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Yeah so I’m not American. You’ve spent too much time on the internet, it’s made you hate everyone that doesn’t look like you. Maybe take a break from it? Hatred doesn’t achieve anything except destruction of yourself. Choose life over hatred.

There already has been a mass shooting in Texas done by someone with an “Iranian themed” shirt on.

And someone shot up an Iranian owned gym in Toronto, the owner of which was an activist against the Ayatollah. No one was there, no injuries. That guy isn’t cowering in fear of the Ayatollah, so why are you?

Iran has tried to assassinate Trump.

What should some other country should try to avenge the Ayatollah on his behalf? Guy was a piece of shit, why would anyone do that?

Good faith negotiations simply weren’t going to happen after Trump cancelled the deal that was in place an assassinated Iran’s top general in his first term. This war was pretty much inevitable at that point.

Maybe if Harris were President and Trump were in jail trust could’ve been rebuilt and the war could’ve been avoided. Oops… I forgot I was on the “both sides are the same” website, nevermind LOL

If there’s a stop sign you’d need to come to a stop even if there’s no pedestrians at the cross walk. If cars would stop when there’s a pedestrian then they only need to stop when there’s a pedestrian.

As someone who seldom drives, sure put up a stop sign. But it would be better for drivers if it didn’t have to come to that.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Uh… they tried that already?

Do you think the Ayatollah was installed by the US?

For sure. It seems the thinking is the Iranian people might rise up and overthrow the regime. But that’s just throwing a dice and hoping for the best. A month ago that could have happened, but the regime has already machine gunned down so many people and executed so many more, that is that going to happen now? A lot of things would have to line up for that kind of thing to work and it’s impossible to make a movement among a population work like a military operation.

Something that seems to have gotten lost in this is the fact that Iran was enriching uranium. The Uranium Iran gets from Russia is already enriched by Russia to the level suitable to be used in their nuclear reactor. People seem to discount the Uranium enrichment as propaganda (because of the lies of W Bush) but this is science. They were enriching Uranium to 60%, if they continued you’d be in a situation where a country that calls the US “the Great Satan” and has officially said they want to “wipe Israel off the map” could have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.

All things considered, it would have been best to have continued the agreement Obama made with Iran. The reports from IAEA indicated they were abiding by that agreement. But Trump cancelled that in his first term, which made this war all but inevitable. There is truth to the statement that we can’t have a fundamentalist regime whose goal is to be an existential threat to other counties be in the possession of nuclear weapons. What Trump doesn’t say is he cancelled the agreement that was preventing that before. Iran was unlikely to sign onto a new agreement (at least not in good faith) after Trump cancelled the old one and assassinated their top general. Trump did all of the acts of war in his first term, and only now is having the actual war.

Given the mess Trump created in hist first term, he painted himself into a corner and this war was the most likely outcome. So now there’s nothing to do but wait and see what happens next. I hope for the best for the Iranian people even though it would be a big political win for Trump if it does work out.

We should also remember the many many many innocents killed by the monster that now lays dead.

Khamenei was a monster. It doesn’t matter how or why he’s dead. Good riddance, may he burn in hell for an eternity.

It doesn’t matter whether a monster is killed by someone with noble intentions or a monster is killed by another monster. Either way there’s one less monster in the world.

Because Elrond cut the the budget of Revendell NASA to spend more money on some project to make elves self-deport.

What is it, react with the default tailwind style? It’s not terrible, just really boring. Looks like fucking Jira.

Microsoft is currently pushing everyone to use office on the cloud, so they kinda are making office work on Linux (in a web browser).

Outlook running natively on windows is currently being phased out, Of course the cloud services version of outlook sucks eve more than the native version, and that’s saying something. It looks like it’s just hotmail to me. But that’s what they’re pushing everyone to. I wouldn’t be surprised if the start phasing out other office products running natively in the coming years. Office already does everything it can to save files to one drive.

Cloud services are making them money, so much like how they’re putting AI into everything, they also seem to want to put everything on the cloud because… more cloud money! After all you can’t just continue to use the older version of excel installed on your computer when excel exists in the cloud. You’ll have to pay a subscription to continue using their software because it lives in the cloud.

Yeah your strategy would make sense if Microsoft were still the machiavellian schemers they used to be. But now they just seem to be chasing after money in the short term in whatever looks to be growing (cloud services and AI) with no real long term strategy at all. And they really really want people to pay a subscription to use their software. But in their greed they just might kill their Windows business.

Sodium Ion is a real game changer. But I doubt it will compete with Lithium Ion on energy density anytime soon.

But that’s not necessary to make major changes in the power grid. Solar and wind is already cheapest form of energy generation even considering the expense of Lithium to store the energy when renewables aren’t generating. If you’re just installing stationary battery banks, you don’t care that much about the energy density as you would for a battery in a car or phone. Set up banks of cheap sodium ion batteries strategically and not only do you have plenty of power stored for when it’s not sunny or windy, you may avoid widespread power outages when power lines are downed.

People tend to use a lot of jargon when they’re trying to convince others they know what they’re doing.

If Cuba were a democracy then sure. But it’s not. So it’s authoritarian vs. authoritarian. No matter what you do, you’re helping an authoritarian asshole.

Al Capone didn’t go to prison for murder, he went to prison for tax evasion. Do you think it was because Elliot Ness just didn’t care about murder?

The Democrats are the minority party. They have little power to do anything other than write strongly worded letters.

The constant attacks on the political opposition to fascism is something the fascists want.

Really how are the Democrats any different from the Liberal Party of Canada? They’re both equally lame, both have problems with corruption, both have sleazeballs in them. The Democrats are a political party, it’s weird people think they’re going to put on a bandolier and a beret and become guerilla resistance fighters or whatever they’re imagining things will be like.

But Americans are narcissists that believe themselves to be exceptional so they think the Democrats being kinda lame dorks is different from parties in other countries.

The problem is when Americans were given a choice between a fascist and a pretty normal political party, 2/3 of them either voted for the fascists or just didn’t bother to vote at all. The American people just didn’t care enough about democracy. It’s likely too late to be expecting the democrats to fix things because they can’t… not enough Americans voted for them.

Americans are narcissists and they’ll blame anyone other than themselves for everything. Which is why they attack the Democrats instead of doing the obvious thing and attack the GOP and organize resistance to them. But that might include voting for the political opposition which would mean voting democrat which might be admitting they were wrong for not voting for them in the last election. And a narcissist can never admit they’re wrong.

So the current state of things is Americans are blaming the party that’s not in power for not stopping the party that is in power because their narcissism prevents them from admitting they made a mistake. Will Americans get over their narcissism before the next election and vote for the opposition because their government sucks? That’s what would happen in a nromal country, but they’re obsessed with being exceptional. Will there even be an election? Or will they somehow find a way to blame democrats for Trump cancelling elections, ending any kind of opposition to his power and completing their journey to becoming a full ledged fascist country?