Dead Carl

Somebody lobbing missiles at you tends to make you not so soft very quickly

I have to admit I’m skeptical NK gets the first strike.

Chat is this good

I do think part of it is having western money in a country without western wages.

Clausewitz has a lot of rightful contempt for authors who refuse to make the viewpoint clear and stick with it.

Clausewitz on the Very Bad Ideas to Reform the War Colleges An Opportunity to Expose Errors and Discuss How One Can Gain Experience From Books

"We can only pity the officer who imbibes purely these pedantic platitudes and must face an opponent whose thinking has been whetted by critical analysis of actual strategic problems."

From my latest: open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

Against thoughtless moderation Many voters oppose trans girls in women's sports. Even more support protecting trans people from discrimination.

Full article: www.theargumentmag.com/p/against-th...

From a follow-up to The Argument, poll. Whether or not you find the polling or the interpretation convincing, I think it’s clear that no one was saying trans rights should be abandoned.

It’s a problem when people are immediately accused of being crypto-reactionaries.

I think wrong but not indefensible (you can argue the Olympics is about the nation not the government, yada yada).

The thing is, JD doesn’t realize he can’t score that point from his position on birthright citizenship.

Banger ngl

This is where his debate team roots are obvious. There’s no regard for convictions, just scoring points.

The Uncanny Artifice of George Washington I got a number of fascinating replies to yesterday’s post about the...

i really love @alexiscoe.bsky.social's biography of washington because she gets at exactly this: the fact that "george washington" is a character created by george washington, a man so consumed with presenting himself as an example of republican virtue that he became one

Sometimes this website needs some FDR posting. Maybe an extension that periodically plays some speeches to keep people from despair.

This fundamentally misunderstands the Revolution. It wasn’t about wealth, but about status and access to political power. The peasants were mad the country was mismanaged, but it was the middle classes who really resented the aristocracy for having power they could never attain.

Clausewitz on the Very Bad Ideas to Reform the War Colleges An Opportunity to Expose Errors and Discuss How One Can Gain Experience From Books

I've deployed a truly excessive number of Clausewitz quotations to address that terrible article on the war colleges.

At the same time, these quotes (mainly from book II) illustrate how Clausewitz saw theory as a tool for learning how to learn from experience.

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If Hegseth wants to be part of the warrior ethos, he’s got to walk the walk

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To Bret’s point, I think we already have a lot of these networks because there is already so much chaff out there.

This is in part because the left is temperamentally unwilling to take a victory lap.

You can’t do the Mishima talk and then balk at the Mishima walk.

I think Bret is still right in that even if you’re using a lot of AI for analysis, the writing is still almost certainly going to be done by humans because the bar is so high.

Complete with chivalric orders and gilded bones

“Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won.”

That’s why you have a second on hand

You can drop the military from that sentence.

I am a simple girl begging people who make covid their entire personality to learn some basic facts about the disease instead of mainlining Taylor Lorenz‘s feed

You can’t do the Mishima talk and then balk at the Mishima walk.

If Hegseth wants to be part of the warrior ethos, he’s got to walk the walk

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*getting burned as a heretic by the church because I blamed my crop failure on capitalism, which they presumed to be a pagan deity* this too is capitalism