@futurebird I think it was more that Hegseth had a few drinks and got some beef tallow on his joystick and was just totally feeling himself and his masculinity, albeit with some shame, so he also heard himself some Jesus voices to pray, pray for extreme violence, and then he started a war that rejected 60 years of military doctrine that he disdained because he would have had to read all that. That is mostly open source.

@futurebird @stalbaum i'm taking that last word completely literally and it helps take things down to merely surreal

@apophis @futurebird we forget, at our peril, that countries have been led by total wankers in the past, and that frequently their failures have led to a serious process of refocusing. That the #iranwar is related to Pete Hegseth's weird sexuality (which is obviously frustrated and includes high misogyny) is something to be understood by scholars in a continuum of other disturbed leaders. Including a man who had one ball.

@futurebird @apophis almost as soon as I had assumed Freud was the old stuff, we need him again. That too is a disappointment in my life, this whole #maga suspension of evolution and progress, the return of psychoanalysis and measles makes me very sad.

@stalbaum @futurebird with all due respect it's this kind of talk, this kind of focus on salacious sexual deviance, this appeal to outdated pseudoscience that always seeks to conflate scientism with science in the popular mind, that pushes people *to* the antiscientific nonsense

@apophis @futurebird You have to think about the very real explanatory power of 19th century thought when it comes to #trump and an genealogy of #maga intellectual frameworks. Bringing this back to beef tallow, of course it does not cure ED through the mechanisms that maga and #maha presume! It is just slippery stuff on their junk, of course and certainly! But it is the 19th century frameworks for medicine, warfare (more Napoleonic than Clausewitzian* of course) etc that drive our history today.