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I agree that newspapers should inform their readers about what their government is doing and why. As it happens, there is a mode of journalism that allows papers to do this beyond publishing opinion pieces in the government's defense. It is called "reporting."

Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

The NYT has certain biases that are consistent (though not 100 percent uniform) across the news and opinion side.

Their anti-trans bias is one of the more egregious in terms of abandoning the facts to push an agenda. They're also anti-Palestine, pro-police, anti-Biden, and pro-military.

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

the plan, such as it is, appears to be “bomb a country of 90 million people that is already facing a water crisis into a failed state, walk away and declare victory”

this is a monstrous nightmare regardless of whether or not it “works”

all previous endless wars have been based off lies with no official off ramp or plan i think the iran war under trump is more notable because they’re admitting theres no plan less than 2 days in

Someone tell Trump he doesn't get to do war in other countries. We have war at home

we have reached the “Nazi medical experiments” stage of our concentration camp effort

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

"Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first." www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Rhetorically at least, Merz’s statements are a green light to Putin in Ukraine and to Trump himself in Greenland. They also consign the resounding success of the JCPOA, including Germany’s laudable participation in it, to the dustbin of history.

Just assuming the epic fury at Biden for the tragic American deaths withdrawing from a war will not be matched for starting one.

"Trump has also suggested the new strikes were part of a negotiation tactic…The problem is that you can’t easily negotiate with a regime if there is no one to sit at the other side of the table. America has wiped out many of Khamenei’s likeliest successors. There’s no one to negotiate with."

PM of NZ says this is acceptable. #nzpol

Saudi Arabia tells Gulf allies to avoid any steps that could inflame tensions with Iran, sources say The kingdom acquiesced to Trump's decision to attack Iran but has privately told other GCC states to avoid taking moves that could elicit a response by Tehran or its proxies

Reporting from Middle East Eye brings more nuance to the idea of Saudi urging the US to attack Iran— with the implication that as it became clear that the USG was going to do it no matter what MBS attempted to have input in how it was done. Take this idea with however much skepticism you like.

Jfc.

Every single servicemember has experience with DoD schools. Every single one.

This... jfc we still talked about the attack on Hanau PX like *thirty years later* because it was considered such an atrocious act to go after dependents. And they hit an Iranian version of a DoD school.

Door Dash Imperialism. It's been one day and "nothing has happened yet." White supremacist racists are very smart.

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they didn’t even try to sell it and it shows

after the fact cheerleading doesn’t make up for absolutely no buildup whatsoever and the fact that we’re back at war in the Middle East, a place a lot of Americans have very poor associations of ‘war’ with

A lot of dunking on Klein (in ways that I think go way too far) for this post and I agree that Platner’s Nazi stuff has to be acknowledged. I also see why he’s confusing in a way because he’s been vocal about supporting Maine’s POC. He thinks he can maintain a tent that big. He can’t.

Jesus Christ, Ken, just oppose the war, not the process.

I’m sure she’s ready to do the same to you, but it’s not any more lawful.

o no i mak mistek in gud faith but it tek u a week 2 figger it out

Why are so many bases being successfully hit? There should be no world in which we planned an attack in Iran, expecting counter strikes, and have had our defensive systems exhausted so rapidly? We should have been stockpiled with enough patriot missiles to defend these things for weeks…

I mean part of the answer is they sincerely didn't think Iran would follow through, since the US leadership has demonstrated they do not comprehend their enemies as human with capacity for thought, but also things never work the way you *imagine* them to. Even unlimited stockpile wouldn't be 100%.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

like i said, a lot of americans are going to learn we're at war this week when they go to fill up their gas tanks, and we can imagine what their response will be

for reference, 73% of americans supported the war in iraq in 2003 — two years after 9/11 and two years of the bush administration making the case for it. this will be different, iran's in much worse shape to begin with, but it's starting wildly unpopular and will only get worse with consequences

Combine a chief executive who lacks object permanence and theory of mind with a cavorting devilry of a cabinet and administration with the ability to make money off the specific timing of their next atrocity and you’ve got enough potential depravity to embarrass Caligula

The more I think about it the more their existence feels like endtimes shit