Zoomer Antimillenarian

The irony. Yesterday, Aliyev attended Iran’s Embassy to pay his tribute for Khamenei. claiming Azerbaijjan does not want to get involved in the conflict.

Today, Iran launched drone attacks on Azerbaijjan.

LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime?

NOEM: She did not. She's with her family

LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release

Pape isn't wrong to point out how airpower alone was unable to bring down the Nazis in 1943-44, Viet Minh in 1947-75 or that despite all Israeli efforts Hamas still exists.

Yet in all three cases airpower turned economies and infrastructure into a sea of rubble that took/will take years to rebuild

The tendency observers shaped by GWOT-era failures to reach back to Pape's work in criticising US DoD belief in airpower's ability alone to achieve specific strategic objectives has led to less attention to the broader impact of the sheer carnage American airpower has unleashed since 1941

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

My over/under for the number of congressional Democrats who'll lose a primary this cycle (excluding incumbent vs. incumbent) is two or three, and mostly ones who have some particular individual scandals. Four or five would be surprising. More than that is a fantasy.

It's odd people are talking about TX as if it indicates a primary bloodbath for incumbent Dems. Excluding double-bunked incumbents b/c redistricting, the only other notable example is a one-term freshman facing her predecessor. No cases of an actual upstart challenger beating an incumbent.

Anthropic stood its ground against Hegseth. They showed real courage in doing so, too.

And AI isn't going away. Get used to LLMs, because they're real and part of our lives now.

Imagine being so butthurt that AI is a real thing that you decide to block anyone who suggests that maybe selling generative AI to the US military does not make you morally responsible for every bad decision the US military makes.

There are lots of companies selling goods and services to the US military, and none of them are responsible for Hegseth and Trump's batshit war.

It doesn't need to be especially *good* or reliable to terrify the shipping industry.

We'll be out of serious targets pretty soon, true. Will the Iranians be out of random shit to chuck at tankers trying to pass the Strait of Hormuz?

Mark Kelly to Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby: "I'm trying to understand whether you believe Iran can be primarily contained by our regional partners, which is what you wrote a few weeks ago, or is it imminent threat to the US as President Trump just told the American people? Can't be both"

the US military is going to get totally and utterly pwned by the Iranians any day now, I am assured of this, van riper has unleashed his light speed motorcycles it is in fact joever

you can think this sinking was mostly dumb and pointless (like I do, like this whole idiotic war) without implying it's somehow a war crime (because for the umpteenth time it is not in any way shape or form)

not at all

the US "participation" was a singular P-8 (the DDG noped out because war preparations) and as far as "exercises" go this was like a dumber more watered down RIMPAC, with no shooting

like come on do you really think a USN vessel is gonna do a for real ''exercise'' with an Iranian warship

Someone in my family was called Johanna Adriana after both her parents - Johannes Adrianus and Johanna Adriana :)

(1920s)

OK Gertners are Catholics from somewhere in Germany, too much of a nuisance to look up further, why are all Christians called "John" like in some silly cheder story

Bavaria is haunted, man. Mad kings, Nazis, god knows what else.

“At one point in the group chats last fall,… the Turning Point chapter president, responded, “If this chat gets leaked we’re so cooked lmao.” “This isnt even my worst one,” Gonzalez responded. Valdes said: “I’m in a few on telegram that are definitely worse.”

They named their group chat after “Agartha”, which is “a mythical white homeland in the center of the Earth” believed in by Heinrich Himmler

“The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.” In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

“In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

This is an ENTIRELY NEW Young Republicans Nazi Groupchat scandal.

For shame.

I initially thought that Joel was sharing an old news story because I didn’t realize that this is different from the New York/Arizona/Vermont/Arizona YOUNG Republican Nazi group chat.

Three or four of these despicable group chats have become public, but here's the thing: It's absolutely certain that there are HUNDREDS of group chats just like them that we'll never learn about. There's an entire generation of groyper Republicans, and in a few years they'll be running the party.

"Anyhow, there is this about such evil, that it opens door after door in hell, and always into smaller and smaller chambers. This is the real case against crime, that a man does not become wilder and wilder, but only meaner and meaner."

That's not true. But the Swiss Guard sacrificed their lives to prevent Chotiner from interviewing Pope Clement VII.

Chuck Norris never hides, but he always demurs when Chotiner asks him for an interview.

That's not true. But Dong Zhuo burned down Luoyang as he retreated to delay Chotiner.