how are we still doing this shit how do these people still - still! - get taken seriously

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“If I listen to that commentary every day, I would become afraid of my own shadow,” Mamdani said with a laugh. “And I think, for too long, we have allowed the right to dictate the entirety of the discussion. And we have limited ourselves to a response to a landscape that they have created.”

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"Russia hasn't invaded all those countries who joined NATO, that's why it's pointless" is the survivorship bias meme but somehow actually considered a real argument in a lot of IR circles

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For the media that is up in arms about AK's Double Dan Sullivan, I would like to point out that the Reps are doing the exact same thing in the NV Governor's race and nobody seems to care about this. For some reason, it's not a story when the Rs do it. thenevadaindependent.com/article/pac-...

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I cannot emphasize how stupid this* is, people have literally had to explain to ostensible (senior) professional military officers that flight time from the CONUS to wherever is measured in like 12-18 hours, not minutes (*'this' being the general idea of the army running air wars)

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