i dislike being made to see the mr beast face. how his grin never reaches his sad eyes unnerves me

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

Et c’est tout simplement faux. Les IA génératives « s’entraînent » en prédisant le mot suivant dans une chaîne de mots à partir d’un corpus de chaînes de mots.

Aucun humain n’apprends à créer comme ça.

this may be controversial to some but Iran having a nuclear weapon would be considerably more beneficial to world peace at this point than them not having one

I spoke to the great Belgian political scientist Sven Biscop for a long-form Q&A on Europe's place in a world shaped by war in Middle East, more erratic US, intensifying great power rivalry

His blunt starting point:

“Just saying you are a geopolitical actor doesn’t make it so”

Put another way, I think the Jewishness of the army and the state is basically incidental. This is simply what happens when you have a racial supremacist state and a racial supremacist army and a racial supremacist law. The soldiers, regardless of the particulars, will act as if they are supreme.

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.

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.

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

simple: israel needs the support of western christian fruitcakes and does not need the support of people who recognize brown children as human

Maybe those "European allies" could exert some agency and use their considerable leverage over the American ability to wage war in the middle east to achieve influence in the US decision making process.

But they mostly loved the war and couldn't wait for the US+Israel to kill more little kids so,

Je reviens là-dessus parce que c'est fascinant et révélateur de la pensée de droite : c'est une analyse "littéraire" de la société. Ce qui compte, c'est de trouver une bonne métaphore, et si celle-ci sonne bien, si elle pourrait donner une bonne symbolique dans un récit, alors elle est justifiée.

astral projecting into the minds of our brave troops overseas, dancing like that one fuckass grubhub ad, burger in my hand, as they lay nearby stricken with sleep paralysis and hunger in their bunks. hopefully this psychic technique spurs several of Epstein's Angels into some full metal jacket shit

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles

the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

really funny to me that the democrats always have 1-3 guys on hand to make sure the democrats can put up the performance of resistance while still ultimately getting the government to pass what the combined democratic-republican party ultimately wants

Who the fuck does he think he is? Who is the fucking superpower here?

People cite this quote all the time as evidence of how much every president hates Netanyahu but really it's evidence that the US has a humiliation fetish and learns nothing whatsoever about anything that happens to it

Dujardin, c’est vraiment le nouveau Depardieu.

C’est à dire que c’est un mec dont tout le monde a cru qu’il était un acteur alors qu’en fait il se contente d’être à l’écran comme il est dans la vie - détestable.

Du coup, la justification des rémunérations délirantes des ultra riches - ce sont les seuls à pouvoir prendre les bonnes décisions géniales - ça fait pshiiit.

The thing about the Star Wars prequels is that I am simultaneously willing to acknowledge that it's cool when artists make a thing that is very much a product of their own personal vision as Lucas did, but also that even with this in mind the movies simply are not very good

People need to understand that the United States was always this, was always heading to this point and cannot do or be otherwise. Replacing the person at the helm won’t stop this ship from falling off the edge of the world.

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition

The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them

This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

This is one of the reasons the negotiations with Iran constantly reach a stalemate. Beyond the specifics of nuclear ambitions or the missile program or so on and so forth, the US has a problem in which it prioritizes the demands and desires of a totally separate country to a degree that's crazy.

The US offer to Iran is the “my offer is this: nothing” line from Godfather 2, except Michael is sitting in the ashes of the casino that burned down around him

It's funny that Trump called Iran tough negotiators because he said "Give up your only two points of leverage forever" and they said "no"

I think it is clear that one aspect of the US mismanagement of the war and now the negotiations is simply racism.

They can't understand the way that they were outmaneuvered. And they can't accept it.

The US exports culture and media at an unprecedented volume and weight.

It's not reciprocated - and is one one-way, mostly.

Other countries don't "study" the US, we're deluged by it.

It's because we're very stupid and as a people love nothing more than marketing meant for children

I genuinely think that the Israelis are mostly unaware or unable to understand that there is basically no special reverence of the Holocaust within Korea or the wider East Asian region. To them it’s just another atrocity comparable to their own.

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

Yearning