Killing a bunch of kids, makes sure the other side won’t surrender.

It’s a genocide. We don’t intend to let them surrender. We’re going to keep killing long after Iran has been fully defanged

Collateral Murder

Stop. Posting. On. Reddit.

Another 30+ years of “terrorists”

We were never going to hear the end of “Muslim Terrorist” rhetoric, because it was instrumental in justifying our dominion over the region.

There isn’t going to be another 9/11. We’re well past the point of needing a causa belli for this kind of war. It’ll just be ICE goons murdering parents in front of crying children and CNN talking heads explaining how we’re safer because of it.

Gotta wonder how many Chuds will post “Iranians can wear bikinis again” before the bodies are even cold

Flip to what, though?

Reza Pahlavi appears to be the current useful idiot of the West

Given the viciousness and the firepower both US and Israel can bring to bare, it’s very possible they killed him.

Also possible they’re just announcing this to further domestic unrest. If Khamenei doesn’t stick his head out to announce he’s alive, it will be that much easier to flip generals or city leaders who think they’ll need to surrender in order to survive.

Videos in Farsi published on social media show some people cheering in Tehran

“We’ll be greeted as liberators”

No shortage of people in Iran who hate the Ayatollah. But it’s unlikely you’ll find folks under active bombardment feeling in the mood to cheer at any news.

the vast majority of people are just carrying on

They’re surviving because that’s all they believe they have the power to do.

the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning

All of this has been happening. We’ve had multiple protest marches, fund raisers, and relief efforts for vulnerable people in hostile states and counties.

If you’re not seeing it, you’re not looking for it. But then this is part of the problem.

There is no single national organization to rally around. At best you have some short lived movements - No Kings, BLM, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street - that dissolve (or are dismantled) as soon as they emerge.

Otherwise, you’re organizing with a regional group - your local union chapter, an LGBTQ org, a political outfit like Palestine Action or the DSA or PSL - that’s at best a few dozen, largely disconnected from one another.

The closest thing to a general strike we’ve seen was the Minneapolis January 23 action, which lasted a day or two and never stretched beyond the city limits.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr labeled TikTok a “clear and present danger” to US national security, urging its removal from app stores due to concerns over data access by China. Citing reports of ByteDance personnel in Beijing accessing sensitive American user data, Carr argued the app acts as a surveillance tool

Back when radio/TV were just getting started, the FCC created a set of rules to make sure that the public would be well informed.

This is revisionist.

The FCC created a set of rules to manage a broadcasting cartel. Changes in technology shifted the domain of ownership from the production companies to the telecommunication companies and eventually the data center companies.

But we started as a cartel. We’re still a cartel. The FCC has done nothing to change that (and made many moves to entrench it - the forced sale of TikTok being only the latest).

As soon as Reagan took office he started ‘deregulating’ the media. By 1996, the Fairness Doctrine was dead.

The Fairness Doctrine was an enrichment of the two party system. Reagan simply took the next logical step and made it a one party system.

It’s not a matter of realization but action. “The guy with the enormous constellation of public and private allies plans to do The Big Illegal Thing” doesn’t tell us how we’re supposed to respond.

There’s a certain “well, people should just do something!!!” attitude that is divorced from reality. Everyone wants everyone else to “do something!!!” for them. Vanishingly few people know what is to be done.

Are you arguing about the use of “resurfaced”

It’s a popular media gimmick. Turn old news into a new headline because you’ve got nothing better to talk about.

The NYPost and WaTi play this game all the time

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them

You violate enough constitutional provisions and one more doesn’t seem like such a big deal

reported to be in good health

I’m looking forward to the Occluded Donald diehards insisting he’s not dead, just in hiding, after he does kick it

Dude is turning to pudding on camera. I can only hope he tries to run again in 2028

The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.

I mean, there’s a scarf.

And then there’s a scarf

You could make them go “oof” on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.

I think the better question is “How many polygons do you want and what do you want them to do?”

That’s probably because you just like a different super power, no?

I’m a Virgo

It’s a superhero TV show from the perspective of a kid growing up in the hood who is just a really big guy.