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@bnmclips Kirk's views on women and their role in society became a lot more understandable when we learned the kind of witch his wife is. Fair enough id think women are evil too if I had to deal with her on the daily.

revisiting this after we found out that erika kirk is an evil worse monster

@CoopTory @Smileyyeg Yeah don't you know the way to be successful is to give more to american oil tycoons. Just look st how well it's going for the gukf states. Don't worry about war there, I'm sure America had nothing to do with it, just keep giving money to tge Americans without pause.

@Smileyyeg “You run Canada into the ground by developing national industries and building upon our past successes and expertise in aerospace, nuclear, telecommunications, electricity, trains, and recreational vehicles” Everything except oil be damned.

This is how to run our country into the ground.

@mcgreevyboys999 @SpaghettiKozak Incorrect, your punishment is to read "The Art of War" from cover to cover five times over. Maybe the word "logistics" will mean something to you afterwards.

@SpaghettiKozak Yes dumbass we could have. May it have taken longer to prepare? Probably

Do you think we could have stormed it without Britain, genius?

@JaredMojave @machinedgirl If you're going 0-21 i don't think you can retort your way out of that embarrassment.

@machinedgirl I don’t think this would work when I’m going 0-21

@OSedlar @Fullmetal150 @WurzelRoot Could be a draft dodger, could have murdered his CO, maybe a saboteur, could be a lot of things. But alone, unarmed and unarmoured, without so much a spare mag on his chest? The one thing it couldn't be is a soldier in active duty during military operation.

@Isodif @Fullmetal150 @WurzelRoot Ukrainians probably wouldnt be be boasting about how they killed one of their own.

>no weapon >middle of a field all alone >drone is buzzing him multiple times just to fuck with him bro this is a POW they are killing for fun right? this is how like 90% of these drone kill videos are set up

@OSedlar @Fullmetal150 @WurzelRoot Prove it's a Russian first.

@Isodif @Fullmetal150 @WurzelRoot The Russian didnt get captured. Unless you can prove otherwise.

@Fullmetal150 @WurzelRoot When you get drafted for Iran and captured. I pray your captors show you more, mercy than you show your fellow man.

@WurzelRoot Boo hoo Feel the same for Russian soldiers getting droned in the streets as I do for Iranian soldiers getting the same treatment. No BRIC left standing imo

@ArmchairW At this point I'd rather tryst Jerusalem with the Shintoist than the Israelis. At least they'd be impartial and more respectful.

"Work with" the Patriarch? On what? The damage is already done and cannot be repaired. Palm Sunday services were missed for the first time in centuries - purely because of Israeli thuggery. The State of Israel is not a fit custodian for Jerusalem and its holy sites.

@Vexitoelectrico @Lewott_ Welcome to being a gaijin. At this point we're lucky we're getting English translations. The game's native language is Japanese at this point.

@Lewott_ IT'S NOT ABOUT THE CONCERT ANYMORE FOR FUCKS SAKE. HE BLATANTLY IGNORES OTHER PART OF THE COMUNITY THAT DOESNT SPEAK ENGLISH OR JAPANESE AND THATS JUST SELFISH AND UNFAIR

Deltarune fans turning on Toby Fox over something that isn't even under his control is kinda sad but also is entirely in line with how this fandom has been devolving in the past few months lol

@DrClaytonForre1 Finno-Korean Hyperwar remnant. Ancient Hwan Empire Kill Stat weapon that wiped out mega cities of the Proto-Finnic Colonies of the area.

What is the explanation? Wrong answers only.

@FunTzuAcademy well if any industry could do it, it would be the Chinese shipyard industry. I Don't like the idea of working with the PRC, but the EU isn't a serious market and there's nobody else.

It would take years, optimistically. We just don't have the pipeline throughput. It's going to have to be built one way or another, with Venezuela coming back on the market, and being much closer to the Gulf refineries (which were build for VZ heavy crude) acting as a direct competitor.

the premise at face value, it's poorly conceived "loyalty test". NATO isn't structured that way, it's fundamentally centred around the mutual defence clause (Article 5), with strict geographical boundaries and limitations (Article 6) for its invocation. [1] The Gulf is outside NATO's zone of operations, and the proposed mission is outside of NATO's scope. This is probably why Article 5 isn't actually being invoked. It's also an easy to call bluff. American legislation requires a Congressional supermajority to withdraw from NATO. Trump is unlikely to get that, and everyone knows it. [2] There are reasons for this. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former NatSec advisor to Carter, and counsellor to LBJ, laid it out pretty cleanly in "The Grand Chessboard". The security dependency on the US by American design and advances American interests. The old joke "NATO = Needs America To Operate" is less a joke and more a structural reality, again, by design. It's a principal instrument of American hegemony [3]. Congress well knows this, which is part of why withdrawal is made to be nigh impossible, barring force majeure. At best, the US can shirk its Article 5 obligations in the future out of resentment or retaliation, but this only serves to undermine US credibility and further fracture the network of alliances and security dependencies it built hegemony on in the post WW2 era. The worst part, perhaps, is that the demand isn't even reasonable. Escorting merchant ships in an active combat zone is a non-starter, crowding the narrow passage during active combat puts everyone involved at risk. though there is precedent for it (operation Earnest Will), but it should be caveated, this involved Iran firing on tankers during peacetime, rather than a full-on shooting war as we're seeing today. Also, lol, the video "called out his allies by name... China." We obviously live in a parallel word where China and the US are allied, but this isn't the only reason this unhinged. 1. China imports a whole lot of oil from through the straits, but a) it has a massive stockpile of over 1.3 billion barrels [4] and can sit it out for a few months while America potentially overextends itself, b) Iranian oil exports through the strait are steady [5], and Chinese has been in talks with Iran to be allowed through [6]. 2. The EU is nowhere near as dependent on Hormuz as it used to be; maybe ~3.6% of its oil imports [7] and ~10% [8] of its gas imports pass through the straits. The US should be keenly aware of this as it provides more than half of the EU's LNG imports [9] (there was this whole thing about Nord Stream and substituting Russian gas for American gas over the Russo-Ukraine War). The EU isn't going to scramble to mobilize forces for such a pittance. 3. The US itself is more vulnerable to spiking oil prices than the administration presents. Yes, the US is a net exporter, but this comes with an asterisk. It is a net exporter of petroleum products, meaning crude + refined products, it is not really energy independent as it is a net importer of crude [10], meaning that spikes in oil prices directly translate to corresponding spikes in the cost of their refineries' inputs. And that is no trivial bit, the United States is the world's #2 crude importer, at over 6.2 million bpd [10]. Obviously, the US has the SPR as a buffer, but all the rhetoric of being invulnerable to price spikes is a facade. Less than others, but vulnerable none the less. There's a sort of hybrid Poe's Law, Hanlon's Razor, and reverse-Schelling quality to this kind of rhetoric. Less "if he bluffing?", and more "does he know he's bluffing?". Schellingian brinkmanship is optimal with "threats that leave something to chance", but brinkmanship isn't typically aimed at allies, and the "something to chance" here translates into either nothing (Congress is likely to block withdrawal: it can't be acted upon) or "comply or else we'll undermine ourselves!" (shirking Article 5 obligations). [1]: nato.int/en/about-us/of… [2]: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CO… (see sec 1250A) [3]: Brzezinski, Z., & Peterson, A. (2026). The Grand Chessboard: American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives. Basic Books. (p.40) [4]: reuters.com/markets/commod… [5]: oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-… [6]: aljazeera.com/economy/2026/3… [7]: visualcapitalist.com/charted-oil-tr… [8]: ieefa.org/resources/stra… [9]: ieefa.org/resources/eu-r… [10]: eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq…

@FunTzuAcademy given current deterioration of US-CAN relations, Canada's net oil production may shift to China if transportation can be scaled up via ships, hurting the US SPR even more given time. That won't happen for a while though, and may be a reason for why war with Iran NOW.

I was surprised to learn while looking up the figures for the post that the Chinese stockpile is at something like 3x the US' SPR. Also a lesser buffer because Canada lacks the infra to get to European or Asian markets at scale, so most of it goes to the US. WCS trades at significant discount vs WTI. It's a buffer nonetheless, but that plays into Iran's apparent strategy, hold out long enough to eat through those buffers. As an aside, I keep reading "SPR" as SPQR and typing it as such. I blame @UpdatingOnRome

@zivdotcat The Ironic part is that you completely believe this without so much as a source. The Study is never cited, it doesn't exist. Just because a human posted it doesn't mean it's true.

> be boomers > spend 20 years saying “get off your phone, go outside, you’re addicted” > fast forward > doomscroll at 2am on an ipad > share posts from accounts made yesterday > watch ai-generated nonsense like it’s news > gen z scrolls and knows it’s bad > boomers scroll and think they’re “staying informed” > become the exact thing you warned about the algorithm didn’t just catch up to them, it figured them out completely

@stnvls Adam is actually great with kids, raised hundreds and only messed up once.

how I think hazbin hotel characters would react to seeing a child crying in public

@annoyingastros I hope you are prepared for more Yankee.

This is a response to a tweet about Canadians sucking at sports btw

@LukasSchubertMT Wrong, that is exactly what you are going to do as a spineless American. The French have removed heads and overthrown their governments for less.

We're not letting in 10 million 3rd world migrants just so you get to pay your workers $13/hr instead of $23/hr

@747shove this shit would work on me, doesn't matter what ELO I am. The bit comes before everything. If you are not willing to die for comedy you are a coward.

I like low elo lobbies because you can just ask the enemy to watch you hit the tyler and then fuck off

@Purpurpurpl @illuminatedeon I'm sure he could, but Doorman strikes me as the kind of entity that enjoys the notion of making a man a helpless passenger in his own body.

@illuminatedeon you saying a powerful godlike being cant just make a body?

if you think about it... doorman is probably using some poor man's body as a mere shell

@Mochievous Not even legal for me to do this with my own Canadian passport. The wording on it explicitly says to 'take every precaution to safeguard it'. Handing it over willy nilly to anyone who ask is not taking every precaution to safeguard it.

Tried to rent a car somewhere and they asked me to deposit my international passport. I feel like this goes without saying but under no circumstances should you hand over the physical copy of your international passport to anyone to hold when you are outside your home country