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springtail eating a slime mold

by Andy Murray

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listen i know it may be difficult to understand but irans government is not some big brother boogeyman. TO be completely frank, this obsession over irans government is hypocritical because i think of Jordan where you cannot even criticize the king on facebook without the secret police arresting you (this is from family stories) or publish news articles about jordans complicity with the israeli regime without being thrown in jail, but damn i dont see the west trying to force regime change in Jordan and I dont see a ton of news articles on Jordans crazy repressive government and thats because Jordan receives US Aid and is aligned with US interests. I just feel like all this "nuanced" conversations surrounding irans government at a time where the US is actively threatening to destroy them is so unnecessary. Also many of you dont actually know anything about iran and all the information you receive from iran is filtered by the government to news outlets that have been spreading genocide propaganda for the Israelis for years and years. The US policy doesnt care for Iranians, the entire US policy in the global south is installing authoritarians they favor.

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I think it indicates a very specific sort of chauvinism to engage in open acts of aggression against another nation and immediately follow that with "We got what we wanted and now there can be peace". You'd need to think that your country is so mighty that your victim wouldn't even think of going to war with it, that they'd accept any peace offer no matter how disadvantageous or humiliating. The idea that you can de-escalate a situation through limited violence only makes sense if you think that you're capable of a lot worse and that the target both knows and fears this.

Either that or one thinks of their initial violence as clearly justified, and so makes an offer of de-escalation less because it's likely to be accepted and more so one can take the moral high ground when their victim rightfully retaliates. Either way, the fact Trump and his clique saw it as a good idea to directly attack Iran then immediately announce they wanted peace indicates a pretty distorted view of the US Empire's current degree of material and moral superiority in global geopolitics. It's the sort of action one takes when they are or want to assert themselves as undisputed hegemon; it's a bad idea to act like that when ones hegemony can be successfully disputed. I wonder how much longer until the USA's political leadership collectively realises that they're no longer living in the end of history

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Pierre Ino (1909 - 1989)

La Transmigration des Âmes (The Migration of Souls) 1941

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Like it's funny, nobody is saying that the Islamic Republic of Iran is good. Nobody even likes Khamenei, but lest you forget the Iraq war, overthrowing that leadership and replacing it with a western puppet is gonna do more harm than good.

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Certain people on this app live in a fantasy world of slave morality where "evil" and "strength" are exactly the same thing, going both ways. Anything evil you do necessarily makes you stronger, being good necessarily means being weak. These morons can't even acknowledge that the US is in military and diplomatic decline and that Trump and his antics are speeding it up. Is the US still strong? Yeah sure. Is it the unbeatable hegemon? The evil god that derives infinite strength from its Pure Evil And Ruthlessness? No. Stop confusing your panic dreams with reality and start living in the real world please.

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There's an endless amount of nuts bullshit in that NYT anti trans article from two days ago but one of the strangest is the guy argues "trans issues are more complicated and difficult than gay issues bc there's medical care involved."

Like...hey. Hey buddy. You made a whole big thing about how you did soooo much research for this article. Did you check to see what the initial lighting rod for gay rights and recognition as an organized national movement was? The one that brought us to the attention of the whole country and made us into a political concern? Here's a hint: they made the hit musical RENT about it...

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Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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Johnny Bruck, for Perry Rhodan

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Forget about Habibi Funk (white guy owned reissue music label who have been buying up and repackaging retro MENA music for public consumption) and support Sudan Tape Archive instead

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My friend Nader @abdalsalam2000 was nearly killed by the occupation today while seeking aid for his family in Gaza! Please donate to his vetted campaign (#4 on the vetted Gaza fundraisers list) to help him provide for his family without putting himself in harm’s way. Food is extraordinarily expensive and donations are needed URGENTLY! Please donate and share!!

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Justin Todd's 1981 cover art for Twisters: Stories of The Sinister And Macabre, edited by Steve Bowles

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(trying to find a new way to get mad about sabrina carpenter) that's not even how you walk a dog. you hold their leash. not a big handful of their fur

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Everyone I know in Gaza is messaging me saying they can't find internet anymore and are barely able to connect using esims that are running out. Please don't stop donating esims.