I hate and distrust her, but she has raised massive amounts through small dollar donations.

People care more about what she says than establishment candidates.

Yeah it is the same voice actor “The Jazz Daredevil” himself, he would do that kind of edgey thing like a crossover episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTX09uzQJGM

No Kings!

Technology makes all of our lives better!

For the record, Bob from Bob’s Burgers would do 1000 percent better of a job as Archer than Kash Patel does as Director Of The FBI.

Only when he is chillen with Bigfoot and the Werewolves.

Is the FBI being deliberately cruel…?

Does the pope shit in a toilet?

Also to being cool is about being obscure so get at it nerds.

No but does hurting others ever make you feel closer to the person you want to be?

Both!!! The subject we are speaking of is inherently contradictory.

The only thing they can, and probably will do, is cause some losses to the Navy and any land troops. Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, the US will take serious casualties if it goes into Iran. That won’t be enough to stop the invasion, or really even slow it down. Internal politics would be a far more likely reason to stop any open invasion.

No, if Iran does a serious amount of damage to the US it is going to have MASSIVE blowback in the US. It might not immediately translate into the US backing off but the idea that Trump will pay no political cost in real terms if Iran does serious damage to the US military I just don’t think holds up.

Long term I think it will just make the rightwing even more war obsessed but that is independent of a direct tactical transaction going on here in political power. If Iran hits the US hard during the attack Trump will look worse and it will cost him and his allies materially.

In the US War Cycle we are at the Brenschluss, the point where fascists completely take over the war machine from the remnants of a decayed irrelevant professional/elite class and the centrist/establishment warhawks are temporarily all onboard just before the first massive catastrophe utterly destroys the coalition’s image of power and once again we fall subject to gravity, same as everyone else.

Where is your evidence that will happen? Especially in the geography in which this conflict will occur?

I think the precise opposite has been demonstrated.

The entire concept of extremely long range missile trucks is the ability to fully exploit interior expanses as launch points for offensive strikes.

Who cares if you learn the location of a missile launch if the vehicle is already moving and chose an irrelevant place in the near backline to fire from?

The entire concept of long range missile launch from mobile trucks like this is the idea of mobility as an fully organic individualized capability… a problem air power is least equipped to neutralize since the targets are maximally decentralized in a spatial sense and in motion.

Both to a degree.

What you are asking is how could the current situation be probable given my estimation of the motivations behind the important actors involved, relying on some kind of Newtonian perfect estimation of how one thing will bounce off another and I am saying these people are unbelievably incompetent, they absolutely would and did elect a complete traitor to have power over them. They make existentially conflicting strategic choices all of the damn time. You can’t evaluate the shitshow that is US power politics without adding in a massive dose of idiot juice, otherwise it will endlessly confound you that sometimes the decisions that are made don’t even seem to benefit the people who are in power making them.

Putin is Trump’s daddy, that doesn’t mean I am attributing the follies of US foreign policy all to some elaborate Russian conspiracy, I am just stating the obvious, Putin is Trump’s daddy, it is clear from his behavior.

Ok so well then all the work is on OUR kids then and not the rest of the worlds kids to learn American? Why is the world so unfair to USA? We are too big of a country, it is unrealistic to learn languages, even one is hard given how rural and unique the American countryside is. The only hope we have is if pickup trucks evolve to be able to speak for us and keep us connected when we finally become unable to learn even a single language.

If the national security apparatus is still functioning enough to maintain this level of continuity, then how did it allow for a known adversary to take the presidency.

Who said the ruling class of the US are really the enemies of Russia? Like kind of, but in reality it is more about money and making deals than anything else so yeah… om my answer to the above quote is very easily, all it took was buckets of incompetence, collusion and people saying “not my problem!”.

Iran wouldn’t blow through a serious fraction of US air defense.

Iran already did in the 12 day war with Israel? What? Are you kidding? Air defense missile production capacity in the west was shown to be completely incapable of sustaining a complete blanket defense against a barrage of Iranian missiles and it has been a discussion since about how to address that. The air defenses work, clearly, but they run out quick.

The analysis that everything bad Trump does is because he’s really an extension of Russia is very clear example of a retreat to innocence. These are US decisions that have decades of history behind them, not idiosyncratic acts of a single president who is actually not part of US interests but actually is part of our enemy’s interests.

Yeah, you are definitely projecting it on to me that I am someone that would disagree with that, the US needing to bomb Iran is one of the more rabid devotions of US foreign policy over many decades and administrations.

That doesn’t mean Putin isn’t Trump’s daddy?

Stop trying to lecture me about a belief I don’t hold, I don’t at all think the fucked up relationship the US has towards Iran started with Trump or is the result of some Russian conspiracy.

Nope, it is just there are two shit sandwhiches here aligning in the sky above us in a total eclipse of rationality.

I found William Shatner’s lemmy account.

Total crackpot armchair hypothesis: is this what it would look like if Russia’s plan was to escalate the war against Ukraine and Europe, and to do it while the United States is too occupied with other problems?

I don’t think Russia can meaningfully escalate without just resorting to nuclear bombs, but I think that would be a red line for China if it was just done arbitrarily as an escalation.

In every other respect Russia is near complete exhaustion militarily and any additional actions they take have to be done with elements triaged from other military efforts at the front… and as we are seeing Ukraine does not simply let Russia quietly remove intensity from its offensive without immediately punishing them in devastating localized counterattacks.

What Russia is doing here is trying to project limitless strength at the point they are at near exhaustion, they can’t really meaningfully tip the scales either way with Iran in my opinion, at least not to the degree the world seems to by default assume they can because they are a “military superpower”. Russia needs hostilities to pause in the Ukraine war soon or the problems at the frontline for them will begin to accelerate non-linearly. They also need to be given all of the defensive lines that Ukraine built in a shitty diplomatic deal because they don’t even remotely have the strength and vigor to power through them in the years long battle it would take to do so.

I don’t feel gotcha’d here at all, the way I see it the most important, vital aide that can be given to Ukraine right now are missile interceptors/air defense, and it is politically awkward and costly for Trump to completely gum the works up and give nothing to Ukraine, same story repeated in other European nations harboring radical rightwing elements, so thus an easy solution for shitty people like Trump is to bomb Iran, get Iran to attack Israel and then print money for military industrial companies by utterly depleting air defense stocks for years among NATO powers while panicking about it.

Then… there is no political cost to withholding crucial air defense missiles to Ukraine because there aren’t any and the question of helping Ukraine can be turned against the need to protect the home country blah blah blah.

The logic is pretty straightforward in my mind? All that matters is that you assume Putin is Trump’s daddy, and I think we can all agree on that right?

US missile companies sure as hell aren’t going to lobby against this sequence of events either…