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common law wife guy
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common law wife guy
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@peterdaou how long until the US kills the one remaining iranian official who still wants to negotiate? I give them 48 hours
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Rare moment of positive news (though take it with a grain of salt):
US pauses strikes against Iran's infrastructure saying there are "good and productive" peace talks underway.
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None of what the US does makes sense—current attack on Iran included—until you understand the US has spent the last few decades desperately trying to counter the rise of China, and is now grappling with the realization that they have failed.
Amerikanets 📉@ripplebrain
This is something people don't understand when they think "oil go up, American companies make money!" The oil majors want a stable situation in which they can achieve a long-term, predictable return on their investments. They want to be able to sell their product to whoever, wherever, with minimal regulation. An environment where prices are spiking wildly, trade corridors are being shut down, and multi-billion dollar facilities are going up in smoke in an instant is not good for business. Periods of high volatility result in these companies mitigating risk by scaling back investments. And they would love to make a deal with the Iranians, because there's money to be made there. Dick Cheney, of all people, spent the 90s lobbying for the removal of all sanctions on Iran for this reason. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 he blew up the first major western deal for investment in Iranian oil operations in a decade. Profit motive does not explain what we're seeing with this war.
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@arvofart you're throwing an awful lot of stones for someone who lives in a glass house
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@arvofart according to your earlier assessment of my behaviour, you are being "weird and creepy" now.
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The movie opens with a raid on an ICE detention center
san 🇵🇸 𓂆@ndsnas
Personally think PTA making a so called political movie but doesn’t say anything about immigration, ICE and the absolute heinous state of fascism fucking sucks and I think he is undeserving of any of his wins. He can go to hell.
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@arvofart so is it inherently creepy for you to be projecting stuff onto strangers too? or does that judgement only apply to me?
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@arvofart I have no control over what assessments you make and why you choose to do so
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@arvofart fortunately, the rest of this exchange set my expectations of you low enough that I was not disappointed. good day
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@arvofart the way to test this hypothesis would be giving the answer rather than just the elaboration
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@arvofart 1. the answer to your question is No. that is not what I said. see my preceding reply for elaboration.
2. no, you did not answer it directly. if you had answered it directly instead of talking around it, we would not have arrived at this point
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@arvofart my objection is that you didn't actually answer the question; you talked around it
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@arvofart by answering the question, like I did when I asked it
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@arvofart this exchange could have been a lot shorter and a lot more pleasant if you had directly answered the questions I asked
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@arvofart you do have control over the way you behave though; which is what I'm basing my assessment on
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@arvofart you are responsible for the way you interact with people though; and my assessment of you was (and continues to be) based on my observations of the way you're interacting with people in this thread.
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@arvofart I don't think it's creepy to build an idea of a person you're interacting with, particularly if that idea is based on the way they're interacting with you and other people. again: you've done nothing to dissuade me of either assumption
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@arvofart okay. do you think those two assumptions about you are weird and creepy? or is there something else?
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@arvofart I believe my only other assessment of you was that you're not taking other people's opinions seriously, which you just reiterated about 7 minutes ago
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