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
04.03.2026 14:19 β
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[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 newsreaderβs commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencerβs eybrows raise slightly]
β¦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 influencerβs face. The intervieweeβs name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment weβre 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: βDubai Is Brilliantβ.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencerβs 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 Expatβs 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:
βI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax Toβ
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]
04.03.2026 11:14 β
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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 β Lead the Charge Kurabikyura-kun!!!" on Crunchyroll today
04.03.2026 14:05 β
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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
03.03.2026 21:23 β
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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
03.03.2026 19:46 β
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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
03.03.2026 19:33 β
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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.
03.03.2026 10:09 β
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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
03.03.2026 11:51 β
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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
03.03.2026 11:45 β
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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
03.03.2026 10:38 β
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the execution of mary, queen of scots
03.03.2026 04:26 β
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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
03.03.2026 02:32 β
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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!
03.03.2026 02:21 β
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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
02.03.2026 15:52 β
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ralking
02.03.2026 20:57 β
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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
02.03.2026 02:49 β
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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
02.03.2026 09:19 β
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if you really believe this, you should take 'journalist' out of your bio because you are not one
02.03.2026 10:01 β
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they did that one already on tng actually didn't they. with troi. lots of dream aliens
01.03.2026 23:16 β
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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
01.03.2026 23:14 β
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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
01.03.2026 23:12 β
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Just a few weeks ago, all these European powers spoke of the threat that the US now presents to Europe. They talked about the possibility of Trump attacking Greenland, like it was an imminent and existential danger. Now Trump unilaterally bombs Iran and they all fall in lockstep
01.03.2026 21:40 β
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01.03.2026 21:29 β
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that one cruel episode of voyager where voyager melts and everyone turns into goo and dies pointlessly
01.03.2026 21:10 β
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piccolo's love for gohan
01.03.2026 21:03 β
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Jackson @tree_bro
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*knocks on door* Mrs Smith? I'm from Army.
Your son got owned in Iraq. He showed great valor in the face of epic fail. Semper fi or whatecer
4:20 PM β’ Jul 22, 2011
This tweet preceeds and anticipates deaths in Operation Epic Fury by almost 15 years
01.03.2026 15:08 β
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poster whose brother changes the oil in the orphan crushing machine: whoa there, don't be so quick to judge. he has bills to pay
01.03.2026 15:10 β
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01.03.2026 14:47 β
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you can quit. what you mean is that you can't quit without consequences, which is not the same thing
01.03.2026 06:57 β
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"if you quit things are hard" oh is that right. it's brave to kill kids if it would get you in trouble to refuse to do it, is that right. that's okay then. cheer the very brave soldiers, doing the most convenient thing for themselves even if it is evil
01.03.2026 03:35 β
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