@lucykwiatek
Friend of Blahaj, Cascadian navalist, professional worrywart, transit lover, junior officer in the world's finest Navy (pending separation because trans). Born in one Washington and denizen of another. Opinions my own. She/her.
i assume dem leadership knows this, but i don’t think they’ll be able to count on fetterman for anything if they take the senate back; he’s becoming more and more juvenile and unable to control himself.
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
they literally think that the primes can fix the missile production gap by just x5 the budget not understanding that, while it can be sped up at the margin in some capacity, they're digging a logistical hole that is now creeping into the timeline of years. this is saying nothing of the politics.
the reason why they're exhausting our strategic capacity is because they think production capacity is woke and gay while mistaking their own habit of throwing money at corrupt miltech startups as actually having a solution to future problems.
Willem Dafoe dot jpg
Me neither, but they’ll learn this war won’t end just bc Trump decides he doesn’t want to play with this toy anymore. Why would Iran reopen the strait with the threat of renewed attack hanging over them? Or with Israel continuing to bomb? They killed or discredited the pro-negotiations faction.
nonlinear dynamics: not fun, actually
when i have previously wished for us to break our relationships with gulf petrostates, this wasn’t really what i was imagining
I have to say, I would not be troubled if this man was haunted by the darkest possible thoughts in the loneliest hours of the night.
When pondering “lethality,” this quote from Sherman in 1865 comes to mind:
“War means success by any and every means; it is not fighting alone. Bulls do that, and bears, and all beasts, but men attain objects by intellect, and the introduction of physical power, moved upon strategic points."
This is what a coalition of subway riders can get you
Noah Smith is the poor man's Matthew Yglesias, and let me tell you, they ain't exactly selling Matty for top dollar these days, y'know?
it should go without saying, but iran's military is not ba'athist iraq
We really don't talk about Aramark and Sodexo enough.
Whenever I’m on a ferry, I turn into Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse
I think this is just being a mariner, tbh.
Me when I’m excited to see more fairy boys
Under no circumstances should Dems provide money for the Iran War. It becomes a ratified war approval. They should not game out being tough on Iran in ads or whatever. Do the right and Constitutional thing.
They’ve stopped publishing interception counts
the important thing i think is that they get comfortable now with living in federal facilities
And here is why posting through it has limits
Hegseth should spend a little less time worrying about how he looks in photos and a little more time fixing the fucking disaster he has created in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.
The prevailing alternative answer, run most clearly by Obama in 2012, is that the wars can be trusted in the hands of the right skilled technocrats, who can ensure a massive standing military follows the laws of war. It's true up to a point, but endless war is inherently a reactionary project.
The challenge, posed again and again and again since 2001, is how to make the compelling case against the permanent war state as presently constructed and expanded. Trump's answer blames following rules, it's the bitter reactionary explanation to Vietnam transposed to every war fought by US since.
In 2015 Trump ran against the ongoing wars and in favor of letting soldiers do war crimes; he'd repeatedly tell a fake story about General Pershing soaking bullets in pigs blood to shoot Muslim fighters in the Philippines.
The wars were bad wars, but "more violence ends them quicker" is a lie.
i would simply traverse the strait of hormuz with a pure heart, ensuring my safe passage
not to sephiroth-post about this but like the conversations I have had with my friends this year are literal life and death because we are getting so crushed to the margins on every aspect of life and it’s obvious it’s going to get worse. Give us some space to mourn our lost futures at least
omg
She's the attorney who brokedown in court not that long ago. Asked the judge to hold her in contempt so she could get some sleep.
She's running as a Democrat, but as a reminder she willingly went to work for Trump and has a history of defending ICE.
She's not the ally you're looking for.