all the "we are totally 100% definitely knocking out all of iran's launchers!" bluster is in aid of getting ships moving through the strait again, unfortunately it's a load of gaslighting bollocks and pressure will only keep building there as time goes on
06.03.2026 03:39 β
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the US has already lost in iran, their only hope was iran collapsing in a day or two, and it didn't, so now their only options are to declare victory & slink away or try to put boots on the ground & lose way harder
06.03.2026 03:34 β
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chalk up another failure for 'bomb them until they overthrow their own government for us' i'm sure it'll work one of these days
06.03.2026 03:23 β
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Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything
05.03.2026 21:50 β
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men can shoot guns. women can play the grand piano. is one of the funnier acts of gender in resident evil 1
05.03.2026 06:28 β
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i love having free will
#RE9 #ScoobyDoo
05.03.2026 15:10 β
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don't buy it, frankly. worldwide online study including baby boomers? too many biases there before you even start asking questions, surely. you'd have to survey each generation when they were the same age to compare
05.03.2026 16:27 β
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05.03.2026 09:19 β
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04.03.2026 19:07 β
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very cringe of trump's guys to be saying "our epic chad warfighters have been unshackled to unleash maximum death and killstreak carnage" etc but if they're asked if this is a war they're all umm, wait, no, this is not a war, pls don't put in the paper that this is a war
04.03.2026 14:19 β
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreaderβs commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencerβs eybrows raise slightly]
β¦Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencerβs face. The intervieweeβs name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment weβre joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: βDubai Is Brilliantβ.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencerβs expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expatβs previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are�
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
βI Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax Toβ
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]
04.03.2026 11:14 β
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TERA CHAD Clavicular has been MOGGED by Iranian missile strikes in DUBAI, leaving him DEAD and AURALESS... only to be reborn as an anime horse girl?? watch "Umamusume: Pretty Derby β Lead the Charge Kurabikyura-kun!!!" on Crunchyroll today
04.03.2026 14:05 β
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losing my mind about this still. as far as i can tell the navy was saying they're not going to be doing it just prior to trump announcing that they would be doing it, which is odd and embarrassing. you'd think they'd be on the same page, given iran closing the strait was extremely foreseeable
03.03.2026 21:23 β
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trump on truth social rn: "If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible." good luck with that. could just scuttle the ships now to save time
03.03.2026 19:46 β
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if i were iran i would hope trump does this because it would make it very easy to shoot the ships and sink them. mhm
03.03.2026 19:33 β
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0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
03.03.2026 10:09 β
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they're already considering pilfering air defense from bases elsewhere in the world & it hasn't even been a week. i'm sure that'll be appreciated by countries who thought the US was defending them
03.03.2026 11:51 β
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he means they have lots of noncritical stuff but are running out of critical things like air defense interceptors & he's blaming biden for that instead of himself for not doing an inventory before starting a pointless war
03.03.2026 11:45 β
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starmer always charting the least popular course on every issue is pretty impressive, really. "the US can use our bases to bomb people, but doing that is bad" congrats, you managed to get our bases attacked in such a way that generates zero good will with anyone, masterful
03.03.2026 10:38 β
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the execution of mary, queen of scots
03.03.2026 04:26 β
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do they not tell the grunts that they only have a limited number of interceptors and that they don't work 100% of the time. (or not to film and upload videos of attacks, also). ludicrous display
03.03.2026 02:32 β
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i have seen more than one video shot by a US soldier chuckling at interceptors being fired above his head, who then starts yelling & running for cover when a missile gets through & explodes something near him. what the hell is that. like it's a firework display. you're being bombed rn! take cover!
03.03.2026 02:21 β
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for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
02.03.2026 15:52 β
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ralking
02.03.2026 20:57 β
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there are loads of posts that age horribly but this might be one that is put in a history book for how poorly it ages
02.03.2026 02:49 β
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as a serious journalist (Times, Slate, Bioligical Woman's Weekly, Der Sturmer) I am dismayed the left can't get their tiny heads around simple ideas like my paper printing weekly opinion pieces explaining "why war is necessary" =/= being for the war
02.03.2026 09:19 β
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if you really believe this, you should take 'journalist' out of your bio because you are not one
02.03.2026 10:01 β
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they did that one already on tng actually didn't they. with troi. lots of dream aliens
01.03.2026 23:16 β
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also there was an episode one season prior where chakotay had to go into his dreams to communicate with dream aliens. it's like they couldn't think of much else for him to do
01.03.2026 23:14 β
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voyager season 5 episode 19, 'the fight.' voyager flies into a region of 'chaotic space' and cannot escape. alien residents of chaotic space reach out to talk to chakotay via the medium of imaginary boxing. they can do this because chakotay has "crazy genes." very silly and boring
01.03.2026 23:12 β
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