lurker
5mo ago
Again, just look at the chart I posted, not even their own ships are going through. Unless you think iran only exported 1 tanker a day of oil?
lurker
5mo ago
Yes, I know that port doesn't have capacity for all of irans oil. No, that doesn't mean they're sending it through the strait, it's just not getting out. You can look up transits of the strait, theres barely anything going through and mostly not oil tankers.
lurker
5mo ago
So it's not closed but they'll attack anything that goes through it? Sounds closed to me.
lurker
5mo ago
No they aren't, they're sending it out their port just outside the strait at chabahar.
lurker
5mo ago
I really don't see the benefit here, karg is just their oil export terminal. All of kargs oil has to go through the strait, which iran has closed anyway. They've already determined they can last without oil exports from karg. Karg is useless without the ability to export oil from there and iran already isn't. This logic has real "we're taking kursk as a bargining chip in negotiations" energy. How did that work out?
lurker
5mo ago
I will not add to this argument other than to say I have bookmarked this thread and will be looking back on it in around a month to see which side was obviously stupid in retrospect and update my opinion of the people on that side accordingly.
lurker
5mo ago
Luckily I'm not american, so I don't have to bother with considering whether I'm committing treason by disliking this stupid war.
lurker
6mo ago
The picture has already been taken down. Really, you should know better than to use reddit as a host for this sort of thing.
lurker
10mo ago
Well, it's like the problems of video games in recent years. They think theres a larger audience out there they can get but their current one is so toxic it's preventing them from getting it. Thus you have the choice of ditching your old users and hoping the new bigger userbase gets on board or slowly dying with your old users.
Bluesky is a profit driven company so of course they have to take the risk of more users and thus higher profits over guaranteed slow death.
lurker
10mo ago
I don't see how it launders in such a premise, especially if you know that all real world harms caused by witch hunts was caused by the hunters, not the witches.
lurker
10mo ago
I feel like there is a useful distinction to be made between witches and witch hunters. The most commonly ascribed issue with witches is one of moral or spiritual corruption. Witches don't want to destroy witch hunters, they want to convert them into witches. Witch hunters on the other hand are all about accusing people of being witches and burning them at the stake to prevent their corruption from spreading.
I think that blueskies problem is with too many witch hunters and not enough witches.
lurker
10mo ago
I assure you, porn was no less difficult to acquire in the ussr or iran than south korea.
lurker
10mo ago
Can you please state clearly what you're arguing for? Cause "Porn bans decrease the amount of sex people have, exacerbate the gender divide, increase sexual assault rates and don't even prevent people from accessing porn" is not a very compelling case in favor of porn bans.
lurker
10mo ago
This is just another instance of americans forgetting that other countries exist. There are places that ban porn. South korea is one such nation and as we can see south koreans are having lots of hot sex as the author of this article would predict. Gender relations are at an all time high too. While rates of sexual assault are at an all time low. With results like these I can't see why anyone would oppose a porn ban!
lurker
11mo ago
Oh boy I love a good debate about bible translations.
Even taking what you said as true, could you point to a place where luthers translation was actually meaningfully wrong? Preferably in the direction you claim he wanted to push.
lurker
11mo ago
Don’t say anything critical of Zelensky.
All those but are bullshit but I'll pick this one out to prove you wrong cause whenever am I gonna get a chance to talk about this again?
I think zelensky is a fucking moron prosecuting the war entirely wrong for political reasons. He dismissed his best commander because he was getting too popular and might defeat him in the next election. He replaced him with an unpopular commander that wouldn't threaten his political career, problem being the reason this new commander isn't a political threat is because he's incompetent. He keeps pointlessly throwing his best troops into meatgrinders in order to achieve a "win" which he believes ukraine desperately needs but he never explains what good any of these "wins" would do even if they ever materialized. Zelensky has put his own political career ahead of the life of his own country. I think ukraine would be much better off if zaluzhnyi was president rather than zelensky.
lurker
11mo ago
If you actually read anything hitlers ever said, you quickly realize that he lifted his language and vocabulary pretty much directly from that eras communist rhetoric. Going by this guys thesis, thus the nazi's should've slowly drifted towards communist policies and been continually losing elections to communists because they used a communist frame.
I make no attempt to hide my disdain for people who advocate for these kind of language games.
lurker
11mo ago
It wasn't when I posted that, I suppose either a bunch were deleted or updoot ratio changed.
lurker
11mo ago
Irans sinking ships docked at port. I don't think anyones questioning whether they'd shoot at blockade runners.
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