1: I'm sorry. It's my responsibility to somehow stop these things but I suck at it.
2: It is wrong to start a war. They have already hit civilian targets, killed children.
3: The president starting a war without a declaration by the Congress is criminal.
4: Iran was not threatening the United States in any way.
5: Israel is not a state in the Union, nor even a treaty ally, nor even a faithful friend.
6: No one in power believes their own lies that Iran was making nukes or was about to start to try or anything of the sort. It's a completely fake pretext for war. Their program was nearly "obliterated" last June and they offered in recent days to refrain from enrichment for 3-5 years and then to limit it's purity to only 1.5% u-235, completely and totally nullifying that pretext. Perhaps that's why Trump attacked now, to prevent Witkoff from actually accomplishing something acceptable.
7: Iran does not have and is not anywhere near having missiles that can reach the U.S.
8: The fact that the president has to invoke the Beirut bombing of 1983 as a pretext just goes to show that he has nothing like a case for defensive or "pre-emptive" war of any kind. It's simple aggression.
9: They have no plan for who to install in power there. The monarchists and MEK cultists are a complete joke. Kurdish commies are no better.
10: They and the bin Ladenites in AQ and ISIS are certainly thrilled at their new opportunity to slaughter their enemies though. Enough bombs could destroy the state, but not replace it. A permanent Syria-style civil war would be just fine with Tel Aviv and therefore Washington.
11: Iran has already hit a US base in Bahrain and launched attacks at others across the region.
12: If the Ayatollahs Khamenei or Sistani announce a new religious obligation on the part of their followers to attack the West, they will have an army far greater than bin Laden or Baghdadi could have dreamed of. Most of our recent wars have benefited them, so they haven't had the need to. Now, who knows what might happen, but it is certainly not worth the risk.
13: Israel also played this sort of crucial role in America's invasion of Iraq 23 years ago, but way under the radar compared to now. Resent it.
14: Here's me refuting lies about Iran's nuclear program 16 years ago. For all the good it's ever done.
@AaronRDay@ColinTCrypto you think despite all this BTC can still recover or you think the thesis that there was a lot of Tether related fraud is incorrect?
🚨URGENT: Congress is about to wipe out your right to sue pesticide companies, quietly, tucked in a new spending bill.
Section 453 blocks updated health warnings and gives chemical manufacturers immunity even when people are harmed.
Cancer. Parkinson’s. Infertility.
57,000+ products. Zero accountability.
This must be pulled NOW before it reaches the floor.
There are no easy fights in the struggle against the empire. Lots of losses and no clean wins.
You spend years protesting the genocide in Gaza, and you get a fake, shitty “ceasefire” deal that’s just designed to shut you up while Israel continues creating hell for the Palestinians and carving off more pieces of their territory.
Humanity manages to avoid nuclear conflict at the most dangerous points of the Ukraine war, but the country continues getting torn apart for years in an idiotic bloodbath that could have been easily avoided with a little diplomacy and common sense.
Assange gets free, but only after he agrees to plead guilty to doing journalism, and only after years of cruel treatment have made an example of him for all the world to see.
Public trust in the mainstream media finally gets obliterated, only for the imperial perception managers to come up with Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation and plutocrat-owned AI chatbots to retain control of the narrative.
The capitalists get everything they want, and succeed in advancing any ecocidal, dystopian agenda of their choosing so long as it generates profits or bolsters the imperial power structure.
Republicans win and they still act like underdog victims. Democrats win and they act like Republicans. Meanwhile any real political opposition which starts getting its legs underneath it gets stomped into the dirt in its infancy.
Your heroes let you down. Your allies die. The geopolitical developments you hope to see never quite pan out. Whenever there’s a moment of relative calm the dissident factions get restless and start cannibalizing themselves with counterproductive infighting and lateral-punching.
And the treads of the imperial juggernaut keep rolling forward.
Some days it makes you feel like a crippled child throwing a rock at a tank.
There are no easy fights. No wins by first-round knockout. At best it’s a grinding slog from bell to bell where you’re spitting out blood between rounds and sucking wind through your gum shield with broken ribs and a busted nose.
But you fight on anyway.
Not because you enjoy it. Not because you’re good at it. Not because you feel like you’re going to win. You keep biting down on your mouthguard and throwing hands for no other reason than because that’s all you can do.
These freaks are killing our planet. They’re committing genocide. They’re waving armageddon weapons around like cocks and playing chicken with the lives of every terrestrial organism. They’re driving us further and further into a tyrannical mind-controlled dystopia while doing everything they can to choke off our artistic brilliance and poison all the best things about our species.
You fight them because what the hell else are you going to do? Even if the treads of the machine are going to roll over us all in the end, at least you’ll go down knowing you left it all in the ring.
So you fight on. You give it everything you’ve got, even when it feels like you’re throwing haymakers at a mountain. You eat some leather, you spit out a tooth, and you return fire.
Because there’s nothing else you can do.
And there’s nothing that matters more.
@MarcDeMesel what do you think of Russell Napier's thesis about re-shoring & flight from US assets by foreign banks? Sounds like he would go with a managed portfolio of midcaps in select markets (not China) plus gold?