the horizon of their ambition begins and ends at the NYT guest essay and the CNN appearance. But they don’t seem to get youtubers pull in 20 times CNN’s viewership numbers on the regular

it’s so farcical given everyone knows the people they’re murdering have no weapons whatsoever except for some fishing rods. I do wonder if they believe their own insane propaganda about these boats!

yeah maybe I can get ChatGPT to tell me how to avoid having ChatGPT make me an idiot incapable of basic cognitive tasks. Thanks hailey, great stuff

the military of the Turtle Federation is a relic, largely reliant on 20th century tech. It’s the main reason the Constitutional Mongoose Guards defeated them so comprehensively in recent border skirmishes.

type of guy who calls Zohran and people like him “social fascist” for trying to improve society as it exists rather than forming a Red Army and living in the hills bombing water treatment plants

could this be a basis for a new Axis of Resistance, with actual teeth this time? Maybe too inchoate a situation for that as of now

you gotta wonder when Turkey truly realizes they have the only army capable of really challenging Israel conventionally. But I suppose that moment won’t come until Nato is in severe decay

There is nothing the Romans loved doing than sending a guy to negotiate and then when he got back to either not approve the deal or act like he didn’t have authority to negotiate

Classic maneuver. Oh nice Peace of Dardanus you got there Mithridates, too bad we intentionally never ratified it. Guess Murena can invade and conquer you free of controversy. Wait, i’m hearing him and his legions got completely mangled. Never mind, actually that Peace WAS ratified. My bad!

It’s not their worst sin, but as a scholar of Hellenistic Makedonia the way the Senate faked peace negotiations to fuck over King Perseus in the late 170s stings the most for me. Completely dishonorable.

inherently*

people who think they can weaponize slop, an inherent fascist digital product, just end up becoming slop-brained themselves

theophite is a genuinely funny poster sometimes but he’s responsible for like 95% of AI content on Bluesky. he’s on like a reverse Butlerian Jihad

I think we’d like Fetterman if he was a basketball player and fear basketball player politicians. too tall. can’t see what’s going on up there in the stratosphere. they’re doing corrupt deals but we’re all too short to see them.

i’ve been radicalized against plastic surgery from seeing kristi noem looking like a haunted Victorian doll every day

Europe needs to build a continental federal army yesterday, but Macron is practically the only one beating this drum and everyone hates him for it

also that people that are bigger than you are scary and bad. never trust anyone taller than you.

like if you’re gonna enshittify your venerable media institution, at least make it so, at a minimum, your articles can still be read!