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Most obvious explanation is the US trying to test iran’s resolve to continue the blockade. A single drone makes sense if iran is just trying to show they still mean it.

Or the us regime is lying about what happened, or there’s an explanation that is true but makes no sense because that’s the world we live in.

An irish guy working legally in FL was kidnapped for no reason and he talks about seeing someone begging guards to give him access to his heart meds for weeks before he had a heart attack and died.

He also talks about being given nonconsentual surgery 1h after being given anathestic that lasts 45mins. The surgery was to remove his cosmetic subdermal implants after he was already cleared for release.

These are torture sites and death camps. The deaths are intentional.

Good, there’s no stronger driver of atheism than being forced to read boring canaanite fan fiction.

An hour into my excursion, I have already been the subject of two exorcism attempts … I step into the food hall, where I see a single vendor: Express Hibachi, which is an unusual name for a purveyor of personal pizzas and chicken Caesar salads

Two men, one donning a “Stand for the Flag, Kneel for the Cross” T-shirt … “We’re disappointed,” they tell me of their fair experience. They’re traveling with a group that includes children, and they planned to scope out the scene and hopefully invite the rest of the family to come along. But they don’t see how a kid could possibly have fun here, with the lackluster attractions and the conspicuous absence of cotton candy

Like everything this fascist regime does, it’s objectively shit.

Hey, sometimes people need bad advice and can’t afford a therapist.

But the DNC wouldn’t have a supermajority the democratic party would and obama had a supermajority.

It’s all but gauranteed that undercover federal agents came up with the plan, encouraged the others to do it, supplied the cash, sourced the drones for them, then planned to arrest them for a crime they had neither knowledge, resources or ability to commit without the help of the feds.

More obviously than about any war in modern memory

Ooph that’s a tough call. More obvious than Iraq 2? “WMDs!!” was even more of a joke in iraq than it currently is in iran, which is saying something.

They literally flew in military transports full of cash which remain unaccounted for, spent by the VP’s company and a mercenary oligarch whose cruelty and graft were so well known he then had to change the name of his company twice.

And that’s not even getting into the insanely illegal corruption that was the coalition provisional authority.

Gavin newsome is an enemy of the american people, like every other billionaire’s toady.

Beware of russians bearing work.

There is no rift, it all bullshit. NATO is the west

When you think your opponent is a monolith, it just means you don’t understand your opponent.

Russia’s Duganist foreign policy relies on the reality of a rift within nato. Part of the reason that they put so much renewed effort into their trumpist coup is to stoke that rift after their strategic failure in ukraine - bringing nato nations closer than at any point since 1990

Russia’s influence among US kleptocrats and fascists is if anything understated. The regime’s “accomplishments” are just a wishlist of russian foreign policy goals.

Trump has long been a russian asset and his business empire was just a front for russian mob money. His earliest advisors were almost entirely known russian agents. Destablising greenland and canada is russia attacking potential NW passage rivals, and greenland helps distance the us and eu. The first trump regime completely dismantled the state dept. and it’s still basically non-functional. Propaganda organs like VoA and USAID, cybersecurity too. Any institutions the empire uses to expand influence or defend itself. Massive self defeating tarriffs on allies and client states weaken alliances and increase pressure on the citizen body.

Iran was never in danger of becoming a meaningful geopolitical alternative, especially given that they were very clearly moving closer to the us. The war in iran cannot be said to be a nato power play give the current rift between nato members about the war, and the predictably destablising effect it would obviously have and is having on the structures of US hegemony.

It was very clearly a last minute decision by some of the dumbest us elites that russia could buy.

The position, goals and capabilities of the us empire were very different in '53 than today.

I think you’re making a general over-arching argument that is contradicted by the specific details.

I think this misses a lot of detail - suppresion of iran is an israeli goal more than a western elite goal. Yes israel is part of the us empire but before the current coup by the lunatic faction in the us, war with iran was becoming much less likely.

The obama nuclear deal was a huge win, iran was complying and un monitoring agreed. Moderates were in power and in the ascendancy in iran and actively talking about how to reduce their sanctions burden. Before the US killed all the moderates in power and let the regime massacre their supporters.

Also, US elites don’t want to maintain full specrrum dominance. Some say that to impress the rubes but they can see the US empire crumbling as much as anyone with eyes. The current goal of US elites is to loot the empire on the way down. That’s why they’re all in bed with russia, the saudis and china - though they keep the china links much quieter.

I’m summarizing my understanding of these panpsychism type theories.

I think part of the idea of this theory is that much of life shares the key elements that make up the scientific definition of consciousness.

I personally don’t see value in preserving the popular definition of consciousness as the human soul, but regardless of personal takes i hope we can agree that scientific theories should be based on the scientific use of the term.

People stretch the word “consciousness” to include things like free-will, human-level intelligence, articulating an understanding of the world, having ideologies, etc.

It’s very close to the classical greek word ψυχή, soul, from where we get psyche. And very close to how many christians have understood “soul”.

But often scientific inquiry leads us to realize how fictional and self-serving our understandings are. Souls aren’t real and consciousness in the brain is just an information sorting process.

Much of life may exhibit that process to some degree. Unsurprising, really - information sorting as complex as ours should have precursors.

If we just elect the right kind of imperialists things are bound to get better!

Aha! Thank you!

Couldn’t find an article from a credible site?

Not so weird, it’s pointing out that the fascist regime and their russian allies are absolutely willing to cook and stoke rape allegations as part of their disinformation campaigns.