frankly it seems that only the transphobes are really still on board with the american regime which makes sense, all-consuming hatred of a minority you think rules the world is the only way to keep you thinking that... any of this shit... is in any way sensible

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

On Linux forums I, a woman, would get ignored and disrespected. These days I ask my question, then switch to a fake account to give a completely wrong answer, then switch back again to thank them and praise their Linux knowledge. The experts show up right away. Sorted.

The French singing La Marseillaise in a nuclear submarine base is deeply symbolic. France built its own independent nuclear deterrent after WWII to never again have to suffer a similar humiliation. Now France is offering to ”advance” that deterrent to other European countries.

There are many academic questions I have about Dudley Thompson's memoir, of which my most pressing is "why did a dentist in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1941, have a copy of Mein Kampf out in the waiting room"

I shouldn't have to say this but this war with Iran is extremely unlikely to cause World War III if for no other reason than it would require literally any other great power in the world to put skin in the game and so far they've all been whistling nonchalantly and looking in the other direction.

Every photo of a fox is either the most beautifully cunning and elegant creature you've ever seen or an idiotic pile of fuzz, there's no in-between

Looks like every generation is going to have to learn ironic racism only breeds the real thing, just with different targets I guess?

I remember when ppl on this site were confidently telling all of us that a war would instantly make Trump's approval ratings go to 110% and help him consolidate eternal rule.

Update:

You know, I’ve been talking tonight with everybody I know in the energy industry about Iran, and to a man they’ve all now used the phrase “energy crisis“ now

i've talked to quite a few people who've attempted to lobby the gov & the always talk about appealing to 'the working class' apparently if you say 'i am a working class person & i support trans people' they look at you like you have 3 heads, it just doesn't compute

I unfollowed everybody who followed a pro-Israel acct I found to irritating and now I have people I follow talking about how DA JOOZ organised the war on Iran to distract from the Epstein Files I think I need to follow less people in general

"The public cannot fail, and can only be failed" is how you erode democracy election by election.

Labour’s watchword: well it may not be popular but at least we’re doing the wrong thing

Perhaps my most neo-con view is that (at least in theory) only democracies can claim sovereignty, since sovereignty can only come from the people. It may be convenient to acknowledge authoritarian governments as a practical matter, but we need not think of them as legitimate.

Alright I'm just gonna try and tune out of Iran war news for most of the day unless something really big happens because just catching up this AM made my head hurt. It's all completely useless and contradictory and fragmentary and performative dick waving. Ain't nobody got time for that shit.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Hoping the worst type of guy in the world who moved to Dubai is having an absolutely *dreadful* day.

such a shame that goon is now a sex thing, what else am i suppose to call my pair of oafish bumbling henchmen

What a year, huh

gonna play the game of WHERE'S THE FLOOR

Normally I wouldn't put an account this popular on blast because I'm not suicidal, but this is asinine theater kid criticism made out of a refusal to focus your rage on deserving targets. If you think the real problem with Trump bombing Iran is the Democrats, log off and stay logged off.

If it was they would've taken one look at the West's vacillating response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and pounded their entire surface fleet straight into the Taiwan Strait in, like, May of 2022

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

I think it's another "Shit's too fucked for me to sleep" day.

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

Everyone needs to calm down Not me though, I am the goldilocks level of mad/outraged and directing those feelings only at deserving targets in healthy ways

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

Bit vexing that the last best hope to stop fascism on the British Isles is gonna be the fucking Green Party and their "Leave NATO, scrap our nukes" foreign policy I mean I'll vote for them in a heartbeat when push comes to shove but Christ alive

So are they just gonna keep bombing people until their popularity hits Cool Zone numbers or what?

Jesus gives his most situations to his strongest monitors

me every single day

As a client manager I have a corporate card with £500 allowance on it each month for client entertaining. Just so happens that my two best mates are clients. On the last Friday of each month I take them out for food & drinks to clear the allowance, which is usually all of it

the most consistent throughline of all the dooming seems to be the lack of any theory (at least not an accurate one) of what would be involved, operationally, in using ICE/the military to keep everyone away from polling sites or whatever

Man you guys are really showing why I decided to take a break from Bsky this weekend by desperately trying to find a way for the strikes ordered by a Republican president with the mute acquiescence of a Republican congress be the fault of Democrats.

I love how much social media “gay culture“ is just ancient roman gender politics but woke-ly

What if somebody made BFDI mouth plane nose art

I now watch more porn than I ever did because of the Online Safety Act. If you're going to make me pay for a VPN. I'm getting my money's worth.

Y'know, getting dragged into yet another bombing of Iran by Bibi ain't gonna help ol' wrigglin' Donny's numbers with the Fuentes / Carlson Nazis.

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We should hire Charlie Kirk lookalikes to start appearing in the crowds at conservative events like G-Man

This is, of course, what “populism” always means in practice.

Do all wars have to formally start in the last week of February now. Is that a rule