roles. A fresh start is required. What more evidence of this does anyone need?

New parties need to be built on ideology. You don't invite everyone in and then boot people out based on ideology, you pick your tent pole issues, select for that, and then run on them. "Being the left-wing party" is not, in fact, sufficient. Neither is "we have a former PM."

So many Democratic leaders, especially LGBT Democratic leaders, really don't understand that what Republicans want is to have them locked up or killed. Playing nice on votes and bipartisanship really won't change their objectives, it just keeps their own side dispirited.

This is why the Bolsheviks spoke ill of "mere trade unionism", because when you are obsessed purely with your own problems, all other workers becoming exploited isn't an issue, and you end up making self-destructive pacts with your exploiters.

ugh i hate to sound like im invoking ‘the global south’ as this half-assed gotcha BUT it is a fact that we’ve enjoyed a pretty fucking great standard of living for a long time now due partly to a policy of ruthless extraction from those places and the bill is coming due

this is not the end of days sorry you don’t get to crawl under the covers and wait for death to come. you and i have to find a fight to join *even if that fight isn’t won in our lifetimes* because we aren’t so fucking special that we get to take our ball and go home

i think the reason i find relatively well-heeled american people’s doomerism hard to bear is that it’s no less self important than evangelicals’ assertions that these just happen to be the end of days. and compared to people in e.g. the global south most of us ARE relatively well-heeled

This kind of thing was acceptable to support when it was happening overseas in states we profited from exploiting. But we get even the slightest taste, and people are ready to hurl themselves from roofs. Take this as an opportunity to learn, and become more internationalist in outlook and goals.

Star Wars George Pearkes be like “Uh oh ITHOR: HORN WINS DUEL AGAINST SHEDAO SHAI ITHOR: YORIK CORAL PODS SEEN STREAKING TOWARDS PLANET ITHOR: FIRST SIGNS OF VONG BIOWEAPON DEPLOYED”

Maybe the best way to build a leftist movement is to not immediately separate people out along racial or gender lines? I'm not an expert, of course, but it would seem to undermine solidarity.

Two different professors yelling at each other about how to liberate people is great, because it keeps any regular people from voicing an opinion. Can't have that.

I think i found my lucky racist. This guy is amazing.

Do I think you could bring back Dark Sun in the current era? Absolutely, though a lot of people, right and left, would *freak* about it. Do i trust WotC to do it justice? LOL FUCKING LOL

This is outstanding news for the Chinese, as CIA support for insurgencies and raiding forces has a tendency to blow up rather spectacularly. Some dipshit Ivy League kid named Brayden is going to tell the nomads to build ladders and storm a castle without building siege weapons.

Jesus Tankies, Mao would have the entire modern CCP leadership thrown in work camps or straight up killed. Have some respect for yourselves, and don't kiss the ring of red-painted capitalists.

One thing that I'm sad about for not being a Christian is that there is no end for these people equal to their crimes without a torturous afterlife as punishment for evil.

as for optics, I was a fifteen year resident of China who saw Han, Uyghur - and one white Canadian! - friend disappeared or put into solitary confinement by the Chinese state, I could not give a single solitary fuck about what you think the 'optics' of making a joke about Chinese nationalism are

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

A man can only be made a slave if, in his mind, the preservation of his own life or comfort are the highest good.

Please God reinvade Afghanistan. Please. It's the funniest thing I can currently imagine on foreign policy.

What are "two things heard when Ezra Klein is having sex?" I'll take Pathetic Vox Podcasters for 600.

Every time a conservative touches education, children get dumber.

Oh no, not... The ice cream guy? The ice cream guy who has over a hundred million dollars in net worth? Why the fuck should I care? Why the fuck do *you* care?

Welp, after about a month and a half of work, I have a shade over 1,000 points of Warmaster Goblins, ready to get obliterated.

I'd argue it's always been good advice, because most people don't understand the basics, and just getting a grip on the basics gives you an enormous edge.

There's really nothing stopping the state from destroying you. But there's a lot keeping the state from destroying all of us.

So I just published--it literally launched today--a book describing Trump as a dictator. My wife was concerned about the danger of speaking out and making ourselves targets, then she thought a moment and said, "But it's more dangerous not to speak out." That sums up our attitude.

My mutuals are fighting about this so here is my take re legal suppression of protests by the Trump administration: 1) they will encounter a lot of legal hurdles and limits on administrative capacity if they try a bunch of super aggressive felony murder/incitement charges against protesters.

This should be the Democratic anti- climate change message

Holy shit these guys are going to make billions.