I do rather hate that so many news orgs seem to be using polymarket et al as a drop-in replacement for actual polling, because polymarket is loosely affiliated, if at all, with reality. It’s a fucking betting platform. There’s nothing scientific or statistical about it that aligns with demographic realities.
God I hope so
More scandalous than fucking a 13-year old?
More scandalous than threatening to start a nuclear war because you’re having a tantrum?
Tell me more, couchfucker.
The speed and prevalence with which China is stepping into a global leadership role while the US imbecilically cedes it is both distressing and extremely predictable. What frustrates me is how completely the EU seems to be almost entirely dropping the ball in that regard.
The problem is that I don’t exactly trust him to not have a tantrum that leads to him deciding to throw around the canned sunshine at some point. But I suppose that is an independent variable, when it comes down to it.
There are multiple accounts and articles indicating that orangeboi has wanted to throw some nukes around since the beginning of his first stint. And now all the adults and career professionals in places where they could stop him have been replaced with sycophants. So idk, man, feels like a lot more of a roll of the dice than it should be.
Also, why do people keep insisting that orangeboi is governed by any semblance of a rational framework? He’s not. He’s demonstrably not. Stop sanewashing this shit.
Low key concerned he’s gonna try to use nukes tonight
I’m not glorifying or supporting nihilistic slogans like that. I’m saying that there’s a reason they became popular, and it’s the same reason they have tended to grow in popularity.
As in: if Israel had maintained a strong defense force, acknowledged and made attempts to rectify mistakes from their past, and simultaneously tried their best to get along with and form economic and cultural ties with the surrounding countries and cultures instead of resorting to military adventurism every time they felt a bit squeamish, perhaps they wouldn’t be in the extremely fucky and deeply, darkly ironic position they’re in today.
So Israel entrenching their apartheid state for decades instead of working towards a more collaborative and egalitarian future with their neighboring countries and cultures was completely irrelevant to Israel attacking Iran? Bullshit.
You’re cherry-picking one-off justifications in a context that has history going back for literal millennia.
Dude that’s not even the proximate case
I am honestly really enjoying the fact that Iran is allowing a bunch of non-hostile countries through and the orange regime is still ranting about “opening the strait” when it’s absolutely open to people who aren’t bombing Iran, or openly supporting the bombing. It’s a masterclass in graphically demonstrating that military power is not the be-all, end-all, and that the orange regime is meaningfully impotent in a bunch of geopolitically important ways.
Got an article link for that?
The only confirmed stores I’ve seen of a shoot down today were of an F-15E - Iran tried to pass it off as an F-35, but the control surfaces in the wreckage they published pictures of were very obviously from an F-15. Was there another one?
Well, that, and, you know… exerting serious and concerted effort to shift away from fossil fuels in applications that have viable non-petroleum alternatives
Honestly, as a unitedstatesian, this is a great approach.
Looking at the map, a complete aerial blockage of the UK-Iran theater route could be accomplished if Poland gets on board, along with either Germany (not likely imo), or both Czechia and Italy. That would force any aerial logistics to route around the strait of Gibraltar and through the Mediterranean - effectively removing the UK and Germany as effective logistical hubs for the Iran war.
Say what you will about carotid artery Charlie - but at the end, he leaned left
Well, that, and orangeboi probably wanted to knock over something big. And I’m very serious when I suggest that as a possible motive. Dude’s got the mentality of a kindergarten bully.
You do get that the vast majority of Europe is trying to lean away from their respective imperialist pasts, right?