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As a side note, I’m not saying the South Vietnamese and Afghan militaries were perfect, but I do feel like we erase instances of courage and competence and underestimate the extent to which “train a force built around the assumption of US support, then withdraw US support” hurts an army.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

This morning, I signed an Executive Order seeking greater transparency from ICE in response to secret police tactics we have seen. The City of Boston will regularly submit FOIA requests to DHS on federal immigration enforcement activity, to find out who they are detaining and arresting, and why.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

People on Twitter are yelling at me that this is fake because the guy's patch says "US Army" Bitch, it's literally the Army National Guard. It's made up of a bunch of state-funded guards, but the feds organizationally categorize them as a division of the Army.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Bukele's crackdown on journalists, dissent and free speech under his regime's so-called "Foreign Agents Law" is destroying any semblance of democracy in El Salvador. It's no surprise that this cowardly authoritarian has found a friend and co-conspirator in Donald Trump.

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Those people that are upset about seeing the flag of Mexico in photos from LA are basically the same people that are cool with the Confederate flag being waved around.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

As a lifelong New Yorker the number of times someone has said to my face that they like Broadway or whatever, but could never live there and don't understand how anyone could. Like I couldn't live in your shit town either lady but I have some tact!

submitted 13 hours ago • 11 comments

I mean, kinda? Like, there is an unfair double standard and power asymmetry, which is why the protests are necessary to begin with. I think folks on here sometimes think describing a perception of political reality is the same as endorsing it. I think many things are true that I hope are false.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm not being funny but if an adult doesn't ask "who started this?" when they see chaos then they are an unserious human being.

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

Classic logic overflow, they logiced so hard they went into negative logic.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

also, one great way to support immigrant communities fighting against trump is to go march alongside them, american flags in hand, showing the multicultural tolerance and solidarity that American liberal democracy requires and celebrates

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

“The housing crisis convention center”.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Preprint, might not replicate, etc. etc. Anyway, this could be big www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

“We must apply our hands to the reinstallation of a lasting political party with the ability to govern”

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

gamers: no game is worth $80 me: so don't buy it, then. a lot of the best games are made on smaller budgets. gamers: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

stancil goes so hard when he's fighting the right and gets bogged down in bullshit interfactional arguments when he argues with leftists, and in that sense - i cannot avoid concluding - he is a true leftist

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Thomas Jefferson would be personally killing podcasters with hammers I can tell you that much

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

the anti-waymo stuff is dumb as shit, sorry. i am 100% behind fully automating drivers away. there is no fundamental loss to the human condition or whatever if my uber driver is a robot

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

Red Sox just recorded the stupidest double play I have ever seen. Dropped infield fly, safe at third, tagged out at second.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Update: We won.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Here's the moment he takes aim at her from behind, entirely, as far as I can tell, unprovoked

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 2 days ago • 381 comments

ESPN should never be allowed to broadcast another baseball game again.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NARVI FOR THREEEE!

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I see we're having another pass at "Are video games art?" and my answer is "yes". All of them are art, without splitting hairs. Disco Elysium is art. Super Mario Brothers is art. Pong is art. An aquarium screensaver is art. A hentai game is art.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

They’re all art. They’re all creative endeavours. Something doesn’t have to be good, or highbrow to be art. (But to answer the question as intended, the peaks of the form thus far: Disco Elysium, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, Slay the Princess, Papers Please, The Sims, Suzerain)

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

SOF never beating the allegations

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

really illustrates just what a pathetic bit of theater this is there are simply not large scale riots going on, there’s a clusterfuck of an ICE operation that went badly in one place yesterday if LA was full on rioting I promise everyone would know

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Emergency Rally in Solidarity with the People of Los Angeles to End ICE Raids Now ‼️🇺🇸✊ #Boston will stand for Liberty. Monday, June 9 @ 2pm Boston City Hall - Circle Plaza #NoKings #50501protest

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Today's @bostonglobe.com buries Trump's assault on Los Angeles on A11, with this incredible headline about ICE's "LA efforts" Trump has openly declared his intent to do this to Boston, too! How will the Globe cover ICE agents firing tear gas down Boylston Street? Maybe back page of Metro section?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I whole-heartedly believe this, to be clear. When you run around playing at being an insurgent, you are, to use the failed Messiah Ken Keysey's words, "being a part of their movie". You can't beat the fascists if you're a part of their movie, because their movie ends with them winning.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The entire DHS was created in the same post-9/11 delusional bloodlust that gave us the ‘suck on this’ invasion of Iraq

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Just to make it clear to you guys- having to yoink the NG away from the governor and dispatch them at platoon strength because 400 zoomers are camped out in a Home Depot parking lot is regime weakness. In indicates how little power you actually have.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments