Al! posted:

toxx itt if you would enlist if the us went to war with israel

speng31b posted:

you best start believing in kramer stories......yer in one!

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Oh these cunts

Al! posted:

rare example of the quote in context making it worse

speng31b posted:

you best start believing in kramer stories......yer in one!

ram dass in hell posted:

wow I can't believe you would speculate based off incomplete information like this...so irresponsible...

sullat posted:

Yeah back when Mossad was deciding who to invite to Epstein island he wasn't chosen because they figured he was a loser who had no political future.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

They were right. It was impossible for them to pre-figure the Bernie movement and how Democratic leadership would circle the wagons around Biden just because he was in the Obama administration.

Zodium posted:

it's not irresponsible. but it is gbs aids

Truga posted:

lol that bernie did more damage to the empire than trump (so far)

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's truly remarkable the total lack of any kind of vision for the future among First World leaders. Everybody is going through the motions as events come with no sense of how to actually navigate material and historical forces to achieve any kind of agenda. The Western mind is enamored with the idea of an eternal presentism where their superiority is guaranteed without even having to do anything. You see it all the time with the way the Biden administration has dealt with Israel. The one thing we want more than anything else is for Israel to cut this poo poo out and go back to normal, but we're not willing to exercise any leverage to actually make that happen because the philosemitism is so thoroughly baked in to Western assumptions that we can't even conceive of telling the Israelis "no."

Cassian of Imola posted:

I say, posters seem to be lusting for war with Iran.

Stephenthinkpad replies to explain that they want war with Iran because

I didn't make up this absurd tradeoff! I wouldn't have thought of this argument for a war between the US and Iran in a million years! I'm reading his literal words! Am I missing a joke? Is he being sarcastic?

Cassian of Imola posted:

I say, posters seem to be lusting for war with Iran.

Stephenthinkpad replies to explain that they want war with Iran because

I didn't make up this absurd tradeoff! I wouldn't have thought of this argument for a war between the US and Iran in a million years! I'm reading his literal words! Am I missing a joke? Is he being sarcastic?

Nonsense posted:

The world waits for Iranian action.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's truly remarkable the total lack of any kind of vision for the future among First World leaders. Everybody is going through the motions as events come with no sense of how to actually navigate material and historical forces to achieve any kind of agenda. The Western mind is enamored with the idea of an eternal presentism where their superiority is guaranteed without even having to do anything. You see it all the time with the way the Biden administration has dealt with Israel. The one thing we want more than anything else is for Israel to cut this poo poo out and go back to normal, but we're not willing to exercise any leverage to actually make that happen because the philosemitism is so thoroughly baked in to Western assumptions that we can't even conceive of telling the Israelis "no."

Orange Devil posted:

The US hegemony went into the setting of "we won" and concluded "now we can do whatever we want, wherever we want, forever" and took very long to clue in to them not, in fact, having won forever. It has lost all memory of how it won in the first place and everyone who can do anything only knows how to do the "whatever we want, wherever we want" things and not the "winning" things.

theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/HamzaMSyed/status/1781069727063847333

Toph Bei Fong posted:

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's truly remarkable the total lack of any kind of vision for the future among First World leaders. Everybody is going through the motions as events come with no sense of how to actually navigate material and historical forces to achieve any kind of agenda. The Western mind is enamored with the idea of an eternal presentism where their superiority is guaranteed without even having to do anything. You see it all the time with the way the Biden administration has dealt with Israel. The one thing we want more than anything else is for Israel to cut this poo poo out and go back to normal, but we're not willing to exercise any leverage to actually make that happen because the philosemitism is so thoroughly baked in to Western assumptions that we can't even conceive of telling the Israelis "no."

HallelujahLee posted:

israel will keep trying till they get what they want, is my general guess they need their regional war because they need big daddy burger master to do the fighting for them

Spoondick posted:

i think it's because the more intelligent and conscientious western elites see the writing on the wall with climate change and decided overseeing collapse is perhaps not so rewarding an enterprise, so we're left with opportunistic sociopaths and idiots looking for quick solutions to immediate problems at the expense of everything else

Toph Bei Fong posted:

Fast Luck posted:

i think it's because every institution everywhere is completely captured by wealth and power and thus has had its functions redirected to serve wealth and power in the short-term. our political parties, the media, academia, everything. anyone who wants to stave off the climate collapse or even the collapse of western dominance by actually running a state or economy with some competence has to fight through these forces at every single level. thus even the motivated and successful few that get in a position to attempt this are stymied and victimized, and everyone else is the collaborator and grifter and profiteer that you laid out.

Zodium posted:

yeah this is known as "capitalism"

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's truly remarkable the total lack of any kind of vision for the future among First World leaders. Everybody is going through the motions as events come with no sense of how to actually navigate material and historical forces to achieve any kind of agenda. The Western mind is enamored with the idea of an eternal presentism where their superiority is guaranteed without even having to do anything. You see it all the time with the way the Biden administration has dealt with Israel. The one thing we want more than anything else is for Israel to cut this poo poo out and go back to normal, but we're not willing to exercise any leverage to actually make that happen because the philosemitism is so thoroughly baked in to Western assumptions that we can't even conceive of telling the Israelis "no."

Al! posted:

we are capitalists and landowners here in cspam

Zodium posted:

yeah this is known as "capitalism"

Shageletic posted:

my "not like a nazi" shirt have alot of people asking questions?!?!

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzAgGWSm_gU

I love Balochis and Pathans so much it's unreal.



America never had anything like the ICS, or the culture to produce ICS men and District Officers. Why would you ever do something like that when you could go into finance instead? Every time I meet a new product manager for General Motors Defence they said they used to be at State or used to be at DoD, and it seems clear that as soon as a private sector opening comes along, American hop out of public service for it. Anecdotal, but American also seem willing to quit the academy for private sector easily while there's a certain pride in Canada and Britain about being poor as poo poo and producing 6 papers a year, just to say you've done it.

Toph Bei Fong posted: