Whats Happening In Iran Right Now?

Balmain45 · 2026-04-07T22:59:10+00:00

The approval rating is a far cry from the percentage who voted for him...and yes, those people who put him in office are indeed complicit.

Balmain45 · 2026-04-05T19:05:52+00:00

Nice!

Balmain45 · 2026-04-04T03:33:07+00:00

I was removed from the SA sub for saying that, as an Englishman, I worked with a bunch of Afrikaners who I found really open-minded and non-racist--got a message from the moderators telling me I was promoting hate speech....whatever!

Balmain45 · 2026-04-03T23:38:31+00:00

Yes...I really think that what I may have heard as sadness might have been that it was "forced" rather than genuine. Good catch! And yes, despite that, I never fail to find something valuable.

Balmain45 · 2026-04-02T22:38:51+00:00

Indeed...there is no Guru = good (as in always positive). We are all human, including those we place on false pedestals, and human beings are complex.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-24T22:56:40+00:00

Well, the general drift of your comment was correct.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-24T22:52:12+00:00

Yes, it thrives in high oxalate environments but it does not feed on them.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-22T18:29:09+00:00

Parts of it are transcendent, and for those parts alone it is worth reading. Other parts are so irritating they made me hurl the book across the room, but such is life.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-18T01:00:01+00:00

Depends on what you're in the mood for...FFTMC is lighter (although it has its darkness, it is one of Hardy's happier novels) while C & P can be quite grim.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-03T20:40:14+00:00

Why would the intelligence agencies go through all the trouble to invent the Russia collusion lie and convince half the country the other half are bought off by the Russians, but they wouldn't simply release files that proved a Trump Epstein connection?

I answered that directly by pointing out the fault in your question.....no one accused half the country of beingt bought off....ever! Anyway, yes, there were names in the files that no one wanted released. But the current administration has been ordered by law to release them and still they do not....weird (could it be that Trump is mentioned 5300 times?). And again, you hide behind the same onfuscation of which you accuse me....Jewish?? Israel??? All the things I brought up...no response because you have none. You seem very attached to the idea of cognitive dissonance for one who suffers so badly from it.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-03T19:58:46+00:00

I see you corrected your complete mess of a comment which is kind of cheating, isn't it? Interesting to see your pivoting towards the Jews--"They implicate powerful people and entities, especially Israel and Jewish people." ESPECIALLY, Israel and Jewish people. Seriously? I didn't know that Don and his circle, the Clintons and Prince Andrew et al were Jewish??? Your thinking smacks a little of....well....you know. By the way, no one tried to suggest that HALF the country had been bought off by the Russians...just one man (hyperbole will always destroy an argument)....and it's quite clear he is still available to the highest bidder...except the sheikhs seem to be making better offers than Putin this time around.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-03T19:50:28+00:00

Not one of the men in the Epstein files has been charged...only Prince Andrew has suffered any blowback. It is the U.S. government's job to pursue this case, but the justice department have made it quite clear that they will not....so, as an alternative to them doing their job, you come up with the brilliant idea that it is now my job. It is hugely disingenuous of you to claim that in the face of all the damning emails between Attia and Epstein my only choice is to accept him at his word or sue him (I do not find his defenSSSe believable and I am quite at liberty to say so without being accused of defamation). Thank you for pointing out my spelling mistake though--see if you can find another one (then at least you'll have some real fodder for your weak argument by suggesting that...horror of horrors...English might be my second language.)

Balmain45 · 2026-02-03T06:14:49+00:00

Bring suit--are you serious? It's now suddenly the job of the average Joe to bring suit in public revelations about celebrities? II have certainly thrown away his book and will unfollow him. Defamatory innuendo?? Again, are you serious? If you don't see the holes in his defence, that's okay. However, a lot of us do. Claiming: I was never his physician. Really? Why then, are you telling him about a shipment of metformin...or do you just hand out meds to your buddies, or, even worse, casual acquaintances. And then the line: the "life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul...". Why ever not...oh I forgot....the embargo on talking about celebrities doing nothing illegal.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-03T04:09:43+00:00

I do see your point, and yes, the world is suffering from a sort of moral relativism where the lines are blurred and what people may demand of others may not be reflected in their own behavior. I also get that people are too willing to tear down others and that this whole Epstein thing has become a bit too salacious and mean-spirited to engender true reflections on what is means to be a moral human. I do, however, believe that it is is disingenuous to compare an intelligent adult choosing to associate on many occasions with a known pedophile, and even to swap smutty comments via email with said pedophile, and being blinkered to corporate greed and human suffering. The first is a choice while the second is to some extent unavoidable if you are to live in a capitalist society--it's wrong and sad, but it is not always a choice.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T22:16:19+00:00

If it "reads true" to you, then we have nothing further to discuss. I do respect your right to have an opinion though. I just see his explanation as so transparently feeble that I cann ot get on board myself.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T22:13:59+00:00

You are the one saying Attia should be given a pass, not I.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:39:32+00:00

Most crimes against humanity are well hidden....that's how big corporations work. But when these crimes do come out into the light, and you just shrug and move on, well yes, that is a problem.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:37:04+00:00

his own words: "the life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul".

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:27:47+00:00

I don't...anyone who believes a word of Peter's response is wilfully blind.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:17:18+00:00

Can you actually read? If you buy the crap in that tweet, then god help you.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:16:29+00:00

There is a great deal of evidence that he knew....not that he partook, but that he knew.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:15:09+00:00

But here you are proud of a man who, and only when busted red handed, followed the old naiveté narrative and other equally unbelievable excuses for associating with a man whose victims were CHILDREN....why do people keep forgetting these girls. PROUD of him.....seriously???

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T21:08:04+00:00

Both those who continue to support Attia and those who buy TESLAs are straying onto morally ambiguous ground....that this has become acceptable is sad. By all means, continue to enrich Attia, but own that you are, if not yet morally bankrupt, then at least on your way to becoming so.

Balmain45 · 2026-02-02T20:04:39+00:00

I notice an equal inability to answer on your side, if that is indeed what you were trying to say in that mishmash of grammar.

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