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it is easier for americans to imagine the end of the world than the end of the party system which began about two years before the median american was born

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Abstract No. 7

i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.

Really don't know how the 🇺🇦🇮🇱 people are doing when we're basically filling Russia's treasuries with oil money because we're pathologically committed to ensuring Israel wins every fight it picks. It'll be Turkey next

Actually, this on a banknote

Leftism enjoys and welcomes a broad base centered on common ideals & goals, regardless of religious or ethnic background… & I find that abjectly terrifying.

- by Noah Smith

You can tell how much the Albanese govt cares about the poor victims of the Iranian regime by the way they ... change visa laws to stop them seeking protection here.

I normally think that this kind of thinking is an overrated explanation for these things, but Platner being a popular bartender and possible coke dealer in DC like 10-15 years ago would explain why he gets away with so much.

This post is getting Sky's Venezuelan crude/Brent crude distinction treatment and now Hemry is responsible for several dozen hate crimes.

Get this to the High Court asap, these laws are so unconstitutional it's embarrassing

do you use a washing machine

I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.

It would've been pretty good to have kept the JCPOA going. I wonder what happened to it?

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"

His plans are measured in centuries

The Art of War would have been a better book if Sun Tzu had gone out of his way to specifically name the kings of his time that he felt were particularly embarrassing

My copy of Sun Tzu's AoW included commentaries from a bunch of worthies including Cao Cao, repeating back the same platitudes about not feeding your horses green oats or some shit but with just enough characters altered as to transform the original content.

Ukraine's Air Assault Forces killed 10 Russian troops and destroyed 2 vehicles and 3 quad bikes used for troop movement in a single strike near Poltavka, Oleksandrivka axis, the command announced. #Ukraine

NATO but for the countries with no army to fight for the US after we insulted all of the actual NATO allies who did

And like, don’t get me wrong, plenty of libs spent late 2023 and early 2024 saying absolutely depraved shit about Israel and Palestine to win arguments with the strangers in their phones. This sickness isn’t ideological.

its too late ive depicted you as the soy dumbshit bug eyed pokey and myself as the chad confident and all knowing prickle

The U.S. and Europe have to someday realize that what the Israeli government envisions for Iran is the largest humanitarian catastrophe of the century so far

Pictures emerging from today’s heavy bombing of Isfahan. Damages to the mirror works, tiles, floors, and carved wooden doors of Safavid palaces of Aali Qapu and Chehelsotoon. Both of these are within the UNESCO Heritage complex of Naqsh-e Jahan Square. These are 16th-17th century bldgs.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Second-campist American leftists are insanely gullible. Completely unable to see AI slop.

They're the mirror image of gullible MAGA imperialists.

I still see people sharing that obvious fake "US bombed F4 drawings" pic, where the planes are bigger than the buildings. Insane.

is this anything

That’s a beauty; saw one yesterday.

Bunch more geese

It’s just goose season round these parts the last couple of days. Tons of geese flying north and then occasionally like four flying south like “shit I forgot my keys.”

A consummate V of geese

Per Strongbad, a consummate V of geese this morning.