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Fuck Dubai, Fuck Qatar, Fuck Iran, Fuck Israel, and Fuck the USA

That doesn’t make Israel blameless, and it doesn’t make what’s happening in Gaza or Lebanon morally simple. But it is just factually true that this war sits on top of a long Iran–Israel proxy conflict, not some spontaneous eruption.

Analysts have documented how Iranian weapons, training, and logistical help over many years were central to building up the capabilities that made large-scale attacks like October 7 possible.

Since the 1990s, Iran has funded and armed Palestinian groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including cash, weapons smuggling, rocket tech, and training; U.S. estimates put Iranian support to Palestinian factions at over $100 million a year.

God, why am I being made to defend Israel??

Look, people, the war didn't "just start."

Since the 1980s, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard helped create and arm Hezbollah in Lebanon specifically to fight Israel, giving it hundreds of millions of dollars a year, training, and advanced rockets and missiles.

Feeling more and more Zionist as the anti-Israel rhetoric loses touch with reality.

Deplorable as their murderous apartheid is, Israel is enmeshed in a geopolitical web of adversarial actors. When anti-Israel posts fail to recognize the roles of Hezbollah, of Qatar, of Iran, I can only despair.

What's with the cultural lust for "virgins"?

Penetration, for the first time, is painful and awkward. It's not super sexy.

And yet, instead of addressing these so-called "tabletop issues", here he is engaging in culture war pandering.

So... how is this an improvement, even by his own rubric??

No one on the left is saying "don't discuss affordability!" Go ahead and do it, Newsom!

Do it! Be the change!

When I look at the squares in office, I wonder what the fuck he's talking about.

...bedsides, yeah, what you said.

Would that it were so simple.

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Qatar's Al Thani family oversees an absolute monarchy rife with human rights abuses, enabled by unchecked power and vast wealth.

Their kafala slavery system traps 2 million migrant laborers—91% of the population—in forced labor, passport confiscation, wage theft, and deadly conditions.

I dunno, sometimes these people are mean to me and I just think... maybe the bad guys are right: some people just ARE unredeemable degenerates.

This is all a precursor to more human indignities.

Everything—absolutely everything—is quaint and provincial in the grand scheme of things.

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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

> Several years earlier, Epstein had been convicted for the trafficking of minors and had spent a year in prison. While [his] public reputation was... destroyed, many people whose judgement I trusted assured me that he had reformed himself and was committed to staying on the good side of the law.

> Several years earlier, Epstein had been convicted for the trafficking of minors and had spent a year in prison. While [his] public reputation was... destroyed, many people whose judgement I trusted assured me that he had reformed himself and was committed to staying on the good side of the law.

> The scientist, Joscha Bach, took tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein, going beyond research funding to accept money for flights, rent and his children’s tuition at a private school in Menlo Park.

Are you the guy whose kids' schooling Epstein paid for?

ACAB

Something that always backfires, I'm beginning to feel, is ridicule. Fascists are immune to it. They, in a sense, thrive on it.

Fascism is adapted to exploit being ridiculed. It's part of their camouflage.

"Haha, ja, ve are all laughink!"

Men will just sprinkle cruelty towards women into their work like it's salt.

Our whole civilization is a minefield littered with dead misogynists' live torpedoes.

Its purpose is to debase.

So fucking extra gross

By the way, Gelerntner has been a longtime critic of women in the workforce and also a longtime favorite of the tech-right; in 2016, Peter Thiel nominated him for the role of Science Advisor to the President, although his influence in Silicon Valley long predates that.

The linchpin of Trump's entire strategy this time around is to concentrate resources in ICE so he has loyal shock troops with which to impose totalitarianism.

He's been investigated over and over for decades. That means nothing to him.

He fears communities mobilizing to become ungovernable.

Annual reminder that the Spartans were a slave-owning aristocracy who practiced systematic rape and ritual murder to perpetuate their social structure.