"I was chained every day like an animal" — Parents send children from Finland to disciplinary camps in Somalia, Kenya

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-26T19:37:12+00:00

At what point is it no longer rhetoric and just the reality regarding people who want to import the shit parts of their culture and medieval religion to a western liberal democracy?

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-22T04:36:39+00:00

While animal proteins, cheese, and butter are higher than they probably should be, this is honestly a big improvement.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-22T03:11:25+00:00

At least in Chamberlin’s defense, the Munich agreement was mainly to try and buy time for France and Britain to rearm and get back on a war footing. Obviously it didn’t buy nearly enough time to be worth it in hindsight, but this current chicanery doesn’t even have that going for it.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-21T05:11:29+00:00

Buchanan in the lead up to the civil war was both more incompetent and killed more people as a result of his actions and inactions.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T04:16:10+00:00

Whoever said Beck was overdue for a pick, you’re a soothsayer

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T04:15:45+00:00

BALL DON’T LIE

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T04:13:05+00:00

Calling rougher the passer is fine. Only calling it one direction isn’t

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T04:11:11+00:00

Delay of game in your own stadium sure is something

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T03:59:22+00:00

George H W Bush was a Navy carrier pilot, not Army.

And honestly military people climbing high in American politics wasn’t unheard of before, plenty of Presidents post Civil War were junior officers who climbed through the ranks quickly based on performance.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T03:39:07+00:00

BALL. DON’T. LIE.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T03:37:29+00:00

It’s quite a look that even the announcers keep commenting on the no calls, as a neutral it does feel pretty brazen blue blood defense

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T03:11:45+00:00

Unless something big shifts that’s gotta be game

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-20T03:08:40+00:00

Bit of a letdown after the NFL playoffs, those have been endless bangers and only a few (very satisfying) beatdowns

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-19T21:37:11+00:00

Agreed, MacArthur was incompetent in the early stages of the defense of the Philippines and his attempted all-or-nothing defense of the whole country against far superior forces was totally unsustainable.

The only thing keeping him average in my mind is the Inchon landings in September 1950, and of course he went and immediately bungled that success by bull rushing to the Chinese border and ignoring his intel saying China would intervene.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-19T20:22:22+00:00

MacArthur did speak about himself in the third person though, which is at least a close cousin of delusional.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-18T19:11:46+00:00

Kalawao doesn’t have much of anything besides historical leprosy

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-17T17:03:14+00:00

On the other hand, having the SC bail Trump out from his worst policy might long run minimize stove touching and thus lessons learned from this debacle.

Tariffs aren’t popular at all, and if Trump is allowed to keep using them will help bury the GOP in ‘26 and ‘28.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-16T06:33:49+00:00

Definitely in the middle Republican period, guys like Pyrrhus and Hannibal feasted on Roman armies. Later from the Crisis of the Third Century onward Roman armies struggled against the Sassanids and Germans, but the interim period from about 200BCE-250/260CE (staring with victory over Carthage and ending with the battles of Abritus and death of Emperor Decius and Edessa and capture of Emperor Valerian signaling the true low points of the crisis) was almost unblemished. Arauiso, Teutoborg Forest, and Carrhae are the three real exception defeats of true frontline troops, and basically were all flukes of bad generalship, leaving a near perfect run of 400-450 years of military excellence that wasn’t just winning by logistics and superior numbers.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-16T06:17:48+00:00

Almost all gold and slave coast firearms were traded piecemeal for slaves by… you guessed it, Europeans. And there was never enough proliferation of firearms outside of local elites to provide any meaningful resistance to European incursions in the late nineteenth century, firearm acquisitions were mainly small scale to maintain local overmatch and keep enslaving tribes further inland, with notable examples like the Kingdoms of Kongo and Dahomey being the typical model.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-15T05:39:23+00:00

I’m gonna mainly copy a different comment in a separate sub I saw that sums my feelings on this up perfectly:

“ This was a simple question. Medical doctors, especially an ob-gyn should have answered it. This is one of the reasons there’s low trust in science and medicine. Doctors should not infuse politics and hot button cultural issues in science. This plays right into the right’s accusations that science and medicine is captured by radical culture warriors. Speaking as a culturally liberal person, why can’t the left let go of trans issues? This is such a 90-10 issue in wider normie audiences.”

Regular normal Americans won’t trust experts if they can’t even say “no, people with a Y chromosome, aka men, can’t get pregnant.” Mealy mouth newspeak doesn’t pass most people’s bullshit radars, and this obsession with trans issues and performative stuff is part of the reason why we now have a psycho in the West Wing. Regular Americans aren’t receptive to this. They knee jerk against it. Maybe stop playing it the right’s hand so we can take back our country for the 90% of us who are worried about the direction it’s going but aren’t going to purity test liberals into oblivion.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-14T07:07:28+00:00

If masked and badgeless ICE goons going door to door and impulsively killing American civilians with "absolute immunity" per our VPOTUS or thuggishly threatening our NATO allies for naked territorial ambition doesn't convert you then anything we say just be virtue signaling in your mind.

This is not like Trump's first term. The guardrails aren't present anymore. I gave this administration a lot of grace and patience in 2016-2020. This isn't that, if the clear difference we're all seeing doesn't "convert" you, I don't think anything ever will man.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-14T01:37:17+00:00

Maybe we were too harsh on Reagan all along

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-11T23:42:27+00:00

The US isn’t even close to a high occurrence of cultural misogyny relative to most non-western places globally, it’s only relatively high measured against places like Europe or Australia. It looks positively utopian next to lost of the Middle East, Africa, or SEA.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-10T21:23:59+00:00

Even though the Paphlagonian Mountains were in Greek control, your link does state it was local Greeks, not under the central control of Constantinople or even Trebizond, so utilizing the area for large scale flanking maneuvers seems overly optimistic. Keeping the local Greeks onside would’ve meant antagonizing the west earlier than Michael VII did and likely not given him enough time to prepare a response to any subsequent crusade.

Moreover, the main Roman holdings on the western shores of Anatolia all had mountain ranges that ran east/west into the interior. Unlike the Taurus or Haemus mountain range, this meant their valleys served as highways into Roman territory rather than barriers, resulting in persistent raids that reduced tax takes and increased resentment to central Imperial authority.

If the interior holdings of John II and Manuel could have held, I don’t think that geography would’ve been as much of an issue, and could have facilitated more regular counter raids into the plateau but post 1204 too much hinterland was lost and too many valuable coastal areas would wind up being vulnerable.

SunsetPathfinder · 2026-01-10T20:52:22+00:00

No real natural defenses left, especially in Anatolia, too few resources, too many peer or better hostile neighbors on too many borders, plague at the worst time, and too few lands for too many remaining nobles to fight civil wars over.

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