The Stanford Prison Experiment was shut down after six days (read it up if you don't know what I'm talking about). This subjugation and dehumanization of Palestinians experiment has been going on for 78 years. Make it stop.
Wait, are you saying I don't have the right to shoot all men on sight when I walk around at night? But I need to be alone on a public street to feel safe.
What a gesture of goodwill POTUS is sending to Iran. Just the kind of trust-building this negotiation calls for.
How does a person get as old as Trump without learning one of the most basic skills in life?
Pete Hegseth plays a parody of Pete Hegseth so well. Politicians are putting comedians out of business.
Trump threatened Vietnam with 49% tariffs and got a 54-hole golf course in exchange. It's now stripping fertile agricultural land from 4,000 farming families, with no means of replacing their livelihood, at below-market compensation. Article from Le Monde.
There was diplomacy to prevent wars this year?
I only saw coercion of foreign governments and harassment of their citizens.
I now ask people of all stripes if they are a Zionist. If they are, I just stand up and leave. Two years ago, I didn't quite know what that word meant.
I feel abused just existing in the same universe as these *Israeli* terrorists and having to bear witness to this shit.
JD Vance says the Iranian parliament speaker doesn't understand English.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump doesn't know the difference between a windmill and a wind turbine. A windmill is a MILL.
Me: I love fat tails!
Guy overhearing us: That's a weird fetish!
I started explaining statistics. This guy thought I made up a whole field to avoid admitting to being a furry.
How dare Pope Leo, God's representative on Earth, spread the words of peace and love?
Who knew it could be so hard to make consistent decisions when you are not operating from a moral center?
Viszlát, Viktor Orbán. Nem fogsz hiányozni.
What Israel is doing to Lebanon is obscene, carpet bombing civilians, massacring people in their hundreds, total disregard for human life. Truly plumbing the depths of evil. The single greatest source of violence and instability in the region and it's not even close.
For talks in Islamabad, Iran sends their parliamentary speaker, foreign affairs minister, secretary of defense, governor of the central bank, members of parliament, i.e. decision makers and subject matter experts.
The US sends a memoir writer and two real estate developers. No Rubio. No experts.
JD Vance is fine with his wife having rights as long as she doesn't exercise them.
It makes perfect sense that Iran is seeking war damages. Reparation is deterrence.
What's to stop Israel from bombing Gaza / Lebanon / Iran whenever it wants? How can those people rebuild if their lives can just be destroyed again? It's hopelessness. There should be a cost to what Israel is doing.
Has anyone ever seen a ceasefire with Israel hold?
As long as we know:
- The Straight of Hormuz must remain open
- Iran is capable of controlling access
the negotiated outcome is already predetermined. The path to get there might vary, but how many outcomes are possible here?
Quick question:
If you killed your neighbor for his stuff, on the Sabbath, in God's name, then trashed his reputation,
how many commandments did you break?
7. Set a deadline for murder suicide. You don't actually want to die, so you surrender.
I'm guessing the military said "fuck, no" to genocide. Can't wait to hear the details.
Negotiating from Iran's proposal. Normalized Iranian control of the Straight of Hormuz.
Sounds like the US lost the war.
6. Threaten genocide. At this point, might as well commit war crimes.
So, Iran not negotiating with terrorists.
I remember the international outrage when ISIS blew up Palmyra.
I'm hopeful about the war ending, because Iran is doing all the right things from a game-theoretic point of view, consistently showing that it is a rational player. Its moves are predictable.
That's an invitation for people around Trump and Hegseth to step up and model out the game for them.
I'm sorry, what? This is the weirdest thing I've read, this entire regime.
That tracks. They admitted to killing all their own candidates for the leadership of Iran. Then killed the guy who could talk to everyone.