I don't think enough people know how important Sicario has become in the Dumb Violent Guy canon, this is their version of women who wanted to do Eat Pray Love

Gonna go find a submissive, pliant wife in Thailand, the country where they have an idiom for when you cut off your husband's penis

this is how you end up paying the vet bills for a water buffalo that’s been blown up by a land mine (as actually happened to a guy I met once).

and allow me to reiterate, I have no sympathy for these dumb men who falsely assume Foreign Women are meek and easy to push around.

would be cool if like anyone with power wanted to stop the people that want to end a normal society. no one fucking wants this except literal nazi pedophiles

In a remotely functional society, this is the kind of document whose publication would see a corporation's operation license revoked as no longer serving the public good.

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

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.

🔥🇺🇦The 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson" demonstrated how the crew of a Yak-52 light aircraft destroys Russian Shahed/Geran drones.

"It's The Jews' fault I don't have a sister to do incest with" is a fascinating insight into what it'd be like if the Spanish Habsburgs survived long enough to Post

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

it's really quite boring that tankies have like all of three notes and three dictators they simp for. why can't historical revisionists get weird with it. where are the george III apologists

Of all of the very discrediting things about MAGA, to me the most discrediting is that a core belief of MAGA is that DEI leads to government filled with unqualified 'DEI-hires' and then these guys come in and hire the most astoundingly vapid people you have ever seen.

('He' below = InfantryDort)

Exactly one year ago today:

"We need to spend more on defense" folks have to reckon with the fact that we have blown colossal amounts of cash on DoD and CENTCOM's emotional support activities and the American voter does not see anything positive received in return for this spending.

one comical aspect that unites today's britain and today's america is that these are both countries that voluntarily inflicted immense economic harm on themselves for basically idiotic, barely cogent reasons and got absolutely nothing out of it

take my wife (Ukraine)'s name out of your fucking mouth

I listened to some of this and it made me dumber.

He’s openly authoritarian and illiberal, and stupid to boot.

Art by flaroh illustration; on the left, a couple are walking past the thermopolium wearing their finery. On the right, two children play in the road with their dog while their nursemaid orders them onto the pavement. Behind them, a matrona enters the street from some steps, shielding her eyes from the sun while her attendant holds a parasol. Across the road from the two, a togate man and his two attendants walk towards the thermopolium and are acknowledged by one of the old-timers at the door. Moving further to the background, a donkey cart loaded with amphora approaches the stepping stones. To its left two people chat at the fountain, and a child plays with his doll next to the man. Above, people look out from windows and balconies, gossiping or doing household chores.

My illustration of Life in a Roman Street 🏛️🍷🌿🚶🏻‍♀️

The fantasy here is, like, Rick Deckard, Aragorn, Han Solo or Indiana Jones and notice how all of them have signature weapons strongly associated with them which they *keep*?

Players of this specific kind of game are gonna want *their* iconic weapon, as part of expressive play!

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.

​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

Fucking hell, who do they think the “fanatical reactionary warlords” were but old corrupt Stalinists

These commie shits all bought an antisemitic hoax cooked up by the descendants of Birchers to balm the loss of their emotional support empire and pretend it was anything else

If you're wondering how the blockade is landing, this has been making its way around the naval nerds today

Getting to the point of some kind of bizarre Capitalist Maoism where belief can overcome all material conditions.

I FOUND IT: THE BEST FREE RESTAURANT BREAD IN AMERICA Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf. By Caity Weaver

Oh HELL yes

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

Okay, let's be real here. This article is Axel Springer trying to manifest a new obstacle to Ukrainian accession now that his best friend in Budapest won't be able to help. I don't think it should be trusted unless it can actually cite heads of government.

In my (completely non-expert) opinion, would be a good thing if so. Using gender as a proxy for how well someone can do military training is a relict from a bygone era.

There's been talk of doing away with the current gender differences in compulsory military training. (currently ≈ men have to, women can) This could become a first step towards that.