Colton Lilly

[Colton Lilly @ColtonLilly]

Without me, my sweet tea is useless. Without my sweet tea, I am useless.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

@neeratanden dem incompetence led us to trump twice. the left has never stopped opposing trump. this insane convo only exists on this fucking website. most ppl are mad at dems for not doing enough. all of the spoxppl for the party on this stupid website are out of touch w the masses.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Hardest jobs in the universe:

1. Brain surgeon
2. Aerospace engineer
3. Teaching someone how to play Euchre

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

American Debt and the Attack on Iran

The main concern for the American people should not be an attack on Iran, which would be just one of many in recent years, but rather the possibility of it escalating into a real regional war requiring enormous resources and generating even more debt.

Wars have been the primary historical driver of spikes in U.S. public debt, financed mainly through loans, taxes, and currency issuance, which generates inflation and prolonged costs in operations, equipment, veteran care, and interest.

Historically, conflicts such as the Civil War increased debt by 4,000% (from US$ 65 million to US$ 3 billion); World War I raised it from US$ 1 billion to US$ 25 billion; World War II cost US$ 4 trillion adjusted, pushing debt to 106% of GDP in 1946; the Korean War (1950-1953) cost about US$ 675 billion adjusted for 2025 (including direct and long-term costs), with defense spending reaching 13-14% of GDP; and the Vietnam War (1955-1975) totaled approximately US$ 2.27 trillion adjusted for 2025 (including operations, veterans, and other indirect costs), financed by higher taxes and inflation.

In recent wars, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and the "War on Terror" (2001-2022), total costs reached US$ 8 trillion, financed through debt without tax increases, including US$ 2.3 trillion in direct operations and US$ 2.2 trillion for veterans, with projected interest of US$ 2 trillion by 2030.

What would be the cost of a prolonged conflict with Iran?

What I can say is that, combining operational and reconstruction expenses, each day of war cost Israel $1.8-2.4 billion per day. If we imagine this situation amplified by American involvement, we could estimate something like $4 billion daily, assuming no losses.

In the scenario of it dragging on for 3 months, it would generate a direct cost of $360 billion, not including human and material losses. A conflict with Iran would certainly involve losses, and this number could easily be multiplied several times.

Then someone will say: "But the U.S. and Israel will carry out a surprise and overwhelming attack to prevent Iran from using its missiles."

Impressive, but the issue is that Israel, even with a fantastic ground operation and successive bombings, did not achieve this in the last war, and to complicate matters further, the U.S. did not achieve it in Iraq, when Saddam continued using his Scuds, nor in Yemen area ruled by Houthis, which is tiny.

Why would this happen now with Iran? There's no way to say:
"I'll just go over there and neutralize a missile powerhouse with 90 million inhabitants and be right back."

In this fragile moment, any attack on Iran becomes a war. The regime can no longer pre-arrange mutual and fake attacks because it is fragile. Any attack will turn into a war, and there are no short or cheap wars with a nation of 90 million people, especially one that could drag in an entire region.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

america doesn’t care about its own sons it sends to war, nor its oil rich gulf partners so i’m always confused by desperate ppl in the diaspora who demand violent intervention by the us thinking it’ll lead to prosperity. they’re just going to kill your family.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

joe biden did fail us? i’m so confused why this would be a message you think is wrong. the entire party apparatus failed us. that’s why trump is president right now. we have to look for alternatives.

[Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT]

When AI companies complain about someone stealing their hard work. 😂

[Vautism Speaks 🔞 🐴 @VautismSpeaks]

Reminder that libs argued vehemently against this sentiment in 2020 and then everything described here happened and now the same people are trying to bully you into pledging your vote to a guy who’s *even worse than Biden, three years before the next election*

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Democrats be like “yes we committed genocide. Yes Bill Clinton and Larry Summers are rapists. Yes Obama’s lawyer knew Epstein was a sex trafficker and accepted gifts from him. No we won’t punish any of them. Yes you have to vote for us or you don’t care about marginalized people”

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

@usurpthachef you’re in a sex cult lead by a pedophile streamer lmao. the day he goes republican you will too. you didn’t care when he boosted sam hyde, nick fuentes or lauren southern. don’t talk to me about obeying in advance. vote blue no matter who got us in this mess.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Elon is a scammer who is tanking the US EV industry by trying to turn a basic feature into a subscription. Chinese are going to destroy his company.

[Radix Verum ☦︎ @NotRadix]

The Sackler family is directly responsible for the opioid crisis that claimed so many of my friends lives in the early to mid 2000s. They were engaged in a vast criminal conspiracy, and not one of them faced charges or went to jail.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Correction: healthcare administration ate our economy

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

Large hospital systems are great examples of bad bureaucracy.

They have zero ownership of upstream quality while imposing maximum friction on frontline workers. All the risk and inconvenience is shifted onto clinicians and there’s no urgency to fix anything because none of it affects administrators.

The operations are indefensible, the economics are insane, and the moral injury is corrosive.

Take losing a badge as an example. It requires a multi day bureaucratic obstacle course, interacting with three different administrative systems and a wait time of 5-10 business days.

The institution is optimized for process compliance over function, and no one inside the system is accountable for the wasted time, least of all the people who designed it.

[Colton Lilly @ColtonLilly]

@SportsCenter If you can’t run the ball for one yard in two plays then you’re not a playoff team. Should you make the kick, yes, but this was a coaching loss. Embarrassing. Where’s Chip?

[Colton Lilly @ColtonLilly]

If I have to watch another failed Donaldson power on a converting/scoring play this season I’m going to lose it.

[Popstonox @Popstonox]

Hasan Piker on Zohran Mamdani winning

"If it didn't mean anything, why do you think all the forces of capital are using every fucking tool they have at their disposal to go against this dude?

They understand the danger of giving the working class a crumb of fucking hope."

[27-9 @NotCory_216]

Kyle McCord.

[Pizza Hut @pizzahut]

start diggin in yo hut twin

[Jack Mac @JackMac]

CBS puts up the flag graphic seconds after the dildo hit the ground.

(There was no flag on the play)

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.