Militia Myth

anyway let’s check in with keir starmer to see how “conceding to popular prejudice” is working our for the labour party

Woke 2.0 means assigning anyone at DoD who says "Warfighter" - and not under active duress while doing so - to be a gate guard at Kwajalein.

Hardly an attitude unique to America of course, this refusal to comprehend its actions + their casual relationship to the actions of others. Russians love acting surprised at how eastern Europeans rush to NATO, Israelis love acting surprised that Levantine Arabs might court Iranian or Turkish money.

It is simply impossible to be a neighbor to the United States with an ounce of rational thinking and not want to immediately diversify your relationships. This is, to be blunt, completely America's fault.

300 and its consequences has been a disaster for ancient greek histography

the burden of proof is on the mother-fucker asserting something.

If you're wondering why Canadians are nervous, it's never good to become the focus of the mentally unwell ruler of a larger nuclear armed neighbour

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

It's almost as if making key political and cultural institutions dependent on the erratic largesse of a handful of oligarchs means that democracy dies in darkness

Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it

claiming your experience over the last 20 years of organizing maks you an authoritative source on what works is like wrapping a 20 year DoD career focused on counterinsurgency in 2026 and leveraging that experience as why anyone should listen to you

Is it good that a (somehow) load-bearing pillar of the US economy has adopted the Star Citizen model of funding and development?

Chomsky's prominence despite his lack of seriousness to put it lightly said a lot how movements that indulged him preferred narrative simplism over confronting injustice wherever it comes from in a complex world

Keeping the Kido Butai off balance through hours of staggered attacks is identical to winning the puck in a board battle

I was always struck by the bit in Shattered Sword where a (possibly out of control) B-26 nearly rammed one of the Japanese carriers right in the bridge.

USAAF was out there like Juraj Slafkovský that day, creating the conditions for success without scoring points.

🚨President Biden's top Middle East adviser @brett_mcgurk tells me: “That statement by Netanyahu is categorically false. Biden left office with a ceasefire in Gaza and hostages coming home, a ceasefire in Lebanon with Hezbollah defeated, Iran in its weakest position since 1979 after two failed missile attacks thanks to the deployment of U.S. military forces and a coordinated response that destroyed Iran's air defenses. His commitment to Israel's security to include US military assistance was unwavering throughout the crisis."

Does it inspire any introspection on the part of the Democratic foreign policy establishment that backing Israel to the hilt no matter what it did at any time undermined America's global position and image while also not getting any credit from Israel itself

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

There’s a lot of talk about how if Xi is smart he’ll do a blockade or some kind of “gRaY zOnE” thing to get Taiwan instead of just seizing it by force.

That’s a load-bearing if. I think we need to think more about the possibility that he’s not smart.

Historians love documents, which I understand, but I sometimes wonder how much history is simply lost and all we have is what some guy wrote on papyrus well after the fact.

Absolutely fascinating pivots away from "domestic terrorist" across the MAGAverse once they realized they couldn't possibly smear this man.

The problem with finishing reading The Expanse is that nothing is as good as it and I'm having a hard time finding something that hooks me half as much

I know that when I say uncomfortable things about US actions, both toward allies and internally, I lose some support from conservative circles in the U.S. But that doesn’t matter to me, because being on the right side of history and standing with the Americans who stood with us is far more important

Residents of Greenland must be thrilled, dreaming of becoming part of a country where masked police shoot you.

i am sick and tired of this goddamn american manchild trying to ruin my country

So I always like to go "What would have happened had a Marine done this in Afghanistan" and it's so obvious in this case as to make the exercise moot.

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

I am not a fan of how 1850s american politics is feeling right now

Middle school with a $20T economy and thousands of nuclear weapons.