Let's Talk About War

@ZaidJilani A lot less physical bullying among the girls, though it did happen more than many people would think. The boys could be just as verbally cruel and persistent, but I noted girls used weaponized ostracism on a much wider scale.

@Telegraph Censorship is always justified by the censors as for the readers own good.

📚 Hundreds of changes have been made to the original text of Roald Dahl's books after sensitivity readers were hired to scrutinise the text with words such as 'fat' removed #Echobox=1676665871-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/1…

@KyleWOrton I don’t think she even understands that the last time 95% of Afghans in-country have even seen a black person, if ever, it was a Western soldier or contractor.

It's obviously off-the-scale cringe. There can't be a single Afghan, inside the country or out, who has any use for this nonsense. Which presumably means this is for an American audience, and a minority of Americans at that, a pointless foray into the domestic culture war.

@NPR Spare me. I’m old enough to remember progressives pissing and moaning about the encroaching evangelical barbarian hordes since the 80’s.

Long seen as a fringe viewpoint, Christian nationalism now has a foothold in American politics. More than half of Republicans believe the country should be a strictly Christian nation, a new survey finds. n.pr/3E6zper

@bendreyfuss The point the guy is completely missing is that these surgeries are voluntary. It’s not like Beast is strapping struggling people to the gurney while they scream “My identity! Don’t take my victims cachet!” I’m legally blind and I would give my left nut to be able to drive again.

@EsotericCD I knew it would be grim, but what do you expect from a movie about the Einsatzgruppen rampaging through Belarus?

But really, there is only one World War II film you ever need to watch: COME AND SEE. You must watch it: once. You will almost certainly not want to watch it twice. I was a Soviet history major, so I had to watch it three times. It was Alex's torture in CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

I've never seen HBO's BAND OF BROTHERS. Damian Lewis will forever be either the turncoat hostage who improbably got elected to Congress and then was executed by the Iranians OR a man valiantly fighting psychic alien shitweasels to me. But I have HBO Max. Should I bother?

@damintoell That 20 keys of uncut and the crate of C4 sitting in my bedroom closet? Prove it was in my possession! Ignore the children screaming in my basement, I have no idea who they are!

@fuckeduppizzas I vaguely remember the movie, but what does chud mean now?

@I_Know_MyPlanes @RAF_Luton Fuck you, Brit. “Self-defense” is a perfectly legitimate term in American English. I know you pansies do not like it, but at least we don’t call gasoline petrol. Go find someone on Twitter to ban.

@TalkAboutWar @RAF_Luton I don't think @RAF_Luton will be taking any lessons from someone who can't spell "defence" Good day to you sir

Photo of the Day: B2 Stealth Fighter flying at 80,085ft over Weston-Super-Mare & the Gloucestershire coast during Operation Rubber Dinghy Rapids which saw 717.5 successfully bombing raids on dinghies fleeing war torn Penarth Photographed from a Canberra #AvGeek #aviationlovers

@scuff7 @RAF_Luton I stopped reading after “B2 fighter.”

@TalkAboutWar @RAF_Luton That's what you took from that tweet? 🤣🤣🤣

@NancyAFrench Unfortunately, that requires being in Barstow.

Strong endorsement of Roy’s Cafe in Barstow, California. Food delicious and plentiful, owner awesome, desserts galore!

@KyleJGlen Meh. The US Stryker has a variant with a 105mm gun, but no one in the Army calls it a tank.

This one is really going to split opinion. Is it a tank? The AMX-10 RC is wheeled, not tracked but it does come with a 105mm main gun which is what you'd find on an Abrams.

Nothing said “lunchtime fun” to kids back in my day like an 18th century pioneer going to town on indigenous people with the butt end of a rifle.

@DixonBadger Hence the term “shotgun wedding.” I read somewhere that something like 30-40% of first time pregnancies were out of wedlock in the 19th century.

@twlldun ‘Ol Toussaint. He must have been one of the only men who got down on his knees and thanked God for yellow fever.

Reasonable Xmas haul, 10/10, would have Xmas presents again

@grumpy_veteran @redsteeze I’m pretty sure I went to that club off 11th St. in Austin.

I don’t know why I can’t stop watching this lmao

@DamonLinker I’m not exactly convinced by it being de jour to label half the country as bloody thirsty women-hating fascists who feed on the tears of starving minority children. There is plenty of gutter to go around. Lightfoot and Adams need to meet with the volunteers in Brownsville.

America will be in trouble as long as Republicans believe they benefit from driving our politics into the gutter. (The headline here is the PG version of what I originally wanted it to say.) damonlinker.substack.com/p/ron-desantis…