OttoboyEmpire [none/use name]

do we know if MN provides for special elections to replace them?

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For decades, Iran has followed an “aggressive proxy” strategy of confronting Israel under which they provided arms, technical know-how, and occasionally direct military support to proxy forces positioned to directly attack Israel. This is why Lebanese Hezbollah, Ansar Allah in Yemen, and Baathist Syria received so much support from Iran. It’s why Suuni Hamas got the same. . . .

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The thing is that it’s not the 1990s any more. It’s the 2020s and Iran is an increasingly wealthy and industrialized country and the Iranian elite increasingly leery of an endless jihadist project against Israel they get no return on investment from. . . .

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And, well, the Israelis just killed three of the architects of that very IRGC-focused “forward proxy” strategy, who probably lobbied and would have continued to lobby in favor of a strategy that saw military resources poured into funding [projects and factions against genocide.]

doomers high stepping over QIran like AI over Ty Lue – the genocide will continue, inexorable.

you just go take more Palestinian land

that certainly makes sense, but i wonder how much punishment Iran is prepared to sustain – Israel says they’re preparing for 2 weeks of war (which I assume means much longer).

i imagine oil fields are easy/soft targets – is it possible that Israel could knock out Iran’s ability to destroy the wells, or could that be accomplished sort of trivially with cheap drones or something?

thanks. damn, it was over before it started – they do not have the appetite for this.

Pardon my ignorance, but wasn’t part of Iran’s deterrence the threat that it would torch all the Empire-aligned Sunni oil wells, if, uh, it were to be bombed/decapitation struck?

lots of very serious self-styled “materialists” here somehow believe that being insufficiently optimistic over iran stacking Ls over the last year and a half has and will continue to have a casual effect on the World.

really makes you think!

i’m not dooming – i’ve been assured since last year, by our very best QIran posters, that Iran is in control, it’s just waiting to strike when it’s not so gosh darn hot!

yep. the BBB is being framed as reasonable austerity, and schumer gives no push back whatsoever and sits with his thumb in his ass and complains about Trump not being tough enough on iran.

long day’s journey into night is so fucking sick. but it should be seen in 3D and the mutual aid board needs to pony up and pay everyone to get a big beautiful 3D TV so they can watch it correctly

you ask what the point of my post is but you didn’t grapple with any of it. why would i care about your ideal version of porn? i live in the real world. the proliferation of porn, how it is produced, and how it is consumed, is exploitative and, insofar as it creates “gooners”, is deadening. sitting around in your house all day jerking off is self-evidently bad, as is playing slot machines all day, as is eating processed foods all day from your magic fridge.

the issue isn’t that you don’t have enough treats, or can’t get them quickly enough. the issue is that you are provided treats, at the expense of others and the world, and these treats are used as a substitute for deeper psychological and spiritual needs/desires. no one is gooning all day out of an invariable individual preference – there’s something deeper at play/at work.

its just obviously, prime facie sad to sit inside and jerk off all day to a mediated, prefabricated fantasies. not because sex is bad or shameful, but because you’ve become alienated from the world and are reduced to a little treat piggie.

pin every post – nothing is wrong, everything a banger.

i don’t care about what happens in a liberated society. i care about what happens in a (current) neoliberal, thatcherrite non-society, where everyone is merely individuals, where the collective good is spit on, where the profit motive creates uncaptured externalities which befall those on the losing end of class distinctions. it is in this world wherein online pornography is incentivized, produced and commodified; and it is this one which is reified precisely by this sort of production in particular-- because a world in which you can instantly gratify yourself alone, all the time, in lieu of having to go outside and talk to and then fuck someone else, is one which forgoes the development of constitutive attachments with others, a necessary requirement of community.

if some people are so invariably into consuming porn, i would suggest they opt for capitalism – though Marx may have allotted for gooning in the morning before fishing at midday and critiquing after dinner, capitalism will surely provide a more varied and variegated porn under the profit motive. all that is holy is profaned, and these people (who, apparently, are NOT the product of their environments, but would be necessarily just, really, irreducibly horny) would be better off there.

i think there’s probably a qualitative difference between vulgar graffiti and having a tiny machine in your pocket that has, and will be incentivized to create more, limitless simulations of people fucking for your gratification at any time.

when i jerk off all day to online pornography, i’m not jerking off to porn inherently; i’m jerking off to porn within a neoliberal order which purports to best provide individual preference satisfaction but because of the profit motive and class realities provides a world incentivized to indulge my selfish impulses at the expense of workers and the collective good and my own opportunity for actual intimacy.

no one cares about porn inherently, no one jerks off to porn inherently.

radlib take. sex is great, and people should be having it, and online pornography, which commodifies the most intimate and shared human experiences, and only serves to further atomize and alienate us from each other and ourselves, sucks. it produces less sex and less intimacy; it creates a market which degrades and exploits.

we easily diagnose mindless consumption as bad and deadening of the spirit, but yet people refuse to admit this when it comes to frictionless consumption of sexual gratification. why is this, why is the need to signal that one isn’t a prude require an endorsement of gooning?

is it really implausible that a dude named hasan is getting detained by tsa lol

okay but he was obviously only taken aside because he kept triggering the metal detector with all his goofy ass thumb rings and pukashells and other assorted accessory bullshit.

Trump admin signaled that they are tired of Bibi’s laundry and now all of a sudden moral beacons like Friedman and Borrell are talking like they’ve been against the genocide the entire time. These people are totally spineless, and probably know that the horse has left the barn and will do anything to pretend that they didn’t cosign world-historical crimes.