Notably, this incident does not correspond to any of the videos posted online by SOUTHCOM.

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

"Strategically, Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks increasingly plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling....Russia bet the farm on the theory that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the United States and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."
www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraines-s...

In case anyone's interested in the historical track record of these "meat wave" attacks, I have a recent paper on that topic (with Yuri Zhukov)

Spoiler alert: forcing your soldiers to fight isn't a war-winning move

This specific war is illegal and immoral, but "seizing enemy commerce" is actually a pretty standard part of how wars have worked since approximately forever, and is well-covered by international law.

Normally I’d say the president has very little control over the national economy, and that’s true, but it is actually Trump’s fault if we go into a recession six years after coming out of one

this very quickly becomes a "you have no idea what you're talking about do you?" moment when you bring up AR pistols

The whole point of Super Hornet is to see how much drag you can put on an airframe & still get it funded

the fundamental problem here (notwithstanding Heller vs. DC) is that legal handgun ownership codes as white but illegal handgun ownership codes as brown

You could put pistols on the NFA and stop an enormous amount of gun violence in the US but it would do little to stop the highly publicized spree shootings so people would think it's worthless

this reminds me of my favourite @johncarlbaker.bsky.social post:

You can't just pass on something, you have to convince everyone else to pass on it, usually by being hyperbolic about how bad something is/will be, to minimize the impacts of FOMO on yourself

One of the downstream aspects of "everything is content" is FOMO

"Content" isn't just the piece of media in question, it's how it slots into the zeitgeist of current day social media, so skipping a piece of content also deprives you of the discussions and memes around said content

The way to reconcile the fact that he previously did Uyghur genocide advocacy while also being an Islamophobe in current year is that he wants to be openly racist in a manner that is acceptable for his social circle

yeah he did do some IRL trolling of the PRC consulate and other protest stuff which is commendable in isolation but when placed in the context of the rest of his behavior becomes much less sincere

Drew Pavlou's whole bit before any of you knew about him was defending the god awful behavior of Chinese dissidents from the criticism of other Asians (usually women) by accusing them of being planted by the PRC to discredit said dissidents

>Was Drew Pavlou always like this?

Yes. He was always like this, most of you just thought it was funny because he did it to Asians

He was always like this, it's just no one cared/they thought it was funny because he did it to Asians

❗️❗️An attempt was made to kill the advisor to the Minister of Defense Sethiy "Flash" Beskrestnov. He is currently in the hospital, and he himself reported the attempt.

I need this place to explain what they think a war conducted in compliance with LOAC looks like because I think we'd get some hilarious answers

Yes correct which is why they ordered it to stop and when it didn't used limited force to disable it and take it into custody instead of sinking it

Woof, woof, woof, bark, bark, bark, arf, arf, arf.

Correlation doesn't equal causation, but the fact that all the Gaza fundraiser hacker spam disappeared more or less simultaneously alongside Molly Shah deleting her account sure does raise my eyebrows a bit.

The JFK conspiracy is there is no conspiracy

The Secret Service wants cranks to think there was an elaborate conspiracy because a random nutjob getting lucky damages their reputation and makes them look incompetent in a way that endangers their future charges

I think the real problem here is both websites have functionally nonexistent staff compared to the other major platforms you use on a regular basis

>tHIs iS whAT HaPpEns When YOU VIbECode A sItE

This is a powerful image highlighting the cruelty of the IDF

I can think of some other people, however, who will also find this to be a powerful image, but for entirely different reasons

Unfortunately I think we're going to see this exact image a lot on the internet, but for all the wrong reasons

When AIPAC gestures at "commitments" to Israel, it is always worth pointing out: not a treaty ally!

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”