Not to sidetrack the thread further, but I think this is misleading. Nobody actually knows what happened. The most likely theory has always been that someone hacked Hunter's email and loaded up genuine emails along with a bunch of bullshit on a laptop that might have been stolen from Hunter or might've been another laptop entirely. What's pretty clear is someone tampered with the data on the laptop. It might've been Russians, it might've been GOP operatives. We don't know and probably never will. Marcy Wheeler has a good summary of all the knowns and unknowns here: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/24/embarrassingly-wrong-the-ongoing-misinformation-campaign-about-the-hunter-biden-hard-drive/.
This isn’t even the first time a right wing murderer has pretended to be the right’s fake lefty conspiracy version of himself as a troll. You’re basically promoting a terrorist’s manifesto. Good work, dipshit.
The one thing Trump has always had good instincts on is that he doesn't want to put American boots on the ground. But tons of people around him and everyone on Fox News is going to be coaxing him to do so and I don't think he's got the self control to say no at the end of the day.
I think @956 Worldwide's post yesterday is right. Iran's ability to both project force and to defend itself have been seriously impacted, their proxies they thought would help have shown themselves unreliable partners, as have Russia and China. The status quo isn't the same.
However, it seems that all we've accomplished is a small delay in their nuclear program. In exchange for that delay, we've made them much likelier to pursue a bomb ASAP, have essentially destroyed international nonproliferation, gave Russia and China some new info on the B-2's capabilities and shown them that our bunker busters may not get the job done. Oh, and we've made it much likelier that Iran will be ruled by even more hardliners going forward.
You can see how Israel sees all of this as a victory for them. But it's hard to see how it's a victory for us.
He's a supremely weird fucking guy. He's I think the only reactionary centrist (i.e. what used to be the IDW crowd) who hasn't gone full Trumpy fash, but refuses to reflect at all on why all of his fellow travelers have seemingly gone insane and he thinks his own racism is smart and sophisticated while theirs is wrong and boorish.
I’m all for bombing the shit out of a backwater theocratic regime that’s brutal to women and supports terrorism.
I just think we need to start with Saudi Arabia.
Oh cool, we're all going to die in third world torture prisons.
I'm not voting for any Democratic nominee for president who doesn't vow to do the same to corrupt SCOTUS justices.
The crimes of Imperial Japan were much more comparable to Israel than to Iran, simply in terms of scale. You can cry "human shields!" all you want to try to absolve Israel, but that will never explain this:
That wasn't self defense, it was ethnic cleansing and annexation. Quite a bit similar to what Imperial Japan did in Manchuria (though hopefully with less rape). The Iranian government are assholes, but they have never done anything comparable.