Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
every new detail about what the us thought would happen with this war makes me feel like I’ve suffered cataclysmic brain damage
Everything is bad, but at least I can focus on my dissertation chapter about how the British in 1915 didn’t have the navy to force a strait when it needed to because it spent the previous decades funding their army’s misadventures in unimportant areas that turned into expensive quagmires.
Again, there were/are plans but they assumed a fundamentally different (not insane) strategic environment for such a war
there was no plan for "YOLO Iran war with only bibi," hence why the best they came up with in a couple weeks was "uhhhh bomb stuff I guess"
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
My experience exactly. Can't wait to throw it on next time I get to drink beer and work on the car
Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.
Imfdb probably the stupidest thing on the internet that I love the most. There is no reason that I *need* to know that henchman 5, seen for five seconds, had an FN200 with an trijcon sight (likely replica). This is totally useless information to me. But do I want to know it? Yes.
Critical support to all of the maniacs who maintain and update IMFDB.
How else would I be able to find out what that weird stubby M16 looking thing is that Willam Defoe carries in Clear and Present Danger? Or that the MP5's in Die Hard aren't actually MP5's, but modified HK94's?
'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.
crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey
Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...
You guys remember when Barack Obama lightly criticized a Supreme Court decision and they all acted like he’d vivisected Alito’s favorite puppy right in front of his eyes?
"Federal Way Washington is in the house" (r @normcharlatan.bsky.social)
perhaps I have made a mistake
which is dumb because it's simple
- there is one China
- the CCP has an opinion on this, but US policy is the future of Taiwan will be decided by peaceful means
- the US will sell defensive arms to Taiwan
- the DoD will maintain the capacity to resist force or coercion against the people of Taiwan
The American Century of Humiliation
30+ mph on ice with knives strapped to your feet is metal af
Curling gets a lot of shine these days and that's great but I'm a sicko for long track speed skating
couldn't sleep so i made him sit down
"Don't do it Jesse. I bet he's got more than 100 grand in woke under the hood of that car."
I frankly think both this and the East Wing destruction are going to be fantastic reasons to take every single last dollar from any person and company with the Trump name.
This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked.
The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.
“The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its first liftoff, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US, 30th November 1982"
(via www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...)
Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since 1958 and a Senator for 45 years. He is the longest serving Senator in office. He chairs the Judiciary Committee.
tfw Federal Republicans screw the pooch so hard their state candidate is losing by *worse than Assad margins*
The idea that America needs to occupy Greenland because we actually care enough about native people and want to build oncology centers is enough to make your head fully explode
