"For evildoers shall be cut off, and those who hope for the Lord-they will inherit the land. A short while longer and the wicked man is not here, and you shall look at his place and he is not there. But the humble shall inherit the land, and they shall delight in much peace."
-- Psalm 37
Holy sh*t
Tonight Israel destroyed like half the police stations in Tehran.
Only 2 months ago these places were execution sites of protesters, now they’re just rubbles.
In September of 2007 I was working an NSA watch floor. During the ‘hand down’ brief (shift change) some folks working a MENA shop informed us that Israel had destroyed a covert nuke site in Syria. They’d used electronic jammers to fly silent and destroy the site in the dead of night. The Syrians had the site bulldozed over before the sun came because they did not want to acknowledge their violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel allowed it to stay silent because they wanted to avoid conflict from spreading in the region or possibly further. This is now all declassified. Google it.
Israel does stuff like that….A LOT. Now, 20 years later, they have become a technological superpower that punches further above its weight than any country its size in human history. To reject Israel as an ally would be the height of stupidity. China sure hopes we view them as an enemy, that I can tell you.
@McJuggerNuggets Best case, you faked a pregnancy and bragged about an abortion for clicks. Worst case, you murdered an innocent baby. I don’t think we’re the ones with the problem.
Mail-in ballots favor Democrats.
OK, fine.
Spencer Pratt was never going to lead in mail-in ballots.
But what is the justification for mail-in ballots received BEFORE the election vastly favoring Karen Bass, and the ones received AFTER the election favoring Nithya Raman?
@libsoftiktok You are not angry enough.
Nithya Raman receiving 44% of the mail in votes is equivalent to her flipping a coin and correctly calling heads/tails…
… SIX THOUSAND TIMES IN A ROW
It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.
This is one of the things I find hilarious about the Quran.
Surah 8:41 came down after Badr. They had already fought, won and were arguing over the spoils. Then the revelation arrived with distribution rules.
God gave Moses a complete and comprehensive legal system at Sinai 50 days after they left Egypt. Criminal law, property rights, inheritance procedure. All for scenarios that had not happened yet. The one reactive episode in Torah is the daughters of Zelophehad, which expanded inheritance rights downward to people who had none. The Torah never created a personal exemption for Moses.
The Quran does the opposite. The revelation tracks desire. Muhammad wants to marry his adopted son’s divorced wife: the verse arrives and collapses the Arab prohibition on such marriages. He needs to manage spoils from a battle just fought: God speaks. He needs cover for a slave relationship: God speaks. He needs guests to stop lingering at his dinner table: God speaks.
Aisha watched this from inside the household and said to Muhammed “Your Lord does not hesitate to meet your desires.” That is in the Sahih Bukhari. His most beloved wife (child bride) made the same structural observation that it seemed like revelation always came to conveniently bail him out or meet his wild desires.
Islam insists Allah is eternal, complete, and has boundless knowledge. No new information reaches Him. If that is true, He knew before creation that Badr was coming and that the spoils question would follow. Why did He not send Gabriel with a comprehensive legal framework as He did with Moses?
The first prophet gets a God who legislates for a future his people haven’t lived yet. The so called final prophet gets a God who speaks when it is convenient for one man. Very fishy.
@jaegerackermn The 100% DEF ignore is from Nicole's C6, which gives the entire party a 40% ignore, and Raiden's C2, which gives just her own burst state attacks a 60% ignore.
@JakeKAllDay@Osint613 Both crew members died. They were the only occupants.
You can't always tell despite the flames and explosions. Remember that Delta flight that crashed on the runway in Canada a year ago? It spewed flames, ripped a wing off, and flipped over, but all 80-ish people survived.
Forget the details of this dumb Iran deal, bad as it is.
The broader cost here is American deterrence. Dangerous adversaries have seen us blink repeatedly, and that has real consequences globally.
If the will to finish the fight wasn't there, we never should have started it.
@teyvattabloid I feel like people forgot that because of Rukkhadevata/Nahida being quite weak in direct combat, Furina not actually being a god, and Mavuika being kind of unique and not losing her gnosis at first, so it's really kind of been a while since we dealt with a character like that.
This is what happens when a movement loses all sense of boundaries and purpose.
Every year the messaging becomes more bizarre, more sexualized, more grotesque, and more detached from ordinary people.
Now we’re celebrating Pride with digestive humor about bottoming for anal sex from a meal-kit company.
What a legacy.
I want to give a bit of credit here, before Israel struck Beirut, they called the White House, said “Hezbollah broke the agreement” do we have green light?
President Trump (and team) said YES.
They know the risk, and they still said yes.
It’s very good. (Not that Israel had to ask, but that they said ‘yes’)