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deadcarl.bsky.social
www.deadcarl.com Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history
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these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

submitted 10 hours ago • 135 comments

frankly there are people in the press who treat discredited views as somehow verboten and forbidden views that are interesting as such

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

A reminder that a lot of people are standing up against tyranny. They pay a price for it, and they are still doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

there is a certain leftist on the internet who also believes in a violent overthrow of capitalism but also believes that any trade offs at all in policy change or reform is unacceptable

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

There’s a cohort of people for whom politics is primarily an excuse for their own unhappiness. Pointing to large-scale problems is preferable to acknowledging middle class ennui. This is why it’s accurate to say they LARPing as revolutionaries—they’re too cynical to do it outright.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Not to overly defend the press but I'm pretty sure the reason it got forgotten by the news cycle (though if polls are any guide, not by the voters) is that Trump got busy crashing the entire fucking economy in the most gloriously stupid fashion he could yet devise.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

MAKE MORE WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Jamelle-Kristol-Clausewitzian-Hegel-Fukuyamist thought:

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

OH MY GOD HAS ANYONE READ WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 1790????

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Seriously. This Nextdoor post is why California has 25% of the nation’s homeless population.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Why u don’t day trade with actual capital kids

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

“What would our foreign policy look like if we stopped seeing the world as consisting of 200-odd states? What if we saw foreign policy as mostly about a world of 8 billion individuals—with the states usually standing in the way of how we would prefer, as liberals, to treat them?”

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

There's too many of you. You people are morons. Go follow these people who actually post coherent thoughts about military conflict and national security. You don't need to see me make fun of INDOPACOM on a daily basis. go.bsky.app/L8jnuau

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

I've gotten more hate mail for this piece than any other, a reminder that people myths that give people meaning die hard www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

This is also known as “the French Revolution”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

bad day for maga rn

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 5 days ago • 264 comments

People logged onto this website to bitch about how bad that recovery was the entire time it was happening and anytime I take this place too seriously, I remember that

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

This is what most of 2022 was supposed to look like, in every government building of every city

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

‘This magical thinking was the product of the missing link between military means and political ends; in a word, strategy. This is at the core of Clausewitz for, without the primacy of policy, strategy is impossible.’ Excellent piece by @deadcarl.bsky.social. www.deadcarl.com/p/the-myth-o...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

do not underestimate Beijing's ability to fumble this lol

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments