In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
I know this sounds cool and dramatic but I do want to emphasize they’re going to be targeting day laborers and the like and utilizing the tactics people have already developed in places like LA, Chicago, and Minneapolis will probably be more effective.
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
Day 3 of telling people to go follow @patrickhwillems.bsky.social because he deserves a million subscribers. I've never met him. This campaign is simply because I'm a fan of his work and wish him the best. What's your favorite essay from him? TELL ME!
You. Have. To. Give. Voters. Something. To. Vote. For.
Yelling. At. Them. That. This. Is. All. Their. Fault. And. That. They. Owe. You. Their. Vote. Will. Not. Motivate. People. Who. Sat. Out.
You. Need. To. Incentivize. Them.
‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there
“Reverse emails,” Jared Kushner corruption edition
He also holds no Senate-confirmed Cabinet or senior government position & employing family as White House advisers violates every norm ever, but this, too, has been erased from the headlines. After years of HUNTER BIDEN, it’s shameful.
Trump loves to bully and dominate, he doesn't like a fight. He doesn't like his nose bloodied.
Palantir raises more red flags when you learn the CEO, Alex Karp is obsessed with speaking in German and describes himself as a socialist but doesn't believe in any leftist economic policies.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
I’m a take this opportunity to shout out www.blackmen.build because they’re doing it and they have chapters across the country.
they’re going to hate what we will have to do to course correct this situation :(
They aren't
But I cannot stress enough that 97% of the problem is them feeling like they don't have what they feel entitled to
And then you realize that its actually the ruling class being pissy they haven't died in wars or coal mines yet
But everyone blames feminism and DEI
remembering the very first Call of Duty (2003), just, what happened??
Iranian officials are saying that commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz will be required to pay a "Tehran toll," and US warships will not be allowed to transit. Meanwhile Trump continues his blockade of Iranian ports. Yet oil prices are falling on the assumption the the Strait is "open."
In 15 years china might be much less depending on oil to the point that they could just sit and watch a war over oil while profiting selling green tech.
The US has consistently made everything so much worse for them that it's incredibly hard to imagine a worst set of actions by any country, ever.
Quote from this article: "The one thing we had over our adversaries [was] we fed our people."
Just a reminder that enlisting is the only available path out of poverty for people the current regime finds undesirable and now the regime is starving them.
Exactly one year ago today:
A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.
This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.
Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.
Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Alexa is there any history for what happens when a government stops feeding their military
like...we feel the gap of the increasing wealth disparity, increasing loss of political power, and yeah as Patrick says, you add the amount of debt you need to access a more "secure" livelihood is absolutely higher.
Like, point at graphs about how wages increased relative to inflation all you want, but we still have a system where medical bankruptcy is rampant, you need to take out crushing student loans to get a job that you shouldn't even need a degree for, & where home ownership is often a fantasy
2. Those comparative (though I'd argue NOT GREAT) improvements in things like real wages didn't make the economy less precarious or give the VAST MAJORITY of workers more agency over their lives. We still feel like we could lose everything b/c of an oligarch's whim, & we aren't wrong about that
The reason why people are pissed about their relationship to the economy, even though economic indicators show improvement, is that
1. The improvement is relative to the economy of the dogshit lost decade after 2008 (not to mention the stagnation of wages since Reagan)
And...
1/2
Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope
Popular Front or Bust
As @aselrod.bsky.social argues, that goes in all directions. Nominee more left or more centrist than you? Get on board anyway.
Democracy, rights and rule of law have to be the priority. Policy matters a lot, but is secondary to a system that makes policy improvement possible.
people in the replies bringing up Hillary as an example of a recent dem who "understood hard power" and hooooo boy is that both missing the point and simultaneously unintentionally proving it