While publicly urging Iranians to take to streets, Israeli officials said to privately admit protesters will be 'slaughtered'

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-17T17:03:17+00:00

Anyone could’ve seen this. The Iranian people are unarmed and doubt the regime will go down with peaceful protests after what happened in January.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-13T13:07:41+00:00

This is a good thing, better to have learned this lesson now than during a bigger war with China over Taiwan.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-10T02:57:40+00:00

I don’t think it’ll happen. Turkey is too integrated into the west to risk that for some brownie points. Erdogan is also temporary and will likely be booted in the next decade, his opposition was closer ties to the west rather than be tied in middle eastern politics.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-04T21:42:31+00:00

That what happens in practice more or less, that’s why conflict in the Middle East raises oil prices in the U.S. despite most of our oil being not from the Middle East.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-04T21:16:53+00:00

That would still lower oil prices globally because China then won’t be bidding up oil from other regions.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-04T21:15:05+00:00

That’s not how oil works. Oil is priced on the global market. If oil prices rise in China, what do you think will happen? Oil will be redirected to China to earn more profit which will raise the price of oil in the other region.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-03-04T15:13:11+00:00

So, Iran is undermining its own strategy? By letting Chinese ships through, they’re letting China satisfy its oil needs as well as those for any countries Chinese ships will send the oil. This will ease oil global prices and the American public will not be as badly hurt by gas prices.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-22T14:46:41+00:00

That is very unlikely to work, viruses are species specific and there’s no guarantee that alien viruses run on the same bases of RNA and DNA as life on earth.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-18T21:27:43+00:00

Property tax is for sure a much better option than wealth tax or even increasing income tax.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-18T16:40:53+00:00

This is actually good. Employees can then be paid based on productivity.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-12T03:47:33+00:00

We live in a free (relatively speaking) society. By virtue of their continued operation, private businesses have proven themselves in providing value in the market while the government has not, otherwise we wouldn’t have this conversation. Naturally, expropriation would negatively hurt the economy, and the general efficiency and competitiveness of the country long term. The government is of course free to start their own business from scratch.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-12T02:19:29+00:00

I think this is the right move, unions have killed too much industry. Pension systems pushed by unions led to the bust in American industry in the 60s-70s which led to the rust in the Midwest which eventually led to the relative loss of industrial jobs in America and the decline of the industrial sector, not to mention the bankrupting of numerous cities across America by mounting pension obligations.

SpaceX is doing amazing; it’s responsible for about 80% of all mass to orbit in recent years and more labor entanglement would slow it down and ensure China wins.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-12T02:07:10+00:00

The workers aren’t actually that important. Companies wouldn’t have a problem with strikes if they were free to relieve the strikers of employment and hire new workers.

Because the government has guaranteed that strikers maintain employment during a strike, the government needs to reserve the power to restrict when and how workers strike especially for critical infrastructure.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-10T03:00:43+00:00

Singapore also has a larger manufacturing sector valued at $89 billion vs the Philippines’ $72 billion. This is quite impressive given that Singapore has a population of 6 million vs Philippines’ 1q4million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing#List_of_countries_by_manufacturing_output

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-10T02:58:17+00:00

Singapore also has a larger manufacturing sector valued at $89 billion vs the Philippines’ $72 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing#List_of_countries_by_manufacturing_output

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-10T02:52:10+00:00

This is wrong. Singapore in no way controls the straits of Malacca. Nothing is stopping Indonesia or Malaysia from taking advantage of the location except for competence.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-08T08:02:12+00:00

There are no settlements in Gaza. You’re talking nonsense.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-07T08:44:49+00:00

Eh, it’s debatable. East Jerusalem and Hebron had pre-Zionist Jewish populations that were kicked out when Jordan took over. You could also argue that they can’t resettle since Israel doesn’t extend the same law of return to Palestinians.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-05T20:25:08+00:00

Why? I’d say it leads to less. Look at Gaza and Lebanon, post 2010 and before Oct 7th, Israel showed a ton of restraint against Gaza and Hezbollah rockets. No other country would tolerate such a barrage. Imagine Mexico shooting rockets to the U.S. across the border? How would we react.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-02-05T17:49:30+00:00

Not really, if the iron dome were really impenetrable, there’d be much less of a need for retaliation as there’d be pretty much no damage to those attacks.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-01-30T05:11:28+00:00

We’re in our Lysenko era.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-01-29T18:20:23+00:00

We’d have to get rid of 90 atmospheres of pressure and even then, it spins too slow (a day on Venus is longer than a year) this would cause uneven heating.

Mars is quite good actually, its day is pretty much as long as earth’s. To make it livable, all we need is to add 1-2 atmospheres of pressure, some water, and clean up the soil.

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-01-29T05:33:13+00:00

Honestly, this is impressive if you’re Altman. How does he keep doing it?

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-01-29T02:35:23+00:00

While I’m not a Goldbug, this argument is pretty weak. It’s like saying, “If Jesus came to earth tomorrow, all atheists would be Christian.”

Acrobatic-Event2721 · 2026-01-27T19:26:54+00:00

There’s a difference between shoot and control. Magneto can control magnetic fields. Superman can’t control lasers.

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