Generationalize
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Pro-DEI, because different perspectives and experiences are the way to increasing knowledge, wealth, and wisdom.
Also annoyed that I have to point all this out.
He/Him is part of my First Amendment rights.
Also annoyed that I have to point all this out.
He/Him is part of my First Amendment rights.
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Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Reminder that shortly after ordering these strikes, Hegseth removed the press corps from the Pentagon and the SouthCom Commander overseeing operations in the Caribbean unexpectedly announced he is stepping down 2 yrs before his term is up. What we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order
My understanding is that, at the height of the "drone war on terror" that when the military officer thought the legality of a particular strike was legally dubious, they'd have a CIA guy actually "pull the trigger". I wonder if that is happening in our current "War on Fishing Boats"?
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Honestly, no officer should need advice to decide if "kill these guys flailing around in the water" is a legal order
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A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A reminder that the current SECDEF caught the eye of the president by championing the pardoning of American war criminals — men whose own units testified against them, and who were convicted by military juries
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
He should never have been nominated for, let alone confirmed in, this job
“Holly Vecna.
Mrs Holly Vecna
Yeah, I guess I like the way that sounds.
Mr and Mrs Henry Vecna
Mrs Henry Vecna…..”
(Just how one scene from Stranger Things S5 Ep3 started to feel…..)
Mrs Holly Vecna
Yeah, I guess I like the way that sounds.
Mr and Mrs Henry Vecna
Mrs Henry Vecna…..”
(Just how one scene from Stranger Things S5 Ep3 started to feel…..)
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
“Holly Vecna.
Mrs Holly Vecna
Yeah, I guess I like the way that sounds.
Mr and Mrs Henry Vecna
Mrs Henry Vecna…..”
(Just how one scene from Stranger Things S5 Ep3 started to feel…..)
Mrs Holly Vecna
Yeah, I guess I like the way that sounds.
Mr and Mrs Henry Vecna
Mrs Henry Vecna…..”
(Just how one scene from Stranger Things S5 Ep3 started to feel…..)
It’s only fair that you be able to lose or sell the items that are absolutely necessary to complete the game, as long as you can buy them back later for more gold than you could farm in a decade.
No, I 100% agree that computer RPGs these days have too much handholding. I, too, yearn for the days of being able to spend hours crafting my perfect build from hundreds of available options, only to discover that it mathematically cannot survive the mandatory rat fight portion of the first dungeon.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It’s only fair that you be able to lose or sell the items that are absolutely necessary to complete the game, as long as you can buy them back later for more gold than you could farm in a decade.
Concur. It also fits with the “at all levels” part of it.
Not a psychologist, teacher, or, for that matter university student.
But I think this is happening because the facade of normal daily life during all this is starting to get too heavy to hold up.
But I think this is happening because the facade of normal daily life during all this is starting to get too heavy to hold up.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Concur. It also fits with the “at all levels” part of it.
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Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.
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Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Pete Hegseth is Secretary of Defense *because* he championed war criminals. Literal war criminals convicted of heinous offenses in US courts martial. Got Trump to pardon some in term 1.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
Not in spite of, because.
That's what Trump appointed, and what 50 GOP Senators (plus Vance) voted to confirm.
The first time we see Yelena's "first test" for the red room does such a great job of letting you know that what the real stakes are. Completely change the mood for a minute, enough to update the whole point of view...
Watching it again, on streaming this time, and boy, Thunderbolts* is still a lot of fun.
And there's so much to it, that each viewing there's something to enjoy in a different way.
Like Alexei's intro, watching a Moscow May Day parade, complaining about Brezhnev.
And there's so much to it, that each viewing there's something to enjoy in a different way.
Like Alexei's intro, watching a Moscow May Day parade, complaining about Brezhnev.
Thunderbolts* is a lot of fun, hits the required tone just right, and manages to be a recognizable Marvel movie that’s not quite like the others.
(Had at least a bit of agreement when I called one part of it “MCU Melancholia”)
Good cast, good story, worth it.
(Had at least a bit of agreement when I called one part of it “MCU Melancholia”)
Good cast, good story, worth it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The first time we see Yelena's "first test" for the red room does such a great job of letting you know that what the real stakes are. Completely change the mood for a minute, enough to update the whole point of view...
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So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
There was an administrative issue I had to resolve during basic training that meant I missed a good amount of the section on war crimes and laws of war, but ”killing people in the water after neutralizing any threat they posed” was still drawn as a really clear line.
I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
There was an administrative issue I had to resolve during basic training that meant I missed a good amount of the section on war crimes and laws of war, but ”killing people in the water after neutralizing any threat they posed” was still drawn as a really clear line.
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So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So the order for the US military to launch these deadly Caribbean boat strikes was straightforwardly illegal under US and international law, immoral under long established standards, and on top of that, terrible strategy.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
Not maybe. Not got to check with a lawyer. Unambiguous. Blatant. Deliberate.
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the irony is that it's ppl like stephen miller who are incapable of integrating in to american society. that's why they're fascists. they need to force the entire world to conform to them bcos they can't fit in.
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
the irony is that it's ppl like stephen miller who are incapable of integrating in to american society. that's why they're fascists. they need to force the entire world to conform to them bcos they can't fit in.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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All of you know Trump is the US president who surrendered in Afghanistan, right? Made a deal in 2020 cutting out the Afghan govt, let thousands of Taliban fighters out of jail in exchange for nothing.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
All of you know Trump is the US president who surrendered in Afghanistan, right? Made a deal in 2020 cutting out the Afghan govt, let thousands of Taliban fighters out of jail in exchange for nothing.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
I know the "everything in 2020 was Biden's fault, not Trump's" rule, I just don't agree with it.
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
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If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to see how quickly everyone goes into manufacturing consent mode, compare the full-court press tonight to the response to any of the people ICE has shot in the last few months, some of whom died.
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
Worth making the point that in contemporary American society one could reasonably not have any idea -which- shooter she is speaking of, without additional context.
We have so many shooters, and so many possible reasons for shooting, and so many guns, that it COULD be any of several shootings.
We have so many shooters, and so many possible reasons for shooting, and so many guns, that it COULD be any of several shootings.
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Worth making the point that in contemporary American society one could reasonably not have any idea -which- shooter she is speaking of, without additional context.
We have so many shooters, and so many possible reasons for shooting, and so many guns, that it COULD be any of several shootings.
We have so many shooters, and so many possible reasons for shooting, and so many guns, that it COULD be any of several shootings.
The Album of the Soundrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
(Executive Version)
(Executive Version)
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Album of the Soundrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
(Executive Version)
(Executive Version)
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Sue to invalidate the action because it was done because of terrorist threats of violence. Cite the guarantee clause.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.” Is that any way to set redistricting policy? [Russell Berman, The Atlantic]
The Fear Taking Hold Among Indiana Republicans
“I’d rather my house not get firebombed.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sue to invalidate the action because it was done because of terrorist threats of violence. Cite the guarantee clause.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
It can't be constitutional for the president to coerce state legislative action by threatening to murder state legislators.
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Here is the post I was responding to, which the New York Times quickly deleted:
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here is the post I was responding to, which the New York Times quickly deleted: