Zeitgeist Rodeo

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[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@LTCPeterLerner Zionists: “it’s antisemitic to claim Israel tries to influence American foreign policy.”

Bibi: bragging about 1000 hours on US television news broadcasts to (*check notes*) influence America’s foreign policy.

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@cdrsalamander A tale as old as the Cambridge Five.

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

Night of the long supersoakers filled with urine.

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

someone on the other website said that this was like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.

[Missellie @Missellie19]

Canada’s trade war anthem

[Blake Herzinger @BDHerzinger]

“We were somewhere around Pattaya on the edge of Walking Street when the pre-workout and 27 Changs began to take hold...”

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@LTCPeterLerner @JewishNewsUK State capture pure and simple

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@senex_official There are few things as radicalizing for an American supporter of Israel than to actually go live in Israel and deal with Israeli government officials daily.

9/10 you come away with a very different view.

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@4xCaliban Across England in countless small churches are memorials to families that lost two or more sons in the war - bloodlines snuffed out.

England never recovered.

[Hood Action News @BAPingLoud]

I aint never told noone but when we evacced from afghanistan I put all the gym machines in the base at the max so if they came through theyd be like damn these niggas strong as hell I served my country man

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@MaitreyaBhakal @Kathleen_Tyson_ The Turks have the best pistachio: antep.

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@Mpolymer Um - the Middle East works?

Really?

[Daniel Seidemann @DanielSeidemann]

Avert your eyes only at grave peril.

This morning Temple Mount activists openly conducted prayers, and for the first time with liturgical prayer books. The activists claim that this was done with the consent of Ben Gvir's [aka Israeli] Police.

This blatant violation of the Status Quo could not happen without Netanyahu's knowledge and consent.

So what, you may ask? Ethnic cleansing is taking place in the West Bank under the watchful eye of the IDF. Gaza is an Israeli orchestrated rolling humanitarian diasaster. With Iran, we teeter on the brink of a convulsive regional conflict.

Gramsci's prophecy has become real: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters”

So why in the general scheme of things should "just another" bad thing, like the demise of the Status Quo that is eliciting no response, matter. So what?

Because regardless of happenstance, this ends in blood. It may not be tomorrow, not many years away this will trigger convulsive violence. And what starts in Jerusalem, doesn't stay in Jerusalem.

Is it at all possible that Al Aqsa/the Temple Mount will, beside being the third most sacred site in Islam,
become a high profile place of Jewish worship with constant displays of ultranationalist triumphalism, and that no one will notice?

The current wars in Gaza and Iran are already clashes between radical, political Islam and between the end-of-days Messianism of Hegseth and Huckabee and the messianic conquests of the settlers and the Temple Mount movement.

Do we really need to douse those flames with more kerosene? Doyou really believe that this will go unnoticed, eliciting no response?

The torrents of events in recent years has dulled our senses and clouded our judgment.

Mark my words. Unless the current trajectory of events is altered, there will be blood.

https://t.co/TqAKIukwEE

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@ireallyhateyou God promised us the adjoining room.

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

“The “grass” does not simply grow back; it learns how it was cut.”

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

I’m getting a sense of déjà vu. It feels as though we are back where we were after the June 2026 war.

Rather than being repeatedly surprised by Iran’s military reconstitution, we should internalize a more uncomfortable reality: there is no durable kinetic solution to Iran’s conventional force buildup.

Iran produces many of its missiles domestically and has spent years building a dispersed, hardened, and increasingly resilient defense-industrial base. As long as Tehran retains both the motivation and the underlying capacity to rebuild, it will inevitably attempt to restore, and adapt, its capabilities after every round of strikes.

Military action can destroy launchers, production facilities, stockpiles, and infrastructure. It can impose costs and buy time. But degrading a capability is not the same as preventing its reconstitution.

That distinction matters strategically. A recurring campaign of strikes faces diminishing returns: each successive round can become more costly as Iran learns, disperses, hardens, conceals, and rebuilds. What Israel often calls “mowing the grass” is therefore a particularly poor framework for Iran. The “grass” does not simply grow back; it learns how it was cut.

The conclusion should not be that military power has no value. It is that we should stop expecting military power to achieve an objective it is poorly suited to deliver.

The United States and Israel need to distinguish between what force can realistically accomplish, delay, disruption, deterrence, and damage, and the much more ambitious goal of permanently preventing Iran from rebuilding conventional military capabilities.

If Iran’s motivation to rebuild remains intact and its indigenous industrial capacity survives, repeated strikes alone are unlikely to solve the problem.

#IranWar‌

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@citrinowicz A bit late for that

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@Rebels_Raiders Fair

It’s just frustrating to see so many fetishize the symbols attached to the very thing they claim to oppose.

[RÈBELs RÄÎDÈRs @Rebels_Raiders]

Gun Culture 3.0 has such a beautifully complicated relationship with photos like this.

First everyone stares at the gear. Then someone reminds you, “Gear doesn’t matter, training matters.” Then everyone immediately asks what plate carrier, rifle, optic and NODs they’re using.

The gear companies themselves will post about resisting government tyranny while their marketing proudly announces that they sell directly to government agencies. The customer who bought the kit to defend himself from the government will then explain that he chose it specifically because the government uses it. Ideally it also needs Berry compliance, an NSN, or some other government stamp of approval before he trusts it for his hypothetical fight against said government. Hilariously enough this type of person usually also works for them as well.

And police occupy an equally bizarre position in the culture. Militarized police are jackbooted thugs preparing to confiscate your guns, right up until there’s a shooting and police don’t immediately assault the building, at which point they’re useless pussies restrained by liberal politicians.

Then we return to “training matters,” which usually means buying the exact equipment worn by the people we’re simultaneously idolizing, criticizing, preparing to fight, demanding protect us, and accusing of being over-equipped.

Very strange

[Zeitgeist Rodeo @BiglyBowski]

@BarakRavid @GoodbeerOssi Textbook example of state capture

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a moment that happens in Europe every spring, in offices from Porto to Tampere, and it is so ordinary that nobody has ever thought to make a fuss about it.

Someone leans into a doorway and says: “I’m taking the last three weeks of July.” And the colleague looks up and says, “Lucky you” and that is the entire negotiation.

The holiday was not granted, because it was never anyone’s to grant. It was already there, sitting in the law like a fire exit, put in place by people who assumed that a human being who works for forty-eight weeks might reasonably want the other four to look at the sea.

I find this quietly astonishing, and I think most Europeans have entirely stopped noticing it, which is the whole problem with good fortune. It becomes wallpaper. You cannot see the water you swim in.

So a Slovakian warehouse worker, a Danish dentist and a Portuguese bus driver all share something the richest country on earth does not guarantee at all: a legal certainty that some portion of their one and only life belongs to them.

Europe has some eight and a half thousand kilometres of genuine high-speed line. The United States has roughly eighty, a stretch in New England where the Acela is briefly permitted to behave like a proper train before slowing down for a level crossing in Connecticut. Eighty kilometres, in a country that put twelve men on the moon. What that means on an ordinary morning is that a woman in Lyon can decide over breakfast to have lunch in Paris, and will spend the journey reading a novel and watching sunflower fields go past at three hundred kilometres an hour.

She will not think of this as a marvel. She will think the coffee is overpriced, which it is.

Take, more seriously, the thing that does not happen. American families go bankrupt because someone in them got sick, roughly half a million households a year, a city the size of Kansas City wiped out annually by an illness that arrived uninvited. In most European languages there is no natural phrase for this. You can construct one, the way you can construct a sentence about a purple horse. A Spanish family whose father has a stroke on a Sunday afternoon experiences the worst day of their lives, and it is only the worst day of their lives. It does not also become the day they lost the house.

And then there is the drill that European children do not practise. The gun death rate in the United States is something like fourteen times the European figure. I am not going to lecture anyone about the Second Amendment, which is not my constitution. I only want to point at the lived texture of it. There is a particular slackness in the shoulders of a mother in Vienna at half past three, walking to the school gate, thinking about dinner and nothing else. She has never rehearsed what she would do if her phone rang with that news.

Everything else radiates outward from the same choices. Roughly five extra years of life expectancy, which sounds like an actuarial abstraction until you convert it into currency that matters: eighteen hundred more mornings, five more Christmases, a decent chance of being at the wedding rather than the empty chair mentioned in the speech.

I want to be careful here, because smugness is the least attractive thing Europe does and it does it enthusiastically. Its economies grow like a glacier retreating, its bureaucracy could exhaust a saint, its housing markets are eating its young, and it spent thirty years assuming somebody else would defend it. A European reading this while waiting for a delayed regional service to Vercelli is entitled to a hollow laugh.

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