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Finn Jones and Mike Colter will seemingly return as Iron Fist and Luke Cage in ‘DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN’ Season 3. This is according to set photos.

@MaMoMVPY Complete loss of context How many Europeans have Hondurans killed? Are Hondurans trying to build a nuke or enrich Uranium? Is Honduras led by a deathcult? Does Honduras mass produce ballistic missiles / suicide drones? Does Honduras sponsor of terrorism targeting Europe?

I think Canada, Denmark and Sweden should declare war on Honduras and demand that the US allow us to set up bases in Florida so we can start bombing Tegucigalpa immediately. PS Sorry to the people of Honduras - this is merely an illustration of US stupidity. We are not going to start a war.

Finn Jones on the set of 'DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN' Season 3! (Via: @jadames1775)

Guys, WE DID IT! We got the Immortal Iron Fist back in the MCU. I have no words to describe the excitement I have right now. 💚🐉 Thanks to everyone who supported the 'Save Iron Fist' campaign to bring back Finn Jones as The Iron Fist. It finally paid off. 🥹

@drpezeshkian You guys fake dialogue and engage in terrorism and have for decades Your psy-op has been revealed

Just as I was addressing the American people, the head of our Strategic Council on Foreign Policy was targeted in an assassination attempt, leading to the martyrdom of his innocent wife. Let the world judge; which side engages in dialogue and negotiation, and which in terrorism?

Hey Europe There are Americans that care deeply about the Trans-Atlantic alliance that is NATO And we’ve taken our hits in the past for standing up for NATO And yet we are all in agreement that Europe fucked up big time regarding Iran 100%, no divergence This is a EU problem

Defenders of the JCPOA never address the glaring structural flaws in the deal. Here they are, stripped down: 1) It treated the nuclear issue like it was completely separate from Iran’s ballistic missiles, drones, and proxy network. The deal only touched enrichment and inspections. It left Iran’s missile and drone programs untouched and removed sanctions that could have pressured them on these threats. 2) It had a built-in expiration date. Key limits sunsetted. It all but accepted Iran becoming a nuclear weapons state in 2031. 3) It gave Iran many tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars upfront and took away sanctions as a tool against their missile and drone buildup. Sanctions were lifted immediately. The cash that poured in directly funded their missile and drone development while making it much harder to reimpose pressure later. 4) It normalized the regime without requiring it to change behavior. The bet was that more trade would moderate Iran. Instead, Iran used the cash to strengthen the regime and expand its influence. 5) It destroyed deterrence. It taught Iran that escalation gets rewarded with capitulation. Bottom line: The JCPOA wasn’t serious arms control. It was a very stupid bet that the Iranian regime would become more moderate if we drowned it in cash. That gamble failed, and the whole deal fell apart with it.

Earlier today, I explained that what we see from Tucker Carlson, et al., is ultimately Critical America Theory, which many people found clarifying. To add some depth, I want to explain that at the heart of every critical theory is a lunatic totalist conspiracy mentality. We can start where we started earlier, with Max Horkheimer's characterization of his Critical Theory. He invented Critical Theory in 1937, adapting it from the Marxist tradition of ruthless critique. He described it this way (paraphrasing): "We [neo-Marxists] developed the Critical Theory when we realized that it is not possible to describe the good or the ideal society on the terms of the existing society, but we can criticize those elements of the existing society that we wish to change." This characterization is very important because it reveals the ultimate character of all critical theories: looking for "problematics" in society that don't live up to some imagined ideal society that likely cannot even exist but can still be used as a reference point against which to complain about reality, often senselessly. Briefly, how? How can you use something that isn't real as a reference point? By believing things like "we don't know what an ideal America would look like, but it wouldn't have racism." Then you send people out looking for anything they can consider racist and get them to "problematize" it because the ideal society wouldn't have that happening. That's how. The thing is, Horkheimer's characterization also reveals the true structure of all critical theories: they're conspiracy theories. The belief in the Critical Theory is that the whole of society in every regard is so captured by the ruling classes and powerful interests that you don't even have the tools you'd need to describe an alternative. That is, powerful interests control everything, and they do so in a way where people don't realize it. In fact, they don't even have the conceptual tools to imagine an alternative. And the ruling classes benefit from that situation, so they like it that way, and they keep it that way, sometimes on purpose. The two sides of this mentality are "critical consciousness" for the people who are "Woke" to the Critical Theory and "false consciousness" for the people who aren't. The conspiracy the powerful interests in society run is alleged to be so complete that people literally misunderstand their reality. Give that a second to sink in. That's the totalist part of the lunatic conspiracy theory. The belief that Critical Theory is based on is that the powerful are so in control of society that: (1) nobody at all has the conceptual tools to imagine or articulate an alternative vision; (2) nobody BUT THEM even know this is happening. That's really important because what it means is that everyone is a dupe except the Critical Theorists. That means nobody is actually capable of understanding, much less managing, their own lives and circumstances except the Critical Theorists. Depending on the critical theory in question, different powerful interests allegedly control society (again, to such a degree that nobody except the critical theorists themselves even know it, and such that nobody can articulate an alternative). (Critical) radical feminists, for example, believe that society is totally structured by a male-dominated force called "patriarchy" that benefits men. It is enforced, they say, by another force they call "misogyny," which means hating women. Critical Race Theorists believe society is totally structured by a white-dominated force called "white supremacy" that benefits white people. It is enforced, they say, by another force they call "systemic racism," which they alone can detect (in literally everything). (Critical) Queer Theorists believe society is totally controlled and structured around people who deem themselves "normal" to the exclusion of everyone "queer." This is enforced by a wide variety of structural forces called "normativities," such as "heteronormativity," the completely made-up "cisnormativity," and "thinnormativity," which ultimately hold that there are norms and that's at least sometimes good. Critical America Theory, which I discussed earlier, has two main modes, which we could call "Left" and "Right." The "Left" mode believes that America is controlled by a conglomerate of powered interests including capitalists, nationalists (whom they call "Fascists"), and all of the "privileged" groups in the whole Intersectional pantheon of victimized identities (called "minoritized groups"). The "Right" mode believes that American is controlled by a conglomerate of powered interests including the Leftists and their Intersectional victimhood paradigm and its beneficiaries, globalists (the "managerial elite"), Jews, and, well, capitalists. Both of these modes hold out that the powerful interests completely control the social, economic, and political lives of Americans, and that Americans simply don't know it because it's not possible to talk about it because, allegedly, the powerful interests will shut you down or ruin/"cancel" you if you do. Even though they all do all the time pretty much exclusively while screaming that they can't. These two models are more or less completely diametrically opposed on all issues except Jews and capitalism. The "Left" mode is pro-Intersectional while the "Right" mode is reverse-Intersectional (same model, but privilege is good now). The "Left" mode is pro-globalist while the "Right" mode is nativist-nationalist. Both modes believe capitalism enables the whole problem and that Jews are participants in the problem (though in different ways). "Left" Critical America Theory believes capitalism restrains people in the name of making money (puts money over people) and that Jews are part of the oppressor category that allegedly harms poor Intersectional victims, including the imaginary people known as "Palestinians." Most of this blame is displaced onto Israel, not Jews directly, which is blamed for "genocide" and such, narratives that can be traced at least in part to Soviet propaganda efforts and Islamist agendas. "Right" Critical America Theory believes capitalism is too licentious in the name of making money (puts money over people) and that Jews form a shadowy cabal of powerful and all-controlling hidden interests (that advance their own "Jewish" (national) interests over those of their "host" nations). Most of this blame is displaced onto Israel, not Jews directly, which is blamed for "genocide" and such, narratives that can be traced at least in part to Soviet propaganda efforts and Islamist agendas (with plenty of Nazism mixed in). The point is that these are totalizing conspiracy theories, so in addition to everything that obviously implies, it also means that they cannot be refuted. Any attempt to refute them is merely to reassert the theory of capture and to defend the system of power that prevents people from knowing the "truth" (believing the critical theory). For instance, refuting a feminist is just another way of asserting patriarchal control and attacking women. Refuting a Critical Race Theorist is having White Fragility which is a kind of covert racism they uncovered in you. Refuting a Queer Theorist is forcing norms upon them that cause them harm and make them s-word-icidal. Refuting a "Left" Critical America Theorist is having sold out to capitalist interests or defending one's own privileged status in the system (or "supporting genocide"). Refuting a "Right" Critical America Theorist is believing making money is more important than people, being a shill, or having been bought off, captured, or blackmailed by Jews, Israel, the Jewish lobby, or the allegedly powerful interests that are controlled by these (or "supporting genocide"). I'm sure you're familiar with all this crap, but you might not have known that it's a direct consequence of the structure of the Critical Theory itself. Once Horkheimer laid out that the raison d'etre for the Critical Theory in the first place is that the "very terms of the existing society" are captured by powerful interests and ruling classes, that means that all refutation of the Critical Theory itself is just further proof that the Critical Theory is right that the whole system of sense-making permitted by the ruling classes is captured. Guys, this is idiocy. It isn't just idiocy, though; it's also evil idiocy. Very evil idiocy. Destructive idiocy. It's also easily replicable by people who are just playing in the incentive structure of the cynical logic of the Critical Theory mindset, so while some of the participants pushing us in this direction know exactly what they're doing, most either don't or, at the very least, don't have to. What should you do? Learn to recognize it. Mark it. And avoid it. And help others to do the same.

@NewReaganCaucus It's not like they didn't mistreat us or do stupid things either Context matters...

Trump's mistreatment of our allies has always been indefensible. It hurts the US and helps our adversaries.

@gummibear737 @Timodc Based on interviews, he was never an actual republican Maybe kinda culturally through family ties / environment he thought he was, but in reality, he's a moderate Democrat Nothing wrong with that, btw, just that he was never a conservative despite his thinking to the contrary

@Timodc What happened to you?

I'm devastated to report that lots of Trump & Bibi supporters believe that I have betrayed my principles for arguing that Dems should be reaching out to the anti-war left and not shunning them in this moment. I will look inside & reflect. I must admit that on the surface this seems like a convenient thing to be mad about to avoid reckoning with the historic disaster that is Trump & Bibi's Iran war and the coming wreckage for the global economy and the GOP that is going to result.

@NewReaganCaucus Stockholm Syndrome

It's an odd time for the Eurocrats to cozy up to China when they're still financing Russia's war.

Shang Chi and Iron Fist

It's gotten to a point where the only "acceptable" take of the Iran War is to make absolutely hyperbolic and delusional claims that reveal profound ignorance about the entire history of warfare. It's Orwellian to call a one-month war a "forever war." It's Orwellian to say this war has had exceptional costs or casualties. It's disingenuous to say that when the goal is limiting the harm of an adversary, you are losing when you destroyed most of their military capabilities.

2026 has given us some iconic images. These should be posters in every classroom.

@NewReaganCaucus Stockholm syndrome Russia is an attack-dog type vassal China would use that as leverage over the Europeans in a way that is far worse than anything the U.S. has done But, the Europeans would rather that than the tough love we offer

Wtf

IRON FIST FRIDAY Vol. 395 / IRON FIST WEEK DAY 3 – FAVORITE RELATIONSHIP: DANNY RAND AND COLLEEN WING It’s a dual event today! And I didn’t go with what most people would choose—Danny and Misty’s romantic relationship or Danny and Luke’s friendship. That’s because my favorite has always been Danny and Colleen. Colleen was Danny’s first friend after he returned to New York from K’un-Lun. They were also sparring partners, and Danny wasn’t just close to Colleen, but to her father as well, which made their bond even deeper. More than that, they share something unique, a connection formed through their mind-meld. It’s a kind of bond neither of them has with anyone else. That level of connection is rare, and it’s something you usually only see between lovers. Originally, I thought Danny and Colleen would end up together, especially after The Search for Colleen Wing storyline ended. But that’s not how Chris Claremont wrote it. Still, that didn’t stop me from hoping they would eventually become a couple. Later on, in the original Ultimate Universe, Danny and Colleen were actually married and had a child. Even if I’m not as fond of that version of Danny, I was just happy to see the two of them together. And when the Netflix series finally brought them together as a couple, I was genuinely happy. After so many years, it felt like they finally got there. So yes, for Day 3 of Iron Fist Week, my favorite relationship is Danny and Colleen. If they were fully explored as a couple, they would be an incredible fighting duo—both martial arts masters, with Danny sharing his Iron Fist training and Colleen sharing her samurai skills. They made each other better through their connection. And even as friends, the two of them share a closeness that they don't have with any other. It's a relationship that's beautiful and unique, and one that they'll likely never be able to share with anyone else.👊 #IronFist #IronFistWeek #DannyRand #ColleenWing #Marvel

This is rock-solid proof that Woke doesn't have concerns about reality, only about symbols and the semiotic. It's an ersatz faith built around making people hate certain symbols totally and revering other ones, both to advance their political goals through hate, hope, and idiocy.

@Nomaswazi_11 Moronic take that lacks context regarding how our laws actually work regarding religious holidays

Love how the USA chose Capitalism over the religion they pretend to believe in ❤️

@McFaul The Falklands islands was an internal matter to the UK Iran is literally a threat to the entire middle east and energy supply chain, and has demonstrated the capability to be a threat to Europe You moron

@JessicaVaugn 🎯🎯🎯

Your philosophical lens will change everything regarding how you view the world, and yourself. Curate wisely.