I understand that you’re the proponent of returning the entire area back to Iran? They’re the closest we can get to Persia, I think.

That would be your position, silly. You’re the one who supports removing the existing population and replacing it with another who claims historical ties.

What a fucking joke. The world persecuted Jews is the reason they have to genocide, ethnically cleanse, and colonize Palestine?

Do Palestinians get to choose a people to do that to? When do we stop with this stupid loop?

which is what this whole war was about in the first place, especially for Israel.

It absolutely wasn’t. Satanyahu has been scaremongering about Iran being two weeks away from a nuke for over 40 years, this isn’t any Israel wants to destroy Iran.

With Syria, Iraq, and Libya dismantled, Iran is the only capable resistance to Israel’s expansionist goals. With collaborator authoritarian leaders in Jordan and Egypt, the only thing stopping Israel from taking them over is Iran. Without Iran and their support for Hezballah, Israel would have taken Lebanon over long ago.

You’re framing it as a defensive position, where Israel is afraid for its survival, whereas the truth is they are an expansionist ethno-religous supremacist state openly plotting to ethnically cleans the region to expand their living space.

Oh please. When the US and Israel attacked Iran and Iran fought back by attacking the gulf countries, the US abandoned all its citizens and told them to LEAVE IMMEDIATELY via commercial airlines while knowing full well the airspace was closed and all flights were cancelled. Other countries not involved in the war chartered flights for their citizens, but the US only evacuated families of government employees and left all expats living and working in the Gulf to fend for themselves.

These small expensive operations are for progranda purposes only! They don’t give a flying fuck about their core responsibility of rescuing US citizens stuck abroad, and they certainly don’t give a shit when Israel murders US citizens. This is pure propaganda for those willing to believe the US rescues its citizens.

People act like Reagan invented the mess we’re in, but Carter helped open the door. He deregulated major industries, embraced austerity politics, empowered Paul Volcker, and helped shift the Democratic Party away from New Deal economics toward market discipline, weakened labor, and “responsible” technocratic cruelty.

That’s the world we still live in: wages crushed, unions weakened, public goods privatized, housing treated like an investment vehicle, and both parties pretending the market is a law of nature.

And abroad, his “human rights” branding didn’t stop him from backing dictators, arming reactionaries, and helping set the stage for decades of intervention and blowback. Reagan didn’t create that machinery from scratch, he inherited and escalated it.

So yes, Carter was smart. Yes, Three Mile Island showed he was calm and technically competent.

Carter was the polite beginning of the catastrophe. Reagan made it louder. Clinton made it bipartisan. Bush made it apocalyptic. Obama made it sophisticated. Trump made it naked. Biden made it normal again. Trump is now making it permanent.

He’s unapologetic about his crimes and still talks about them proudly… At what point does it go from “flawed” to “rotten” to you? It might be impossible to change your perspective if you brush aside every accusation as a minor flaw.

we can’t run a candidate that admits a dark past and tries to make amends

He doesn’t. He never said he regrets his war crimes, he talks about them reminiscingly, he only calls the wars “pointless”, he has no moral objection to the crimes, he just doesn’t think Americans benefitted enough from them.

He doesn’t identify the war machine as bad, on the contrary he wants to thank and honor and support veterans. Y’all need to stop pretending that’s a progressive idea.

You only think in “their side” and “my side” to the point where your side winning is the goal itself, regardless of whether your side effectively does anything to advance what you think of as principals.

Take his stance on Gaza, where he seems eager to cash in on people’s outrage by positioning himself as opposition to genocide, but you won’t see him ever address the real problem. He’s there to change the conversation and allow the status quo to continue. On Ukraine he’s happy to say that Ukrainian fighting the Russian invasion is “resisting with all the means that they can, and I personally think that we should provide them with support.” He’s unwilling to make a statement about Palestinians resisting genocide as needing support, he’s only ever willing to denounce past acts in a vacuum. Like a typical liberal zionist.

He’s being branded as progressive by literally the same people that brought you Fetterman, it’s all aesthetics and zero substance, and you still have your arms wide open.

Let’s pretend the Queen of England didn’t just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let’s remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.

It’s more sexist than the implication itself.

The Zionists and oligarchs are not afraid of a was criminal who went on 5 terror tours and loved his time killing brown people so much he got a Nazi tattoo to commemorate it, by his own gleeful unapologetic admission. His portrayal as progressive should insult you, not make you jump to defend him and accuse those accuse him of sexual assault of being liars so conveniently.

Return at displaced Palestinians first, then cry about expelling Israelis who displaced them. Most of them have a second passport, unlike the stateless Palestinians.

But Palestinians aren’t as human as (insert local population here)…

It’s in the works already, and the Iran fuckup accelerated it. The yuan and the digital yuan are going to take over.

it’s a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?

That was way too literate for the tone you intended

Just look at the Arabian Gulf countries… They built US bases in the promise of protection, and when they were attacked as a result of the US starting a war, they were left to defend themselves AND defend the US bases while the American soldiers escaped to hotels.

You’d be a complete moron to request a US base after what we all just witnessed.

Open a corporation and buy your home and turn it into an AI data center.

Only the battery packs… Tesla for example, for what its worth (obligatory fuck Nazi Elon Musk), provides full detailed service manuals for free for ever component on the car.

I don’t know how being in a union would stop my brain from thinking about a problem I haven’t solved in my work day… It’s not my employer dictating it, it’s my brain.

We take our work home because we’re thinking about the problems and how to solve them all the time, some of my best solutions came to me in the shower.

I have a home lab and I often carry what I learn from my lab to work, I’m not working my job when I’m working on my lab, but there mental overlap is there.

I can’t imagine I’ll be solving many burger flipping problems in the shower.

The fact that Google is behind it is what makes it sketchy. I bet those mosquitoes are carrying 5G.

Truth. Fuck Google, fascist Genocide supporting oligarchs.

Their motives are not pure, for sure. But this program will save many lives, even if its strategic value to Google is long term self benefit.

Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?

This isn’t new, releasing infertile male mosquitoes to reduce the population is a proven technique, and will genuinely reduce disease risk, so the public-health value is real. Why Google has them on hand? Well, they bought the company that started the program (Verily) and took it over, they have a lot of interest in the health and science sectors, not just AI and search/ads.

The real concern is that public health, ecological management, and climate adaptation are collective needs, but they are increasingly being handled through private corporate platforms. Debug can look humanitarian while also expanding Google’s role in governing public infrastructure, deciding how data is collected, how interventions are deployed, who gets served first, and who remains dependent on corporate technology.

Google is using a real public-health problem to develop a scalable bio-automation platform, gain regulatory and municipal trust, strengthen its public image, and position itself inside future public-health and climate-adaptation infrastructure.

They see huge profits and monopoly on technology that will likely become essential to our survival in the future, as they accelerate that likelihood with their reckless environmentally devastating technologies today. They’ll make us pay to use their technology to control pests that threaten our food supply. This isn’t charity, it’s long term strategic planning.

As for the immediate need, we’re gonna need this technology for the devastating future that’s coming, and since our corporate controlled government aren’t doing it themselves, it might be good to let it happen through evil corporations today, and hopefully when shit gets bad enough people will finally revolt and take ownership of it back to society, where it belongs. If not, we’ll continue to be slaves to corporations, but at least half the population won’t starve or die of mosquito spread diseases.

I don’t like that Google is doing it, and you’re absolutely right not to trust their stated motives, and no doubt they’re thinking of all possible evil applications of the technology in the future.

You don’t need to know the names of powerful people to know they are powerful.

The point is not that China only becomes powerful once Western readers can name its elites. The point is that this ignorance reveals how shallow the dominant understanding of China still is.

“There is a problem when cultured people, who are interested in international affairs, who read the press, have difficulty imagining the existence of three Chinese figures” then emphasize Gilles Gressani, director of the journal The Great Continent. It was he who, in the introduction to the latest work published by his journal, The Enemy who designates us (Gallimard, 2026), poses this “paradox” : China weighs “half of what matters in geopolitics and economics”, but no one is able to list three names of living Chinese.

“We continue to completely ignore what is happening” “That says something fundamental”, adds the essayist. We live with mental representations which are those of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. We are still living in 2000, when in reality we are much closer to 2050. ⁇ The book, which brings together several texts by “renowned sinologists and key doctrinaires of Xi Jinping”, under the direction of the Italian-Swiss writer and political scientist Giuliano da Empoli, suggest just one “exclusive folder” on the Middle Kingdom. “If we feel so dizzy in the face of the upheavals underway, it is perhaps because we still refuse to integrate a massive contemporary dimension: China”, plants the volume presentation.

Gilles Gressani invites you to look at the figures. “impressive” : Between 2018 and 2019 alone, China produced more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century, he says. Moreover, "more than half of the AI research is made in China ⁇ , and renewable energy installations are “vertiginous”. “Yet we continue to completely ignore what is happening”, he notes.

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I’d say that makes them a pretty major world power.

Yuh… His argument is not that naming officials is some trivia test for geopolitical seriousness. It is that China now occupies an enormous share of the world’s economic, technological, industrial, and strategic reality, yet many people still relate to it through outdated mental maps. We keep thinking with the categories of the year 2000 while living in a world that is already moving toward 2050.

China is not just “a major power” in the generic sense that people usually mean: big economy, large army, nuclear weapons, permanent UN Security Council seat. That description is technically true, but it barely scratches the surface.

The scale is the issue.

China is central to global manufacturing. It is decisive in supply chains. It is a major force in AI research, green technology, batteries, solar panels, electric vehicles, infrastructure, rare earth processing, telecommunications, finance, and development lending. Even the cement comparison is not just a fun statistic, it shows the scale of the transformation.

So yes, obviously China is a major world power. No one serious is denying that.

The argument is that even people who accept that fact often underestimate what kind of power China has become. They treat it as one important state among others, when in many sectors it is already one of the central organizers of the global system. The usual analysis stops at: “China is a key player in the global economy, has a large military, and possesses nuclear weapons.” That’s like describing the United States in 1945 as “a country with a strong economy and a large navy.” It is not wrong, but it’s insufficient.

Not knowing the names is a symptom. If they took china seriously and the analysis was deep, the reporting on it would surface those names and they would become common household names.

Why is Elon Musk treated as a world-historical industrialist, but Wang Chuanfu of BYD is still obscure, even though BYD is central to the global EV transition?

Why is Sam Altman a household name, but not Robin Li of Baidu, or Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance?

Why is Jamie Dimon constantly quoted, but not Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China?

Western coverage turns mediocre American figures into global characters while reducing China to “Xi” or “Beijing.”

He’s an unapologetic war criminal who brags about his love of war crimes and got a Nazi tattoo to commemorate those crimes.

But “he says enough good things” and calls himself progressive, and that’s good enough for you?