JBA Sam Fisher
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THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
The Melian Dialogue has a similar role to the Clausewitz quote about “politics by other means” - it exists to give a bit of frisson and even sexual pleasure to morons who have never read those quotes in context but who are still desperate to sound smart.
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 AM
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
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"I'm a Catholic and I don't pray to saints."
Lady, YOU ARE DOING CATHOLICISM WRONG.
Lady, YOU ARE DOING CATHOLICISM WRONG.
January 7, 2026 at 3:55 AM
"I'm a Catholic and I don't pray to saints."
Lady, YOU ARE DOING CATHOLICISM WRONG.
Lady, YOU ARE DOING CATHOLICISM WRONG.
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[I trip over my chair running to the keyboard, crash into desk]
KERNEN: Europeans are talking about it almost being like Vladimir Putin and Ukraine.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
January 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
[I trip over my chair running to the keyboard, crash into desk]
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if they did January 6 today, it'd be called "January 6-7." Thank you for reading. RIP Ashley Babbert
January 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
if they did January 6 today, it'd be called "January 6-7." Thank you for reading. RIP Ashley Babbert
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The Virgin Decades Long Strategic Conflict versus the Chad Drawing Greenland Real Big.
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
The Virgin Decades Long Strategic Conflict versus the Chad Drawing Greenland Real Big.
I share a first name with the president and he stole my gamertag :((((
Fair warning: Anyone who uses Donroe Doctrine in anything other than a shitpost is getting blocked
January 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I share a first name with the president and he stole my gamertag :((((
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Army strategists exist to fill this void but funnily enough, they have to be listened to in order to be efficacious. Most 3 and 4 star headquarters wall them off from actual decision-making and have them manage processes, while the Army chief of staff wants to get rid of them entirely
this is basically ricks' argument in THE GENERALS: that the structure of the american military (and political leadership) has generated an enormously competent professional force... that consistently generates useless results because of a void of strategic thinking at the top
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Army strategists exist to fill this void but funnily enough, they have to be listened to in order to be efficacious. Most 3 and 4 star headquarters wall them off from actual decision-making and have them manage processes, while the Army chief of staff wants to get rid of them entirely
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a small thing, but apparently my choices for the first day of constitutional law next week include shrugging, silence, or dryly explaining that the class is now purely theoretical
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
a small thing, but apparently my choices for the first day of constitutional law next week include shrugging, silence, or dryly explaining that the class is now purely theoretical
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Shouldn't have given a cricut to a shitposter
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Shouldn't have given a cricut to a shitposter
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with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold.
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
December 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
with every new Avatar movie there's a chorus of critics saying surely the series has lost its juice NOW and then days later the new Avatar has crossed the $1 billion threshold.
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
it doesn't matter if his movies are good or bad, never bet against Big Jim at the box office
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It’s like that story in the Simpsons about how grandpa destroyed six tanks in the war and that’s how he got his Iron Cross.
December 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It’s like that story in the Simpsons about how grandpa destroyed six tanks in the war and that’s how he got his Iron Cross.
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You have to admit, it is darkly funny that she was right about the elite pedophile conspiracy all along but accidentally joined it.
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You have to admit, it is darkly funny that she was right about the elite pedophile conspiracy all along but accidentally joined it.
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I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
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New Syrian currency designs go incredibly hard
December 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New Syrian currency designs go incredibly hard
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Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
December 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”
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this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
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Jesus: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: Depart from me, ye that work iniquity
MAGA: At long last, we have created the iniquity from the classic Jesus verse "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
MAGA: At long last, we have created the iniquity from the classic Jesus verse "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
December 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Jesus: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: Depart from me, ye that work iniquity
MAGA: At long last, we have created the iniquity from the classic Jesus verse "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
MAGA: At long last, we have created the iniquity from the classic Jesus verse "Depart from me, ye that work iniquity"
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He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
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Celiac disease rather famously existed in the 1920's, when an all-banana diet was prescribed as a treatment. (The treatment worked because if you're eating nothing but bananas you're not eating gluten.)
December 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Celiac disease rather famously existed in the 1920's, when an all-banana diet was prescribed as a treatment. (The treatment worked because if you're eating nothing but bananas you're not eating gluten.)
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It's one of the many reasons I describe myself as a 'historian of war' rather than a military historian. Because you cannot understand war, particularly not the 20th century ones, without also recognising that they exist beyond just the front lines and all aspects of it have to be studied.
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It's one of the many reasons I describe myself as a 'historian of war' rather than a military historian. Because you cannot understand war, particularly not the 20th century ones, without also recognising that they exist beyond just the front lines and all aspects of it have to be studied.
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Military history devoid of social, cultural, diplomatic, literary etc forms of history is essentially meaningless. Knowing what soldiers and armies did in battle without understanding why they did them, the cultures that produced them, or the industries that supported them is pointless.
December 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Military history devoid of social, cultural, diplomatic, literary etc forms of history is essentially meaningless. Knowing what soldiers and armies did in battle without understanding why they did them, the cultures that produced them, or the industries that supported them is pointless.
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Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.
So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.