https://twitter.com/sura104/status/1448907568345239559?s=20
Will is legally scared🏳️⚧️ (@sura104) Tweeted: back in 2014 Ukrainian Government and Donetsk forces were taping bombs to Walmart drones and flying them into each other’s trenches
hell is already here
I love it. 🙂
Oh noooossss the price of gas is going up we must write another article about it because that will drive ad dollars to us
This seems like really good advice for the Democratic party, and an accurate assessment of the mushy middle.
https://taskandpurpose.com/pentagon-run-down/pentagon-china-strategic-competition/
I wonder who’s listening to our systems thinkers, if anybody. Seems like nobody was when collateralized debt obligations were created.
«The truth is that the United States is nowhere close to being on a war footing if a conflict with China broke out. That is because the industrial muscle America had in 1941 has mostly gone overseas.»
I hope the US hasn’t become a paper tiger. I’d blame Ronald Reagan and the Republican party for this, although there are economic forces at play, too.
Full-out war with China would be insane and disastrous for both sides, but then, so was World War 1, and everybody knew it ahead of time and yet THAT still happened.
Maybe the thing I’m missing is that war with China would be over quickly. (Or is that what everybody thinks about every war before it starts? Certainly the recent Armenia-Aizerbaijan war was over fast.) So afterwards, we could repent at leisure.
Unless we both just expended our equipment and munitions immediately and then settled down into a long, grinding war of attrition. Ick.
Look! A baby wolf!
https://twitter.com/Moose4Science/status/1445948689885896707?s=20
The end of a good thread on abuse and recovery:
Moose was already scary (@Moose4Science) Tweeted: I guess I’ll put this thread to rest on a better note- If you’ve been through things, it isn’t your fault. But it is your responsibility to get better. I have a complicated trauma history from then til recent days, from civ and mil Life is messy. Do the work to do better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/10/06/fox-news-critical-race-theory/
Seems about right:
«In the rising and now waning focus on critical race theory, Thomas sees a politically driven programming philosophy of “whatever works … CRT one week, cancel culture the next, the threat to our borders the next, the hordes of Muslims being brought over from Afghanistan the next.”»
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/politics/supreme-court-torture-abu-zubaydah.html
«Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian, was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and was initially thought be a high-level member of Al Qaeda. A 2014 report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said “the C.I.A. later concluded that Abu Zubaydah was not a member of Al Qaeda.”»
And:
«Abu Zubaydah, who was waterboarded more than 60 times and is being held without charge at Guantánamo Bay.»
Whoops.
Why are we still holding him in Guantánamo?
On the topic of torture, the position of George W. Bush and the Vulcans (and everybody who agrees with them) is simply barbaric and unworthy of a nation that considers itself enlightened.
Well, this is quite an opening paragraph:
«In 2003, Joe Lieberman, at the time one of the worst Democratic senators, traveled to Arizona to campaign for his party’s presidential nomination and was regularly greeted by antiwar demonstrators. “He’s a shame to Democrats,” said the organizer of a protest outside a Tucson hotel, a left-wing social worker named Kyrsten Sinema. “I don’t even know why he’s running. He seems to want to get Republicans voting for him — what kind of strategy is that?”»
The closer is quietly savage, too:
«“I think she’s just really invested in that self-image, personally, as someone who stands up to her party, and I think she has really lost track of what is actually politically prudent, even to put aside the impact on the lives of millions of people,” said Emily Kirkland, executive director of Progress Arizona, a progressive group that worked to elect Sinema to the Senate. There’s a difference, it turns out, between being a maverick and being a narcissist.»
Oof.
