February 2025 might as well have been 2019 as far as how you need to emotionally accept this. We will continue living. But forever onward we have crossed an era threshold. That is immutable, and undebatable.
This is a forever change. We have bombed refineries and water treatment facilities. Our middle eastern partners are now looking over their shoulder. Their refineries and water facilities are in the fire line. They see the US-Israel forces not giving any shit for long term strategic goals.
The fact we have attacked the desalination plants is a very blunt forever red line. Were you to now speak to the most anti-regine iranian, who was a few steps away from taking up arms against the government... He only now sees countries bombing his world without care. His water. His food. His family
The refineries took years to build, decades to upgrade, manage, and acquire lifelong personnel. They are damaged now, and will only return to feb'25 output years from now, and when they do it will be with different people with much less 'tribal knowledge'.
I need a fundamental understanding from you all here. This message is not hyperbole, its not doomerism, nor is it sensationalist.
We have crossed a permanent threshold. Forever. There is no going back to february 2026. We live in a different world now. There is no going back.
If they are hitting water infrastructure in Iran, that’s a crime against humanity on an enormous scale. I planned to publish something on Iran’s water crisis this week but it obviously got bumped. Iran was already in a critical state pre war, destroying water infrastructure will kill innocent people
Most of the media is demanding that everybody supports the war effort. Well, sod that. This is an illegal conflict, launched by a decrepit American to distract from his domestic problems, which has already killed hundreds of women and children. I didn’t back the Iraq war in 2003. Nor this one!
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Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
But that world was soft, identified as woke, corrupted as DEI, and the men who have spent their lives driving us to this fate seem to only truly be making sense of the world now that they have adjusted the lens of all our eyes. Now they are comfortable. Now they are personally thriving.
I just know this has got to be the dumbest outcome in the face of a unified world that could easily and believably communicate with all peoples across all societies. It took so much energy to fuck it up this bad. It was literally easier, and needed less energy, to just maintain that world
Yeah. I know these events have happened already. World War 1 unironically had a very similar vibe. If you read through 1910 to 1914 it was just as dumb as fuck policy wise. What we now call GI Joe larpers in power were the "lambs" that lead lions in WW1 who shrugged off reality with a handwave
Leaders who casually shrug about war, thousands of civilians being killed on livestreams and the headline news is "isnt it about time we also take out xyz???", a military that acts like a two dimensional phonk edit of a real fighting force that had to pull together to take on adverse times.
The days of "thats dumb as fuck but i mean, they gotta keep the 'battle' in battletech amirite haha" are pretty much over because we have a front row seat to what I believe the original writers and lore junkies in the 1980s envisioned for "great houses"
There are no silver linings. I have lived long enough to experience the parallels of how "this" could go, and while it will be unique in its outcome, it will travel a path all societies of humanity in conflict have had before.
Well. At least the Battletech books have become a little more accurate
We sicc'd the entirety of peak american cold war era might against a country of 25 million iraqis and these juvenile morons are trying to one-up that by sending a corruption starved, military industrial complex poisoned, burned out skeleton against a country of 93 million.
Im so exhausted
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They unravel because to take up the anti-trans position is to believe in a conspiracy theory where trans people secretly control all mechanisms of power in the world, have captured every institution and gotten to every friend and family member they ever had who doesn't mirror their bigotry.
The way people who post anti-trans shit unravel needs to be studied
It's like a social contagion gor bored rich Gen Xers
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It is absolute stupidity to launch a war by decapitating the entire leadership of a country of nearly 100 million souls then eggshell walk and therapy language your way out of describing it as anything other than a 'war'
It is so clearly obvious to me that the knuckledraggers in charge, living the high life of jack bower or tom clancy fantasy are trying to mirror the "high" of the GWOT morale... They seem absolutely centered on the 'power' of america. Iraq and afghanistan are 'small' compared to iran.
"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".
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Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.
Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.
A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.
If you’re a Democrat in Congress who is considering supporting Trump’s illegal war in Iran, please consider self-immolation instead.
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Trump has cancelled his speech addressing the nation today.
Idk im not feeling very weapons hot today sorry
If you’re talking about leftists and communists being the problem today you should probably idk. Idk what to say. Blank blank blank
So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?
