China is siding with Iran and Russia and making a move on Taiwan, and Tawainese chips are the one thing we care more about than oil.
trump thought he was in the dictator club, but they played him and are all making moves to increase their own terrorist and trump is left just standing between Iran and Israel with no path to any actual gain for all the trouble.
Previously, he has appealed to China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain.
China took Iran’s deal instead…
Iran just sent a super tanker full of oil to China.
That’s not even the worst…
Our House of representatives is supposed to make up for it, but each rep represents over 20x the people they did when the country was founded.
The reason we lost so much representation, is the room they occasionally meet in would be too cramped if they kept adding chairs to it.
But just in general, it’s almost always best to blame political leaders for a government’s actions and not just blame every person living there.
Good and bad.
or the electoral college
That’s the part that’s relevant…
Whether a state goes 51% of 100%, counts the same.
This leads to depressed turnout and obviously no elections being on “all Americans”. Most of our votes for president don’t matter because most states go one way or the other.
The thing is, as a foreigner, and speaking bluntly, this is on the entire American population
No problem.
To put it bluntly I don’t expect Americans to understand our political system, so I’m not surprised when foreigners clearly don’t. Shits complicated and nonsensical
I just wish more would ask questions instead of sharing uninformed opinions as facts, but maga thinking isn’t reserved for Americans…
I just love the quote:
So, we need, I, I would really, I’m demanding…
He starts with needing help, starts to say he just really wants it, then pivota to demanding it.
The fact that he went thru those steps shows how much pressure he’s facing.
His two biggest wings of influence has been Israel and American christo-fascists, if they start pulling him in opposite ways, he can’t hold onto both.
He’s fucked, but so are the rest of us by extension. Hopefully just till midterms at least.
He later said: “So, we need, I, I would really, I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory, it’s the place from which they get their energy and they should come and they should help us protect it.”
Then came the line that quickly sparked reaction online:
“You could make the case that maybe we shouldn’t even be there at all because we don’t need it.”
It’s Iran’s terrority, and Iran is defending it after being attacked…
But I really think he’s getting pressure from Christian extremists to abandon Israel. Their endgame was always Israel getting wiped out by its neighbors to start Armageddon and rapture Christians.
If no one joins against Iran, trump will likely try to slink away and Bibi holding the bag.
They offered to help America for free, and trump told them to kick rocks…
In 1793 each Rep represented 35k people…
In 2023 it was 761k per each House Rep…
Representative democracy is fine, the problem is we need like 20x more representatives at least.
That makes lobbying/bribing that much harder and dilutes political power. As well as giving us a much wider pool for higher office.
The excuse for freezing the number is number of chairs that will fit in a room, literally, that’s why we lost representation. Telework solves that.
Best case scenario, OP doesn’t understand they’re 20 years late an 4chan exists.
More likely they want to train AI on it, worst case they want everyone’s IP and confessions too.
Like, even if they have good intentions, they don’t seem to understand what “anonymous” even means and how hard that is online these days.
Israel.
Israel is the perfect scapegoat on this, all trump has to do is pull his ships back and stop being a defense for Israel.
That’s literally what the American Christian right has always wanted with their support of Israel too.
Their doomsday prophecy is:
Jewish ethnostate in Israel
War in the Middle East, started by Israel
Israel getting wiped off the map which causes the rapture
Nonbelivers have to experience Armageddon
Which was cool with Israel up to step 2, but we just passed that a few weeks ago…
right now
Lol
Go to settings and you can block the entire instance
When their admin gets bored, they ban anyone they disagree with. You don’t even have to interact with them, they just browse and remove anything not toeing the instance line:
Some authoritarian dictatorships are actually totally rad guys!
During a call with NBC News on Saturday, Trump boasted that the U.S. military “totally demolished” the island, adding that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun.”
According to the Pentagon, the U.S. military used $11.3 billion worth of munitions in the first week of the war in Iran.
Essentially just setting billions of dollars on fire and causing massive human suffering for funsies…
11.3 billion in week 1, and we’re 3 weeks in with no signs of stopping.
It’ll cost $100,000,000,000 by the time it’s over, but we can’t “afford” healthcare or education
Russia uses Iranian drones…
The price just skyrocketed and supply might go to zero if Iran uses all they can make
Ukraine is winning because they found cheaper drone defenses than drones…
Were burning thru our sophisticated interceptors because we’re wasting them on drones 1/100th the prices.
Iran just has to keep pumping out the same drones they’ve been sending to Russia.
Like, Ukraine is literally the one government that knows how to win this kind of war.
If China attacks Taiwan as America/Israel waste all their interceptors…
There’s nowhere on the planet that would be able to stop Iran or China in a war.
The entire western hemisphere relies on Taiwanese chips for weapons including interceptors.
Even just a chip embargo similar to Iran is doing with oil would be disasterous.
And incredibly likely now that everyone is distracted.
Yeah, it’s a thing.
Was always a gimmicky part of speaker software back in the day.
Like, a page in setting was a picture of a generic room and you can drag and drop an icon for the picture to change how 3d sound was displayed.
So you could likely find something like that and co-opt it for headphones.
Search for something like “3d audio setup” or “positioning software”.
That being said, this isn’t a problem with how you’re processing sound. It’s more likely an inner ear thing, but it’s impossible to say if it’s a “problem” or just weird variation. So anything you do with the headphones is just going to compensate for it, not actually solve it.
It’s probably also weird watching TV or a screen from an angle either, fixing the inner ear thing would likely solve a lot of stuff for you, especially if you consider yourself clumsy
It’s not just wealth.
Any isolated social circle will start to exclude everyone else as “them”.
It’s our brains working as designed.
Even the founders understood this. It’s why Representatives were originally so powerful and meant to spend most of their time back in their home districts.
Sending the same people to DC for decades just guarantees the people they represent start to become “them” and other politicians regardless of party become “us”.
With insider trading and donor/lobbying system, the politicians are getting rolled up with wealthy as “us”.
I’ve been saying for a while now that we have the tech, reps should be required to spend like 90% of their time in their districts. Have an office, occasionally state level meetups in the capitals, and super rare DC events.
But the bulk of the work can be done via telework.
It doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but it would limit grifter candidates, make reps face their constituents daily, actually understand their issues, and go a long way to making politicians feel like their actually accountable.
There’d be no hiding in a crowd of politicians.
He’s too used to countries not falling for sunk cost and being willing to walk away to mitigate further damage…
He killed a literal “supreme leader” and caused a power vacuum where everyone is desperate to establish dominance by showing their feverance to fight what is quite literally a holy war admitted by the three main participants.
Iran isn’t going to let this go anytime soon. And US and Israel can’t win a war of attrition when we spend 100x the money shooting down what Iran launches. They can keep launch shaed drones from fortified positions in their own territory. They don’t even need forward deployment to hit what they’ve been hitting.
Any attempt to invade will be a modern d-day. Anything crossing the border will see a constant stream of drones, and everyone that gets thru makes it easier for the next.
And the only way to get enough bodies for that futile attempt is a US draft. With Trump’s obsession with state voter records, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see them try to institute a draft and almost exclusively take Dem voters or any other demographic they don’t want.
These days, they’ll likely blame AI if anyone questions it.
The us plan was literally:
No part of the “plan” addressed that Iran would logically attack US bases.
Bibi just told Trump it was a solution so that was enough for trump.
It just guaranteed the bad result they thought might happen. But if just Israel had attacked, it’s likely that would have been the only place Iran counter attacked.