@karaokecomputer Be the American the Iranian government believes you are 📚 💪 👨🎓
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I only make music to pay the bills. My true passion is supply chain management 😌
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Araghchi plucking these gold nuggets of relevant American history and cheekily saying “Americans haven’t forgotten” knowing full well that most Americans don’t have a fucking clue 😂
Seyed Abbas Araghchi@araghchi
Americans haven’t forgotten how, even as hundreds of U.S. soldiers were dying in Vietnam, and the outcome was already clear, General William Westmoreland was flown home to reassure everyone that the war was going well — that the U.S. was “winning.”
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@stonedbelli @PeanutChillman Illinois may be a public university but it has some very competitive/prestigious programs, especially concerning STEM. This isn’t some SEC sports club that happens to have a school attached, the insult doesn’t even work
Also I wasn’t even aware UPenn was an Ivy tbh
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@PeanutChillman You go on any college campus (especially Illinois) you’ll find people who could’ve gotten into an Ivy, they just didn’t have the money. This is a pathetic display from Penn, but not surprising from people who have probably never had a problem in their lives.
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This isn’t savage. It’s distasteful. Penn students shifted to classism because their team lost a basketball game.
Yahoo Sports@YahooSports
Penn students were savage after the First Round loss to Illinois 🗣️
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My lean dealer is always on some kind of bullshit
パラノーマルちゃんねる@paranormal_2ch
こういうのって永久機関にならないの？
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@Fairtermfree @vvage_labor Tbh, I think the only thing that would make Iran come back to the negotiating table is if the new negotiators sent the heads of the last ones as a show of good faith lol
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@vvage_labor I think the war is on and most of the politicians and military would like to try and destroy as much of Iran as possible before negotiating. Like Israel, they don’t really care about Trump’s midterms or reelection it might even be good to knock him down a peg with Iran.
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ngl it’s kinda crazy there hasn’t been a capital coup against trump at this point. i wonder how much they’re gonna let him fuck shit up before stepping in.
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@Zeno25 @bidetmarxman That’s because there is no such thing as “American interest.” There is your interest and your boss’ interest, and your boss is just fine with sending soldiers to defend American outposts in the Middle East
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@bidetmarxman It makes perfect sense when you realize America's foreign policy doesn't serve America, and hasn't for decades.
GIF
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None of what the US does makes sense—current attack on Iran included—until you understand the US has spent the last few decades desperately trying to counter the rise of China, and is now grappling with the realization that they have failed.
Amerikanets 📉@ripplebrain
This is something people don't understand when they think "oil go up, American companies make money!" The oil majors want a stable situation in which they can achieve a long-term, predictable return on their investments. They want to be able to sell their product to whoever, wherever, with minimal regulation. An environment where prices are spiking wildly, trade corridors are being shut down, and multi-billion dollar facilities are going up in smoke in an instant is not good for business. Periods of high volatility result in these companies mitigating risk by scaling back investments. And they would love to make a deal with the Iranians, because there's money to be made there. Dick Cheney, of all people, spent the 90s lobbying for the removal of all sanctions on Iran for this reason. When Trump withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 he blew up the first major western deal for investment in Iranian oil operations in a decade. Profit motive does not explain what we're seeing with this war.
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@NotPotBol Also some of the best people I worked with were Demsocs and Anarchists but the American left obviously does not have a winning strategy yet and personally I think that we used our differing tendencies to build something that worked, at least at a local level
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@NotPotBol Completely agree. I was also stuck in a conservative rural area and DSA is a good banner to wave to attract other socialists. There’s so much energy there idk how a realistic ML could let that go to waste.
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So as some people know I am in the DSA, and have been for a while. I am still an ML, and the DSA is not an ML party. So I want to explain my rationale for why I am in it. If you disagree then feel free to share. I would love some sort of conversation on strategy for US socialists
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@esssspresso @isaiah_bb Damn, I’ve only been to Boise once, just driving through on the way to Oregon, and my entire impression was formed by a rusty ~2000 Toyota Corolla covered in Hentai stickers
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@isaiah_bb i saw a car like this once. just a bunch of hentai panel stickers. wild
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@keatssycamore @TheAlexSylvian Interesting, I’ll have to keep this in mind on reread. It’s a potent concept for a story like Vineland
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@SultanateOfFun @TheAlexSylvian Yes, he was scared
keatssycamore@keatssycamore
@pastichepsyop @TheAlexSylvian I think Frenesi embodies the USian radlib left that can never kill the American inside of themselves. To indoctrinated by the culture they are raised in to transcend. Perfidia? Illegible mess
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perfidia beverly hills is one of cinema's great rorshach tests. everyone projects their own opinions onto her. she's a traitor, a revolutionary, a firebrand, a thrill seeker, a hero, a villain, a bad mother, a victim, she's everything any person wants her to be
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@MargBarAmerica I like the way he ends every message now with “Thank you for your attention to this matter” as if he’s some fortressed away noble opening his window a couple times a week to remind the peasants that when their crops die it’s bad for the royal coffers
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this may be his first statement that actually freaks out the market finally. its desperate tone stands out more than ever.
The White House@WhiteHouse
Statement from President Trump on South Pars Gas Field:
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@_david_cooley @ja3k_ Trump’s base (vocal, low information) tends to have hobbies like driving atvs, jet skis, trucks which means they spend more on fuel.
I don’t want to single out rednecks though, crypto bros are also a large part of his base and their hobby is an abstracted form of burning diesel
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@_david_cooley @ja3k_ This and also the most politically vocal/lowest information voters tend to have hobbies that involve operating diesel powered machines at various levels of inebriation.
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@ja3k_ you're halfway there. yes, the visibility is part of it. pair that with the fact that oil tends to increase the price of literally everything on some level, and what you have is a specific metric that corresponds to everything at least somewhat that everyone sees all the time
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@ClarkeIanm @bluemagicboxes Not a fair comparison. Israel destroys their own world heritage sites
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@bluemagicboxes Or hospital for hospital.
Or world heritage site for heritage site.
Or negotiator for negotiator.
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@EdenLostMandate @snackvampire Buddy, calm down. I agree with you. I am saying that a war that *destroys oil production infrastructure* will do this
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@SultanateOfFun @snackvampire Until or unless we shove celebrities and billionaires in wood chippers to decrease -their- carbon footprint, any discussion about the rest of our energy use is irrelevant. See also carbon power sources and Big tech and AI serverfarms.
And you are cattle for not getting that.
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this time reminds me of how I felt at the beginning of covid when it was clear everything would come crashing to a halt but most people could not see it yet
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@Kholina54321 @ripplebrain They know the crash is coming too, they’re just playing an extremely high stakes game of chicken (with other peoples’ money) to try to squeeze out a few extra dollars before everything falls apart
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@ripplebrain Oil traders remain sort of inconceivably slow. It's making me mad at this point
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Scrolling through images of the world's most important oil production facilities getting hit by SRBMs and saying "oh bother" like the Winnie the Pooh over and over for hours
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@EdenLostMandate @snackvampire It obviously is not lol. But this war is going to have very long lasting effects on the global economy. I don’t like speaking about war in such cold terms but it is true and we should acknowledge it
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@SultanateOfFun @snackvampire Oh shut the fuck up. How carbon neutral is War faggotron?
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@Jesse_Brenneman Genuinely hilarious dynamic between these two. Markwayne is trying to pull some sovereign citizen bullshit but he’s arguing against Rand fucking Paul of all people lol
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It really can't be overstated how much of a total delusional fantasy Trumpworld lives in. Reality is what they saw on a Facebook post one time.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Dueling with two consenting adults is still there RAND PAUL: It's been illegal for 170 years! There's no precedent for legal dueling
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