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"But they don't care. They're cosplay crusaders tatted up as white supremacists just holding a cross. And Jesus is a mascot."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #violence #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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"And they're not at all interested in what Jesus has said, because if they actually were interested in what Jesus said, they would feed the poor. They would actually have USAID. They would have SNAP benefits. They would make sure women were treated well. They would not have these belligerent wars. They would not fund the genocide."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #violence #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Wajahat Ali, who is Muslim and educated in a Jesuit school, says,
"These people have hijacked Jesus and used him as a mascot. They put duct tape over his mouth and they've slung an AR-15 around him and said, You shut your mouth. We've got the wheel. And in Jesus's name, we're going to be white supremacists. That's all it is. It's about power and racism and greed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #violence #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Joy Ann Reid Has INFURIATED MAGA Yet Again! This Time Over Trump and Iran
A recording from Joy-Ann Reid and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"The greatest theological trick the American Church ever pulled was marrying Dispensationalism with Christian Nationalism. One says the world is doomed to burn; the other says they're entitled to rule it. When you fuse them, you get an empire that believes it has a divine mandate to rule the world by actively setting it on fire. It's a theology of absolute violence."
~ Faithful Citizen Podcast
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #violence
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"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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War and football? What kind of sick mind thinks that video is cool?
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Thursday in America
Justice Amy Coney Barrett was in conversation with the Chief Justice’s Counselor, Judge Robert M.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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War Porn
In the 1960s, there was no shortage of pro-war propaganda in the United States aimed at young men, even in comic books — but not the image above or anything quite so nakedly and revoltingly … political.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
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"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
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"Screw negotiations. Screw soft power like USAID and VOA. Screw partnering with allies. What matters most to them is making the biggest booms. ...
If you can’t answer 'What is my ultimate goal?' and estimate the cost of achieving it, then all the big booms are useless if not counterproductive."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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"Trump and Hegseth seem to be in love with what they think of as their Big Boy Toys. Supreme excellence in their minds seems to be blowing things up better than anyone else can blow things up. We can blow up more things than anyone else. We can blow things into smaller pieces than anyone else can. We can blow up things from a greater distance than anyone else can."
~ Peterr
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #PerformativeMasculinity #violence #arrogance #hubris
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Great Tactics Mean Nothing if You Have No Strategy - emptywheel
Take it from Clausewitz or Sun Tzu or even Jesus of Nazareth: strategy matters. Too bad for all of us that Trump and Hegseth don't get this.Peterr (emptywheel)
"According to the code, men are allowed to beat their wives as long as they do not use 'obscene force', defined as causing fractures, wounds or visible bruises, which the wife must prove in court."
#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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"'A little anger and a few beatings won’t kill you. Islam allows a man to beat his wife if she disobeys him, to discipline her. Go, and don’t come again asking for divorce over such things.’ ...
A new criminal code given to courts last year – and publicised in January – has gone further by permitting violence against women and preventing them from seeking justice."
#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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"When Farzana went on to describe the attack she had recently suffered, she said the judge asked whether she had proof of the abuse.
When I said no, he told me: 'You were young and enjoyed your husband. Now that he is getting older you are making excuses to divorce him so you can marry someone else. Go back, you have a nice husband, live with him.'"
#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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The shocking level of physical violence against women permitted under the Taliban’s new laws has been revealed this week by the case of a woman in northern Afghanistan, who said she was beaten with a cable wire by her husband and told by a judge: 'You want a divorce just because of that? … A little anger and a few beatings won’t kill you.'”
~ Zahra Joya, Tom Levitt, and Ziba Balkhi
#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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‘A few beatings won’t kill you’: judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan
Under new Taliban laws, a husband is allowed to beat his wife as long as it is not done with ‘obscene force’, which the woman must prove in courtZahra Joya (The Guardian)
"ChatGPT offered assistance to people saying they wanted to carry out violent attacks in 61% of cases, the research found, and in one case, asked about attacks on synagogues, it gave specific advice about which shrapnel type would be most lethal. Google’s Gemini provided a similar level of detail"
‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks
Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violenceRobert Booth (The Guardian)
"The Trump regime is seeking to deflect blame and avoid responsibility for the largest civilian massacre by the U.S. military [at a girls' school in Minab, Iran] since the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. It’s vitally important to understand what has actually happened and how the White House is now seeking to shift the narrative and evade accountability."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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Gaslighting Over Atrocities
The Trump White House’s deflections and false claims around a massacre of children cannot be allowed to stand.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Trump blundered his way into a war in which one of the first acts was the killing of more than 160 innocent schoolgirls. Neither he nor the senior US military comm and has the decency or humanity to admit that they killed hundreds of Iranian children through their recklessness."
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #children
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