There was grumbling about rationing and strike waves during World War II! The only way you get through this is through persuasion based on values.
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There was grumbling about rationing and strike waves during World War II! The only way you get through this is through persuasion based on values.
Beyond the fact that they’ve been extremely lazy in selling the American people on this war that’s also not a war — this is just not a winning message. Americans have hated this since the Jefferson administration.
THIS IS INSANE
So sorry but there’s no unfucking this chicken.
"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic
It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
Shutting an oil well isn’t like turning off a faucet.
It’s a huge engineering risk, difficult to reverse — and an indicator the Kuwaitis don’t see choke points improving anytime soon.
What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."
I’ve seen many objectively better hype up videos at college basketball and MLS games.
Looking past the symbol salad this is just the lamest shit I’ve ever seen.
Looking past the symbol salad this is just the lamest shit I’ve ever seen.
Ditzkrieg send skeet
We’re going down, baby.
Can only ignore the unsustainable for so long.
Does anyone else start thinking about the Titan submersible implosion when reading the news?
What if 2006 but also 1973?
It is known.
Every day the war’s projected end point seems to be the sum of the two previous projections. It’s a beautiful thing to witness the Fibonacci Sequence in nature.
mark teixeira once tried to get bees to stop swarming at a spring training game by bringing a plastic bear honey bottle out of the clubhouse, he will be the republican party’s top scientific mind in congress
“I wish Obama could run again.” - multiple students in multiple blocks. Is this a TikTok meme or something?
Was talking to my kids about current events today, some of whom are already of age to vote, and it’s pretty clear to me that the children yearn for Woke 2.
2026 has a very 2006 "everybody fucking hates republicans but national media/pundits will be reeaaaaaaaaaaallllllly slow to properly understand that because of their priors about the two parties" feel to it
Do those “side jobs” not actually qualify as another job? Do you know what level of effort goes into a teaching job on a day-to-day basis?
The Onion point/counterpoint from 2003 which reads Share on Bluesky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Share on SMS Email this Page Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
Real hits stay relevant.
This ain’t it.
“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son
The whole Trump administration is just rooting around in complicated systems - regional balances of power, state legitimacy, funding for global health - and ripping wires out, and they've frankly been lucky that they've ripped out so many wires without electrocuting themselves. Won't last forever.
Americans: