The anti-Israel crowd are basically the MTG and Boeberts of the Democratic party. Right on down to outlandish claims about crisis actors

That guy? He was horrible at AA. Did something to the water cooler and now everyone is falling off the wagon

I mean, it is shit posting

I think we finally figure out how to not poop for three days

Those young machine spirits need their rest

Yes. I’ll read the content, but I try to avoid interacting.

Mind you, db0 himself is a tankie, although he doesn’t seem to insist on imposing that on the users or communities on his instance.

EDIT: I stand corrected. Apologies to db0 for lumping him in with that crowd.

Gotcha. So all horses are purple?

I hope you’re wrong about both Israeli territorial ambitions and the unwillingness of Hamas to release hostages.

How are the Egyptian media covering the news?

In all honesty, there are a few outcomes that are potentially worse if he is dead: Hamas splintering into many smaller factions, or treating him as a silent leader and refusing to release hostages because “he hasn’t ordered it”.

Hopefully Hamas will confirm and whoever replaces him will agree to release the hostages.

Iran is pretty fucking transparent with their goal: to destroy the Zionist entity. The posters literally say “wiping Israel off the face of the Earth is just the beginning”. And no, they don’t mean “dismantle the state mechanism” like some users here claim. They very much mean it in the “death to the Jews” way.

Framing it as purely defensive is just lying

Sanctions have not been effective - AQAH has been sanctioned since 2007, and only the direct military threat on Iranian planes bringing cash seems to be having the desired impact.

The quiet part is here in the details - Iran is Hezbollah’s financier - confirming what everyone has known for decades. AQAH is unlicensed, yet they do business with AQAH because they know that someone (Iran) will guarantee AQAH’s debts. More importantly, it shows a path forward for Lebanon - to simply enforce their existing sovereignty and laws - punishing banks that do business with unlicensed banks.

Archive link: https://archive.is/ypqlw

The electoral college is good for one thing and one thing only: boosting confidence that election fraud in one place won’t impact the result of the election.

Winner takes all was always stupid and needs to be replaced with proportional allocation, preferably with a more direct ratio to the actual population of votes. Basically, everyone doing what Nebraska and Maine do.

If you only look at the US (which a US court should) - it’s really between Chrome and Safari Mobile, and it’s a pretty even split to be honest - a bit in the favor of safari for mobile traffic, which is telling.

But the bigger issue is that they have undue influence in technical decisions to the detriment of consumers because they have a vertically integrated business.

Plausible yes. Painting it as if it were doctrine is not.

DU is toxic and radioactive, but the radioactivity is stopped by a literal sheet of paper. So the article is just panic inducing propaganda intended for people who want yet another reason to hate on Israel

EU source regarding the radioactivity of DU munitions: https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_layman/depleted-uranium/en/index.htm

From what I understood, the radar systems were incompatible and that’s why despite it being on the table it wasn’t sold to the Ukrainians. That and the requirement to gather accurate surveys of the areas to be protected.

Small strikes against any IRGC personnel stationed outside Iran - they’re fair game and on the table. We’re already seeing this with the strikes on Damascus and throughout Lebanon.

Also - based on the saber rattling and talking heads, it sounds like there are likely to be three potential targets: the dams, which would cause massive domestic economic damage to Iran; the oil facilities, which would cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime; finally, known nuclear sites, which are in line with Israeli rhetoric about preventing Iranian nuclear ambitions.

I think cooler heads will prevail and the dams won’t be targeted, and without a regional coalition committed to a ground invasion with a goal of regime change, attacking the nuclear facilities won’t have the strategic impact that’s desired. Which leaves the oil refineries - there’s a natural bottleneck for Iranian oil production/export so there’s a short list of physical areas that need to be attacked for it to be effective.

Thinking on it further, IRGC headquarters should also be on the table. I don’t think it’s likely, but if it succeeds (and it’s likely to succeed - especially with direct US support) then it’s a huge win. But even if it does succeed I don’t see it leading to real regime change in Iran, so without that strategic impact it’s far less likely.

Only on signup

Anything using Blind as a “verified industry source” is going to be skewed to the type of person who uses Blind. Beyond that, it’s low sample size, and there are suspiciously round fractions for some of the larger companies. Worse, because Blind is blind - this doesn’t represent current employees, but merely people who worked at some point in the past at those companies.

Not saying it’s not good - just saying not to get overly excited over a badly done survey

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