War Takes

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Ranting, raving, shitposts, and analysis from the Left on national security, defense, foreign policy, international relations and more

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me today

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BREAKING: Marie Le Pen has shidded and farded herself to death.

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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"You can actually pinpoint the second when her heart rips in half."

Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

I know France is by no means out of the woods yet, but at the same time: ALLONS Y, NOUVEAU FRONT POPULAIR!

Live updates: French leftists win most seats in legislative elections, pollsters sayapnews.com The first projections say French leftists have won most seats in legislative elections. The surprise projections put President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance in second and the far right in third.

I'm interested to see what if anything this changes foreign policy wise - especially re: the current situation with Israel and Hizballah, but my gut errs with "probably not much", especially when you remember at the end of the day the President of Iran isn't really in charge of Iran.

‘New chapter’: Iran’s president-elect Pezeshkian pledges to serve all Iranianswww.aljazeera.com Pezeshkian acknowledges ‘difficult path ahead’ after winning run-off election with 53.7 percent of the vote.

I know nobody actually gives a shit about hypocrisy at all but just thinking about how this guy literally shut off Starlink to Ukraine to stop them from being able to launch an attack on Russia and also runs a company that DoD is increasingly reliant on for space operations.

I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.

We've heard all this song and dance before about a ceasefire in Gaza and the case remains that A.) its almost entirely in Israel's hands, and they can torpedo it at any time; and B.) any ceasefire will only be temporary as their overall goal of "destroying HAMAS" has not changed at all.

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If the US doesn't commit to upholding the ceasefire after the first phase then there's no agreement to be had when the Israelis, and both Netanyahu to Gantz, openly say they want to withdraw from an agreement and resume the war at a later date when it is advantageous for them to do so.

ישראל למתווכות: מתנגדים לדרישת חמאס להתחייבות כתובה למו"מ ללא מגבלת זמן - וואלה חדשותnews.walla.co.il בכירים ישראלים אמרו כי ראש המוסד נסע לדוחא כדי להעביר מסר לפיו ישראל אינה מקבלת את דרישת חמאס להתחייבות כתובה של ארה"ב, מצרים וקטאר כי המו"מ על השלב השני של ההסכם יימשך ללא מגבלת זמן. הדרישה הזו היא ה...

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No but I love when all you beautiful sickos start posting shit like "Bogroubler flips Hambarn upon Gwynyychlyyrah! A huge result!" It's like hanging out with people being poisoned by carbon monoxide. None of those places are real

Jezza asked for the Gooners and they delivered.

A Labour source has told The Times that Jeremy Corbyn may have won in Islington North with a very narrow majority #UKGE2024

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Almost every year since I made a Twitter account I've made some variation of this post over there and every year it reaches a tipping point right about the same time a few hours later where it breaks containment and the freaks start coming in and I gotta mute it lmao Twitter is so predictable.

I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

"GIVE 'EM DOUBLE CANISTER! THAT'S IT, CUSHY! DOUBLE CANISTER!"

Federal artillery fields of fire at Gettysburg because AMERICA FUCK YEAH

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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

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Not a peep from the president or the secretary of state as its largest recipient of military assistance in postwar history does exactly what we condemn Russia for doing.

Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decadest.co A settlement tracking group says Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades.

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Official act. Immune.

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The President absolutely should be yelling at Bibi. I'd be more worried about him not being capable of doing so.

Read the Times story about Biden. They say he seems more visibly exhausted and physically frail than years ago, confuses names more. No real accusation of mental problems. Includes an anecdote of Biden yelling at Netanyahu. Sources speculate his schedule is too demanding relative to his age.

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There's this weird thing happening when someone says "I'm voting for Biden because I want us to still have elections long after he's dead" and people equate that with "Biden is awesome and I agree with his actions regarding Gaza"

ok but seriously nut up. nobody here loves biden. I’d rather vote for a sentient captcha machine that electrocutes my eyeballs every time I tag all the bicycles and it thinks I missed a fuckin train wheel. but that’s what we got and if you want to live in a fantasy I have no time for your ass

All I'm say for now is I'm not giving up and neither should you. But if you are giving up, get the fuck out of my way dipshit, I don't have time for you and your doomer bullshit. It's ok to be scared and sad, but if you're gonna jack off to your own despair, step the fuck aside.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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They want your despair. Withhold it.

Things are bad but all the more reason for optimism of the will and rejection of doomerism and nihilism. Only way out is through.

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Someday a lot of people will claim not to have supported any of this and you need to survive to remember that they did

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Honestly, I don't know how doomerism has survived the long arc of history. We used to grovel under kings. Slavery was the law of the land. Fascist authoritarians conquered a democracy and declared war on a continent and a people. And, all of that was overcome. It ceased. History didn't end.

I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).

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Americans across the political spectrum are all deeply mired in “apocalypse realism”, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the world not ending. This widespread imaginary just happens to motivate the people who want the world to end while depressing everyone else.

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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.

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an old professor, a survivor of his country's civil war, often reminded me that all activism relies upon hope, sister to faith--the evidence of things unseen. our ability to imagine and enact better futures, even when we don't have visuals, is how we endure.

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let me put this another way: despair, or its new name, doomerism, asserts omniscience--that things cannot be better, that all possibilities of good are already foreclosed, that you can know this as fact. it looks like humility, but it's all ego. it is, in fact, the assumption of godhood.

I joke a lot about my capacity for despair, but there's enough Catholic discipline in my youth to remember that it is in fact a sin, one that absorbs all the best in you more comprehensively than a tar pit. I left the church ages ago, but I held onto that cable: despair is not a long-term good.