Patrick

current intrusive thought: "osama bin garry bin ross"

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

it's very amusing, prediction markets work because it's just effectively using degenerate gamblers to cross subsidize insiders, which is a deeply evil thing so we have to pretend they're something else

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

real significant lack of “who and/or what comes next” when it comes to the thought process behind assassinating khamenei

kill 👏 the 👏 children 👏 legally 👏

she was like the prototypical 2006 Democratic midterm candidate that Rahm loved to run

bluesky clippy: hey there! you seem to be mad at something but not the person you’re yelling at. would you like some help self-regulating?

South African military officers from the 80s have also confessed that their country did Olof Palme, too & there's good reason to suspect Craig Williamson on that shit

i think there's reasonable suspicion against apartheid South Africa on Olof Palme (I strongly suspect them on that one) and Samora Machel

imo the exact culprit isn't exactly clear on that one, but I think we can say with reasonable confidence by this point that the original (white Rhodesian) investigation was botched and it was not an accident

Dag Hammarskjold if we're counting the UN

4 Guys Near White House Bragging in Bar About Iran Bombing Hours Before It Started A group at a Washington D.C. restaurant was talking openly in the bar area Friday afternoon about a national secret that was about to literally explode hours later -- the bombing of Iran.

A TMZ exclusive on an ostensible national security breach is a rotten cherry on top

Iran can make Americans hate this war with One Weird Trick

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

"fuck this war, it's reckless, illegal, and will get innocents killed" clears "ah um mr president sir you must be honest with congress pwetty pwease"

indiscriminately bombing Iran is not a distraction of the Epstein files, it is a validation of their significance as more than a sex pest hunt. this is what elite impunity for morons looks like. a school turned to rubble on a whim.

their second album and the one with American Music on it are pretty good, I thought. but nothing remotely comes close to the first one

definitely big news if confirmed. but killing the SL is not yet the end of the Islamic Republic. it's a deeply entrenched system.

recall killing Sinwar did not destroy Hamas; killing Nasrallah has not eradicated Hezbollah. they are weakened but not gone.

Just a quick reminder that Trump ostensibly launched this war because he was unable to negotiate a deal very much like the one he blew up just to spite Obama.

Boomers get angrier about the hostage crisis than literally any other foreign policy event of the past 60 years. Do not get it

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Constitutional and Congressional limits on the President’s war-making and foreign policy powers have become much like international law: there exists a body of law that clearly says the President’s actions are unlawful, but the failure to enforce those laws over decades has rendered them a nullity

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

settling stuff through arbitration and legislation alone was the standard opinion among a lot of labor activists at the time, I'm learning lol.

What's interesting is he ended up pretty much where I land on the issue today, basically what was the centrist position in the SPA back then

The number one complaint you hear from the teacher's union other than "we want higher salaries" is that the central administration has dozens of curriculums and tries to impose new ones basically every year with little adjustment, because they're always chasing the next ed reform fad.

My prediction holds that we’re going to see an aircraft carrier sink in my lifetime and it’s going to make people Very Normal

a party with any discipline would have completely sidelined and then primaried Schumer when he tried to undermine Obama’s Iran Deal