mdk

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

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We can't ignore the development of the internet and growth of internationally available mass media. Ideologies now spread far more effectively across borders, with more independence from governments, armies and printed newspapers, than they did during the World Wars.

@KnightShade

That works both ways though. The MOAB drop spread far more effectively across borders too. Also since WW2, the US has vastly (Vaaaaaastly) increased its military superiority to every other nation on earth, so our shows-of-force are more effective than they've ever been (short of nuking).

Non-state actors have been kicking our ass in the information-sharing department for a long time, in no small part because the last two presidents took a vastly different approach. New sheriff, new strategy, and it's a pretty sound one.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

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Not saying we shouldn't defend ourselves and our interests, just saying that it's a mindset that stems from a certain culture and set of beliefs, and bombs don't change that sort of thing.

@Lucian

On the contrary, bombs change mindsets all the time. Shit, we're posting in English after all. We didn't win the various world wars because of our superior identity politics.

Anywho the reason the MOAB makes me happy... when you talk a big game and don't follow through, that's really bad. When you back up your words with decisive action, your words have meaning again. THAT is the essential step towards peace.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

If it actually had any impact on this tunnel network, then great. Just can't help thinking this isn't a problem one can solve with firepower alone. It's a war of ideologies.

@Lucian

It's certainly not a war we can win on ideology alone, or we wouldn't still be here.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

After that was cleared up, it became boring information. News talking about it like ISIS is one place and Trump was the first person to think up bombing it, rather than this just being the gajillionith bomb we've tossed over there in our "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" version of foreign policy.

@Vilageidiotx

If we really did disable the tunnel network (or even just a part of it), this is a radical development. Personally I think the Syria strike, then the MOAB drop, were both timed to coincide with the fucking armada on its way to the DPRK. Lil' Kim is accustomed to some drone strikes; he (and China, our potential ally) needed to be reminded what we can do without chucking nukes.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

Oi, politidorks, hit me up with some nuanced articles you've been reading lately.

@Keyguyperson fuck u buddy

@mdk it's linked to politics, it's basically explaining the chronology of monarchy -> republic with representation or monarchies with representation (to a lesser degree) where the bourgeois began forming a public sphere (where private people come together in a public body to discuss matters related to politics) and how it progressed from there. The media was a nr. 1 tool for them more or less like the French political journals and stuff.

The author then argues that there was a change in modern society where that's no longer the case, or beginning to decrease, due to media being increasingly focused on crime and entertainment and how there is no longer a platform for politics unless it generates revenue.

Now I'm unsure where the change comes in

@Buddha

You should be able to get free school points by relating (read: force-fitting) the article into a "twitter age" conversation.

A, that last argument is just recency bias, so it's bullcrap. But B, it's irrelevant anyway because media is no longer the primary means of understanding current events. Instantaneous communication has supplanted it. The zeitgeist IS the story, but it's also how we hear/share/interact with the story.

Oi, politidorks, hit me up with some nuanced articles you've been reading lately.

Reading this for a class. If someone can give me some insights and explain/summarize it for me that'd be great because I am hitting neither shore nor ocean with my attempt at figuring it out. I am reading the words but they just don't materialize for me in my head as tangible things. It just seems like a lot of theory that doesn't make sense to me.

HELP

@Buddha

well that's politics alright

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

Still waiting on my Soros Cheque.

Maybe I need to raid the Republican state headquarters.

@Dinh AaronMk

You keep your commie hands off my rubles.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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Hang on, aren't they fake news?

@Dynamo Frokane

It's always a good idea to check in on what the deep state wants you to believe.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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19th century western European literature:

So on the 19th of June 1843 I an my cohorts Sam, Peter, Tabitha, and Carl set forth upon our journey from the port of Calais at a pace of forty knots into the Wide Atlantic, that great diving water between the world that is know, of which I speak of America, and the world that is old, of which I speak of as Europe and greater France and England. From then on we pursued leisurely pursuits upon the deck involving trained monkeys and otherwise acting properly bourgeoisie until we ran aground of the Nautilus. I shall now describe the ship in gross detail for FIVE FUCKING CHAPTERS.

Tally ho

@Dinh AaronMk

I guess we all wear masks.