[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 1 points 7 hours ago

Nice I guess but also telling how bad things are here that it's this low. Also I predict this is just treatler rage at higher gas prices and other economic uncertainty as well as nativist sentiment that US people shouldn't be dying for another country. I'd bet once this war is 12 months in the rear-view mirror that these numbers go down and stay down.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours ago

Evangelical Christianity and its consequences.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

This is a political problem. You can't technology your way out of laws without living entirely apart from society as an outlaw.

Private devices worked so long as the west had some sort of interest in maintaining the illusion of "freedom of speech" and other such things to promote their liberalism and hegemony to the world and their own citizenry. Now that it's time for hard power, for crushing dissent like pro-Palestine movements, cracking down on people's access to how much better things are getting in China while things get worse for them that is no longer an option.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 11 points 23 hours ago

There are press "list-servs" which these NATO journalists gather on and probably hone in on and harp until it becomes a chorus on a certain phrase.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

Yes. He was in US military custody and somehow managed to run across the DMZ. He made up all kinds of claims but it turned out he was wanted for SA and was being taken to the US for discipline. The DPRK ultimately deported him back to the US.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 33 points 2 days ago

Russia is already almost maximally sanctioned. 50% tariffs won't mean anything except nuclear fuel people in the west screaming in pain if not given exemptions.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

US and Iran will muddle through for a few days. Iran will either knuckle under and deal with the violations while protesting and drag the talks out a long time or they won't and they'll retaliate, the US will claim betrayal and breaking of the ceasefire on Iran's end and either they'll soon propose something new or they'll just start the war up again. But I think it likely the west may at this point really want to get some shipping through to alleviate the economic shocks coming. It's just they have no will to contain the zionist entity's violations and a lack of ability to back down and truly surrender meaningfully.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's salami slicing tactics again. They sign, zionist entity/ US do minor violations BUT Iran are you really going to throw away peace, no sanctions, trade, safety and security for your people by going nuclear and starting it up again?

Logically no. It was just one small violation so you launch a couple missiles at most and call it a day. They up the ante and do it again, bigger violations. Again Iran is asked are you really going to throw all of that away, you already accepted that other violation so just accept this one as well with a few missiles thrown back.

And on and on until they can try to goad Iran into what seems to be over-reacting to attempt to get more buy-in and legitimacy. This time Iran had the world on its side because assassinating the leader of a country and killing its school-girls are clear belligerence in a classic sense. Once Iran accepts and enacts peace, any reaction to provocations by the entity or US is not viewed through the lens of "US attacked them, killed their leader and murdered children" but through the lens of "Iran is over-reacting to and escalating thus is bad and hates peace!".

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago

US-Israeli[sic] strikes hit a Jewish synagogue in Tehran on Tuesday morning.

"See? Jews are clearly not safe in Iran!" - the zionist entity

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 42 points 3 days ago

Everyone should because the US would have no reason to do this. Trying to shore up the economy, bring troops to the region for an invasion without them being attacked, a feint to get them to drop their guard so they can steal the uranium then attack them again, etc, etc.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fell for it again award goes to Iran. When you finally have them by the balls you don't do this. If Trump sees you backing down he takes it as a sign he can negotiate in bad faith and lie and cheat you out of your demands. He now knows your line and what he thinks he can do to violate right up to it again and again.

I somehow knew they would fold in the end. Nothing ever happens gang wins again it seems.

rantAnd I suppose it's understandable but it's also why I don't see the empire falling anytime soon. Everyone they target, even the big regional players like Iran folds under pressure every single time. Even when they don't get what they want, they don't lose either. America won't be seen as humiliated by this affair at all really given it didn't last long enough. Because everyone is averse to standing up too strongly to the the US.

If the US cannot get Iran to hand over or further entomb the nuclear materials I predict a special forces raid to attempt to seize them once Iran stands down its guard. Iran will complain but ultimately just go back to enriching again rather than closing the strait again if the US succeeds with more planning and better surprise.

It's frustrating to have been so close to the empire really feeling some real pain, real end of empire hours only for old Donny to wriggle his way out of it.

[-] darkcalling@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Realistically no amount of protests or even outright violent riots that pop up on short notice in response to a tweet are likely to dissuade Trump's course of action in the short time remaining. He's living in an info bubble for one so most likely he'd just see limited amount of violence on Fox called "Iranian agents cause chaos in last ditch attempt to stop Trump" without understanding anything of the scale or breadth of it. For another short notice protests are smaller than bigger ones. An emergency protest attended by all American cadres and a handful of liberals will do even less of a nothing than a big set-up protest that has time to gather a greater participation rate. Feeling good about yourself by setting up an immediate protest is not important. It's not that Trump will see it and reconsider, that won't happen, so it's about materially getting as many people together as you can on a short notice and unfortunately Trump was not kind enough to tell us he'd do this days ago so he and the empire have the element of timing on their side.

So no matter what we were looking at a post-event protest which is bad but let's be honest Americans are a lost cause who care mainly about themselves and if Trump were to nuke Iran and gas prices dropped in two weeks most Americans would shrug indifferently, say they disagree with the methods but like the result and life would continue on in the empire. Fact is Americans should have been mobilizing en mass since the start of the war on Iran but they haven't. Trump lives in an info bubble and doesn't know, doesn't care anything not fed to him by his advisors and sees things only through that lens. Nixon at least saw the protestors and knew what they were upset about and who they were (not foreign agents, not smuggled in commies but angry Americans), Trump doesn't even know that, I think he really believes his advisors when they tell him they're all paid undocumented immigrants sent by Soros and China.

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