faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
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faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
3d ago
... man, why can't the executive just say that. If this is a considered decision to embroil ourselves in a shitshow because the alternative is worse, that's understandable. What worries me is when the Trump admin doesn't show signs of awareness that it's going to be a shitshow.
Or maybe Trump posted something coherently explaining the reasoning on Truth Social and I just missed it.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
4d ago
I for one would be quite interested in why you support the war. The information environment is bad right now, so I value getting perspectives which disagree from my own that I am quite confident aren't from a bot.
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.
- Iran was getting quite close to nukes, and negotiations were not working.
- Iran killed a lot of protestors recently, and the delay in military action was just because it takes time to get carrier groups across the planet.
- We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy (or even "actually, we still think it'll be easy").
- Iran has been a destabilizing factor across the middle east for decades, and we'd have to deal with it eventually, and now is a better time than most because [reasons]
- We are allied with Israel, and Israel attacked Iran, therefore we had to enter alongside them in order to maintain the alliance.
- Something else entirely.
Are any of these close?
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
6d ago
That's not true.
We've got at least half a million outer space aliens in the enclave.
What would you expect to see, looking back from 2030, in worlds where the war went well and accomplished what you were hoping it would? What would instead make you think the war was a mistake, in retrospect?
Obviously on the flip side of that, the modal "no war, and it went badly" world probably looks to me like "Iran got nukes, and used them".
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