My friends from Iran are thrilled but cautious. They can't speak out because the regime is still in power for now.
My lefty friends say it's all evil and illegal because the constitution, which they ignored for everything else including Ukraine, says so. This is even more evidence that we need to kill Trump and make camps for his followers.
My righty friends are saying we're getting a dictator a month. Cuban friends are asking about their home country. They want to be part of the 51st state. The military guys are mentioning the languages on the weapons used in Iraq.
For the most part it's a game of who is your mascot. Very few go further from that.
The absolutely stupidest thing we could ever do is annex Cuba. Florida and Texas are already fucked because of “legal” Hispanic immigration, we don’t need another state to solidify a Hispanic majority America in 50 years.
Not to mention making a bunch of literal communists citizens and giving them voting rights.
Wouldn’t be the first time a republican mass naturalized a bunch of socialists/ communists with no loyalty to the US.
Ronald Reagan's Amnesty Act (Immigration Reform and Control Act) single-handedly turned California into a forever-blue state.
Yeah, Scarface is a pretty good movie.
No point annexing but putting a deal in place to put the government there under thumb whilst getting the people there more free slowly and trading is a good course of action.
Only if we remigrate all the Cuban refugees and don’t take in a single additional one. Also I’m still entirely of the opinion that very very few Hispanic countries even have the capacity for capitalism and a republic, there’s a reason they always end up in a dictatorship.
When the military is an actual political power that can take over or force a decision, it's not easy to have nothing non dictatorship.
The military is an actual political power because Hispanics obey strongmen. Without our individualistic tendencies, the West would be the same way.
Kind of, it’s not like the US and western societies for a long time didn’t have militias and militaries capable of forcing a takeover. I see it like the Sowell train hypothesis, Britain gave train technology to the world because they massively profited from their engineers and workers being constantly hired to build, repair and maintain those trains and tracks. However, some countries like Germany, Japan, and America grew their own engineers organically and didn’t have to have foreign engineers for repairs after awhile, on top of that, they innovated the technology to fit their landscape better or in Germany and Americas case just went full speed on mechanical engineering and developed massive innovations on travel in general. Meanwhile many other nations went heavily into debt because they refused to learn the technology or even how to repair the tracks. We’ve yet to see the Hispanic equivalent to those engineers when it comes to a republic, same with Africa, and the majority of Asia.
Cuba and Mexico should be territories of the USA but not states.
That would make Mexicans citizens just like Puerto Ricans. Hard pass.
How the USA manages its territories is up to the USA. They don't have to become citizens of the USA.
That’s what a territory is under US law. Hypothetically you’re correct, it has never once happened in practice however.
Sounds like the USA needs to recreate it's territories by law.
We can’t even get voter ID passed, I’m not hopeful on that one.
A state is going to see those Mexican and Cuban subjects as a resource and put them where they are most efficient, including within the US proper. Empire always backfires.
I am happy with how anti-war the young are. Shows how once the boomers are out Israel isn’t going to be forcing us into more wars.
That just means we will get a false flag. Everyone is anti way until Pearl Harbor and 9/11 events.
Or Ukraine in 2022.
Shitlibs & boomers all draped themselves in Slava flags despite not being able to point to Ukraine on a map two seconds ago.
And just completely ignoring that their plucky underdog mercenaries & pressganged civilians were literal Nazis.
i member, hard to believe how we went from covid masks to Ukraine flags in such a short NPC update
makes you wonder if these NPC's had any real humanity to them?
People will blame false flags on Israel now. It will never be October 6th again.
Israel is currently forcing us into more wars lol
they are just repeating their programming
So what you're telling me is that all your friends are retarded?
To be fair to Alfredic we've known his friends are utterly retarded for a while now, what with his updates on their takes on reality.
True, but normally he only posts his leftist friends. I knew they were retarded. Today he showed his right-wing friends are equally retarded.
That's a tall order. He's like a magnet for retards, meaning no offense to him but plenty of pity. I can honestly say that my left-wing friends are very reasonable, they all oppose things like immigration and transgenderism (and I did not pick friends on that basis).
"Observation on social media" means the vast majority of it is filtered through some propaganda apparatus.
I don't doubt there are plenty of Persian expats who oppose Iran, but whatever media-slop is shoveled onto our screens is by no means representative.
There's a reason you're seeing so many "Iranian rebels" on social media, who for some reason, all look like Onlyfans-whores.
Reminder: Congress literally passed legislation to steal TikTok from the Chinese, and give it to the jews:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Foreign_Adversary_Controlled_Applications_Act
Aren't we all?
It's sort of like seeing the Manchester Liverpool rivalry and saying you're better because you stump for Chelsea. Just a retard of a different color.
For those for whom politics is a team sport, absolutely. But there are also some people who have shown an ability to engage in critical thought and criticize their own side, not just say "OTHER TEAM BAD".
At this point the left is convinced that Trump is pooping himself and having tremors. So it's hard to have a balance when insanity is considered fact.
He's avoiding cameras when normally the most dangerous place in the world is any place between Trump and a camera.
I'm pretty sure this Iran thing isn't going quite the way Bibi's bitch intended it to go.
I'll have you know I have no friends. Just people I get to know intimately so I can keep an eye on them.
Yeah, I don't give a fuck what foreigners think.
Oooh, the Iranians are happy? They're going to cheer us on as liberators? Who the fuck cares? Are they going to fix the housing crisis? Are they going to get the gender queers out of our institutions? No? Then fuck em.
It will take another couple of weeks for the dust to settle, for the paid shills and bot farms on both sides of the issue to move on to their next propaganda push. Only then will an actual consensus from the MAGA base emerge. I do think this is probably going to hurt the GOP in the midterms.
The midterms were lost the second Trump told young voters to go fuck themselves on the housing bubble and colleges. Everything after that is just how badly are we going to lose this time compared to 2018.
Here is what dagthegnome was saying 54 days ago:
Predictably, when "further military action" did ensue, he's strongly in support of it. Shocker!
So I get to live rent-free in your head too, now? Thanks for the empty space, honestly, because it was getting crowded having to share Arch's dingy attic with literally all of the Jews.
Also, I don't support this military action in Iran, and you will find no evidence of me saying otherwise. But once again, you are unable to debate anything I've actually said, so feel the need to put words in my mouth.
Is this the new "just pretending to be retarded"? You say remarkably stupid things, and then when called out on it, you think you're bragging?
I do confess that Arch's head is far more crowded than yours. As much as I disagree with him on many topics, his IQ is a few standard deviations above yours.
No? Well, good for you, I guess. Even though your prediction was completely off, I do appreciate that you didn't just move from "it ain't happening" to "it's good that it's happening" like most do now.
Eh, settle down now, pretty sure I have debated you quite extensively on your war-mongering.
You want to go trawling through my comment history in an effort to find gotcha quotes that don't even apply to the comment you're replying to because your reading comprehension is too low for you to actually engage with what I just said, and then you accuse me of being stupid.
You have nothing but pettiness and insults. You're pathetic.
I went 'trawling' through your comments to find a comment you made in to me in a debate with me (while advocating for neocon regime change ops), only for you to claim that I'm too skewwed to debate you. True enough.
No, I just pointed out that Arch is way smarter than you. That's just a fact. On non-war matters I probably agree with you more, but you just repeat what you hear while he mostly thinks for himself.
Oh, come on, I have mostly pettiness and insults, but I did also whip your warmongering ass in that debate. Be little honest.
Lol, you won that debate, did you? Refusing to admit that Venezuela and Iraq are not the same thing constitutes victory to you.
You're right, maybe that was petty. Maybe you lost it with your great insight is that you shouldn't learn from history.
Excuse me, the US and Athens are two different places, I have nothing to learn from the Peloponnesian War and all other events in history.
Also, how about bombing Iraq again? It's a different event in spacetime! It's not the same!
Regardless, I appreciate that you oppose this Iran insanity. Most people were lying when they said "it's OK because it didn't lead to a war".
JIDF working overtime I see.
Nice way of admitting that israel uses bot farms while claiming everyone who opposes Zionist agendas is not.
Your tunnelmates, Grumman, Muslimsworshipsatan and Gizortnick must be ecstatic.
It must be really hard to deny there's a fedcock up your ass when it glows so brightly your eyes light up. Were you hoping we wouldn't notice?
I just have Joker talking about plans a lot in my head.
It's a cluster fuck as the actions of Iran attacking EVERY Gulf state beyond US military bases is not looking like self defence more the same kind of reaction the cartels had when their boss was killed.
Same time I'd prefer not to be in there, so just gotta wait it out, as at this point with the amount of attacks they are doing, I wouldn't be surprised if Saudi Arabia starts bombing them too.
The Saudi military isn’t that great, despite their equipment. Moreso for show, as they can’t have the military leaders attempting a coup.
Yeah, the Saudis will be lucky if their planes actually make it to Iran
Last year Trump tried to make trade deals with the entire Middle East. Iran talked but declined. The countries that were attacked accepted. It looks like the table was set beforehand.
I do believe Monaco might also start bombing them, as they have the same amount of air power as Saudi Arabia.
Group think makes both sides cheer for their own death and enslavement.
"Yay for militarized police and biometric surveillance when it's against my enemies! Yay for AI and autonomous weapons because my enemies don't like them! Principles? We can't have principles because it's all about my team winning right now. Going too far doesn't matter even though it always gets turned against us."
Tell those shitty ham sandwich eating fruit ruined jack and coke drinking commies than Puerto Rico is ahead of them in the line.
I was disapproving because I see no benefit and now that we had 4 soldiers die so I'm opposed
It's hard to find a reason to not do this. The warring of "justified principles" has not gone well, and we now have massive gulfs between ideologies embedded into our governments all across the western world. "Let me have control for once" is all that's left to try to survive.