meritech
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@transkatgirl I want this but where the chat makes me talk to women and gives me their best pick up lines and stuff.
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"When you topple a foreign government you're playing god." My dude the Ayatollah wasn't annointed by god, he just woke up in charge one day when the last useless hunk of shit died.
You people always say this, how were the people of Tehran getting through thousands of militia, military, AND secret torture police stations? America became free when your average infantry line would have a single shot from which to take you out before fighting hand to hand as the undeterred masses swarmed them.
If these people never saw freedom to you that's just natural, their freedom was either won through being practically genocide by a death cult, or they deserved their lot. People like you would've gladly watched Assad torture people on television in the name of "stability".
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@Xenoimpulse No, it's not a good thing, you can't play god, because it turns the world into anarchy, it destroys international law and makes war the norm, failed in iraq, Afghanistan, libya.
The population of a country should fight for its own democracy, not foreign forces.
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We've finally dropped any pretense of this being about making the lives of the people of Iran better in any way, shape or form.
OSINTdefender@sentdefender
President Donald J. Trump has posted to his Truth Social platform warning that if Iran fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the US will begin targeting Iranian power plants. The message was posted at 7:44pm EST.
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@MatDurh @atlanticesque So me having a place to live is a negative externality? I'll never have a house I own. Why should it always be harder for me?
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@atlanticesque If minivans cause a lot of negative externalities, yes, stop it
Every smokestack in the industrial revolution was rational. Factories prefer cheap ways of expelling waste. But it caused harm to everyone
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The question isn't whether Americans prefer space or density. We live in a market economy and people can choose among different alternatives, according to price.
The question is whether one side of a nearly 50/50 split should be able to ban the other side's preferences entirely
True Discipline@TruueDiscipline
Americans still prefer space over density:
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@W10insider1 @avidseries Unless you own a single acre with 20 pines on it at least 50 years old.
Can't get rid of the trees, can't pay 20k every big storm. Avoid pines close to your home PERIOD.
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@avidseries I don't necessarily disagree, was just pointing out that if you give it some time, those trees make it more vidaully appealing.
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Look, there appear to be houses attached to those garages!
The archetypical post-1980s subdivision home of middle class America is relentlessly soul-crushing: Its front presentation dominated by a two-car garage and wide concrete driveway, it is largely defined by the sun-scorched absence of shade and trees from its lawn and the windowless expanses on two of its sides — at a distance, these neighborhoods are a sprawl of two-story synthetic commodities positioned in suffocating proximity to each other, designed and built by people who don't give a damn.
City Aesthetics ⛩@cityaestheticss
Houses are turning into decorated car storage boxes
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meritech รีทวีตแล้ว
He's graceless, immoral, ungrateful, and most of all just so deeply stupid.
NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@NOELreports
Donald Trump said Ukraine “did nothing” to assist in the Iran operation and said talks with Zelensky are harder than with Putin, adding he has greater trust in Putin than in European allies. #US
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meritech รีทวีตแล้ว
Twitter: This is the real news, I don't trust legacy media.
Also Twitter: Hey Grok, please check legacy media to confirm my bias.
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meritech รีทวีตแล้ว
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth
Alex Wickham@alexwickham
NEW: US allies do not see a realistic way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz without ending the war. G7 countries have been discussing how they could help Trump. There are conversations about a framework for Hormuz security. The UK has sent military planners to the US for talks. But the reality is these conversations are at a very early stage and US allies are not looking at sending naval assets until the conflict eases. US allies are yet to be convinced there is any credible military plan to reopen the strait. The UK has been in talks with Lloyds of London about insurance products and prices when the situation calms. But even then insurance is not seen as the big issue - it is safety. It marks a widening disconnect between the US and Europe over the war amid concerns Trump ultimately doesn’t have a plan. Meanwhile energy prices are soaring, bonds tumbling and interest rates are set to rise. With @EllenAMilligan @golnarM >> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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meritech รีทวีตแล้ว
Has he said thank you to Ukraine for 201 soldiers and 10,000 interceptor drones?
NEXTA@nexta_tv
Pete Hegset: “Our ungrateful allies in Europe should be saying one thing to President Trump: thank you.”
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meritech รีทวีตแล้ว
@Tennsylvanian @ForgotWeapons When bad Wikipedia editors become digital familiars.
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@ForgotWeapons I saw a guy confidently post a google AI response that pistol rounds will penetrate more than 5.56, and then double down on it. The AI explanation was a combination of video game discussions and fudd lore about 5.56 being designed to tumble.
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It's one thing when people fabricate fake historical photos with AI because they put zero value on truth instead of clicks. But it's another whole issue when people depend on AI to tell them if things are real. AI does not know. Here is Grok insisting the real image is fake.
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@Trumpistas @erinnyc @not_insayne @RapidResponse47 @SecScottBessent Defeating the IRGC means giving them the dough enough to fund and feed an army for years so gas doesn't keep skyrocketing.
Make it actually make sense.
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@erinnyc @not_insayne @RapidResponse47 @SecScottBessent China has been getting a special discounted price because there were so fewer buyers of Iranian oil. Lifting sanctions allows Iran to sell their oil to whoever they want for maximum profit on the world market.
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.@SecScottBessent: In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that's 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we'd be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.
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@W4llSt4ll @d16b0lical @planefag I mean the idea they did is retarded, laundry machines inside these spaces catch fire occasionally when being used for thousands of men virtually nonstop since installation.
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@d16b0lical @planefag I'm sorry but trump is complaining that the Iranians keep putting out mines despite the fact he has claimed to have sunk all their mine laying ships. You can't hold shit, your military is so bad your own aircraft carrier crew is being investigated for sabotaging their own vessel
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So basically NATO is we defend you for free and you tell us to eat shit every time we need help? Oh right you sent some troops that never left the wire to Iraq so all debts are paid forever, past and future.
Fuck this noise.
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz@bundeskanzler
Wir werden uns nicht daran beteiligen, in der Straße von Hormus mit militärischen Mitteln eine freie Schifffahrt zu gewährleisten. Der Krieg im Nahen Osten ist nicht Angelegenheit der NATO. Deshalb wird sich Deutschland auch nicht militärisch einbringen.
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@RealRaegus @ravncompensate "Every army on earth rapes infants."
No, they don't. The shitty eastern world isn't "every army".
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Of all armies, for some reason you decided to choose the one that's known for invasions, genocide, torture and rape (including children and infants)
Tyler💊@tyler_durdenn69
I'm tired boss....
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@Noahpinion Pretty sure I heard years ago that he also would find illegals who obtained work and then would threaten, all the way up to beat and physically remove them from the US to keep wages higher.
That he may have diddled kids is of little surprise when that's your accomplishment.
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Most of the heroes of the past were actually bad people in their private lives. That's probably why so few new heroes are appearing now.
Shane Goldmacher@ShaneGoldmacher
MUST READ: A bombshell NYT investigation shows that Cesar Chavez sexually abused young girls. Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. So much more from Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes —> nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…
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The respectable case for restraint in American support for Ukraine is that we want to shift the burden to Russia and reduce European free-riding.
But Trump & Vance relentlessly promote pro-Russian parties in Europe who are the leading opponents of sharing more burden!
Hümeyra Pamuk@humeyra_pamuk
SCOOP: Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Hungary in the coming days in a show of support for the country's long-time nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a difficult election next month, sources familiar with the planning tell me & @JonathanLanday
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@SrpskiVitez333 @Tendar A Serb once again craves the west be destroyed, who would've thought?
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@Tendar Don't be surprised when Greece joins Hungary and Slovakia in blocking those 90Bn :)
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Trump might give Russians another pass, but Ukrainians won't.
Another Russian shadow-fleet tanker has been likely hit, this time the "Maran Homer" (IMO: 9761372). Reportedly while waiting for permission to enter the port of Novorossiysk, Russia, the tanker got hit by an USV.
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@TwitCensors @ratlpolicy So that was the goal? Was the goal not totally removing the Ayatollah and his entire political apparatus? So when we asked the civilians to rise up what was that supposed to do? We asked anti-Islamists to rise up so we could simply remove their power projection capacity?
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@meritech2 @ratlpolicy they have no ability to project power any more..
its gone
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The whole claim that "now the REAL hardliners are in charge" is nonsense. They're all hardliners.
At some point, the marginal degree of radicalism doesn't matter. And we reached that point decades ago.
This is all a ploy to invent a failure that doesn't actually exist.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: US intelligence assessments are that 'Iran’s regime likely will remain in place for now, weakened but more hard-line', according to Washington Post report.
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@OrderRepublican @_sn_n Gas went up a full dollar in Louisiana already. This isn't a supply glut followed by shortage issue like 21-23. This was entirely caused by conflict.
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@lostler_240 @4wavePepe @Fed_man_2 @MaggieL @thegreenandgrey @TerribleJyon @CameronCorduroy Retards believe the budget is a referendum. "Nobody asked me!"
Yet the people they voted for every other time did just that.
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@4wavePepe @Fed_man_2 @MaggieL @thegreenandgrey @TerribleJyon @CameronCorduroy This sounds very cool and I’m sorry these fucking retards can’t appreciate that
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this is what actual national suicide looks like btw
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