Ornamental Hermit

if there’s one thing that defines 2026 American defense strategy, it’s a total belief that absolutely no one has worthwhile opinions on war or novel defense technology who isn’t a white straight American MAGA male with good hair

One of my all-time favorites.

Dan O'Bannon (Pinback) went on to write the script for Alien. You can see the seed in this movie.

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

Taken hostage, not "detained".

Abducting a person to hold them prisoner in exchange for some concession from an adversary, including surrender, is called "taking a hostage". It is an action which automatically reveals the hostage takers as villains.

#761205

I Will Never Forgive Trae Young For Surpassing Kobe Bryant's Career High For Assists In A Game Eight Times | Defector Kobe Bryant was not just some normal NBA player. No indeed: He was the second-best shooting guard in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers franchise, and something like the 11th-best Laker overall,…

I will never forgive Trae Young for surpassing Kobe Bryant’s career high for assists in a game eight times: defector.com/i-will-never...

Counterpoint: no.

Denmark Strait, between Iceland and Greenland.

Wrong.

It's looking increasingly like these guys thought that if they could wreak more death and destruction than the other side then they would be respected as strong powerful men and they would "win" and that would make them big important heroes. Very possibly they had no rationale deeper than that.

Thread.

Thread.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

For some reason I'm thinking of a thing I've said on occasion about Ann Coulter:

If she's sincere, she's going to hell. If it's all a vaudeville act, she's *really* going to hell.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I like Ms Sage (and Ms Evans in whose thread she’s commenting) and want to believe I would hold the line for the reasons she describes. But even more, I want not to have to. That’s why I think we owe it to ourselves to think of and support better candidates than Gavin fucking Newsom.

Quite possibly the stupidest thing ever said about a ->candidate for political office<-

When Pete Hegseth dies I'm gonna schedule a colonoscopy at a hospital near his grave.

Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.

With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.

should be clearer exactly what Platner said re sexual assault. this is the quote:

I think that (a) should be disqualifying in itself, and (b) raises serious questions about possible further ugly revelations which could derail his candidacy and hand Collins a senate seat.

Yes, actually. I knew that goddamn skull when I was 12 years old. He got it in an area where the tattoo artists who did this tattoo explicitly tattooed nazi iconography. And then he spent 20 years (while claiming to be a "history buff"?) never wondering? Your excuses are almost worse than reality.

the idea that no one could in good faith be concerned about a guy getting a nazi tattoo is disgusting and *extremely harmful to marginalized people.*

like, you know who worries about a candidate with a Nazi tattoo? Jewish people; Black people. people who the Nazis target!

There are dumbshits. And there are REAL dumbshits.

And then there's this guy.

You're not merely in denial. You're full of shit.

And he was a Blackwater mercenary.

And he is a big fan of an explicitly white supremacist podcast.

look ima need white people to stop explaining to me that every white dude is prone to get obvious Nazi tattoos in their 20s. the shit is not true. I know plenty of white military dudes who didnt get Nazi tattoos. This is not a widespread phenomenon.

He had a Totenkopf for 20 years, that he referred to as his "little totenkopf" and then claims he didn't know what it was? Then got it covered up by a less-obvious but still known right-wing symbol. Nah, you're in denial.

Hey, @wnba.com: as a long-time WNBA fan and Seattle Storm season ticket holder, who has been around long enough to see one or more games in each of their 4 championship series - PAY THE PLAYERS!
@stormbasketball.bsky.social #wnba #wnbapa #payequity #paythemwhatyouowethem