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[–] 187 points 7 months ago

Is there a gofundme for this? 

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  • [–] 97 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no! Anyways...

    I'm really saddened though by the amount of needless destruction of resources and life that this war causes.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    That's the worst part. Huge waste right when we need to be lowering our footprint. The only positive will be damage to extractive international capitalism based on fossil fuels, and potentially the pressure to make economies more local and less fossil fuel dependent.

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  • [–] 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Seems more like they are calling their shots to show the US military cant stop them. "9 ball, corner pocket".

    As a counter to their swagger, I say we surround those buildings with our well-trained and highly-competent ICE agents. As the missiles rain down they can shoot them out of the sky with their rifles. Its worth a try.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    And the more ICE agents the bigger the chance it will work.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I know they’re both fired but being the patriots they are I bet Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi would be willing to help out as well. Hell you know Pete Hegseth would do wonders for this country if he was over there. Send the whole crew over. It would be the most patriotic thing Trump could do.

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  • [–] 129 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Dibs on whatever RAM survives the bombing.

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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Have I got the tool for you

    A screenshot of the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter

    🤣 1
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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Pfft they need RAM doubler, dummy!

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (3 children)
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    Its dubai-- they'll have slaves out there picking up the ram before the fires are even put out. Although to be fair, they have been slowly getting better. They only have about 1.4% of the population enslaved at this point.

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  • [–] 61 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Chaotic one way data compression.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no haha, don't threaten The data centers hehe

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago*

    Agreed, Its not like the AI answers from my alexa can get any worse. Bombing some shitty corporations data centers has pretty much nothing at all to do with the American public. Some rich arseholes will lose a few dollars they dont care about and life will go on as usual.

    Maybe some AI product launches will be delayed, which is a net win for the entire planet.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago*

    Do it and nothing of real value to humanity will be lost.
    Except of course the monetary value of the AI chips. and those are owned by the 1%, so taking away some of their control, Iran will actually do Democracy of the world a favor.

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  • [–] 39 points 7 months ago

    Don't threaten me with a good time

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    Dont threaten me with a good time

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  • [+] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    My theory is that there is a strong potential that Iran is going to come out of this bullshit war as a regional power that can punch way above their weight class.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think the actual goal is to create a fierce enemy hellbent on destruction of the US so there is always an enemy to fight. That's why they are bombing the schools and research centers, they want to make the Iranian people hate us completely so they can always say "You have to elect us, they want to destroy us and the other party is weak"

    We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Its kind of a Tower of Babel situation, the not rich people had built a great tool of communication and cooperation. The wealth gods felt threatened by the combined power of the poor and the middle. So the weatlh gods destroyed the internet, hiding knowledge behind flase orAIcles and gatekeeping with token currency.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Large but young. A civilization as old as Iran's will know a thing or two about real politik and how to utilize leverage. Iran could easily come out of this a regional power as it has been throughout history. China has also risen much closer to its historical global standing and India is accelerating in that direction also. We are watching an era of Western hegemony fade away and it is fascinating to see. Doubt it will be as bad as the fall of the Romans and 1000 years of religious dogma and anti-intellectualism but this is a high risk period for sure.

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  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago
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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    AFAIK Stargate is Sam Altman, not Elon. You're probably confusing with Starlink and Starship.

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Starlink is Elon, Starship is Mickey Thomas, Stargate is Ra.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The Stargate system was built by the ancients. The Goa'uld just used it to get around.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago

    I see Iran has taken lessons in the "get the world to like you" class

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I did not have Iran saving us from Slopnet on my bingo card this year but here we are.

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    Ohhh noesss, not the datacenters!

    Anyway...

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  • [+] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The more headlines I'm seeing about Iran the more I'm starting to support them I don't support any regime though

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago*

    Good to keep in mind it is still an oppressive theocracy with public killings and their own flavor of violent regime thugs, working above laws, just like Russia has their militia and US has their ICE etc.

    But, in comparison to this current flavor of the US, I too find myself preferring Iran here, and not only because they are the victim here, which is just bonkers in any objective sense. The world is just nuts.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago
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    ....because Iran understands who runs the USA.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    Iran has been preparing for a war for the past 25 years. Pretty sure they have a couple of cards left.

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  • [–] 50 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    "Should the US proceed with its threats concerning Iran's power plant facilities, the following retaliatory measures shall be promptly enacted. All power plants, energy infrastructure, and information and communication technology of the Zionist regime, and all similar companies in the region that have American shareholders, shall face complete and utter annihilation,"

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Hey do that and come here and Bob ours next, and if you're still feeling frisky, bomb the pop up ICE headquarters next.

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    The only way out of this I see is to drive a wedge between billionaire oligarchs and this administration. Seems like a smart move.

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Come on dudes you don't need to make threats, just live your best life and missile strike data centers!

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    This is one of the reasons why Donald's idea of ​​turning around, saying he won, and walking away couldn't work. Nothing prevents Iran from continuing to crush American interests in the region

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    This is one of the reasons why Donald's idea of ​​turning around, saying he won, and walking away couldn't work.

    I mean it would—if he actually stopped bombing them and helping Israel bomb them. Unilateral de-escalation only works if you actually de-escalate.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    While the US backing off will be a necessary component of a de-escalation, Iran is under no obligation to start playing nice just because the US does. They're going to demand serious concessions before they unclench their fists and release their chokehold on the strait.

    Trump can't just TACO his way out of this one. He either has to commit to a full scale invasion, or come to the table with a peace offer Iran will accept.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Since trump has bombed Iran multiple times during peace talks, Iran is not going to trust Mango Mussolini again.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly. Which is why their demands are only going to be bigger now. They're going to assume that any concessions they get will only be good until next time Trump tears up the deal or attacks them in the middle of negotiations, so they're going to maximise the benefit they get for as long as they get it.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why would they entertain peace talks at all? Israel has murdered Iran's top negotiator, and Trump is obviously compromised by Israel.

    No, the smart play here is to just keep the straight closed to American and Israeli traffic and allies while looking for opportunities for their own decapitation strikes.

    Once someone else is in power, then negotiations can resume.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Never put your enemy on death ground. If Iran decide to point blank refuse any notion of a compromise that basically leaves Trump with no other (face saving) option other than full scale invasion. Iran have negotiated very smartly throughout this whole situation, I expect they'll continue to do so.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    US leaves, and GCC allies with Iran the same day. SoH open the same day. All GCC infrastructure safe. No reason for US companies to stop their GCC funded investments/infrastructure.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    That would imply that the US would dismantle its bases throughout the region so that the Gulf countries would align themselves with Iran. Even if something like that could happen (doubtful), it couldn't happen quickly or under bombardment. US companies wouldn't maintain investments under those circumstances either, and the problem is the reverse investment, from the Gulf to the US.

    P.S.: I'm not American, I had to look up half of those initials

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    That would imply that the US would dismantle its bases throughout the region so that the Gulf countries would align themselves with Iran.

    An option that the US has to compensating Iran in exchange for peace, and then US paying for world peace, while keeping GCC control, is to just withdraw and try to pay, be nice to GCC, to keep them under their control umbrella with hope of returning to bases for new attacks on Iran. This cannot work, because Iran would stay angry at them. US bases are destroyed, and require repair $. Trump just proposed a 2027 budget with $600B increase in defense spending, 10% cut to social/health services, and $200B extra Iran war costs. Before the war, Dems wanted last healthcare cuts removed to reopen government.

    There is a genuine threat to automatic Israel reparations funding, and if GCC are practical towards Iran cooperation, then Trump and repbulicans will spite them, and Dems may promote fewer health/social cuts instead of strenthening the absolute failure of a "US protection contract" for these nations. GCC would need to continue being Israel/US colony voluntarily sacrificing themselves to Iran superiority, instead of being practical. Their biggest customer, China, can assist in making them more practical in friendship with Iran and China.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Do it, I dare ya!

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    [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Deadpan voice: oh. No. Please don’t.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago

    Dear Iran,

    The world can only get and maintain an erection or ladyboner for so long.

    If AI is gonna bust, we should bust as well.

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