John

Why is anyone who *doesn't* have inside information betting on Polymarket et al?

This is a moment where Illyana's carefully constructed New Mutants persona just breaks.

So much exposition.

Illyana officially a Mets fan (attn: @nutedawn.bsky.social)

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Can we just acknowledge this guy is a fucking Nazi now? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vader is a jumped up O-3 with no real higher command experience who thinks that his mystical powers mean he knows how to command a joint military operation. An incompetent and brutal imperial favorite, nothing more.

I think it's a perfectly valid interpretation that Vader is an amateurish Hegseth figure who has no idea what he's doing and chokes Ozzel to death for no reason.

Like there's no hint that Ozzel disobeyed orders on his own initiative. Vader set a vague goal and left all the operational details to Ozzel.

And not only does Ozzel not think he did anything wrong, Veers shows no sign of thinking he did anything wrong either.

The other problem here is that evidently the plan wasn't that, because Vader has simply delegated everything to Ozzel and clearly not provided any direction at all.

None of the physics makes sense when you think about it, but the Ozzel thing bugs me I think because it doesn't even nominally make sense.

"They sure jammed in a lot of plot in that episode, if you know what I mean. 😜"

Is that a euphemism?

Also, the energy field works against bombardment but not against landings? This is all gobbledygook.

I think it's just bad writing, honestly.

Like legitimately I don't understand why dropping out of light speed further away would have been better. Wouldn't it have given the rebels even more time to prepare?

Two dozen.

MAGA idea of heaven:
the impulse control of RFK Jr., the intellectual rigor of Elon Musk, and the attention span of Pete Hegseth, the sense of humor of Donald Trump

See? Doesn't work.

The pretense is all we have.

I tried to do one of those "European version of heaven/European version of hell" jokes with this, but it's impossible because none of those people are good at any of those things.

But "democratic socialism" very clearly was born out of "socialist parties who refused to join the Comintern." Explicitly "non-Leninist socialists" well before Stalinism could be distinguished from Leninism.

Lots of rose-colored glasses in the west about Lenin, it's true. (Sometimes about Stalin, as well!)

Stalin probably murdered Georgi Dimitrov.

He was assassinated by a group of Bosnian students. They'd been armed and supported by elements within the Serbian military, but the Serbian government itself was not directly involved

Hafizullah Amin?

Found by whom?

only in the minds of Trotskyists.

I mean, they're not saying they killed Pezeshkian, are they?

I'm not disbelieving it, just still in "wait and see" mode. Have they claimed to have killed Pezeshkian as well, or no? It seems like no?

I mean, I'm not going to believe anything the administration says without some sort of confirmation.