Calliope
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Not the Greek muse, just a casual fan. I study the Third Reich. The demands to READ THEORY will continue until you have actually read Christopher Browning and Ian Kershaw.
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This is the entire premise of the Russian "New Chronology" conspiracy - except it's the entirety of history, being recycled over and over again. The only history that ever happened, according to Fomenko and his readers (his books have sold over 1 million copies), is that of the medieval Kievan Rus'.
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is the entire premise of the Russian "New Chronology" conspiracy - except it's the entirety of history, being recycled over and over again. The only history that ever happened, according to Fomenko and his readers (his books have sold over 1 million copies), is that of the medieval Kievan Rus'.
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Except that we absolutely do not extend this idea to opposing forces. We hanged or shot every German or Japanese officer we caught implementing no-quarter orders and it did not matter a damn that their civilian leadership had a 'right to be wrong.'
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Except that we absolutely do not extend this idea to opposing forces. We hanged or shot every German or Japanese officer we caught implementing no-quarter orders and it did not matter a damn that their civilian leadership had a 'right to be wrong.'
What you have here is an industry that runs (at least in large part) on scams and money laundering being linked to a bunch of scammers and money launderers. They may be paying one another, they may not be - but regardless they're all still fraudsters.
a surprisingly cogent case that the trump administration is significantly tied to the sinaloa cartel and especially their cryptocurrency fueled money laundering operation
I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
What you have here is an industry that runs (at least in large part) on scams and money laundering being linked to a bunch of scammers and money launderers. They may be paying one another, they may not be - but regardless they're all still fraudsters.
The issue here is that it's not exactly a conspiracy theory. The crypto/wealthy world is just so incestuously intertwined with wealth and Silicon Valley (which are similarly intertwined with Trump) that barring actual incriminating messages it's hard to say. It's fraud all the way down, basically.
He TALKED about being anti-cartel, but he was actually using the Honduran government to prop up the Sinaloa Cartel. The same cartel that laundered money through Próspera, a kind of safe haven for cryptocurrency in Honduras, which Peter Thiel has billions invested in.
November 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The issue here is that it's not exactly a conspiracy theory. The crypto/wealthy world is just so incestuously intertwined with wealth and Silicon Valley (which are similarly intertwined with Trump) that barring actual incriminating messages it's hard to say. It's fraud all the way down, basically.
"Kill them all, God will know his own" is possibly the second most famous Crusader statement beyond "God Wills It!" even if the Crusade in question happened in France.
Idk man, the guy with crusader tattoos who spent his whole career defending war criminals who executed prisoners of war sounds exactly like the kind of guy who would order "Kill everybody. Kill the survivors."
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Kill them all, God will know his own" is possibly the second most famous Crusader statement beyond "God Wills It!" even if the Crusade in question happened in France.
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I remember Joe Manchin being absolutely effusive that the Inflation Reduction Act would bring millions of dollars to create jobs for renewable energy in West Virginia.... now Trump is killing these opportunities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I remember Joe Manchin being absolutely effusive that the Inflation Reduction Act would bring millions of dollars to create jobs for renewable energy in West Virginia.... now Trump is killing these opportunities.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's a very similar case with Greenland, as best as the archaeological record can tell. There *were* people there before the Scandinavians, in all likelihood, but there's no record of them being there when the Vikings arrived, and modern Inuit tribes only appeared centuries after the Norse.
the thing that melts people's brains, i think, is that the Falklands are one of a small handful of cases of true terra nullius; there was nobody there at any point prior to the british. that's exceedingly rare, and is why people fail to understand that handing them to AG isn't "anticolonial"
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It's a very similar case with Greenland, as best as the archaeological record can tell. There *were* people there before the Scandinavians, in all likelihood, but there's no record of them being there when the Vikings arrived, and modern Inuit tribes only appeared centuries after the Norse.
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Yeah I think it's probably correct that people in the chain of command should mostly not be trying to do American war powers law when deciding to follow orders or not
But they should know a war crime when they see one
But they should know a war crime when they see one
Refusing to follow a “kill the survivors of the previous strike who are clearly hors de combat” order SHOULD BE significantly more clear-cut than refusing one due to “this entire operation is unlawful because citing inherent Article II authority is insufficient.”
There must be accountability.
There must be accountability.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Yeah I think it's probably correct that people in the chain of command should mostly not be trying to do American war powers law when deciding to follow orders or not
But they should know a war crime when they see one
But they should know a war crime when they see one
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shout out to whoever is throwing a pizza party in crystal city
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
shout out to whoever is throwing a pizza party in crystal city
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"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia.
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part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
November 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
part of the reason i am genuinely irritated with the gAI/AGI cult is because there is real societal benefits in using ML techniques in medical care + weather analysis, and instead people get annoyed with anything that gets lumped in with the plagiarism machine
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murdering millions at the altar of moloch not even for any reason, racist or not, just total apathy
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
murdering millions at the altar of moloch not even for any reason, racist or not, just total apathy
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He's literally the only instance where there's any credible argument that Obama actually "ordered" it (vs it being collateral of one form or another), and there was more than a fair bit of thought put into the legal justification for him being a valid target
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
He's literally the only instance where there's any credible argument that Obama actually "ordered" it (vs it being collateral of one form or another), and there was more than a fair bit of thought put into the legal justification for him being a valid target
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“There’s a huge opportunity here if Trump acts in a way he has never acted and shows mental faculties he has never demonstrated having” is a very popular genre of think piece
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“There’s a huge opportunity here if Trump acts in a way he has never acted and shows mental faculties he has never demonstrated having” is a very popular genre of think piece
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Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Mass pardons are coming. There will be no accountability without treating those as null and void. And that means a future administration taking an official position that Trump is not the legitimate president right now because he is disqualified by the 14th Amendment. The two things are inextricable.
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America needs a special forces command but it sure looks like we need to fill it with completely different personnel.
This is utterly beyond the pale, and evidence of how thoroughly JSOC has rotted itself.
This is utterly beyond the pale, and evidence of how thoroughly JSOC has rotted itself.
WaPo with reporting that Pete gave an explicit order to JSOC during the first strike post impact to immediately follow up in order to, and I quote, "kill them all"
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
America needs a special forces command but it sure looks like we need to fill it with completely different personnel.
This is utterly beyond the pale, and evidence of how thoroughly JSOC has rotted itself.
This is utterly beyond the pale, and evidence of how thoroughly JSOC has rotted itself.
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The question is in two parts I think:
- how should USSOF be organized and what should the relationship between SOCOM (which I think has to exist in some fashion), the other CCMDs, and the services be
- does JSOC need to exist at all in the future construct
- how should USSOF be organized and what should the relationship between SOCOM (which I think has to exist in some fashion), the other CCMDs, and the services be
- does JSOC need to exist at all in the future construct
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The question is in two parts I think:
- how should USSOF be organized and what should the relationship between SOCOM (which I think has to exist in some fashion), the other CCMDs, and the services be
- does JSOC need to exist at all in the future construct
- how should USSOF be organized and what should the relationship between SOCOM (which I think has to exist in some fashion), the other CCMDs, and the services be
- does JSOC need to exist at all in the future construct
Yeah SOCOM really truly has to go and the people in it need to be cashiered. Unclear exactly how that will look, but it has to happen.
I don't know exactly where you go beyond that in rooting out the special operations cult of lawlessness, but an immediate start would be abolishing SOCOM as its own combatant command and requiring, by law, such operations be conducted only through the regular geographic commands.
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Yeah SOCOM really truly has to go and the people in it need to be cashiered. Unclear exactly how that will look, but it has to happen.
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This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.
Why do you need Seal Team 6 to blow up a fucking boat?
This would be an unambiguous war crime even in a proper war against a real enemy’s navy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.
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A three star is probably also savvy enough to know the likelihood any plausible near term Dem admin will actually prosecute is zero
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A three star is probably also savvy enough to know the likelihood any plausible near term Dem admin will actually prosecute is zero
Special Operations probably needs to be dismembered after this, and the people who gave *and followed* these orders dealt with in a fashion befitting their crimes. This is entirely unacceptable and it's absolutely ghastly that people followed these commands rather than resign.
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Special Operations probably needs to be dismembered after this, and the people who gave *and followed* these orders dealt with in a fashion befitting their crimes. This is entirely unacceptable and it's absolutely ghastly that people followed these commands rather than resign.
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
It's entirely possible the pardon is such a shattered husk it's no longer worth honoring or trying to work around, particularly if Trump pardons himself. But yes, there are absolutely ways to skirt it once Democrats get back into power.
If Trump proactively pardons Hegseth, the solution is to signal either to the ICC or the country of origin of the murdered men that we will honor extradition requests on this point.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
And then, in something of an irony, Noem him out of the country before anyone can react.
Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's entirely possible the pardon is such a shattered husk it's no longer worth honoring or trying to work around, particularly if Trump pardons himself. But yes, there are absolutely ways to skirt it once Democrats get back into power.