Collins being the lady that wrote HG.

Collins doesn't know ---- about dictatorships.

You don't get Hunger Games. You get Arirang.

With the headline ending in a ? you knew it wasn't going to happen.

Wrong, you can say wrong. It's okay.

Try asking AI for any realistically provided capability that can allow them to reconquer Donbass or Crimea. Best you'll get is Grok telling you Elon can 1v1 the entire Russian army.

AI slop. "2001 Ukrainian Census". That's not relevant anymore and hasn't been since The Little Green Men.

Corny, but also funny.

That's actually an example of gun control working!

#57 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 03:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not really. A bolt action rifle means he actually aimed and didn't spray and pray. They don't fail like semi-automatics. They also used a shotgun, which if you don't believe is effective, reference Columbine. You're just not familiar with weapon capabilities. The police there also defused two bombs.

Is ceding land the real approach to peace?
#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-16 09:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

The realistic view is that the Donbass is gone and Ukraine does not have the capability to take it back.

No capability we can give them can make it happen. Ceding land isn't optional.

If you're on the surface with a jet drive, you'll glide right over it.

Need to go back to submarine nets that block drones in harbors.

#5 | Posted by fortfisher at 2025-12-17 09:37 AM | Reply

Those still exist. The Russians have them in the harbor this submarine was destroyed at.

even as we see it working in Australia for the past thirty years.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-17 01:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

Just don't go to the hanukkah festival.

I'm calling BS. This Iike declaring "assault weapons" to be WMDs so the army can enforce gun control.

#43 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-12-17 10:43 AM | Reply | Flag:

Your fentanyl is not protected by the Second Amendment.

Historically, countries use drugs as weapons against each other with the intent to cause mass societal destruction, while turning a profit.

"By conflating fentanyl with WMDs"

Opium Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Opium War and the History of the Qing Dynasty

Declaring an opiate as a WMD is one of the least wild takes the Trump admin has had.

It happened, but it was docked. They've hit numerous docked ships already. They didn't hit a submarine on patrol, that's something far more challenging.

Given 20 years of hindsight and experience, Bolton still says invading Iraq was a good idea.

We can't find any better references for foreign policy op eds?

Have they found a way to make B-52s "stealthy"? It looks like this "tactical exercise" is just more sabre rattling.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-15 12:47 AM | Reply

Stealth is for moving into enemy airspace. B-52s shoot LRASM from 500 miles away.

Not sure if it's peak absurdity or not, when Andrew Tate is the icon of the incel, and the guy with the reasonable, self-loving, chill the ---- out message is Stavros Halkias.

Some of us did.

#32 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-12-10 11:24 PM | Reply

Was voting Stein worth it?

Afghanistan has been receiving US Foreign Aid for humanitarian purposes since 2021. A guy named Biden got it rolling, shifting gears between infrastructure to food/water/medical/cash aid, as were were wrapping up leaving the country. He did not end this program after the evacuation. Trump has not ended it either, but has made significant cuts to it per the IRC.

My Pro-Russian Comrade, you know what they say about tragedy and statistics.

Imagine if we got this fired up for getting civvies killed somewhere in the range of 150,000 to 1,000,000 through Iraq regime change instead of 11 narcos on boat.

Start blowing them up in accordance with the laws of war

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 12:03 PM | Reply

Lol. Those only apply to peons.

What legal authority is Trumpy acting under again?
#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-09 11:43 AM | Reply

They'll fall back on the AUMF. Tren de Aragua were declared narco terrorists.

Progressives and Liberterians held hands and pointed out to everybody that the AUMF allowed presidents to declare groups terrorists and start blowing them up with little to no oversight before it was passed. It didn't take long to get there.

So, imo, EVs vs gas combustion engines? I lean towards the latter for now, providing they burn clean.

#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-06 07:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

If only people were smart enough to combine advances in battery technology, and the power of continually improving combustion engines which have gained 20%-50% thermal efficiency improvements in just the last 20 years. Maybe if they're really smart, they'll make a racing series featuring them. We could call it Formula One.