Crucible

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

American lefties and having dogshit foreign policy opinions, name a more iconic duo

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This feels a little strange to do in any case, but protecting the entrances to a facility that they claim is evacuated and that the US is claiming they will soon obliterate is weird; why would you need to re-enter it if there's nothing left?

The US was never going to be able to destroy the whole facility, and there was no way literally everything was evacuated so there was always going to be a need to come back at least for salvage.

The allowed strike aspect/off-ramp for Trump reads true to me. But I don't think it was done in the official way that the missile attacks after Solemani's assassination, but in the tit-for-tat way they've been talking about hitting Israel.

Trump knows that war is unpopular but dropping big bombs is popular. Ansarallah's truce with him shows that he's willing to leave the zionists in the lurch if it means the price of commodities at home returns to normal. IMO getting Trump to disengage and claim a win now means the Iranians live to hopefully blast the IDF back into the stone age before a regional peace treaty is pushed by the US and Russia

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Massie-Khanna and Kaine are going for the same thing- reaffirming that the president needs congressional approval to go to war. This is part of the constitution and has been completely ignored since the Patriot Act, and mostly ignored from the Vietnam war onward before that. The wording to me is accepting that the president can act unilaterally militarily anywhere they want except for Iran- and whichever specific countries end up being named in their own bills later- instead of trying to fight the authorities of the Patriot Act.

Sander's bill is to restrict the use of federal funds to strike Iran unless authorized by the senate. IDK how it would work or how it would be enforced since Trump uses federal funds illegally for lots of stuff already.

They're both something, but not much.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

the Brits may have sent it straight into the path of a known submarine to get it sunk and trigger the US entering the war. You can adjust their/US involvement to the level of conspiracy you want

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

American Prestige does good weekly rundowns of the world news. both the RWN guys have been on the conversation format episodes so they're a similar vein but academia brained instead of twitter brained.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 23 points 2 weeks ago

Harris would've had access to the same intel for the entire Biden administration as Gabbard did when she said Iran hasn't pursued a nuke since 2002. Warmongering with Iran specifically, and murdering Muslims generally, is the shared value of all American politics. Obama solidified it as bipartisan.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Adorable. Now it has a story about a nice human to tell all its friends

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

Western culture permeates all, and tech guys are nerds worldwide

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

God I would love it if he tweeted too soon and the attacks haven't happened yet

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 58 points 3 weeks ago

Now I guess we find out how good these bombs are at bunker busting, and how good Iranian reinforced concrete is

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of otherwise normal people who seem conspiracy brained are just looking for an explanation for why the world is so fucked up and have been lied to by everyone who they are supposed to trust to teach them. Just being a person that they know is actually going to be honest with them about what's happening in the world may be all you need to be.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's got normal feathers instead of just the baby fuzzy ones so I think it can fly, it's just learning still. Sweet little bird

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