If the standards applied here were applied evenly across the think tank community, hundreds would lose their clearances.

Can we put a stop to this blatantly transparent Oppenheimer schtick

Umberto Eco is always like "I know a lot about fascism because I wrote fascist material when I was a child" like big deal buddy I had a Something Awful account as a kid too

"Who is to say that I am wrong? Therefore, let us assume I am right and begin the bombing"

Folks I have developed a foolproof solution to the problem of CENTCOM firing off all of INDOPACOM's TLAMs BEHOLD!

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very struck by the fact that whenever i use this image people will show up to tell me that it is gross and immoral when they could just skeet "i am addicted to losing" and save us all some time

1.) Try to cover up the leaking of top secret documents by firing all your staffers and accusing them of leaking to the media 2.) Fired staffers promptly begin leaking to the media about what a clown you are Masterful gambit sir

Say what you will about Bridge but he would not have leaked TS/SCI documentation twice in as many days, lie about it, and then fired everyone else who might roll on him

Palantir and Anduril's aggressive and inappropriate courtship of various government and especially IC orgs - while simultaneously peddling right-wing ideology - should make them PNG in every procurement process.

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The NYT editorial board statement on the firing of the CNO is atrocious. Seriously a bunch of people with zero relevance to the Navy going "well why didn't you just ask for more money?"

Oh my god. THIS is what we're harping on about?

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

Ukraine in NATO or boots on the ground were never going to happen, but there is a correct way to play this, and Trump signing a bullshit deal with no enforcement that Putin will violate instantaneously will torpedo diplomacy for the next 50 years.

It is always an interesting litmus test to see who supports the execution of a policy they like even if the policy is being executed by the dumbest man on the planet whose only serious interest is gaining as much money as possible.

I think we've lost the Mandate of Heaven

Is my avoidance behavior trying to shield myself from the news unhealthy for our democracy? Maybe. But on the bright side I'm making great progress on my 40K army!

"Mr. Musk, you've claimed before that you can see the Golden Path upon which humanity must be led to avoid extinction. Can you comment on the allegations that this will involve the deaths of billion of people in a Jihad chanting your name?"

Seriously, to real Catholics even exist anymore?

A lot of this sort of thing stems from the fact that a lot of very very stupid people have lots of money and power and genuinely cannot believe that their ideas are not taken seriously, thus proving there is no meritocracy.

All of these Matthew McConaughey ads for AI - how to buy clothes! book a restaurant! find your gate at an airport! - only underline that AI is not providing a lot of real value.

Some of this is genuinely impressively insane. Where did some of this even come from?