There are multiple accounts and articles indicating that orangeboi has wanted to throw some nukes around since the beginning of his first stint. And now all the adults and career professionals in places where they could stop him have been replaced with sycophants. So idk, man, feels like a lot more of a roll of the dice than it should be.

Also, why do people keep insisting that orangeboi is governed by any semblance of a rational framework? He’s not. He’s demonstrably not. Stop sanewashing this shit.

Low key concerned he’s gonna try to use nukes tonight

I’m not glorifying or supporting nihilistic slogans like that. I’m saying that there’s a reason they became popular, and it’s the same reason they have tended to grow in popularity.

As in: if Israel had maintained a strong defense force, acknowledged and made attempts to rectify mistakes from their past, and simultaneously tried their best to get along with and form economic and cultural ties with the surrounding countries and cultures instead of resorting to military adventurism every time they felt a bit squeamish, perhaps they wouldn’t be in the extremely fucky and deeply, darkly ironic position they’re in today.

So Israel entrenching their apartheid state for decades instead of working towards a more collaborative and egalitarian future with their neighboring countries and cultures was completely irrelevant to Israel attacking Iran? Bullshit.

You’re cherry-picking one-off justifications in a context that has history going back for literal millennia.

Dude that’s not even the proximate case

PC LOAD LETTER what the fuck does that mean >:(

I am honestly really enjoying the fact that Iran is allowing a bunch of non-hostile countries through and the orange regime is still ranting about “opening the strait” when it’s absolutely open to people who aren’t bombing Iran, or openly supporting the bombing. It’s a masterclass in graphically demonstrating that military power is not the be-all, end-all, and that the orange regime is meaningfully impotent in a bunch of geopolitically important ways.

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IF YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH CANADIAN GOOSES YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME AND I SUGGEST YOU LET THAT ONE MARINATE

I can’t believe you’ve done this

It’s too late

I think that’s external combustion, but I get your point

There’s no such thing as karma on lemmy

Lmfao this is wild

2.2L I5T

Go listen to Group B Audi noises. You’ll understand.

Got an article link for that?

The only confirmed stores I’ve seen of a shoot down today were of an F-15E - Iran tried to pass it off as an F-35, but the control surfaces in the wreckage they published pictures of were very obviously from an F-15. Was there another one?

I see your Toyota expertise and raise you the primary, secondary, and tertiary balancing harmonics of pretty much any 4-stroke ICE geometry that’s not wildly esoteric

Well, that, and, you know… exerting serious and concerted effort to shift away from fossil fuels in applications that have viable non-petroleum alternatives