Obviously haha

Cringe

No but I do enjoy having conversations about topics I disagree with someone on. When things turn hostile, which I do associate with an argument, it’s just not worth it.

New world Russia

Lain :3

He has a cute dog at least

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Idk but the book was released in 2025 so if the movie is older than that then no

Fun fact it cost 2.3 fucking thousand dollars to renounce your citizenship

I get sleep deprivation hallucinations sometimes and they are usually accompanied by an almost childlike fear. I can feel uncomfortable walking past my bed and don’t like walking past dark rooms. It feels ridiculous in the moment but feeling ridiculous doesn’t stop you from being atleast unnerved.

Only when I am particularly sleep deprived which is more common for me than most people. It’s usually auditory hallucinations like hearing my name called from another room but I can get some visual hallucinations as well. The visuals are very rare but its normally movement in my peripheral or seeing small objects that aren’t there at a second glance.

Edit: oh also I have HPPD so sometimes textures move when they shouldn’t. The shape of enclosed environments can expand and contract while distant objects can sometimes grow or shrink. It’s weird but not distressing. I also get these tiny electric purple hexagons that appear mostly when I smoke but sometimes when I am sober.

Read The Fort Bragg Cartel if you want more info on this.

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Idk dawg, putting our heads down and blending in doesn’t seem like a great way to fight fascism.

I diagree with a few key points

this will not improve the US economy

Yes and no. It will improve the “economy” in that wealthy powerful people will enrich themselves through it and it weakens a threat to their wealth and power. This is what state officials often mean when they say that our economy is doing well. It is, for them, and they need to insure that this continues. One of the purposes of the state is to direct the often very short term interests/incentives of the various capitalists towards long term interests. The economy, the one used to refer to the standard living conditions of the working class, will suffer from this war, they just don’t care about that.

Trump does enrich himself through the power he wields yes but he has to care about the American economy because he IS beholden to other people. Not you and me but rather the other members of his class. If he is to act too far outside of their interests he would be removed from power. He doesn’t need our consent to rule, not really, but he does need theirs.

not even Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Ben Shapiro, Rubio

You should not be looking to these people’s public facing statements for geopolitical analysis. They are not reliable sources. I honestly question whether these idiots are even aware that this is the reason, some of them genuinely do believe the nonsense they say.

They also had put both Russia and Iran under crippling sanctions where both were hardly able to sell any of it in the most discounted prices worldwide.

Russia doesn’t look so crippled to me. While Iran was suffering under sanctions they were doing far better than the US had expected. They also joined BRICS which is the current largest and most successful attempt to create a world trade network outside of American influence. Russia and Iran were “hardly able to sell oil” because they weren’t selling it officially. They sold it to middle men who could skirt around sanctions. Trust me that oil was getting sold it just wasn’t labelled Russian or Iranian anymore.

The US is fighting wars for Israel settler-colonial expansion and hegemony because all their congress is fully bribed and Trump is fully comprimised by Netenyahu.

Entire major world economies do not fight wars because their politicians have been bribed. Our politicians are able to do what they are doing because it also serves the interests of their donors. Look at what their donors are saying. They need Israel to succeed because their unsinkable aircraft carrier in west asia is indespensable to maintaining control in that region.

Idr feel like responding to the rest, my partner wants to play stardew. Here’s a video that covers this perspective better than me [video]

China is establishing alternative trade routes to bypass major US controlled chokepoints like the straight of Malacca. Iran is a literally crossroads of the world and China’s trade with Africa and West Asia has to travel through it. Iran also supplies 50% of China’s oil and because China doesn’t have any significant domestic oil reserves this is critical to their industry and national defence.

This is INCREDIBLY important to geopolitics. The very existence of trade outside of US monitered/controlled routes especially without the use of the dollar is an enourmous threat to its global hegemony and domestic economy. China’s number 1 goal is to create economic relations outside of the US sphere of influence resulting in a multipolar rather than unipolar world economy. The geographical location of Iran is critical to this.

I genuinely can’t stress this enough. Israel almost certainly “started it” because they need Iran gone more than the US does but the US is also very interesting in an utterly dysfunctional Iran. The goal likely isn’t to control that territory or even to extract resources from it. The goal is to make it unmanageable/uninvestable for decades.

Also oil

I genuinely disagree only because, for so many of his supporters, it is their children. I don’t think it will change them as people or their politics as a whole but it will effect Republican chances in the next election. If we have legitimate elections at all. I’m almost certain there will be armed feds at polling stations to “protect them” and fearmongering about Iranian hackers tampering with the results.

Frag your superior officers as an alternative

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It is worth trying, I quite enjoy them and they are relatively harmless. I need to stress though, as someone who uses weed regularly, do your best to avoid regular use until you are at least 25. 25 is technically sorta arbitrary but it will absolutely reduce the long term effects on your brain.