People like to joke about Woke COINTELPRO here and that's based but the SPLC was about that life for real

“Nearly all of Israel’s military equipment comes from domestic production, the United States or Germany, so the deteriorating defense ties with European countries will not have a major impact on Israel’s military procurement,” David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said. “If anything, the European countries will be harmed by losing access to Israel’s battle-tested and innovative defense technology.”

"Nearly all of Israel’s military equipment comes from domestic production, the United States or Germany,"

Uh yeah it's like 85% from the US, 14% from the Germans and 1% from domestic production lol.

I think the only 🇮🇱 who can claim any honor in connection with Gaza are those who fought Hamas on the ground in Israel on 10/7 (e.g. Yair Golan, though he's pathetic as a representative of the Israeli "left" who refuses to even support a 🇵🇸 state). Curious if you disagree, generally or specifically?

I can believe that he didn't want to be there, and that he didn't directly participate in war crimes, but from everything I've seen and read about 🇮🇱 wars post 10/7 (plus my 3 tours in 🇮🇶+🇦🇫) it seems likely that he was at least aware of them, and that an ethical soldier had a duty to report/intervene.

sarah isgur and brett kavanaugh mugging for the camera together

Brett Kavanaugh officiated Sarah Isgur's wedding and is helping her promote her book, which is all about how good and noble the Supreme Court is. There is no reason to take seriously anything this person says about her very powerful, life-tenured friends. Seriously, have some respect for yourself.

This is what I try to emphasize to people. What the Israelis are doing is actually entirely rational in so far as the US and Europe have given them the incentive structure to do exactly as they please to anyone they please and without pushback in any real or tangible form. That is the West's fault.

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The Supreme Court has been complicit in the undermining of trust, Moynihan argued: By allowing Trump to claim these powers, the Supreme Court is weakening the ability of a future president or Congress to repair the damage he is doing today. If the court goes all in on unitary executive theory, it weakens the ability of Congress to bind the president from doing bad things.

This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

We give a lot of leeway to people who blow stuff up with tanks, artillery or airstrikes. We see it differently when people destroy things with their own hands. I think this is part of what made Oct 7th more viscerally horrifying to a lot of people than the massive bombing campaign that followed.

ideal scenario is liberals blame israel and conservatives blame trump

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My hottest, most scorching airport take is:

arrive as early as you want, no one can task you when you’re there. Responsibility doesn’t exist.

Oh, there’s an ask from work? WiFi is down. You’re boarding. You’re disembarking.

Airport is suspended animation. There are no rules, you survive / enjoy.

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New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
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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.

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"

I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

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The title of this essay comes from a quotation by Avraham Zarbiv, the rabbinical judge and IDF reservist bulldozer operator who is the public face of the semi-irregular force of military and contractor earthmover operators who have both pushed for and executed mass demolition operations in Gaza

honestly we should just openly kill them and say we didn't do it

You don't have to hand it to him for a billion reasons (or about 3,000 reasons in Iran) but Trump accurately saying that if he says stop, Israel stops is kind of nice. 2 years of Biden "working tirelessly" shown, once again, for the brazen lie that it was

Reminds me of a period during the Afghan surge when shipments of tobacco to APO addresses came to a screeching halt as collateral damage from some new law.

Commanders would be trying to talk to soldiers about the ROE and stuff, and all they wanted to talk about was how to unfuck the dip logjam.

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Hadn't heard of them, but those sound delicious! 😋

Just had to do a couple weeks in Miami, and this was the best part of the TDY...

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Definitely recommend a visit to Wynwood if you're down there.

He was also keenly aware of the dangers inherent in Initiative 17 and understood that while Congress had slowed its funding for Army special operations aviation, the still agreed upon intent of the Army and Air Force was that the senior service would assume the long-range delivery mission if/when the MH-53s went away. Resolved to delay or forestall that action as much as possible, Reed, with help from Weikel, resorted to subterfuge. They knew that the Army was behind the Air Force in the technological advancement of its SOF helicopters and sensed that the Army could use a little “help.” Consequently, Reed developed a concept for a new iteration of Pave Lows called Pave Low IV. He created a briefing and technical specifications to convince the Army staffers that this new Pave Low would be fully state of the art. The presentation included made-up slides with highly detailed cockpit and airframe illustrations, complete witha full glass cockpit and a new TF/TA radar initially designed for the now cancelled HH-60D. Weikel then conveniently arranged for the Army staff officers to “steal” a copy, which they then used to redesign their proposal for the new and expensive MH-60K and MH-47E helicopters to replace the MH-53s. This caused significant and costly delay in the Army’s program, such that when the funding was forthcoming, the MH-53J Pave Low III Enhanced modification line was ready to go, while the Army was at least two years away from even prototype production. Said Reed later, “It was amazing what you learn at the Hurlburt Special Operations School—you can actually use those things in the Pentagon.” Pave Low IV never existed (in this iteration), but it successfully accomplished its mission, costing the Army substantial development and testing delays and embarrassment with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress.

Amazing, even as an Army guy, I have to admire the bureaucratic sophistication...

i also think that some of the delayed response — both culturally and politically — stems from it being functionally impossible to wrap your head around how wealthy someone like elon musk is and how wealthy he is going to be in the future, both for the average person and for policy makers alike

If anything, this moment should lead us to shed indefinite, sanctimonious terms like “The West” or “Global South”, to stop assuming solidarity or collective action or culture, and speak with precision.

If there ever was “The West”, the current government of the United States is not any part of it.

If I've said it once I've said it 1000 times: there are lots of people on here who have been in gnarly gunfights with an enemy that was maneuvering to close with and destroy them. My personal experience wasn't anything special but I have a CIB and learned enough to know LSCO is gonna fucking suck

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If it was dipshits at the USD/ASD level but there were people with brain cells somewhere in the line it wouldn't be as bad, but the problem is it's dipshits all the way down, a human centipede of buzzwords, "I would've served, but..." and USNR intel officer commissions

He can't help it if he's lucky

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Interesting case here that the nuclear security complex, in particular, is the root of a lot of unitary executive rot.

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Receipts (NPT, fatwa, Khamenei on fatwa, JCPOA). Imagine killing a school full of children just to make Iran promise this one more time.

It is an uncomfortable conversation to have but losing Zionist Jews is a price Democrats may have to pay to stand for what is right.

Luckily, anti-Zionist Jews like myself are increasingly relevant but there’s simply no appeasing people who look at what Israel has done and support it.