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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not even benefiting Argentina; it’s just benefiting Milei

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 4d

The short answer is that volley fire works for muskets, & to some extent for crossbows, but makes no sense whatsoever for traditional bows.

Bret Devereaux has the long answer: acoup.blog/2025/05/02/c...

Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 4d

Damn! Só they invented firearms & then immediately forgot how archery worked?

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 4d

Or I guess “already”

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 5d

(Not disagreeing with you; just being a pedant)

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 5d

Still with the volley fire? How long has this been a trope?!

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 7d

Hating America by condemning monarchy?

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 7d

Funny that the Trump people don’t seem to understand that there’s no such thing as bad publicity, given that that’s exactly how Trump came to power

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 8d

Parenting is pedantry by other means

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 9d

I mean the logic of “I couldn’t find these statistics in graph form, so I took a break from teaching/writing/translating/parenting/influencing to make that”

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 9d

Bret being an incorrigible polymath, as always

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 9d

For all the (well-justified) concern about this country’s deteriorating civ-mil separation, cops have long been much more heavily enmeshed in politics, & that seems just as dangerous…

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Rowdy @r0wdy.sk33t.expert · 9d

This should be one of the requirements for opening the government. The longer the shutdown continues, the more Dems should add to the list.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 9d

If they wrote a long opinion, they might create precedent that a future Democratic president could use

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 10d

“If this is so, which it is” what…?!

ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 10d

Literally exactly why I use “chicanery” so much!

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 10d

And it means packing the courts so they don’t get up to this chicanery…

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 10d

It’s basically a gimmick that lets the courts avoid hard questions when they feel like it; they can be incredibly creative about finding there is standing when they do want to decide something

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 14d

How did Fairbanks vote in 2024?

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 15d

I think they intend to help keep MAGA in power forever. They may fail, but they’re not some neutral third-party

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 15d

Thinking about when Trump tweeted that “states are an arm of the federal government”

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 15d

See also Germany in 1914: “we have to start a two-front war so that we don’t get overwhelmed in a two-front war”

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ajsoapmonger.bsky.social @ajsoapmonger.bsky.social · 16d

In fairness, it’s not like he actually wrote it

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 16d

I'm convinced that at least 75% of the discourse on The Life of a Showgirl has little to do with the album itself. It's an above-average record that's neither a masterpiece nor a bomb and being leveraged by many solely as a useful proxy for folks' competing resentments with the world and each other.

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KPD Max von Sydnow 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼🇺🇦🇬🇱 @mpdeejay.bsky.social · 16d

Realists will go on and on about how Russia can't help but feel threatened by NATO expansion but will never consider that their theory, if applied universally, also explains why former Soviet republics and Warsaw Pact states would want to join NATO.

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