petermjuul.bsky.social
Dog dad. Swiftie and whatever the functional equivalent is for Prince. Air and space enthusiast. Ancient philosophy enjoyer. Coffee hoarder.
Director of national security at the Progressive Policy Institute. Posts are my own and therefore probably bad.
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immediate term and the contracts that have already gone out, though it's not like this crew really respects the sanctity of government contracts
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it's not atypical for a party out of power in the post-1968 age of hollow political parties
the trouble right now is that we've got an atypical president and supine majority party in Congress
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At the same time it’s hard to believe that that utility justifies the mountains of cash burned to get there
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hegseth needs to read some theory
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those "bureaucratic fools" were onto something
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and in retrospect Sisko recognizes this and says he should have shut the whole thing down once Garak started leading him down this particular path
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To the extent there's a Jessup in that episode, it's Garak - Sisko never consciously approves anyone's murder, but Garak takes the logical next step without his approval and tells Sisko that that's why he came to him for help the first place.
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chaotic good is lawful good that curses on occasion
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So bizarre that the Army lapped up extraordinarily self-serving postwar accounts from German generals as if they were the gospel truth
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He has a checkered history of management at SpaceX, too (which not incidentally is the business of his most closely tied to federal contracts and technical support), especially over time - the more directly involved he gets, the worse the company performs.
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can't leave if you say you were never there
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it's also exhausting to be constantly told that the thing you thought was good is bad, actually
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the problem comes when you try to build houses and The Groups mount lawsuits to stop you
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alas I'm afraid the age gap here is only five years and they didn't hook up until he was at least 18
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not just the men
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I mean: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSg...
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It seems pretty clear that it's for people who want order and stability at any price after the dithering of the Republic and the chaos of the Clone Wars. Never mind that Palpatine had no intention of delivering - it's quite explicit in RotS that that's the bargain.
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He is, at base, a moron
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the whole "10,000 US KIA three years running to no real end" had much more to do with it
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strangely enough it's also combined with this attitude: theonion.com/marilyn-mans...
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Actually makes a lot of sense when you find out
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I mean Ds don't have the same internal dysfunctions that make R members quit Congress after a couple terms because they're tired of dealing with the crazies
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“98 percent of us will die at some point in our lives.”
youtu.be/gfLtWQ3Kjwc?...
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it makes more sense when you realize SV's attitude toward AI is more that of a millenarian cult than anything else
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Also Darth Vader literally shows up in Rogue One so it’s not really this huge insurmountable narrative problem
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in my experience it's an online phenomenon that bled into the real world at least a decade ago now - demands for group therapy override any other organizational purpose
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Obviously treatlerites
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yeah I have no problem with Yoda going into exile.
and say what you want about Obi-Wan he at least roasted Anakin hard
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Andor doesn’t work without Rogue One which doesn’t work without Ep IV… so, yeah
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yes and also do not expose your children to the sequel trilogy
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you either die a hero or live long enough to become an anime or jrpg villain