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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • A stopped clock is right twice a day. Netanyahu is an asshole, and Trump is an incompetent idiot. But Iran routinely proclaims they want to wipe Israel off the map. It’s not controversial to say Iran would be an existential threat to Israel if they had the capability, they themselves say they want to be an existential threat to Israel all of the time.

    When authoritarian assholes tell me who they are, I believe them. So I believe Iran’s Ayatollah regime when they say they want to be an existential threat to Israel. So it would be super bad if they get nukes and there’s indication from the UN that they’re trying to build nukes. So they gotta go.

    It’s not just Trump and Netanyahu that are idiots it seems the leadership of Iran are also idiots. Constantly going on about wanting to wipe out Israel while not being all that secretive with their nuclear program… what did they expect to happen?

    And despite the incompetence from the likes of Netanyahu and Trump, it seems the IDF isn’t incompetent and are methodically dismantling Iran’s launch capabilities and their nuclear capabilities. Fordo is going to be tricky, but if Trump doesn’t drop the bunker buster on it, they can probably land some special forces to deal with that site.



  • What are you talking about? It was WWI that ended many of the Kingdoms of Europe, except for the ones that still exist today of course.

    You never heard of the Congress of Vienna? Things were pretty much reset to how it was before Napoleon. I guess we got the metric system from the whole debacle, but that feels like something that could’ve been accomplished without 3 million people dying.

    After what happened in the 40s it’s fucking insulting to say that holding hands can save the world.

    When did the Germans try to do non-violent resistance? A bunch of people tried to assassinate Hitler (they all failed) but that would be more examples violent resistance failing. I don’t know of any widespread non-violent resistance movement against Nazis.


  • Oh great a conspiracy theorist.

    Over think of this one? The government wants you to do violence because you’ll be easily hunted down and shot and Trump’s approval numbers will go up for protecting the public from the violent commies.

    Something like the No Kings protests worries a guy like Trump. If he’s stupid enough to use violence against something like that it’s over for him. It would probably only need something around 25% more support and start doing some general strike kind of activities and Trump is done. The only way he can stop it is if he can associate it with violent nut jobs. Do you want to be a violent nutjob that helps Trump with this problem?

    Do you think Trump would’ve won the election if weren’t for a nut job taking a shot at him? Violent nut jobs tried to take down Trump and they failed. Maybe let the sane people take a crack at dealing with him in a sane way.


  • So did that guy in Boulder Colorado. So do the “pro-Palestinian” idiots that protest synagogues.

    I see the same antisemitic conspiracy theories that were spread by white supremacists decades ago being spread around by “leftists” now with just a lazy s/Jews/Israelis/g’ done on them. Or maybe just chuck in the word zionist in there somewhere when expressing hatred towards Jews not from Israel and suddenly antisemitism is hip thing in the “leftist” crowd.


  • Nah just the crowd that doesn’t read the news from the “lamestream media” and prefer getting the news from >30 second shock clips with zero context.

    Nobody in the woke left is thinking that “the Jews are doing a genocide against Muslims”.

    Three comments above yours:

    which means it’s implicitly endorsing Israel’s genocide of Muslims.

    I think that proves my point about people not reading anything and just reacting to things without considering context at all.




  • The markets are disconnected from reality. There’s a crazy amount of wealth at the top and they gotta put it somewhere. So it’s basically just a gambling site were rich people bet on what’ll happen next in a soap opera. Some of the rich people get to see the script before everyone else does. It’s now relatively stable because they’ve convinced themselves that TACO futures are safe.

    The economic conditions are basically the same as in the late 1920s and Trump’s tariff policies are the same thing they were doing back then. But don’t worry about what happened 1929… TACO TACO TACO BUY BUY BUY!


  • So leftism is about wanting more comfortable public benches for the homeless to sleep on, while liberalism is about not wanting people to be homeless at all?

    Do you ever get tired of needing to be outraged by everything all of the time and just want to be in a society where people actually work to improve things rather than just expressing impotent outrage? Ah but that would require doing work and leftists don’t want to do any work or they might be screamed at by other leftists for being “liberal.”


  • The article mentions “tens of thousands” of births but doesn’t state the numbers of people that were at this particular site. The infant death rate ranged from over 60/1000 down to 20/1000 for developed countries and higher for worldwide estimates.

    Lacking numbers for the number of births there’s no way to compare to the averages, but yeah 20 deaths per year could very well be a normal rate. We tend not to think a lot about infant death rates because it’s not a fun subject, but it’s it’s a historical fact.

    I get that people are addicted to being outraged, but a higher infant death rate over 60 years ago compared to today’s rate may not be something to get super emotional about until there’s specific allegations of foul play or at least some data to indicate there was something out of norm besides improper disposal of the deceased.

    There were death certificates so the government at the time was aware of the number of deaths, and they didn’t seem to think it was out of the norm. Though it’s possible they just didn’t care. But in that case the government would be complicit in this so there should be hard questions asked about the government, not just the church. But that doesn’t seem to be happening, so it seems the controversy is just about corpse disposal 60 to 100 years ago.





  • Yeah and the little green men that showed up in Crimea in 2014 definitely had nothing to do with Russia! That’s what Russia said and we all believed them, right?

    Are you pretending Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis are not Iranian proxies or are you actually that uninformed about these things? Iran regularly calls them their “Axis of Resistance” if you didn’t know. Iran’s proxies have been definitely attacking Israel for a long time.

    How long can Iran have to send endless waves of Arabs to die as canon fodder before someone puts a stop to it? All of the Arab countries are too authoritarian and corrupt to do anything about Iran, so here we are.