Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.

Plenty of people are chomping at the bit for a Glorious New War we can all watch on the TV.

Russia is right at our doorsteps

That hasn’t been true in over 40 years. And even when it was true, Europeans suffered far more under the paranoid police states of their own governments than any cross border conflict.

Personally I prefer the first option.

Not like any of us have a material say, but enjoy conscription I guess.

• War with Venezuela

• Intervention in Nigeria

• Bankrolling Gaza Genocide

• ICE pogroms at home

• Navy circling Taiwan like a school of sharks

• Ongoing conflict with Iran and Yemen

How many wars can the US juggle at once?

We can’t be in a recession. The BLS hasn’t released it’s big “we’re in a recession” report yet.

Besides, polymarket says everything is fine. Who can I trust more than degenerate gamblers?

Eh, if you run away from fascism instead of fighting against it, it will simply eventually find you as it spreads like a disease.

The goal of war is not to die for your country but to make the other fucker die for his.

The Ukrainian military has done a far better job getting it’s people killed than killing fascists. There’s no benefit to getting dragged into an army that won’t train you, arm you, or deploy you to maximum beneficial effect.

You can’t ask bullies politely to stop making you suffer, because they never respected you in the first place.

This isn’t a schoolyard brawl, it’s a high tech killing field. If a neighborhood bully fires a cruise missile at you, there’s no benefit to standing your ground.

Biggest global rearming since WW1 and people are cheering about it like they don’t understand what happens next.

Big Tent, tiny VIP section

They’ve got all these bags of money and we needed to push a bunch of people out to make room for it

Who wants to be the first to martyr themselves getting turned into Swiss cheese after firing the first shot?

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Is a regular hater and chronic pot stirrer. You’ll get used to them.

Where are the bearers of arms who bear arms in case of government tyranny?

They’re the guys in the ICE uniforms, more often than not

It’s funny, because I’m the exact opposite. I’ll be absolutely burnt out at the end of a week, but put me in a crowd of people Friday night and I get juiced to joke and sing and ham it up until morning

She could file charges attacking a member of Congress

Against whom? They were masked and otherwise unidentified.

her bodyguards

Did she have bodyguards at the scene?

Then use your powers in Congress to do something about it!

Is she not doing exactly that?

WTF is with Jeffries?

It’s his job to make sure the US House doesn’t actually try to do anything, because he considers any actual effort to do politics a distraction from raising money for 2026

No wonder they keep losing, they don’t even try to make the appearance of resistance.

They’ll win '26 in a landslide. And then they’ll claim their Do Nothing strategy was vindicated

needlessly oversimplifying to imply that all or only western governments work with authoritarian leaders

What else do you call it when a multi-trillion dollar corporate enterprise sells surveillance data to every racist sheriff’s office and royal secret police and aspiring military dictator from South Dakota to Siam?

I wish we were oversimplifying things.

Han Solo was a Tankie

McCarthyists unironically believe this.

Part of the problem with vilifying a culture for nearly a century is that your audience will eventually lose the ability to distinguish between the individual and the stereotype.

That’s how we got Japanese Internment in the 1940s. That’s a big reason for the anti-Venezuela hysteria in the modern day.

That’s beautiful