Yeah and bigger - this wasn't necessary or whatever. This is Trump Trumping, and yes it's an acute crisis but the chronic crisis is Trumpofascism. I mean who thinks this is the apex? Ok let's pull out all the stops to deal with Hormuz, but the fucking cause stays in place, let's deal with that?
Amazing how the ball knowers on here were like “they’re going to run out of military targets in a week” and they immediately start hitting economic/civilians infrastructure on day 8
It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
"Welcome home"
Joe Biden
Like wtf?
That congress was packed with on-the-record insurrectionists throughout the Dem term, in direct contravention of the US constitution. That everyone wanted it to be someone else's problem. That they showed *they could not or would not stop the fascists*. So, then what?
My unpopular opinion is that the election wasn't the point. The point was failing (kinda deliberately?) to prosecute and punish the coup guy and his crew for their treason, showing that going fascist has no cost.Trump treated as a legitimate contender, not a natsec issue, was the core failure.
@nisslbody.blacksky.app hi I'm intrigued how I managed to end up on your ai boosters list. Mind letting me know? I don't feel like an AI booster, see, a bit the opposite really
block Dr Nick day apparently, must've gotten on some wanky list
You’d think this would be a totally humiliating, career-ending reality check for the cheerleaders of pro-MAGA politicians and media in the UK.
“Oh dear, lads… no denying we backed the wrong horse here.”
But no. On they cheer, as the whole country shakes its head in despair.
another war ended by the peace president
Xi looking at Taiwan and watching Trump spaff the entire US stock of ammo
C'mon now. Claude is just a name, mate
Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.
it really is just stunningly on the nose that the opening salvo to Trump’s supposed war
of liberation in Iran began with bombing a girl’s school.
if you put that in fiction people would dismiss it as being too maudlin and heavy-handed, and yet this kind of thing just keeps actually happening.
Damn your inconvenient captions, man! 😃
There is only one form of Trumpofascism which works out ok for the world, and that is a deposed form. We've wasted >a year desperately hoping otherwise and avoiding risk, thereby enabling it to grow and consolidate. We are failing this challenge and the result will be catastrophic
Is this about the USA? (No)
Just cos there is a baddy, does not mean there is a goody
As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
12. I think what's more significant is that the AP and other media organizations have consistently rejected the Republican effort to characterize the Iran war as anything but a war.
Oh, neat. Good thing we're having to deal with complete global fucking chaos because of one insane narcissistic pedo man-baby instead...
This is the blague, and the problem is it really is that bad and everyone will be fucked if it's not stopped
"No stupid rules of engagement"
America has a long history of pointless and wasteful military adventurism. And in our quest to normalize Trump we’ve stuck his Iran war in that box: “another war, just like the rest.” It’s not like the rest. It’s an act of insanity, rogue state behavior. Don’t know how this ends until we admit it.
It’s lunacy, madman stuff. We’re just going around killing whoever we feel like, with zero regard for the law OR the consequences! If any other country were doing it our political class would say, probably rightfully, that there was an urgent necessity for their leaders to eat a cruise missile.
but at the same time it's an empirical fact that conservatism, such as it was, is collapsing into fascism with a few minor purges and a bit of momentum
"Conservatism is not merely dead, fascism has paraded the body around, peeled off its face, and is wearing it as a mask for its own amusement as it does a demented little dance." www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
Like, Claude is just a name
Getting some expert advice on how to wage an illegal war over imaginary WMDs
Nagging thought... Can't help feeling the burden of proof is being reversed here. When someone says x might be conscious, if there is not a non-cryptic answer to the Q 'what is conscious?' is difficult then we seem to be in woo territory.
