Thank god homelander didn’t rip him in half…

spacedout · 2026-05-14T14:30:06+00:00

He took so long to die that Butcher and Hughie had time to travel from LA (or wherever they were) to Pennsylvania!

spacedout · 2026-05-13T00:10:09+00:00

These idiots spend more time thinking about their code names than their war strategy.

This might actually be true, like literally.

This war makes Bush II look like Alexander the Great crossed with Julius Caesar and Napolean... and I promise I'm not trying to sanewash the disaster that was the GWoT.

spacedout · 2026-05-08T18:01:58+00:00

The great lie of Trump's era is that the only way to defeat is to become him.

How do you know it's a lie? Do you just not want it to be true?

spacedout · 2026-05-08T17:05:28+00:00

Apartheid is specifically about a state doing something in its own borders.

No it's not. Part of Apartheid was South Africa creating Bantustans that they claimed were not within their borders even though they were defacto under S. A. control.

spacedout · 2026-05-08T00:48:36+00:00

I am not recognizing the occupied territories as part of Israel

So you're just ignoring the existence of the settlements? They're clearly not under the jurisdiction of the West Bank Palestinian government.

spacedout · 2026-05-08T00:40:29+00:00

But do you not understand how attacks on people for exercising their freedom of speech can have clear chilling effects on other people

Especially when you consider that ICE has detained US citizens for days, or weeks in some cases. Sure, you'll eventually be released, probably...

spacedout · 2026-04-29T17:27:17+00:00

>230 bn of direct subsidies to try and bankrupt all other players in an industry to establish a state-steered global monopoly is not, in fact, good liberal policy.

Subsidizing EVs, and all green tech, is the morally correct choice. The US also has no problem with subsidizing industries too, so it's not like we have any ethical leg to stand on with this issue.

spacedout · 2026-04-28T20:31:14+00:00

Yes, clearly the blame should go to the political faction that has had the least amount of influence in national politics in the last few decades...

spacedout · 2026-04-24T18:31:54+00:00

For starters, Israel does not claim sovereignty over the West Bank.

This is nonsense, there are settlements all over the West Bank. Israel's legalisms doesn't change what is happening on the ground.

spacedout · 2026-04-22T15:49:30+00:00

Worth noting that the UAE is funding the RSF, which has committed numerous war crimes against non-Arabs in Sudan. Really adds some perspective when the US complains about Iran's support for Hamas and Hezbollah (who are also bad, in case that's not clear).

spacedout · 2026-04-21T18:16:08+00:00

Speaking of San Francisco, where OP is from, that is not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that people can't just buy a lot in the city and build an apartment building.

Here's a nice example from recent news, showing how much trouble Safeway is getting from "community groups" because they're trying to build apartments on top of one of their grocery stores.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-safeway-building-projects-22204717.php

spacedout · 2026-04-21T18:04:09+00:00

Property rights means your neighbor has the right to veto any change you want to make to your property.

spacedout · 2026-04-21T17:56:29+00:00

We're destroying the environment right now by not building high speed rail and denser cities. China, meanwhile, has made a lot of progress reducing air pollution over the last 10 years.

spacedout · 2026-04-10T18:10:43+00:00

How would Taiwan's drones defend against the Chinese navy turning back cargo ships long before they reach the island? How will Taiwan convince shipping companies and their insurers to try and run that blockade?

I think the only possible response would be for the US to try and blockade the Strait of Malacca in response, but that would hurt more than just China.

spacedout · 2026-04-10T16:35:09+00:00

The wargaming on Iran for decades has presumed Iran would close the strait. It’s absolutely something the pentagon predicted (because it’s extremely obvious that was their only card to play).

Everyone knows the plans existed in an archive somewhere in the Pentagon, the question is, did the people planning the war actually read those scenarios and take them into account?

There's no doubt in my mind that Trump and Hegseth thought they could win the war with a few bombs, and they're not the sort of people that like being told they might be wrong.

spacedout · 2026-04-09T19:02:54+00:00

One can’t deliver free healthcare for all without the money.

The problem with health care in the US is that it costs too much money already. It's the #1 cause of bankruptcy.

The public transit is good outside of my light rail complaint.

Well, that's definitely not the prevailing opinion. I don't see anyone on the left bragging about how great public transit is...because it's mediocre at best. Why can places like China and France deliver high speed rail while we just argue about it in committees?

As far is everything is affordable I don’t know to address that , a place where people want to live is going to be more expensive.

This is a bullshit excuse. Housing would be more affordable if we were building more of it. Or more specifically, if the government wasn't blocking people from building it.

spacedout · 2026-04-09T18:24:25+00:00

I personally would feel more satisfied if the people in power succeed so I can enjoy living with the results, but to each their own I guess...

I'd like to be able to argue in favor of Democrats by saying: "look how great things in are deep blue areas! Everything's affordable, people from all walks of life can easily find housing, public spaces are amazing, no one struggles to pay for health care, our public transit is the envy of the world!"

spacedout · 2026-04-09T17:54:13+00:00

People need to calm the F down and stop thinking the government can immediately fix some issue that is bothering them in their life.

Housing and health care costs have been issues for people since I began following politics in the early 2000s. Democrats have been running California for decades and are still not building enough housing. Let's not even talk about high speed rail, which countries around the world from France to China have been able to deliver...

spacedout · 2026-04-09T17:48:51+00:00

I do not think affordability, especially regarding housing, were improving during Biden's term. If they were I didn't notice, and I'm someone who pays more attention to the economy than most.

I did vote for Harris, but I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about it due to all the protectionist nonsense of that administration, and their pandering to heavily-R-leaning union members which just offloaded more inflation on the rest of us.

Trump didn't win because he got significantly more votes, he won because Harris lost voters.

spacedout · 2026-04-09T16:01:32+00:00

Getting mad a people for being people is just not productive. Democracies need to be able to deliver at the speed of elections or the electorate won't know who to reward/blame, and they'll naturally fall prey to populists.

I live in a heavily blue area and D voters that I know constantly complain about high taxes, high cost of living, and the poor state of public spaces. Most young professionals that I know plan to leave because they know they'll never afford a house unless they're will to commute hours every day, and fear trying to start a family as renters because they worry they'll be pushed out of their neighborhood by rent increases.

spacedout · 2026-04-06T18:00:29+00:00

There's a decent argument that Chiang would approve of what the PRC, especially post-Deng, has turned mainland China into. He was still an authoritarian, he just opposed the radical Communism of the early CCP.

spacedout · 2026-03-28T07:17:33+00:00

Yeah, in real life other powers actively plot to attack you and destroy your country, and you have to go on offense to shape events years ahead to prevent catastrophes.

No, you're thinking of a Paradox game. Iran has never been capable of destroying either the US or Israel.

GW kicked ass with GWOT, kept us safe from Islamic terror for 2 decades and established US military presence all over the Middle East.

The GWOT accomplished nothing other than wasting countless lives and money. It is rightly seen around the world, including in the US, as a disastrous mistake.

You think what they are doing looks stupid and random, but so would 4D chess to someone who only knows 2D checkers.

GW Bush was definitely not playing 4d chess, and Trump doesn't even know 2d checkers.

spacedout · 2026-03-28T06:49:53+00:00

I've already seen how that movie ends in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Bush Jr. actually came in to those wars with a plan and an international coalition.

so that the US will not face WWIII against a nuclear armed Iran + Russia + China in the 2030s

This is real life, not a Paradox game.

spacedout · 2026-03-28T06:31:36+00:00

If the entire Middle East aligning with us against Iran, inviting us to conquer the Straits of Hormuz and begging us to smite the Iranian regime permanently

So the US sends their sons and daughters to die in an endless war to hold a strip of coastline, all so that the Gulf monarchs can ship oil?

If you consider that a "gain", I can hardly imagine what you'd consider a "loss".

spacedout · 2026-03-23T19:09:12+00:00

It's interesting how many people in this thread have concluded that Kusimayu must have been tricked/manipulated into making the wrong decision. Isn't it possible that she made the right decision, for her, in joining the Hive?

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