shaun

all the "we are totally 100% definitely knocking out all of iran's launchers!" bluster is in aid of getting ships moving through the strait again, unfortunately it's a load of gaslighting bollocks and pressure will only keep building there as time goes on

the US has already lost in iran, their only hope was iran collapsing in a day or two, and it didn't, so now their only options are to declare victory & slink away or try to put boots on the ground & lose way harder

chalk up another failure for 'bomb them until they overthrow their own government for us' i'm sure it'll work one of these days

Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything

men can shoot guns. women can play the grand piano. is one of the funnier acts of gender in resident evil 1

i love having free will
#RE9 #ScoobyDoo

don't buy it, frankly. worldwide online study including baby boomers? too many biases there before you even start asking questions, surely. you'd have to survey each generation when they were the same age to compare

very cringe of trump's guys to be saying "our epic chad warfighters have been unshackled to unleash maximum death and killstreak carnage" etc but if they're asked if this is a war they're all umm, wait, no, this is not a war, pls don't put in the paper that this is a war

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

TERA CHAD Clavicular has been MOGGED by Iranian missile strikes in DUBAI, leaving him DEAD and AURALESS... only to be reborn as an anime horse girl?? watch "Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Lead the Charge Kurabikyura-kun!!!" on Crunchyroll today

losing my mind about this still. as far as i can tell the navy was saying they're not going to be doing it just prior to trump announcing that they would be doing it, which is odd and embarrassing. you'd think they'd be on the same page, given iran closing the strait was extremely foreseeable

trump on truth social rn: "If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible." good luck with that. could just scuttle the ships now to save time

if i were iran i would hope trump does this because it would make it very easy to shoot the ships and sink them. mhm

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

they're already considering pilfering air defense from bases elsewhere in the world & it hasn't even been a week. i'm sure that'll be appreciated by countries who thought the US was defending them

he means they have lots of noncritical stuff but are running out of critical things like air defense interceptors & he's blaming biden for that instead of himself for not doing an inventory before starting a pointless war

starmer always charting the least popular course on every issue is pretty impressive, really. "the US can use our bases to bomb people, but doing that is bad" congrats, you managed to get our bases attacked in such a way that generates zero good will with anyone, masterful

the execution of mary, queen of scots

do they not tell the grunts that they only have a limited number of interceptors and that they don't work 100% of the time. (or not to film and upload videos of attacks, also). ludicrous display

i have seen more than one video shot by a US soldier chuckling at interceptors being fired above his head, who then starts yelling & running for cover when a missile gets through & explodes something near him. what the hell is that. like it's a firework display. you're being bombed rn! take cover!

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

ralking

there are loads of posts that age horribly but this might be one that is put in a history book for how poorly it ages

as a serious journalist (Times, Slate, Bioligical Woman's Weekly, Der Sturmer) I am dismayed the left can't get their tiny heads around simple ideas like my paper printing weekly opinion pieces explaining "why war is necessary" =/= being for the war

if you really believe this, you should take 'journalist' out of your bio because you are not one

they did that one already on tng actually didn't they. with troi. lots of dream aliens

also there was an episode one season prior where chakotay had to go into his dreams to communicate with dream aliens. it's like they couldn't think of much else for him to do

voyager season 5 episode 19, 'the fight.' voyager flies into a region of 'chaotic space' and cannot escape. alien residents of chaotic space reach out to talk to chakotay via the medium of imaginary boxing. they can do this because chakotay has "crazy genes." very silly and boring