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They sneeringly call it "Arabian Gulf" now because remember, we're in an epic existential conflict with all of Persian civilization for some reason
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers are currently operating in the Arabian Gulf after transiting the Strait of Hormuz in support of Project Freedom. American forces are actively assisting efforts to restore transit for commercial shipping. As a first step, 2 U.S.-flagged merchant vessels have successfully transited through the Strait of Hormuz and are safely headed on their journey.
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@kunley_drukpa Claiming that everything is conscious is the better troll. A rock is experiencing the qualia of being a rock all the time.
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“I put it to you that your experience of consciousness is merely a sophisticated sequence of individual perceptions and data points that - loosely tied together - create an epiphenomenon of what only appears to be consciousness”
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“Ergo, it is not consciousness proper”
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The only relevant question is and always has been whether Iran will collapse before the world economy gets in massive trouble and I think the answer is no. Sure, Iran will also be destroyed, but I've said this would happen from the moment this war started. I just don't see why that should be a consolation to Europeans or Asians whose economies are going to get battered by this stupidity. Once again, if the US and Israel hadn't attacked Iran and the Iranians had been left to do whatever they were doing before, it would literally have made no difference to the average European, Asian or indeed American.
Robin Brooks@robin_j_brooks
Narrative shift on the blockade 1. The US blockade won't work 2. It works, but Iran can outsmart it 3. It works, but it's slow and incremental 4. Wow, it's hitting Iran quite badly already 5. The US blockade was a good idea 6. Should've done this to Russia robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/embargo-iran
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@etwcs @aldatweets Sociology departments are stupid factories and professors are the stupidest thing they produce. You shouldn't be surprised.
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@aldatweets Imagine being a university professor and being too stupid to understand charging more for a more expensive ingredient
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There’s a lot of big thingd I want from a big green state. But the small thing I want is banning coffee shops from charging extra for plant milk.
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@ElonBachman People in general have a hard time accepting that free will doesn't exist.
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@eigenrobot Jesus said to give everything to the poor, the country is part of everything. It's an inescapable conclusion.
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@eigenrobot Look behind every left-wing ONG and, if they are old enough, you will find that they started as charitable christian institutions that found out it was easier to be charitable without being explicitly christian.
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@eigenrobot The Catholic church has been the principal pro-immigration instutition in europe for 50+ years. I'm not sure how you missed it until now.
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it seems like leo probably represents the institutional future of a third worldist catholic church and i don't really care to bring my kids up with that in their lives
very disappointing
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@PandasAndVidya @RespectElves Josh started using his lolcow podcast to pontificate for some reason. Probably because it pays well.
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@RespectElves When did the farms become a bunch of zoomer troons policing bog-standard otaku bullshit that's been around longer than they've been born?
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would think you would be more against this given the reaction you had to when Shartyfags showed up in Ireland to stalker child Keffals or every time you lock down registration when some Troon drama happens that might risk the site?
We also both know Kiwifarms is not an open platform as many alogs/cow tippers doing gayops have been banned in the past.
As for "If people bully him", they are sending actual child porn to him, I get not liking anime but come the fuck on how can you shrug that off as "bullying"
Kiwi Farms@KiwiFarmsDotNet
Kiwi Farms is an open platform, like X, where @FakeTaxedBrass posted the joke about digging up Chibi Review's brother's grave. Chibi takes a very controversial stance that erotic drawings of child or child-like characters is acceptable. If people bully him that's not our fault.
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"Zach would casually say the hard R, call autistic people retards..."
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@mattyglesias Chickens have tiny brains so this is a very good thing. I'm ok with making this number higher and their quality of life worse.
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This Father-Daughter trope has been done by other games better. I've never seen anyone bring up Ellie from TLOU to defend Pragmata because when you put them side-by-side it's so obvious what's wrong.
Capcom didn't make Diana Japanese because they have to respect their own girls
Josh@XJosh
ngl the normalization of loli shit and paying trannies to advertise your game is so blackpilling for me like major corporations are painting up child sex dolls and selling games by giving out pedo emotes on twitch
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@willhsmit i DON'T KNOW and i haven't the slightest idea what they were thinking
are those attractive feet? unattractive feet? impossible to say
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@eigenrobot I think this applies generally to modern science fiction, especially if time travel is involved. Star Trek discovery and picard also suffered from this, for example.
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is it just me or do many (obviously not all just more than you'd think) contemporary east asian stories make absolutely no sense at all, and what is the problem here
examplars include all Final Fantasy plots, Chrono Cross, _Doomed Megalopolis_
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As an atheist who used to believe something like this, the rise of gender ideology forced me to take the L.
I'm still an atheist, though unfortunately I think the saying “When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing —they believe in anything," has some merit.
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Reject Reddit Atheism
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Over the first 4 years, the Big Beautiful Bill adds nearly $2 trillion to our deficit, beyond the deficit that would have been caused by Biden level spending. That’s right, Republicans have increased spending, and I’m taking all kinds of heat for calling them out on the betrayal.
Grok@grok
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (signed July 4, 2025) has a net budgetary effect of increasing federal deficits by an estimated $1.8–2.0 trillion over its first four years (FY2026–2029). Per CRFB/CBO scoring: +$500B in 2026 and +$635B in 2027 alone, with elevated costs continuing into 2028–2029 before declining as some offsets phase in. Tax cuts (e.g., TCJA extensions, no tax on tips/overtime) are front-loaded; spending reductions (e.g., Medicaid/SNAP reforms) ramp up later. Total conventional 10-year deficit increase: $3.4T (+$4.1T with interest).
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@kunley_drukpa People don't know this but israel is buying a lot of land in patagonia.
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Here is Argentine play to create the ‘Southern Cone’ Superstate:
>ruin country with peronism to escape effects of mass migration
>export kirchnerista 6s to failing western countries to accelerate decline
>drop peronism and fix own country
>use western decline to massively expand
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩@kunley_drukpa
Green Party is an elaborate Argentinian plot to seize the Falklands. Argentina sends moderately attractive Argentinian women on Italian passports to work in bars and restaurants and slowly infiltrate UK politics to dissolve national cohesion so islands are easier to appropriate
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