Destiny bonded with Mitch McConnell

I’ve been thinking along those lines as well. In my opinion, long as Iran holds firm to ceasefire in Lebanon as a non-negotiable, it can really only benefit them (given, of course, we abstract the logic from the various internal strains of war). Either:

• The Entity does not abide by/actively sabotages the terms. Then, Iran backs away from talks with renewed casus belli due to ongoing perfidy.
• The Entity begrudgingly accepts the situation but engages in its historic tactic of going sicko mode hours before they’re wrangled. Then, either Iran can in turn pummel Tel Aviv as they were threatening and say something like ‘clearly, the agreement has not gone into effect yet,’ or Iran can back away from talks with renewed casus belli.
• Washington genuinely wrangles The Entity into unabashed compliance. Sours US-Israel relationship and halts offense on Lebanon.

In any case, all of these have the second order effect of, if genuine, straining relations between US and Israel, and if perfidious, returning to current status quo with a fresh casus belli. The second scenario’s first option may be a bit tenuous, but it is something I can see happening if they really want to project the “we’re reasonable, they’re not” posture they have been taking thus far.

I’ll admit, I am nervous that Iran isn’t operating on this wavelength and worry for the possibility that this results in a state of pyrrhic inertia if The Entity aggresses and Iran doubles down on process, but I think it’s a largely irrational worry because they have shown sustained competence throughout the war.

Dear China: you may have a safe and sprawling high-speed transport network, but we will have Mickey’s Dick Smasher

they’re saying the actors have never been more rational

fact check: 90% of militaries abandon shock and awe just before their entrenched enemies are suddenly and violently demoralized

CDPR Shahed piloted directly into Joseph Anderson’s house

oh yeah? what flavor? semiconductor, ink, carving or neurotransmitter

I took a relative site break for a hot week essentially since my laptop was getting serviced and they’re still counting

choosing to read this as “there are 189,000 employed persons in the U.S.” because it’s funnier to imagine

generation largely coasting on paranoia and castle doctrine mentalities that thinks you can just walk up and take people’s phones

are boomers toddlers

I’ve seen enough. Give the “Nobel Prize” in “Economics” to Ed Zitron

UNALLOYED JOKERNOMICS REGIME

emotes are largely on hold while I’m studying

anyone who’s had the bare minimum competence in even the Common Core curriculum knows that ‘indentured servitude’ is slavery with window dressing. they teach that shit in the seventh grade. PR really fucking debases themselves into the most spiritually-degrading rhetoric for a paycheck, man. How do you get yourself to say this and not want to die?

The term ‘indentured servant’ is more accurate

edit: owned for being eepy

many people aren’t going to weather an energy crisis for the first superstructural reasons you gave them, so you have to consistently demonstrate that you have to do this.

One thing I’ve been thinking about as of late is how important demonstrating to your allies why they need to lock in to struggle against the existing order with you is for your relations with them when your actions would pull them into an uncertain or detrimental situation. The observation I have gathered as a layman is that geopolitics is an exercise in wading through inertia, as generally, states want stability. You never want to be the unreasonable actor as the underdog power, because your casus belli needs to be persuasive and rational for your allies not to hedge on the status quo.

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Our hands remain on the trigger, and any small mistake by the enemy will be met with full force.

please follow through on this mindset