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If I'm posting it's because the alternative is to wear a sandwich board with THE END IS NIGH drawn on it shouting at strangers to repent before the apocalypse.

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@BrettErickson28 Pape is weird in that he has a pretty solid grasp of the big picture and objectively gets a lot right while being confusingly ill informed on the details. I think he's the kind of guy who has a natural talent for something but can't articulate it effectively.

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@AnalyticaCamil1 The tankie lolcows killed MeToo by going whole hog on Tara Reade and pretending Joe Biden is a pedophile(?) to false equivalence Trump's Epstein associations back in 2020. Tara Reade has a cushy job with Russian state media now and it's all in the memory hole.

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@peterawolf This isn't complicated. They are just 4chan contrarian lolcows. They don't give a shit about women or Palestine or any of that nonsense, they just want to fight and argue out of boredom and nihilism. Rationalizing it is as pointless as rationalizing MAGA.

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@mattyglesias Anecdotally about 30-40% of extreme leftists I have encountered would be far-right if they weren't in the out group. Their perspective on politics is fundamentally religious and disconnected from real policy.

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@AnalyticaCamil1 I get so frustrated with these people who understand subconsciously that stuff like the Odyssey costumes are kinda lame but can't articulate that without relating it to Fox News culture war bullshit and the decline of Western civilization.

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@NeoliberalAkiho @Communism_CEO You aren't wrong about that, but the salient point for the near term is that post-scarcity energy tech isn't actually real yet and won't be for an unknown amount of time. Reducing consumption to a sustainable level is the only way to guarantee we get there before resource wars.

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@ayatr0llah IMO the alleged deal is as fake as all the others until proven otherwise.

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@arash_tehran The left's failure to police itself of post-truthers who just falsely accuse anyone that mildly disagrees with them of being pedophiles or Israeli nationalists is a big brand problem.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

VIROLOGIST: “It’s bizarre, Hantavirus almost never jumps from human to human like this. Usually it’s from coming into contact with rat feces or something.”

CRUISE SHIP CHEF: “Yeah, that’s crazy, it must’ve mutated or something.”

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@AnalyticaCamil1 Trump just lets his actual New York liberal political views show through all the grift sometimes and it never fails to crack me up.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“the hantavirus kills you too effectively for it to become a full blown pandemic” is the kind of jaded analysis I look for from a virologist

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@AnalyticaCamil1 The mark of Nurgle makes him tougher, shitlib.

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@RobertJMolnar They're just dodging a vote on war powers shit in congress. Marco's betting he will look like a genius compared to these chumps if he associates his name with successes and avoids the failures. Probably the only guy in the WH who knows who Stilicho was.

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@AnalyticaCamil1 Things you do when you obliterated their missile program with full air dominance.

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@FaytuksNetwork Is he calling Trump a chicken to get him to stop stalling? Like a child on the playground?

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@ayatr0llah It's part of American mythology and a symbol of the system working. In the Olden Days (that didn't exist like this) you came to America to stake a claim on not-so-open land and find your fortune away from entrenched old world aristocrats.

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

My understanding is that the continuous media hype (leaks and rumors) from the Pakistani side is complicating the situation, and could lead to changing the venue of the talks.

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

Once again, we are approaching a decision point, but there is little indication that Iran’s response will fundamentally differ from what senior regime officials have said in the past.

Even if a meeting takes place, it is important to understand that this is not where real decisions are made. Moreover, the relationship between Araghchi and Witkoff has seen better days, to put it mildly. Trust between the two sides is virtually nonexistent.

As such, any continued diplomatic process must be grounded in calibrated expectations regarding the nature of Iran’s response.

Ultimately, the decision will return to the White House:
whether to ease pressure in response to what may be framed as a “constructive” Iranian reply,
or to move toward some form of kinetic action in response to what is likely to be perceived as an insufficient or negative answer from Tehran.

There is considerable doubt that Trump would be willing to wait months to see results from the maritime pressure strategy.

Absent a breakthrough in the coming days, the risk of escalation will rise significantly.

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@ayatr0llah He's gonna defeat the blockade himself

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

What's notable about the manufactured "Iran's leadership is in crisis & Trump needed to extend ceasefire for this reason" story, sourced to Israeli & US officials, is: Trump is openly in crisis, made a ton of false claims & flip flopped nonstop because Iran refused to capitulate.