I support Gavin Newsom in everything except his run for any elected position.
09.03.2026 18:17
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I support Gavin Newsom in everything except his run for any elected position.
The fact that all wars inevitably harm civilians more than anyone else is *the* reason we’re supposed to be *super* fucking careful, and not fight them unless we *really* fucking have to.
"Pluralism is a lie." These motherfuckers literally hate the vision of America that even the flawed education I received in U.S. public schools in the 80s and 90s was *the* American ideal. They're incompatible with democracy.
But when you see the ramifications of this reckless and stupid war of choice hit the nations of the Middle East and Central/South Asia, remember that what you see happen there will happen here sooner or later if we let this continue. (2/2)
I realize that Pakistan is a brown country, so the American government (and an alarming percentage of the American electorate) doesn't care what happens there. (1/2)
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Dunno about you, but I don't often have to show my passport to buy beer, Scalise, you dipshit. (2/2)
When someone hits you with the "Just show your ID, it's not that hard!" remind them that, under the SAVE Act, a government-issued photo ID (like a driver's license or state ID) actually isn't sufficient. You need a secondary document to prove citizenship, like a passport or birth certificate. (1/2)
Everything sucks, but there's new Blackbraid.
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(Side note: We didn't have "war.gov" before the Peace President.)
"...a new strategic map from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding countries. At the Department of War, we call this strategic map the Greater North America."
Wow. That's got real big "Großdeutsches Reich" energy there, buddy.
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A tit-for-tat on desalination plants will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis this war is creating. The names of every child in the Gulf who goes to bed thirsty in the coming days should be tattooed on the backs of the cowards in the U.S. Congress who refused to stop this
(And no disrespect to my cat people. I love you. I don't understand you, but I love you. Please do not put your cats on me. I will sneeze.)
I think this is just a nerd thing, yeah? Like, me personally, I'm a dog person. But in my social circle (mostly nerds, shocker), I'm pretty heavily outnumbered by cat people. I figured this is just an extension of that.
The only reports of this I'm seeing so far are from foreign outlets heavily influenced by their own governments, basically reporting the Iranian government's claim without any additional evidence. I hope some real journalists somewhere are finding the truth. (5/5)
(And if some clever Trumpist tries to tell you that this doesn't count because the U.S. didn't ratify Additional Protocol I, ask them if they know what a "customary rule" is in the context of international law.) (4/5)
54-2 prohibits the destruction of "objections indispensable to the survival of the civilian population", and water treatment and similar facilities are specifically mentioned. (3/5)
But should independent verification occur, it should be noted that this would be a violation of Additional Protocol I, Article 54-2 of the Geneva Conventions. (2/5)
The Iranian government has claimed that the U.S. struck a desalination plant on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz. I do not believe this claim on its own merit, for obvious reasons. (1/5)
But should independent verification occur, it should be noted that this would be a violation of Additional Protocol I, Article 54-2 of the Geneva Conventions. (2/5)
But should independent verification occur, it should be noted that this would be a violation of Additional Protocol I, Article 54-2 of the Geneva Conventions. (2/4)
I enjoy that my boss permits me to pin my working hours to UTC, given the rather global nature of my typical work day.
Doesn’t make me any less grumpy when my local time zone steals an hour of my precious night-time, though.
Fuck DST, in circles, forever.
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This is such a wild thing to be babbling about to the press while you're prosecuting a war with no exit plan, no clear goals, that's costing the U.S. taxpayer some ~$1B a day and costing hundreds and hundreds of lives.
(Addendum: Obviously, I think the play here is to keep the war going through the mid-terms, for reasons ranging from the comparatively mundane "wag the dog" scenario, to more sinister plans around tinkering with the election in the name of national security.)
Either way, it's going to continue costing us ~$1,000,000,000 a day (or more) and continue killing and injuring both Iranian civilians and American service members. (4/4)
This war is likely to last until: 1) He exits office, one way or another; or 2) Something even worse comes along and he thinks the public is sufficiently distracted for him to move the goalposts on Iran and claim victory. (3/4)
Does he even know what "unconditional surrender" means? We're basically never getting that, even if the Iranian regime is down to two mullahs in a pup tent. (2/4)
Not only did this sentient bag of cat piss order up a war with no plan on how to end it, he and Secretary of War Rufus T. Dipshit are regularly demolishing any possible off-ramps with their ridiculous faux-tough-guy rhetoric. (1/4)
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This is another in a very long series of heartbreaking examples that in all wars — the just and unjust alike — innocent civilians suffer worse than anyone else. (6/6)
A shockingly small number of people in the Congress, or in the Cabinet, could stop all of this tomorrow. Every day this continues is a choice they've made to let it continue, and we must hold them accountable for that choice. (5/6)
We must be told who gave the order. We must be told on what intelligence they acted. If targets in this campaign are being chosen with the help of AI tools, the people who gave the authorization to do so must be held accountable as though they'd intentionally targeted this school. (4/6)