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@MoeMoeMel @LaNativePatriot Yes, but it hinders leadership more since they are centralized and organized... The civilians aren't. Therefore it gives them a chance to organize at a local level making it easier to resist. War sucks. I wish we didn't have to defeat people who want us dead.

@_beetlecat @LaNativePatriot And on the flip side, it also severely hinders actually organizing a strong resistance as well, right?

Help me understand Last week Trump said We’re helping the Iranian people change leadership This week We’re going to blow up their bridges and infrastructure because they’re animals Which is it? Are we liberating the Iranian people or destroying their ability to survive? Are the Iranians we were helping last week now just fodder to send back to the Stone Age because we can’t swap leaders? I don’t understand what the goal is here

@MoeMoeMel @LaNativePatriot It decentralizes power... Iranian leadership has been brutally suppressing protestors with reports of over 40,000 killed. Destroying infrastructure severely limits their ability to do this.

@_beetlecat @LaNativePatriot How exactly? I'm genuinely curious (I know X is full of condescending comments, so please don't take this as one.)

@MoeMoeMel @LaNativePatriot It helps by hindering radical Islamists from attacking their own people.

@_beetlecat @LaNativePatriot How does blowing up infrastructure "help the Iranian people change leadership" in any way, whatsoever?

@TimothyDSnyder This isn't Ukraine...

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better. Read more in my essay "The Next Coup Attempt"

@MicaelsRuben @Acyn PTSD?

@_beetlecat @Acyn FYI…Epstein Files

Hegseth: One downed airmen evaded capture for more than a day, scaling, rugged ridges while hunted by the enemy. When he was finally able to activate his emergency transponder, his first message was simple: God is good Shot down on Good Friday. Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing. God is good

@MarthaM00086745 @Acyn NO WARS!!!! Oh, wait...except in Ukraine.

@Acyn he forgot the 'miracle' of walking 100 kilometers in 48 hours from the plane wreck site to where he was 'rescued.' While injured!

@MicaelsRuben @Acyn Your country hates you... Just FYI

@Acyn Hegseth is no Hero…Major Whisky 🥃 Pete was drummed out of the National Guard…

@LibertyCappy Massie = anti-Trump anti-Trump = Dems win in November Dems win = Trump impeached F**K Massie in the face.

Massie gets it!

@ATRightMovies "They shouldn't have, even with him." -me

On this day in 2009, STAR TREK was released in cinemas. Leonard Nimoy had turned down every invitation to return as Spock. Then three men knocked on his door, and what they said changed everything. For years, Leonard Nimoy had been offered chances to reprise the role of Spock. He turned them all down. He'd retired from acting in 2000, moved into photography, and seemed content to leave the pointy eared Vulcan behind for good. Then Star Trek died. The tenth film, Nemesis, flopped. The TV series Enterprise was cancelled. Paramount were on the verge of losing the franchise rights entirely. They needed a film and fast. Enter J.J. Abrams, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and a script that would reboot the entire universe. But they had a problem. They needed Nimoy. Not as a cameo or a favour. As the emotional bridge between old Trek and new. So the three of them went to his house. Orci later described Nimoy's reaction as a cautious "Who are you guys, and what are you up to?" They laid out their vision. They told him how important he was not just to the film, but to the story they were trying to tell. Then Abrams said the line that changed everything: "We cannot make this film without you, and we won't make this film without you." After they left, his wife Susan told the creative team what happened next. He had remained in his chair, emotionally overwhelmed by the decision he knew he had to make. The man who had spent years walking away from Spock couldn't walk away from this. He said yes because for the first time, a Star Trek script explored the full sweep of Spock's life. Not just the half-human, half-Vulcan conflict he'd played for decades, but the character's entire history, from beginning to end. As Nimoy put it: "We have dealt with Spock being half-human and half-Vulcan, but never with quite the overview that this script has of the character's entire history." And then he gave them one final gift they never asked for. His last scene was originally written as a quiet, wordless exit - Spock Prime walking thoughtfully away. After filming, Nimoy approached Abrams and said: "If you give me one more take, I have a thought I would like to inject here." They rolled the camera and Nimoy said: "Thrusters on full." Abrams later called him to say how perfectly it led into the final scene, where Sulu mentions the thrusters, but Nimoy told him the line wasn't about the ship. It was his way of saying to the younger cast: "Go ahead. Take the torch and go." Star Trek made $385.7 million worldwide and became the first film in the franchise to win an Academy Award. But it started with a knock on a door and three words: "We won't without you."

@ATRightMovies What's Eating Gilbert Grape

@SaltyGoat17 Pure slime.

Am I the only one that thinks he literally looks like a DC comic villain?

@libsoftiktok "Unkowingly?" You unknowingly raced a man? Come on...

Madness. She lost a national title to a man and is facing a ban for speaking up about it When will this insanity end?!

@AntiLeftMemes No. I voted for an elbow to the face first.

ICE agent PUSHES a man to the ground for blocking their federal vehicle. Is this what you voted for??

@SuitablePolitic Stop losing so ruthlessly!

Two days ago, people were talking about if the United States had the ability to actually put down Iran. Now? People are talking about if Trump is too ruthless in the way he wants to put down Iran. This kind of narrative shift is meaningful.

@KurtSchlichter Not if you write it first...

Somebody’s gonna make a movie about this rescue and I have a feeling the pilot is going to have a sassy obese lesbian of color sidekick.

@Mwenemutapaland @visionergeo @grok So basically an inverse Biden.

@grok why would such an invincible army like the USA with such air & ground superiority choose to destroy four of its warplanes worth >$400 000 000 and leave in a huff as if they were fleeing from some monister? Why not rush the rescued injured pilot to safety & let the bulk of the force attend to the mechanical issues of the warplanes then safely fly back to base since we are told there were no casualties on the USA side meaning there was no threat from IRGC

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 BIG | Israeli Channel 12: New details have emerged about the rescue of the American F‑15E navigator shot down over Iran. The officer was unconscious with a concussion and did not transmit a distress signal initially. He made first contact at 12:00 on Friday, climbed to the highest point to avoid detection, walked 10‑12 kilometres and hid in a crevice, from where he sent precise coordinates on Friday night. Israel refrained from striking in the area and provided intelligence. During Friday and Saturday, Israel was asked to assist with air superiority and struck relevant targets. U.S. forces seized a farm 18 kilometres from his hideout, landing two aircraft and small helicopters. The helicopters extracted him from the crevice and returned him to the farm. During takeoff, two C‑130s became stuck in sand; three smaller planes were called to evacuate the navigator and special forces. Fighter jets then bombed the two stranded aircraft to prevent capture. See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

@Hot_Pepper76 Sara Smile

Name one song you love by these two. Whichever gets the most picks, I will share with its backstory.

@AzPetrich So Adrian Brody, not William Hurt... Got it.

Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.

@Hot_Pepper76 Heard it again recently at a hardware store. Went home and bought it.

"Overkill" (1983) Men at Work reached No. 3 in the U.S. with this one. I never really thought about the lyrics until I looked into the backstory today. Did this one hit you differently as you got older?x.com/calmalgodown/s…