Fu*%face Von Clownstick

thats another thing for which unintended consequences may come back to bite the united states.

as he mentions, the reason that ship was in india was at india's invitation to take part in their biennial naval exercises, along with dozens of other countries. for them to be sunk after leaving indian waters indicates possible complicity on the part of the indian government (as we know, modi has been very strongly associating with israel and visited the knesset just the other week). thats a blow to the idea of indian sovereignty

india just had millions of people across the country take part in protests against modi's government and his trade deals with usa. they also get 60% of their oil from gulf coast countries, which transits the strait of hormuz. they also need nitrogen based fertilizer, of which qatar is one of the largest producers on the planet. one of the other largest producers? iran. whoops

combine a disgruntled populace with a food crisis and you have ripe conditions for violent uprising.

iran doesnt need a surface navy to patrol or interdict the strait of hormuz: its less than 40 kilometres across at its narrowest point. you can literally see across the entire thing from the mountainous terrain on the iranian side. and with that mountainous terrain hiding radar and drone and missile launching capability, there isnt a safe option for anyone to get through. nobody will provide insurance (not military security! i mean financial insurance) for ships that try. the strait of hormuz is literally the fulcrum the modern economy rests on, in a very real sense it is the centre of the world
 
this is one guy's take on the possible consequences. again we're talking about one fifth of the oil on the planet normally going through that strait

Systemic risk: a cascading analysis of the Strait of Hormuz closing

Executive Summary​

The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization.

What appears at first as a maritime blockade is in fact the exposure of the entire global system as a hierarchy of brittle interdependencies.

Oil and LNG fail as inputs into electricity, fertilizer, shipping, chemicals, mining, manufacturing, and state finance.

As an example, The global polyester chain begins in petrochemicals. A severe disruption to hydrocarbon and petrochemical feedstocks cascades into PTA, MEG, polyester resin, filament, and fabric production, causing acute shortages, price spikes, and factory stoppages across synthetic-heavy apparel segments. The industry does not vanish overnight, but the low-cost, high-volume apparel model starts to break down.

From this follows a chain whose logic is cumulative: fuel inflation becomes fertilizer inflation; fertilizer inflation becomes food inflation; food inflation becomes urban instability, sovereign subsidy exhaustion, and ultimately hunger. In this sequence, food shortages are not a secondary humanitarian issue. They are one of the central political outcomes of the crisis, because modern populations do not experience systemic breakdown first through grand strategy, but through unaffordable bread, intermittent power, empty pharmacies, and possibly the collapse of public order. A globalised Arab Spring.

In this framework, hyperinflation emerges as the social expression of real physical bottlenecks. When energy-importing states are forced to acquire dollarized fuel at any price, when currencies weaken, when fertilizer and transport costs reprice an entire harvest cycle, inflation ceases to be cyclical and becomes coercive.

It enters every household budget and every state ledger at once. The result is the destruction of planning itself: firms cannot quote, governments cannot subsidize, and populations can no longer calculate the future. Under such conditions, credit markets seize up, foreign-exchange reserves drain, sovereign spreads widen, and the boundary between economic crisis and political crisis disappears.

Modern technical systems amplify rather than dampen this disorder. The loss of sour crude becomes a sulphur and sulphuric acid crisis; that chemical crisis becomes a copper and cobalt crisis; the metals crisis becomes a transformer, switchgear, and grid crisis; the grid crisis becomes a semiconductor crisis; and the semiconductor crisis becomes a compute and data-centre crisis.

Thus, the closure of a maritime strait reaches, by entirely material means, into the server rack, the hospital network, the payment system, the electrical substation, and the defence-industrial base. The myth that digital civilization floats above heavy industry is, in this scenario, extinguished. Compute is shown to rest on copper, transformers, stable voltage, LNG, and ships.
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Apparently 3 capital police sustained Bo-Bo’s durning and after breaking Brian McGinnis’s arm. While a senator tried dragging him out by his ankles.
Seek out the full video, the only injury sustained by the pigs were hurt feelings that it took so many of them to break his fucken arm.
Dude is facing 7 charges for standing up in a room and speaking his conscience. That’s it! Fucken words = 7 charges and a broken arm
 
evo said:
Apparently 3 capital police sustained Bo-Bo’s durning and after breaking Brian McGinnis’s arm. While a senator tried dragging him out by his ankles.
Seek out the full video, the only injury sustained by the pigs were hurt feelings that it took so many of them to break his fucken arm.
Dude is facing 7 charges for standing up in a room and speaking his conscience. That’s it! Fucken words = 7 charges and a broken arm
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Yea, I saw the video. Those cops must be so embarrassed. He wasn't fighting with them, but he certainly didn't just lay down and take it.
 
I told you the guys in this administration were a bunch of teens in men's bodies. Some real gems you elected for us:

White House posts so-called 'hype' videos combining real Iran war footage alongside movie, video game clips

The White House has posted videos combining real footage from the nascent war in Iran interspersed with footage from movies and video game clips, and phrases like "wasted" over images of explosions.

"JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY," the caption read of a video posted on Thursday night, along with an American flag and fire emoji.

The video include clips from superhero movies, as well as clips from anime films, "Top Gun" and "Braveheart" with electronic tunes underneath before clipping to video of strikes on Iran.

It ends with a voiceover saying, "flawless victory" -- audio from the video game "Moral Kombat."

In another post from the White House on Friday, a video shows a scene from the video game "Grand Theft Auto," with the caption and audio: "Ah [expletive], here we go again."

The clip then jumps to unclassified footage of a U.S. strike on what appears to be a box truck. Once the strike is carried out, the word "wasted" appears superimposed over the video. The term "wasted" is a reference to the when a player makes a kill on "Grand Theft Auto."

Another video shows unclassified footage of a strike before clipping to a scene from "SpongeBob SquarePants" in which the eponymous character asks, "do you want to see me do it again?" before showing a clip of another strike.
 
Tuebor said:
I told you the guys in this administration were a bunch of teens in men's bodies. Some real gems you elected for us:

White House posts so-called 'hype' videos combining real Iran war footage alongside movie, video game clips

The White House has posted videos combining real footage from the nascent war in Iran interspersed with footage from movies and video game clips, and phrases like "wasted" over images of explosions.

"JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY," the caption read of a video posted on Thursday night, along with an American flag and fire emoji.

The video include clips from superhero movies, as well as clips from anime films, "Top Gun" and "Braveheart" with electronic tunes underneath before clipping to video of strikes on Iran.

It ends with a voiceover saying, "flawless victory" -- audio from the video game "Moral Kombat."

In another post from the White House on Friday, a video shows a scene from the video game "Grand Theft Auto," with the caption and audio: "Ah [expletive], here we go again."

The clip then jumps to unclassified footage of a U.S. strike on what appears to be a box truck. Once the strike is carried out, the word "wasted" appears superimposed over the video. The term "wasted" is a reference to the when a player makes a kill on "Grand Theft Auto."

Another video shows unclassified footage of a strike before clipping to a scene from "SpongeBob SquarePants" in which the eponymous character asks, "do you want to see me do it again?" before showing a clip of another strike.
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Entirely disgusting
 
Boomslang said:
"Govprop" (government propaganda) in George Orwell's 1984 is the core mechanism used by "The Party" to maintain absolute control over the superstate of Oceania.

The system relies on constant psychological manipulation, the rewriting of history, and the restriction of language to eliminate the capacity for rebellious thought.

Key elements of propaganda in the novel include:

The Ministry of Truth (Minitrue): This is the department where protagonist Winston Smith works, responsible for fabricating news, entertainment, and educational materials to support the Party’s, and Big Brother's, ever-changing narrative.

The Slogans: The Party enforces its dogma through three core contradictions: "War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery," "Ignorance is Strength".

Newspeak: A heavily restricted language designed to limit the range of thought, making "thoughtcrime" (disloyal thoughts) impossible because the words to express them will no longer exist.

Memory Holes: Documents that contradict the current party line are sent down "memory holes" to be incinerated, effectively erasing the past.

The Two Minutes Hate: A daily ritual where citizens are shown videos of enemies (such as Emmanuel Goldstein) to incite rage and channel discontent away from the Party.

Doublethink: The ability to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both as true.
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Where's the terrified emoji?
 
Pretty scary how every news organization just seems to be fully on board with what is happening in the Middle East. It is like this is fully expected and normal. There is no shock anymore. It is sad when a culture is so numb to war and war crimes that nothing makes people react or protest anymore. None of my employees even mentioned it or brought it up in conversation. But our country has been continually at war for most of their lives so this is normal to them.
 
I believed Tulsi when she said that a vote for Kamal is a vote for WW3.

I believed Trump when he said that Bush 2 attack on Iraq was one of the worst moves ever made by any president.

I believed in the "no new wars" slogan..

but not enough to vote for Trump... I voted for Jill Stein. My gf said that those that this war is the fault of those of us that didn't vote for Kamala. I suggested that she was delussional for thinking the dems would do anything significantly different and then reminded her that the DNC did not give the people a shot to vote in a primary. Thier anti-democratic actions are to blame for Trump. So don't blame me.

And congress didn't stand up to assume the consititutional responsibilitiy of declaring war. So they suck too.

If Trump thought Bush 2's gulf war was bad, wait until he sees the pandaora's box he just opened. I hope the Israelis and Americans learn their lessons when Iran kicks their buts. Ultimately, we are all going to pay the price for this war.
 
RyanCafferky said:
Pretty scary how every news organization just seems to be fully on board with what is happening in the Middle East. It is like this is fully expected and normal. There is no shock anymore. It is sad when a culture is so numb to war and war crimes that nothing makes people react or protest anymore. None of my employees even mentioned it or brought it up in conversation. But our country has been continually at war for most of their lives so this is normal to them.
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I had the same experience, I’m the ole one on the crew and vividly remember Iraq 1.0.. the Iranian hostage crisis was still devastating dining room table conversations when extended friends or family would come over.

Anyone else feeling like this other shit with Cuba and Venezuela makes a whole lot more sense now? Securing a oil supply close to us domestically, and controlling Cuba before one of their allies builds up there?
 
evo said:
I had the same experience, I’m the ole one on the crew and vividly remember Iraq 1.0.. the Iranian hostage crisis was still devastating dining room table conversations when extended friends or family would come over.

Anyone else feeling like this other shit with Cuba and Venezuela makes a whole lot more sense now? Securing a oil supply close to us domestically, and controlling Cuba before one of their allies builds up there?
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CUba is physically harmless. It's operating outside of the banking cartel's control. Taking Cuba and the Arab world would be necessary for the implementation of the digital dollar, CBDC, and digital surveillance state..

I was just in Cuba on Feb 9-18... fantastic vibe there...




 
study a little history. Tehran was considered the "Paris" of the middle east in the 50s with a functioning democracy and thriving middle class, until the CIA orchestrated the overthrow of Mosaddegh, and installed the brutal dictatorship of the Shah. The Iranians rightly blame the US for the years of terror under that corrupt and exploitative regime. The Iranians also rightly see how the actions of what is truly the largest terroristic country in the world have done to their neighbors. We could start with the US invasion of Iraq. The destruction of a fantastic society in Lybia. The inexcusable attacks in other neighbors lisrted below. And the fact that the USA has been Israel's little bitch funding the recnet genocide in Gaza and ongoing oppresion of the Palestinians. The Iraquis rightly see the USA as the largest terrorist organization in the world and now they know why.... because it is run by pure evil, devil-worshipping, baby-eating pedophiles. How can you know any of this and balme them for hating the USA and Israel? Here's the list which according to Google include: Iraq: Continuous military operations from 1996–1998, the 2003 invasion, and ongoing campaigns against ISIL from 2014 onwards.Afghanistan: Major combat and drone operations starting in 1998 and continuing from 2001 to 2021.Syria: Sustained airstrikes and military intervention beginning in 2014 against ISIL, with subsequent strikes targeting government and affiliated infrastructure.Yemen: Frequent drone strikes and naval attacks targeting al-Qaeda and Houthi rebels (2000, 2002–present).Pakistan: Extensive drone campaigns against Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, particularly in the2000s.Somalia: Military engagements, including special operations and drone strikes, starting in the early 1990s and continuing through 2007–present.Iran: Targeted operations, including the 2020 killing of General Qassem Soleimani and strikes against military infrastructure in 2025-2026.Sudan: Missile strike against the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in 1998.Libya: Military intervention in 2011 and subsequent drone strikes.
 
I always wonder what the state of world would be if instead of bombing countries into submission that we spent a quarter of that instead on measures to build up those countries. I’m guessing we would end up with better outcomes. But it is hard to get rich off helping people versus easy to rob the US taxpayers blind when the pentagon is a giant black hole financially seemingly not subject to auditing or budgeting constraints.
 
He promised no new wars and criticized Bush for attackign Iraq as the worst move ever made by a president. Then attacks Iran, which is 10x as bad as attacking Iraq, and you guys go quiet. WHat's up with that?
 
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