Damn, that’s wild. The worst thing of all (war and bloodshed aside) is that he probably just wanted to disappear in embarrassment and escape notice from the public but instead him and his bottle got written into the history books. I wonder how many academic papers have mentioned his anus?

Wow, what (not) a surprise. All those terrorism and surveillance laws passed after 9/11 were exactly as much a bad idea as people who didn’t hate muslims were warning them to be.

Nebraskans, my dudes, you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Every time I spend a nice weekend in Seattle or Portland, I get home and see people on Facebook acting like it’s Escape From LA and you gotta be Snake Plissken to survive.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaire-dies-after-swallowing-a-bee-during-polo-match/

Comrade Bee laid down his life for the people!

A number of whales have been sinking or damaging yachts near Spain. No single whale and nothing terribly dramatic but it’s become a popular Leftists meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks

Comrade Penis Enlargement Surgeon, the surgery was a great success! You are now heroes of socialism like Comrade Whale, Comrade Bee, and Comrade crushing pressure of deep ocean.

And the reason it’s “difficult to determine”

Well yes, but also because I speak a different language and I’m from a different culture and I have a limited amount of bandwidth to devote to foreigners while my own country is such a dumpster fire.

You mean the people who embrace the status quo unless they absolutely have no choice?

It’s planned for one day which sounds less than useless. Only sustained strikes and protests are effective.

If it’s what the people of Iran want, then it’s no one else’s business to decide.

Fair enough though it’s difficult to determine what the people of Iran want being from a different country and culture half way around the world. Hope they figure it out and make it work.

All these people saying “they want to reinstitute the shah” are basically just making a strawman

From what I’ve seen, it’s Iranians in the streets but I’ll fully admit I’m far away and I’ve seen little.

If the exports weren’t mostly products made with components and raw materials that were imported, you’re thinking would be sound if we were considering the issue in isolation

Nobody is calling out for civil war

Elements of the Right have spent years calling for a civil war, what rock have you been living under?

I’ve been using Sarajevo as an example for a while. People will be getting shot by snipers just for trying to find food or water.

This is exactly where the US is weakest and where we’ll be hurt the most. If the value of the dollar drops significantly and/or the market for Treasury Bonds collapses, the US is FUCKED.

I doubt it. The US has very little power to foment anything there. Mossad has assets in Iran but limited assets that they use sparingly. This was almost certainly an organic grassroots revolution. Now, I’d for sure agree that Mossad and the US are doing anything in their power to move things along.

Good for them that they want to overthrow their oppressors but depressing they want to replace them with new oppressors in the form of a Shah.

If Europe grows a back bone and actually starts a full on Trade War with the US, I wouldn’t be surprised if China joined in. I could see them carefully timing their action to maximize damage.

Weeeeeelll, the Nazis had illegally taken out a bunch of loans and hidden that fact with financial trickery. That’s how they managed to pay for rearmament. All those loans were coming due, the Nazis couldn’t pay and didn’t want to admit what they’d done so yeah, they invaded Poland. I mean, it wasn’t purely distraction, they also hoped to seize gold and foreign currency in Polish possession but distraction was a huge part of it.

At this point, the Epstein files are the distraction. Trump is going full Fascist both at home and abroad.