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PLEASE, look up Lindsey Graham’s name on X and read the public reaction to his death.
Do not dismiss it as “hate.” Ask yourself why so many people felt anger instead of sympathy.
This is what happens when a politician becomes associated with Israel, civilian suffering, and unconditional support for the Israeli government.
If you still support Israel’s actions without question, take a hard look at where those decisions lead, and how history may remember those who defended them.
At least two people are dead and others have been injured in a shooting at Canada’s largest Latin street festival in Toronto, police said in a post on X. https://t.co/I3oQgNkubZ
Lindsey Graham is Dead. It’s bad to speak ill of the dead, so I’ll just say while he was alive he was as horribly evil & as bloodthirsty as they come. A true demon & an enemy of humanity.
As a dead guy I’m guessing he’s no better, but it’s bad form to speak ill of the dead, so I won’t.
@AUC31 Clearly you're no different from grok you need western media or government's spokesperson channels to confirm or give their narrative and that will be the solid truth right?
I am horrified by the shooting that has killed two people at the Salsa on St. Clair Festival in Toronto.
My prayers are with the families grieving their loved ones, those who are in critical condition, and everyone who has been affected by this horrific event.
My thanks to the police officers and other first responders whose courage and fast action prevented further tragedy. Police have my full support as they work to apprehend the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
Cartoons were strategic weapons to shape public ideology from childhood, not mere entertainment. The Soviet cartoons of the 1900s had the potential to educate Africans more than anything else — if only they had proper access.
The U.S. strategy toward Iran after the so-called “ceasefire” should be clear by now.
As Washington has done in various arenas all around the world, it dangles the promise of diplomacy and peace over the heads of those desperate to survive, breathe, and return to normal life.
But the purpose of this diplomacy is not to produce a deal or establish a durable peace. It is to defuse whatever advantage their enemy has.
In Gaza, the U.S. secured the release of hostages several times, only to renege on the terms of the deal and keep the genocide and starvation campaign going.
This continued for years until Hamas eventually gave up all the hostages.
With Iran, the U.S. has managed to reopen Hormuz and add millions of barrels of oil back into the very system that is trying to destroy Iran.
As an enemy of imperialism and Zionism, Iran often attempts to avoid pain and preserve some level of peace. But in a struggle like this, peace cannot be secured through restraint. It can only be secured through a clear victory. And that victory can only come through escalation. And unfortunately, this escalation will produce suffering.
Weeks ago, many people were celebrating the MOU as a “total victory” for Iran. Even the best analysts and experts we admire repeated the same message: Iran strategically won.
But that declaration was premature.
There was a moment when Iran’s path to victory was clear. Global oil supplies were being strained, U.S. strategic petroleum reserves were under pressure, summer travel was adding stress to energy markets, and the American midterms were approaching.
Instead of committing to this path, however, Iranian negotiators pivoted from it and struck a deal that relieved pressure on the enemy that had just murdered its leader, slaughtered its children, and is dedicated to its complete annihilation.
It was the equivalent of an army giving up its position atop a hill and descending below to stand on equal footing with its enemy.
Victory was not secured, a lasting deal was not achieved, and there was not a sufficient exchange to make this charade worth it.
As the underdog, limited in resources and surrounded by enemies, Iran can only hope to win a war of attrition if the war maximizes pain within a very narrow political window:
from the moment the war began until the midterms in November.
But if the conflict drags beyond this window, the advantage can shift back toward the U.S. and Israel.
Iran's enemies has far more wealth, resources, business partners, military infrastructure, and allies to coordinate with.
Time, in the long run, favors Washington.
This is why the U.S. keeps weaponizing diplomacy. It agrees to terms, violates them, resets the conversation, and then repeats the cycle.
The goal is to prolong the conflict while disarming Iran and preventing a decisive response.
It allows the U.S. to keep jabbing at Iran, slowly grinding down its strength, stamina, infrastructure, communications, logistics, and public morale, while avoiding the kind of blowback that would force Washington into a genuine settlement.
That is the trap.
The U.S. wants Iran half-awake, half-restrained, and constantly waiting for the next diplomatic opening. It wants Iran to believe peace is always one concession away, one meeting away, one statement away, one “framework” away.
Meanwhile, their war on Iran continues.
Iran performed brilliantly in the early stages, but only because it was finally in a position to take decisive action.
Its survival against the world’s greatest superpower is an achievement in itself. But the U.S. does not need to destroy Iran in one dramatic strike.
It also has the option, and the ability, to exhaust it, isolate it, inconvenience its population, fracture its confidence, and wait for the internal will to break.
Iran cannot win by playing this game.
Iran’s real leverage is its ability to impose real costs on the system threatening to destroy it. Without that leverage, diplomacy merely numbs the patient while the surgery continues.
This is the core problem. Iran is trying to avoid the confrontation that is necessary to prevent its own destruction. There is no neutral path here. There is no endless middle ground. There is no way to kick the can down the road forever.
Iran is not Russia. It does not have Russia’s resources, nuclear arsenal, or air force. It cannot afford to fight a slow, grinding war on American terms. Even Russia is debating whether a slow war of attrition truly serves its interests. For Iran, the danger is far more severe.
Iran has one window. That window is from now until November.
If it allows the United States to keep stretching this conflict out, it will be slowly weakened like every other independent state in the region before it.
The final result will not be peace.
It will be the destruction of the nation and the far greater suffering of the Iranian people — the very suffering Iran’s leadership is trying so desperately to avoid.
The supreme leader, who is currently being laid to rest, understood this. This is why he remained firm in his position even in the face of assassination:
no more talking, no more deals, no more attacks and ceasefires. If you attack us again, it will be for the final time, and you will regret it.
He understood that the imperialist and Zionist plan was to degrade and weaken Iran slowly over time. In one of his final speeches, he spoke about “soft warfare”:
“What is soft warfare? It means using deception, lies, slander, temptations, and fallacious reasoning to make people waver on the path they’re following and to instill doubt in them. That is soft warfare. This kind of warfare is currently underway. It’s being carried out today as well.”
And he understood that this conflict is inherent, inevitable, and unavoidable:
“Iran and the U.S. have been enemies for over 40 years — what is this really about? In my opinion, the issue can be summed up in two words, and that is: the U.S. wants to devour Iran; the valiant Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic are preventing that.”
So the message is simple: stop deluding yourselves into believing the war is won. Stop pretending that an MOU equals victory. The war is not over. It has merely entered a more sophisticated and deceptive phase.
Please stop coping and saying Iran is demonstrating that it is more moral than its enemies. This is idealistic nonsense in a time when real bullets are flying.
Iran does not need to perform restraint for people who will call it irrational no matter what it does. It does not need to keep demonstrating that it is reasonable to powers that only respect force. It does not need to prove that it is a democracy and not a dictatorship.
It only needs to prove that it should not be fucked with.
This is a moment for hard power, hard leverage, and strategic clarity.
Either Iran imposes enough cost to force a real and lasting settlement, or it will be slowly ground down under the illusion that diplomacy can save it.
The fight for survival is not coming.
It is already here.
The @WorldBankGroup has released its 2026-2027 Country Income Classifications.
Six economies moved to a higher income category, and no countries moved down.
Behind those changes are different stories, from economic recovery to export-led growth and improved statistics.
Learn more: https://t.co/I2fgQ6Zpdp
Game theory proves that people stay honest with you when they expect a future payoff for their cooperation.
Cooperation thrives on the uncertainty of the next round; game theory calls it the "shadow of the future." As long as someone expects to deal with you again, betrayal costs them more than cooperation, so they'll prioritize honesty.
They know that you may retaliate in the next round if they betray you, so they won't.
The true danger arrives in the exact moment the future disappears, the last day of a job, a closed deal, strong alternatives, or just the point where they decide you no longer matter.
That's when the price of defection and betrayal drops to zero and potentially yields a solid payoff for them.
Watch how their behavior changes when they think they're done with you. That's the red flag to look out for.
Honesty only exists in the shadow of the future round.
@AssociatesRoba Fear the lawyers -in this case there might have been a deliberate approach to fail from the beginning, the land histry could have been the basis of argument atleast.
You've Been Lied To - The West Is Not Saner
The myth that the West is inherently "saner" and more protective of its citizens has been sold to Africans for too long.
The recent US Supreme Court ruling in favour of biotech giant Monsanto exposes the fact that Western systems also sacrifice ordinary people when corporate profit is at stake. They are just very good at packaging impunity and hiding behind polished institutions while giving their brand of corruption fancy names.
Africans must as a matter of urgency discard the completely false idea that our problems exist only because of African leaders, while ignoring the global power structures that protect and project corporate power around the world, while directly fuelling Africa's underdevelopment.
The system that tells Africans that we are sole cause of our problems is the exact same system profiting from our problems. That lie must be dismantled.
This is like a massive, stinging slap in the face of every self-righteous proponent of the free-market economy who works tirelessly to brainwash the entire planet into believing that limited government intervention is inherently good, that state regulation is evil, and that prices will always magically find their true, natural value.
If the state does not decisively intervene to stop corrupt oligarchs, private equity firms, and global investment giants from buying up every single affordable residential home, real estate prices will never find a value that respects basic human dignity, local communities, or the working class. Instead, they will only ever find a highly inflated, artificial value that strictly protects the greedy corporate interests, profit margins, and portfolios of multi-billion-dollar venture capitalists.
Socialism works and will always work. Even the most ruthless capitalists on Wall Street still desperately lobby for massive government tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar state bailouts, favorable regulatory loopholes, protectionist trade tariffs, and direct central bank interventions, which is basically nothing but a highly customized, tax-funded communist manifesto designed exclusively for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.