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This is similar to the "he's distracting from issue X" ideas. Ultimately that Trump or those around him (including the military commanders he got advice from like Caine) are actually competent. The fact is no one in this admin including professionals are up to the task of governance.

So that's fewer redirected that the FT have reported have gotten through just leaving. Seems like a leaky blockade...

So the blockade is basically fake then except maybe for hitting one or two ships to pretend its happening? Yeah that's Trump trying to surrender without admitting he's surrendering. Unless of course the anti-woke purges has destroy the effectiveness of the US Navy that is.

So ~40% of the global strategic oil reserves from 2025. economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/ene... That makes a lot more sense of the relatively constrained oil price rises if traders assume this ends quickly.

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

A Waymo has to have beaten that record years ago now. Who cares how long a bipedal robot can run? They don't build up lactic acid.

Argh! The suburbs are SO FUCKING WHITE! Going to a busy shopping center and being able to count non-white people on one hand is a hate crime

Me trying to quickly think up a fake name but the only other object in the room is the president

The "strait of Iran" is open because Iran got the Lebanon ceasefire they demanded. Not 100% clear if tolls will be involved but it is on the Iranian route (likely due to the mine concerns). So I suppose the US got the "objective" of this war; to open a strait that was open before the war.

Already way late for that concern dude.

Oh hey now twitter the everything app is broken! Did Iran do a surprise strike on a data center while no one was paying attention?

lol. lmao even. A precedent for CHINA?! What chokepoint does China even control? If they want to charge shipping they already do it with tariffs because the shipping is heading to their ports! Also get a load of the guy they're quoting here:

Have periods of GDP decline caused Iran or other states to change policy? Mostly no and if yes only after years. Are the objectives for policy change in Iran good for the world? No, its just about helping Israel be more aggressive. Are they good for the Iranian people? No, its to promote the Shah.

There are distressingly few people answering "Bruhathkayosaurus". Largest ever land animal has to be up there for coolest!

These folks are understanding the implications of what the US/Israel consider "targets". Indeed to make the analogy stronger, Israel bragged about killing Iranian nuclear scientists who were working on an internationally monitored civilian nuclear program and so less militarily relevant than Altman!

Long but good discussion of how "botantical sexism" is a fake concept originated by an obvious grifter. Most tree sex doesn't work with clean male/female distinctions. Your allergies aren't worse from male trees, its climate change. Most trees give no fruit anyways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLp9...

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

LOL Reeves! Don't believe the bullshit, people didn't go to Dubai for "safety". They went to dodge UK taxes. That's why there are hundreds of thousands of UK residents vs tens of thousands of US ones. The US can tax income if you live abroad, the UK can't. As long as that's true they'll stay abroad.

Hello global seafarers! As of today, I, Surplus Cornbread, am announcing a blockade of the blockade of the blockade. No one is allowed to transit the strait of Hormuz without my permission either. The world will see no one defy me. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

So the strait of Hormuz is going from "limited to what Iran wants to see transit" to "absolutely no transit". This is smarter than trying to take Kharg Island if the goal is pressuring Iran...and stupid because the oil crisis is going to get even worse.

That chart is key: the collapse of birth rates is primarily a function of real progress on teen pregnancy. And conservatives are fear mongering about that. Its also why there's not much to be done with birth rates for a long time still, and something like artificial wombs are the long term fix.

Everyone thought that Adams would move to Istanbul after getting exiled from NYC. But the former mayor is standing on business by faking out his haters and declaring New York City to be the Tirana of America euronews.al/en/former-ne...

Alright Atlanta folks. MARTA is literally free right now. Learn your bus/train routes because those gas prices are not coming back down.

If you use the word cr*cker without having whipped at least one other person you're doing culture appropriation

It's fucked up that Chewbacca is in hell because he used a crossbow

Disagree on "not good". China will not have the same dominance the US had due to its tighter capital controls, but by offering an alternative that allows countries targeted by either China or the US to flexibly switch between the two. Given the US has used its dominance irresponsibly this is good.

I'm fine with questioning social rules, and I like seeing and meeting most dogs personally, but this particular rule had reasons for it. Folks who are allergic should not be excluded from spaces for the convenience of dog owners. And some folks are NOT good at training their dogs.

Yeah that makes sense. Just want to say good job y'all on the collab. You're killing it right now!

There's always a question with Trump as to whether he's just been fed lies by toadie underlings or he's just making up self-serving lies on his own. In this case I think the evidence is plenty good enough to assume the latter. Especially since the US didn't resume bombings despite the tolls.

Opinion pieces are basically always worthless garbage that are a waste of everyone's limited lifespan. Skip the op-ed section unless its Rod Dreher talking about demons and exorcism

Thank you Ms. Leavitt for not doxing me, but I think the world and markets ought to know: I control the straits of Hormuz. And I'm telling you now its closed till the bombs stop, the IOF is back in Israel, and the US is out of the Middle East.

I think we can call it now: the America/Israel alliance is a complete failure as a tool for managing empire. The Obama administration was the last one that had a credible idea of how to keep US hegemony over West Asia, and that was from integrating Iran by sidelining extreme Israeli ambitions.

Tasnim news from Iran is confirming too so likely not a Trump fake out this time. And given the Truth Social post indicates using the Iranian 10 point plan as a basis for it, likely means he's accepting concessions.

Rally at the White House tonight

This NY Times report looks a lot like what I assumed happened in this run-up. Trump made his decisions well before hearing from his negotiators who did think they could get more from the Iranians, Israel WAY exaggerated the potential wins. US advisors more mildly underestimated Iran but

Drop "distraction" from your vocabulary if this is how you're going to use it. And lets be crystal clear: the mass murder of Iranians by Americans and Israelis IS part of the funneling wealth to the top. Beyond that said murder is itself a crisis that requires immediate action from congress.

Folks who constantly asserted Iran was an irrational, apocalyptic regime because they are an explicitly Shi'a state were ALWAYS playing on prejudices not using rationality. The nominally secular US/Israeli states have been way more apocalyptic by their actions than the theocracy.

The fact that no institution, not the cabinet, not congress, not the courts, not even the military itself, thinks its imperative to remove a guy this unhinged from power is proof the US constitutional order is fundamentally broken.

This is inconvenient for the social security trust fund

And lest we forget the universities that train officers and regime officials. Some of them even work on weapons used by the regime. Best not be close to any universities since they're "legitimate military targets" under US/Israeli rules.

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I really hope Brianna follows this up with organizing an "aid flotilla" to Israel that's just pots of shrimp gumbo

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The Trump administration and indeed most of the US military believes that victory in war is achieved by being able to damage enemies and protecting your own forces. That sounds like a compelling sounding theory, but Clausewitz was right: "war is a continuation of policy by other means".

So the day's tally for US aircraft falling out of the sky is an F-15E, a blackhawk helicopter, and an A-10 Warthog. Iran appears to be getting better at air defense over time.

This framework for a negotiated peace is a wishlist for the moderate reformers of Iran. For a US liberal like Obama, this would be a slam dunk except for the compensation part. The only problem is neither the US or Iran are run by those factions right now. www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Photograph from Artemis II of Earth is a 2D image... EARTH IS FLAT CONFIRMED!!!!!