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I realize this might be a pill too bitter for many to swallow, but do take some time to think about how if imperial powers can exaggerate real death tolls to comical levels today (e.g. "Iran killed 40k ppl in two days"), what else they might have exaggerated during the Cold War.

ngl would be pretty cool if the IRGC could drone Altman, Karp and Thiel

There are Bucha type massacres non-stop in Lebanon and Palestine, and these white supremacist ghouls have nothing to say about them

Tankers carrying diesel to Europe have changed course. Several tankers carrying diesel from the US to Europe have changed course mid-Atlantic. The Aliai, Minerva Vaso and Grand Ace6 all loaded in the US and were initially bound for Europe, with destinations including

For the past few weeks, Trump has been "jawboning" the markets by flaunting the idea of an imminent settlement. He was doing so even 24 hrs ago, but to greatly diminishing effect. This is giving a new color, playing to Trump's image as an oafish buffoon, to the same juke

> the problem with trump is that he is not sending enough of our paychecks to israel americans, free your brain from technocratic solutions, you are not reforming your way out of being the Great Satan

Pete Hegseth is so spectacularly stupid that he used his insider knowledge of a strike on Iran to attempt a multimillion-dollar trade that LOST money

americans on their undertale translation drama sideplot making it clear the entire country is a write-off just the nuke the whole place, there's nothing worth preserving in there

Lmao the reason this leaked was because he wanted to buy IDEF, a totally illiquid BlackRock fund that trades ~$100k a day, instead of ITA which trades hundred of millions, so he had his brokers call up the issuer and ask for a direct creation under his name

they're not going to restrict driving. it's not possible. They're going to force you to pay 8 dollars a gallon to drive 30 miles back and forth to work each day and if you can't tough shit.

Journalists visited the Strait of Hormuz by boat during wartime, witnessing firsthand how Iran controls and manages one of the world’s most strategic waterways.

Frankly 90% of american communists have been deradicalized merely by saying they might be given the basics of social democracy and then never doing it

I really love how Ted Postol has this whole plan about how he'd nuke Tel Aviv

It’s also not 10k hostages it is at least four times that number. My own stepbrother was abducted with no information on his whereabouts nor if he was alive or dead. He was tossed by the Gazan border 1.5 year ago after they finished breaking his legs and gave him two strokes

trump has been continuously fucking with the markets, it's only fair iran gets to do the same

I wish people understood everything in the US debate about Iran is a kind of childish propaganda. There is no Supreme Leader in Iran (title borrowed from North Korea for purposes of ridicule), Iran is certainly not ruled by “mullahs”, etc

The most interesting pt in the law authorizing Iranian control of Hormuz is that it includes Oman as a member of the toll regime. An attempt to institutionally align Oman w the IRI?

guy who thinks his $2 million salary (for "streaming") has nothing to do with the 29 US military bases in Africa

Miad Salehi, a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology, which was bombed by Israel, says: "We built the Zafar 2 satellite at this university two months ago and already launched it. [Israel] is terrified and cannot stand that we have access to this technology."

Not an economist but I did graduate first in my class from UT-Austin with a BA in econ and a strong suspicion that I had spent the last three years studying an ideological pseudoscience that had zero predictive power and was based on assumptions so untenable it was almost funny