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Should be a wild four years.

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Threatening to withhold soccer from an American is a weird gamble.
I was gonna say, when has Trump (or any hardlined MAGA) ever given af about soccer?

Remember that old Bush-era Republican copypasta about football soccer being a pussy socialist commie sport that goes against American exceptionalism? It went something like, "Americans play sports with their hands, only commies play sports with their feet"?
 
I don't think Trump counted on Z and Putins hard hatred and stance against each other. He thought he could court both sides with a nice deal but neither party seemed interested. It was a valiant effort and I am glad we are no longer funding Z and letting them destroy each other but Trump misjudged both sides. Even after the Spiderweb bomber attack, both sides presented unrealistic demands at Turkey. They wanna keep killing each other.
I'm surprised he didn't figure out how senselessly vitriolic eastern European countries are toward each other, they're as bad as sand niggers with the ten-thousand year old grievances.
We are the Spartans of the Internet who grew up with old school internet forums and who remember what life online was like before social media. We are the survivors of the court of Carcosa, the children of Aldones, who stand silent vigil by the must covered shores of Lake Halo in silent vigil for the final King, who's yellow tatters must forever hide Ythill. Who knows the truth about Hastur, God of Shepards. And what lurks behind the pale ivory Pallid mask and the reason behind Cassilda's bitter cry of "NOT UPON US OH KING! NOT UPON US!".
This summary is too gay. We're more like if the alley from King of the Hill was several hundred people longer. Just a bunch of ancient internet geezers sipping beer and discussing whatever's bothering us. Occasionally Null Redcorn pulls up in his jeep to complain about how the Cloudflare man stole his land.
 
Indications that something's happening right now with Iran. Increased Israeli fighter jet activity reported from my Israeli source, US embassy in Iraq being evacuated, US dependents in Bahrain/Kuwait are authorized to leave (this has never happened before in the WoT)

maritime advisory has been issued, warning of possible military actions that could pose risks to commercial and naval traffic operating in the surrounding waters.

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FUCK, im gonna have to get the red bull
All I know is that i'll never be forcibly drafted to die for the interests of Israel.
If the (((deep state))) faggots want to try to cause WW3, that's their battle, not mine
Iran talks are gonna fail.

I don't think Trump counted on Z and Putins hard hatred and stance against each other. He thought he could court both sides with a nice deal but neither party seemed interested. It was a valiant effort and I am glad we are no longer funding Z and letting them destroy each other but Trump misjudged both sides. Even after the Spiderweb bomber attack, both sides presented unrealistic demands at Turkey. They wanna keep killing each other.

Likewise, I don't think Trump fully realizes that Iran's leadership has no other option except to create nuclear weapons at this point. They've fucked up the economy so badly with sanctions trying to build this thing for years, bankrupted their peoples futures and have destroyed its ability to produce food similar to Mao Zedong with general govt misuse and corruption. Power outages are increasingly common and this year has been extremely dry for Iran. Infrastructure is shit and has been neglected for air defenses, missiles and nuclear research. The people are angry at the government and any economic deal will the US for Khamenei would be committing suicide practically, politically and ideologically.

Its been a race against time for Iran to build competent air defense and proliferate nuclear warheads as a deterrent, but time is up and the plot has been exposed. Time to strike their nuclear sites or even take out the IRGC, either way, the country will quickly collapse like Syria and we can negotiate with new government. Its not the ideal outcome, but its the only one left.
There's a good chance that Iran may already have some Russian nuclear warheads that they're hiding. There's been many Russian millitary cargo flights to Iran last year. Russia giving Iran nukes would be a good counter to NATO's escalations in Ukraine instead of Russia going to full scale war with NATO unprepared. If Iran detonated a nuclear weapon it would push all funding and support from the war in Ukraine to Iran instead. Iran has been "weeks away from making nuclear weapons" for almost 30 years now...
 
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Says the obvious bridgestone sales rep

There’s no repairing anything that’s not a puncture. A puncture will not lead to a blowout, it will lead to a flat. Have you ever seen how tires are patched?

They don’t sell retreads, but it doesn’t matter if a tire is retreaded. In the early 2000’s, the feds went Karen and took down a study from the nhtsa that said retreads and new tires had comparable failure rates, coincidentally around when the Bush family friends, the Firestones, had drama with a scandal. I’m sure it’s completely unrelated

Why do you hate the environment and money so much?
Why are you bringing up retreads? Retreads are legal in America, but you’re not even buying retreads. You’re buying used tyres with ‘70% of tread’ left. You have no idea where they came from, if they are matching, if they were rotated properly if they were even from the same vehicle, if they were ever damaged, etc. That’s a stupid risk to make for something that doesn’t even cost much compared to other major components of the car. The tyres are the single most important performance and safety component of a vehicle. And someone also pointed out that the tyres may have been stolen. The shop may lack insurance, skirting labor laws, taxes, and other issues to maintain a lower price, and you’re feeding into that industry while hurting the local businesses that actually care about safety and quality.
 
I think you're incorrect. Like, you botched this. George Lucas implemented real historical aspects to the mythology of Star Wars and combed through the jedi and sith with monk beliefs to make it authentic and unique. It is a mythos as much as The Lord Of The Rings is. Star Wars isn't Star Wars without the archetypes and mythos it draws heavily from. This is when you can use the sequels and The Clone Wars (anything after Disney and in disney canon) as a trait of "just meaningless corporate branding". Even the prequels had a lot of things it added to the mythos for better or worse. You can easily use the contrast of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as an archetype stand-in for roles from other mythologies (and even Religions). The entire world of Star Wars, the "Force" is essentially a taoist backdrop. The yin and yang constantly tugging at each other. All of this is inherently why and how anyone can get emotional about Star Wars or care so much about it.
You're talking about George Lucas' six Star Wars stories which are in fact a mythology, and people try to lump Andor into it as if it's the great modern mythology when it's actually not, it's propaganda meant to sway viewers to a certain political movement. This was not what Lucas intended for Star Wars. Superheroes were conceived as WW2 propaganda as well, not a mythology and you would see that superheroes are still to this day political propaganda if you actually dare to read the shit they publish. Superheroes specifically are propaganda skinwalking as "modern mythology" which is partly why everyone is such a maniac these days.

I say it again, I think you people are confusing mythology and propaganda as the same thing and this topic honestly belongs in it's own thread to discuss.
 
Sometimes I wish everyone affected by these idiots would pull a vulgar display of power to these wiggers and just point a big ol shotgun at protestors blocking important roads and highways to make them move. "If you don't get the fuck out of the way you will become vehicular manburger helper or a martyr to a dying cause, your choice."
I gurantee they'll move. Or be retarded and try to use herd mentality then suffer mass fatalities as a result. We need anti-protest squads made up of average workers. People who can legally tell them to fuck right off or suffer consequences. The laws should be updated where you're actively arrested for obstructing traffic, like a warrant gets filed for your arrest for being a cunt. My mom and dad lost 3 weeks worth of paychecks over this shit in 2020.
 
You had to know my pop. Deeply religious and generally contemptuous of pop culture as we called it then (although he loved his spy novels).

I like to think I'm carrying on his legacy, but without the spy novels.
Lucky for you, my parents are willing consumers of a lot of the latest pop culture slop. Worse yet, they still trust in the cable news.
 
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on the ICE raids: "This is the US if the South won the Civil War"

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Damn the Confederacy won the Civil War? Aight boys, rebuild those statues of Confederate generals, raise the Stars and Bars, and uh how'd we elect a Black President if the South won?
 
You think if the south won the civil war and thus uniting America under their banner, wonder how that would affect the world wars?
Outside of entertaining the sheer absurdity of what the mayor of Chicago said that never would've happened. The Confederacy didn't want to take the rest of America, it wanted to leave.
 
You're talking about George Lucas' six Star Wars stories which are in fact a mythology, and people try to lump Andor into it as if it's the great modern mythology when it's actually not, it's propaganda meant to sway viewers to a certain political movement. This was not what Lucas intended for Star Wars. Superheroes were conceived as WW2 propaganda as well, not a mythology and you would see that superheroes are still to this day political propaganda if you actually dare to read the shit they publish. Superheroes specifically are propaganda skinwalking as "modern mythology" which is partly why everyone is such a maniac these days.

I say it again, I think you people are confusing mythology and propaganda as the same thing and this topic honestly belongs in it's own thread to discuss.
You are sperging out about modern star wars and going off on a tangent entirely unrelated to the points I set up against this prior notion that it's just soulless pop culture. I just interjected about star wars itself and its meanings, and how it is mythology. Also mythology has numerous overlaps with propaganda just look at the Nazis and honestly any existing nation, they aren't the same but you're making a larger deal of it than it is, taking this shit personally. What a fucking retard.
 
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President of Iran seems to be outright begging at this point

The entire country is held hostage by Shia Islam clerics and Ayatollah Khamenei. He controls the IRGC and even the president.
I have no doubt Pezeshkian would love to make a deal, but he is prohibited from doing so. Guys been trying to do what he can to expand his country's international trade during his term but at the end of the day, Khamenei has final say.
 
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