@zarathustra5150 "you have created the Golden Age" is crazy stuff.
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Trump ultimately bears responsibility, of course, the buck stops with him.
But he does himself no favors by surrounding himself with a stooge circus of imbeciles, sycophantic yes-men, moronic toadies & outright clowns like Dan Bongino, Howard Lutnick, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem and the rest.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Lutnick, to Trump: You are fixing everything with your policies. You have changed America and created the golden age
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One of the biggest myths out there is that Trump does deals.
Wrong. He uses a diplomatic process to push maximalist demands—and when those demands aren’t met by the other side, he either gets bored and moves on or goes to war. There’s little negotiating going on.
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@spandrell4 Oil markets barely moved, brent up to $108. They don't believe it anymore.
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@witte_sergei How would the discovery of another Egyptian monument somehow prove Hancock correct? That's nothing to do with his theory.
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@UMN79573628 Yes, the cope merchants cannot see that tactical success does not translate to political victory everytime.
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@physicsgeek You've misunderstood the history. Walter Cronkite did not say it was a military failure, the angle he talked about was that the President and military had led the public to believe that the North Vietnamese were no longer capable of large scale offensive operation
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They're trying to Tet Offensive the Iran war. For those who don't remember, the Tet Offensive was a military success but Walter Cronkite came on the air and declared it to be a disaster and everyone just believed him.
Noah Rothman@NoahCRothman
The verdict from some quarters is in: The war is “quickly becoming a disaster.” The sooner Washington acknowledges its defeat, the better... That dour outlook seems wholly divorced from an objective appraisal of the war in its fourth week.
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@Nomads4Pritzker Could this phenomenon be linked to the fact modern high end monitors are so bright? So when films make it to the consumer their not so good screens make everything duller?
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Director: “well, I’d say that the final cut!”
Disney Exec: “not so fast- first we have to run it by Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors”
Pazuzu, the Demon that Eats Colors: “Delicious reds and greens! A feast for Pazuzu!”
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The year is 2044. We don't have AGI. We don't have a room temp superconductor. We didn't return to the moon. GDP hasn't grown over 2% in 15 years. The mullahs still rule Iran. Season 8 of Harry Potter has just started filming.
Wizarding World Direct@WW_Direct
The HARRY POTTER TV series won't have one season a year "For some of the bigger shows like Harry Potter, huge world-building shows, it would be nice to have those on an annual basis. But from a production point of view, it’s just not possible." - Casey Bloys
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FPV drone footage shared by Iraqi militias, showing strikes against a AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel radar and a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Camp Victory in Baghdad. Hard to tell how badly the chopper was hit.
In any case, first visual confirmation of FPV hits on US combat assets.
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@saintkamus @mooreslawisdead Lots of forcefully pushed gaming trends went away before.
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@mooreslawisdead Not gonna happen, you know damn well Nvidia doesn't need gamers anymore. AI is going to infiltrate every aspect of our lives, DLSS 5 is just the first step for gaming.
I can guarantee you this much: a raster gta7 is never going to happen.
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Remember, the geometry of Jensen's face wasn't changed at all from the original in this picture.
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it’s genuinely weird how small this looks
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The new trailer for the live-action ‘MOANA’ remake has been released. In theaters on July 10.
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If the US occupies Kharg, it will be able to block Iranian oil exports - which it can of course already do with little effort - but does not seem to want to do, since it has just relaxed sanctions on Iranian oil exports. Nor does it open up the Strait of Hormuz.
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“Trump shouldn’t have bombed Iran”
Maybe. Maybe not. But posting that on repeat won’t reopen the Strait. It does nothing to prevent a European energy crisis tomorrow.
“He should stop bombing right now.”
If you hit a hornets nest with a bat, they don’t stop stinging because you put the bat down.
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If Trump doesn't reopen the Strait before the war's end, US hegemony will take a massive dent.
He already failed to get any American allies to even uphold freedom of navigation, even as they are the ones who need the energy trade passing though Hormuz.
Officialising Iranian control of the waterway will demonstrate to all that the US is deterred by short econ pain.
A perceived victory by Iran would make the American empire look very declining.
The acceleration of that decline would then be Trump's defining legacy. As @wrmead wrote: “Trump always chickens out won’t merely be an insult his enemies hurl at him. It will be carved on his tombstone."
The White House@WhiteHouse
🚨 “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST…” - President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@akarlin @avidseries Oxygen is also input to war potential, should Trump gas the whole of Iran?
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@avidseries Power plants are an input into war potential, so no, targeting them is perfectly legitimate.
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100% complete and total bullshit
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You may complain about it, but this is obviously correct. I think the preferences of Israelis are psychotic, but it's their preferences and, given those preferences, what is bad for other people is good for them.
For instance, to the extent that Israeli actions make it harder for Trump to find an off-ramp, this is bad for the US and the rest of the world because it means the economic fallout will be worse, but it's good for Israel because it means that Iran will be wrecked even more. They will also suffer economically but think it's worth it.
The only risk for Israel is that, if shit really hit the fan and the war results in a global economic meltdown, a future US administration will prevent them from "mowing the lawn" again to prevent that from happening again, which incidentally gives them even stronger incentives to drag the war out and collapse the regime if they can.
There is also a risk that, beyond the question of Israel's freedom of action toward Iran specifically, Americans will get tired of constantly being wrapped up in Israel's affairs and it will destroy the "special relationship", but rightly or wrongly the Israelis assume that it's just a matter of time before this happens anyway.
Rafi DeMogge רפי דמוג@HeTows
This whole talk of an exit strategy is bizarre. Israel perceives Iran as an existential threat. We can’t trigger regime change there, so we need to make it as militarily weak as possible. The longer it takes for them to regenerate, the better. The more economic woes they have, the more constraints they have on the defense budget, the better. So, we wreak havoc on them. Wreaking havoc for three weeks will achieve better results than wreaking havoc for one week, and wreaking havoc for three months achieves more than for three weeks. We keep going until Trump stops us. There is no need for an “exit strategy”.
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