Joe Stieb

The number of ostensible leftists whose commitment to anti-fascism undershoots that of the Cheney family is notable and disheartening

Lol

I'm staring at this.

interesting fact: noah smith is part of an ongoing experiment designed to see how much you could smooth a person’s brain out before they can no longer function

Blueskyism

stick drawing with one person saying to a group TURKEY IS A BAD THANKSGIVING MEAL. the next section features one person giving a large, silent thumbs up. the final section features the single stick figure standing alone as the group continues their discussion, ignoring the turkey contrarian

every fucking year man

When Lurleen Wallace was diagnosed with cancer, the practice at the time was to tell the husband who would then tell her. George Wallace instead kept it from her. She wouldn’t learn of her cancer until three years later when she saw a gyno for abnormal bleeding and was diagnosed with uterine cancer

Just a PSA to the men out there who are mad about not getting what they want in this world: Being a man is like playing life on easy or at most normal difficulty, you need to get your shit together, the world is not against you because you're a man

The last states to make marital rape illegal did so in 1993.

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

Trump’s 28-point peace plan with Russia “is misnamed,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues. “It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future.”

And there’s the plain fact that he didn’t surrender for 6 weeks of the air campaign…

Idk it sounds like splitting hairs

It’s not a science, fundamentally, and opponents are broken usually by a combination of factors.

I think pape just wants to find that elusive 51% threshold where it becomes a science

How to Topple Maduro And why regime change is the only way forward in Venezuela.

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't"

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Yeah exactly

Why do countries invest billions in strategic airpower if it means nothing?

Is it because they all are dumber than Robert Pape?

Yeah

Maybe not dead wrong but a pointless overstatement (i mean WWII, Gulf War, Bosnia, all seemed like strategic power had a coercive role).

Did Robert Pape make a whole academic career out of technicalities? Some people are saying…

This paragraph includes more handwaving than the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Literally every one of these "benefits" are not serious natsec challenges to the US right now, but absolutely would be exacerbated if we were to instigate a war in the region.

Isn’t this just dead wrong, historically?

Like even when it doesn’t coerce the opponent into doing exactly what you want ( there are positive and negative cases for this), doesn’t strategic airpower degrade enemy production/capabilities, force them to shift resources, etc?

LMFAO

Big pro-Russian "Romanian" Nazi account is actually Serb.

392,000 followers on X.

These statements are not, for me, disqualifying, but I don't live in New York City.

They are, however, absolutely at the very least wading into antisemitic territory. The most redeeming factor - that Mamdani was basically parroting shibboleths - is not a complimentary one for discourse at large.

Ok here's my problem with this take.

There are "media" bad actors who are trying to astroturf a particular narrative about Mamdani being antisemitic.

There are also *Jewish people* who, after their analysis, decided Mamdani either flirted with or was antisemitic, & folks would rather erase them.