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Monitoring the situation in Iran
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ChuckeRearmed
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Curious how much truth to it considering that it is WaPo, but nevertheless an interesting read
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Topher
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Why I keep saying don't listen to what Trump says.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Jesus fuck we had this shit happening in africa ages ago..
Not the biggest visitor on off-topic but thanks for sharing
LordCBH
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I wish we had an Anger react here. Just for this….these people deserve better than this….
nkarafo
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These people cheering must really enjoy not having freedoms.
Amazing how a religion can brainwash humans so hard. The fear of inevitable death and the thought of eternal existence in some sort of paradise is a powerful drug.
StreetsofBeige
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I think that's how religion originally started. All the kings and priests made up fairy tale stories of gods and devils and shit to to calm the masses. While those elites stay rich, pig out and control the city, the peons who are easily influenced will believe anything. And when youre kept poor, you kind of got no choice to ride it out anyway..... unless they can overthrown the tyrant.
In countries with religion being unpopular or richer people, religion has little effect as they are smarter and can be self sufficent with good jobs
nkarafo
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More like control the masses by calming them while also convincing them there's a big brother watching them all the time, so better not conspire against the god-chosen king when you are alone.
But yes, that's my theory as well.
Left-wing retards will be triggered by this just like they were triggered by Venezuelans celebrating the end of Maduro.
No protests. Nothing.
This is so sad for the world we live in when you know protests only happens when they get paid.
Angry_Megalodon
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This is simply not true. Precisely, in "atheist countries" we have a plethora of crazy ideologies that have taken over the role of traditional religions. Feminism, gender insane theories, transhumanism, etc. All those are religions. Atheism itself is a religion. Faith and inteligence work in different lengthwaves. The so-called "secular" leftist refuse to acknowledge the Iranian massacre just because of their extremist ideology and this is happening in "richer and smarter countries". Precisely, the richer a country is, the more insane it becomes, because BOREDOM is the root of all evil, as the old sages said.
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kevboard
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I wonder if people who repeat this idiotic statement think they're clever.
nkarafo
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Come on now, don't be silly.
An atheist simply doesn't believe in god because of lack of convincing evidence. Simple as that. It doesn't have anything to do with being a "part of something" or a member of a cult or whatever nonsense.
It's like saying not believing in Santa or the Big Foot is a religion.
It's also annoying how atheism has become an integral part of the left. I am an atheist and i can assure you, i'm not a leftist. I don't believe in god because of my own logic, not because of politics.
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BlackTron
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Maybe they remembered when Rubio tried to prime them for democracy a few years back. We come in and free them like Captain America, then want to run the place (oil fields) ourselves. Awkwaaard.
He also has Maduro captured and disarmed, from where he can be forced to testify that Dominion Voting Systems helped Democrats steal the 2020 election.
We didn't capture Maduro to help people, but it sure is nice window dressing.
calico
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Leftist protests are also typically motivated by the identity of the perceived 'perpetrator' (Jews, cops, President Trump etc.) rather than any actual concern for the 'victim' in a given scenario.
This is a tricky scenario to navigate, because as much as some on the left instinctively want to go through the mental gymnastics to blame President Trump for a crackdown by the Iranian regime, it is a stretch to begin with, and those who pull the strings are thinking it through to the point where any eventual US strike may be joined by Israel. The left does not want to get itself into a position where it is mass protesting in alignment with / in support of Israeli strikes.
Better to wait and see if the chicken noises etc. can provoke a strike to happen, and then when a US / Israeli strike inevitably kills some civilians, they can mass protest against President Trump and Israel for that instead. This is a much easier sell for the foot soldiers than a protest against an Islamic regime.
Senua
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Found Lindsey Graham's gaf account
Ass of Can Whooping
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BlackTron
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It appears to me they may be positioning forces, acting coy meanwhile. Earlier they were moving two ships from the South China Sea which I surmised would take two days if they hurried, and I felt disheartened at the dialog as time passed.
Now we know a carrier is still en route.
Now that doesn't mean anything is happening to help people. I expect some angle to benefit Trump personally, to play into his greater plans somehow. Minimally as a win or distraction from something else.
Watch carefully. Trump will make sure there is war when we were supposed to be voting.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Religion evolved in to that. It didn't start as just an ulterior means of control, and even the ones who used it that way back then would have believed in it themselves
It's all well and good to believe you would have been one of the intelligent ones in an era where our modern understanding of science didn't even exist,
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Chittagong
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ChuckeRearmed
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Well to be faiir there is "atheism" and there "being atheistic". There are a lot of militant atheists whose only purpose is to tell everybody how those who believe into anything are stupid. Rabid denial of anything is - in essense - a cult. A lot of atheists are closer to agnostics than to atheists though.
Kinda. There is a reason why the first "rulers" were all mostly priests. Like basically somebody discovered some water vein, proclaimed that the god Enki or whatever is living there and that's why the water is clean and endless. Then due to be the first to discover it, they became leaders and such. I don't think that the politics have changed over thousand of years. You still got the warlords who later overthrew the priests, then could not keep the water vein clean due to not knowing something and then the priests would cry about the gods abandoning them and people rebelling etc.
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Warspite
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Attached: 1 image The USS Abraham Lincoln was seen crossing the Malacca Strait, moving from the South China Sea toward the Arabian Sea. Escorted by destroyers USS Michael Murphy and USS Stethem, and reportedly joined by a submarine, the fleet is expected to reach striking range of Iran within 5...
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DonkeyPunchJr
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Yeah haven't you seen the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie?It'd be interesting if Trump can cause an earthquake tho am I right
The attack will happen. It's just been postponed.
I think US is gonna wipe out their entire missile arsenal and launching abilities, drone factories, and then move into destroying their IRGC facilities.
John Bilbo
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I don't wish for war but I don't wish for evil to triumph either.
If the US army is striking Iran I wish for a quick and total victory.
If the US army is striking Iran I wish for a quick and total victory.
Warspite
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I dont think the US Army will be doing anything (expect defending in area assets), the thinking will be to wipe out the Iran revolutionary guard with air power and hope that the people can take over and remove the regime.
Wherever this will work is anyone's guess but the feeling might be its now or never with the current protests.
Wherever this will work is anyone's guess but the feeling might be its now or never with the current protests.
Tams
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efyu_lemonardo
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Any new information about the extent of the massacre?
How much of Tehran burning would appease you? Just what types of targets would you assemble in your target package, how would you hit them, and what after effects would it create.
Please list your sources and assessments.
ClanOfNone
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America strikes: WHY ARE THEY INVADING
America does not strike: WHY WON'T THEY DO SOMETHING
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
StreetsofBeige
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That's the downside of being the US. Everyone looks to America to lead the charge when it comes to fights, money, bailouts, stock market etc... Shit goes down and who does everyone hope helps them out? The US.
All the other countries in NATO or UN or whatever sit back and watch. Crazy stuff happens in the mid east, and as usual it takes the US whose across the Atlantic ocean to take action while the shitload of European countries as well Japan who could all help out sit on their asses half the time.
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kpopSuperstar
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A lot of it is simply his personality that he can't help. He goes into "showman mode". It's the apparatus around him that figured out that it works and lets him do it, normally he would be media trained as a politician, but he's too old too change and his wackiness broke through established normality that was holding some forces back.
Well, certainly if there was like a bridge or something with some type of critical convoy going across it that could be hit by a JDAM and the whole thing would be over, sure, strike away. But this isn't a movie and chances are the US rolling in hitting airfields, barracks, headquarters, and what not would just solidify a big chunk of the "lets see how this plays out" citizenry/military to back their gov. The US, to my knowledge, has not made any commitments to the Iranian people such that we really have any dog in this fight other than one we want to stick our hands into.
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