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Protegor ergo Obligor. Space Warlordism Enjoyer. Fan of Half-life, Mass Effect, and Warhammer.
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See also: people who attempted to die on the self-driving car hill because Elon Musk constantly lies about Tesla's capabilities to get richer (hmmm, sensing a pattern here), only to get completely blindsided by Waymo's capabilities and forced to argue against it purely due to negative polarization
if your position is that the tech is worthless, will go away on its own, is inherently bad, etc etc, you are going to die on that hill. there are absolutely bad actors in the space and you are passing over the bad actors to stake a losing position about the code
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
See also: people who attempted to die on the self-driving car hill because Elon Musk constantly lies about Tesla's capabilities to get richer (hmmm, sensing a pattern here), only to get completely blindsided by Waymo's capabilities and forced to argue against it purely due to negative polarization
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Red Army Truthers always crack me up, like everyone helped each other out in meaningful ways, making it into an idealogical pissing contest makes me think:
January 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Red Army Truthers always crack me up, like everyone helped each other out in meaningful ways, making it into an idealogical pissing contest makes me think:
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This isn't just a Russian issue-every conspiracy theorist I've ever encountered has the exact same mindset.
which really helps explain all the low-trust russians i've met who take pride in being cynical and "savvy" "independent thinkers" who believe in nothing, all while getting suckered by every goddamn scam they come across
January 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
This isn't just a Russian issue-every conspiracy theorist I've ever encountered has the exact same mindset.
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Don't forget Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School
January 7, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Don't forget Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School
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>battled with the Tory establishment
>depopulated rural areas
>did not want East Germany to be dissolved
>engaged in anti-imperialist praxis against fascist junta
Margaret Thatcher was the UK's first socialist leader. Sorry folks, it's just the truth.
>depopulated rural areas
>did not want East Germany to be dissolved
>engaged in anti-imperialist praxis against fascist junta
Margaret Thatcher was the UK's first socialist leader. Sorry folks, it's just the truth.
every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.
December 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
>battled with the Tory establishment
>depopulated rural areas
>did not want East Germany to be dissolved
>engaged in anti-imperialist praxis against fascist junta
Margaret Thatcher was the UK's first socialist leader. Sorry folks, it's just the truth.
>depopulated rural areas
>did not want East Germany to be dissolved
>engaged in anti-imperialist praxis against fascist junta
Margaret Thatcher was the UK's first socialist leader. Sorry folks, it's just the truth.
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you'd think that vampires would be rich from compound interest and things like that but you'd need a pretty complex setup to avoid detection, and what if you predate capitalism and can barely read. just continually building up a small pile of savings and then getting wiped out and/or scammed
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
you'd think that vampires would be rich from compound interest and things like that but you'd need a pretty complex setup to avoid detection, and what if you predate capitalism and can barely read. just continually building up a small pile of savings and then getting wiped out and/or scammed
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You can, perhaps, make an argument that post Cold War policy around NATO expansion led the Russians to misjudge Western intent which spurred their aggression. What you can’t do is use that to argue against NATO today. The horse has bolted, the cat has left the bag, the die is cast, etc.
Like, whether you think Nato expansion was good and smart or not, it is surely not up for debate that it was a central part of a policy that has now put Europe on the brink of all-out war with Russia, quite possibly without American support, and I see nobody at all asking whether that was clever.
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
You can, perhaps, make an argument that post Cold War policy around NATO expansion led the Russians to misjudge Western intent which spurred their aggression. What you can’t do is use that to argue against NATO today. The horse has bolted, the cat has left the bag, the die is cast, etc.
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Returning to this, the author direly misunderstands their oath to the Constitution. If the civic order collapses, it is the responsibility of the armed forces to restore it. Your loyalty is to the order, not a profession.
October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Returning to this, the author direly misunderstands their oath to the Constitution. If the civic order collapses, it is the responsibility of the armed forces to restore it. Your loyalty is to the order, not a profession.
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This is, of course, war in the Clausewitzian sense, but not necessarily war in the diplomatic sense, which is relevant. It’s up to states to decide what to consider an act of war, and this includes the ability to ignore violence.
NYT: FRAGILE PEACE AGREEMENT HOLDS ON AS ISRAEL BOMBS GAZA
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is, of course, war in the Clausewitzian sense, but not necessarily war in the diplomatic sense, which is relevant. It’s up to states to decide what to consider an act of war, and this includes the ability to ignore violence.
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Gamers love claiming that their objection to paying more is not a childish consumerist tantrum, but actually Noble Concern For Abused Workers Exploited By Greedy Executives. In fact, gaming companies have very high median pay and below-average CEO pay ratios compared to other large companies.
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gamers love claiming that their objection to paying more is not a childish consumerist tantrum, but actually Noble Concern For Abused Workers Exploited By Greedy Executives. In fact, gaming companies have very high median pay and below-average CEO pay ratios compared to other large companies.
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I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory
Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do
Ordinarily, members of Congress do not publicly suggest that recently deceased Supreme Court justices are burning in hell. But Roger Taney was no ordinary Supreme Court justice.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I found it pretty charming to learn that after Roger Taney died, sitting lawmakers called his death a "victory for liberty and the Constitution," suggested that he was probably burning in hell, and joked (?) that they'd rather hang him in effigy than do literally anything to honor his memory
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I think a lot of dysfunction on here comes from the idea that suffering makes you right and the more you suffer, the righter you are. Thus, whenever a person who is in some way disadvantaged disagrees with you, it becomes imperative to argue they aren't the right kind of trans, black, etc.
I've seen in some left-leaning circles a weird obsession of labelling white trans people as racists or saying there's a huge epidemic of KKK racism among the trans community and can't help but think is basically this but with transphobia
October 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I think a lot of dysfunction on here comes from the idea that suffering makes you right and the more you suffer, the righter you are. Thus, whenever a person who is in some way disadvantaged disagrees with you, it becomes imperative to argue they aren't the right kind of trans, black, etc.
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my tabletop setting has a military which is extremely ineffective despite having a bunch of nine foot tall guys in invulnerable power armor because all of their indirect fires used to be in space and they can't get there anymore
Almost all sci-fi ground warfare suffers from “where the fuck are your fires”-syndrome
October 6, 2025 at 5:40 AM
my tabletop setting has a military which is extremely ineffective despite having a bunch of nine foot tall guys in invulnerable power armor because all of their indirect fires used to be in space and they can't get there anymore
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A critical mass of alienated lonely and angry young men very quickly stops being a problem for them alone.
September 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A critical mass of alienated lonely and angry young men very quickly stops being a problem for them alone.
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Swedish 2010s macroeconomic history explained in meme format:
September 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Swedish 2010s macroeconomic history explained in meme format:
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Imagining being the military governor of Alabama and the first day on the job you catch Osama bin Laden and his friends. You're about to execute them but then Godzilla attacks and they get away. Also, you almost executed bin Laden's innocent pizza guy by accident and the pizza guy is actually Jesus.
Every day I empathize more strongly with the utter exhaustion in Tullius’s voice whenever he’s talking about… well, anything.
September 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Imagining being the military governor of Alabama and the first day on the job you catch Osama bin Laden and his friends. You're about to execute them but then Godzilla attacks and they get away. Also, you almost executed bin Laden's innocent pizza guy by accident and the pizza guy is actually Jesus.
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The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.
That isn't how you spell Zinn. The left shouldn't use symbols of genocide and injustice in the fight against injustice. We are for the oppressed people not the state. You don't win by trying to get your enemy's respect.
or don't honestly. just be fine with other people doing so and don't act like an obnoxious 19 year old that just read Howard zine for the first time.
September 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The difference between having ideas that are considered radical and being very into Being Radical is that the former hates the fact their beliefs are marginal and the latter get off on it. Yeah, I don't wanna be a righteous oppressed underdog. Shit sucks. I do want to be the state. I do want power.
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I'm not sure if anyone has taken a bigger L than Charles Piroth, frankly.
September 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'm not sure if anyone has taken a bigger L than Charles Piroth, frankly.
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My sort of dream movie is a tense Das Boot/Master and Commander hard(er) sci-fi space combat film about military space combat, where resources/morale/environmental hazards all fray nerves as two corvettes play side and seek around Io, that sort of vibe.
I’m not sure what space warfare would be like, but I imagine it would be a bit like Attack subs locating each other at >100k miles w/ torpedoes taking hours or days to arrive on target.
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
My sort of dream movie is a tense Das Boot/Master and Commander hard(er) sci-fi space combat film about military space combat, where resources/morale/environmental hazards all fray nerves as two corvettes play side and seek around Io, that sort of vibe.
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What’s the best ‘anti-twist’ stories in media? By that I mean something where genre conventions, plot devices, etc would have you expecting some kind of reveal/story beat, & it just…doesn’t happen.
Eg: Cyberpunk setting where the corporation that puts on a social responsible face…actually is that.
Eg: Cyberpunk setting where the corporation that puts on a social responsible face…actually is that.
September 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
What’s the best ‘anti-twist’ stories in media? By that I mean something where genre conventions, plot devices, etc would have you expecting some kind of reveal/story beat, & it just…doesn’t happen.
Eg: Cyberpunk setting where the corporation that puts on a social responsible face…actually is that.
Eg: Cyberpunk setting where the corporation that puts on a social responsible face…actually is that.
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this is why I don't think the pro-trump tendencies of the media are as simple as them wanting him to win. it's a more complex pathology, shit like this. generation of reporters and editors for whom "scandal" (can be reported as norm breaking, illegal, sensation) is only private things
Part of what’s been so bizarre about the Trump era has been that nothing seems to count as a scandal if it happens right out in public. I wonder whether the exposure of something that was genuinely covered up will be different.
This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.
September 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is why I don't think the pro-trump tendencies of the media are as simple as them wanting him to win. it's a more complex pathology, shit like this. generation of reporters and editors for whom "scandal" (can be reported as norm breaking, illegal, sensation) is only private things
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“Agent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its laws” is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what I’m talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the state’s monopoly on force. It’s literally unavoidable, sorry!
“we should simply not have cops” is a good solution tho. policing as a concept is a very recent invention in human history
Law Enforcement being a culturally chud profession is actually a huge problem in the near (surviving this admin & reasserting rule of law after) & long term (the actual governance problem of enforcing liberal laws) & solutions that aren’t “we should simply not have cops” are in pretty short supply
August 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“Agent of the government empowered to use violence in its name to enforce its laws” is a pretty old invention, actually. This is what I’m talking about, this is just like magical thinking: you need *someone* to maintain and exercise the state’s monopoly on force. It’s literally unavoidable, sorry!
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Honestly some of the hardest pictures ever taken are of Ukrainian servicemen in northern lights
August 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Honestly some of the hardest pictures ever taken are of Ukrainian servicemen in northern lights