No, it’s worse.

It’s a war without a political objective.

Plenty of wars have opened without a clear plan to reconcile desired ends with available means, we may be the first country to go to war without even a basic concept of victory.

War for the memes. War for the vibes. War for the Warriors.

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Number 1, and it's not even close

There is only one other major content genre that tends to have that tropes listed in such quantity to serve as the mix-and-match preference of the audience....

There has been a slow merging taking place an increasingly large corner of the publishing world....

The post in question ...

bsky.app/profile/aelk...

Not but a few hours ago, @aelkus.bsky.social mused about the causative relationship between video games and real war, and they just .... tweeted it out

Never content to let subtext remain subtext, or any lingering doubt about their grotesqueness exist in the minds of any who observe

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Reminded of when media outlets kept on describing his "Deus Vult" tattoo as a "Christian tattoo" or "believed to be based on historic crusader battlecry", I guess because "gamer phrase widely adopted as a meme by 4chan Nazis" sounded too pathetic even if more accurate

It remains astonishing the degree to which Hegseth remains not only personally sociopathic, but strategically blind on every single issue ... all the time

"I'm from the government and there's nothing I can do"

i think that the Orthodox Church wins the international competition for weirdest theological beefs but i do think that Islam also wins a prize for making a monarchical succession crisis go on for 1400 years

But to those who found themselves in no such position of privilege, the risks of those vices in power over them was absolutely a risk that should have been more plain and perceptible, and yet it was a ghost

There were obviously many, especially in the most privileged positions, who simply saw Trumpism in instrumental terms, and so looked past (or embraced!) the vices in the pursuit of some gain.

That these vices included the pathological dishonesty that would inevitably come for them was ignored

It is also a deep and abiding befuddlement to me what it was about this particular set of irredeemable traits that made them uniquely imperceptible or otherwise invisible to so many. None of this was hidden, or in any way difficult to know, and yet resistance to knowing was broad, deep, and strong

Coalition Provisional Authority, Domestic US Edition

My neighbor told me kuwait keep shooting down his F15s so I asked how many F15s he has and he said he just goes to the airbase and gets a new F15 afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding F15s to kuwait and then his daughter started crying.

We have always been at war with Eastasia, I mean Iran.

My government has a real “we didn’t know starting a war would cause a war“ vibe going on which I realize I should be outraged about in the abstract but find myself mainly nonplussed by at this point.

“I moved my Hedge Fund from Denver and New York (they are woke, no Hustle Grindset) to the Strait of Hormuz, the Korean DMZ, Quemoy and Matsu, Kherson, The Suwalki Gap, and a WeWork managed by the Salamanca Family in Michoacán. I tell clients I am an expert risk manager.”

As if benefiting from the massive state subsidy of living in a giant petrostate is not "exposure to geopolitics"

Every inch as idiotic as the farmers complaining about ag policy who say "don't make food political"

This is just straightforwardly an Onion headline

Trump’s foreign policy is premised on the assumption that the most simplistic, read-Zinn-for-the-first-time leftist caricature of the US-led world order was actually true

When I stopped playing Warhammer 40,000 like 25 years ago, I would not have believed you if you told me that its lore would regularly be part of the American political conversation in my adulthood

History: who the fuck?

Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?

He just wants to make sure everyone will need a Whiskey Friday

On the road to Bowery / Where the halal food trucks be / With our bagels in our tote bags, as we went to Bowery

O the road to Bowery / Where the F train rumbles free / And the dawn comes up like thunder, out of Brooklyn, cross the Bay!

Ship me somewhere east of Jersey, where the A train's all I know / Where there is no Turnpike traffic / and a man can speed below

For the fire siren's calling / and it's there that I'll be at / by the old Broome street Bodega / looking lazy at their cat

The Air Bud principle, if you will

11 years ago, the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl on an insane goal line interception that opened a vortex to the McDonald’s Nazi hell we’ve lived in since. Tonight, with the Patriots defeat, we usher in the age of Woke 2