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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 2h

And the practical reality in this situation would be "secure the release of our citizens."

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

And to be clear you don’t open with that - you do it the Gulf War 1 way of going through the UN and getting everyone onboard with “give us back our people by [date] or Get Fucked” and then when [date] arrives with no progress *then* you deliver FAFO.

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

Obviously going Bibi mode and doing massive strategic bombing would be a horrible idea, but a Hellfire to Bukele’s face with the explicit promise that the knife missiles will continue until we get our people back would be an entirely reasonable course of action to take.

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

“You are holding our citizens hostage in a concentration camp” is basically the original causus belli in all of world history and a well targeted intervention to secure their release would be a completely reasonable response to that situation.

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

In the as-yet hypothetical situation that US citizens are being held without cause or hope for return in El Salvador because Bukele/Trump, I truly would not care what happens after an intervention to resolve that. In that event, use of military force to secure their release would be 100% justified.

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

Bukele’s imprisonment of legal US residents is already probably decent causus belli and if he and Trump succeed in imprisoning our citizens there it 100% will be

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 3h

Am reading applications for a college engineering club and it’s a little shocking how many submissions we got that completely failed to follow the very specific directions we laid out for them

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for the retweet but also fuck you for detonating my notifications this morning lmao

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles

our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 17h

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 4h

The Republican Party losing *the fucking cops* is unambiguously a good sign that their movement is completely collapsing in on itself and I don’t understand why this is difficult to understand

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 4h

Holy based nypd?

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 4h

It’s genuinely completely insane that, if not the President himself, the White House broadly has beef with specifically you, random Twitter user

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 5h

Because Sean Duffy is deeply insecure

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 6h

I think the timing between them was good, too - you’ve got to have enough time for enough new bullshit to happen to rile people back up

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 6h

Concerning, looking in to this

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 6h

“They know the tide is turning”
Congratulations that’s the fucking point

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Justin Falcone @justinfalcone.com · 7h

I've seen a dozen quotes of this saying "the cops aren't really woke, idiot, they just know which way the wind is blowing" and yeah, man, that's the point

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 17h

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 16h

The fact that every major police department is going on social media and being like "hey thanks for coming everyone zero arrests" is probably the best possible thing to completely disarm any narrative the republicans will try to build about this

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 17h

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 1d

MANY ARE SAYING THIS!

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 5d

this may genuinely top "happy 9/11 to the haters and losers"

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 5d

not that relevant but how many charlie kirk memorials can there be

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 6d

I hear the Boundary Waters are lovely this time of year 🥰

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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 6d

@hankgreen.bsky.social I regret to report that the name of your podcast is safe from Pete Buttigieg
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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 7d

Some deficit hawk PAC or something needs to just take the PR L and sue to stop this lawlessness

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