Sam (ABeardedPanda)
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Paradox Interactive School of International Relations (ongoing) I hate your favorite dictator. Spicy liberal. (He/Him) https://www.offensive-bias.com/
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abeardedpanda.bsky.social
Greetings new arrivals. I'm Sam and for the most part I am but a humble shitposter.

I have a background in studying Nazi Germany, the late Russian Empire and the early USSR which I thought would be a neat party trick but then Timothy Snyder started appearing on MSNBC and now I hate everything
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specialkhersoncat.bsky.social
‼️Russia attacked a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region.

This morning, in the vicinity of Kherson, Russian forces deliberately targeted a convoy of trucks belonging to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) using drones and artillery.
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hughster.bsky.social
X is quite literally funding the defence of the domestic extremists the government is prosecuting but they still won't stop using it
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snowden.st
one drawback to the saturation of the term “genocide” in our world is a seeming association with the term as a totalizing end, as a black screen finish to reality. that’s just not true, and in fact hides one of the most essential, fraught, and contested phases: post-genocide.
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noelreports.com
China has significantly helped Russia gain an edge in fiber-optic drone tech. Beijing sharply increased exports of key components like fiber optics and lithium batteries for FPV drone production. While claiming neutrality, China allowed a surge in parts that now fuel Russia’s domestic drone assembly
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abeardedpanda.bsky.social
Honestly the reboot mostly goes wrong in MW3 and it's really hard to not pin that on the game having an extremely short development cycle
abeardedpanda.bsky.social
When Price does kill Shepard in MW3 it's also not after chasing down his helicopter in a RIB in the mountains of Afghanistan that ends with a knife to the head after an old guy fistfight, Price just sneaks into his office in the Pentagon and Luigi's him
abeardedpanda.bsky.social
This is gonna end up being a way funnier version of unmarked grave of ET video game cartridges
abeardedpanda.bsky.social
technically "No Russian" does occur in MW3 (2023) but it's stupid as fuck because they suicide bomb an airliner and frame the "moderate rebels" who are basically the YPG
sky.skymarchini.net
they got rid of 'no russian'? they're not bombing DC while you bRRT with a minigun? there's no EMP missions? fuck
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timdickinson.bsky.social
The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
>mfw Sergei Lavrov says “boo” and I get so scared that my foreign policy leads directly to the resurrection of European fascism
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boxelderdust.bsky.social
Often think about Obama mocking Romney at the third debate as a paranoid Reaganite relic for correctly identifying Fascist Russia as an ascendant threat because it would distract from the far more important task of extralegally blowing up random al-Qaeda No. 12s in Pakistan and weddings in Yemen
midwestfolkpunk.bsky.social
Obama LOVED drone strikes.
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dburbach.bsky.social
Look I'm not going to defend defense primes exactly, but a Service secretary *hoping* to see Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon or NG fail, like cease to exist fail, is not good and is probably not going to get you more real capability faster
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mikeblack114.bsky.social
The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done
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mikeblack114.bsky.social
since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties
mikeblack114.bsky.social
It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill
mikeblack114.bsky.social
Since we're getting a crash course in DoD reprogramming authority, CRS has a good report on it linked below. Some important points:

Congress gives DoD reprogramming authority because when you're dealing with a trillion dollars, some stuff is probably going to need to be changed over 12 months
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niaocollective.bsky.social
返校 (Detention) is a 2017 horror game from the Taiwanese studio Red Candle Games, and a movie adaptation was released in September 2019. The timing, and the subject matter of the White Terror, meant Detention featured quite a bit in HK protest art.

A small thread.
notgodzilla.bsky.social
oh btw if you guys liked Silent Hill f may I suggest Detention. It's by the same studio that made Devotion. It takes place during White Terror in Taiwan and has some really great horror elements from Taiwanese mythology.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Someday this could be you or someone you love
abeardedpanda.bsky.social
my fucking profile picture is me wearing an ODST helmet and even I don't simp this hard for making VISR real
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kwcollins.bsky.social
It's just gutter racism, through and through
brendannyhan.bsky.social
What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?
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sky.skymarchini.net
When the Romanian army was asked to fire on ordinary people who looked just like them, they chose to do this just 48hr later
Nikolai & Elena ceausescu as they are executed by firing squad, 25 Dec 1989
abeardedpanda.bsky.social
Clausewitz bros should intuitively understand this because there is no better center of gravity to attack than the House of Representatives
sky.skymarchini.net
Tired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s bad

Wired: the cia is an agent of covert regime change abroad and that’s not only good but essential to democracy
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
we have to be willing to just fuck with foreign governments in order to promote pro-democracy forces and harm pro-authoritarian forces in those countries

*that's* our actual interest, not whatever faff natsec heads preach about "the rules based order"