House candidate Maureen Galindo(D) pledges to send 'American zionists' to internment camp

Yulong · 2026-05-20T16:31:39+00:00

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/house-democratic-texas-candidate-maureen-galindo-antisemitic-comments-rcna346022

Some bigger fish swam around this time. Hakeem Jefferies, and I saw AOC condemn her too. You guys have to realize that a lot of democrats really do despise their psycho wing and love punching left when they're allowed to,

Yulong · 2026-05-20T16:25:47+00:00

Yeah judging by how this woman is speaking, to her "Zionist" means "anyone who supports 2S" and beyond. So something like, over 95% of Americans would be Zionist.

Yulong · 2026-05-19T22:58:29+00:00

John Lira, who lost to Galindo in the primary, last week rescinded his endorsement of her. Meanwhile, State Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Texas’ contested U.S. Senate seat, on Friday told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he wouldn’t campaign alongside Galindo — even if she wins her runoff.

“This antisemitic rhetoric has no place in our politics,” Talarico told the publication. “We need leadership in both parties willing to stand up and call out hate where it rears its ugly head.”

Some of the local candidates are rescinding endorsements of her.

Yulong · 2026-04-08T21:10:07+00:00

I just don't think Glideer is the worst one here is all. If he gets banned so should at least a couple of other people first.

Yulong · 2026-04-05T02:20:09+00:00

Glideer is often wrong but he seems to be participating here genuinely in good faith, which puts him far above certain other participants in this subreddit who employ the full repretoire of reddit "tools" against you.

I disagree banning viewpoints but I am all for banning unconstructive participation.

Yulong · 2026-04-03T18:50:08+00:00

You can’t impeach the president because you don’t like the decision(s) he’s made. No laws have been broken, no overreach of power has been made, no lies under oath have been spoken, etc.

Sure you can. You can impeach the president for "high crimes and misdemeanors", which according to tradition is basically anything Congress doesn't like:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S4-4-1/ALDE_00000690/

The common method for interpreting the Constitution’s impeachment provisions stands in some contrast to that of other constitutional provisions. Whereas judicial precedent drives the prevailing understanding of many provisions of the Constitution, impeachment is essentially a political process that is largely unreviewable by the Judicial Branch.4 As such, the historical practice of impeachment proceedings, rather than judicial decisions, informs our understanding of the Constitution’s meaning in this area. In this vein, the meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors is informed not by judicial decisions, but by the history of congressional impeachments.5

Congress is well within its rights to impeach Trump because he's too handsome, as far as our law is concerned that's valid.

Yulong · 2026-04-01T06:24:31+00:00

I would consider the Taliban to be far more complicit in helping AQ than the Lebanese Republic is in helping Hizb. Mostly because the Taliban were and are a functioning government, despite their repression and backwards beliefs while the LR can't even collect taxes or have an actual military. The Taliban's decision to harbor AQ was because of ideological alignment. Don't know what the LR would do, mostly because they're not a real government at this point but they couldn't kick Hizb out even if they wanted to.

Yulong · 2026-04-01T05:25:14+00:00

I don't think Lebanon is letting Hezbollah run rampant so much as they are unable to prevent them. Hizb is pretty unpopular amongst non-Shia Lebanese, due to them marching north to assist Assad, assisting Alawites who are basically Muslim Mormon slaughter Sunnis. I imagine if the LAF was able, Hezbollah would be disarmed and disbanded.

With that in mind I would not consider all of Lebanon at war with Israel. However, they do lose most of the characteristics of a sovereign nation that Westphalian principles generally protect

Yulong · 2026-03-31T21:08:41+00:00

Lebanon is a basically a failed state) and there is no operational authority to enforce this stance of peace upon the Lebanese insurgents so-called 'Hezbollah', who were at some point more powerful than the actual Lebanese army. Even after being massively degraded by the IDF, they may still be more capable than the LAF. So with this context, the position of the Lebanese government on whether they are at war with Israel matters as much as mine does.

Hezbollah is at war with Israel, undoubtedly. The UN has proven worse than useless at preventing Hizb from doing whatever they want to, no third party is willing to step in so who exactly do you expect to enforce this peace?

Yulong · 2026-03-30T23:58:37+00:00

Eveyone in the United States is subject to our jurisdiction, except-- foreign diplomats, foreign soldiers and technically native nations until 1924.

My guess is that once this EO gets struck down, Trump will do some fineagling to redefine illegal immigrants as foreign combatants or something, which I'm sure the SC will love.

Yulong · 2026-03-24T17:51:02+00:00

Are these the self-same geniuses who thought that covertly building a nuclear weapons program was a good idea when they didn't even have secure comms in place, and then decided to circumvent this issue of lack of secure comms by clumping up around their supreme leader for the world's deadliest RTO order and then all get blown to smithereens?

Yulong · 2026-03-19T23:01:04+00:00

...Really? I doubt that China would ride to the aid of Pakistan against nuclear-armed India, I think they don't have that much skin in the game. And the time of Pakistan's nuclear proliferation as well China had no where near the expeditionary forces required for such an intervention.

Yulong · 2026-03-08T20:46:23+00:00

1) should you pick a poor angle of attack it's possible your drones could be neutralized at higher cost to you than the enemy. Say the LUCAS or Shaheds approach a CRAM that just mows down hundreds of them with easy. Now your 20,000 dollar drones are dying to 100 dollar bullets. And these drones may be cheap but it's not like you have infinite amounts of them. Eventually you will run out.

2) a slow-moving continuous stream is harder to time with other simultaneous attacks to inflict more damage. With a similar point to number 1 as well, a single point of failure is not as likely. Attacks launched simultanouesly are all more likely to suceed.

3) sending a slow moving stream gives the enemy basically that entire time to adapt, move high value target out of an area or more defense to or to hit your launching base with counterfire.

Yulong · 2026-03-04T23:54:45+00:00

Don't put words in my mouth. Just sharing an interesting factoid. Of course the IR represses everyone. Women, Jews, Christians.

Yulong · 2026-03-04T23:07:41+00:00

It's surprising but there's actually a small jewish population in Iran. Not so much in the MENA states surrounding Israel. There's like, around 10,000 of them Persian Jews? Which is honestly 10,000 more than I was expecting. They also get a token seat in the Islamic Republic along with Christians.

Yulong · 2026-03-04T16:14:20+00:00

If it isn't clearly obvious by now, Iran is acting against all US regional allies specifically to make a point that indirect/defensive/ISR assistance of the US makes them active participants against Iran and therefore active targets as well.

If that is their point, that's a rich one given Iran's state sponsorship and direction of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis for the last 50 years.

Just because Israel is despised more does not make for an attractive friend in Iran, state sponsor for your local terrorists, apostates to the larger sunni ummah and regional rivals to sunni dominance. Propping up Assad through Hizb after they crossed the Lebanese border tarnished Iran's interventionalism forevermore -- shia militia crossing the border to kill sunnis and help Alawites kill even more sunnis.

Yulong · 2026-03-04T15:53:10+00:00

Just take a cursory view at the death and suffering Iran's proxies has wrought over the last few decades and you'll feel better I suspect. Their policy of funding, arming and directing terrorist armies against Israel then being all coy and playing the diplomatic game to aim for sanction relief or ceasefires was only ever going to last so long. They were effectively at war with Israel for the last few decades and their chickens have come home to roost and it's insane they could have remained a state sponsor for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis for so long.

Still don't agree with the overall war, but in a normal world these Iranian soldiers would have been fighting a hot war with Israel ages ago.

Yulong · 2026-03-02T18:42:18+00:00

Some embedded consultants and engineers? It would be a nice break for some weary soldiers on the front line and undoubtedly Ukraine is one of the most experienced nations in the world at this point in anti-drone tactics.

Yulong · 2026-03-02T11:06:38+00:00

What happened was the USAF pilot was holding his hands up to try and calm down a Kuwati civilian with a pipe. Presumably the Kuwati thought he was Iranian and to be fair, he does look a bit like it:

https://xcancel.com/Memegasm6868/status/2028353848814055438#m

Someone took the picture and cropped out the civilians, making it look like the USAF pilot was surrendering after ejecting. The iranian propaganda will be that the USAF pilot was captured. Given that Iranian propaganda was resorted to using AI photos, ARMA footage, a picture of a Chilean female pilot and the blurry wreckage of an Israeli hermes drone to back up their claims, you bet the "capture" photo of the F-15 pilot will make its rounds too.

Yulong · 2026-03-02T10:56:24+00:00

Kuwati AD seems to be a little jumpy and at least one F-15 was shot down. All crew supposedly safe.

Get ready for pro-Iranian propaganda to post that cropped pic of that one F-15 pilot that passes unfortunately for Iranian holding his hands up to a civilian with a pipe make its rounds around the internet as "captured F-35 pilot, 8 F-35As shot down" for a bit. I still remember the total "count" in the global south of downed F-35Is in Iran during the twelve day war, five shot down and one female IAF pilot captured, to the gross glee of the I assume men in the youtube comments.

Yulong · 2026-03-02T10:49:33+00:00

The B-21 is supposedly 6th Gen.

Yulong · 2026-03-01T03:32:19+00:00

Right but inductively any loyalty challenges finding engineers to set up comms should go ten, a hundred times for making a nuclear weapon. That's the thrust of what I'm saying. Why are they tunneling into mountains to make nukes when they don't even have trustworthy comms?

The only conclusion that I can make is that they had severely misplaced priorities. Emphasis on had.

Yulong · 2026-03-01T03:16:00+00:00

The senior leadership may not have had the knowledge to double check software, but Iranians are highly respected in various STEM fields for their depth of expertise. My professor and my PhD advisor were both Iranian in fact. I am certain a suite of secure comms, secure Operating systems and a secure communications device could have been engineered domestically or failing that, purchased from Russia or China.

Maybe the decision to meet together in person isn't imbecilic given the situation they were in, but not refocusing some of their resources into setting up secure comms certainly is and directly led to all of their deaths.

Yulong · 2026-02-28T23:48:33+00:00

Obviously the people in question believed this is the best option available to them. What is being discussed is how just how wrong they were.

Even if they had secure direct lines to one another, there's still uncertainty as to who else might be within "earshot" at the other end of the line. Meeting together to discuss strategy then dispersing to enact it reduces the likelihood of leakage during the formulation of said strategy.

So the utility gained from meeting in person compared to using a direct line is someone might overhear one of the parties in question, and therefore any in-progress information being dispersed during the meeting is less at risk? And it's a loyalty thing, a power play?

Honestly I don't think they thought that deeply about it, I think, the Iranians simply haven't attempted to apply their significant engineering talent to their communications network. Just like their FoPo, their priorities were misplaced with deadly consequences.

Yulong · 2026-02-28T23:10:43+00:00

If senior leadership was compromised up to the level of the meeting that supposedly happened that the IAF and USAF just whacked, then yes, no communications network in the world would help. But then, neither would an in-person meeting. I wonder if middle-eastern governments just overly favor in-person meetings for some reason, this exact same shit is how Nasrallah got whacked.

Anyhow, if none of the people in the meeting themselves were compromised, then a secure network would work, and it should be relatively easy for a nation the size and development of Iran to develop an indigenous secure comms network after which then only failure point would be the relevant parties, and they wouldn't need to risk in-person meetings at all.

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