I have always been disheartened by war. I would ask my ex military grandpa a million questions and he would tell me that whatever story youâre seeing anywhere in the open is not the story. So since the anti zionist narrative is gaining ground I assume itâs just part of the smoke and mirrors. I am just disappointed like most people who believe that we should have evolved beyond war by now.
Think a little bit harder about who you are referring to when you say âtheyâ.
Religion is how they get us pawns to take sides. Seems to be working.
Iâm sure itâs complicated. Among my circle, cost of daycare always comes up and the women in my group have more job security than the men.
Two of us are aged out, one is waiting for financial security, and the other has one child but canât afford a second. None of us are extravagant. So thatâs my sample set.
My parents had me when 16 I was raised by grandparents. Maybe when it doesnât take 3.5 incomes to raise a kid or live on a farm.
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How to become more entitled after several ego crushing life events?
Pls inform.
Ooohhh then it sounds like opportunity knocks. Take that trip. Your elevated vibes and memories will stay with you! 𧥠đ
Very likely more stacking opportunities will come back around haha
Ok, since I respect you and we agree on a million other issues Iâm gonna start with extending an olive branch. Iâm not trying to call you stupid or anything despite my apparent annoyance in my responses. We just disagree and Iâd like to actually explain what I think is happening and why this is a horrible course of action that will be utterly devastating for the Iranian people. Thereâs little reason for most to know about this, itâs openly avoided and suppressed in the media.
Iâll also add that my brotherâs nostr:nprofile1qqswex0dc4t8uq5pt7c4qgpgtch6swgfx88d7kwg844m930kac2npwgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tct3l50l fiancĂ© is from Iran, is trapped in Canada due to the sanctions and Iranian immigration nightmare, and her family is still stuck in Iran. They hate their govt and in no way am I defending the regime in charge. To the contrary, I think itâs largely the fault of western govts that they are in the situation that they currently deal with.
So letâs talk about Libya:
In the early 2000s, Libya was one of the wealthiest nations in Africa (if not the most). They wanted to arm themselves as any sensible nation would. NATO and the US did not like this. As they had already rung the bell of âmiddle eastern country X is crazy psychotic and is trying to get a nuclear bomb to end the worldâ for decades at this point (and still is to this day) and just seem to keep swapping out what X equals. They played all the same cards with Ghaddafi in Libya; weapons of mass destruction, trying to get a bomb, violent regime, gonna mindlessly destroy the west, blah blah. Ghaddafi decided he had no desire to be the enemy of choice for the west and wanted to be seen as a friendly and cooperative partner. They became the literal poster child of disarmament and compliance, they welcomed NATO and played by all the rules. Removed all their nuclear and weapons programs and let the US and NATO check all their work in becoming defenseless. It went so far that the US and NATO even hailed them as the example *for* Iran, which is super ironic as Iran is probably behaving exactly as the Libyan example would teach them.
So what happened?
Within just a few short years the CIA began funding terrorist groups and rebel militant groups. In a relatively short span the rebels, with bizarrely deep pockets (shocker) kept growing and beckk ok ing more violent until in 2011, they toppled the regime, killed most of Ghaddafiâs family, and the rebels (literally on video) drug Ghaddafi out into the street and sodomized him with a bayonet for a bit before blowing his brains out.
This was his reward for compliance after he got put in the âcountry Xâ blank in the endlessly touted propaganda talking point. The ultimate result was an externally funded civil war that destroyed the stability of the nation.
Today, Libya is literally a failed state. They went from nearly the wealthiest nation in Africa to a violent, chaotic, human rights horror show ever since and last I knew there are multiple violent militant groups trying to gain control supported with weapons and funding by various external nations including China, the US, Israel, Russia, the UAE, etc. The rape, torture, political suppression, and murder of the citizens who got stuck there is just kinda part of the daily activities.
This all happened barely over 10 years ago.
SO⊠if I were in the position of the govt of Iran, whether I was an authoritarian lunatic, a libertarian, supporter of a strong republic, whoever I was - doesnât matter - I would be absolutely certain of one thing: the US, NATO, and Israeli govts were not my friend. I would, as a rule, wake up and first thing every morning watch Ghaddafi get sodomized by a bayonet and repeat the words, âdo not complyâ 5 times in a row before starting my day. I would fully believe that unless I could defend myself, and possibly unless I had a nuclear bomb, nothing at all would stop them from killing me, my family, and completely destroying my country. Especially since my country had been âcountry Xâ spot just âmonths away from a nuclear bombâ since the 1990s.
Now the Iranian govt is pretty awful, they *all* are, but I have absolutely no doubt that the US and Israel swooping in to âbomb the solutionâ into them means nothing but an absolutely horrible future for the millions of innocent people who live there - I would love to be wrong, but I feel it will turn out just like thinking Trump was going to massively cut the US budget. And I find it slightly ironic that you consider me the naive one, when you seem to believe attacking Iran will make this all better or do anything but make the risk of *all* of these horrible outcomes even greater. I canât come up with any reason why someone in the Iranian regime would be so foolish as to think leaving their country defenseless was anything less than a ticket to be raped by a short rusty sword.
And importantly, **this has nothing to do with whether itâs true, itâs just what someone with common sense would conclude.** Maybe Trump is different, but whereâs the evidence of that really? đ
I certainly donât like the idea of Iran having a nuclear bomb, but I completely understand why they probably think they have no choice, IF thatâs what theyâre doing (I also have no reason to trust any of the bullshit spouted by the establishment and canât fathom taking them at their word on this), as the only countries that the west does NOT seem to arbitrarily install dictators in, start civil wars in, fund terrorists to overthrow, or bomb to the ends of the earth, are ones that have nuclear weapons⊠đ€·đ»ââïž
This is âAfghanistan attacked us, we must invade Iraq!â all over again. It almost even rhymes, âPalestine attacked us, we must invade Iran!â (Also funny that we funded Al Qeada in Afghanistan, and Israel funded Hamas in Palestine to destabilize them, create violence, and make the excuse for war easy) And Israel bombed Iran first on the *exact* same claims that they were âfunding terrorists,â (the irony being that the two literal champions of terrorist funding are the ones banging this drum) and about to have a nuclear bomb to destroy the world. Because apparently literally every single country with too much oil and no nuclear deterrent has a death wish.
I just refuse to buy the literal exact same lines again, and I think you are smart enough to realize that something doesnât add up here. Personally Iâm sick of being lied into wars and then pretending like âwe didnât knowâ when we find out later that everything they said was utter horseshit, which it always is.
Seriously, have you ever even really looked at them when they are saying that âour sources know they are đ€ this close!â? Netanyahu literally held up a picture of an ACME cartoon bomb with some lines on it that said 60% and 90% that were filling it up. Come on? They think we are all completely retarded and how they talk to is exactly in line with that.
Itâs always an absurd oversimplification, the proverbial âeverything is a nail and hereâs my trillion dollar hammerâ of nation meddling, caused by the very govts who just need the next thing for their war machine.
Sorry if I get frustrated that the never ending war machine gets their next war to solve the previous problems of the war machine terrorist funding by dumping ever more funding and control into the war machine.
This is the fiat game. There is nothing but death and destruction on this path, and I just wonât buy the exact same line they have used over and over again. Itâs just like Hollywood making the same stupid, generic film over and over again. They have their recipe and they just keep bringing it out every time. Whenever the justification of their infinite bank account starts to get the tiniest bit difficult, they swap out the characters and play the same movie on repeat, and if enough people donât beleive it, they fund more violence and terrorism until people are convinced that bombing âcountry Xâ is the only way to prevent mass destruction.
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I hope you actually read all of that and give it the attention it deserves, without brushing me off as naive for thinking a war isnât the solution to a problem caused by war, or that Iâm just âsitting on the sidelines with my opinion,â when I suspect my family has more invested in the outcome than you do (though thatâs a guess and I have no idea if you know anyone in/from Iran).
Itâs a shame people think this has anything to do with people who are Jewish.
This is the perpetuation of the petrodollar and trade route competition between the US and China.
Itâs always going to be about money. Broken money. Namely, the dollar.
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Do you have surf where youâre at now? If so, enjoy local spots! Sometimes we think we need to âgo somewhereâ when everything we love is already nearby.
If youâre in Kansas though, get your booty to Costa Rica lol
From that movie âdonât look upâ about a comet coming to destroy Earth and basically the govt does what you might expect: nothing useful.
You can know Iâve just gone through a break up by how much time I spend practicing yoga and playing guitar đ
Itâs basically zero likelihood of actually scoring a block reward with these little guys, so I just went with the gamma for fun and to learn from. I may get another more powerful miner now that I understand more.
I shall buy bitcoin with no hair on no balls sir đ
Maybe. But more likely this is a USA vs China proxy war to dominate trade routes in the Middle East. Remember to enjoy the perpetuation of the petrodollar after we blast a bunch of people abroad. đ«
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I dunno man if I saw you walking along that airport corridor, id be paying a little attention đ đ
