I'm web-based, don't use mobile and won't provide biometric data. So when this comes for me, that'll be me gone. I'm in the early days of resurrecting rigorousintution.ca and fixing up the forum. If I'm not here, I might be there. And in a while you may want to be there too.
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Along with reports that the USN blockade has repositioned beyond the range of most anti-ship missiles, I feel confident assuming that something got hit.
The Pentagon quietly added 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines to the Iran war casualty count.
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"I think Donald Trump has correctly sensed the zeitgeist, the spirit of our age, which is genocidal. And people sit there and say nothing."
Chas Freeman: Trump's Genocidal Threat & the Rising Risk of Nuclear War piped.video/watch?v=LB7Azf…
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Jeff Wells retweeted
Powerful family ethics.
A Russian dad raises a Russian son.
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After falling for covid and all the trappings, the whole world feels like a town with a dirty secret that everyone needs to protect. Well, okay; I can work with that. I'll play Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock.
I do feel bad for the covid-conscious people. Every major health authority said for years “there’s a massive pandemic that’s killing/disabling millions; do not leave the house,” then pretty quickly flipped to “eh nevermind lol.” Reasonable to go a bit insane processing that
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States have abandoned the protocol of declaring war, so it's been left to us whether we want to call this a world war or not. What decides it for us is how much bad news we can bear. Beyond protecting our psyches, what we call it doesn't matter.
The world is awash in interconnected military campaigns directed by great powers against each other and yet a "world war" cannot be acknowledged because all of the participants have tacitly agreed to pretend it's not happening. And honestly, perhaps that's for the best.
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The logic of each presidency being more disastrous than the last is the longing it induces in millions to return to the previous disaster artists.
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Seven years ago, one was a peace candidate and the other a leader of al-Qaeda. Now, thoroughly laundered and schooled by Western spooks, they're probably saying to themselves, like Trump, "In the end, we're all dead anyway."
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Last October, Carney said Netanyahu would be arrested if he entered Canada. Extremely Canadian behavior in effect.
Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect ctvnews.ca/world/israel-hama…
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I've said it before but big deal, it's demonstrated to us daily: Trump's worldview is nihilism. And as The Big Lebowski taught us, that's even worse than fascism.
Tucker Carlson recounts a private meeting where Donald Trump dismissed serious concerns over a potential war with Iran by casually telling him, "In the end, we're all dead anyway." "I said to him, shocked, 'But what about our kids, our grandkids, our country?'
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🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇳 Netanyahu took out a pager on the UN podium and started mocking Hezbollah: “You remember the beepers? Remember these things? Remember them? Well, I can tell you this, Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”
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Literally this
.@POTUS shows off Marine One and the new White House helipad to President Xi
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"We’ll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms." Wait: bell-bottoms? It's a deal.
Happy 5.1% 10Y America 🎉. Mashallah. Celebrate: it’s the floor two years out. You wanted Iran dragged back to 1970s? Nobody told you Iran isn’t for arrogant amateurs? We’ll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia!
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Convinced I'm about to get banned at the grocery store because my muttered "motherfucker" at the checkout is getting louder with every middle-aged masked white woman in line with me.
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IMO we're living the most fraught Jungian moment in geopolitics since 1939. If Trump and Netanyahu don't integrate their shadows pretty damn quick... well, let's just say it's not looking good.
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War Is a Moral Argument I often note that, beyond a contest of arms, war is a moral argument. I also firmly believe that those whom we are told to regard as our enemies ought to be afforded the privilege of speaking for themselves. I give this speech my highest recommendation.
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CONFIRMED: stricken Xi displays facial paralysis from stroke suffered at BRICS summit while fleeing tainted curry, as President Trump provides proof of life by pointing to his healthy brain.
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Yesterday's "to the victor belong the spoils" becomes today's "uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."
🇻🇪 AHORA: Se desatan PROTESTAS contra Delcy Rodríguez en varias zonas de Venezuela. – Atacaron a Cuba y a los 32 hermanos caídos y tienen el país así.
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Carney today: "The Iranian threat is one of the biggest threats in the world, the modern world." Today's headline: "Carney prepared for 'risk' that Trump might order a military invasion of Canada."
Canadian PM Mark Carney on Iran: The Iranian threat is one of the biggest threats in the world, the modern world. For example, there is still an existential threat to Israel caused by Iran and its allies. It still exists. It is not acceptable. It has never been acceptable.
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A US invasion of Canada is hardly unthinkable, if you think about history, since it's already happened multiple times. The only question at this late stage is whether it would be redundant. Canada should have been excavating missile cities no later than the mid-80s. Oh well!
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When he says "unheard of" what he means is "I can't hear you."
Marco Rubio: Iranians and their proxies attacked diplomatic facilities — unheard of. They bombed our embassy in Kuwait.
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