@JunkScience Perhaps it’s also because American sanctions have destroyed the Iranian economy and hence their middle class. Impoverishing the people of Iran empowered the current regime.
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Jay Bee
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Why can't Iranians rise up against their murderous oppressors? They have no weapons.
Gain of Fauci@DschlopesIsBack
Reminder that THIS was the exact moment when Australia stopped being a free country. NEVER, under any circumstances, should you give up your guns to the government.
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@stockmom @SenWarren Republicans held every lever of power in 2024. Did they use it to cut spending? No, they doubled down on tax cuts without spending cuts, once again shifting the fiscal burden to their grandkids.
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You literally are the dumbest Senator @SenWarren ! Europe tried wealth taxes for years and saw exactly this: tons of dodging, fake valuations, and wealthy folks leaving the country. The tax brought in way less money than promised, so countries like France and Sweden eventually killed it.
Instead of fixing real waste in government spending, this just gives clever accountants more ways to cheat while hurting investment and growth. It's a paperwork nightmare that hits honest people harder than the pros at dodging it.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.
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@CynicalPublius I don’t think the banks are making campaign contributions to Pocahontas
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The idea of taxes on unrealized capital gains for illiquid assets is the stupidest economic policy ever dreamed up.
It would be an economy-destroying measure that would basically eliminate the concept of privately owned companies (i.e., companies with equity not traded on the public markets).
The death of private companies would result in the death of the major innovation engine that has made the USA the greatest economy in the world.
Had such a scheme existed 50 years ago, Apple, Meta, Google, Tesla, Space-X, etc. etc. would never have come into being because they would never have been able to raise VC start-up capital.
If this law were to come to pass, unemployment will skyrocket, innovation will plummet, standards of living will be reduced to third world levels, and capital will flee offshore.
The nation will tumble into a decades-long Depression and none of the "social justice" ideas Big Chief Lizzie is speaking about will be affordable or even possible.
This is the worst economic idea anyone has suggested in any of our lifetimes.
But don't worry, Big Chief Lizzie will still get rich off of campaign contributions from the big banks and publicly-trade companies who will be the few beneficiaries of this nation-destroying idea.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.
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@DeTahmineh I’m totally against this war and I agree with you. The issue is not process or international law, it’s whether or not you think we should use American lives and resources for another regime change war in the Middle East.
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People labeling liberalization of Iran as an “illegal war” do not sound as though they are terribly upset by the concept of “war” itself. They sound upset by who is in the White House.
Notably, had this been carried out by anyone else—one with a tan suit and a press corps prepared to call his explosions “measured” and “historic”—many of these same people would be writing essays about moral courage and the burden of statesmanship.
But because it is President Trump, every missile becomes a constitutional crisis and every strike is recited in the tone of a Victorian fainting spell.
And because it is Iran, one must apparently pretend the regime is a fragile, misunderstood little thing that simply wanted to enrich uranium, shoot children in the eye, gouge women’s wombs out, sponsor militias, and threaten the region in peace.
Honestly, the hypocrisy is nauseating.
Christiane Amanpour@amanpour
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are “outright lying,” and “selling a fantasy to Iranian people who are rightfully desperate for regime change,” says Iranian-American Democratic Congresswoman @yassaminansari, who calls the Iran operation an “illegal war.”
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@rifleman338 @Cernovich You know how there’s win-win? Well, this is called lose-lose
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@Cernovich I'm not sure if I would call being bombed into oblivion formidable here. The only reason it's not over is because the people can't rise up due to.....you know.....not having weapons. If a foreign country was able to eliminate 80% of our leadership I think it would be called a W
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Like Trump, I got gassed up by the neocons and Big Tech’s promises. They were either lying or unable to deliver. Iran is far more formidable than we were briefed on.
In any case, the enlistment age is now 42. Have you asked your favorite podcaster if they are signing up?
Matt Bracken@Matt_Bracken48
@Cernovich I'm confused.
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@WhatKwantstoSay In his confirmation hearing, Markwayne said “I'm not going to be the smartest guy in *any* room I walk into”
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Having a degree isn’t a flex. I went to University with a lot of morons that cheated their way through school. But to be able to turn your father business into a multi million dollar company is something AOC could never do. I’d take real life experience over indoctrination any day of the week.
Arlen Parsa@arlenparsa
AOC graduated with honors from Boston University with double degrees in Economics and International Relations. Markwayne was the only Senator without even a bachelor’s degree. Hope that helps.
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@castrolt06 @carolinen1c8zc How did you get this video? Are you a member at gewiiifnessifresfffff?
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@romanhelmetguy You say this sarcastically, but so far the CCP seems to be doing a better job of dispersing the benefits of AI to a broader swathe of humanity, instead of just hyping up how many jobs can be replaced.
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We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself.
AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.
That’s why I’m handing it over to China.
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.
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@GoldsteinRBG @RalphSmorra @MaxNordau So how do the countries with socialized healthcare spend less than the U.S. and get better outcomes?
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@RalphSmorra @MaxNordau If 3.8B were suddenly provided to supplement US health care, the cost of providing care would go up at least 3.8B. C.f. university costs.
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This Reel has 76,000 shares and doesn't seem to understand that Israel has large social welfare programs because Israelis pay extremely high taxes for them.
$3.8 billion is a fraction of all of this stuff.
Palestinianism requires you to be economically/financially illiterate.
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@Realglobalpol2 @bungarsargon Freedom of speech is always one of the first casualties of war
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@bungarsargon All jokes aside, this kind of stuff would have lead to arrests and imprisonment during WW1 (this kind of stuff wouldn't have happened at all during WW2 because the country wasn't awash with traitors)
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@EliLake @JamesWilli83381 @NoahCRothman Does this mean our strategy is to keep threatening them until they actually succeed in getting nuclear weapons?
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Iran still retains the idea of a navy, a nuclear program, a defense industrial base, and an Air Force. So what has it really lost other than its political and military leadership and the actual weapons needed to terrorize its neighbors?
The Economist@TheEconomist
A month of bombing Iran has achieved nothing. Will Donald Trump escalate, or talk? For now, at least, the advantage lies with the Islamic Republic. Register for free to learn why econ.st/4bPYtXk
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@grok @HonorAndDaring @ivaivayoshi @Thundergranite Isn’t it funny that the first time we get net negative migration is also the time that our elites have a real line of sight to robots and AI doing the work.
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As of March 2026, about 14 months into President Trump's second term, key reported accomplishments include:
- Border policies achieving negative net migration (first in 50 years) and over 2.6 million illegal immigrant removals/deportations, with crossings at 50-year lows.
- Signed "One Big Beautiful Bill" (July 2025) making 2017 tax cuts permanent, adding no tax on tips and senior deductions.
- Record U.S. energy production and exports; trillions in reshored investments.
- Reduced federal bureaucracy: cut ~300k federal workers, saved $215B+ via efficiency efforts.
- Designated cartels as terrorists; advanced prescription drug pricing reforms and banned males from female sports.
- Issued 250+ executive orders on regulation, health, and foreign policy; multiple peace initiatives noted.
Sources: White House summaries, Ballotpedia, federal records.
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If the Democrats win they will gerrymander and let in hordes of immigrants so that the GOP never wins another election again. Win now or face decades of defeat.
John Doyle@JohnDoyle
Lmfao
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the luddites arguing we should pause AI development are not living in reality and are de facto saying we should let our enemies win:
"If we didn't have adversaries, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely, but we do.”
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.
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@Ken_LoveTW Market data supports the analysis: Brent crude fell over 3% to below $95/barrel on March 25 amid resumed oil flows, while gold dropped 6% from $5,423 highs, reflecting eased safe-haven demand.
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Iran just blinked and completely surrendered to the US. The precious metals market knows it.
Tehran talked tough, but quietly told the UN that most ships can pass through the Strait of Hormuz as long as they’re not tied to the U.S. or Israel. That’s not a blockade anymore. That’s a surrender by Iran.
By allowing most ships (which Iran classifies as “non-hostile”) to pass, the vast majority of oil traffic can resume. As a result, global oil prices are bound to fall sharply, and Iran’s strategy to pressure the U.S. through oil prices collapses.
This is why allowing non-hostile ships through the Strait effectively amounts to Iran backing down.
The entire strategy was simple: choke the Strait, spike global oil prices, and pressure Donald Trump domestically. But once most traffic flows again, the leverage disappears.
Markets reacted instantly. Precious metals crashed. Oil dropped.
Why? Because Iran just gave up its only real weapon.
After losing air and naval dominance, Tehran had one card left: energy disruption. Now it’s gone.
They won’t say “we surrender.” But when your last move disappears, the outcome is already decided.
Fox News@FoxNews
'STRAIT' SIGNAL: President Trump says Iran sent the U.S. a gift on Monday and wants to make a deal. He declined to describe the gift, but called it a "very big present worth a tremendous amount of money," and related to the Strait of Hormuz and the flow of oil.
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@LFlings68288 @ratlpolicy Maybe we’ll even pay reparations for blowing up that girls school
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@ratlpolicy So when all Trump’s bluffs fail and he cuts a deal with whatever Iranian hard liner he can find to hold it together and lifts their sanctions will you admit that you fell for it again?
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It's almost as though the Iranian regime is a major threat to global security that must be defanged or defenestrated.
You know, like us hawks have been saying for years.
Brett McGurk@brett_mcgurk
Iran today threatened the Bab al-Mandeb (10 percent of seaborne trade). Predictable and not new. Iran spent years building a missile and drone proxy force in Yemen able to threaten global commerce—and fired anti-ship missiles at US Navy vessels in ‘23 and ‘24. Hormuz & Mandeb ⬇️
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@lanedeankendall You missed out the Marxism and anti-imperialism, which were both essential to China’s rise.
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First of all, China's rise, to the extent it has risen, was completely facilitated by the international order which was created by the United States post-WW2.
Secondly, if one were to actually "learn from China" you would learn to:
- Militarize the South China Sea
- Steal territory from your neighbors using completely fabricated historical nonsense
- Salami slice your near abroad
- Subsidize, overproduce, and export en-masse to trading partners to kill their domestic industries
- Put other partner countries under crippling debt to build shitty infrastructure projects
- Steal billions upon billions worth of intellectual property
- Suppress, crush, and imprison any domestic dissent
- Run endless cyber and information campaigns against your ideological foes
- And complain about the West all while using Western systems to enrich yourself.
Among other things.
Jason Smith - 上官杰文@ShangguanJiewen
🇨🇳China is the ONLY modern world power to ascend to its status, in peace. Spain was an empire. France was an empire. The UK was an empire. The USA is an empire. China is a global trading partner. We should learn from China's example. Facts matter.✔️
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@TonyNashNerd If a deal is made, let’s see what’s in the deal before declaring which side won and which side lost
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I hate to state the obvious here, but geopolitical analysis has become so dumb that we need to state the obvious explicitly:
➡️ Through this statement, Iran is already negotiating.
War Monitor@WarMonitors
⚡#BREAKING Iranian state TV says Iran told the U.S. through the mediators that they reject the 15-point plan
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@JPoliticalChess @IMAO_ @MZHemingway Why are aliens so attracted to politics? Is it like hiding in plain sight?
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@IMAO_ @MZHemingway Lol. The Ted Cruz thing where he and his running mate in 2015 attempt to hold and raise their hands is one of the most alien things I've seen politicians do.
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Everyone assumes this picture of Buttigieg is him eating a chicken wing, and that's because he's biting in a way to engage his "rip-the-flesh-from-the-bone" front teeth, so we fill in "chicken wing" to make it make sense. But what he is actually eating is a small piece of a cinnamon roll, and our brains just can't comprehend biting into a small piece of dough that way. It's like an alien took over a human body and is unfamiliar with the subtleties of how it works.
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@digijordan @Figure_robot It's not good unless they give us a UBI in advance. Hard disagree. Right now the plan is to tell us to go fuck ourselves and "stop being lazy, be a productive person" while they steal all the jobs and money.
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The White House today had a @Figure_robot explain to the world that it will soon be replacing teachers…
And it will. It will also replace surgeons, lawyers, pilots, truck drivers, police officers, soldiers and basically every other job.
And believe it or not…this is good.
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