Matt Disaster

Is it good when the government controls what the media can say about a war

So. Like. Impeachment?

This seems solidly like something that should be a global crisis and is rarely discussed in American politics

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.

The Trump administration will somehow make $10 billion off the TikTok deal The unusually large fee comes after the president brokered the sale of the company's US operations to investors allied with his administration.

The fee is about *70 percent* of the new US TikTok’s $14 billion valuation

it's good we have a thoughtful, reflective president surrounded by wise and experienced advisors, all totally capable of admitting errors in judgment

Hence why they keep using other peoples money to buy hardware they can't use, pricing as many people as possible out of the market, keeping alternatives out of it - their ideal customer has a shitty smartphone and get's a web that is downright unusable

One of the betting markets will outright buy a news source with the specific intent of manipulating their own markets.

he's short on quagmires

once again, if the only thing you knew about trump was that he was a malignant narcisscist you'd be much better able to predict how this stuff goes than people who interpret his actions through the lens of geopolitics or military strategy or whatever. creates a crisis then demands credit for fixing

that is an endorsement.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to the media after attending Congressional briefings on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Chris Murphy: “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years — this administration has no idea what they are doing

I have great sympathy for our soldiers & our military leaders — they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind”

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

We're going to war with Iran forever, they're saying it more and more, and we're doing it very strongly.

Very upsetting news out of Texas over these verdicts. These guilty verdicts will only work to further suppress speech and erode our rights as they dwindle under this administration.

so the prosecutor essentially argued swastikas are pro-trump.

"How many beautiful, gentle people have I helped to kill? Just by paying my TAXES?" written on some planks nailed to some two by fours that are leaning against a house.

i would love to stop seeing people here argue that it’s not antisemitic to kill random jews in america as retaliation for israeli policy. if people would stop doing that, that would be super cool imo. not being a bigoted sociopath on main — what a concept!

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.

Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.

But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

"This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism" vs. "{tiny dancer plays distantly in the background} Wow. I didn't know that. You're just telling me now for the first time"

they're not even trying to pretend the takeover of CNN will be anything but a project to turn it into another propaganda network

the next Dem president needs to put every screw they can to Oracle and Paramount and the entire Ellison empire, it's vulnerable and debt-laden and can be destroyed

I can anticipate some of your objections here: But Israel really is playing a major role in the war! Anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism! I agree on both fronts. We have spent the last two and a half years watching both the Biden and Trump administrations provide weapons and political cover for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The rage that has built up over that is legitimate. Netanyahu has also long made common cause with antisemites; his only goal, as I have said for years, is protecting himself. If he had the foresight to anticipate that the war he was cheerleading for would be unpopular and that it could bring simmering antisemitism in the United States to a boil, I doubt he’d have done anything differently. Zionism (the idea that Jews belong in historic Judah) and antisemitism (the idea that Jews don’t belong anywhere, but especially in [insert name of antisemite’s country here]) have long been more symbiotic than many American Jews appreciate.

I feel like I covered this

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.

This is not a joke.

We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them.

Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

One of the interesting things about presidential pardons is that they don't prevent the next government from extraditing someone to the Hague for war crimes prosecution. I do not think Pete Hegseth has realized this yet

Americans don’t really experience it this way, but I continue to see this war as essentially an autocoup, in that the President has claimed imperial power over war-making, which is expressly not given to him under the Constitution.

I don’t know dude. If James Baldwin was able to write all his work while his friends were being assassinated by the FBI, and while he was living in terror as a gay Black man … then maybe you can write without using A.I.

Hegseth is proudly proclaiming the intention to commit war crimes.