David Simon

And if "rooting for America" is failing to take responsibility for our capricious misuse of power -- especially after DOD acknowledged abandoning existing rules of engagement -- fuck America and fuck you. A war crime is a war crime you soulless shitheel.

NYT investigation of U.S. targeting -- precise timing of immediately adjacent strikes by US planes -- indicates that it was our error.

Yeah, I didn't even bother with that nonsense.

Pardon the pedantry, but if we are decimating Iran, we are killing one in every ten Iranians. That's what decimating means and that's 9 million people. Assuming this administration is just tossing words and not intent on that much butchery, but given the reality of Trump/Hegseth, one can't be sure.

We might not see their kind again. It's true.

That wasn't my tone. Read it again.

Reagan did not celebrate. But he would not apologize.
At first we defended the action on claims that the plane would not identify itself and was descending toward the ship.
Later, Reagan sent a diplomatic note of regret and many years later we paid a cash settlement to the families of the victims.

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.

No American need be dissuaded from disgust because we killed 175 schoolgirls in a wartime airstrike gone awry. But this isn't our worst in Iran. For those who don't remember, google Flight 655 and July 3, 1988. That was 290 innocent people. There was no war. And our president refused to apologize.

Homage to Catatonia?
The Road to Corey's Leer?
Orwell commenting on lip filler and hair extensions?

Dunno. I thought I left enough breadcrumbs.

They've fired the FBI agents tasked with countering Iranian terror and who had been working on that. Fired them. And they appointed a 22-year-old with no counterintelligence experience to leadership.

But I'm a cynic. Cool.

Correct. Have read it. I misspoke in a rush.

The quote was said by no one. It references, at best, some commentary offered by Orwell about a critique by Kipling of pacificism and the mocking of those who serve. But those actual words, no.

As Orwell himself wrote: "Fuck me, I underwrote my shit."

Not a bug but a feature in this new war of choice. What Trump requires is a major terror attack on American soil prior to the midterm elections. Declared state of emergency. Disruptions in voting. Political dissent challenged and even prosecuted.

His war has primed the pump as intended.

Good news for Orwell, she didn't.

Not a typo. The entire post was sarcasm. His first novel was The Road to Wigan Pier.

Get it?

Never step on the punchline

I can only quote the great Annie Dillard and her magnificent "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek: "Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. And insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another."

Sarcasm is a thing. Read my post with more care.

Hit them hard on the side of the head, like a television set with insubordinate vertical hold.

Personally, I have long regarded the Iranian Navy as an imminent threat to my country and to me personally. In fact, for forty years now, I've held my breath at the terrifying thought of those frigates, corvettes and patrol boats massing off our shores and menacing our great republic.

None of the three said it, though they all spoke to the theme in other contexts than the one she employs.

Yup. Not at all her context.

We still have Blackburn and Johnson. It's a deep bench.

Just so. Orwell sure could write.

Read me again carefully. Sarcasm is a thing.

Sir, I referred to Homage to Catatonia. One of his other works.

Never step on the punchline.

Churchill, Orwell, Kipling, no. Although all three did remark at points at the hypocrisy of pacifism in a time of existential national crisis, or specifically, the mocking of those who will fight. But not in the context she wishes.

Am aware of the drift that leads from that critique of pacificism in a time of war to what she implies. He never said it, and nothing else remote to her context. She ends with another lie.

Yeah, Orwell said that. I think it's the opening line of his famed "Homage to Catatonia." In his first novel, "The Road To Cory's Leer," he also wrote, "Some things seem to look good from one end of the bar, but if you get close and there's just lip filler and hair extensions? Run the fuck away..."