Why is anyone surprised that Jewish soldiers in the Jewish supremacist army of the Jewish supremacist state would feel emboldened to do whatever he wants? He can shoot machine gun fire into a random house on camera. He can execute a Palestinian family in their car. Of course he can destroy a statue.

People develop a theory of mind for this stuff that essentially is nonsense. It has nothing to do with these soldiers being Jewish and therefore they do bad things. They do bad things because the state and the army is Jewish *supremacist* and Jews who commit crimes are not prosecuted.

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

One of my pet peeves about the criticism the last jedi received is that the bombers having hatches that open to literally drop the bombs actually makes perfect sense given the way artificial gravity works in the ships and the conservation of linear momentum

Like, I can't get over that one should not feel comfortable mentioning these things in public. Something has gone very wrong about the norms of public discourse or their enforcement if we're at a point where every psychotic can just agitate for war with random countries at a whim.

Like, obviously, completely separate issue from either the preface here, or the absolutely untethered idea of *going to war with Turkey*

Next month they'll be talking about invading Greece, blockading Spain or bringing democracy to Denmark.

It's wild, wild that they feel comfortable saying these thigns about a NATO member state in the customs union with the EU. Impunity has gone too far, and they don't think anything is beyond the pale any more.

legitimate WTAF hours

I keep seeing think tank people blathering about Turkey being an islamist threat to the region, the greatest threat to europe etc. Legitimately feels like I a) need meds and b) have forgotten to take my meds.

Legitimately feels insane that people feel comfortable arguing these things openly.

Sorry to be super blunt about this, but if you're defending war with Turkey in the year 2026, you should be taken out back post haste for a treat (just look straight ahead, no no, don't look back, we're with you). You've lost your marbles and you are a danger to others.

the artemis ii pics of the moon and perfect splashdown reminded me what actual science looks like – instead of, say, an ai program named clifford that can write christmas cards for me.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Just this intense belief that they have the right to render the entire region a permanent no man’s land so that they feel safe

There’s a lot of words to describe Israel’s attitudes to its neighbours (and de facto subjects in the case of Palestine), but one word that comes up a lot less often than it should is “entitlement”

I’ve said in the past that any plan that has “and then the people will rise up” as an essential component is probably doomed. But even then, I was talking about e.g. the Jacobite army’s invasion of England, and not “blowing up a girl’s school with the children inside it”.

Basically 99% of the discourse around it is based on the principle of acting like you were born yesterday and have no idea what the Geneva Convention is.

The reason that there are strikes on Lebanon is that Israel is illegally attacking one of its neighbors but given that this is a more or less permanent state of affairs it’s easy to miss

This is basically the only response you need against basically any conceivable defence of Israeli conduct.

substitute ‘Hegseth’ for ‘Rust’ and I think we about have this one covered

You could find a semi-credible way to be a Trump-supportive parish priest or bishop up until the point they start threatening the Vatican envoy with a Babylonian Captivity situation. To go along with that would be open schism and your career is over lol

There are plenty of super Trumpy Catholics, I know (and went to school with) a bunch of them. But if you start yelling at the Papal Nuncio about Avignon they have to bail on you, you dumbass

The stupidity of picking a fight with the Vatican is I guess pretty much in line with the stupidity of everything else these goons do. They're too dumb to understand that they keep more leaners on their side if they don't force people to pick a side

Just a reminder to Congress:

Any time you send soldiers to another country to start bombing shit and shooting at shit and killing the people of that country, THAT IS A WAR.

If your President is DOING WAR without Congressional Approval, THAT IS A CRIME AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

I checked in on Twitter for what people are saying re the Iran situation, and basically whenever anyone says "this has gone terribly for America" they're flooded by replies being like "er excuse me we killed many Iranians while they killed few Americans, that's called winning" so yeah OP vindicated.

this person beat me to my next point, which is that the most powerful oppositional force keeping the sedevacantist movement (i.e. the "Vatican II wasn't real and neither are any of the woke popes that followed it" trads) from formal schism is that their base of institutional support collapses

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

No, the well being is safe and sound in its well