ergopraxis

I look forward to American recognition of the separatist people's republics (kill me)

Kinetic decarbonization underway

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

i think basically that I wouldn't care about the war if it was just a matter of gas prices going up by a dollar right now and six american soldiers dying. This sort of rhetoric just makes it so easy to not give a shit, it encourages total political apathy

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The insider betting machine is now allowing government employees to bet on the use of thermonuclear weapons thereby financially tying the use of thermonuclear weapons to an unregulated betting market that has already been shown to be used by governmental entities to make massive money of decisions.

I have never stopped being in awe that he actually fell for this

Otherwise you may as well turn it into a fast food restaurant at the whim of the owner. That's what it means to treat something as private property that can be sold on the market. Christians don't get to impose special constraints on peoples' property to advertise their religion.

There is no argument for permanent christian church status. There is an argument for taking something out of the market and out of the hands of private citizens, or priests, for that matter, entirely and making it into a museum or heritage site open to visitors.

Any argument that it should not be legally permissible to buy a property previously used as a church and repurpose it as a mosque is an argument that this property, perhaps because of its cultural significance, should not be tradable at all, or controlled by any sort of priest.

"I am incredibly grateful for the outpour of support from my constituents across the 4th District. Serving this district in Congress is my highest honor, and I am deeply humbled to have the opportunity to represent this district for another term. "The people of the 4th District demand progressive change like dismantling ICE, ensuring Medicare for All, regulating Al, establishing a Green New Deal, and passing legislation to block arms sales to Israel. This remains my top priority in Congress —no matter what narrative out-of-state groups attempt to cast about my voting record. ( also would like to thank all the local elected officials, campaign volunteers, Congressional staff, and my family who all poured their sweat and tears into supporting this campaign and my work in Congress. You all are who has made this work possible. Thank you."

Really really noteworthy that in Foushee's victory announcement she mentions ending arm sales to Israel as being something her constituents want— she already is a cosponsor of Block The Bombs Act but this is the kind of rhetoric that you likely wouldn't see without her barely winning against Nida.

Consider: prison is better than death

Btw if I were a soldier and my commanding officer started schizoyapping about a crusade to bring the end times, I would consider this incontrovertible evidence I'm about to die in the stupidest way possible for no benefit or legible purpose whatsoever and instantly desert.

People can’t grasp that Christianity is like 2,000 different religions wearing a trench coat.

Iran has vastly outperformed my expectations, btw, and part of this is that they finally resolved to drop the purely symbolic strikes on Israel and target these gulf bases in a way that imposes broader economic costs, as is strategically prudent and also their legal right in this context.

"but why is Iran firing missiles on all these irrelevant countries" Bro, they are integral participants in the bombing campaign against it, what are you even talking about? They're not irrelevant. They're as relevant as Israel or the US themselves!

Military objects on the territory of anyone participating in a war of aggression are fair game for the defensive party in its legal effort to degrade the offensive capabilities they are literally unlawfully leveraging against it. It doesn't matter what flag you paint on them.

If Hungary allowed Russia to refuel and launch bombers, and initiate armed attacks, from bases on its sovereign territory against Ukraine, would you take it seriously if it then started whining that it was not a cobelligerent if the UAF bombed these facilities? It's ludicrous.

These are valid military targets in a defensive war on the part of Iran, and if they want them to stop being bombed, they need to rescind military access to the US as long as it intends to keep launching attacks against their neighboors from these facilities. Tough, but those are the only options.

The gulf countries doing the "I'm not touching you" routine are ridiculous. There are armed attacks launched against Iran from military installations in their territory, with their express consent, by a hostile state. They are voluntary co-belligerents in a war of aggression.

(Also, note, there is a direct line connecting doubling down on this sort of thinking and genocide. If you can not accept the autonomy of bureaucracies from individual persons, your tendency will be to think that you need to kill increasingly more people, perhaps all of the people, to collapse them)

It is really hard sometimes to keep the big picture in mind but whereas it was noteworthy that just two people were elected to Congress in 2018 who were openly and hyper critical of Israel, in 2026 it will be more than two dozen.

Both of these things are wrong, however (institutionally mature structures do not depend on any particular person, not even their leader, and non-hierarchical modes of organisation are possible) which is why they are perpetually standing athwart history practicing their pikachu face.

It doesn't matter if we're talking about murdering Khamenei or removing Corbyn. The general idea is that removing the leader of a social movement or structure should just eliminate that movement or structure and that no other functionally equivalent structure or movement could then emerge.

This is why they are still trying to do decapitation strikes after half a century of them not working. They have the pervasive sense that removing the leader should a) collapse the hierarchically organised institutions that person led, and b) that no other form of organisation could possibly emerge.

One of the overwhelming biases of the right is basically that their preferred, often personalist, top-down hierarchies are the only mode of organisation possible, along with the erroneous inference that, therefore, the leader is paramount even in the context of institutionally mature structures.

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Best part of all of this is that Jasmine Crockett's successor in the House will be a Black pastor who called Israel an apartheid state in Oct 2023

God aipac must be so mad right now lol