Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
You are 100% correct and it’s shocking that even this current headline is a massive improvement. It admits that it was israel and says what happened and who died: “Lebanese officials claim 3 dead in strike” is the kind of BS i’m used to seeing.
You’re talking aout the ruling class, basically. Around their world their class interests generally align, so they act as one.
Sometimes the ruling class get into intra-class conflict - factions form or some members try to steal each other’s stolen wealth, but they’ll usually stop when it begins to threaten the interests of their class as a whole. See: every single war. Maybe WW1 they didn’t stop in time.
But then we’d still be talking about the fact that he rapes children and none of his cabal of fellow rapists have seen justice.
What was it the supreme court said about pornography - i know it when i see it? It’s one of those things that defy hard and fast rules, but are still identifiable.
Paying to be taken up everest requires a lot of cash and free time, it speaks to a level of vanity and it has that buying my name onto an accomplishment vibe.
Poisoning the rich is a victimless crime.
Iran could win the hearts and minds of americans by feeding bezos shahed for breakfast.
A lot of the bigfoot people i’ve met are into astral/dimensional/dream bigfoot - bigfoots that don’t rely on a physical presence to be real.
I personally find marvel movies boring, and a misuse of wealth, but marvel films aren’t boring in the same way that cars going around in a circle is boring, and they’re not gruesome in the way that eagerly waiting to see real people injured is gruesome.
See i was gonna say good because all motorsports are boring and gruesome displays of misused wealth.
considering this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader
As a sport hating atheist it’s very weird to agree with the sports minister of a theocracy.
But you gotta admit, that’s a completely accurate assessment and a reasonable reaction.
I think the headline is designed to be misleading - the dramatic tone implies a worse situation than the actual words describe.
It’s not how headlines are written now, but it would be more honest to say: Dubai to rely less on fresh food Perishable food in limited supply Fresh fruit and vegetables affected by war in iran
The UAE is not about to starve. It maintains strategic grain reserves and holds significant stocks of frozen and packaged foods, meaning the country is not facing a broader food shortage.
I am become derp, destroyer of worlds.
Yeah i agree - states are institutions dedicated to violence. Whether or not they did some arcane legal rituals before murdering iranians and americans is hardly the point.
But i do think it matters to show that the state is lying when it claims to use violence legitimately. It doesn’t even adher to its own made up rules.
And it matters that their violence is so unpopular that they can’t even let a body as unrepresentative as the US congress get a say.
The Greens senator David Shoebridge called the prime minister’s claim that no Australian personnel were involved in offensive action “extraordinary” and said it was inevitable that Australian personnel would be involved in US action.
“This makes Australia obviously, clearly, unambiguously, part of an illegal war, part of a war that is breaking down the norms of international law and making the world a less safe place,” he said.
“It is as sure as day follows night that Australians throughout the US military are actively involved, part of the United States and Israel’s illegal war in Iran.” … According to the Royal Australian Navy, one in 10 crew members onboard US Navy attack submarines is Australian.
1 in 10 is a lot!
How much of our air defensive stockpile do you think our russia backed regime can expend protecting the wealth of the royal house of saud?
No good outcome is possible from two brutal murdeous authoritarian regimes attacking a third.
There was a solid, enforcable, internationally recognized deal that all credible experts agree was working and keeping iran’s nuclear industry civilian. Whatever happened to that?
several incidents of this kind have been reported, including two in 2022. In one case, a speedboat coming from the United States fired on Cuban Border Guard forces near Villa Clara, injuring a Cuban officer.
The other incident took place in Bahía Honda, in western Cuba, when a vessel also coming from the United States collided with an Interior Ministry patrol boat, causing the U.S. craft to sink and killing several of its occupants.
Authorities on the island frequently report finding abandoned or seized speedboats along the northern coast (Ciego de Ávila, Villa Clara, Havana), commonly used to pick up potential migrants. They describe these operations as “territorial violations and human trafficking.”
Anyone else think the most likely scenario was a cia hothead pumped up after a raid and driving like an idiot?