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Iconochasm
2. Bootstrap the rest of the fucking omnipotence.
8hr ago
Consider the possibility that your personal range of options doesn't perfectly generalize to the entire population.
TequilaMockingbird
Brown-skinned Fascist MAGA boot-licker
8hr ago
Because, as it is below, the controversy is the point.
Mantergeistmann
8hr ago
To this end it has been the official position of the Isreali government for decades now that a nuclear armed Iran poses an existential threat
I'm curious: is there any other set of countries where this is considered the case? I honestly can't think of another that would have a legitimate concern that some other specific country getting the Bomb would be that big of a concern.
ABigGuy4U
8hr ago
Israel’s existing nuclear arsenal are incapable of destroying them.
Israel has probably had hydrogen bombs since the late 1970s.
2rafa
8hr ago
It means that Iran will launch actual strikes on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem targeting civilian infrastructure or more important military sites depending on what the Israelis just hit (this is far from a surprise attack so one presumes there was a degree of telegraphing in advance, the US moved troops, the Iranians had several days to move things around).
The overall situation remains the same: neither Israel nor Iran are capable of invading each other and therefore of fighting an actual war.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
8hr ago
Quadrupling those wages might cost the typical family $300 in a year.
These people really want a blue wave next year.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8hr ago
I'm fairly sure there were some dissolute losers living large on their wives wealth, even if that wasn't the usual case.
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
8hr ago
At the same time, there surely exists some threshold where a direct attack on another country’s capital city goes from “potentially just symbolic” to “definitely not symbolic”.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
8hr ago
I wanted to work as a fruitpicker but I saw all the Mexicans yapping in their mumbo-jumbo language and so I became a computer programmer instead. What a country.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8hr ago
In an ideal world we'd fly people in from the Nigeria, India, etc and fly them back with a fat stack of cash from US wages, but the US won't do that.
Why is that better than the traditional solution of using Mexicans?
Primaprimaprima
...something all admit only "TRUMP", and the Trump Administration, can do.
8hr ago
Inb4 “low effort post ban”
One of the reasons this rule exists, especially for breaking news stories, is precisely because the story may be evolving rapidly and we don’t have all the facts yet. Limited/incomplete information is not conducive to producing that sort of high quality analysis that we want to cultivate here. Also the story might just turn out to be a total nothingburger that doesn’t even warrant a top level post. Kinda like the last Israeli missile attack on Iran.
AlexanderTurok
Alt-MSNBC
8hr ago
Left: we need to move blacks up the ladder so more of them work as doctors, lawyers, politicians, and businessmen.
Right: we need to move whites down the ladder so more of them work day labor in the sun.
OracleOutlook
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
9hr ago
down on the farm, labor costs are typically less than 20% or for specialty crops close to 40% of total operating costs, and the price from the farm is about one-third the price on the shelf...
Quadrupling those wages might cost the typical family $300 in a year.
From Oren Cass' "Jobs Americans Would Do" https://americancompass.org/jobs-americans-would-do/
2rafa
9hr ago
Symbolic at best. Most Iranian nuclear facilities are buried deep underground, conventional weapons and likely even Israel’s existing nuclear arsenal are incapable of destroying them.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
No, that was a twitter commie. Decker is an ancap who throws out spicy takes.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Also while her rates are high, isn't her fan club by and large very high income? They could afford her if they wanted.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Prostitution as a spot(often quite literally, in the sense of a geographically contained thing. Ancient law codes were big into defining where the red light district could be) in society probably isn't horrible; it's the spreading out from this little niche that tends to be the problem.
remzem
9hr ago
Another insult to Trump given he asked for one more weekend of talks. I suppose they own enough of the other politicians and news orgs they don't mind if he isn't 100% on board.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
It's pretty rare that male golddiggers were kept men, though. Usually dashing young military officers marrying much older widows and the like.
Some background for those just tuning in.
In short, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the head of state for the Islamic Repubic of Iran has stated on multiple occasions his desire to see "the Jews driven into the sea" and "eradicated". To this end it has been the official position of the Isreali government for decades now that a nuclear armed Iran poses an existential threat, and that they will take any and all action neccesary to prevent this. Most of the negotiations between the US, Iran, and other Arab countries over the last 15 years (Obama's vaunted "Nuclear Deal" and Trump's "Abraham Accords" to name two examples) have been oriented towards heading off this eventuality. However a recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency suggests that Iran has been concealing thier true capabilities and that they may be mere weeks from having a functional bomb if they do have one already and that furthermore they are expanding thier uranium enrichment facilities.
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
9hr ago
I suppose that’s not quite the same, as there isn’t the presumption of agreement.
That's the real difference for me too. There's less of this "voting against your interest" messaging on the right. It seems that if you disagree with the left, in their eyes, you're either stupid or evil.
ChestertonsMeme
blocking the federal fist
9hr ago
AP is reporting on it now: Israel attacks Iran’s capital with explosions booming across Tehran
Closedshop
話說天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分
9hr ago
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But yeah you completely articulated some of my feelings on this subject. Great writeups.
hydroacetylene
9hr ago
Mildly coercive labor practices+pay well above the going rate for unskilled labor has historically failed at staffing American farms with native workers. You could fly in a different set of third worlders, hold their pay in arrears until they get on the plane to go home- but you can't replace the need for migrants from shithole countries.
Huh. Now I need to track that other guy down and see if they had a similar pattern of flags or something.
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