It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
08.03.2026 08:52 — 👍 3102 🔁 993 💬 93 📌 43nobody involved in this shit should ever be forgiven
08.03.2026 17:19 — 👍 1950 🔁 390 💬 5 📌 9Like everything else with Trump, the short-term impact will be significantly less than the most catastrophic possibility predicted, which will lead to everybody ignoring all of the long-term effects.
08.03.2026 18:17 — 👍 778 🔁 105 💬 19 📌 3"surely the third democratic presidency to come to power after a norm-breaking and warcrime-cheering Republican administration will pursue justice against their predecessors," I repeat like a mantra til I collapse
08.03.2026 15:39 — 👍 2723 🔁 466 💬 15 📌 0Obama made a deal so that Tehran didn't get a nuke and then the GOP nuked it because they thought they could force Tehran to accept better terms
08.03.2026 02:51 — 👍 1072 🔁 144 💬 17 📌 12The opposition is WRONG ABOUT THIS, by the way. The most devastating moment of Biden's entire presidency was the Afghanistan withdrawal - a largely popular policy that he effected successfully with zero material impacts on Americans, but was covered as a disaster.
08.03.2026 02:14 — 👍 849 🔁 130 💬 31 📌 6we are a very car dependent country so yeah this shit fucking blows for us lmao
08.03.2026 02:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Noah was born on a placid island of blissful stupidity in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that he should voyage far. His takes, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday...
08.03.2026 00:47 — 👍 702 🔁 70 💬 26 📌 29OSINT was at its highest quality when it was conflicts most people didn't give a shit about so from December 2021 onward it started to degrade in quality because of clickbait farming and it took a terminal nosedive once Twitter added revenue sharing for twitter blue subscribers
07.03.2026 23:57 — 👍 306 🔁 34 💬 4 📌 1Amazing how the ball knowers on here were like “they’re going to run out of military targets in a week” and they immediately start hitting economic/civilians infrastructure on day 8
07.03.2026 22:09 — 👍 1472 🔁 345 💬 30 📌 12yes I think cargo cult authoritarianism is another amazingly lucid way to describe the Trump administration’s whole deal
07.03.2026 13:55 — 👍 209 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 1
Platner as the nominee in Maine would make it harder for national Democrats to tear into this fucking guy.
No Nazi shit.
Stop fucking around.
He is *trying* to TACO but there is no TACO button left. Iran is going to keep breaking shit, and it’s not like the war will stop because Israel is still all-in on wiping out the Iranian state apparatus.
06.03.2026 17:16 — 👍 332 🔁 60 💬 12 📌 6in a vc with friends and laughed at this and then had to explain this to my less online friends. pain.
07.03.2026 04:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[activation phrase voice] came in fluffer
06.03.2026 21:16 — 👍 271 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 1this is explicitly genocidal
07.03.2026 03:44 — 👍 3924 🔁 879 💬 133 📌 22this is essentially correct. the united states is a worse actor at this point than putin is.
06.03.2026 22:47 — 👍 244 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 0It's oddly reassuring to see war with Iran going exactly like how everyone has said it would for the last several decades
06.03.2026 19:14 — 👍 572 🔁 74 💬 8 📌 2I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
07.03.2026 01:05 — 👍 3004 🔁 514 💬 100 📌 13Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.
06.03.2026 16:01 — 👍 3396 🔁 879 💬 221 📌 58
The age of the SUV is over
Now is the time of the Fit
So let me get this straight ...
1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
06.03.2026 19:47 — 👍 30239 🔁 7503 💬 224 📌 238
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
06.03.2026 15:04 — 👍 5357 🔁 845 💬 319 📌 628
So there are a few ships making the Hormuz run, but in tiny numbers and not big ones.
By contrast, you can see the huge cloud of ships waiting outside the strait on either side.
Until there are more ships moving in the strait than sitting outside, the USA/Israel is not winning.
1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Don’t Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPO’s, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
