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They knew what they were doing

everything was hunky-dory until 1953. that’s when shit truly went sideways, after Mossadegh broke the eleventh commandment — Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Big Oil — by nationalizing Iran’s oil industry. our CIA and Britain’s MI6 got themselves worked into a Big Mad over this, and engineered a coup that overthrew Mossadegh and turned Iran back into a monarchy, restoring Reza Pahlavi as the Shah. the thing about the Shah of Iran is that he was a repressive piece of shit who was hated by his people, and his fuckery led to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 — and that’s how Iran went from being a repressive monarchy to being a repressive theocracy. meet the new boss, yadda yadda. that’s why we’re in this mess right now — because we couldn’t leave well enough alone 73 years ago.

did you know Iran used to be a western-style democracy, with an elected prime minister? but then one day in 1953, the CIA ousted him in a coup, and restored the repressive and corrupt Shah to power — that's REALLY how this mess all got started. you can read all about it in my post: bit.ly/4lfWn7c

“We’re gonna bomb 20 schools”

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Sure yeah but a lot of democrats are also owned by billionaires or are generally capitalists, and they don’t really push too much voter suppression or voter apathy, although it could be argued that their milquetoast political vision is an intentional attempt to create voter apathy.

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

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Yeah all of these are like things you see on a company website

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Voter suppression and voter apathy are tools developed and deployed successfully by Republican politicians.

You don’t appeal to this type of voter by tacking to the middle. You combine left and right positions as appropriate. Someone who loves Israel might also want universal basic income for instance. Neither of these is a moderate policy position and that voter doesn’t want a moderate policy on those.

The kinds of voters that get called moderate aren’t actually moderate, they’re a mix of harder left and right policy proposals with a smattering of random gossip about this or that candidate.

MODERATE VOTERS HAVE NEVER EXISTED! WE HAVE YEARS OF DATA ON THIS

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Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ Gas producer says it will take ‘weeks to months’ to restore deliveries after Iranian drone strike

⚠️ Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could “bring down the economies of the world,” predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks and drive oil to $150 a barrel.

He pleaded for access to necessary medical care for his toothache, a basic human right, and was denied.

This rogue agency is killing our neighbors—behind the walls of detention centers & in broad daylight.

ICE cannot be reformed, it must be abolished.

U.S. Opens Military Action in Ecuador Against ‘Terrorist Organizations’

We are officially doing too much. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Shiny hunting for dictators

The IOC issued a statement immediately when Russia invaded Ukraine during the same Olympic Truce period in 2022. The IOC then banned Russian athletes from competing under their flag in future Olympics, including Milan-Cortina.

But the IOC isn’t saying anything about the U.S.’s actions right now

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

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