Absolutely they do. A lot of cis people are only exposed to us through porn, so they view us through that lens.

… wait, was doublethink just a misunderstanding of the unity of opposites?

In dialectical materialism, war is defined by peace and peace is defined by war. Each contains its opposite. That’s not to say they’re the same thing, they’re contradictions, but you can’t have war without peace anymore than you could have night without day.

I favor the theory that it was now or never.

They’ve overused sanctions and have kickstarted dedollarization. For the same reason they kidnapped Maduro, they only had few years before it reached an irreversible tipping point. They had to capture Iran’s oil and monopolize it to keep the petrodollar alive.

And.

Iran was becoming a harder and harder target to attack militarily, and it had just defeated their attempt at color revolution by demonstrating it could defeat their Starlink operation on the ground. The longer they waited, the more rockets and missiles Iran would have to retaliate against US assets. The post-color revolutionary period was actually the weakest Iran would ever be ever again.

And.

China is a rising juggernaut, and Iran plays a role in that rise. They’ve signed on to join the Belt and Road initiative, China was key to restoring relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Iran is a key oil supplier for China, Iran is a member of BRICS, and China has also been investing heavily in Iran’s infrastructure. It wouldn’t be long before the sanctions didn’t even matter anymore because Iran will be able to sell and buy everything it needs without the West.

And.

Israel is no longer a viable settler project. The promise of Israel was that it would be a walled garden in the wilderness, an imperial core lifestyle with superior fire power and a perfect missile defense system and an omniscient surveillance system. Hamas blew that myth up during the Al Aqsa flood, now Israel isn’t getting new settlers anymore and many settlers are trying to leave. It’s why they’ve had to ban Israelis from flying out of the country. If the Axis of Resistance isn’t destroyed, Israel is finished.

And I’m sure there’s more. Basically, if Iran doesn’t fall within the next few months, the US empire will begin an irreversible decline.

But. It’s floating.

I thought the jar rolled on the ground or something and they were saying that proves there’s gravity on the studio set, because they’re just in front of a greenscreen on Earth. If it’s floating, though, then… what? The studio intentionally put it in the shot?

Okay. But. They could have done that in space! Yeah, maybe the Nutella is a plant for advertising, but that doesn’t prove it’s all fake! That just implies there’s some kind of graft going on and they wanted this branded product to be shown in space.

Do they think you can only eat alien food in space? What’s even their claim?

This is just alienation.

You think they’ll just smile and nod when Target steals their money?

I think Target stores will have to start hiring armed security.

We need a second Reconstruction.

But we could just invest in science without going to the Moon. The Moon is utterly superfluous to the investment.

And an organized movement would push her, in part, by condemning concessions to Zionism. I see no reason to play devil’s advocate for her.

It’s in her power to organize by calling for things like an embargo. She can’t actually make an embargo happen alone, she’d need an organized movement behind her to make it happen, but as an elected she’s in a key position to organize such a movement.

Zohran is actually a good example: he lead the movement that elected him. He didn’t do it alone, but he plays a key role as their elected. If she wasn’t a useless careerist and was actually interested in making things happen, she could do the same thing.

The US uses forced labor.

It’s not really hopeful. They’re gonna learn the hard way.

They’ll learn when future consequences become current consequences.

Investors don’t want that. They want AI to use more energy, because in their minds that proves that it’s good.

Yeah dude, the country brutalized by economic sanctions with its currency in free-fall can afford better PR than the richest country on Earth. 🤡

It’s so performative. Am I supposed to believe I wasn’t already on a list? Come on.

More like “lung” than “long”

Beautiful 🥲

Is this an emoji?

Cuz it should be.

“It won’t taste any better or worse than the current vegan cheese slices on the market

I’ll stick to nooch then, thanks.