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@ReviewsPossum They tried to reach the realm of God. The space station was made to reach the outer boundary of Earth's atmosphere

Okay, so, I'm not going to say the Tower of Babel was a real thing that existed, but this is ignoring the point of the mythological story. Nimrod believed in God, but considered himself to be his equal. He built the Tower of Babel so he could challenge God. By compelling people to participate in its construction, Nimrod was essentially making people turn away from God to trust in their own strength, and defy his command to spread around the world and multiply. God responded by confounding their languages and forcing them to scatter, and destroyed the tower to humble them. It wasn't that they were trying to reach the heavens. It's why they did it. A bunch of bronze age savages thought they could do the impossible. Thousands of years later, after the advent of Newtonian physics, and a World War which showed mankind why they needed to quit acting like apes fighting over a banana tree, Man was ready to reach the heavens. Not to prove he was better than God, but to better understand His creation. I'm not even a Bible-thumping Christian and I know this. Even if you don't take the story literally as an actual historical event, there's a lesson and warning against the folly of unchecked ambition and people concerting toward impossible goals doomed to disaster. Reaching the heavens is possible, but not before you're ready. Cautionary tales against trying to do things before you're ready are common in mythology. The story of Bellerophon trying to fly on Pegasus to Mount Olympus is one such story.

@Sinnekrev @Anchovy_Pizza That's not a coherent English sentence

@Anchovy_Pizza No one but people from those countries are shamed of being from them refers to them as Asians

I know it’s “technically” correct but can we please stop referring to people from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka as “Asians”

@RedLobsterist @Anchovy_Pizza Post has nothing to do with Arabs or the Middle East in general

@Anchovy_Pizza It's really really really not correct. Like calling the Irish "Island people" We know what you're doing. Arabs and Muslims are so awful you're using a euphemism in order to not say Arab or Muslim in conversation.

@WorkMomhustle @Ambar_SIFF_MRA Post didn't even say the word pedo you miserable bench

>McKenna Kindred, 25 >Married Teacher at Central Valley High School, Spokane, Washington >Flirted for months with a 17-year-old male student via Instagram and texts >Exchanged explicit photos of private parts >Invited the boy to her home and had s*x with him for 4 hours >Incident took place while her lawyer husband was away on a hunting trip >Pleaded guilty to first-degree s*xual misconduct with a minor >Sentenced to 24 months' probation and placed on the s*x offenders' register for 10 years >Surrendered her teaching license No jail time for her because she is female. This is called Female Privilege.

@ThatBeardedGu20 @AI_EmeraldApple Missiles are cheaper than infantry btw

@AI_EmeraldApple It doesn't really matter that you can destroy it with a ballistic missile. Hardened structures like this still matter in warfare because it raises the force needed to defeat the forces defending that area. Yeah, you wiped it out with a missile, but what if you only had infantry?

The Iranian military really thought a 1300s-style medieval castle design would really work in the 21st century?!?! Wasted all that time building the round towers, battlements, and the entire "castle" look, and it gets fuking deleted in milliseconds. Of course, it doesn't matter if they build it deep inside mountains because we can still blow them up with our massive ordnance bunker busters. The IRGC really has nowhere to hide, and the idiotic propagandists are acting like Iran is winning, LMAO.

@nicholadrummond Iran has roughly three times the land. Iraq is flat as a board which makes invasion easy. Iran is almost entirely comprised of mountains. Roughly 5,000 US troops died and around half a million people died in Iraq. Iran has a far greater military to Iraq. Hell on Earth to come.

I'm old enough to remember the Gulf Wars of 1991 and 2003. At the time, the doom-mongers amongst us suggested that any land attack against Saddam Hussein's forces, especially his elite Republican Guard units, would end in disaster. They said we would sustain unacceptable casualties, that oil prices would spike, and the world economy would be plunged into recession. But Operation Desert Storm was an outstanding success. George Bush Sr. could have so easily driven to Baghdad to remove Saddam from power. But he left that job to his son. Today, with Iran, I'm seeing all of the same fears being recycled. Sure, Iran has a more capable military than Iraq had and is better prepared to resist a US attack. So, yes, it will likely take longer to dismantle the regime. But the fact that factions within Iran have requested talks shows that results are being achieved. This won't be a "forever war. " What makes sensible discussion about this difficult is what some people are calling "Trump Derangement Syndrome." The idea that someone so outspoken, bombastic, and egotistical as DJT could possibly do something good is anathema to his enemies. They hate the idea that Trump could succeed - by ridding the world of a major sponsor of terrorism and a regime that has slaughtered thousands of its own people - so much, that they happily defend the Ayatollah. I make no comment pro or against Trump. Instead, I note that any Western power might try to do the same thing if it had the means. Of course, it could go wrong, and it could take longer. And, yes, DJT could have consulted his allies first, and, yes, we can review his approach later, and suggest a different course of action, but sometimes the ends justify the means.

@ratlpolicy Do you call yourselves hawks cause you like sucking dick or is it a retard thing?

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.

@KingOffX_ The foreign governments are full of people whose skulls contain these things called brains and this allows them to see obvious stupid ploys. Trump and Hegseth are working together to play tic tac toe and everybody around the globe knows who started the war.

The Iranian regime is walking straight into a U.S. trap by rejecting the proposal. Let me explain, if the U.S. sent in ground troops without a clear trigger, like Iran rejecting a 15-point ceasefire, the global backlash would tilt toward Iran. Trump knows that. He’s set it up so that if Iran refuses, he has the pretext to escalate to save the people of Iran, if it accepts, Washington still comes out ahead. Either way, the regime loses.

@CENTCOM Thank God you saved us all from the imminent threat of those 12 year old girls who were gonna blow up our families on the opposite side of the world kind of like how you guys are doing in a country on the other side of the world from us.

U.S. forces continue to eliminate threats presented by the Iranian regime, striking over 10,000 targets since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

@chico_ray Brother you can not be saved. If there was no propaganda, you would still LOVE the warmonger government

So let me get this straight. The war with Iran (the regime, not the people) has been going on for two weeks now. Just two weeks. In that time, the regime leadership has been completely decimated. Missile production has been destroyed. Missiles fired from the regime have dwindled—declining daily. Their navy, obliterated. Their infrastructure of oppression is being bombed to hell. The forces on the ground now run away when they hear the sound of drones. This high pressure chipping away of a militarily sophisticated enemy is unprecedented in its speed, scope and precision. It’s almost unbelievable. But randos online, political commentators (and even leaders who should know better!) brainlessly say things like: “They’re losing”. “They don’t have a plan”. “America is now stuck in a war it can’t escape”. “This is Israel’s war”. “This is illegal”. “This is a forever war”. It’s genuinely one of the most retarded moments I’ve ever lived through. It’s like people have either shut off their brains, or they’re acting maliciously. I’m still figuring out which it is. Before our very eyes, we’re seeing one of the most consequential moments of modern history. We’re witnessing the exorcism of a demonic Islamic regime that has brutalised the Iranians and destabilised the Middle East for years! An enemy that believes the world needs to be in chaos for their Mahdi to appear. Lunatics that want to see the world subdued. A world without this threat is a better world for everyone. America and Israel will pull this off, and reap all the rewards. While the brainless European leaders—who did nothing—will become even more irrelevant on the world stage.

@Davidkingiv @donsaudi44 @Hunter_Guide1 @LBGamestips And yet he was right that the Canaanites who call themselves Israelites cling to life like a dog clings to a bone. Because even they don't actually believe killing a chicken absolves their blackened souls.

@donsaudi44 @Hunter_Guide1 @LBGamestips They're words from a man whom Israelites had rejected as a prophet now his words of hatred for them is what you call holy words 🤭🤭🤭

🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Sometimes I ask myself, why is Iranian senior leadership not in bunkers like their counterparts? Judging by how most of them were killed in their homes and offices, which in war would be the last place to be considering the fact that your enemies already know where your office and home are, isn’t it wise to seek shelter in bunkers and secret houses? is this some kind of ideology that no one is more important than anyone else? Everyone is equal and the war is for all of the country?

@lamps_apple Too bad we already alienated all of our would be allies and made them not trust us at all and also proved that these wars are unwinnable and also started this war unilaterally making us and Israel pretty much the root cause of all the world's problems. I'm sure they'll blame Iran

The Strait of Hormuz was supposed to end Trump’s presidency. Iran blocked it. Oil spiked. Gas prices surged. The plan was simple… crush the American worker with inflation until the political pressure forced a retreat. But the trap inverted. The oil market has fractured into two tiers. $100 in America. $150 in Asia. China, India, Japan, South Korea… the nations that refused to send warships when Trump asked… are now paying 50% more per barrel than the country that launched the war. Demand destruction has started across Asia. Schools closing. Workers sent home. Petrol pumps running dry in Southeast Asia. Meanwhile American refineries are actually increasing output, running on light sweet crude that never touches Hormuz. Trump told them to help open the Strait. Every single one refused. NATO said it wasn’t their war. China negotiated selective passage from a destroyed regime. Japan declined. Australia declined. Now the Strait is doing to them what it was designed to do to Trump.

@Strange_G He's spent the past year making sure all our former allies know that he'll kick them in the teeth for shits and giggles then he started a war cause his son in law told him Iran would attack his boss, Bibi. Obviously nobody is going to support him.

People laughing that Trump is “begging for help” completely miss the point. He didn’t walk into this conflict unprepared. He’s a brilliant strategist, surrounded with the best around him. Israel & the Arabs were the only nations he really needed for this operation. Asking allies to step up was a loyalty test. Who stands with the West when it matters and who hides. Moments like this expose the real value of alliances. Those who refuse to stand up in the most decisive fight for global stability shouldn’t expect to enjoy the benefits of the order that follows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Mark_McEathron Israel offers nothing for us. They don't fight with us. We fund their military. We give them our weapons. They're a baby country with enough dirt on our politicians that Trump ran on no war with Iran in 2024 and then months later, bombed them and months after that, started a war.

If you believe that the United States is fighting a war for Israel, then I'm going to believe that you might have consumed paint chips as a child. Fighting a war WITH allies is FAR different than fighting a war FOR one. They are not remotely the same. Mutually aligned causes are often what facilitate the alliance. The United States is not beholden to Israel. We share a mutual interest in the overthrow of the Iranian regime. For Israel, it's the right to exist. For America, it's ending a regime that has killed thousands of Americans, funds cartels to smuggle jihadis into America, funds domestic terrorists, provides skills training to terrorists, funds the drug trade, and on and on and on. We receive FAR more from Israel than we have ever invested into them. The very ability to actually execute this war effectively is largely due to Israel's intelligence work within the middle east. They lead the world in that, and we'd be wholly ineffective without it. The amount of American lives saved through this partnership vastly surpasses the lives lost. 70% of every dollar we send them MUST be spent purchasing products from us. On average we send them $5 Billion a year. They send us $40 billion. The missile defense systems they use were built in partnership with us. Which means every time they have drawn fire upon them, and their lives are targeted, we get to update our own missile defense algorithms making us safer. All of the news about America defeating Venezuela and Iran command and control by our massive cyber attacks, guess where we get that from? Israel leads the world in cyber capabilities and they share that with us. Fighting along side such allies is America First especially when their interests align with our own. America is not fighting a war FOR Israel. We are fighting one WITH Israel and THANK GOD we have them on our side!

@DefiyantlyFree At this point, if we discover some far ancient writings in a cave somewhere, it's up in the air if it's just gonna say that Iran is weeks away from nuclear weapons. But actually you have to be retarded to believe that propaganda. Our enemy is Israel. Trump is their dog. Treason

Treason has a legal definition. Article III. Look it up. It means levying war against America or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. A president destroying the navy and missile program of a country that killed 1,000+ Americans and was weeks away from nuclear breakout capability is the constitutional opposite of treason. You can oppose this war on policy grounds. You would be wrong but it’s debatable. What you’re saying is either agit prop or basic constitutional ignorance. Neither of which is a good look.

@lanedeankendall Actually the private company was just insisting that the service they offer not be used except by the terms of service. The DoD chose to not use it but they also threw a tantrum cause they can't handle somebody not taking the taxpayer money they throw around to get their way

Correct. People acting like Anthropic achieved some moral victory for the ages just aren’t getting it. A private company was essentially demanding that it have final say over US defense policy. It’s a very good thing for the DOW to set the standard that they won’t bow to the demands of wannabe technocrat overlords.

@lamps_apple You're totally right. The president is allowed to execute a war but as long as he doesn't say "we're at war" it's actually just a series of battles and not infringing on the congressional power of war

There is no requirement in the Constitution or federal statute that the President must obtain advance congressional approval before ordering military strikes or other uses of U.S. armed forces. Stop the meltdowns before it clogs my timeline and I miss real news

@LeighWolf Anthropic offers a service and set the terms of that service. The DoD wants to use it while ignoring the terms because it has that much potential. Anthropic didn't budge on the terms that 1. A person needs to pull the trigger 2. It can't be used against the American people

Am I reading this Anthropic AI , DoW situation correctly? They want to sell a weapons capability to the military, but also dictate the parameters under which our troops can employ it? If true, insane hubris from a private company.

@Shem_Infinite In WWII the military hired engineers to develop a piece of military hardware. That said, there were engineers who refused to participate in unethical weapons development Anthropic made Claude. The US military decided to use it and then demanded that the terms of service change.

@Terpin8or @davec_NH To be fair, corporations famously simply don't do what they say they're doing. Turning off Siri doesn't actually mean the mic is turned off. The fines they get for violations like that are tiny compared to the profits they make from spying on consumers.

@davec_NH if you don't know how to turn features on your smartphone off, you are too dumb to use a smartphone

This Anthropic Issue comes down to, Their software is used in some of our weapons systems, they changed the "user agreement" to say - if you are shooting at someone we dont agree with you on - we will remotely disable that system. They are wrong - and should be bankrupted for it.