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@TOutheusden @RSA_Observer Hilarious how somehow the Israelis escape blame in this article despite being the primary instigator and escalator

@RSA_Observer I always assumed the propaganda effect but I never knew anyone with first hand knowledge. Did you read the recent Foreign Affairs article? It has this interesting bit about 20-20-60 and I wonder if your friends ever shed any light on this to you foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

To my surprise, Iran is the world's 10th largest producer of steel. It's annual production is only a bit less than that of Germany (2025 numbers, 32 vs 34 million tons).

@MuggyGrunt @phl43 Also all logistical supply lines would be constantly harassed

@phl43 So they conquer the islands plus parts key parts of the coast. Then what? have the soldiers hanging around being bombed by drones, missiles and potentially guerrilla crap?

Should this happen, the same people who not even a month ago were ridiculing the notion that it would ever come to that will enthusiastically support it, while continuing to insist that everything is going according to plan and indeed that the war is going even better than they ever would have dreamt.

@ashenmiracle Someone traced the route tachyon runs on google maps and its 2.4km, the same distance as the Japan Cup

deadass one of the greatest sequences ever

@cameron_lee4 @JamesWebb_16 Which is exactly why Israel did it, their plan is to turn the region to ashes so that they can lord over it with their nukes and American money.

@JamesWebb_16 It also extends wars for much longer and the fighting much more ferocious than they otherwise would be.

Assassinating heads of state has been taboo since at least the Treaty of Westphalia. There are a number of very practical reasons it's a very bad idea. For one, it makes it near impossible for states to negotiate. It also galvanizes public opinion (in places such as Iran) behind the regime. It's seen as an attack on the whole people.

@ripplebrain @burner671134391 lmao would make sense. In the south theres a massive issue every time theres a hurricane with contractors going door to door convincing homeowners to file insurance claims for new roofs

@burner671134391 Plausible actually!

They seriously expect you to believe that only 15 Iranian missiles have hit Israel lmao

@abracing0 Ethical Diamond gonna win another shocker next week

Each to their own and everyone is entitled to their opinion. But really? Constitution Hill would beat Calandagan over 2,400m?

@cashmir316 @Metalhead_Ninja @WyattzWorId they aren’t buying and holding, its an entirely hype driven speculator market so they just need to flip to next buyer. Pokémon is the most lucrative media franchise of all time, its comparable to Disney now so it’s always going to have a market.

@PMBY89 @Metalhead_Ninja @WyattzWorId Yep, they are not investments at all, even less so than BTC. Only a handful of classic baseball cards are worth anything decades laters. The next generation may laugh at Pokémon, which will make the current crop worth little.

Did something come out today? Why the fuck are people wrapped around Best Buy at 10 am

@BartDePalma @TheAngry53586 Airborne beachhead onto an island the OPFOR has full fire control on across entire coastline, that can only be resupplied by air. Disastrous strategy lol

@TheAngry53586 The only choke point is the straight and the Iranians don’t have the remaining forces to close it. That being said, there is no reason to run the straight when Army in helicopters could just drop in on Kharg.

Repeat after me:- To get amphibious ships to Kharg, you need to clear the SOH and AFTER, hundreds of miles of coastline first. It’s like some accounts don’t know the geography of the PG.

@cashmir316 @Metalhead_Ninja @WyattzWorId They are treating these like investment products - its more like cryptocurrency than a game piece with use value

@Metalhead_Ninja @WyattzWorId Adults have done this…instead of focusing on mature, adult things, they are living in some sort of childhood fantasy. I get doing stuff for/with your kids, been there, I still occasionally build a Lego set with my teenage son. This card thing is on an unhinged level though

@CookMid69 @robin_j_brooks @JoumannaTV 4 months ago Trump was making serious threats about conquering and annexing a NATO state’s territory lol

@CookMid69 @robin_j_brooks @JoumannaTV Why would they risk their citizens and assets helping the Americans and Israelis in a moronic war they started that they knew would harm all their major allies lmao

“We need about a month to weaken the Iranians more with strikes, take the island and then get them by the balls and use it for negotiations," a source with knowledge of the White House thinking said.

@xwalkenjoyer @robin_j_brooks @JoumannaTV

@robin_j_brooks @JoumannaTV hey cue ball are you this stupid on purpose?

@posting_forever The way these people act like American Jews have a line item veto on acceptable politics regarding Israel despite their complete, total failure and irrelevance is nauseating

@LegoKingo youtu.be/IVYKNfatIr4?si…

@LegoKingo I think part of the origin was Conan O’Brien (who was an early internet favorite) had a bit where he’d pull a lever and absurd Walker Texas Ranger clips would play youtube.com/watch?v=zHFUBE…

Chuck Norris jokes are pretty fascinating bc they started as a way of making fun of him (the same way you'd make fun of a Steven Seagal movie where he's an invincible badass with no flaws) but over time it just became "this guy is genuinely badass" bc no one watched his movies

@Cubpower44 @YahooSports really need a society where these wharton mbas are sent to salt mines

@YahooSports Not to bright. Illinois is one of the best academic institutions in the world.

Penn students were savage after the First Round loss to Illinois 🗣️

@wombat209 @humanprovince @asadabukhalil Because the USSR and US rapped Israel, UK and France on the knuckles for this stunt

@humanprovince @asadabukhalil Why did they not do it ?

As part of the 1956 invasion of Egypt. Ben-Gurion wanted to topple Abdel Nasser, take the Sinai, dissolve Jordan, and conquer and settle the south of Lebanon up to the Litani. This was 8 years before the founding of the PLO and a quarter century before Hezbollah existed.

@davidgross_man @EmissaryOfNight If israeli military and paramilitaries arent destroyed they will continue to expand their ongoing holocaust. The society is locked into a logic of permanent war that can only end in either their disastrous defeat or extermination of the populations surrounding them

Great news: you know the question we're all asking, what type of country is Israel becoming? Well, I've found the answer

@shadowcrewtroll @channel_echo @balajis Everything you say more accurately describes Israel. Remember that they have twice in their history attempted to seize control of the Suez!

@channel_echo @balajis No, it isn’t. None of those countries control the SoH, a choke point for a considerable portion of world energy, work to destabilize the region through state funded terrorism as much as Iran, or are an apocalyptic death cult.

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

@closestfriend_ @provisionalidea Even open bribery by the Gulf States of these people bought them basically nothing. Why wouldn’t countries pivot to China lol

@closestfriend_ @provisionalidea Its easy when America is ruled by a psychotic moron goaded by ethnofascist terrorists domestic and foreign

the most amazing thing about this propaganda was that China kept it to itself for domestic use an American journalist had to find it through their own channels, upload it here, someone else had to run it through a translation service… it wasn’t distributed through eg tiktok…