Lamentably Awake

I don’t care how far the Overton window has shifted. If you want to hear out the Blackwater mercenary with the Nazi tattoo, you can get fucked.

Democrat leadership *really* liked not having to bother with primaries last time eh?

Iran attacking targets over a very wide geographical area is smart strategy.

There's a limited number of interceptors/AA defences and a limited stockpile of ammo for them.

So the USA and its allies have to spread these defences more thinly, making them less effective and even deny defence to some.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

The shopkeeper test.

If a shopkeeper sometimes gives you too much change and sometimes too little they're incompetent.

If they always shortchange you they're malicious.

post from Ian Dunt: Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he dies this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

It's great when the adults are in charge

It is clear that even a lot of our media doesn't seem to understand how this stuff works. The clip where the person asks the Iranian FM why it could possibly be justified to attack *US bases* in the Gulf is astounding.

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%.

Obviously having any Nazi tattoo would disqualify a person from being a left wing candidate but that Platner's tattoo was a totenkopf, the insignia of SS concentration and death camp guards, while he was a Blackwater prison guard is a continent sized red flag.

I mean, say what you will about the left being foolish to back Fetterman but he didn't have any red flags quite as big as a Nazi tattoo and a history of working as a Blackwater prison guard.

I mean, it would be a tough gig to argue against it.

A shame then that he got a totenkopf tattoo, the insignia of Nazi concentration camp guards while he a Blackwater prison guard.

Banter timeline is Trump dying in the next few days and Iran claiming it's divine retribution.

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

The precedent is people playing mob run numbers games. There's a lot of rubes out there.

WW2 and even Vietnam were wars that involved large numbers of conscripts. Ordinary people forced to fight.

The Troops involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran etc were all volunteers. They all chose to be there killing and destroying.

A fundamental difference.

All Western ex-pats in the Gulf should obviously be rescued.

And then be obligated to pay all the taxes they dodged by living in the Gulf.

X We're sorry! The post you are replying to has been deleted. Otto English Under a Reform government we'd currently be throwing ourselves into war with Iran. Don't let anyone ever tell you that all parties are the same. I am trying to reply to this with the words: This may need some revision with the events of the last few hours. But I can't because it was deleted.

A bit of humour on this dark evening

The same people will claim Palestinian civilians deserve to be exterminated because they should've risen up and overthrown Hamas.

They truly believe the more power you have the less responsible you are for your actions and circumstances and vice versa.

The death toll from the Israel-US bombing of the girls’ school in Minab has now risen to 165.

Reminder this is the airbase the RAF fly recon aircraft from to help Israel find targets for their genocide.

Starmer gave a speech there in 2024 thanking them for doing so.

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

Toxic to building a thriving society, and inhumane of course. Shameful

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

It was never that Russia invading Ukraine was good or acceptable but that the Western Establishment's anger about it was never from any place of decency or morality.

It was jealous anger that Russia thought it could do what only they're allowed to do.

All the Comfortables who frothed at the mouth with anger at Russia breaking international law and demanded the left support Ukraine 110% now absolutely silent as their countries join the USA and Israel's illegal war of aggresion against Iran.

How DARE he protest attacks that have killed at least a hundred little girls!

A residential area suffering an airstrike

An Iranian missile reportedly landed in the illegal settlement of Oranit, south of Qalqilya, northwestern occupied West Bank.

I am so tired of fragile little men starting wars. I am so tired of fragile little men making policy decisions that harm us all. I am so tired of fragile little men doing horrendous harm to children and expecting us all to forget about it. I am so tired of fragile little men with their tantrums.