@midlifesuezcrisis
Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after. Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible. Opinions my own / posts off the clock Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
ong fr is the friggin secretary of energy doing oil market manipulation by tweet??
DOE is the main science and innovation department within the Cabinet level departments, to include scientifically innovating a worse & dumber Energy Secy than Rick Perry
TIL Bsky has a lot of ballistic missile accuracy experts
Would it not be wondrous for this whole commodities market to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?
You'd also do a lot less harm to programs by shitcanning Musk than you would have by shitcanning von Braun, methinks
It's interesting as yet another data point for how careless this admin is, I guess. But we already knew that they suck at coordinating messaging outside of really particular "okay, everyone has the script now" incidents.
JFC…
Some people should not have internet access.
Yep. I deleted it until a robust confirmation one way or the other comes out.
North Korea ties down Japan is a new one.
>see video that looks fishy
>the discussion circulating says it's edited or AI
>The origin of that claim is *also* AI and is wrong
Oh hell. Pulling the thread further, the fact check here *also* originates with AI.
I'll run it to ground the best I can. There may be real videos intermingled with wrong-context videos. The fact checking I had seen was that the Farsi signage was edited in. There has been a huge volume of edited and/or AI generated/modified misinfo in this war so far.
The strike itself happened. The video that is circulating is misinformation, that's all
like within the high school marching band geek club that is NNSA at any rate
unfortunately, technically I am #2
Ahah so it was actually something Somewhere Else
I don't know OP and I have neither beef nor a desire to start beef. however, a feed scroll to get a sense of what else he thinks and talks about has some excellent points on other topics, but also, some points on this topic that I can't identify with reality even a bit. so, maybe take w/salt
Interesting. I broadly agree with that thread bc i think it correctly observes that very very few Dems actually care about this stuff, but I don't really see the connective tissue from that thread to a shot across the bow of a couple dozen people shouting into the void here
that one was really baffling to me. the "too many flags in bio" thing in regards to Ukraine was always a right wing (or, less commonly but overrepresented on twitter) talking point about 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🌎 username people. only rarely did it ever actually come up the opposite way
there is a whiff of, idk, perpetually re-fighting 2003 Iraq War debates in it too
and certainly not a "bluesky natsec lib". the implication there is that it's people who are mostly known on here for their posts on here, which nichols isn't either.
I guess there aren't any conservatives here to get mad and generate Discourse Churn
yeah I would be comfortable saying that the mortal sin of most of the people ostensibly covered by "bluesky natsec libs" is that we think EVERYONE is catastrophically wrong about defense and foreign policy, all along the partisan spectrum
if anything this circle is like, *too* dogmatically critical of Sullivan somehow. feels like there's some Other Corner of Bluesky argument that we all missed
Quotes and replies turned off, but it might be helpful to know which bluesky natsec libs are under discussion here...This is not a large group, maybe a couple dozen large accounts tops, and I have absolutely no idea which of them this is referring to. Feels windmill tilty, unless I missed something.
More the fool I. I bought it not that long before Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine began, perma destroying the availability of cheap 5.45 surplus
Vance I fear in this context for the opposite reason really. I think he loathes the outside world so strongly that he would refuse to run nuclear risks for allies, upending the entire system of extended deterrence that the global security order rests on right now. Would he nuke Iran? 🤷♂️
yes to be clear this is mostly an indictment of me at 20, not the movie's vagueness
Saw that claim as well. Qeshm Island is pretty intermingled with IRIN and IRGC infrastructure, but even if it was a miss or a military target it's troubling.
Hitting water...Christ alive I hope they don't. That is a fast track to apocalyptic suffering for ordinary people in parts of Iran.
"complete destruction and certain death" is just how the stupid senile bastard talks.