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As someone with no special insight, I tend to agree that their days seem numbered. It really depends, I think, on whether anyone with influence remains in leadership in the IGRC. If not, then they might hang with the mullahs. Either way, they're really more of an occupying power than an offensive military. That's why they work through proxies throughout the region. In other words, my impression is that their job is oppression. So, then what do the people do? Urban, secular, pro-Western moderates would either want democracy or just some sane stability, opening to a compromise with any potential strongman (see inka's post above). Then, you've got the crazy religious people, who might be even worse than the mullahs. Do they capture the hearts of the rural, religious rubes? Of course, there's also many ethnic minority groups: Baluchis, Azeris, Turks, Kurds, etc. who might want to break away. No fucking idea what's going to happen beyond more rockets being fired into Israel.
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I think this is right. Hamas is decimated; Hezbollah is neutered; the Houthis are toothless; and Russia's a bit tied up at the moment. Ain't no way China will stick their necks out on this, plus as has been mentioned, they just want the oil to keep flowing. They would probably be perfectly happy with whichever IRGC strongman is still left to take over. I can't imagine they'd want to see a big civil war in Iran that might disrupt that flow, so it'll be interesting if they stay on the sidelines and hope for the best like the rest of us.
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Great fucking post! I'm only quoting this part to avoid longcatting, but I was watching a bit of BBC earlier, and Iran had said earlier they'd moved all their material out of those sites as part of a statement that there was no danger of radioactive fallout. No telling where all that shit went, or will go, or eventually into whose hands should the Regime collapse. Not just CNN, they reported the same on BBC. If the mullahs are gone, the IGRC will fight to stay in power. Are those guys secular or true believers, and wouldn't they also develop a bomb, too? Genuine questions, as I'm wholly ignorant on the matter.
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Could you copy/paste the text, please? I won't click on a website owned by someone who supports an antisemitic party in Germany and who also willfully reinstated several antisemitic accounts on his website. Thank you.
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He's not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
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Flatter than a tabletop Makes you wonder why they stopped here Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one On the great migration west Separated from the rest Though they might have tried their best They never caught the sun So they sunk some roots down in the dirt To keep from blowin' off the earth Built a town around here And when the dust had all but cleared They called it Levelland, the pride of man In Levelland
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Let's be clear on this fact: The war Israel is waging on Iran is likely an illegal one. Israel states that this is preemptive self-defense, but there's no indication that any attack by Iran on Israel was "imminent," meaning an immediate and unavoidable threat as defined by the well-established "Caroline test." In addition, their actions are a violation of the UN Charter without a Security Council resolution justifying it. This was a unilateral attack by one nation on another, with civilians (media and scientists) as targets, also a violation of international law. Let's also be clear on another fact: Israel's attack on Iran scuttled ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran. While it can be debated that those talks might not have gone anywhere, it cannot be debated that Israeli interference disrupted discussions between the two countries. Their interference ensured that the negotiations ended. I don't know about y'all, but I'm not real keen on allowing a third party to fuck with our international affairs. It makes us look weak when Israel can get away with ending our negotiations before we have a chance to say we're done talking. Let's also be clear on yet another fact: This past Thursday, Netanyahu said that Israel has the power to take out all of Iran's nuclear facilities by itself, even without US involvement. Fine, do it your fucking selves. Given those three facts, I really would prefer the US not get involved in another illegal war in the Middle East, especially one that we're getting dragged into and in which "regime change" is a goal without a clear plan of succession, with the risk of destabilizing an already teetering region and the recent history of our nation building efforts in two of Iran's neighbors. That's folly.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Local television news interview with one of the guys from the Home Depot incident in LA: US citizen speaks out after being detained by ICE in Hollywood LOS ANGELES - A US citizen, who said he was among 30 people who were detained by federal agents during a raid in Hollywood, is speaking out. 37-year-old Job Garcia told FOX 11's Susan Hirasunsa that he was making a delivery to The Home Depot when he saw vehicles pull in and block the exits to prevent people from driving away. That's when he started recording on his phone as he witnessed the tactics agents used to detain day laborers. Eventually. Garcia found himself in ICE custody. -
Be patient. It gets good.
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Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
bolverk replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
I get what you're saying, but again, Cruz's supporters were already fucking assholes and his vote, by default, goes to the oily assholes. That said, I absolutely don't believe that he's responsible for changing a single person's mind to switch over to the Dark Side. As the most uniquely unctuous individual who's ever existed, I can't think of a more pathetic political creature. -
Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
bolverk replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
I think that's a fair assessment. Cruz, so far as I know, hasn't actually ever done shit. Sure, he votes along party lines, once gave a stupid Dr. Suess speech, and embarrassed himself running for president, but what real evil has he actually caused? He's just a sniveling, weasel-faced smarm, who's easy to hate. I don't think his rhetorical skills have ever convinced anyone to spread the hate. The people who like him were already fucking assholes. Now, Tucker's another issue. His job as a propagandist has played an important role in turning people into fucking assholes. -
Thanks for putting that out there in the universe, you twisted asshole.
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Two MN lawmakers and their spouses shot by someone impersonating police
bolverk replied to TexasHooch's topic in Daily Texan
Someone broke into the dead lawmaker's house. https://www.startribune.com/police-melissa-hortmans-home-broken-into-days-after-assassination/601375273 -
For the record, Israel's war crimes began well before Hamas ever even existed, with the illegal settlements in the West Bank that they continue to expand. In fact, there was a recent announcement of 22 new ones, the most significant expansion in decades. Now, we also mustn't leave out Netanyahu's personal culpability in committing war crimes. If you recall, there's an active warrant out on his head for a few. And, since we all care so deeply about law and order around here and certainly wouldn't be applying a double standard due to our own biases, we obviously shouldn’t overlook the fact that he’s currently in a prolonged corruption trial, which he somehow keeps managing to drag out. Oh, lookie here, he’s actually supposed to be under cross-examination at the moment. Funny, the timing that suddenly he decided to start bombing Iran. You know, now that I think about it, it's possible this guy isn't really on the up-and-up. I wonder why we place so much trust in him.
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Seems like there's some last-ditch shuttle diplomacy going on involving Iran, Oman. Egypt, and China. Probably too late but worth keeping an eye on what, if anything, comes out of this meeting that Iran has denied attending. These are all posts from the AP's updates in chronological order, starting early this morning. https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-attack-conflict-updates
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
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Government agents concealing their identity from the public prevents accountability. That's authoritarianism, plain and simple.
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You’re not getting it. If the West breaks it, we buy it. It becomes our responsibility to restore order once we topple their government. We have to help them have a peaceful environment so that they can then determine their future. A democratic, secular government doesn't just spring forth from a mound of rubble. It requires quite a bit of tending to, as we are now seeing here back home ourselves. Same as Palestine. The ground conditions in both Gaza and the West Bank have never been in place to allow them their own self-determination. Rather, we, the West, have been complicit in supporting an occupying power that willfully denies them the same, and many on this board have been quite vocal in saying that the Palestinian people are incapable of doing so.
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Hated that when I followed them on FB and before knowing about the Internet Archive trick. Here's a link that will work: https://archive.is/JyBzn
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He was pretty vocal over the weekend about a governor and former VP candidate suggesting that China might be a good mediator but was utterly silent when the current president suggested Putin, as were a couple of other posters.
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