Always the same rhetoric. Agitators, Mossad behind everything and of course all the numbers are bullshit even though up to 30k dead was a figure that came from officials in the regimes own health ministry.

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the countryâ(TM)s Ministry of Health told TIME"

https://time.com/7357635/more-...

Doctors and nurses attacked, murdered, dragged out and raped while treating patients. Patients shot in the heads in their hospital beds.

What state of emergency? Millions of unarmed people were out in the streets protesting enmasse for over a week since late December triggered by the economic crisis. The regime only decided to start massacring unarmed civilians enmasse on the 8th. If protesting is an existential threat then you are justifying massacre while saying you are not justifying massacre.

Getting rid of the Iranian regime has only positive implications for the world especially when coupled with Russia losing its global influence as it continues to wreck itself in Ukraine. For decades the region and the world has been terrorized by Iran relentlessly "exporting the revolution". Assad is gone, Hezbollah on the way out of Lebanon, Houthis losing their support, Arab states normalizing relationships with Israel, Hamas death cult in Gaza cut off and bye bye assistance to the Russians to wage their failing bloody war of conquest in Ukraine.

This must be why they imported over 5k of their foreign proxies into Iran and are having trouble paying and feeding their own forces because "stronger than ever"? BTW where is Mojtaba? Do they even have a leader? Remnants of the regime seem to be quite busy fighting each other.

If the regime has huge popular support why not flaunt it? Why are they instead silencing their own people by keeping the Internet shut down? Wouldn't it be better for the world to hear from Iranians how much they now support the regime and hate Americans following massacres of tens of thousands of Iranians?

Since this all started regime people involved with JCPOA came out and publicly admitted of course they were going for a nuke. Other regime folks have subsequently publicly made their intentions clear following the Feb 28th attacks. I was a big supporter of JCPOA as it would have credibly kicked the can down the road many years into the future. That's gone now and we have to live with the world as it is. Nukes are a valid reason for regime change now even though it was a problem of the orange clowns making.

... Did they really phrase it that way? If so, that would be the most *sshole move I've seen by corporate douchebags in a long time. And if so I can't wait for the bots to replace those folks too.

Obviously AI is taking most of the whitecollar jobs. This isn't really news anymore IMHO.

I can't tell you how relieved I am right now that I took a breadless diploma in performing arts mostly just based on personal interest, with zero concrete career aspirations in mind. The arts helped me with every aspect of life, personal, private, public and job, even though it was completely breadless.

That my days making money by developing software are numbered is obvious to me too. I got incredibly lucky with my current gig but since have morphed into an entire team of software experts with me as the lead basically telling AI what to program. Never been this productive. It's only a matter of time that AI will take my current position too.

Violence on earth predates history. All anyone has to do is draw whatever arbitrary box suits them regardless of actual merit or nexus to present day reality.

Yea "the violence" started long before there was either a calendar or written history. It all started with the monolith or Cain or whoever.

Recall what you said "Equally, this is a war that has been going on for the past 4,000-5,000 years now without showing much sign of anyone coming to their senses. This might not be enough to push everyone else over the edge."

Thousands of years of history should be materially relevant to the present and it should be explainable.

Are you saying corruption is the reason for the 4,000-5,000 year war?

Here's the harsh reality: AI doesn't work.

Looking at AI doing the job I just did a year ago I'd say AI is working pretty good. Better than me in fact. And waaaay faster. Basically replacing an entire team of developers. ... Perhaps you should look into the newest models?

Curiously enough, what won't be working for long anymore is Facebook itself, when it's just AI talking to each other. I never got why FB had a business case in the first place. But then again, I'm a computer expert that isn't to bedazzled about the ability to upload text, images and video to the internet.

I have no other words to characterize idiocy like "A 5000 year old country doesnt forget its roots or what a brutal dictatorship they were ruled over by the Shah for 26 years" so yea if the shoe fits wear it. I provided objective reasons to support my characterizations of your remarks. You on the other hand have nothing substantive to say and can't support your positions. You are just wasting everyone's time.

The violence in the Middle East dates back to the early Bronze Age. The Shah was violent and assassinated political rivals. In the 1940s, half of the Middle East sided with the Nazis.

The violence did not start in the 1970s, it didn't even start with Islam. It predates all of that.

Blaming individual X or modern event Y is to ignore the violence and open warfare leading up to those.

Only an idiot fixates purely on Iran. One genocidal Syrian despot has been replaced with another genocidal Syrian despot. IS is back on the rise. Egypt is a military dictatorship. Libya went from military dictatorship to perpetual civil war. The Arab Spring was ultimately crushed not because of a hatred of freedom but because the entire region is riddled with corruption.

Iran is a minor side show.

Your statements were factually incorrect. What is your issue with the NYT article? Are there any facts in it that you dispute? If so which ones? Do you dispute Mossadegh held a sham referendum that got 99.96% of the vote to give himself powers he was not constitutionally entitled?

There is no definition of coup that includes someone with the constitutional right to do something legally doing that thing. This would be like saying had Nixon not resigned and was impeached and the removal vote succeeded he was ousted in a "coup". That isn't a thing and makes no sense. The king always had the power to remove Mossadegh and he exercised it on Aug 15th 1953. This is an indisputable fact. A coup is when a member of the state exceeds their authority to gain power they are not legally entitled. Nothing like that happened.

As for the CIAs involvement it is way overblown. There was real popular support for the king and this at is how he won the legitimacy contest with Mossadegh who was convicted and jailed for three years for his illegal coup attempt. The CIA absolutely had plans and tried to help the king but their role was minimal. The real power came from a coalition of Iranian supporters who won the day.

Your ignorance is beyond words. The Iranian regimes raison d'etre is literally "exporting the revolution". It has wreaked havoc thought the region for decades doing exactly that. The fact Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terror is not merely an empty slogan.

The regime has the blood of the entire region on its hands in addition to oppressing and massacring its own people while severely lacking any internal legitimacy. I hope they get wiped out.

The Iranians are Trumps and BiBis biggest fans.

If you can't beat em might as well join em. Everyone should just create a network of spy cameras /w opencv or something and let anyone browse the database. That should piss off enough people to end this madness.

In America, laws are made by paying the politicians under the table. That's common knowledge. It's how the DMCA got passed, for example. But it's also made by having financially valuable information information, particularly that which permits politicians to have insider information that they can sell for votes/influence or use to make a killing on the stock market.

(You notice anything odd about oil price fluctuations recently?)

Musk had access to money, some of the largest databases the USG had, and the ability to fire civil servants who might have been inconvenient to Congress.

He was in government for how many years? If he wanted the statute of limitations altered, then surely that would have been the time to do it.

It would seem to me that he didn't care about the statute of limitations until AFTER other people started getting rich and he didn't.

I was under the impression that an appeal against a not guilty verdict was not permitted in the US, and was only permissible in the UK in the event of murder when overwhelming evidence showed wilful interference of the trial or exceptional new evidence.

The only goal that matters is regime change.

If Ebola catches on and goes viral globally it will be a very serious problem. A true pandemic. The current death toll for Ebola infections is around 50%. We're talking Resident Evil/28 days later/I am Legend type shit.

I never quite got all the noise and hysteria about vaccinations going during CoViD 19 on either side and I always said we should - either way - be glad that it's just CoViD 19 and not Ebola 19.

If we now actually have global Ebola 26/27 on the menu, the fecal matter is going to hit the rotary air impeller at levels that will make SARS v2 / CoViD 19 look like a laid-back undressed rehersal during a beach vacation. I sure do effing hope this does _not_ happen.

Either way, I already got my Goggles, professional filter masks, water-filter, cooking gear and gas, etc. when the last reports about a SARS variant came around last Winter. I'm sure as eff not getting caught in some apocalyptic level pandemic without being (somewhat) prepared. That much I learned from CoViD. And everyone else should've too. It would be quite dumb to die an unpreventable death just because you where to cheap to drop 150 Euros on some basic survival gear.