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people in power largely make decisions based on what they've *heard* not on what they've read.
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
people in power largely make decisions based on what they've *heard* not on what they've read.
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the report matters less than the oral summary of the report given by a staffer that makes its way into conversation at events.
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the report matters less than the oral summary of the report given by a staffer that makes its way into conversation at events.
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as I've mentioned before, Washington DC policymaking is an oral culture that believes itself to be a literate one.
It’s like large portions of America are retreating to a primarily oral culture, where complex language, analysis, logic, and abstraction are being abandoned for repetitive, simplistic, personalized, agonistic, homeostatic, and situational thinking.
September 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
as I've mentioned before, Washington DC policymaking is an oral culture that believes itself to be a literate one.
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POV: it is February 1945 and the Gauleiter just handed you this. The war is over. Go home.
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
POV: it is February 1945 and the Gauleiter just handed you this. The war is over. Go home.
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motherfucker you are hollowing the industrial base out with anduril vaporware nonsense
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
motherfucker you are hollowing the industrial base out with anduril vaporware nonsense
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the virgin nazi engineering: ze FG42 model C is a superior rifle to FG42 model B, we vil make 500 before war ends
the chad allied engineering: look, you don't actually need a charging handle, cutting a slot in the bolt saves us $.10 and 20 minutes per unit, we're gonna make a million of these
the chad allied engineering: look, you don't actually need a charging handle, cutting a slot in the bolt saves us $.10 and 20 minutes per unit, we're gonna make a million of these
October 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
the virgin nazi engineering: ze FG42 model C is a superior rifle to FG42 model B, we vil make 500 before war ends
the chad allied engineering: look, you don't actually need a charging handle, cutting a slot in the bolt saves us $.10 and 20 minutes per unit, we're gonna make a million of these
the chad allied engineering: look, you don't actually need a charging handle, cutting a slot in the bolt saves us $.10 and 20 minutes per unit, we're gonna make a million of these
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Dems *really* need to embrace anti-corruption
Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...
FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use
The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Dems *really* need to embrace anti-corruption
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Tie me to a missile and fire it at Dubai. I am ready.
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tie me to a missile and fire it at Dubai. I am ready.
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i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History
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honestly, the most on-brand thing ever that I have written 25,000 words on fictional boats
Islands of Steel Lost in a Sea of Time
The Ships of the Composite Testing Force / TF 11 (BOAT LORE)
www.victoryvignettes.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
honestly, the most on-brand thing ever that I have written 25,000 words on fictional boats
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One reason Imperial Japan knew Hiroshima was an atomic blast was because of their own program....
December 5, 2024 at 2:53 AM
One reason Imperial Japan knew Hiroshima was an atomic blast was because of their own program....
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Kinda fucked that in DVTL I had the Saudis run "export gulags" (importing dissidents from foreign autocracies to be used as slave labor) and uh the administration has basically decided do that with Bukele
March 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Kinda fucked that in DVTL I had the Saudis run "export gulags" (importing dissidents from foreign autocracies to be used as slave labor) and uh the administration has basically decided do that with Bukele
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This is why my life goal is to write the most unpopular Halo novel of in which "the cult of the operator" is smeared into a bloody pulp in the first 5 pages and the rest of the book is simply ordinary people doing extraordinary things with a combination of luck, skill, speed, and violence
Reading Mick Ryan's "White Sun War" tonight. Early in the book there's a space-cyber op that seemed implausible to me, I thought "Lol, what next, {EVEN BIGGER LESS PLAUSIBLE OP}?"
200 pages later...
Precisely {EVEN BIGGER LESS PLAUSIBLE SPACE-CYBER OP} is indeed the war winning plan, sigh
200 pages later...
Precisely {EVEN BIGGER LESS PLAUSIBLE SPACE-CYBER OP} is indeed the war winning plan, sigh
January 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This is why my life goal is to write the most unpopular Halo novel of in which "the cult of the operator" is smeared into a bloody pulp in the first 5 pages and the rest of the book is simply ordinary people doing extraordinary things with a combination of luck, skill, speed, and violence
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An extensive air campaign in Yemen, air strikes in Iraq and Somalia, and U.S. troops still deployed to Syria despite an end to the civil war. Why has an administration that is made up of so many figures critical of “forever war” continuing “forever war” unabated? I have a theory.
The Triumph of the Operator
GWOT, Signalgate, and the Cult of the Operator making National Security Policy
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
An extensive air campaign in Yemen, air strikes in Iraq and Somalia, and U.S. troops still deployed to Syria despite an end to the civil war. Why has an administration that is made up of so many figures critical of “forever war” continuing “forever war” unabated? I have a theory.
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This qualifies as a DoD PowerPoint slide now
December 7, 2024 at 11:43 PM
This qualifies as a DoD PowerPoint slide now
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If you go to Taipei, you can visit museums dedicated to this period.
If you go to Lyudao, you can go to a prison where political prisoners are incarcerated.
These horrible things did happen, and Taiwan is brave enough to confront this fact and make amends for it.
If you go to Lyudao, you can go to a prison where political prisoners are incarcerated.
These horrible things did happen, and Taiwan is brave enough to confront this fact and make amends for it.
December 7, 2024 at 11:52 PM
If you go to Taipei, you can visit museums dedicated to this period.
If you go to Lyudao, you can go to a prison where political prisoners are incarcerated.
These horrible things did happen, and Taiwan is brave enough to confront this fact and make amends for it.
If you go to Lyudao, you can go to a prison where political prisoners are incarcerated.
These horrible things did happen, and Taiwan is brave enough to confront this fact and make amends for it.
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reminder of how mindbogglingly evil Assad was
December 8, 2024 at 12:17 AM
reminder of how mindbogglingly evil Assad was
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He and Ashraf Ghani are gonna start a podcasts and a coffee brand
December 6, 2024 at 9:03 PM
He and Ashraf Ghani are gonna start a podcasts and a coffee brand
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I hate people who say shit like "another Libya," like what does that mean? We avoided a Syria in Libya. Our failure in Libya was not that we overthrew a dictator but that we failed to continue what we started. And we should be outraged for not failing to continue, not for removing Gaddafi.
Yeah. I’ll feel real full of regret if Assad goes the way of Gaddafi. Truly hope that doesn’t happen. The horror.
December 7, 2024 at 2:01 AM
I hate people who say shit like "another Libya," like what does that mean? We avoided a Syria in Libya. Our failure in Libya was not that we overthrew a dictator but that we failed to continue what we started. And we should be outraged for not failing to continue, not for removing Gaddafi.
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Calmly explaining to the person I’m dropping a JDAM on that what I’m doing is an elaborate and delicate form of violent interstate signaling and he shouldn’t take it so personally.
December 7, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Calmly explaining to the person I’m dropping a JDAM on that what I’m doing is an elaborate and delicate form of violent interstate signaling and he shouldn’t take it so personally.
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Syrian rebels are consolidating their gains in the South. They are taking the towns in Daraa without a fight and in the process capture armored vehicles fully intact. This is in Saida.
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Syrian rebels are consolidating their gains in the South. They are taking the towns in Daraa without a fight and in the process capture armored vehicles fully intact. This is in Saida.
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Rebels upon receiving an intact fully fueled mechanized platoon every 10 kilometres
December 7, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Rebels upon receiving an intact fully fueled mechanized platoon every 10 kilometres