Piotr Wilkin

Pete Hegseth after getting up in the morning and realizing Iran still hasn't capitulated: "Dear Quora..."

I mean, it would be a return to the times those people want to return to, so I'm not that sure...

Again? FFS...

Okay, I think one thing has to be said explicitly, because I feel like a lot of people are missing it.

Pure, sadistic, unfettered aggression is not "manly". It's not "masculine". It's not "strong".

It's thuggish, weak and immoral, straight out evil.

They might bank - probably quite correctly - on Democrats not being as willing to start yet another war on an act of whim.

So, instead, they might play the long game - forcing Trump to deploy troops in the Strait, maybe scoring some kills or hitting a tanker, making the costs greater. Aiming at influencing the midterms by making Americans' lives actually miserable.

The funny thing now is, the side to play for regime change might be... Iran.

Iran knows that if Trump now chickens out, moves all troops away and they reopen the Homuz Strait, the US economy will quickly recover. But that also means they risk a repeat of the situation.

1. The US hatred in Iran is structural, not personal / incidental like in Venezuela. You literally *cannot* have a pro-US government in Iran without changing the core structure of the regime.

2. The "junior partner" aka Israel is *clearly* not interested in such a solution.

So, there has been talk that Trump wants regime change in Iran.

The thing is, he doesn't. He was delusional enough to believe he could use the strikes to force a second Venezuela - a leader change *without* a regime change. But this had no chance for at least two reasons:

ikr? Polish too.

Spolier: the main teachings of Catholicism aren't:
* men and women have their fixed gender roles with men being more important
* homosexuality is evil
* abortion is the only sin in the world worth chastizing people over

"People who spent their entire life pretending to be Catholic while rejecting the core tenets of Catholic teaching protest a document that reminds about the core tenets of Catholic teaching". That's the proper title.

I mean, people will treat what is happening now exactly like we're treating the Caligula story.

Yup.

Yeah, that's going to go great.

Finally no Rao, Walker panels.

Fair enough, we're probably further than the onset stage at this point.

Yeah, it's called "onset of dementia".

Yup. It's one of those cases where in 500 years (if humankind is still alive by then), historians will quarrel about this and claim "there must be critical pieces of information missing, it's not possible that it simply happened that way, people wouldn't be that stupid".

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

"Sorry, all our FBI agents have been busy covering up investigations or assisting Kash Patel on his sports trips."

Yeah, I'm expecting him to either die or be 25d this year honestly. The degradation is quite rapid and striking, I don't see how they manage it for another year let alone 3.

I mean, it'd be hilarious if the DoJ got itself into contempt proceedings for telling its employees who are probably drowned in cases resulting from its own lawlessness to use AI tools. Just saying.

Next stop: she dumps him for using her as an in-article self-aggrandizing prop.

Przecież to biedny niewinny słodziaczek, popatrz na niego.

Exactly this. He wants to TACO like with all previous cases, but Netanyahu designed this one so there *would be* no TACO option on the table.

I see my favorite market index seems to be making a comeback:

"Meanwhile, we do war crimes and masturbate to videos of SOME GOOD OLD ULTRAVIOLENCE"

No, "standing order" and "eternal order" are by no means the same. But I see you're not interested in the distinction, so I'll see myself out.

Now, there might be *branches* of conservatism that believe in *eternal* order, but those are very, very extreme ones. Most conservatists believe in some degree of institutional change - just don't see change as something that is inherently beneficial.