Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy. open.substack.com/pub/bafriedm...

Going thru some old pix tonight, and came across this. It's true our medical system is a mess. But the doctors, researchers and EMT themselves? Inside that pile of machinery is a 4 lb newborn whose insides all pointed the wrong way. 50 yrs ago? Doesn't live 2 days. But now? Thriving teenager.

trump at the handover ceremony

I've done this in Civ so many times, so yeah of course this will work.

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris, the United States would launch a war in the Middle East—and they were right!

Working in IT when you're short-staffed, you're the lone network engineer, and one of your sites is experiencing an ISP outage youtu.be/OihbIgXBsMU?...

So this is clearly the result of "hey AI prompt, can you write a press release for a casualty notification?" right?

This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Remember when strategy cheese was very worried that sending artillery shells to Ukraine would impact our ability to defend Taiwan? Anyway I’m sure launching all of our ship based missiles and interceptors in one week will be immaterial

I gather that everyone here is 100% certain JD Vance is racist. So, who here actually knew that Vance's wife isn't white? And how does that influence your certainty?

so just not going to acknowledge you got this completely made-up thing from the vdare guy eh

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Real fucking rich for this administration that has more or less hung Ukraine out to dry in terms of support--and repeatedly tried to get them to cave to Russia on top of that--to come hat in hand to them now asking for help for a stupid war they launched on a lark

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos. Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.

Me last fall: "Alright I'll buy Ghost of Yotei but no idea when I'll finally get around to it. I mean I loved Ghost of Tsushima, so I know I'll like it, but it can wait. Me now:

Live footage of 5th fleet right now.

You know, I'm not a fan of petty street crime, but on balance I'll take it over tyranny. Or living a life of luxury that's built on modern slavery and the bones of exploited immigrant workers.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

I can't Kuwait to give your mother some friendly fire of my own. Heheheh. You hear what I said, Ton'?

WELL WELL WELL NOT SO EASY TO FIND A PLAN TO TERMINATE A CONFLICT THAT DOESN’T SUCK SHIT HUH?

the thing about people like glenn greenwald saying that trump broke his promise to them is that you have to be the absolute stupidest motherfucker on the planet to believe that donald trump, violent racist bully, is a man dedicated to peace. 1

Trump is going to lose the "Dads with multiple editions of Jane's Fighting Aircraft on their bookshelf" vote

Welcome to the age of The Farva Doctrine.

good reminder that like 90% of the American public's understanding of military affairs, including some ostensibly highly educated people, can best be summarized by swooping your hands around while making pewpew and woosh noises

Spent yesterday running ethernet through my house's attic so I could upgrade my doorbell, install a couple of APs, and some new cameras so I could avoid most of the Iran discourse, because Jesus Christ. 10/10, would recommend doing projects around the house instead of doom scrolling on the weekend.

It’s the same guy you dumb shit

we all knew Bari Weiss was a deranged right wing hack but I thought that she’d at least be a little more subtle about it while running cbs news

Don’t worry, he’s on it!

And the supporters section with the massive rebel loon flag!

This is basically my view at this point

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

she’s such a willing propagandist it’s disgusting

Obama- nuke deal Trump - no nuke deal Biden - no war with Iran Trump II - war with Iran You, Genius: Why Did Dems Do This

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Mine is that the 1999 American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was ordered by President Clinton in an attempt to destroy components of the F-117 stealth fighter shot down by the Serbs and being sold to China.

“155% tax rates for billionaires at home and 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad”