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i guess this is a pivot to Asia in one sense. Because a regional military command dragging the country into war is Imperial Japan-core

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

The very first comment is "it will be swiftly reopened" as if there is zero cost associated with securing Hormuz if Iran wants to detonate everything near it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Don't believe anything anybody claims on social media for a day or two. Impatience about these things is walking into the wrong end of a shooting gallery.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Bad time to be a boat carrying anything worth of value in that region for a while

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

This the kind of reasoned intelligent discourse you won't see on X

submitted 1 hour ago • 7 comments

Say what you will about the GWB admin, but they had at least a plan and knew what they wanted.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Trump’s reckless & unconstitutional strikes against Iran are a dangerous escalation of war — and threaten countless Iranian, Israeli & American lives. My thoughts are with families fearing for their safety, and the thousands of New Yorkers worrying tonight about loved ones in Iran.

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

I hope everyone who farmed clicks by arguing that trump was anti war in some sense is proud of themselves

submitted 15 hours ago • 76 comments

I'm a bit tired of this sort of assumption compared to the admin being a disorganised cluster fuck allowing Centcom (and the IDF) to jointly push through the operation they had wanted for decades

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submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Damn conspiratorial antisemitism about to go off the chain

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Zohran Mamdani: let’s make NYC efficient and affordable Andrew Cuomo: would you ever date an older man? Eric Adams: I met three magical elves last night and one of them offered me a handjob but I said no because I am a man of god

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

I mean Eldridge Cleaver literally wrote about seeing rape as a revolutionary act.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

Curious how the polling on going to war with Iran breaks down by age Boomers tend to really hate Iran, more than their ordinary politics would suggest And of course Boomers run the country still

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Slowly suffocating the economy through an incoherent tariff policy, unable to hit numbers consistent with the "mass deportations now" promise so substituting in terrorizing ppl at stores & places of work, and now bombing an adversarial country in a major escalation. And nothings gotten cheaper.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

The Leeroy Jenkins Administration

submitted 9 hours ago • 75 comments

next dem administration needs to bring the hundreds of billions of dollars of fines in the law down on the heads of the broligarchs

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

If we are ever in a military standoff with Russia or China and the president off-the-cuff tweets "Moscow must be evacuated immediately!!" there's a reasonable chance it sparks an unintentional retaliatory nuclear attack

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This was just insane nonsense. I don't understand how we can have a democracy when people vote based on mass hallucinations based on nothing in the real world.

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

The strikes are wrong and illegal, etc, but the Iraq war parallel I keep seeing is poorly thought out. The Iraq War was a large invasion force overthrowing the government and occupying the country. Dropping some bombs ain't that

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

Anyway watching the cultists tie themselves in knots to support this is going to make me puke.

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

there’s a reason that my abominable time solution doesn’t involve baby hitler

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Which is also exactly context of that "US told Iran thru diplomatic channels that this is it" post. Trump wanted to get a free hit in but avoid being hit back at all costs.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes. Whether Trump and Netanyahu's actions here are wise - and I think there's a lot of room to question that - Iran's regime has largely dug itself into a hole of its own making here. Its encouragement of Hamas and antagonism towards Saudi Arabia has really caught up with it.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Israel is attacking Iran not because of any of those reasons, but because it wants to stop a nuclear deal because it could lead to a dealignment between the US and Israel which even in theory could mean that they couldn’t continue their genocide against Palestinians.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. I hoped the regime change happened differently and Israel's Gaza pogrom cannot be washed away. But it's really difficult to shed a single tear for the brutal Khamenei regime. Remember Neda. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments