Like say all you want about Iran’s government, but fuck, how can you not feel for the people of Iran seeing these images and know deep in your heart that the most profound evil being perpetrated is from the US, Israel, and those allowing their lawless destruction to continue?
Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
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good thing we've spent more than a year actively attacking the green energy sector.
When people say that technologies embody ideologies or power relationships, this is what they mean. ChatGPT seems like an incredibly useful tool for careless people who want to use it only to "smash[] up things and creatures and then retreat[] back into their money..." as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it.
For 50 years, the entire energy world has gamed out this exact scenario, and yet, there doesn't seem to be a plan? Seems bad. rdcu.be/ehooz
And all 60 years' worth of NEH grants will be outspent in a week of attacks on Iran
"Was the Iranian regime bad?"
And
"now that Trump started a regime change war in a country the size of Iraq and Afghanistan combined, without getting congressional approval or doing any planning at all, should we just kind of roll with it?"
Are different questions.
But you'd hardly know it.
Obama made a deal so that Tehran didn't get a nuke and then the GOP nuked it because they thought they could force Tehran to accept better terms
Just heard from a friend in Tehran who says reality is even worse than the pictures. When they hit the depot in Aghdasiyeh, he could hear and feel it from 15km away.
He says if he could reach internet he’d say: “today is the day the world shall end, as the scripture has foretold,” he says.
UK under Starmer. Australia under Albanese. Canada under Carney will not be far behind. This is the fallout of an illegal war, which we're being dragged into through appeasing Trump and because of trade with authoritarian regimes.
At this point people still pushing for Platner are the same as the libs that cannot fathom another human other than Newsom to run in 2028
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I think about this a lot.
the same publications that publish "Are Chatbots Conscious? Do They Deserve Human Rights?" will have "Why the Homeless Need To Be Fed Into Woodchippers For the Economy" 3 pages later.
the same chuds that think AI is sentient deny the humanity of millions.
it's grotesque.
This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no?
there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps
the burning of the PA governor residence
and now this?
little hesitant here bc I don’t want to downplay how much safer you are if you’re white, but folks this woman was Norwegian. her whiteness didn’t save her. if you think you are completely safe from this regime due to who you are, you’re wrong.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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This seems ominous if you care about the rise of fully autonomous robots used for killing people
Aren’t we all..
“She was also not allowed access to her Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) reader, which she requires as a Type 1 diabetic.” So they didn’t just refuse to provide her with insulin - they also denied her access to the device that tells her whether her blood sugar is dangerously high.
Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be.
The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
We could literally legislate this out of existence.
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