When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.

What exactly is the maximum available punishment for this because we need to seek it

Who could have foreseen that the president who lies about literally everything, no matter how large or small, would lie about his intentions for war? I for one am as shocked as when mommy disappeared behind her hands only to reappear moments later

I'm old enough to remember being lectured by conservatives about Obama's misguided Iran strategy heh

This is madness and history will judge us for it.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Maybe if Platner wins he goes Fetterman, but that really isn't the issue. I don't care if he gets up there and votes reliable party line. He's still a damned nazi and if you aren't willing to draw a hard moral line at that, if you make excuses and whataboutisms for it, you've fallen into the abyss.

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Not having a Nazi tattoo isn't a "purity test" it's basic fucking hygiene

graham platner is why all senate candidates should have held previous office

Mamdani is well dressed, has to be very careful in his approach, and his record is damn near spotless. Platner is a fucking Blackwater merc with an SS tat and everyone from Sanders to Vigeland to fucking Jacobin is tripping over themselves to defend and equivocate. Fucking disgusting.

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

just setting everything on fire to grab the next headline

24 hrs:

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

These guys cannot get their stories straight

Had to listen to one of these guys tell me "I'm a Republican but I don't support Trump" and I'm like what do you imagine "the Republican party" is?

all of this to kill a guy who was already 86 years old

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

moreover the man has a 60 year reputation for not honoring his word! you have to be a drooling moron to trust him not to break a commitment.

complete insanity

Larry Ellison's admission that models converge is a refutation of the entire argument for general AI the whole idea was that we would train the machine on "all the world's data" and the machine would find "truth" in it instead what happens is the output quickly converges to uselessness

not everything that is illegal is immoral this is a post about our current political situation

a thing that doesn't really get enough discussion about platner is that, even if you assume the latter here is true (and i do), it's going to make him strongly susceptible to malign influences if he gets elected to the senate; the framework to think about him isn't fetterman, it's gabbard

Kaine on Fox: "The president can act to defend US against imminent attack without congressional approval. But if you're going to initiate war, you need Congress. The president not only did not come to Congress, he acted without even notification to the vast majority of us. This is an illegal war."

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran. Unreal.

Seems to be the pattern…

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

Is there even an official story?

I’m sure Barron will enlist, right?

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Reasons people say they voted for Trump: 1. The economy 2. Release the Epstein files 3. No new wars

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

average person cheering for war in iran

Once again, I’d like to remind everyone that the Iraq War, which was an unmitigated catastrophe that Trump himself attacked in the campaign, was launched after a year-long buildup that secured with substantial public approval and sweeping authorization votes in both houses of Congress.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The judges in WV have seen enough. They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do we have a Constitution anymore, or is it just optional? Because if it’s the second thing it opens up a lot of options about what to do with these guys

Ok. If you wanted to steelman this — to critique the best argument, most plausibly stated, for this war — who has articulated it? (I don’t expect it would be anyone in the administration)

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

woke up to sneeze, checked my phone, and I regret to inform you The Mad Lad(s) Finally Did It in Iran

an annoying thing about the discourse around this is gonna be that it's illegal in two separate and distinct ways - illegal under international law for the USA and israel to strike Iran, and illegal under United States law for Trump to order a strike on Iran without congressional authorization.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.