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@reddit_lies I’d support that if it means getting the SAVE Act (Voter ID, same day voting only, no mail in ballots, ect…)

This is reasonable tbh.

@_10delta_ You forgot to mention the Cuba Freebie.

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@C_3C_3 60-80 million illegals. Half of the people in the USA are foreign born.

11 million. That’s the official US government estimate for illegals in America. Yes, that’s true. It’s absurd. It’s an insult to our intelligence. The Biden Administration let in more than 11 million alone. If you had to guess how many illegals are in America?

@Rigobertoxrp @Vivek4real_ When did they delist it, & is it still delisted?

@Vivek4real_ Coinbase isn't pro crypto, they are pro coinbase. Never forget when they delisted XRP.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 COINBASE JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL LAUNCH CRYPTO-BACKED MORTGAGES FOR OVER 100,000,000 AMERICANS. BUY AND OWN A HOUSE WITHOUT SELLING YOUR CRYPTO. THIS IS MASSIVE 🤯

@lexehlex @TwinkTheory Awesome! Thank you!

@Temporary_Times @TwinkTheory His names Fleamont Potter if you just put that in there’s a whole wiki article about him

How did Harry potters parents have all that cash for his trust fund? They died at 21 and the only jobs in the wizarding world are civil servant, barmaid, teacher or shop owner. Or is it just like magic? And if so how are the Weasleys poor like how far does magic go? Are they just bad at magic?

@shiri_shh Especially in the frozen north where it costs a fortune to import vegetables.

@shiri_shh How quickly will the cost go down? I think some farms would find this highly useful for 24 hour production.

This startup lets you ORDER SUNLIGHT from space to your exact location in 30 seconds 😭

@Paul_Gooddy @jackcoder0 🤷🏼‍♂️ hide the tv behind a painting when you’re not watching or when the law comes to search your home? 🥸🤪🤡

@jackcoder0 So, how do you get around having a TV licence in the UK?

@grok @vella_gyaani @jackcoder0 @grok The post is about creating AI prompts to use free legal streaming setup. Does that violate copyright laws?

No, using AI prompts to create a free streaming setup for copyrighted movies/TV without official access is generally illegal. It typically violates copyright laws through unauthorized reproduction or distribution, regardless of the tool used. Check local laws for details—penalties can include fines or worse.

@SethRamsak @CardPurchaser No.

If someone shipped your complete set of cards in brown paper bag and masking tape would you leave them a good review? @CardPurchaser

@UziCryptoo Also, families need to look into buying land & establishing a family cemetery. This will give a central place for your ancestors remains while making funeral costs minimal going forward, plus there will be no funny business with the bodies.

@UziCryptoo Buy land & subdivide it, so each family has their own lot & build their own houses there. You can then build a community center for shared fun stuff.

My wife & I own a $800k house My parents own a $1 million house Sister owns a $1.2 million house Brother owns a $500k condo We could sell them all Pool our money together Buy one massive house Share the expenses And help each other Why aren’t more families doing this? 🤔

@lexehlex @TwinkTheory Thank you! I’d rather she just put together a short story collection of all the background instead of trying to dig around a website though. I’ll definitely look at the Wiki

@Temporary_Times @TwinkTheory JK Rowling has supplied a lot of extra writings on pottermore. and various other platforms about the wizarding world. I’m sad enough to read and remember everything, you can find a lot of this out on the wizarding world wiki

@lexehlex @TwinkTheory Where did you find out about Harry’s grandparents creating a potion?

@TwinkTheory Harry’s grandparents were famous potioneers. Created sleakeasys hair potion. Plus generations wealth. The weasleys are poor because magic doesn’t solve everything. You can’t conjure food, so food needs to be grown or bought. Clothes can be made, but Materials need to be bought

@Liberfach0 This is great! We need to get more serious here in the USA too!

🇪🇺🚨| ¡SE PUDRIÓ TODO! El Parlamento Europeo, acaba de aprobar el plan de detención y deportación de migrantes más radical jamás propuesto, y las expulsiones y retornos de ilegales se aplicarán inmediatamente. ¡Esto es algo sin PRECEDENTES!

I learned this trick from a famous Japanese chef! Ingredients👇 - eggs: 3 pc OVER STEAM BATH: 3 MIN - garlic: 10 g (0.4 oz) - toast bread: 8 slices - dried chili pepper: 7 g (0.2 oz) - salt: 1 g (0.0 oz) - parsley: 10 g (0.4 oz) - lemon: 1 pc - Sauce - soy sauce: 40 ml (1.4 fl oz) - bsesame oil: 40 ml (1.4 fl oz) - black pepper: 1 g (0.0 oz) - salt: 2 g (0.1 oz) - honey: 20 g (0.7 oz) - sesame seeds: 2 g (0.1 oz) Additionally - butter: 200 g (7.1 oz) - parsley: 20 g (0.7 oz) - garlic: 20 g (0.7 oz) - parmesan: 30 g (1.1 oz) - cherry tomatoes: 150 g (5.3 oz) - black pepper: 1 g (0.0 oz) - garlic: 1 clove

@storm1news He deserves the death penalty.

Raise your hand ✋️ if you think this 23 yr old punk Kamel Hawkins should spend the rest of his life in prison for pushing this 45 yr old man in front of an incoming train in (NYC)

@AzatAlsalim Maybe they will go back to their homelands then?

A halal butcher in Zurich, Switzerland has sold 3.1 tons of pork labeled as veal to Muslim customers, who haven’t noticed any difference for three years.

@CinemaSupreme Doorman

If Kevin Feige knocked on your door and offered you a role in the MCU… What role would you hope it to be?

@Variety Nope, this will be garbage.

NEW 'LORD OF THE RINGS' MOVIE Stephen Colbert is co-writing "The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past" (working title), which will go into production after "The Hunt for Gollum." The synopsis: "Fourteen years after the passing of Frodo - Sam, Merry, and Pippin set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam’s daughter, Elanor, has discovered a long-buried secret and is determined to uncover why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost before it even began." Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, Peter McGee, and franchise veteran Philippa Boyens. variety.com/2026/film/news…