I would be less worried if I lived in DC than if I lived in Poland or Germany or god-forbid Kiev. Ukraine manages to get a big bomb into Krusk and Russia retaliates with a fuck-off armed ballistic missile into one of those guys.
Russia could end all of this
Imagine taking a liberal at their word 30 years after petrostroka. Only Americans are this gullible.
Sentinel Island Natives full on 
Against his will! I've got a dozen body language experts ready to explain why he was signaling strong dissent with that hand shake.
Yes, but he was unconstitutionally forced to do that by the Ultra-Evil Socialist Big Government.
Now he's speaking Truth To Power by declaring himself a President in Exile and using the position to loot foreign currency reserves.
Trump thought he could step into office and immediately win the war by being Mega Based Chad and doing the most Epic war thing imaginable shy of a mushroom cloud. Obviously it didn't work, because there was nothing the Afghans had that could justify using the weapon. But it made headlines, which was important for the Trump news cycle.
Putin is looking at a second Trump term and a guy like Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, and likely thinking he doesn't want Trump to try the same trick twice. It may work, as Trump is typically savvy enough to know not to punch someone who can punch back.
This opens up the possibility that, when the next ATACMS are used against Russia, a nuclear response occurs.
I think its probably intended to address the use of a M.O.A.B. or other large scale conventional armament, like Trump deployed in Afghanistan at the start of his first term. Eliminates the theory that Americans can just firebomb Tokyo or Dresden and pretend its fine because the wreckage isn't radioactive.
Whether they do it or not is still uncertain but I wouldn't want to test it.
Everything I grew up with, learning about the background of the First World War, echoes this moment. Countries across Europe piling weapons atop each other as their leadership gets more and more eager to use them. Wilhelm doing parade marches with his toy soldier battalions. Tsar Nicholas adopting military dress as the imperial uniform. George V coming up through the royal navy and fascinating himself with British naval exploits.
This feels like a lot of the same. People drowning in their own military mythology, from DC to Paris to Moscow, all convinced another international conflict would leave them out in front of the pack. Everyone raising the stacks, because they think they've got a winning hand.
Enshittification Comes For Us All.
Very cool that this can happen to Vice but the courts will block The Onion from taking control of InfoWars.
This is India not China or the US. Most people don't give a shit.
I got an earful about how Evil Communist China Doesn't Care About Its People back in 2008 when Beijing had some of the worst air quality on earth. I remember a bunch of noise about Californians living in their own filth back in the 90s, when LA was a smoggy soup. Every dollar-store pundit runs this line until the public anger spills over.
if they protest against the current Hindutva Fascist government hence ruining their lives as they rot in Jail for decades without trial.
Thank goodness the US and China don't have large police forces and carceral systems.
imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did
They were Soviet Aligned for most of the Cold War. But the division between Hindus and Muslims eventually created a wedge that western capital could leverage to break the leftist tendencies of the earlier governments, ending with Chaudhary Charan Singh. By the 80s, they'd begun a full transition to neoliberal governance.
I'm sorry, I was thinking this was some sort of weird IQ thing and was about to roll my eyes. But its actually Air Quality Index, which leaves me feeling incredibly sad.
On the plus side, air this bad tends to produce popular backlash that states can't easily ignore. From LA to Beijing, we've seen huge reversals in air quality in the face of widespread public demand for breathable air. A good foundation for a next generation environmental movement is putting several million people into an industrial smoker and telling them to politics their way out.
You all doubt entryism, but when RFK Jr nominates Dasha as Undersecretary of HHS, who will be laughing?
Given that they didn't run on trans issues
They kinda did run on Trans-Issues, in so far as they asserted "Trump will be worse". Also, when they tried to shoe-horn the LGBTQ flag into the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. That's what made the Dems Woke. They pinkwashed themselves, which must have been what cost them all those votes between 2020 and 2024.
Next cycle, when the vote-shaming kicks into gear, I'll calmly explain that I'm not voting for their ghoul because I don't want to harm their electoral chances.
The game is always and forever "We owe you nothing, you owe us everything". The vote-shaming is a way of deflecting blame for future shitty policies by insisting Dems (A) only win by catering to conservatives and (B) only lose when they are stabbed in the back by leftists. The path forward is always rightward. Voting for them proves that. Not voting for them proves that.
The only real way to disprove it is to run a candidate that is unapologetically pro-LGBTQ and win. But this becomes an increasingly difficult task in gerrymandered districts and disenfranchised states.
I really struglle to understand how so many seem to be so on board with this
Headlines like this are why. Just a giant echo chamber of "We're under attack! We're under attack!" getting louder and louder until its the only thing people hear. How do you not get on board with resisting the eternal siege of Evil Empires who are behind every conceivable bad thing happening inside your country's borders? Fighting Russia and China and Iran and <Evil Country To Be Named Later> becomes a panacea. It will cure every ill, because they are the but-for cause of every harm. Only by defeating these evils can Europe reach a Utopian state of existence.
Maybe the evil Russians did it. Or maybe Germany and Finland have been so fixated on ramping up their military spending that they failed to budget for domestic infrastructure maintenance. Who can say?
The important thing to remember is that Russia is ontologically evil and therefore anything bad that happens isn't our fault.
It's either that, or we get returned to slavery.
If you believe your only value to your friends and neighbors is the commission of arbitrary suicidal stochastic violence, then you've already lost.
I'm not interested in hearing cracker-assed pearl clutching about "buh buh buh martyrdom" the fuck are we getting from existing in this state in this cracker-assed country????
You have access to physical capital, to education, and to a significant minority population that still has ample organizing capacity for local mutual aid and self-defense. Throwing that all away in the vain hope of making headlines is shortsighted to the extreme.
Until there's harsh, incapable-of-being-ignored, and expected consequences for said betrayal
The fundamental problem of being a minority is that your relatively small population size and often fragmented diaspora makes you an easy target for bullying. And westerners love their Strategy Of Tension. Which means your minority community is often being Grima Wormtongued with some bullshit about how Other Minority is the real reason you're being persecuted.
I can very easily see a future in which Arab-American Voters and Trans-American Voters are told "Sorry but its the other guy standing in the way of your civil rights" and told to duke it out, while Christian Conservative Mayo Americans heckle both groups from box seats.
They wanna sell us, well, let's bleed them.
Easy to call for violence in this way. Significantly harder to deliver on it. Talk is cheap. But who is seriously interested in martyring themselves Thomas Matthew Crooks / Ryan Wesley Routh style trying to make a point?