Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
No nuclear enrichment, lift sanctions, Palestinian state, expel the Jews from the West Bank and make the West Bank part of Palestine. No Israeli presence in Syria.
Would Iran also have to publically dismantle its Doomsday Countdown Clock?
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
Just like "fuck all republicans" is like, never going to be clean and always going to be something full of animus even if people drop a "fuck" all over the place in regular conversations.
"Peg the Patriarchy" may not be calling for the specific sex act, but the sentiment is correctly understood to be very negative all the same.
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
Libya
I was unaware that Israel was a big player in the NATO intervention there.
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
But at the end of the day, it's better to be feared than to be loved.
So long as you can avoid being hated, if I recall my Machiavelli. Of course, if you expect to be hated regardless, your options do then devolve to "be not feared, dead, and hopefully eulogised pleasantly and to no longer have your corpse be hated" or "be hated, feared, and have a chance at continuing to live", well, the calculus seems clear.
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
What did we consider Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw? But is it different if they're just being fooled by Iranian propaganda and reporting what they believe is the truth (and making AI videos or other art to display said "truth"), vice actively taking official marching orders from the regime?
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
It seems to have been absolutely the US, and it makes perfect sense. They bombed a half-dozen other buildings in the same complex, with the girls' school being in a walled off corner of same. But "US strike hits 7 buildings in IGRC base including semi-adjacent school" doesn't play well with anyone. The US doesn't want to talk about how they got a target wrong/out of date, and people who hate the US don't want to talk about how "yeah, this kind of thing happens in war, just like friendly fire, it sucks but it's understandable since it's not like the US is omniscient & omnipotent".
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
for what it’s worth, “death to X” is an idiomatic phrase in the Arab/Persian world that just means “down with X” or even just casually “frickin’ X,” not a literal call for everyone in a given country to be executed, in much the same way that English-language “sucks” is no longer regarded as having homophobic implications as an idiomatic usage
The thing is, I could believe that (I personally enjoy talking about people being first against the wall when the revolution comes, Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Division style), except that I assume the people excusing your excerpt would also take significant offense at similar (or lesser!) directed from the wrong people at the wrong people.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
a 100% white, peaceful, free nation
I mean, they also love battle, drove the Dunlendings out of their (the Dunlendings') ancestral lands, and literally hunted Ghan-buri-Ghan's folk "like beasts". The Rohirrim may be white and free, but peaceful?
once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I thought UAE did prohibit such attacks? Or am I confusing them with a different Gulf nation?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
OpenAI in particular seems pretty hosed unless they can crack AGI or at least some sort of currently non-existent network, data or technological moat, or else their only option seems to be to angle their way into a bail-out.
OpenAI's model is the base for Copilot, yes? Are they just hoping to eventually be bought out?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
or will half be screeching for Trump's blood and half posting boomer memes about demanding blood in order to get engagement?
Yes, I'd imagine there will be a significant amount of people saying "this is Trump's fault, and proof he should be impeached and we should pay reparations to Iran." Likely amplified by foreign sockpuppets and bots and propaganda, but let's be honest, it doesn't really need to be. A lot of people don't have a good relationship with anyone in the military, less of an idea as to how military or geopolitics works, and whatever remains is--on both sides--subsumed by partisan politics, the mind-killer.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Oh wow, debrey just happend to land on 4/4 active airports!
I mean, airports are pretty big, and debris is a pretty big issue. Wouldn't also surprise me if a few hits got through, but as always, it depends on what gets hit and with what.
Hella glad to hear you're safe, tho.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Such as, say, mines. Honestly surprised they haven't managed to mine it yet.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
You don't need to be able to destroy all ships to stop them from going through the strait, merely present a credible threat that you might be able to destroy one.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
The Empire Strikes Back is a very different movie than Star Wars.
To be fair, that falls into the category of "second in a trilogy", which is narratively and structurally different from "sequel". At least, it should be, but writers are often hacks.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
When you're a maritime nation (weird as it can seem at first glance to say that about a nation half the size of a continent), you live or die by your boats. England knew it, and the US knows it.
Or did, at least. The state of shipbuilding is something else.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
an end to the regime in Syria
But a main reason for that was that Russia was otherwise occupied and couldn't come to the aid of its client state. Nothing to do with Israel, as I recall.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Don't touch the boats
Houthis
I am going to laugh quite bitterly if this whole Iranian adventure turns out to have as a promary purpose being the least-PR-unfriendly method of ending the Houthis: by removing their sponsor and letting the Saudis take care of them out of the public eye, as rooting them out via US boots on the ground would create remarkably negative photos for the domestic crowd.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
"Hey, I didn't fight in no war. Best of luck, though."
Depends on if your friend is the one who's picking a fight or not, I suppose.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Carney as well from Canada has been saying the US's actions are justified.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I guess could be explained away as part of a general media strategy executed without the aide actually having any privileged information but anyhow would fit the conspiracy (IL did it, media reports whatever IL wants) explanation well.
"We're going to be bombing hospitals. Here's what you say when--not if--we're accused of bombing them" as a strategy wasn't quite prepared for "The enemy hit a hospital and we're falsely accused of it".
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
US Congresswoman Tlaib said, "This is who they are", where "they" refers to Americans
Or, more charitably, "they" refers to the Trump admin & DoD. Er, DoW, now.
Mantergeistmann
7d ago
I think it's also an issue with Hollywood, videogames, and the US & Israeli militaries being too good at what they do. Especially for the US, who can often afford to put a premium on civilian lives due to overwhelming firepower and distance, many people seem to think that mistakes no longer happen in warfare, explosions are limited to arm's reach like those sword-missiles, missiles and bullets are always precisely on target, and any collateral damage or civilian target hit must have only been deliberate.
I'm not sure the US is prepared for a near-peer conflict where they can't afford to be so careful. There was a West Point (?) article on this very premise I read years ago, but haven't been able to find it since.
Personally, for my own safety's sake, I'd rather we err heavily on the side of "assuming people are/protecting gullible idiots".
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