Many Christians like myself believe Christian & secular morality are the same (Romans 2:15).
Hegseth's Christian supremacy is a relative of white supremacy.
Yep. And now financial times is reporting that Saudis, UAE, Kuwait & Qatar may be pulling back from US investments (UAE alone had pledged $1.4 trillion in US investments to Trump over the next decade). If they do that, I can see Trump pulling out abruptly (Iranians be damned) & blame it all on Bibi
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The lack of planning is breathtaking. The growing desperation is now evident outside Iran with rising oil/gas prices and collapse of Asian markets
And their brilliant solution: Escalate the bombings, pull in more countries into the conflict and increase casualties
Live look at America becoming great again.
reminiscing *about
I think some may think what we had before is better than death by a bomb and/or facing Balkanization of our beloved Iran
It is almost like folks reminiscing for shahβs days (which trust me, was NOT ideal as even my copy of the Second Sex could land me in Evin) after IRGC took over
Country of 90 million. I cannot speak for all of them.
The FEW (statistically insignificant) I have been able to hear about are quite frightened to see their neighborhoods turned into Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings and trying to find a place to keep their children safe
a rising star in the democratic party
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66p...
Ouch - when was the last time you spent time in Iran?
Dahiyeh is being decimated. Seems their goal is obliteration. The world must step in, support Macronβs efforts. This is a mass displacement, a war crime.
US tax dollars at work: Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) estimates >200 billion dollars (economic impacts and indirect losses) if this war lasts 4-5 weeks
(not to mention countless lost lives and the sacrifice of Americans in a war in which they have ΩΨ§ ΩΩ Ψ§ΩΨΉΩΨ± ΩΩΨ§ ΩΩ Ψ§ΩΩΩΩΨ± )
I went to read more about this and found this live tracker website, where you can watch the estimated cost rise over $11k per SECOND. Horrifying
Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.
"[W]hile Iranβs nuclear facilities have so far largely avoided attack, strikes have damaged a range of sites, including hospitals, police stations, a court and densely populated areas of northern Tehran."
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
2/ "The fear among many Iranians and other observers is that the agendas of the ethnic militias are territorial and separatist and could lead Iran to disintegration or civil war."
By @arashtehran.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
lol - I still use WordPerfect commands (most of which were actually WordStar commands)
The neuroscience of Iranβs Decentralized Mosaic Defense (DMD) system: like octopusβs nervous system where intelligence is decentralized and does not need constant input from the brain, if central command is destroyed (as was last week) DMD regional commanders take over & act on their own initiative
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$1B per day and $4B so far of your tax dollars to kill 1000 people in 4 days
And they are just getting warmed up
Let that sink in
One advantage of your old neighborhood and beloved museums and parks being bombed, and the prospect of militant ethnic groups bankrolled by π€fighting on the ground to start a never ending civil war in your motherland is that you really could care less who sits on what study section
I wish this was the only precious site in my beloved Tehran that is being bombed but it just breaks your heart to see this magnificent museum and UNESCO World Heritage site getting destroyed
(and yes, lives lost is much more tragic but destruction of beautiful historical workmanship hurts too)
Mine in this weekβs @newyorker.com
meanwhile >80 billion land animals are killed to eat and we are encouraged by HHS to eat even more animal flesh
This horrific and well-documented read takes your breath away
βIt Is One of the Worst Mass Killings in Contemporary World Historyβ
Thank you Roxana Saberi (an Iranian-American journalist who was imprisoned in Tehran in 2009) and Fatemeh Jamalpour for writing it and @nytimes.com for publishing it
I know, right?!
It would be called uterus hacking/maxxing.
I hope you got IACUC approval for this
