Incredible, the rarely executed "three dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyyyy" maneuver Never before seen in the wild

I hate GAO B-163764, MAY 17, 1968, 47 COMP. GEN. 657 I hate GAO B-163764, MAY 17, 1968, 47 COMP. GEN. 657 I hate GAO B-163764, MAY 17, 1968, 47 COMP. GEN. 657 www.gao.gov/products/b-1...

My reaction when a far-right vetbro says Iraq would have been rainbows and sunshine if George W. Bush had simply tried torture:

Wait… is Darth Vader just Stephen Miller with force choke and a laser sword?

somebody on the old site pointed out that scene is like showing up at a new office, and there's a weird guy dressed like a wizard going "Microsoft Excel is no match for the power of sorcery" then after he almost kills you, everyone else is like "no, really, he is a wizard, and he will kill you"

The president tells the JCS that this monk he likes has to sit in on all their meetings and he says something like "JASSM is no match for Shaolin Kung-Fu" and when the USAF CoS tells him to shut up because it's woo-woo bullshit he gets hadouken'ed

I've described this as the Streisand effect & it is, but beyond this it is invaluable to the Talarico campaign because there's basically no qualification Dem voters will respond to more strongly than "Trump hates this guy & wants him silenced". Instant trust.

Maybe he hasn't (Elon Musk commented as well), but I think every techie in DC right now is going to learn who Hannah Arendt was in a few years anyways

vote blue no matter who (laudatory, entirely correct)

you have to vote for the democrat in november 2028. any other option - voting republican, not voting, voting third party - is completely and totally morally unacceptable and should result in your expulsion from polite society

Disappointed, but not terribly surprised, that one of these bloggers in hair shirts was interviewed in the FT and within one sentence blamed "neoliberalism" for all our ills. It's just "Democrats and Republicans are equally bad, when you think about it" dressed up in grad student speak. No longer.

honestly my priors for rating a democratic elected is (1) how much they hate republicans and (2) if they're good soldiers, whether they are more ideological moderate or liberal is secondary

There is a wound that won't heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it's here. It's here and it's not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

Another military guy who confused the lesson of Supreme Command. Cohen wasn't arguing the military should talk louder--otherwise his book would not feature Lincoln replacing generals until he found one that could understand the political dynamics of the war.

who up Rogueing they Squadron?

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

contrast this to a year ago when there was very little anti-Trump messaging in public from anyone in a position of power or influence this is an big change and it does indicate his power over the elites - who have been much more deferential than society at large - is starting to wane

this is probably a conservative opinion on here but basically markets are great, and you should intervene on them mostly with taxes and subsidies, occasionally by trustbusting

Uh,

Oh man. I have such bad news for this guy when he finds out what war is.

I hate Trump like I’ve never hated anyone in my life. I have a strong preference for a candidate who will prosecute the previous administration. I hope we get that. I also don’t think it likely and I’m prepared to give that up to prevent worse harm if that’s the choice that has to be made.

LLMs as recombinated Wikipedia as text: good. Video, as usual: bad. The brave new world already arrived with packet switching (individual content) and broadband (video), no need to fuss the details. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

An entire federal government run by dudes who look like they got permabanned from Clarendon Ballroom in 2014 for calling the bouncer a racial slur

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons" - Churchill

Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell

A hypothetical that I think about a lot, given that we are deporting green card holders and US citizens, is whether a future administration could strip E*on M*sk of his citizenship and deport him to hell prison in Equatorial Guinea while simultaneously nationalizing SpaceX

Biden was the most economically progressive president since LBJ at least, he pursued a full-employment economy at huge political risk, it worked spectacularly. And what happened is that the entire progressive universe decided that he must not have done any of it, or else he would have been popular

really hate out and out nazis are in our government

if they didn't want that to happen they should commit fewer obvious crimes against the state and humanity, in my opinion

had occasion to observe earlier today that "i think we should prosecute everyone in the government who has committed a crime to the fullest extent of the law" is, in literal fact, very close to just proposing The Terror at this point

this government is run by like 150 people (which is in and of itself insane), and like all of them are the worst people you can find in america

Who up checking their agents?

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man in the history of humanity is, objectively speaking, just a straight up Nazi also the next democratic administration needs to throw him in prison

Fed’s gotta hike

That's the neat thing, you don't (and shouldn't)

“If you’re not dowmaxxing with me, then you’re frame mogging against me!” — Anakin if he made it to 2026

RE: Taiwan, I think "We should just give them 100 nukes and submarines to match and then tell them we aren't going to be kinetically involved" is honestly a pretty compelling idea.

Most vindicated character in Star Wars, imo

My hot take on this is that I think if you define The West as “America and her liberal democratic allies circa 2015/2023” Western Chauvinism is pretty defensible based on how everyone else runs their countries/regions but very few do this so unfortunately the bad apples do spoil the whole batch

The “west has fallen” people 9 times out of 10 have politics that will help make Beijing the center of the galaxy

The whole ideological complex that has decided every horrible human rights violation in the world is Israel's fault, except the Holocaust, which was really America's fault for telling those damn Germans how to commit genocide, really produces some pretty bad conclusions.

american leftist *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of JEWS?!?!???

are you with me?

she's movin' on up

X is down the hall and to the right.

This is something that has to change. The rurals deserve all the scorn they have coming

The problem is the information environment is shit because the news is evil.