most carefully-driving suburban retiree

got my shit obliterated by a driver that looks older than Biden

emotes are largely on hold while I’m studying

anyone who's had the bare minimum competence in even the Common Core curriculum knows that 'indentured servitude' is slavery with window dressing. they teach that shit in the seventh grade. PR really fucking debases themselves into the most spiritually-degrading rhetoric for a paycheck, man. How do you get yourself to say this and not want to die?

The term ‘indentured servant’ is more accurate

edit: owned for being eepy

Dentist got me fucked up, went in for a filling yesterday and today I notice that there's just an open cavitation where the filling is supposed to be

don’t know if it was botched or like fell off or something but it’s very uncomfortable.

like what even happened. I was supposed to get a new retainer tomorrow and now I gotta cancel because I don’t want them fucking with the unfilled cavity.

many people aren't going to weather an energy crisis for the first superstructural reasons you gave them, so you have to consistently demonstrate that you have to do this.

One thing I've been thinking about as of late is how important demonstrating to your allies why they need to lock in to struggle against the existing order with you is for your relations with them when your actions would pull them into an uncertain or detrimental situation. The observation I have gathered as a layman is that geopolitics is an exercise in wading through inertia, as generally, states want stability. You never want to be the unreasonable actor as the underdog power, because your casus belli needs to be persuasive and rational for your allies not to hedge on the status quo.

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Our hands remain on the trigger, and any small mistake by the enemy will be met with full force.

please follow through on this mindset

Alright, that makes sense, I guess I underestimated production capacity here.

To shift goalposts a little here, I guess I mainly don’t see how this top-up, like the THAAD redirections, won't similarly further entrench them into this quagmire. I assume Iran is also preparing for a backstab, because they were already backstabbed. I want to assume they are going to also top up their missile and drone capacity in the time they have?

I just have an immediate hunch that this is much more of a pyrrhic tactical retreat for the U.S. compared to the 12 Day War, and I would think Iran would be accounting for these terms being ultimately flimsy, unless it is a true unalloyed

spitballing here from a layman understanding. If this is a two-week armistice, how is the U.S. going to "rearm" in this situation? From what I have been reading from other commenters and sources posted here:

• the U.S. does not have the domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply the deficit of interceptors
• Iran, comparatively, has more domestic manufacturing capacity to self-supply missiles/drones (unless that was crippled in the strikes on Tehran, but I want to think that supply mechanisms would be somewhat accounted for in DMD?)
• this armistice is for two weeks, after which resumption of war or deeper negotiations will happen

Compared to the 12 Day War, which had a restrained exchange between the U.S. and Iran in order to wind it down, the U.S. has been much further committed to this iteration. I don't see how this is a repetition of that because I don't see how the U.S. has a two-week turnaround to a favorable position here.

if Iran comes out with temporary favorable terms and it becomes a two-week race to rearm, I would assume that Iran would also be playing the same game now rather than acting on an assumption that the situation is winding down. If the "ceasefire" is declared broken by the U.S… okay? They just resume operations? It’s not like it's primo casus belli for the world anyways, not going to galvanize their regional/geopolitical allies against them or make them hesitant, it's just an excuse to sucker punch them. They get a hit in during the armistice, the war resumes, and we're back here again.

Is this cope? I just think it's rash to assume this is the same exact situation as the prior instance without letting it play out first and seeing what both nations do in the interim

talk to my handlers, they're the logistics of the operation. I'm just the lab mouse

ok thanks clock in tomorrow

"ouch"

not really

all

sorry

you're welcome or that's alright