People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

that dreadful feeling in Crusader Kings when your ruler is crippled and dying and you're desperately trying to paint the map red before the inevitable

Dr. Fukuyama, you can't miss

One in three Americans approve of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country's president and 72% worry the U.S. will become too involved in the South American country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that concluded on Monday.-Reuters

my guy, you are in the legislative body specifically granted the power to authorize the president to conduct war. wdym you were disappointed???

Good day to share one of my finer moments online.

one of the many ways SF is very weird is that the legacy insider faction is the left-leaning group which is fighting a right-leaning insurgency against their hold on the city. basically no other place in the country works like that.

Thinking a lot about how Trump signifies a return to the GOP of the late 19th/early 20th, before the New Deal hegemony forced them to accept a lot of liberal democratic premises, *but* combined with the residual effects of absorbing the former Dixiecrats in the 60/70s

the problems with neoconservatism are 1) it never worked 2) sidelining the international rules based order to spread democracy, a goal which never had widespread buy in, fostered an overarching cyncism in foreign policy which facilitated the rise of trumpism

>we’re at the European States are releasing joint statements on the territorial integrity of Greenland phase of the Trump Presidency

This is just Kleinism; if enough people hold a reprehensible belief (and if enough of them are important) you are, definitionally, not permitted to treat it as reprehensible.

PG&E sure has a curious idea of what “equity” means!

"scientists have alienated conservatives with progressive issue positions on gender and race"

all that you once thought solid has melted into air, playboy

going to be super funny when the entire establishment goes to the mat for Goldman and he loses by 25 anyway

lmfao i love the FT

There's a certain kind of person who grew up in racist late 20th century drug hysteria and they saw white people dying of OD more and they had to imagine a massive international criminal conspiracy to kill white Americans and not just "We handed everyone oxy for 10 years and then stopped"

not good that overnight the whole new right started talking like the athenians in the melian dialogue

explaining to the judge that we had to redraft the indictment because the organization we accused him of being a part of, which is a designated FTO, does not actually exist but this new indictment which accuses him of being in bed with FARC/ELN is actually totally serious and real.

the venezuelan opposition desperately wants to be the aristocracy of a US-backed junta. absolute frauds

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

Infinite Jest ass timeline

so whats going on in caracas right now

this is still basically true a day later

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

things are gonna get way worse

Chuck Schumer is the most powerful Democrat whose actions can only really be explained by him being a genuinely dumb guy

it kind of rules that when our bots glitch they glitch out like actual sci fi robots. you know you can imagine an old star trek where a malfunctioning computer does this out loud

"adding all of europe to all of south america as global foes is unwise" is both true and the most understated version of the argument i could make...

you know what's weak, bitching to god damn Axios off the record. if you want to have an argument about this then use your real name

the obvious answer is also that if the US seizes greenland, europe will be booting US troops off the continent and talking about they can sever economic ties, which would make us poorer and less safe - all for a landmass which has at best tertiary material and strategic value

elon musk cooked the twitter algo specifically so he would get more positive feedback

(1) Trump wants the Venezuelan oil (2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production (3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order

genuinely saw a post saying that the idea of sour crude was a lie by the elite which is uh, baffling to me

I genuinely wonder why Moskovitz seems to genuinely be so much better than the other tech billionaires.

Update from Oaxaca

Local news interviewed a local Venezuelan family with blue eyed no sabe kids that were celebrating the coup in Venezuela with near perfect republican talking points lol

okay but he’s kinda right?

It’s so funny this was place was originally conceived as a place to train dem natsec hacks

Year 2 of Trump, and we are seeing defenses not out of place at Nuremberg.

the civilians (congress) are the ones who write the laws and decide what is illegal, actually. the military refusing illegal orders is civilian control of the military

they would only endanger US troops if the admin went through with the op even after the report dropped, which would be the admin’s own fault. the real reason is that they do not want to lose sources at the pentagon

lmfao theyre trying to get a head of state with a firearms charge storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Me, the silver spoon eunuch hypeman for a nakedly imperialist wealthy draft dodger: ‘We should put Fortunate Son on this video because it’s the cool helicopter war song’

its crazy we know nothing about this operation. no idea what the plan is going forward, no announcement of what forces participated or what was striked. not even really sure if there are still US forces on the ground or in the AO. i doubt we’ll be getting even a bad legal justification either