
Steve Mac
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Steve Mac
@steveamac
Soon to be tax refugee fleeing MD Dems. aspiring gentleman farmer. Well armed parent. likes: tax-planning, investing, skiing. dislikes: crime, Ed PhDs






To all those ignoramus idiots claiming that the U.S. went to war with Iran on behalf of Israel, let me remind you why Trump ordered the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Between mid-2019 and early 2020, Iran-backed militias carried out over 100 incidents targeting U.S. forces in Iraq. Among these, around 43 were rocket or mortar attacks. One of the key triggers for killing Soleimani was the December 27 attack on the K-1 Air Base, which killed an American contractor. Beyond that, Iranian-backed militias, including Kata'ib Hezbollah, attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on December 31, 2019, leading to an almost Benghazi-style situation at the embassy. These escalating attacks all played into the decision to take out Soleimani. Soleimani’s Quds Force supplied IEDs that injured thousands of American servicemen and killed hundreds. ran-backed attacks also span decades—like the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 Marines and the 1996 Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia. This was a long-standing threat—not some favor for anyone else. Iran declared a low-key war against the United States in 1979 and never stopped, and the US finally woke up and decided that it's payback time. Instead of blaming the Jews, Israel, and AIPAC, blame your ignorance and educate yourself. - @YossiGoldstein8

This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he 'identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King'). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image. He's just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they're dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I've lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I'm completely indifferent to being disliked by people I've never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views. Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can't believe that everyone else doesn't live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we've never met, and that as the years have rolled by I've been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it's a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.



This meme explains like 75% of right wing politics btw.

NEW - Spain's PM Sanchez says the legalization of over 500,000 migrants will be approved today, calling it "an act of justice," comparing today's migrants to "our grandparents who emigrated to U.S. and Europe, in search for a better life," and "a necessity, Spain, like other European countries is ageing. Without new people working and contributing to the system, our prosperity slows."







I think Philadelphia and Baltimore are more-or-less destined to be gentrified. Maybe not in 5 years. Maybe not in 10, or even 20. But they're part of the northeast megalopolis, and thus their destiny is written in stone.













