Alex

Fascinating

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You knew the US did it because the American journalists on social media starting immediately trying to pin the blame on a misfired missile or being fake appalled that it might have been the AI’s fault so that no one can truly be responsible

Another must-read from @attackerman.bsky.social

Who could have guessed

The first ever winner of the “FIFA Peace Prize” is also likely be the first head of state to host a World Cup while bombing one of the participating countries.

I feel like he might have overreacted

this is almost literally the Simpsons meme

www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/why-esc...

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

How is this the first I'm hearing of this??

One of the lessons of the Iran war is that it was a huge mistake not to even try to put any of the Iraq war architects in prison. We shouldn’t make it again.

We have for decades now had a system where a President can unilaterally start even the least justifiable war, and an entire network of think tanks and pundits to lay the groundwork for it, and this has only gotten worse over time. Such a problem is not typically solved by merely voting.

Beirut, 1982 (photo by Steve McCurry)

What would we do without Barak Ravid to tell us that a presidential administration secretly and off the record and anonymously regrets what it has specifically given Israel billions of dollars to do?

I will vote for whatever Democrat promises trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. I'm sick of the fear-mongering bullshit among our foreign policy elite that has spent decades setting the stage for this war, and it's time to put an end to it.

Tête à tête - There's been a 'seismic' shift in US public opinion on Palestine: Historian Rashid Khalidi In an interview with FRANCE 24, renowned historian Rashid Khalidi described a "seismic, fundamental shift" in American public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also argued that Israel re...

There's been a 'seismic' shift in US public opinion on Palestine: Historian Rashid Khalidi flip.it/nu5gkj

The root cause of the military assault on Iran is therefore the question of Palestine. All of Israel’s wars have been fought…to resist the idea of equality for all inhabitants…between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In other words, Zionism is the main cause of violence in the region.

key questions for journalists to ask: did the military consider any of the risks to human life or the environment when bombing an oil facility in/near a city of close to 10 million? if US did it, was it a result of hegseth's rejection of the law of war?

“It is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place.”

You didn't lose an hour of sleep — an hour of sleep lost YOU. You were always too good for that hour of sleep anyway. Now it's time to slut it up and find a NEW hour

Everybody on this site is proud to proclaim their hate for Nazis so it's hard to tell how much overlap there is between the anti-Platner crowd and the "vote blue no matter who" crowd but it sure isn't zero

I have trouble wrapping my head around the sheer stupidity of this operation

lol get bent

I really don't think people understand that the goal of a socialist project is to avoid the need to have a guillotine in the public square.

Sounds like Ankara got its points across

I'm just going to point out, again, that this is not a real or serious argument but just a proxy for people to argue about their own personal politics. No one really thinks elections work like this, and 99.9% of the people arguing over this ultimately vote Democrat

I don't have a dog in this fight but the way some people on this site use it as a platform for their personal declarations of belief is not compatible with reality sometimes

Classics Quote of the Day: "Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question, inaptness to act on any. Frantic violence became the attribute of manliness; cautious plotting, a justifiable means of self-defence. The advocate of extreme measures was always trustworthy; his opponent a man to be suspected." Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War (3.82)

Been thinking about this a lot lately

Long custom sort of numbs folks to how bizarre the arrangement is. I can’t think of any other discipline where students in their early 20s are the arbiters of what merits publication in the most prestigious scholarly journals.