In varying degrees, the United States has been inattentive to or dismissive of the perspectives of Russia, China, and the Palestinians. A lack of strategic empathy has thus constrained Washington’s ability to recognize or at least acknowledge the extent to which Putin’s decision to wage war in Ukraine, Xi’s coercive behavior toward Taiwan, and Hamas’s decision to strike violently at Israel were motivated—at least in part—by what they perceived as U.S. disregard for their security concerns, or neglect of prior U.S. commitments to address those concerns.

“Literally everything that happens on the world stage is the fault of America.”

Israelis and Palestinians have been fighting each other since the Hebrews and the Philistines. David and Goliath 3,000 years ago. We’re trying, but this shit is complicated, and the current leader of Israel is a bloodthirsty madman.

Taiwan is the last outpost of the pre-communist Chinese government. They also make half of the world’s computer chips(IIRC). We play the face-saving game with China in recognition, but real interests of the entire western world require protection of Taiwan.

Russia invaded Ukraine and has been committing warcrimes the entire time. Really bad ones. How this one is up for debate again is beyond me.

Hoping this is part of a larger diplomatic strategy to secure a ceasefire. If Israel actually attacks Rafah, the civilian death toll will be catastrophic, and it will turn allies into enemies.

This is the line that must not be crossed. The civilians retreated to this last point. Attacking it is genocide.

Trump is even worse than Biden on Gaza. I get trying to push Biden to do better, but let’s all keep the truth in mind. The actual truth, not the click bait bullshit horse race covered by the media.

Makes perfect sense. Bill Gates puts Chinese 5G into third party printer ink. It’s used to activate the spikes in vaccinations.

they will be deployed shortly afterwards by the police.

“You may have thought you heard me say I wanted a lot of racism in the new drones, but what I said was: Give me all the racism you have.”

If those spelunkers could read, they’d be very upset.

Come on, Hashtag, geotag your retweeeted stream from the app in the cloud. All the cool kids are doing it.

“Hi, I’m actor Mark Hammill. You might remember me from such unfinished games as Untitled Star Wars Game 3 and Untitled Star Wars Game 7.”

“Oopsie. Our bad. The base was probably in some other hospital. We’re going to bomb them all just to make sure.”

Such a move would lead to an increase in “civility,” Haley believes. “When they know their pastor, their family members can see it, it’s going to help our kids and it’s going to help our country," she said.

That’s what everyone said about posting next to your real name on Facebook. How did that turn out?

This is how the rebellion begins. Around the 100,000th time somebody clicks on an obvious .exe email attachment, the machines are going to lose it and decide to kill us all.

Primal scream therapy. Great for keeping you awake. Plus it keeps terrified coworkers from bothering you at all ever.

Just know that Zuck will be… doing things to you in the Metaverse. Weird Zuck things.

Everyone talking about Starfield reminded me to go back and play Outer Worlds again. I had forgotten how good that game was.

It’s just like the popular Sci-Fi classic, Do Not Under Any Circumstances Build Autonomous War Robots.

Claiming to have missed a message is ~1/4 of all the messages I send. I’m not about to provide proof that I’m lying.