June 8

What incentive does any person in Iran have to unconditionally surrender No but for real, after Iraq, after Vietnam, after Afghanistan, what is the model we're presenting Iran with? Aside from the handful of deranged monarchists, but even them, what is the plan Does war as meme convince anyone??

And I'd say, sure, the state has squandered much of its power on control and surveillance and moralistic abuse, but at this point, any power hoping to wield force in the future must necessarily continue fighting until the last breath Nobody thinks they'd get treated remotely like Japan or Germany

What incentive does any person in Iran have to unconditionally surrender No but for real, after Iraq, after Vietnam, after Afghanistan, what is the model we're presenting Iran with? Aside from the handful of deranged monarchists, but even them, what is the plan Does war as meme convince anyone??

Can you imagine being a liberal who sees a girls' school blown up and feels that what the world must hear is that, actually, the Islamic republic of Iran is bad

Wil Wheaton did the scene from Mad Men when he told the Hershey's guys he grew up in a brothel, only for real, and it wasn't the shiny wrapper that made him briefly escape his terrible life, but it was the guy from Curb attacking Elmo that brought him back to his father beating him

I saw a picture of a father holding a baby in Gaza in 2023 and I wonder if they're dead That could be me I see a picture of a boy with a bunny hat, wrapped up in a coat someone who loves him put on him and I wonder what his cell looks like That could be my son This is evil For, or against

There are many tactical goals and strategic goals and i think we need to think local and specific And we need a vision beyond returning to an idealized 2015 The disparate issues must be woven into a comprehensive governing ideology, more specific than liberalism or socialism

And it will include a policy of force, and a policy of governing monied interests, without tiptoeing around fundamental questions of health care access and policing and military action as liberalism has since Lyndon Johnson

I have had many many conversations with friends in the community and in the field and like obviously the impact on human lives is the biggest thing here but we're witnessing the erasure of what little knowledge we have, knowledge we may never regain, in this generation or in this country

An acquaintance is in archeology. Do you have any idea how white supremacy and anti DEI madness has impacted fields of literally cataloging dead people and their personal effects, tools, and structures? Do you have any idea how hard it is to plan your career around whether your funding will be cut?

I have had many many conversations with friends in the community and in the field and like obviously the impact on human lives is the biggest thing here but we're witnessing the erasure of what little knowledge we have, knowledge we may never regain, in this generation or in this country

I mean literally, there are many many methods to protect the confidentiality of research subjects but if you're part of a persecuted minority, are you going to put your job or your life or your kids at potential risk? Do you know how hard it is to get research participants? Most normies fn don't

I have had many many conversations with friends in the community and in the field and like obviously the impact on human lives is the biggest thing here but we're witnessing the erasure of what little knowledge we have, knowledge we may never regain, in this generation or in this country

Just not being able to get funding for a fucking student study on x, y, or z topic may seem like no big deal but it is But we have a government set on eradicating trans people from the earth but literally any good research regarding human beings is going to account for trans people!!

I have had many many conversations with friends in the community and in the field and like obviously the impact on human lives is the biggest thing here but we're witnessing the erasure of what little knowledge we have, knowledge we may never regain, in this generation or in this country

I hate to use a clumsy word but normies don't know the value good research can have on human lives. They see medications and they don't appreciate the human variety that repeated trials can capture or, when you assume white cis bros are the default, the nuance you miss

So between socdems and communists who do you think got better accommodations in the camps

That said you know at least a couple of them argued over who was more responsible for all of them being there

We are fighting for, or against, civilization That's it

If you believe in magic Americanness, and you can't account for America only appearing in the last 250 years of *human existence*, I need you to leave the room so the grownups can talk

We are fighting for, or against, civilization That's it

"Oh but what about Judea and Jesus and Rome, what about the Eastern belief systems, don't you think" SHUT THE FUCK UP

We are fighting for, or against, civilization That's it

Anybody who believes in magic blood or bloodlines, and that the powerful can rape the rest of us for sport, is against civilization

I think anybody who's ever read a fucking book is aware that the Euro American "who is better who is worse contest" is pretty clear, lol, take a look in the mirror, that's the conclusion

It is also of a piece with the great "Christianity is a modern religion unlike Izzlom" argument that everybody from Rousseau to the worst atheists you know have grappled with Lol if you can't appreciate what has been the power differential between largely Muslim societies and the west, you're lazy

I think anybody who's ever read a fucking book is aware that the Euro American "who is better who is worse contest" is pretty clear, lol, take a look in the mirror, that's the conclusion