stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
3d ago
Yeah, and then Turkey gets drawn into the fray because it will be a cold day in hell before they accept an independent Kurdistan on their doorstep. It would be darkly hilarious if Turkey ended up propping up the Iranian regime against the Kurds (“the devil you know” and all that). But more likely, given that Turkey is a NATO member and US client, it would just devolve into a 3-way quagmire. At least us Americans could wash our hands of it and leave Turkey to deal with the dirty work.
Zooming out, though, it really is a minor diplomatic miracle for the US/Israel that the IRI has alienated so many of its neighbors for so long that we were able to swoop in and win over any potential allies of theirs within just the past few years. The recent flailing around and randomly shooting up the whole neighborhood is just the tip of the iceberg; for decades prior to the Abraham Accords, the Iranians passed up basically every opportunity to set aside ethnic/sectarian differences and unite with their Sunni Arab neighbors, indeed the entirety of the global Ummah, against the hated Little Satan whose existence it is allegedly their foremost goal to eradicate. But they weren’t content to play second fiddle in the Islamic orchestra, nor would their purity-spiral mindset permit them to break bread with anyone less than maximally anti-Israel, so now all their Arab neighbors are functionally allied with Israel instead. How the turns have tabled.
stuckinbathroom
4d ago
Disagree that that’s the only way. In theory, we could also destroy their ability to sprint from their current level of enrichment to weapons-grade, i.e., destroy the centrifuges. But I agree that removing their access to existing stores of enriched uranium is probably the easier way.
stuckinbathroom
5d ago
The Manson murders were summer 1969
🎶 Those were the best days of my life 🎵
stuckinbathroom
8d ago
On choosing your destructor.
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Or, rather appropriately for the times, how Sunni vs. Shi’ite infighting and holier-(halal-ier?)-than-thou dick-measuring has ironically pushed the Gulf Arabs into an alliance with Israel in all but name.
stuckinbathroom
10d ago
Agreed, I think “Leninist means” would have been closer to the mark
stuckinbathroom
10d ago
Username relevant
stuckinbathroom
12d ago
Based and you-were-the-Chosen-One-pilled
stuckinbathroom
14d ago
Huh, thanks for the explanation!
I guess I’m a tad surprised that the Hungarian Blue Tribe, presumably unlike the Red Tribe, considers itself heir to the liberal dissident opposition to Soviet rule.
I would have thought that opposition to Soviet hegemony and repression would have cut across tribal lines; if anything I would have guessed blood-and-soil type Red Tribers would be even more likely to tout their anti-Soviet bona fides, given that the Soviets forcibly suppressed all forms of ethnic and nationalist sentiment!
Alternatively, I would have guessed that, like their US counterparts, the Blues (or at least their extremists) would be sympathetic to communism and eager to be mouthpieces/useful idiots for (in this case deceased) communist regimes and their policies, with plenty of anti-US/anti-Western whataboutism thrown in for good measure (cf. Hassan Piker)
stuckinbathroom
14d ago
due to the historic legacy of WW2 and the Cold War, largely supporting not only Zionism as such but also the project of Greater Israel
Can you explain further? Do you mean to say that the Hungarian Blue Tribe (Tribe of Kék?) supports Israel due to civilization guilt about the Holocaust? If so, where does the legacy of the Cold War come into it
stuckinbathroom
22d ago
Has game journalism become so poisoned that everyone has to jump onto the latest left-wing fad or risk being cancelled?
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stuckinbathroom
22d ago
Go on Grindr and you’ll find that there’s no shortage of “discrete” tops
As opposed to continuous tops, also known as homeosexuals
I wouldn’t describe myself as a conservative per se, nor did I take part in the recent brutal framemogging of junkfoodgooning EBT-maxxers kerfuffle regarding food stamps ‘round these parts, but allow me to steelman a little:
The idea underlying all of these objections is one of deserving. Certain poor people don't deserve access to government food assistance.
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Government policy should encourage the kind of behavior that will eventually lead people to reasonable self-reliance. We should certainly not be subsidizing the undeserving poor, that is to say, those who could work but just don’t want to. The more luxurious the benefits of welfare, the less incentive there is for its recipients to wean themselves off the dole and become productive, independent adults.
For all the Biblical allusions, I can't find the part where charity has to be earned through moral virtue.
I can’t tell if you’re being serious here, and nor am I a Christian myself, but I would wager that a conservative Christian would rebut your point by distinguishing between 3 very different things: (1) God’s unconditional grace and love for mankind, (2) freely-given (human) charity, and (3) taxpayer-funded welfare. Perhaps God’s grace permits you to enter the Kingdom of Heaven regardless of your earthly transgressions, but nowhere does Scripture say that there will be no temporal consequences for sin and vice.
stuckinbathroom
25d ago
So there we have it: two empires, alike in size and strength, both very much in their decadence phases, with none at the time believing the Brits would be so thoroughly victorious.
Two empires, both alike in decadence,
In fair Hong Kong, where we lay our scene,
From recent grudge break to new mutiny,
Where foreign blood makes foreign hands unclean.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
the birth was the crowning achievement
I see what you did there
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
I’m just waiting for the inevitable Tumblr Ridge jokes to drop
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
scratches beard “OK. What kind of Republican are you?”
“Ch-Ch-Cheney …”
“Cheney? Neocon?”
gunshot
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Ten-four. Shutting it down. Over.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Rent is, but labor isn’t, and I bet restaurant owners have to pay a big premium to get employees to take the graveyard shift.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
”Bonum commune communitatis” intensifies
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
The greater good.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Ohh, I see, the point is to make it so that emails leaked after the fact are indistinguishable from forgeries.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Theoretically, a privacy-conscious email host would regularly rotate their DKIM keys and publicly post their stale ones (i.e. make sure it's trivial to forge old emails)
Uh, you mean publicly post their stale public keys so it’s trivial to verify old emails?
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
What’s =ith all the random equality =igns?
I agree that the percent of registered Dems who would never hold their nose and vote for a Jew is well within Lizardman territory, but regarding which potential candidates receive the party’s blessing, I think you underestimate both how pervasive low-level antisemitism is among Blacks (perhaps it’s the lingering effects of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam?), as well as how much Democrats think the Black vote is worth, both for reasons of woke-progressive virtue signaling and, to be fair, political reality in the Deep South.
I could easily imagine, in a
smokevape-filled room at DNC headquarters, the progressive vanguard of the party putting their heads (such as they are) together and deciding, for reasons ideological as well as practical, that the most electable coalition they can realistically hope to assemble must rally around the tentpole of anti-Zionism.As for
I assume you are referring to Bernie Sanders, who has done a decent job—for a man of his advanced age—of navigating between the Scylla of his old-school, class-first leftist ideology and the Charybdis of the woke-progressive party line since 2016. In particular he has never, to my knowledge, given any public indication that he is a committed Zionist, or even a practicing Jew at all, or that his Jewish heritage endears him to the State of Israel.
The same cannot be said of Shapiro, who has repeatedly commented on his Jewish faith in ways that, at the very least, reverse-dog-whistle “Zionist bootlicker” to the watermelon-emoji Free Palestine types. Say what you will about their ilk (and believe me, I have an earful of my own criticism), but in my experience they are perfectly willing to accept that an ethnic Jew is not secretly doing Israel’s bidding, provided that the Jew in question makes the right mouth-noises, and avoids making the wrong ones. Sanders has pretty well passed that litmus test; Shapiro, regrettably, has not.
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