I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth. I am incredibly grateful to start this next dream chapter.
But romantically-speaking, when is it my turn?
bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.
but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.
The end of the petrodollar is therapeutic. Thank you Iran. And fuck the Gulf monarchies.
Yes, I said it and I mean every filthy syllable. Here we are at last, watching the great bloated dollar empire that has sucked the world dry for decades finally getting a knife in its soft underbelly. Iran, that stubborn old revolutionary of a nation, has turned the Strait of Hormuz into its own private tollbooth. Pay up in Chinese yuan or some greasy crypto, hand over the secret passcode, and maybe the IRGC will escort your fat oil tanker through without turning it into a bonfire. Up to two million dollars a pop for the lucky ones from friendly ports. The rest can rot or reroute and choke on the detour.
It is beautiful. It is raw. It is the universe finally clearing its throat after years of choking on American financial hegemony. The petrodollar, that sacred unholy covenant born in the desert deals of the seventies, the one that let the Saudis and their glittering neighbors sit on their golden thrones while the rest of us bowed to the greenback. Oil for dollars. Dollars for everything. Endless printing, endless wars, endless tribute from every corner of the planet. Therapeutic to see it crack. Therapeutic to watch the arteries of global energy start flowing in yuan instead of obedient green.
And the Gulf monarchies? Those perfumed parasites in their marble palaces, those smiling eunuchs who sold their souls and their sand for American protection and petrodollar privileges. Fuck them sideways with a rusty scimitar. They built their skyscrapers and their ski slopes in the desert on the back of this dollar racket, licking boots in Washington while pretending to be holy warriors. Now Iran, half-smashed by sanctions and bombs, still finds a way to flip the script and charge rent on the world's most vital chokepoint. Twenty percent of global oil and gas, funneled through Iranian waters under Iranian rules. The monarchs must be shitting diamonds right now. Their whole cushy arrangement is slipping away while they clutch their Rolexes and pray for the old order to return.
This is not some polite policy shift. This is life itself reasserting its chaotic, vulgar truth. Empires do not fall with dignified speeches. They fall when some tough son of soil in the desert says enough and starts collecting tolls in somebody else's currency. The dollar is not dead yet, but it is bleeding. And the sight of it hemorrhaging feels like a long, hot bath after years of spiritual constipation.
Thank you, Iran. You magnificent, stubborn prick. Keep squeezing. The world has needed this enema for a long time.
"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?"
The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.
Feels like You've Got Mail... don't have a phone, so we're communicating via email. They're long emails, which is nice. But now I can't wait for the next message. I think this is worse than waiting for a text.
Set a date for an actual national strike & get every worker on board because these spontaneous ones are not going to cut it. This government isnโt scared of rage, theyโre scared of an economic collapse. A national strike for a week straight will make this shit collapse.
This was always going to happen in an empire built on genocide, that continues to participate in genocide. The US government is violent, murderous, and inhumane. It does not value human life.
Iโm voting for the person who can best communicate how throughly and completely they will fuck the conservative movement. I want someone who is going to make Reconstruction look like a gentle stroll through the Carolina countryside
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.
2001: Israel creates false flag attack on U.S. soil, Netanyahu comes to Congress and convinces U.S. to attack 7 middle eastern countries
2003: Iraq is invaded and oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam is lynched.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.
2018: Maduro starts selling oil in yuan, euros, and other currencies (not USD) - Venezuela has 5x more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined
2026: Maduro and his wife are kidnapped and taken hostage - Venezuelan opposition leader announces immediate ties with Israel