It’s not great, but the Iranians have been pushing for this for a long, long time. They’ve been behind nearly every terrorist organisation and attrocity for the last 30 years. It’s a shame the Iranian people have to suffer - but the blame for that is squarely on their leadership - nobody else.
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Saudi Arabia will be very upset if Iran’s managed to steal all the credit. Not that they’re not upset about Iran already, what with it being Shiite and everything.
I do wonder what would happen if we just let Iran do its thing. I think there’d be a good chance that the Suni countries would suddenly get very worried and might have to do Israels job for them. Now that would be something to see… 
I do think bombing Teheran would be a very bad move though. That does not accomplish the goal - it would solidify it. Make it something actually worth fighting for, something that would appear necessary even to the common person on the street.
Let’s also not forget that Trump essentially removed any incentive for them to stop when he canceled the treaty.
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Agreed. Many Iranians were already fed up of the theocracy. They’ve come close to a popular uprising on a couple of occasions recently. It’s a delicate balancing act to remove the revolutionary guard and the leadership, but not overly alienate the population.
Regardless of how much you hate your government, nothing unites a people like a war. It would be a mistake to give the Ayatollahs a cause for the people to rally around.
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And let’s not forget the proxies. While Hamas may be beaten down and Hezbollah has Jordan to contend with, the Houthis in Yemen have proven quite resilient. The US just bombed the heck out of them to no real avail.
You can kill leaders but their ideologies do not die with them.
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The people of Iran never voted for the Ayatollahs. When they overthrew the Shah, they thought they were ushering in socialism. The muslim extremists moved in by force, and filled the power vacuum - and they’ve maintained their position by threat and violence ever since.
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It’s funny how they manage to describe the whole thing so it makes Trump sound like a halfways reasonable diplomat instead of a gibberish-spouting toddler… 
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Forget Iran. There’s a REAL crisis happening!
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This classic sketch feels incredibly timely.
I heard the lawmaker assassin, after the first attack, showed up to a second home but they weren’t home, he then went to a third home and an officer was already there running wellness checks in response to the first shooting, the officer then approached the suspect (who would’ve been wearing the mask at this point) and said he just stared ahead and made no response, then drove off to the next house.
Police were already arriving to this house as he approached himself, so he just started firing into the house before entering it. I imagine the cops on scene would have had a moments hesistence because from their perspective, a cop was firing into the home where a suspected murderer may have been headed, it’s understandable they may not have realised this was their guy doing harm at first. But I’m not sure how much was known to them about the incident at the time, if the info that they were impersonating an officer had been passed around to responders etc?
The whole thing is crazy. Text his kids that dad went to war last night. Incredibly deluded by how the media represents progressive minded people. Yet they’ll take none of the accountability.
Also never wanted to see bodycam footage more in my life. Just of that interaction at the third house with the wellness check officer. Like, how did they respond or proceed after this suspicious cop fled the scene while they were on the lookout for suspicious looking cops :-/
I also cannot, but can, believe how hard every news network was to label this guy as a liberal or a leftist or a democrat etc. sad thing is, the trump army will only remember those initial lies and go on living in that false narrative.
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I somehow read it as “his posture gyrates under his weight” and I thought, it’s about damn time we got some true honest reporting from the nytimes on trump
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It’s the same story across the globe. 
Another lesser known but very important fact regarding forests; is that ‘young’ trees, (say under 30 years old), store far less carbon than old growth trees. This means the ‘new’ forests never really touch the carbon increase problem let alone the host of other environmental catastrophes this leads on to.
This is an industry I once worked in & long, long ago left, disgusted with the terrible management & horrendous lack of foresight.
I’ve stood on ground where all I can see to the horizon is environmental devestation. As a nature lover, this is heartbreaking to behold in person.
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My dad worked in the lumber and timber industry all his life.
There was a time when logging was done responsibly.
He remembered using oxen to drag out specific trees. The hooves of the oxen didn’t tear up the forest floor.
But along came building booms. And need to speed up the process.
Then came the need for massive amounts of lumber.
Once vast amounts of land had been stripped, they needed mass amounts of fast growing timber.
Along came Asian pines (along with devastating pine beetles) These trees are planted by the 100s of acres and harvested with clear cutting.
The result, devastating loss of old growth and hardwood trees.
And tons of pines not meant for this climate. They are weak and brittle. Have a good round of freezing rain and you can hear them snapping like twigs.
Yes, Arkansas, the Natural State is really Arkansas, land of the brittle pines.
I have a little under 4 acres of land. But I have 6 types of hardwoods including hickory.
I also have tons of shade in the summer. Tons of mulch in the fall. And scores of birds having their babies here in my yard.
My own little nature preserve.
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On another note; I was out last night and headed home just before 9pm. I passed 4 instances of families pulled over and their kids standing on the side of the interstate with multiple patrol cars surrounding them.
It had to be ICE.
It felt so dystopian.
These families were just looking for a better life.
How many lives were torn apart last night? How many kids and parents traumatized?
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And then a generation from now they’ll wonder why there are all these “troubled youths” around the place, I guess they were just born that way. They probably don’t even have Christ in their lives… The only humane thing to do is lock them up or put them down…
Otherwise they’ll start eating the cats and the dogs. And whose to say what will happen when they run out of those? If you thought your children, that’s on you, I never said that, I’d never even imply such a thing. Shame on you. But whose to say? whose to say…
Sorry I sometimes black out and LARP trumps speech writer. Where am I?
Zero Accountability when it comes to mental abuse because it’s a hard thing to prove when all the evidence is metaphysical and a hard thing to put into law without it being abused by bad faith actors. So those who cause mental harm and aguish on this wide a scope know they can just move past it and forget it ever happened, it’s never going to be pinned on anyone. Just a collective fuck up we all shrug about and go oh well, lets just hope it doesn’t happen again. Thankfully there are a million other charges that can be brought forth with what has been on display and broadcast live across the world, with law makers being gunned down in the same week law makers were calling what was happening in LA, Illegal '^ _ ^
Not that it has ever stopped ICE but I think when the bad practices are on display in public streets and not just at their child detention centres, it might hit home for the general public a little more this time.
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And what a not at all coincidence, this was top of my feed when I went to youtube, uploaded 15 minutes ago. Disgruntled News man talks ICE and removes some of the sting by way of absolutely losing ones mind, which is very relatable 
Also couldn’t shoot in their studio in LA this episode because, of the topic on hand. Perfect. It’s like its the Pandemic again
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I remember quite often as a child in primary school, we would do this, we would even go door to door raising funds for various people and cultures facing hardships. It thought us the act and art of empathy long before our brains grew the necessary parts
Never once did anyone object, it was very clear we were helping raise awareness for those who were suffering… (not even gonna touch on the Troicora boxes, that was quite the fraudulent charity happy to use children to take in their profits '
that’s a different kettle of fish, I mostly remember the grass roots efforts organised by my teachers)
Seems we can’t even do that here anymore without someone objecting and trying to politicise the whole thing…
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