Lol no one wants to assassinate a senile loser who fucks up everything he touches and won’t stop touching things.

A leader who’s a staunch supporter of his enemies and a dire threat to his allies.

We’re rounding up non-whites and sending them to concentration camps to die. We have an entire organ of state devoted to ethnic cleansing. USAID cuts alone put our regime among the top fascists by bodycount.

I don’t anyone looks better by being put in the same category as the US.

across all OECD member countries, a full 8 percent of college students are reading at the level of a ten-year-old, if not worse. While countries like Germany and France rang in at under 5 percent, countries like Poland, Israel, and the United States blew the curve at 21, 20, and 14 percent, respectively.

The numbers aren’t much better when it comes to math. Across OECD countries, 9 percent of college students do math at or below a ten-year-old level. In Italy, the US, and Slovakia, that figure jumps to over 15 percent — only outdone by Israel, where roughly 21 percent of college students were underachieving at the same low benchmark.

So just to be clear this happens everywhere in the world, just it’s higher in the US - for reading it’s 14% here vs 8% on average across the oecd and for math 15% here vs 9% average. So we’re bad, but not the worst.

Oh lol! That looks like a Western Stemmed point! That’s the precursoriest projectile point to have chosen.

For ages the model of the Peopling of the Americas was Clovis First - that the people associated with the beautiful fluted Clovis Point tradition were the first through the ice-free corridor. But these Western Stemmed Points kept turning up very early in the PNW and they look like much older points from eastern eurasia. Clovis first was gospel though, so no-one was willing to accept the existence of a clovis precursor, even though these are what, when and where we’d expect a pre-Clovis stone tool tradition to look like.

Nowadays some kind of small pre-clovis presence is widely accepted. So these were quite controversially precursors.

Most obvious explanation is the US trying to test iran’s resolve to continue the blockade. A single drone makes sense if iran is just trying to show they still mean it.

Or the us regime is lying about what happened, or there’s an explanation that is true but makes no sense because that’s the world we live in.

An irish guy working legally in FL was kidnapped for no reason and he talks about seeing someone begging guards to give him access to his heart meds for weeks before he had a heart attack and died.

He also talks about being given nonconsentual surgery 1h after being given anathestic that lasts 45mins. The surgery was to remove his cosmetic subdermal implants after he was already cleared for release.

These are torture sites and death camps. The deaths are intentional.

My girlfriend slept with a guy at a university camp and then got angry at him and cut one of his dreds off. She told me about it as soon as she got back. I’d met the guy and thought him a douchy child, but i mostly felt sorry for him. I was a bit disappointed in her choice but i wasn’t hurt or anything. A few weeks later i drunkenly kinda went to bed with a housemate who i then realised i’d been crushing on, and my girlfriend and i admitted there wasn’t really anything there and broke up. When i first told her that me and elizabeth made out she was like, “Aww, go you!”

That was a real “no harm no foul” situation. Years later i went on a 3 month holiday and never came back. Everyone but me and my then girlfriend realised i was just moving overseas. She was way more into the relationship and I was too cowardly to break up. We carried on long distance until i found someone else. I broke up with her before anything happened, but she was hurt and it felt like cheating in a way that the more technical cheating above had not.

So much this. As an opponent of nation states i have a lot of disagreements with proponents of powerful states.

But i spend my time online denigrating fascists, the actual enemy, who are in power in my country and ascendant globally.

I don’t waste my time denigrating all the potential allies on one side of me as libs and on the side as tankies.

More obviously than about any war in modern memory

Ooph that’s a tough call. More obvious than Iraq 2? “WMDs!!” was even more of a joke in iraq than it currently is in iran, which is saying something.

They literally flew in military transports full of cash which remain unaccounted for, spent by the VP’s company and a mercenary oligarch whose cruelty and graft were so well known he then had to change the name of his company twice.

And that’s not even getting into the insanely illegal corruption that was the coalition provisional authority.

Beware of russians bearing work.

There is no rift, it all bullshit. NATO is the west

When you think your opponent is a monolith, it just means you don’t understand your opponent.

Russia’s Duganist foreign policy relies on the reality of a rift within nato. Part of the reason that they put so much renewed effort into their trumpist coup is to stoke that rift after their strategic failure in ukraine - bringing nato nations closer than at any point since 1990

Russia’s influence among US kleptocrats and fascists is if anything understated. The regime’s “accomplishments” are just a wishlist of russian foreign policy goals.

Trump has long been a russian asset and his business empire was just a front for russian mob money. His earliest advisors were almost entirely known russian agents. Destablising greenland and canada is russia attacking potential NW passage rivals, and greenland helps distance the us and eu. The first trump regime completely dismantled the state dept. and it’s still basically non-functional. Propaganda organs like VoA and USAID, cybersecurity too. Any institutions the empire uses to expand influence or defend itself. Massive self defeating tarriffs on allies and client states weaken alliances and increase pressure on the citizen body.

Iran was never in danger of becoming a meaningful geopolitical alternative, especially given that they were very clearly moving closer to the us. The war in iran cannot be said to be a nato power play give the current rift between nato members about the war, and the predictably destablising effect it would obviously have and is having on the structures of US hegemony.

It was very clearly a last minute decision by some of the dumbest us elites that russia could buy.

The position, goals and capabilities of the us empire were very different in '53 than today.

I think you’re making a general over-arching argument that is contradicted by the specific details.

I think this misses a lot of detail - suppresion of iran is an israeli goal more than a western elite goal. Yes israel is part of the us empire but before the current coup by the lunatic faction in the us, war with iran was becoming much less likely.

The obama nuclear deal was a huge win, iran was complying and un monitoring agreed. Moderates were in power and in the ascendancy in iran and actively talking about how to reduce their sanctions burden. Before the US killed all the moderates in power and let the regime massacre their supporters.

Also, US elites don’t want to maintain full specrrum dominance. Some say that to impress the rubes but they can see the US empire crumbling as much as anyone with eyes. The current goal of US elites is to loot the empire on the way down. That’s why they’re all in bed with russia, the saudis and china - though they keep the china links much quieter.

Maybe you were having a bad day in the above linked convo, but fyi you come across as needlessly argumentative and more than a little misogynist. Tbh i didn’t even see the comment where you talk about being accused of rape because your others were too off-putting for me to continue reading.

Your comments make you seem angry at women. That doesn’t make you a rapist, but it goes a long way to explaining why all your friends would believe an allegation.

Yeah there’s a big difference between 70 and 80 for sure.

80+ is still is a ‘sometimes and small amounts’ thing for me, but many 70s and anything <60 taste just as sweet as milk chocolate to me

Maybe 2 years ago my partner had to explain to me that most people actually prefer milk chocolate, so when i buy dark chocolate as presents it’s not actually appreciated.

I’ve always preferred dark chocolate because it’s just so obviously better, and presumed everyone else did too. Finding out that most people like worse chocolate was quite a surprise🤷

Aha! Thank you!

Couldn’t find an article from a credible site?

[Platner’s accuser Lyndsey Fitfield’s] biography at her most recent role says that she loves “motherhood, marriage, home birth, raw milk—but also Botox & Chick-fil-A,” and she dislikes, "Facebook groups for moms, gentle parenting, mommy bloggers.

This is exactly the kind of person you’d expect to found a group like Ladies for Kavanaugh, which Fitfield admitted at the time was devoted solely to discreditting Christine Blasey Ford’s (very credible) rape allegations against the then-nominee.

The Medes were the pre-eminent indo-iranian group for a bunch of the iron age.

They were integral to the grand alliance that finally brought down the Assyrian Empire, after similar alliances had formed and been defeated. The Median Empire took over huge chunks of the defeated empire and their name was so well known that even in the Persian Wars, the Greeks referred to joining the Persian Empire as Medizing.

Speaking of, one of the subordinate tribes in the Median Empire’s coalition was a minor regional player that today we call the Persians…