@EmDDubya @memeticsisyphus I admit there’s a fair distinction to draw between explicitly military targets and logistical support targets like bridges and the power grid
English
the41guy
5.2K posts
@the41guy @memeticsisyphus Part of my argument definitely has to do with the target itself
English
Using civilians as human shields is a war crime, blowing them up is not. The logic of which is understandable to anyone who’s progressed past the age of 12.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
This is a courage and a confidence in Trump’s humanity that I frankly don’t have. Moving display.
English
@EmDDubya @memeticsisyphus But if the tactic works, which is to say the US calls off the attack, isn’t that simply a green light to use that tactic in every conceivable scenario?
English
@the41guy @memeticsisyphus Sure. That doesn't mean it's just ok to blow up civilians. I would see a little more of an argument is they put a bunch of civilians in an army base, but these are non military targets with the statement of destroying not just the regime, but the country as a whole
English
@EmDDubya @memeticsisyphus But surely you would agree that the Iranian action of using human shields is *more* morally impermissible than ignoring the blackmail, right?
English
@the41guy @memeticsisyphus And i will always oppose the morally impermissible
English
@WarSageAnalysis @lost_nomad__ So true, king. We should all aspire to be as magnanimous as them
English
@lost_nomad__ Iran has never once in its history targeted US civilians
English
All of these “we can kill your civilians, but you can’t kill ours” games are very tiresome
The Middle East has probably the least honorable, most shameless war doctrine of any enemy we’ve fought
Open Source Intel@Osint613
A human chain forms on Ahvaz’s White Bridge as Iranians rally to protect key infrastructure.
English
@lost_nomad__ Because Middle Eastern counties literally do not care about civilian deaths. They only pretend to care as a means of appealing to westerners
Pakistan blew up an Afghan hospital like 2 weeks ago. There’s no investigation, and the countries will normalize relations soon enough
English
@Hammer_On_X @PatrickChristys In a sense they were, yes. That school was a former military installation which shared a wall with a current military installation.
They had 24 hour revolving “shifts” to ensure there were students there at all times. So I think the intent was pretty clear
English
@PatrickChristys Patrick thinks the kids that got bombed in Iran by Trumps missiles were forced to go to school and get bombed.
English
I don’t think Winston Churchill said: ‘Bring your newborn babies out in the open during the Blitz and stand next to German targets.’
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani
When Churchill said ‘we will fight them on the beaches’ that was admirable and noble. Why is it so hard to understand that other people in other countries feel exactly the same?
English
@EmDDubya @memeticsisyphus “Morally impermissible” does not equal “war crime.”
We don’t have a Geneva convention for what is and isn’t morally impermissible. People have argued about that since the beginning of time, and will do so until the end of time
English
@memeticsisyphus Apologies,
Does that mean it is morally permissible to kill hostages?
English
@JohnKir08660882 @NotThatHughes It’s the same photo. It’s not showing both sides of the moon
English
I suspect Dr. Naomi is pointing out that these photographs must have been taken ~14 days apart.
A solar day on the Moon is 29.53 Earth days. So if the Sun were shining on the left image it could not shine on right image until 14 days later.
In other words, my guess is the left image is from Orion capsule and the right is an old image from some other vehicle. Because Orion's entire trip is only about ten days.
Of course, I may have misunderstood everyone and everything. That happens. My bad.
English
I love the notion that, because she was an English major, no one ever taught her about the sun.
English
@Kazanjy @Arrogance_0024 It’s also a stupid comment. “It’s politics with weapons”
Yeah. Like literally every single war ever. War is extremely political
English
The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue.
Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot.
You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic.
Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier.
The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen.
That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons.
A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.
Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024
Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.
English
@SleestakMack @ArtemisConsort Only the GOP would be stupid enough to allow their most popular issue to be lost to “bipartisan” compromise
No Democrats are sponsoring bipartisan abortion compromises, for example
English
@ArtemisConsort Any immigration bill described as “bipartisan” can be summarily rejected. We’ve played this shell game before: fake promises of border security, unenforceable requirements to learn English and pay a fine, no limits on chain migration, and it’s all discretionary. No fucking way.
English
The “dignity act” is in fact an amnesty bill, and a betrayal of Republican voters. Absolutely not. No thank you. Enjoy your next primary.
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
🚨BREAKING: 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats just co-sponsored the Dignity Act — the first serious bipartisan immigration bill in decades. What it actually does: No amnesty. No citizenship. No handouts. A pathway to legal work status for long-term undocumented immigrants who meet strict requirements — fully funded by restitution payments from immigrants themselves, requiring zero taxpayer dollars. Mike Lawler’s own words: “This is not amnesty. It’s accountability, it’s fairness, it is dignity.”
English
@ArtemisConsort Yet another reminder that removing Trump will not magically usher in a “based” anti-immigrant alternative
Instead, we’ll get bipartisan amnesty bills built on the “compromise” (empty promise) of better border enforcement like we have since the 80s
English
@ski_brah @memeticsisyphus Why is the heavy lifting of the word “volunteer” so important? It’s true, isn’t it?
English
@memeticsisyphus The word volunteer is doing all the heavy lifting here. And volunteer is the historical exception not the norm.
English
How is putting a mass of civilians next to military targets different than sending a volunteer army off to war?
Matt Montana@POTUS676
How is this any different than sending 18 year olds to die in a war while our leaders go golfing?
English
@SuitablePolitic This is largely true. There’s the occasional deeply religious nutcase that truly believes in pacifism, but easily 90% of all “anti war” sentiment comes hand and hand with apologetics (if not explicit support) for the wars and violence of non-western countries
English
@amanwhoisalsoa @elegationvain Probable. But I’ve escaped diagnosis so I was allowed to ride the normal bus and hang out with the non-disabled kids
English
This is a common lament in FtM spaces. Because most of them never had any intention of actually being men (they wanted to be "trans"), they find passing & therefore being socially regarded as a man disturbing & isolating. Which they then blame on the misandry of the patriarchy.
English
@Velimirovic_4th @brandnewandy @sharazer07 @AEngineerReacts @cagowago @PeterROCK_ @_glorianas Impossible. It’s far more reasonable to believe that the elites are keeping the ice wall a secret from us- there’s probably an Epstein connection
English
@the41guy @brandnewandy @sharazer07 @AEngineerReacts @cagowago @PeterROCK_ @_glorianas I wonder if the extreme cold has anything to do with it.
English
@Annoyed___Bored @elegationvain What, you and your buddies don't spend the night cruising to rape? It's a very common occurrence, reddit told me so
English
@brandnewandy @sharazer07 @AEngineerReacts @cagowago @PeterROCK_ @_glorianas A borderline impossible to colonize continent that was first discovered in the 1870s
English
@sharazer07 @AEngineerReacts @cagowago @PeterROCK_ @_glorianas Are you comparing the agreement reached about a continent with no indigenous population to the armed geopolitical conflict over the Holy Land of the world’s three major religions?
English
@fullblownozzie @JohnDoe1465160 @bumbadum14 “Better in the long run” may be the most obvious psyop ever.
These people could get their super based “long run” candidate in 2040 or whenever they’re planning for and they’d still tell us to vote Democrat in that election too
English
English
Find me where in the Epstein files Trump is implicated in raping children that aren’t literally schizo calls to the FBI tip line
Rigel@R1ggell
@bumbadum14 You are literally a pedohpile
English
@JohnDoe1465160 @fullblownozzie @bumbadum14 And I will gladly “fall for it” next time too because he’s the best president in my lifetime
You didn’t notice that he supports Israel until his 2nd term?
English
@the41guy @fullblownozzie @bumbadum14 No new wars!!!! Drain the swamp!!!!! America First!!!! Congrats you fell for it again.
x.com/i/status/18465…
Nicholas J. Fuentes@NickJFuentes
Trump 2024: • Mass Immigration (legally) • Trans Kids (with parental consent) • No New Wars (except with Iran) • Free Speech (except antisemitism) • Pro-Life (but not at the federal level) • Tax Cuts (for corporations) The most important election of our lifetime!
English