Dead Carl
@deadcarl.bsky.social
www.deadcarl.com Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents. Kiran Pfitzner
i really feel americans underestimate just how much racism there is abroad, especially since there’s this kkk stuff in china and also the racist ways southeast asian countries talk about each other
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · yesterdaySure would be awkward if China were facing a demographic crisis that could be easily solved by embracing immigration from Africa but they chose to stoke xenophobia & nationalism instead
'Mizrahi Jews will magically realize they're actually Arabs' is racist delusion.
Cuddles_the_destroyer@cuddlessmash.bsky.social · 18h agowhat the fuck am I reading lmao
So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
It’s called coup d’oeil you filthy casual
Never stop poasting@persistentpoasting.bsky.social · 23h agohonestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
Some thoughts on this: First, “this story focuses on the perspective of the perpetrators” is not good criticism. The perspective of the victims is simply a different story, and it is incoherent to criticize one story for not being another.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · yesterdayTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterdaySo the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...
in the 1970's, the life expectancy for kids with cystic fibrosis was 15-20 years. today it's 65. in the 1970's, kids with acute myeloid leukemia had a 14% chance of making it 5 years. today it's 64% in 1960 the average life expectancy for kids born with Down Syndrome was 10 years. today it's 60.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayEven healthcare is kind of a complicated case. In the past you were paying for treatments that didn't work, or sometimes not paying because no treatment was available. Yes, treating cancer costs a fortune... but fifty years ago, a lot of the time, the treatment plan was "wait for death"
“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's like what that German guy always used to say. Sustained kinetic strikes in lieu of a cessation in hostilities are negotiations by other means
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
>makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness >makes threat >doesn’t follow through >signals weakness
This is clever, but Odysseus’s sin is not sacrificing Sinon—he volunteers. It is in not trusting him enough to tell him the plan. Sinon felt dishonored by Odysseus’s lack of trust, not by the sacrifice he volunteered for.
charjaebug@jael.bsky.social · 2d agothe biggest and best movie of the year revolves around the perils and horrors that come with sacrificing a trans life in the name of a short term victory
this is a real thing that happens a lot and it’s a total misunderstanding of capitalism and i really wish that more loud and online anti-capitalists would take the time to understand what it is they think they’re against, most of them are wrong about what they think they’re fighting
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 2d agothere is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create
Germany has so many lol. The woo outnumbers the real pharmacies
Your Ad Here@cooluser354.bsky.social · 2d agooh my god no it does not. Canada has maha type cranks. The UK does. Japan does, Germany does, Sweden does, India does, France does IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH YES ARE BROKEN MAHA IS A EUGENICS MOVEMENT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
Yeah, sorry, but some folks on here just got straight-up outrage farmed by the Verge. This is fine!
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoGood lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
POV: You’re a JSOC operator in Tehran who just heard the NYSE opening bell
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d agoStill wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours
“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's like what that German guy always used to say. Sustained kinetic strikes in lieu of a cessation in hostilities are negotiations by other means
I think in one sense I agree, but I think it's probably worth noting that paramilitary sub-state violence has a tendency to tilt toward escalatory non-discriminatory violence as people seek to eliminate any potential security rivals. So I think it's fair enough to call for cooler heads to prevail.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d agoI think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...
It isn't the most significant event, perhaps, but I find Fletcher's decision to calmly pass command of the battle to Spruance after Yorktown was crippled at Midway one of those tests of character a great many commanders fail, which he passed.
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d agohere's a hot take for US carrier commanders in WW2 Spruance > Fletcher > Halsey
People do not understand that housing is a market, not a bunch of microsegments.
i think continuously courting ravening vandals by coyly hinting youll do a bunch of terrible bullshit and then not doing it is not a strategy which pays off in perpetuity
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2d agoMAHA is incredibly passionate, super dangerously wrong about an infinite variety of things, and very gullible. so I’m pretty much fine with cozying up to them rhetorically during election szn as long as you don’t do any of the shit they want because they want it
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
This is the problem with populism: you cannot build a republic on a foundation of conspiracies. Corruption and special interests are real challenges, but reducing politics to “us” against “them” infantilizes the electorate and sows the seeds of authoritarian rule.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
