Recent content by mqt

Call me crazy, but I don’t think the punishment for being too scared to overthrow your authoritarian government is death by fire.

Yeah, but Iran the political entity doesn’t give a flying fuck about any of that. Objectives A through Z are staying in some semblance of power when the dust clears and the constant bombing of Tehran isn’t going to be super compelling as a deterrent when killing their citizens is already their...

Joke’s on you, I’ve obviously been indoctrinating him.

Meh, I don’t want Iran to be effective at harming our soldiers, but it’s reasonable to suggest Iran has been determined to not crack. There have been a handful of viable off-ramps for the regime and thus far they haven’t taken them. Determination and resolve aren’t necessarily morally positive...

I treat debates with my 13-year-old like a game of pickup basketball that I’m trying my hardest at. Gotta reinforce my intellectual dominance over the little gremlin.

When will that be again? We’re running out of Q1.

The TikTok ban is still perhaps my favorite ridiculous government subplot. An entire, bi-partisan government effort voted on, passed and upheld by SCOTUS and then just openly abandoned by everyone.

I’d nearly forgotten that Friday Night was the official Trump War-Mongering Hour now.

Why can’t we just fund the immigration courts and maybe hire some more lawyers? It seems like relieving the bottleneck would be more important than increasing the size of the bottle through bazillions of dollars put toward enforcement, and would also allow for successful claims to be processed...

Rubio strikes me as the excellent politician that JD Vance wants to be. Obviously I do not enjoy “emboldened” Marco Rubio just as I didn’t enjoy the other iterations of Marco Rubio, but he seems much more adept at weaving his way into wherever MAGA takes him without looking like he’s trying too...

Just the position itself? The quote in the tweet is pretty much as fine as it gets, and the rest of her statement seemed like no big deal, even if you disagree with her.

Both this response and the framing of the headline are so deeply unserious. My guys, this is just TaskRabbit being facilitated by a language model.

Just a teensy little detail, that. I know what he meant, but passive aggressively shaming the country you’re bombing into doing what you want also seems unlikely to work.

They are, yes. But if the only “winning” scenario for Iran is to stave off the US and Israel installing a government of their choosing, it seems hard to tell the difference between success and failure until all the dust settles.

I can’t say I blame them. Given MTG’s success compared to how awful she is, it has to be one of the most secure jobs in the country.