There's also clearly some cognitive dissonance within the "siege mentality" when the state's foreign policy has been to continue making new enemies in the interest of "security"
It is not an exclusive disease of the right: for certain left-ideologies, it is ideologically necessary to believe people are poorer under capitalism, when they obviously are not.
For tankies, it is ideologically necessary to believe the USSR always opposed the Nazis, when pre-1941, they did not.
My term with this broad sort of error is 'ideological necessity.'
Every ideology comes with precepts it is necessary to believe in order to hold the ideology and for people whose self-image is predicted on the ideology, they will hold those precepts even in spite of observable reality.
This is true if you are engaging with reality but the decision-makers are not.
The answer will be that woke officers trained by the woke war colleges weren't willing to bomb enough Iranian girl's schools to force them to surrender because woke.
It is not bombing the dams in Vietnam all over again.
Itโs hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
For MAGA-fascists, it is ideologically necessary to believe that military power derives from manliness and masculinity - that war is fundamentally a gender problem (though they'd never frame it that way).
As a result, all failures must be from insufficient manliness and can have no other cause.
I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran).
The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
Taylor Brown is set to become the first openly trans woman to lead a New York City office.
Zohran Mamdani has appointed her the Director of his newly-announced Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs.
yes this is great and I dream of a day when we can appoint a trans person to some boring ass office nobody cares about that has nothing to do with their identity and nobody cares about that appointment either
Sucks to be him, I guess, because in today's interconnected and potentially anonymized world, that kind of information is almost certain to be disclosed more or less contemporaneously no matter how much you try.
Pete Hegseth is openly calling on Trump-friendly oligarchs to take over the media while unshackling the military from the "rules of engagement" he hates so much. What he really wants is a world in which horrors like the school bombing don't ever fully come to light.
newrepublic.com/article/2077...
Habermasโ immoral position on the slaughter in Gaza prompted many statements from public intellectuals condemning his Ersatznationalismus for Israel and his support of the slaughter of tens of thousands!
Former Qatari PM clamors for a NATO-style military alliance between all the member-states of the GCC and that the GCC should redirect its relationships away from the US and Israel and towards Turkey and Pakistan
The extension of the Gaza genocide to the whole of the Middle East
"We demand you accept these conditions, and we will continue to try and kill you whether you do or not" we are adopting the Israeli approach to ceasefires, and we better get used to having an Israeli approach to Middle Eastern conflict, because this isn't ending anytime soon.
xkcd 2347, but edited by me to say "All post-WWII popular culture" for the mass of things built on the shaky foundation and "Lax enforcement of copyright law" for the critical single piece of that foundation that, if removed, would topple the whole thing
what I wish I could scream whenever I see artists clamouring to extend the scope of copyright and enforce it harder, be it to stop AI or for any other reason
Not enough attention being paid to how fucking stupid it is to issue ultimatums to the Iranian leadership while simultaneously waging an existential war of extermination against the aforementioned leadership that is completely uncorrelated to whether or not they accept those terms.
New: A federal โjudge in Boston has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections next week that have allowed nearly 1,100 โSomalis to live and work in โthe United States. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
Except Sanders is a co-sponsor of the Booker and Van Hollen legislation to do exactly this at the federal level, except with a $75,000 cutoff.
Beast mode
Habby Week End Furrends!๐ผ
Momb is buddy training at SPCA tomorrow. She gonna teech the smol hooms about how to us cates like to play! And how to watch for twitchy tales and airplane eers.
So who's gonna pay for this "A.i." error?
No one?
No one, right?
All right then.
Burn it all down.
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
itโs unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
[INT: a young Latina (not AOC) does her makeup in a bathroom mirror]
AOC VOICEOVER: Women like me aren't supposed to run for president. I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family. Mom from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx. But we all know the way things are supposed to work isn't working.
Anyone who thinks moderate/normie/suburban voters would be turned off or scared by AOC does not actually talk to moderate/normie/suburban voters.
BC those actual voters are waaaaaaay more receptive to her than the Beltway punditocracy would like.
โIt didnโt happen but also they deserve that it happenedโ is a response one sees to every atrocity. The Shoah, the Nakba, the Armenian genocide, Srebrenica.
The story is no longer polyamory, but that Lindy West has apparently spent her entire career as a public writer in a relationship with a nightmare person, and seemingly no one, from friends to the editors/publisher of this book, are willing or able to extract her open.substack.com/pub/fieldnot...
watching the Washington Post speed run its own destruction is really sad
C-RAM in US embassy compound in Baghdad has seen better days.
Radar is fine.
