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turns out you can gain a following and some viral fame simply by telling westerners that other people exist and view the world differently.

That Chinese 'professor' who does predictive history is fascinating. I see many people think that he's super intelligent and almost a sage figure due to his predictive wisdom, but the truth is more that he's just telling people about current events through the Chinese POV and we're all lapping it up

this is what happens when you watch movies like Trump (fast forwarding through dialogue so you can just watch fight scenes)

Tech guys who only read self help books struggling to understand Shii'ism and glorious martyrdom

I’m not a diplomat but I think exchanging the most annoying people you know for the resumption of treats feels like a no brainer

ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS: ANY ARAB OR EUROPEAN COUNTRY THAT EXPELS THE AMBASSADORS OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES FROM ITS TERRITORY WILL, STARTING TOMORROW, HAVE FULL AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM TO PASS THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

A side issue in the bigger scheme of things but can you imagine how Reza Pahlavi feels right now. Possibly one of the biggest marks in recent history

NEW: I got my hands on a Palantir-Department of Defence contract that outlines how the Trump-aligned tech company has embedded staff in Defence, leaves a carve-out for training on Australian data, and has a number of quite generous contract conditions.

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Netanyahu knew he had the trifecta of a dumbass narcissist US President (Trump), a full-blown genocidal Islamophobe SoD (Hegseth) and a small man neocon SoS (Rubio), ran the plate on them and convinced them to do the thing every President since Reagan has been marginally smart enough to pass on.

He’s just saying fucking whatever to try and calm the markets and allow him to point to any single fleck of shit that flew out of his mouth later, no matter what happens, and say, “See, just like I said.”

We're running out of sky If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia

We're running out of sky.

If Saudi or Azerbaijan airspace shuts, Europe will be cut off from Asia.

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possibly, but also i wonder how easy it will be to do cosy lifestyle content in a resource-draining enviroment. I suppose its more about how convincing influencers can be that their viewers can live outside of history

apologies for only thinking about this after the episode came out, but it sounds like Brewdog might need its own BrewDodge

There was a period of time where you could get a bunch of likes, shares etc. by posting a generic platitude along the lines of "Stop killing each other you cunts" but a combination of global events and the abundance of reactive content has made it valueless

Very very good points in this. I've sometimes wondered if this moment will mark the end of the Influencer, both economically but also because as the degradation of the world intensifies, nobody really knows what to say anymore.

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

Look it’s always amusing for British people in particular to scream about Muslims throwing them off rooftops because at best you’re going to maybe get a broken ankle thanks to nimbys and planning permission making it near impossible to build anything above two floors

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

They are mad that not enough people are motivated by hatred toward Muslims so they choose to minimise or outright ignore them until they can’t, by which point they try to argue that said people shouldn’t be allowed to vote

It’s fairly clear that they see this as a war against Islam and Muslims (hence the Gorton and Denton comment). Right wing politics in the UK is almost entirely driven by anti Muslim hatred and it’s clear their support of this war comes from that

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Working theory is that Pahlavi and the monarchists will not take Iran back or establish themselves because by and large, they are people who have spent too long posting online and now have no idea what to do

the funniest defense of this insane war comes from Tim Pool, noted alpha male, who has some questions about the long-term impacts, but supports the "masculinity" of it all.

I shit you not

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

We are back to “Israel” says in the news cycle

I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.

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There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.