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Saudi ambassador to US: "The Iranian revolution is Trotskyism"

Pakistan the most pro-Iran country by far. Saudi the most indifferent Nigeria is about tied. Kenya leans pro Iran (narrative violation?)

The Iron Dome decreases civilian casualties. You should always vote in favor of defensive strategy. Without defensive strategy, you get stronger offense, which means more dead people. ~5K Hamas missiles were shot at Israel on 10/7. The Iron Dome intercepted. What happens w/o it?

This might be a stronger clap back than you’ve had against the war or your corrupt colleagues. But we don’t need any more silly beefs like this. You voted in favor of Iron Dome a couple of times. That’s ok, water under the bridge. You voted for IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is inexplicable and egregious. Of course, sending any kind of weapons to Israel is worse than the speech you blocked, but it’s against all progressive beliefs to equate criticism of Israel with antisemitism. I know that stuff is really popular in Washington, but it’s unacceptable to take our speech rights away like that. But everything in the past is erased the minute you start fighting. So, please fight as hard as you can against this war, the insane Israeli aggression and the occupation. No, you’re not fighting nearly hard enough right now. Yes, we would like you in the battlefield next to us. If you can’t fight the establishment over this, what can you fight them over? Either you put your boots on and stand a post or we’re not interested in any sarcastic comments toward people who have been fighting against this war and Israel’s control over this country in the trenches this whole time.

Even Robert Kagan is now assessing that the U.S. has just become an exporter of chaos to the rest of the world. There has been a precipitous intellectual decline such that its not clear that these policies that are hurting the rest of the world are even benefitting Americans.

NEW - Republicans are considering health care spending cuts to fund a $200,000,000,000 budget bill to pay for the Iran war — Axios

My son, the tank commander, father of 4, is now serving in Lebanon. We pray for him and all his comrades and for victory over all Israel’s and America’s enemies

Every week, we remember Shiri and Kfir Bibas 🎗️

*LEAVITT: TRUMP MAY BE INTERESTED IN ARAB STATES PAYING FOR WAR

“Capitalism was here even before human existence, waiting for a host.” —Reza Negarestani | Cyclonopedia

Oh my God bruh stop talking about Taiwan. Taiwanese people don’t want ‘unification’ either, we want the status quo of de facto independence. The progressive, pro-independence party (DPP) has won three elections in a row, despite CPC spending billions on the pro-unification KMT.

I like it... but the world-building consistently makes almost no sense if you think about it for more than 2 seconds lmaoo. at least from what I've seen so far.