Ray Thomas
@raythomas.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student focused on International Relations. Virginia Tech/University of South Carolina Alum.
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Turning Point Mojave be like:
If Caesar's Legion are the bad guys, then why is it that only the caravans in NCR territory are the ones that seem to be getting robbed?
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Turning Point Mojave be like:
Hell yeah.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to wish Russian President Vladimir Putin dead, saying “May he perish” in a Christmas Eve address.
December 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Hell yeah.
Lowkey really silly to have this bad of concept art when you could just browse Shipbucket for 15 seconds and find like 12 arsenal ship designs that were someone's hyperfixation for 10 years.
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Lowkey really silly to have this bad of concept art when you could just browse Shipbucket for 15 seconds and find like 12 arsenal ship designs that were someone's hyperfixation for 10 years.
Economics is the most fraudulent "science" and I will die mad about it. The Ur "Philosophy but somehow more fake math"-ass discipline.
also, if you’re gonna levy the “this is human phenomena, not natural laws” criticism, economics is right there c’mon man
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Economics is the most fraudulent "science" and I will die mad about it. The Ur "Philosophy but somehow more fake math"-ass discipline.
I'm willing to bet (ha ha) that people betting on political outcomes have next to zero political intelligence/insight/critical thinking skills. The fact people at CNN perceive this as a replacement for polling makes that self-evident.
Kalshi is now the "official prediction market" of CNN, which has already started to use prediction market odds as a substitute for actual polling. I think this is a very bad idea. CNN wouldn't confirm the payment relationship between the parties when I asked, but more here: slate.com/technology/2...
CNN Is Using an Election Polling Tool That Anyone Can Rig
The network is giving Kalshi, a volatile and easily gamed prediction market, authority it once reserved for actual polling.
slate.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm willing to bet (ha ha) that people betting on political outcomes have next to zero political intelligence/insight/critical thinking skills. The fact people at CNN perceive this as a replacement for polling makes that self-evident.
The novelization of EndWar remains the only book which physically pained me to read it. The bullshit in this book was LITERALLY headache inducing.
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The novelization of EndWar remains the only book which physically pained me to read it. The bullshit in this book was LITERALLY headache inducing.
Listen, the document is abhorrent but no administration has been faithful/committed to their NSS for the past 20 years and I don't think that this administration is going to be the one to make significant progress on that problem.
I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Listen, the document is abhorrent but no administration has been faithful/committed to their NSS for the past 20 years and I don't think that this administration is going to be the one to make significant progress on that problem.
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I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I think I would probably care a lot more about the National Security Strategy if we had an administration that actually cared about acting in line with their own stated policies
Architects are COOKED when they find out about COAT BATH.
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Architects are COOKED when they find out about COAT BATH.
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Sell your Sherman stocks
Buy George Henry Thomas bonds
Buy George Henry Thomas bonds
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Sell your Sherman stocks
Buy George Henry Thomas bonds
Buy George Henry Thomas bonds
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lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]
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THE GREAT PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA HAVE VOTED FOR [TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED]
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
THE GREAT PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA HAVE VOTED FOR [TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED]
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Me when the Virginia Tech football team actually beats a good team and make us 1-0 in Conference play.
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Me when the Virginia Tech football team actually beats a good team and make us 1-0 in Conference play.
Love that every country besides my own seems capable of thwarting (half-assed) authoritarian consolidation.
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Love that every country besides my own seems capable of thwarting (half-assed) authoritarian consolidation.
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It also is like... far from ubiquitous among young men, not a great predictor of political attitudes by itself, and seems to happen for extremely normal and common reasons like "not socializing," "not having a partner," and "being online all day" which is... not just men?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
September 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It also is like... far from ubiquitous among young men, not a great predictor of political attitudes by itself, and seems to happen for extremely normal and common reasons like "not socializing," "not having a partner," and "being online all day" which is... not just men?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
This is glib but: Men should simply make more friends and not be repellent assholes. Stop listening to podcasts and listen to actual people. Its actually not hard to make friends if you try to and if you try to be a good person instead of an edgelord.
my take is that the male loneliness crisis is real but also that no one really has either a cultural or political answer that they're willing to back
yeah i think there's a way to have this discussion that is neither "men are lonely therefore the incels are right" nor "this is all fake, get fucked"
September 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is glib but: Men should simply make more friends and not be repellent assholes. Stop listening to podcasts and listen to actual people. Its actually not hard to make friends if you try to and if you try to be a good person instead of an edgelord.
Only doing Suez Crisis discourse from here on out.
can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms
I love how at least once a month we litigate WWII on this website
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Only doing Suez Crisis discourse from here on out.
Unrated aspect is that American hegemony has been so total that when the US began to decline Britain jumped at the chance to decline again as well. That's soft power, bay-bee.
realistically if we see american hegemonic decline in the next couple of years, i don't think china becomes the next hegemon, i think you just end up with a likely more dangerous multipolar world, just out of the fact that the global commons requires a lot out of its hegemon (see Kindleberger)
I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing*
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Unrated aspect is that American hegemony has been so total that when the US began to decline Britain jumped at the chance to decline again as well. That's soft power, bay-bee.
We need the WPA but for orbital shipyards and asteroid belt mining operations. If elected I will...
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We need the WPA but for orbital shipyards and asteroid belt mining operations. If elected I will...
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that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
Online Progressives be serious about politics for one second challenge (impossible).
Nope, raise a flag of the people, not the flag of the fascists. Why would you waive the flag of a government that built its land base on genocide and has run two concentration camp systems in the past 100 years.
September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Online Progressives be serious about politics for one second challenge (impossible).
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
American high speed rail is how you tell it's a clear work of fiction.
xXx: State of the Union is a good movie because it includes The Presidential Bullet Train
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
American high speed rail is how you tell it's a clear work of fiction.