And all his buddies made huge trades on oil futures just a couple days ago
Yeah, you’ve got it. Irony will fuck you every time.
One Nation, Under KGB Agent Krasnov
I think this Trump guy is playing for the wrong team.
Depends on what team you’re on. But he’s definitely never played for team America.
i think his understanding of team america comes from the movie team america and no one bothered to tell him that’s not an educational video.
how can he bomb something legally?
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Don’t forget the alienation of our allies, and loss of national prestige on the world stage.
Not to mention, he’s got the US media cheering him on.
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What a play.
Also I have a question. Maybe somebody can answer.
How the fuck is it that any country can impose all these rules on other countries?
So I knew a guy from Iran.
From Instagram. He made 3d printable models (really unique and interesting ones with the theme of dead head moths, tigers, other moths. Skulls here is a link to a few pictures of ones I printed. https://imgur.com/a/uI3CnA1 )
Anyway. I chatted with him a bit. I suggested some filaments. And he disclosed he was from Iran.
That’s when I learned of some crazy shit.
He told me he couldn’t get the filament because it’s no one will ship filament to Iran except some sellers in China.
1 roll of filament ($25) is almost equivalent to a Full months income there for most people.
He said he had some off brand Chinese printer because no one else would ship him one.
And that the U.S bans other countries from doing business with Iran.
I asked him about how he learned his 3d skills. Said he was a medical device engineer as his day job. Said he often worked 12 hr shifts.
He made way more designing his 3d art models and selling the model files. He has a patreon like a lot of designers. So he makes like $700 USD a month through that, which is way more than he could make as a medical engineer in Iran.
He also told me no one in Iran is allowed to use PayPal. So it’s been hard to sell his art internationally.
He was married and had a kid.
A few months ago his Instagram was deleted. I don’t know what happened.
I don’t know if he and his family are okay.I don’t know anything else.
I worry about him all the time. He’s just some artist. You know? Just like anyone else. Just trying to survive and give the world his art. And idk. I just think about how fucked all this is.
While the US is certainly to blame for that to a large extent, a lot of them problems are also home made.
This is due to a bunch of big, powerful countries teaming up and bullying everybody else.
Why do you think it’s such a big deal if Iran has nuclear weapons? After all, the US has nuclear weapons. Russia has nuclear weapons. Israel has nuclear weapons. So why can’t Iran have nuclear weapons?
Because if Iran had nuclear weapons, then those big and powerful nations might have to give Iran a seat at the table. It wouldn’t be so easy pushing Iran around anymore, because if you pointed nuclear missiles at Iran, you’d have nuclear missiles pointing right back at you.
Personally, I don’t think that any country should have nukes. They’re too dangerous. I think that all countries should be working towards mutual nuclear disarmament. This can be done through treaties and so on. But if any country is allowed to have them, then every country should be allowed to have them.
That’s a really dangerous thought. Certainly no nation should have nukes, but increasing the number who have them just makes it more likely they’ll be used. Civilizational survival is more important than fairness here.
We survived the Cold War because of “Mutually Assured Destruction” and no one in their right mind would let this happen. But it came down to one person disobeying an order at least once. It would be insane to trust the survival of civilization on this assumption
It would be “mad” to multiply the number of ways we can destroy ourselves and believe MAD will save us
The US should be working towards disarmament, and they’ve been going in the opposite direction. It’s hypocritical for the US to demand that other nations not have nukes when they’re stockpiling them.
Every country should have nukes, humans are too dangerous.
This is nothing new https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran
I tracked down his patreon and showed activity about a month ago. So maybe he just doesn’t have Instagram anymore. I will try to reach out to him on patreon.
On the deeper level he’s driving up value of renewable power. But I doubt the idea ever crossed his mind
My go-to response when my more conservative relatives complain about the cost of anything is “are we great again yet?”
They don’t complain around me anymore, which means they’ve internalized my response by now
Rule of acquisition 34
Makes sense if you’re being paid off by the people who sell oil. High oil prices is good if you sell oil.
Oh no…it gets better.
He also lifted sanctions on Russian oil, thus giving money to the country that is sending troops and arms that are fighting against US backed operations in Ukraine, and also supplying Iran with weapons.
