"Huh, you just discovered what it takes to become a legend... Grab your iron - let's mobilize. "
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"Huh, you just discovered what it takes to become a legend... Grab your iron - let's mobilize. "
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
The institutional disjunction going in the Iranian state may mean that Khamenei Jr. amounts to less than people think in the end, and in any event that broader shift in dynamics will last far longer than the current phase of the conflict
Pretty sure Clarkson is using Carlstrom as an example of a more comprehensive structural examination vs the pundit fixation on whether his hardliner status/personal feelings will affect negotiations with the US.
“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.
Hell, this current war has already thrown the global planting season into chaos.
They're already perfectly content to test the waters with the mass fuel shortages in Cuba, which severely screws with Cuban agriculture and the already teetering food situation in Cuba. I'm not sure there's a limit unless someone externally imposes one.
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Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
Fair considering how early we are into it, but it just seems really of the blue given how much the Saudis invested in a detente with Iran post-2019 and given their own security concerns about Hormuz that really wouldn't be helped by an unstable Iran
If you're going to vaguepost, you can take that to X. I doubt the actual read of the situation from the Saudis is going to actually change even with the new OoB, since the 2019 strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure already revealed you just need the barest amount of force to absolutely wreck it.
The only wrinkle here would be the KbS meeting in January, but the lack of an actual day could also put it into the mobilization phase if it's towards the end of the month.
It also really doesn't mesh with the earlier reporting about the Gulf lobbying against a January strike during the protests
Even the WP report notes that the calls from MbS only started after the concentration of air and navy assets into the region was well underway at the start of the month. It could just as easily feed Gregg Carlstrom's guess that KSA was trying to shape an operation they thought was inevitable
Unfortunately, what Rubio is painting in Congress makes this look like a harebrained Israeli plot that Trump just latched onto seemingly without understanding what it was, judging about his complaints about candidates for leadership being killed.
A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.
Theres something deeply toxic certian people like to do in that they take a private citizen and target them until they count as public figures so they can get away with making *that person* the story instead of whats being done to them. Its very gamergate.
a 6 pack of Berry Weiss beer from Leinenkugel's
this the only berry weiss i support
Gooners coming up with their own version of White Genocide will never not be hilarious
Still funny that the PoP setting creator has now moved to AI Slop on facebook
Iirc he did come from compsci and started the polling hobby on the side
Spending 40 minutes banging out swords and quenching them to achieve a fraction of the existential ennui of watching a Bèla Tarr film is the state of the art in gaming
Tbf it's not that unknown, it's quoted at length in Secret Honor, which itself was drawing on analysis of Nixon post-pardon like the Abrahamsen book.
I feel like the problem there is some grognard deliberately making the despot so incapable that you end up with a Taishō situation where the ruler becomes unable to really exercise their power on their own initiative and instead become a vehicle for others to push their own projects
Tbf he allegedly killed the mistress in a paranoid fit beforehand
Average Bsky reaction to ppl under 45yo and doesn't live on the East Coast
Side note: but Warlockracy's description of Wasteland as a honorary Todd Howard game was honestly the succinct way I'd describe Wasteland vis-à-vis the West Coast trilogy
youtu.be/fm8SmaF70-c?...
It does contrast with Westside being a much more self-sufficient community next to Freeside that uses scrapped vehicles for barricades, but that part of Outer Vegas is pretty apparently a victim of the game's scope being cut and not getting the focus it needs (e.g youtu.be/6x8e8hyADBk)
As long as millennials nostalgize 2009-2014