giving orders to a flight of A-7 Corsairs in Sea Power// giving orders to a flight of A-6 Intruders in Sea Power
you can talk about the state of exception and terrorism designations and plenary authority and theorize it and then you see it IRL and it’s just the government side of any legal proceeding becoming the kid on the playground who goes I am batman and goku and I have a force field
STEPHEN MILLER: so you've gone through all of these files and made sure there's nothing incriminatory about Trump or his friends and associates, right
KASH PATEL: *standing in line at berghain dressed like the Ikea monkey* oh yeah definitely
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ANDOR works really well as an allegory for star wars
the doom of boats, and ships, and men
electronic warfare aircraft, tankers, and transports are surging towards the persian gulf whatever is about to go down will go down, I assume after markets close on friday.
Ilhan Omar is definitely a person who has thought a lot about the prospect of getting assassinated and made up her mind about how she wants to go out if it comes to that. Seeing her square up and cock her fist back when that guy threw liquid on her was hard as hell and I'm taking it as inspiration.
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turns out sea power models to some degree vessel cargo because when you hit an ammunition ship this happens. I was slow on the screenshot button but there was a huge shockwave that propagated. they should just add tactical nukes at this point.
"...everything i feared in 2010 about authoritarianism, the rise of nationalist movements across the world, the sprawling and more entrenched police and intelligence and military apparatus all over the world ... towards full blown genocide and ethnic cleansing in the US" - chelsea manning, 2018
STOP FLYING TO PANDORA TO MAKE THE MOVIES, IDIOT
James Cameron says he must find a cheaper way to produce the Avatar movies in order to continue making them.
bit.ly/4qnlOpl
living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be
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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
many great things to say about Marty Supreme. lost my shit laughing. more movies should have a scene where the bloodless WASP businessman goes "I am an immortal vampire who has existed since the settling of America I hate all immigrant ethnics. I hate your swag and hustle."
Trevor Paglen's "Limit Telephotography" is such an interesting and unique piece of work, using astrophotography lenses to image classified military and intelligence sites.
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I'm not really inclined to be into poststructuralist ideas but how can you look at 21st century immigration regimes without ideas like bare life and biopolitics its like DHS was founded specifically to prove Foucault and Agamben right.
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most fun thing to do in Sea Power currently tied between low-tech grimey slapfights between WWII vintage ships/converted merchants/patrol boats and blasting missile boats with fast jets before the get into range. I still don't know how to have a good time with diesel subs.
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in the 20th century having some british jets then getting soviet ones was a vibe. having a bunch of soviet jets and then getting french ones is a totally different type of vibe.
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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gonna trial this one over here but I think multipolarity stans are just wishcasting for having the second world back. hey look I don't blame them but that just doesn't make it so.
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Sea Power update notes
yeah pepsi is fine
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
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civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser
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Where should I pitch a longform piece about the State Department mass layoffs, Gaza, the collapse of bureaucrats inner lives, and the end of the liberal dream?
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lmao remember when twee peak millennial joke songsters Garfunkel and Oates did who said it; Kanye or Hitler? in 2009 as a haha he's so crazy! bit
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Yemeni attritional victory against enemy trade routes by small dispersed land-based assets: Jeune École vindicated forever.
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Due to internal choices at my former agency, I'm once again looking for literary representation. If you know literary agents who would be interested in a nonfiction proposal about how the Muslim Ban ate American democracy, do I have a story to tell you.
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okay. so. here's what I think happened.
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