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The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah lol that is not easy whatsoever

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 5 points ago +5 / -0

I think Jared would get a lot more popular if he wasn't extremely suppressed in the 2010s. He was basically banned off Twitter and Youtube.

As far as a critique of his messaging I would say that his laser focus on racial advocacy does hurt his reach at times since he doesn't discuss trending topics, but I think he's fine with that.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 7 points ago +7 / -0

Jared Taylor is always a cut above

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 4 points ago +4 / -0

Destroying public infrastructure would 100% end the regime, no question about that. But that would mean Iran destroys the infrastructure of the whole Gulf as well. That's why they're not doing it.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 3 points ago +3 / -0

Price hikes and drops are generally the best economic signals that exist because they are completely public and they depend on people's real buying decisions. Regardless of the motives involved, if companies charge more and people continue to pay it, the market will be flooded with supply until a new equilibrium is reached, because there's money to be made. Gas prices shoot up in disaster areas, then return to normalcy as supply increases.

I'm aware that this assumes a free market, which we don't have in several respects, but it does hold generally true. For example, publishers initially tried to hold the line at high prices for ebooks, but the market has kept things relatively reasonable.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 7 points ago +7 / -0

Another bombing campaign would be pointless. You're not penetrating the missile cities or killing enough leadership to topple the regime, and you'd just close the Strait of Hormuz again as well as potentially incur damages to Gulf infrastructure.

The only way they decide to go in again imo is with ground troops, either to take out their nuclear facilities or straight up invade the country. An invasion requires massive, obvious staging across the border, though. There would be no mystery about that.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent [M] 1 point ago +1 / -0

This was reported for linking to possible illicit C material. I don't know if that's true, but I don't want to click on that so I'm removing the post out of caution. If one of the other mods investigates and restores I'll defer to them.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points ago +2 / -0

Uhhh OK so I guess that's another innovation we're borrowing from Israel

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 21 points ago +21 / -0

The Israelis aren't buying it. Zero gratitude for fighting the war for them, of course.

Apparently the actual text of the deal will be published by Friday, but a payment of $300B for not being meanie heads is a hilarious way to end a regime change war. I don't know if Iran will actually pursue a nuclear weapon, but I doubt there's any way that they trade their uranium for money either.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 13 points ago +13 / -0

Gee I wonder who owns the league? Why would they want to make sure that LGBBQ activism crushes Christianity?

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points ago +2 / -0

Radar sites and successful strikes on them are widely reported. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/iran-hits-key-us-radar-deepening-gulf-missile-defense-woes

Open source intelligence has actually never been better, but you won't see it in mainstream news (which has never been worse arguably).

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'd rather take a weaker deal, call it a good deal and move on than that.

That seems what Trump really wants to do. I strongly doubt he ever wanted military action on Iran in the first place.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 5 points ago +5 / -0

If the claim is we are out of ammo reserves, I take that more as we are out of reserves that we are willing to use. If we went into a real war against Iran, the sheer resource might of the US crushes Iran. The problem with that is there's pretty much zero political capital to go start a real war over there.

Yes, the US could destroy Iran tomorrow. You can hide drones but you can't hide power plants. But that would also mean the destruction of Gulf oil production and Israeli water.

Whatever I've seen in this deal is probably a good deal for us, and puts an end to it all, and honestly I think those it stands to piss off the most are the same Israel-first fake Americans.

Pissing off the Mark Levins of the world, yes. I'm interested in how this might be a good deal for us, though.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 13 points ago +13 / -0

Iran was the one who got attacked, so a successful defense is a victory even though it cost them many lives and perhaps billions in military equipment. You could argue it's ultimately a defeat if their strategic position was crippled by the war, but if anything it seems to be strengthened. They didn't exercise control over the strait before, but now they do.

as put it this way, did Ukraine win or just survive?

I see your point, but Ukraine's survival is still in question. If they ultimately retain Kiev, Odessa, etc even if they lose the Donbass, I'd say that's a partial victory, yeah.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 13 points ago +13 / -0

I wouldn't say America is hurting, more that this is a lesser Vietnam

Brother that is an admission that America is hurting. Vietnam hurt a lot, in terms of blood, treasure, and reputation, and it is rightfully seen as a major US defeat.

I don't doubt Iran will try to posture that they 'won' but they've lost so much infrastructure, leaders, any goodwill from neighbours as EVERY Gulf state is arming up and building up a competent military and they'll do that BEFORE Iran can re-arm.

And they're going to do what with their militaries? Wrest away control of the strait? How?

The US just took their best shot at Iran to 1) take out their nuclear capability and 2) change their regime, and fell short of both goals. That's an Iranian victory.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 24 points ago +24 / -0

OK, I watched the video. Judging from the images shown, a 93% facial recognition match is about as useful as Ellen Page's pretend wang

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 29 points ago +29 / -0

Ban all AI recognition tools. Cops are too retarded to be trusted with them, and if they were smart enough to use them to their full extent that might even be worse. This isn't even the only case of wrongful AI arrest in the past few months in Florida alone.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 3 points ago +3 / -0

These people just don't know what time it is. We are never going back to boomercon culture.

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The_Shadow_of_Intent 31 points ago +31 / -0

You mean the guy who plagiarized his doctoral thesis would also read speeches written for him by communists? Unbelievable

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