Lycan

Bro pretending he didn’t just google “what were the bad transformers”

Just remembering when hundreds of people were fired for not being sufficiently worshipful of Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

the aesthetics are incredible. cigars and crystal decanter with japanese whisky. black dress shirt, tight suit, two-toned double monks, and tie bar. arne jacobsen egg chair teamed with a studio backdrop with a car inexplicably inside the room. a 12 yr old's idea of masculinity

EXCLUSIVE: Father of service member killed in Iran war said he did not tell Pete Hegseth to "finish" the job. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

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I do, so I need a link to what you're talking about. There was no de-nationalizing. Nationalized under Mos, then under the Shah there was an oil consortium established with a massive profit share for the west who sold the oil/ran operations, but Iran never ceased to maintain 100% formal ownership. Over the years, the Shah increased Iran's rev share and incrementally took back more operational control. Then years later OPEC gives Iran the ability to regain full control because it took away a lot of Western leverage that kept them in play.

@LycanCooks Dude I thought you said you knew this stuff? After Mosaddegh was removed from his position the oil companies were de-nationalized... then a few years later they were nationalized again.

First, what a king. Second, I hate the idea that all the people willing to call out the admin - the final voices of reason - are leaving these institutions.

@OdioiNgr Is the leftist in the room with us, big bro?

@LycanCooks If you are a leftist you have never been a decent persone little bro

I really should give up on being a decent person and start doing awful things for money. Maybe it's time to start that conservative blog.

"The shah nationalized the oil" No - Parliament did under Mosaddegh. The Shah kept it nationalized, but was more amenable to Western interests. Mosaddegh was unpopular, but not so unpopular the people wanted the Shah back, and he did not have a popular mandate to return. I've never read the wiki article on TPAJAX, but I'll bet it goes into a decent bit of detail about the state of affairs in Iran re: support for Mos vs Shah and the significance of CIA influence.

@LycanCooks And the shah nationalized the oil anyway... I think you're overselling the influence the cia had in the in coup compared to how Iranians felt. Hell even now they're calling Javid Shah on streets, is that the cia too?

That 70k figure is a bragging point (one I agree with in a vacuum, it's pretty fucking cool), but you're downplaying how critical Operation Ajax was to influencing the people and swinging the votes. Without Ajax, the Shah had a snowball's chance in hell of returning. This wasn't done by popular vote or parliament, the will of the people only mattered insofar as Ajax garnering enough support to get the military to Coup Mosaddegh. The CIA/MI6 helped plan the coup, not just the disinfo/unrest campaign. There is no meaningful public or institutional support for the Shah - let alone no coup - without US/GBR interference. We knew the Shah was an authoritarian prick before installing him. Did we know the extent to which he would go? Not at all. But our motive was solely US/British oil interests and a vague domino theory concern (that was, despite the time, way less a priority than British Petroleum not losing their control over Iranian oil). We knew enough to know the Shah was not going to be a democratic ruler and that his government would be a negative to the freedoms and liberties of the Iranians. We just didn't give a shit because we wanted someone who would cater to our interests. Which is a great segue into why you shouldn't want the US to do any regime change. We focus on who will help us over who will help the people they are meant to lead. And we always manage to fuck it up royally.

@LycanCooks The point of outlining the 70k was to show we barely had a hand in restoring the Shah. And by saying it was only because of the cia you're minimizing the will of the people

That 70k figure is a bragging point (one I agree with in a vacuum, it's pretty fucking cool), but you're downplaying how critical Operation Ajax was to influencing the people and swinging the votes. Without Ajax, the Shah had a snowball's chance in hell of returning. This wasn't done by popular vote or parliament, the will of the people only mattered insofar as Ajax garnering enough support to get the military to Coup Mosaddegh. The CIA/MI6 helped plan the coup, not just the disinfo/unrest campaign.

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It's not about the spend. It's about the reason and the impact it had on that nation, region, and the world for the next 70 years. The cost I was referring to later in my reply is about blood and stability. And you can't care about those 32K protestors unless you believe the UNSC shouldn't have resolved to stop the war in Gaza through military action. As for your comment re: nukes, where do you want to start? Rehash the intelligence/state/nuclear watchdog reports we had to go through last year to debunk this claim? The contradictory statements from the Trump admin re: those strikes and the current threat? The echoes of OIF from the fabricated intelligence to the slow trickle of admissions that it was all BS?

@LycanCooks You look a little like Michael Sarah in this picture!

Wearing my little rascals hat for St Paddy’s

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1. It would benefit Jews tremendously for people to stop treating Israel and the diaspora as a monolith. Especially when Israel continues to do awful shit. Even more so when they use antisemitism as a cudgel to silence criticism. 2. That’s not even the point of my tweet, but Perhaps Hegseth shouldn’t have let the cat out of the bag. 3. Scum though this dude may be overall, he’s the head of the NCTC and is aware of the most sensitive reporting of both his org and that of the rest of the IC. He was willing to break with the man he hitched his wagon to on everything including election fraud. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume he’s not tanking his significant role to do a bit of antisemitism. 4. The point of my tweet is that we need more people willing to break from the admin or use their position to tell the truth/speak out against horrible actions like this unnecessary war. 5. I spent a few months living next to Iranian agents in Afghanistan. Having them photograph me, follow me. I took shelter from the mortars they furnished for Syrians they helped smuggle over the border when I was in Iraq. I’m intimately familiar with their bullshit. You will not find me defending the regime. 5. I’m also very well read on our military and intelligence history as it relates to Iran and the last 25 years of Iranian foreign and nuclear policy. Which is why I spoke so vehemently against the strikes. No one with a modicum of understanding of any of of that can say the threat they pose is a justification for this military action. Nor does this have any modern precedent. 6. Lastly, on that same note, you cannot begrudge them for doing the same shit we do, especially when they’re less effective, unless you are equally (if not more) critical of us. This regime exists as a direct result of actions we took 70 years ago. So I think it’s foolish to support unilateral action against a regime - which will come at the cost of further destabilization in a region ready to implode all over again and many innocent Iranian lives (the people everyone ostensibly claims to care so much about) - without accounting for the lies of the administration re: The threat they pose, our role in creating this regime, and the lessons from OIF everyone suddenly forgot because Iran bad.

@LycanCooks Oh another "its the jews" kind of things huh? the IRGC has targeted us for decades and hired a hitman to kill Biden and Trump. To say they're on a threat is a bit misguided IMO as they fund pretty much every known terror org that operates in the ME and the west.

@TenshiTTV You’re moving up while better people are on their way down. The ladder is a ladder.

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Damn. DAMN.