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My venture, A.N.T. Farms, develops practices in “conservation agriculture”—sustainable food production that doesn’t require forests to be razed or wetlands drained. I also work in communications; media; tech, data & LLM analysis and spent 15 yrs in DC.
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I am debating with myself over whether I should place a metaphorical bet on the Ayatollah surfacing in Beijing?
I’m always the implausible one; although, most times, only in the beginning.
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going on under the cover of the air campaign, while Trump, and Neten-yahoo et al jack off to the bombings—distracted by “shiny” things.
What’s a vibe? What’s its validity?
But, it does feel like Trump is about to get his teeth kicked in, which means the U.S. is about to get its teeth kicked in.
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I bet the Ayatollah isn’t even in Iran now. Russia &/or China likely got him out. China has been landing a few planes in Tehran. I just don’t have the sense that the U.S. and Israel have the hand they think they do at the moment. It feels like a whole lot of quiet and very serious counter moves are
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No, every elected Dem would simply be arrested by ICE.
Likely, the only effective response to such violence is equally organized counter-violence. It would be best if the highly-trained professionals of violence, of which we have many in this country, would deal with this. Where is the counter-coup?
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“US intelligence assessments have found Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon and would have been up to three years away from being able to deliver one, CNN is reporting. The assessments, sourced to four people familiar with them…” ~ The Guardian
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I mourn the loss of all the other life forms much more than the human ones.
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For all of these various crimes and criminals, courts need to impose financial penalties that will bankrupt each of these people utterly and irrevocably.
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My Mom took me to the military celebration event in DC in the early 90’s, and I enjoyed it. I have honorable thoughts about our military, just not its current mobster-in-chief.
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Actually, later reporting suggests that attendance at the parade was respectable, but due to crowd-management issues and also many people leaving early, areas that had been filled looked empty in later photos. I don’t know if this is true, but if so, there should have been honest reporting done.
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Graham is a goober that sticks to the sole of whatever loafer happens to be shuffling by.
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I regret the Army and its professionals have to shoulder the humiliation of this turn-out, when the humiliation should only be reserved for the Mobster. These empty seats have NOTHING to do with support for the military services. Attendance boycotts are ONLY about the Mobster.
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I regret the Army and its professionals have to shoulder the humiliation of this turn-out, when the humiliation should only be reserved for the Mobster. These empty seats have NOTHING to do with support for the military services. Attendance boycotts are ONLY about the Mobster.
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I regret the Army and its professionals have to shoulder the humiliation of this turn-out, when the humiliation should only be reserved for the Mobster. These empty seats have NOTHING to do with support for the military services. Attendance boycotts are ONLY about the Mobster.
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Reading today that organizers are pegging the turn-out at 5 million.
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This is likely AI-generated. One can tell from the slow motion. That is the default rendering due to frame rate and rendering costs.
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Pleased to still see Microsoft at the top of that list.
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Sorry, I meant to write “install the Shah,” not “oust” the Shah. I had grown tired and online-sloppy by yesterday evening.
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I meant to write “installing the Shah” not “ousting” the Shah. I apologize. I’ve been online for too long today and am tired.
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I wish I could attend this. I would love to listen to all of the panels and presentations. Good luck, have fun! Thank you for your work!
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I wish I could attend this. I would love to listen to all of the panels and presentations. Good luck, have fun! Thank you for your work!
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I wish I could attend this. I would love to listen to all of the panels and presentations. Good luck, have fun! Thank you for your work!
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The Mobster is going to come after those good officers.
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If this country has to utterly fail in order for our homegrown fascists to fall, I guess I’ll be ok with that too.
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Illegal immigration will continue as long as the earth and societies continue to degrade to the point they can no longer support populaces—which is a fact around the world—and will only grow worse with ecosystem collapse.
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We don’t need Mid East oil, and I’m not going to support the US wading into a war to defend Israel just so the Mobster can have his resort in Gaza. I’m less inclined these days to be concerned about foreign terrorism when there are Nazi’s in our Capitol with much closer proximity to each of us.
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I’m sure there are agents crawling the place trying to help drum up a mass resistance movement. I support that.
I’m completely over the US fighting in the Middle East and don’t think we should step up for Israel if we’re going to back down from Ukraine—and virtually every other noble American deed.
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I know the history of Iran. Ousting the Shah is one of those original sins the US has on its head. Michael McFaul said something interesting in response to the strikes, “[this is a perfect opportunity for the people of Iran to rid themselves of this brutal regime],” or something very close to that.
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against these Gestapo Immigration raids. I am in favor of legal immigration, and lots of it.
I hope that in a couple of years, we will have similar raids to clear out the fascists. Put them in a hole and leave them there, for good.
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It is widely reported that the majority of Iranians would like to be liberated from their brutal, theocratic regime. I was referring to China’s wholesale theft of western inventions, technologies and intellectual property, and should have clarified this. I am
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They should not go back. Do not go back to support this regime. Don’t do it. But, try to organize the means to do the needed work outside of government. Do not serve this regime. You will not be protecting this country. You will be protecting the regime. Remember Saddam’s propaganda minister.
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Remember when the US invaded Iraq in 2003 and there was the split-screen of US convoys racing across the desert next to Hussein’s propaganda minister *insisting* there were no US forces in the country? We need something like that: right next to the faces of every single one of these fascist buffoons
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Nobody should be returning to work to save the skins of this stupid & disgusting regime. They defined the game as hardball, so play it! Let them drag this country to the edge of the abyss. Let the existential threat of their vile incompetence be made crystalline even to genetically-addled MAGA.
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I’ve always felt this way. I’ve never been able to fully wrap my head around how incredibly difficult it can be to find those people, and how many terrible sorts there are who will actively work to prevent people from finding their soul-tribe.
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I hope people on the streets will remember to CLEARLY convey the fundamental reason they are there, so that all of those sitting at home won’t be confused about what is motivating the marches.
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Remember when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, and there was the split-screen of US convoys racing across the desert next to Hussein’s propaganda minister *insisting* there were no US forces in the country? That’s what we need: right up next to the faces of every single one of these fascist buffoons.
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Nobody should be returning to work to save the asses of this fk-stupid & disgusting regime. Let it drag this country to the edge of the abyss. They defined the game as hardball, so play it!
Let the existential threat of their vile incompetence be made crystalline even to the genetically-addled MAGA