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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
No, nobody in America ever likes any policy whatsoever if you phrase it negatively and prompt them with only the downsides.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
Empire was part of the broader Belt and Road Initiative, which was basically corporatist colonialism without any noblisse oblige. I namedropped it because I figured people might be more familiar with it. It's just a prompt.
Let's say the US massively pulls back from it's efforts stabilizing the world. What do you think fills the void, and why would it be better?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
I mean... during my lifetime, no one had a more destabilizing effect on the world in general, and the Middle East in particular than the United States.
During your lifetime, the US has also been the glue that holds the world together. We "destabilize" within the paradigm that we are the source of all stability.
But ok, I have some sympathy with the notion that the rest of the world doesn't deserve the effort. How do you think that would go? Take a look at the Belt and Road, Empire of Dust, the fishing fleets, and explain why you think Pax China will be better.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
I think a lot depends on what you think "this kind of war" is,
Very much this. The shit they had guys like JTarrou doing in Iraq, the room to room sweeping with a random mix of civilians, fighters, and suicide bombers, where they had to pretend that everyone they met was friendly until they were being bombed or shot at? With RoE that seem almost designed to drive people insane or get them killed? Driven by the delusional belief that the only thing separating Uday Hussein from Will Stancil was a bit of pocket change and a lecture on queer puppet shows?
Yeah, the politicians calling for that can get fragged.
Bombing assholes into the Stone Age?
Talking about exactly that in the context of specifically Iran is actually where the we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before line comes from.
The current actions are perhaps on the upper side of expectations, but Trump was never a dove. He just isn't a medal-farming, nation-building retard.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
There are several justifications for this war that strike me as plausible, but I have no idea which ones (if any) are load-bearing among supporters e.g.
"Support" is a strong word. I've not sworn my life and honor to the Plannisters, but I've certainly learned not to bet against them. There's a lot of room for potential upside here, between positioning and maneuvering against China, the Middle East, knocking out a Russian ally, scaring and embarrassing our "allies", testing out next-gen combat, the fact that Iran just generally totally fucking sucks and has been calling for the death of my people for half a century, etc. It's not stuff I was chomping at the bit for, but I can see the logic, but it costs me little to wait and see if the administration can bring it home. If they can, it would be a hell of a coup, a lightsaber to a Gordian knot.
And maybe they can't. But frankly, there isn't a single politician in America I'd give better odds to than Donald Trump.
And on a more cold, personal level: I've been saying for decades that we should have just flattened every government building in Afghanistan and littered the country with pamphlets in every goat-herder language known to our anthropologists saying "If your government still offends us, we're just going to come back and do it again and again, so regularly you can plant your crops by the sight of our bombers smiting you. Repent or die. - Sincerely, the Fist of God (AKA: America)."
So I'm kind of curious to test the "can't do Islamic regime change by air power" hypothesis.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14d ago
Blue state blues. On the plus side, I've been renewing my old-style license online and having it mailed to me since the Obama administration.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Black people do in fact usually have IDs. The people most likely to be loose in the world without one are professional white women who think their phone is a scifi universal gadget.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
The big obstacle with Real ID is getting an appointment in the first place. Every time I hear about it, the waitlist is months long.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Antarctic research station should be sufficient, no?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Andrew Anglin announced total Hebrew victory and unconditionally surrendered to ZOG by closing Daily Stormer.
End of an era. 13 years long battle is over.
Trust the Zion plan.
Say what you will about the Zionists, but they do appear to the only non-American faction with any measurable amount of both competence and agency.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Heftige Rivalität, soon on Netflix.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15d ago
Outsiders using low-resolution judgment means that movements have an incentive to clean up their act. A high-resolution one would let them reap the benefits and face none of the consequences.
In other words, you can't complain about being called a communist unless you have enemies to the left.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
What's Andy Samberg doing these days?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
The sheer Larry David-esque humor potential would greatly bolster the "dankest timeline" hypothesis.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Could be some unrelated medical issue. The guy is 76.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Supposedly his dad was adamantly against him taking over, possibly for being gay, possibly for being an idiot.
Maybe the coma is a feature not a bug - he makes a decent figurehead, while being too incapacitated to attempt to actually rule, while also being totally expendable. Same logic as electing Biden, and it fits with the "mosaic" approach.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
I’m still trying to figure out how this is their fault, given the Republican trifecta;
Republicans do not have a filibuster-proof trifecta, and Dems used that to block DHS funding, while demanding completely insane poison pills to functionally stop immigration enforcement and open ICE agents to more leftist terror attacks. Your flight was delayed to fight for this for the whole country.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
We're not an antifa group, that's just an idea. We're a book and movie club. We all met at Agatha's house where we watched One Battle After Another and then debated it over vegan snacks. That's why all of our phones were in one place and turned off for the duration.
Kevin McCallister could handle these arrangements. I believe in our leftist terrorists, that they too can aspire to the level of planning and agency displayed by a fictional 8 year old from 1990.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
16d ago
Yeah, the unstated premise there was "assuming you don't get caught". If you get busted in flagrante delicto then I can see how that would make things worse. But if you even hoped to get away with it, not having the tracking device in your pocket with a time-stamped trail is a good idea.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Zoomer criminals just leave the damn phone at home challenge [IMPOSSIBLE!!!].
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
I made the same conclusion, and based it off a series of article from 15 years ago, written by his professors, ostensibly as a tribute.
Do you know how he got that job? According to the guy who recruited him (note the recruited), the process began at a meeting where someone said "Hey, we're a law school in Chicago, a super black city, and we have basically no black faculty. Maybe we should do something about that?" And someone else said "I hear the kid running the Harvard Law review this year is black." "Great, go hire him."
I had heard for years that he was the only editor of the HLR to never write an article. One of his own spokesmen confirmed that, as referenced in this bizarre time-traveling Politico article that claims to have found a "lost" Obama article, without ever getting around to mentioning how it was found.
Anyway, Chicago hired him without actually having a real spot, so they paid him for a few years to take a sabbatical (before ever actually doing any law professor work) so he could write a book on constitutional law. At the end of that time period, what he purportedly handed in was his autobiography, Dreams from my Father. And UChicago just... took that.
That was a recurring theme in those retrospectives written when he was still new and fresh. The man never found a room he couldn't walk into and instantly have every irresponsible white progressive go "Wow, he's so handsome and articulate and black! That guy's getting an A!"
And the kicker is, I think Obama is actually a smart guy. The few ideas he bothered to have were actually pretty good. But the way his professors and mentors talked about him, no one ever felt the need to push or challenge him. Even just make him do the standard work. He's kind of the epitome of what Vivek crashed out about the Christmas before last, the Zack from Saved by the Bell guy who skated through on raw charisma, and could have probably benefited from some more serious study time. Maybe then he wouldn't have had to resort to regurgitating bong-circle Marxism on the rare occasions where he was pressed for a real answer.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
Give a fig leaf so a sympathetic juror can do some jury nullification?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
17d ago
What supplement brands (vitamins, minerals, creatine, pre-workout, etc) do you trust and use? How did you make that determination?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
20d ago
because what other sources are there at the moment, really?
None. Even "independent" news are required to toe the Iranian party line as a condition on being allowed into the country.
The more common case is deliberately bad advice as a form of sabotage.
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