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It's the 21st century. Nowadays if men do this and it's unwelcome it's called harassment and dealt with harshly.

He has total control over access to a competing oilfield.

When 'the whole written history' apparently doesn't include the early modern period.

Sadly, European and Asian powers blowing each other up in the Strait of Hormuz is not a new thing, nor a thing likely to end any time soon.

#skystorians

War with Iran was the forge that created the West, the root of all accumulated learning.

Occasionally the West generates megalomaniac leaders who try to try to take their place among the gods and conquer the place.

It's because the party's leaders are still playing the political game that Reagan created and Clinton successfully countered. They are too old and conservative to change with the political moment, thus they are being exploited in the new reality.

Right. Shouldn't zero cases be expected? Worse than implies that the expectation wasn't zero.

Well if you're going to call me antisemitic for a misspelling you deserve to be scolded for misspelling scolding in the LLM era.

I didn't purposely misspell it, sorry.

Though the fact that it's misspelled means it isn't an AI response. Tactful misspelling and mis punctuation is a way to signal real human writing nowadays. Scolding people about spelling really doesn't make sense in the LLM era.

More like the 30 years war where the world war was a cultural war driven by ideology.

The defenestration of Tehran is underway.

Shumer unfortunately makes the narratives easy. The most powerful Democrat is a jewish Israeli lobbyist and party has mounted virtually no resistance to the war. Does Shumer want the war too? Sure seems like it.

Serious he cheated on her first, they opened the marriage, she'll show him energy with Kristi. Absolute unquenchable rage.

Seems like the gen Z religious revival narrative the press has been running with for the past year is little more than wishcasting.

EO that fully bans competitive women's sports incoming.

Demolition Man. When I was a kid it was a sci fi stupid action movie. Nowadays it's replaced Nostradamus as the great oracle of the future.

"This fascist crap makes me want to puke" really, really hits different.

I dont like pre-Beethoven classical in general but truly despise mechanical sounding (almost as if created by AI) Bach.

Alexander conquered it, but he wiped out the Achaemeniad Persian army before reaching the Iranian plateau and thus faced little resistance on the final approach to Persepolis.

It's starting to become clear that all the smoke in the press on this topic is coming from the White House; this is their way of asking her to self-fire.

The historical list of those that have successfully invaded the civilization occupying the Iranian plateau vs those that tried and failed is incredibly lopsided.

The Elamites are in the bible. Were an unconquerable military power back then too.

That also is historically unconquerable, going back to ancient Mesopotamia.

Nvm than Iran is some of the most defensible land on earth to a ground invasion.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that Iranians would accept being led by someone Trump picked, thus accepting vassalage to the US.

Most Targets have flock cameras (ice's eyes) in the parking lot. That too is a stance.

That only makes sense if there is a real political connection between cities and their suburbs. Atlanta suburbs hate the city proper and refuse any infrastructure common cause. Atlanta city taxpayers in no way subsidize its sprawl, the leading edge of which is a few counties out from the core.

This just doesn't square at all with gigantic suburb cities like Atlanta, Houston, and Phoenix.

A fourth is also possible: Iran collapses completely, loses the ability to support its populations basic needs, and massive waves of migrants push outwards across the region overwhelming neighboring govts.

Tehran was almost uninhabitable due to drought before the war.

They actively do the opposite of what the experts advise on most things.

The words he said should be absolutely disqualifying for a leadership position. He is an agent of a foreign power.

Orwells 1984, which most of us read in school, provides meaningful scaffolding for many to try to understand the moment, much stronger than whatever the heads on msnbc are talking about.

Also I think much of left wing world view does not come from the news, especially video based talking head news.

The space of books (like the Peoples History and 1619 project) is far more influential on the left than right. The left doesn't share the rights disdain of expertise.