Gary Alexander

Somehow I doubt these "concerns" would be raised against hypothetical Ukrainian attacks on hypothetical Russian military infrastructure in "non belligerent" countries. Seems to me the IRGC is fighting to win. How dare they.

It's wild to me that this is seen as remotely controversial. If US-Israeli forces operate from those bases in Gulf States, they are violating the principles of neutrality. They are absolutely fair targets. To argue otherwise is to deny Iran's right to defense.

[guy who's in a military alliance with your enemy] you have betrayed my trust

As an unwilling connoisseur of agitprop, Iran really hit it out of the park with "we're fighting the Epstein Class that either rapes children or kills them"

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

the impulses themselves are understandable but if you find yourself inclined to respond to current events with "this is unprecedented" and looming possibilities with "we would never" I urge you to learn about how in fact they aren't, and how we already have

"Lifelong progressives" dont sign up for the global war on terror three different times, including capping it off with fucking Blackwater, dude.

FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.

ill be on my "star wars peaked with the west end games rpg" bullshit until i die

What I wonder is, how large is the bloc that says "oh in that case I'm voting Collins"

People putting each other on incoherent blocklists and shouting at each other? Yeah

And known AI hater/AI lover as well

Bsky mandated disclaimer: I am describing the situation as I see it, not how I want it to be.

So thats how the Interdictor traps ships in a gravity well

I'd suspect his own idiosyncrasies will be uniquely frustrating and destructive.

All of this is completely beside the point regarding what happens on here, a self-selecting website of left-liberal politics junkies for whom Platner is an inescapable discursive vortex; very few of whom live or vote in Maine.

I think the thing we have to prepare for isn't that 2018 Blackwater volunteer, Nazi tattoo keeper, thrice confirmed idiot, Graham Platner is going to lose. It's that he's going to win. Collins and Mills are just that unpopular and there's limited (no?) evidence Maine voters are phased.

Very confused by people who think folks in Maine don’t know about Platner‘s tattoos already

“It will come up in the general”

It’s come up in the primary! And he has since pulled away with the lead.

Are you under the impression more conservative voters won’t like it?

my puppy read this you asshole

what is the case for thinking that the duration of the conflict will be up to Trump?

preaching to the choir

thinking about how Obama was elected with an enormous mandate and we got uh, the banks bailed out and subsidies for health insurance companies

meanwhile the right gets the whole fever dream wish list

As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:

Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.

Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.

Some Dems are just gross racists, but you can also see a commonality in what Dems tend to give up on: wars against Muslims, immigration, police, queer rights, all things that are low-saliency for the average voter and would require them to do actual political education. These motherfuckers are LAZY.

some of the Platner Criticizers are indeed annoying and using his dumb ass as an opportunity to left punch, but that's not really gonna turn a corner for me on whether i think having a nazi tattoo and only half-apologizing for it makes you an enormous moron

Uh men back then just had more natural testosterone because they werent as woke and used lard instead of seed oils

IIRC, it's been a while, Patterns of Empire by Julian Go.