They're telling me - listen to this - they're telling me to not... to not, to never get involved in a land war in Asia! I don't know. That's what they say but I don't know. Should I do it? They're telling me it's one of the "classic blunders" but I might do it. Should I do it?... I'm going to do it

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

>”popular vet podcast”

like basically the entire general staff of the IDF needs to hang. they are not a military we can associate ourselves with and retain our values

their intelligence services spy on us, they provide no cognizable geopolitical benefit, they are entirely instrumental in their attitude towards the alliance, and the Israeli public is viciously opposed to my values.

and the polling in Israel is not such that there will be another Israeli government whose interests are aligned with American interests in this generation.

we need to treat Israel not like a compromised ally but as one of our most important geopolitical enemies

it is unusual to think about it this way, but Israel did overtly support Donald Trump after he attempted a coup against our government. insofar as there is democracy in this country, Israel is opposed to it.

the administration of rapists has finally found someone who responds to getting punched in the face with "you know what, motherfucker, I don't have to take that lying down" and they quite literally do not know what to do about it besides try to do the "i'm just a little birthday boy" shit

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

if only we could combine their knowledge of the written word with our knowledge that racism is bad

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

Virgin Atlantic doesn't give a shit we're going straight to Mumbai come hell or high water

New business model: go on social media and say (eg) "LLMs will never be able to use statistics to fact-check financial journalism." When someone pipes up "No, that's easy. I can make a Claude skill!" I reply "Nah. No way." Then when they prove me wrong, I copy the skill. Step 3 is profit.

Check out the density of this line of aircraft threading the needle between Iran and Ukraine

he grew up in a suburb outside of philadelphia and as soon as he graduated from high school he joined a special forces unit in an occupying apartheid colony where he led numerous military campaigns to kill people in lebanon and occupied palestine. his adult life is defined by seeking out conflicts.

thinking about becoming a "we should give israel's annual military assistance budget to iraq" guy

Comrade Kristol stays winning?

"why does every 'big account' constantly add defensive disclaimers to their posts, it's annoying"

Apple absolutely taking the piss with these storage upgrade costs. Ridiculous.

I'd like everyone to be careful about the "U.S. is a pariah state now" takes. The world can't afford for the U.S. to be a pariah state. Smartest thing American hegemony accomplished. No one is rebuilding those structures in a year or two and U.S. centrality remains the path of least resistance

In the last 18 hours: (1) I had a 70+ year old almost hit my kids in a stroller, and (2) had an elderly oncoming driver drift into my lane, passing me as I dodged her seemingly unaware of my presence. lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soo...

being dumb as hell must whip so much ass

no matter how stupid the dystopia gets sometimes you still get moments that take your breath away someone take the keys away from grandpa and just park him in front of the construction vehicles all day

OpenAI led ground invasion of a place whose terrain looks like this will surely be a great success

Amen

I’m going to need to cut this line I like from a piece about the Iran War you’ll read tomorrow, so I post it here to tell my darling I will see it in the gardens of heaven: “We will not get bored," Trump said on Monday, minutes before talking about how beautiful the White House drapes are.

Thanking the troops for their dereliction of duty

Men think they were meant to live in the Roman Empire until they’re getting conscripted into open-ended territorial wars by pedophiles

These are evil people, looking to reenact the ugliest episodes in American history.

The U.S. just bailed out Russia’s budget

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ICE officials in MN terrified rn

It is so freaking weird that all British political parties have landed on "The Green Party is a radical Islamist separatist party and it's illegitimate because Muslims vote for it" and then its two most prominent figures are a blonde plumber lady and a goofy gay Jewish dude.

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet. This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

Y'all what are we doing?

me to the monkey paw: i wish star trek wasn’t on paramount!

This is a silver lining, at least. Another oil shock might do wonders for purchasing habits and energy usage. Nudge people back towards smaller cars which kill fewer people, that sort of thing.

France isn't stupid, they see the dying empire fuckshit the usa is nailing it's coffin with. France is in the chat

man if only a massive green energy infrastructure package had been passed like five years ago

I've known multiple people in the military who were actually, literally homeless before taking the express lane to the middle class that the military gives you. There is no better way in this country to move from poverty to stability than joining the military.

CPI and PPI translations into PCE suggest core prices in January rose around 0.43%, give or take. That would be the highest month-over-month reading since February (which was +0.448%) and annualizes to 5.3%. It corresponds to a 3.1% y/y rate, the highest since March 2024, up from 2.6% in April.

Okay so when this inevitably results in another 9/11 in a decade, can we all be cool and take our medicine? Or are we going to do PATRIOT Act 2 and start the cycle all over again?

Great analogy.

from a standpoint epistemological view you have to take this view particularly seriously

I nominate the post in this screenshot for this year's "most gender you can fit in one post" award.