@websterkaroon The Persians, Sanam Mahloudji. Def cringe characters, but not all.
Also Good Girl, Aria Aber (🇦🇫). Takes place in Berlin. Iranian diaspora adjacent. Literally and figuratively.
@hdagres The “anti-war” framing is flawed b/c it embeds status quo bias. It treats the regime’s decades of violence as a neutral baseline - and not war. Military action takes lives, but it cannot be excluded from the moral calculus while the regime kills its people with impunity.
@raqisright Is the lesson from Sister Carrie just that: navigate life with a high dark triad score? Moshfegh's professorial jailbait appears to fit the pattern as well.
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@arash_tehran Is it possible he’s reading from the pander-to-DJT script? Does his orbit have a track record over the years of “globalist” talk? Love some context from you!
The “left’s” feverish support for Gaza and silence towards IRGC repression has made the left an easy target.
@DQuietToon@jsrailton Very true!! For X, they can show advertisers they are "doing something" about the garbage user base. Silver lining: it may be easier to track bad actors who would otherwise employ many accounts (across campaigns). Block function offers the unaware a false sense of security.
@drvolts@_GoRevel How does Revel handle fleet repairs and maintenance? Entirely in-house? Do they need to recruit techs away from Tesla, or is there a sufficient EV mechanic cert pipeline? Lastly, which is the bigger barrier to entering new markets: charging or maintenance?
The Hamas attack is the first major event I haven’t been able to follow on Twitter. There’s information, but very little. It didn’t dominate my TL when it began, and still makes up very little overall.
@byjayroot U.S. billionaires’ wealth accrues regardless of the current leadership. Oligarch wealth is generally pegged to and enmeshed in one-party rule. Furthermore, oligarch wealth can be laundered through the state. Think Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Let me add here. First, I have zero operational insight. With that, if there ever was strategic signaling, this is it. To see a U.S. C-17 *domestically* transport a Swedish infantry unit onto the island of Gotland, is remarkable at time of severe crisis. Neutrality no more.