“The Infantry, as a class, are too rooted in superstition and parochial loyalties to develop class consciousness. It is the Mech units which must form the vanguard of the revolution.”
while we’re assigning Discourse Magnet personality traits to Karl - Advance Wars guy or Fire Emblem guy, do you reckon?
She wasn’t attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of “traditional America” — big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, “I was in love with the frisson of transgression.” The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. “There was an element of gnosticism to it,” she says, “the sense that you know secret things that other people don’t know.” After college, in the waning years of Trump’s first term, Anna wrote for popular right-wing outlets, worked for conservative institutions, and attended movement conferences. She fell in socially with the young firebrands of the New Right; she remembers it as partially happenstance. “You kind of meet people and proceed on and then suddenly you find yourself being a part of this thing,” she tells me. A portion of her early writing was about feminism and gender: “I was doing the typical right-wing female thing where all these men will kind of pat you on your head for saying the edgy thing — about women, as a woman — and they need you to be their mouthpiece.”
Usually, she silently endured her peers’ soliloquies on women’s deviance and the urgent need to curtail their rights. When she did manage a retort, it was not well received. On one occasion, at a professional dinner, a male acquaintance spewed out some “really gross” things about women (she declines to share details for fear of being identified), and she gently pushed back. “He freaked out,” she says. “He was banging on the table, screaming at me, saying, ‘Nobody cares what you think, woman’ — using the word woman as an invective.” She worried he would become violent. No one at the table came to her defense, men or women. “You almost don’t realize what’s happening until five years later,” Anna says, “when you look back and you’re like, Oh gosh, I was being used.” She also blames herself: “I was too frivolous with ideas.”
More seriously: when you get people who speak honestly -- as I do think this person is doing -- what you see is that a lot of the people who get involved with this stuff really do so for basically frivolous reasons. it's a game, then it's a livelihood, then suddenly it's Real and not funny anymore
If only they had thought of calling soldiers warwinners instead of warfighters this would already be over
READ THEORY
okay we’re doing Command and Conquer Generals missions in real life now
PHELAN
CAUDLE
WHERE ARE MY FUCKING FFG(X)s
is this a solution?
All the other despots and dictators who have hosted Olympics and World Cups have known they're supposed to say all athletes from all the countries will be welcome and safe. That hosting is a chance to show how their country is powerful yet benevolent. Not Trump, he can't even get that part right
If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
The past fucking sucked. We shit on capitalism for often justifiable reasons, but pre-industrial society sucked so bad when it ended, people were like YES, I GET TO WORK FOURTEEN HOURS A DAY AT THE FINGER LOSING FACTORY IN THIS SMOG FILLED MONUMENT TO URBAN DECAY. THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!
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.
the thing about 'trump escapes all consequences' is that its not actually true. he notably did lose a presidential election despite giving people a bunch of free money. the median voter likes him when they can imagine what he *would* do, not when confronted with what hes actually doing.
You read the news like "White House surprised Iran fires missiles in war. Investors bet on the Money Fairy turning sea mines into cotton candy" and it's that scene in Downfall where Hitler is moving imaginary armies on the map.
Interesting to see so many “experts” on here all of a sudden 🤔. A week ago most of you had never even heard of oil
Remember when the press excoriated Biden for inflation every fucking month for 4 years? But now? "As Expected."
Fucking media, man.
Life was Better With Biden.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/c...
People are thinking small. We simply put wheels on the ships.
I saw Dusted Nuggets open for Foo Fighters last year, fuckin kicked ass
those damn Romanians will never see it coming
people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
“We don’t know it was Iran. Maybe the tanker just did that on its own”
across the front of a shirt? bad. on the ass of a pair of shorts? really funny
