maxculbertson.bsky.social
Lepidopterist by nature, Lepidopterophobist through social conditioning. He/Him
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Thats because they arent opposition
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Naw, they've been too close for too long. The JCPOA, their by all means cautious approach to geopolitics--they don't want it. It'd honestly be easy for them. Israel and the US may force them to build it, but I think it's pretty clear they could have it at any point, they chose not to.
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Here's my hot take, just as a hobbyist obsessed with the bomb: the only reason a state builds the bomb anymore is because they're threatened by a state that has one. Deterrence actually worked.
Iran doesn't because Israel is insane and they know it.
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Also we'll lose
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Kinda weird when the Fundamentalist Religious State is somehow more sane than the rest of the world
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Oh Iran could have nukes whenever, they've chosen not to. That's the whole thing.
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So grim
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Yes. Because we'll back them
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For sure, and I *know* that. But every once in awhile the situation is so obvious, the path so clear, that their absolute unwillingness to act still baffles me. I should know better, but their incompetence still bewilders and astounds.
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An entire party of feckless cowards
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Lmao
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Have you heard about abundance though?
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"Fighting back against people getting disappeared is bad optics"
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Aw shit. I'll listen to Shortenin' Bread in his memory.
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Lol I had the exact opposite experience. I saw that betubbed Benicio and my brain immediately knew *new Wes Anderson* with a pure and flawless certainty.
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Honestly can't figure out the angle here. But you're NAFO so clearly deranged
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Lmao
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Wait, why would you mute Joyce? Sure she has some horrible takes but when she's on she's one of the best posters out there.
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Look up what a non-aggression pact is. Then look up how many Allied powers made non-aggression pacts with Hitler even as Stalin was calling for an anti-Nazi pact. You're embarrassing.
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They didn't you absolute moron
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See, unlike Face/Off where both Travolta and Cage are doing amazing ham (Cage is better but there's an argument), when talking about the Soviet Union and the fucking Nazis, there is no comparison. Anyone trying to do so is a fucking moron or a Nazi.
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Yeah I corrected my spelling mistake, typed quickly on a phone, in the post below. Do you know how social media works?
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You being stupid doesn't mean MAGA is right
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I probably even agree with you on Putin and Ukraine. You're just such a stupid propagandized person you have to draw on the bullshit anti-communism you were brainwashed with when you were six
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I'm not MAGA you absolutely dumbass
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Fascism*
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Says the man who doesn't know what facism is. Lmao
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She has some bad takes but when she's on, Jesus. One of the best posters out there.
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You're the one spitting US and Nazi propaganda
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You'd have joined the Nazis
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No. Are you stupid?
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Sorry Moscow outplayed Kiev in the middle ages, but that wasn't a nation state bub
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You'd have joined the Nazis huh?
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The USSR literally invented your country
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The communists kinda famously beat the fascists bub.
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Such a weird movie for me. I think it's incredible and also I think it's bad at the same time? Sure it's a contradiction but it's also a perfect encapsulation of how I feel about Ridley and his body of work? Fassbender absolutely kills it though
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Holy shit
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Hope you mean like...the 1780ies
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Who has time for more than one?
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"Often" isn't doing the work it needs to here. I'm hard pressed to think of a socialist project that didn't win in terms of physical well being. Like you have to get destroyed or sabotaged by the Capitalist projects for it to turn sour.
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God those first two novels rule. Fuchsia's death in particular has lingered with me for years.
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Yeah
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Yeah, that's stupid
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I'd have doubts about this if it was coming from literally anyone else.
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There's a Death Stranding pun here I'm too tired to look for