Loster
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Loster
@Loster
thinker and stuff. Claude Code fan. Bit of coding. Bit of chronic illness.
England, United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2007
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Iran: The War Nobody Is Stopping — with Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley on DiEM25-tv youtube.com/watch?v=C4zreB…

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@zei_squirrel @yanisvaroufakis You sure Yanis is someone you want to be calling this stuff?
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@yanisvaroufakis Yanis, you are one of the most odious cunt pieces of shit alive, still doing the "OMG WE CAN WALK AND CHEW GUM AND THE SAME TIME THE MULLAH REGIME IS EVIL OMG THEY ARE EVIL OMG WALK AND CHEW GUM" in every video like you're some moralist. You're a cunt. You're a sub-human cunt
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Just been floating around today: chronic illness is just moments.
Each day, how many moments are you feeling some sort of inner complaint or pain?
How many moments do you get some freedom from it?
How many moments are you finding ways to dissociate from it (hi, Twitter)?
And because it's just moments it feels kind of arbitrary.
It feels like if I could just take a couple of steps to the left *everything would be ok*.
It's, like, *just there*. Out the corner of my eye.
It's just moments.
Just a series of moments.
Haven't found a way to take those steps to the left yet though.
Maybe in a few thousand more moments time.....
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This is not a new concept.
The Ethereum Foundation has been doing this since 2020.
DramaAlert@DramaAlert
This coffee shop only hires down syndrome employees. ❤️
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And yet, they've murdered hundreds of thousands.
As if evacuation orders aren't an ass-covering exercise in a 25-mile strip of fully enclosed land.
And *even if* you believe this, the destruction of every part of the infrastructure of this place guarantees misery and death in a second order way.
youtu.be/7pmz1YUBSgc
Not to mention the more direct actions of restricting food, access to medicines and baby food even.
It's all hasbara lies.

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As we see videos circulate online of Israeli airstrikes inside Iran, I would remind people about what the German Air Force chief said of Israeli Air Force strikes targeting Hamas in Gaza.
The German Air Force chief went to Israel and reviewed their military plans, reviewed all the protocols they go through before every strike. As we do here in America, Israel has lawyers who review every strike for legality before it's conducted.
And the German air chief said it is the most moral air force in the world. Israel has done more, he said, to preserve innocent Palestinian lives than any other air force would do in the circumstances.
And we know that from the facts that have come out.
Israel sends hundreds of thousands of text messages, issues hundreds of thousands of leaflets and flyers, issues maps on all of its websites which show the Palestinian civilians which areas will be attacked at which days and on which times.
I was a football player. When you're on offense, surprise is the name of the game, and that's no less true in the military.
Israel has relinquished the power of offensive surprise in order to preserve innocent Palestinian lives by telling Hamas exactly where it means to assault before it issues its orders. It has done so at great cost to the lives of its own soldiers in order to preserve and protect innocent Palestinian lives.
What other country in the world would do that?
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Many people wouldn't have liked it when I called Iran a rational actor.
But consider their actions so far.
-Did not close Strait of Hormuz until there was an existential threat to their country
-Did not attack critical energy infrastructure until theirs was targeted
-They have once again threatened that they will destroy the regional energy infrastructure if theirs is attacked, prompting Trump to announce no more of Iran's will be targeted
-They have demonstrated the capability to destroy the entire energy infrastructure of the Gulf and yet, they are holding themselves back.
Compare this with Israel and USA's actions so far:
-Decapitation strike against Iran while negotiations were progressing well (Oman confirmed this) and a ceasefire was in place.
-Targeted Iran's energy infrastructure knowing fully well that there will be retaliation.
-Initiated a war they have no means of winning without plunging the entire world into an apocalypse.
Which side is the rational actor here?
Sensei Kraken Zero@YearOfTheKraken
Because: 1. Iran is a rational actor. 2. The threat to close the Strait of Hormuz was the enforcement of their red line. 3. Their red line was crossed [regime change war], hence, they shut down the Strait. What would others have done? They would have done exactly what US-Israel are doing now. It's also the reason nothing can be done about it now.
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Just check out the ear thing for yourself - starting 1/3 of the way through this. He has two ear canals.
NotQuiteDeadAhu is brown bread.
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו@netanyahu
Crossing names off the list is good - doing it shoulder to shoulder with our American friends is even better. Good to see Ambassador @GovMikeHuckabee. Always a pleasure. 🇮🇱🇺🇸
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@Loster So articulately expressed. You hit the nail right on the head. Thank you. And I hope you are able to find some improvement for your condition or at least the strength to endure.
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My brother, who is my elder by three years, told me a couple of months ago in an email that he and I have nothing in common and that I just “spend my time online all day.”
We used to be fairly close and would hang out together with our spouses before I became ill in 2015.
So for 11 years, he’s largely been absent from my life.
I think this provides a lot of insight into why #pwME get rejected so often by friends and family members.
My brother isn’t a mean guy, he just doesn’t understand this illness—and even if he did, I don’t doubt he’d feel the same way regardless.
Once you’re not participating in the game of life—you’re on the sidelines for years, decades—your world becomes very small.
The truth is that people who have normal lives don’t know what to say to us, what to talk about, how to treat us.
All they know is that we’ve been chronically unwell for years and nothing has changed.
Also, as humans, we usually give people who are sick the privacy and alone time they need to deal with their sickness.
But ME/CFS is different because the sickness just goes on for years and years and years and we really crave connection with the people who once thought we were great, until we got sick.
There is no playbook for how to make a person with #ME feel included. It’s such a grossly disabling disease and the ONLY way our lives and relationships will get better is if modern medicine comes up with an approved treatment or treatments for this condition. That is to say, life would improve in every aspect if we could just feel better and become more functional.
After all, the point of life is living. With #MECFS, you’re essentially just waiting to die.
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This book was written from inside my tent…
under the sound of shelling, between fear, cold, and hunger.
Every day, I wrote to tell what we are living here in Gaza.
These are not just words,
but a whole life written between pain and hope.
I hope you read it…
maybe my words will reach your hearts,
and maybe you will understand what we are going through.
Title:
Diary from Gaza: Pages from a Tent in the Gaza War
Written by me
Mohammed Hussein 💔
📖 Get the book here: beaconbooks.net/products/diary…

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@HenMazzig Implicit hierarchy of value for human lives in posts like this of course.
It's *always implicit in what you omit*.
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