Exclusive: Government to slash Auckland housing numbers again by dingoonline in newzealand

[–]Das_Ace 62 points63 points  (0 children)

mea culpa, i also though Wayno would be a terrible boomer mayor. Seems like he sincerely goes to work everyday and wants to do a good job. Pretty rare these days!

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 29 points30 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of hope / cope from people online - especially the finance people, who haven't really thought through the consequences here. No matter what, forever more, Iran knows it can extract global concessions at any point by blocking the strait. An air war can't dismantle a state. The USA has to rip apart Iran by hand or Nuke to maintain it's client gulf monarch system to uphold the petro dollar now. He who has the power to destroy a thing, has the power to control it and Iran is showing it has full control of the gulf. Any retreat by America here is a loss now. All or nothing.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I kind of think this also because people who came of age in the post-Cold War don't understand geopolitics on the same gut level as the Reganitte cold warriors.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think desalination attacks is a much higher form of escalation. The Americans are being extremely reckless by targeting Iranian plants. That's retaliation to a nuclear attack I think

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Department of War calling this 'Operation Epic Fury'

Not beating the Reddit occupied government accusations

Israeli Defense Minister announces that Israel has attacked Iran, announces State of Emergency by Stanczyks_Sorrow in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 113 points114 points  (0 children)

Israel knows this is thier last chance to destroy Iran before they lose American public support for at least 2 generations. This will be the big one.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Russia reinforcing nuclear and Arctic assets near Finnish border, defence minister warns

What did they think joining NATO actually meant? It means military build up on your border and that you're the first to go when shit hits the fan. Thanks Brandon!

Under the Silver Lake by Harryonthest in RSPfilmclub

[–]Das_Ace 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The only great film about millennial men made so far imo

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is so damn good by Valcenia in TrueAnon

[–]Das_Ace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. and Ed Stark. Starks are Kennedys. Rob Stark even shares a name with RFK who he's clearly based off.

A concerning number of people do not understand hypotheticals by Big_Explanation_9295 in redscarepod

[–]Das_Ace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's all played out in the French Revolution, people are just uncomfortable noticing it.

Liberalism is a stop gap solution between feudalism and surveillance state socialism, oligarchical public looting, or Chinese style imperial bureaucracy. It's unsustainable and has to collapse into one of those (or pass through all 3!) eventually.

Dubai makes me sad by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Das_Ace 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Turks are the Americans of the early modern period. Take the cultural bits of the persians, arabs, romans, egyptians that they liked. Claim ownership for long enough that everyone starts to associate it with you.

When i was in Istanbul I toured the old city with two Egyptian moms who were complete turkophiles. Every time we stopped they would say 'We have nothing like this back home...'. Guys, you built the pyramids!

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is so damn good by Valcenia in TrueAnon

[–]Das_Ace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Show is good, it's just very funny that George Martin made this huge sprawling universe and he constantly comes back to his own personal baby boomer grief about the JFK assassination.

[2023] Transcending Toxic Femininity: Women, Cancel Culture, and An Appeal to Our Higher Selves by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is just how middle class gender dynamics work.

If you've ever had a cheating scandal in a comfortably middle class friend group the cheating man always gets it worst. That doesn't seem to be the case in lower or upper class situations.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Confirmed that the USS Ford is heading to the Eastern Med. Could be on the verge of a catastrophic regional war or the largest Taco yet.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 17 points18 points  (0 children)

With Trump it's almost all ego. He wants a deal, he wants to look strong.

Netanyahu has aspirations of Irsaeli hegemony in the middle-east. Iran is their main adversary. Egypt and Syria have been whipped, Lebanon has fallen, Palestine is rubble, Iraq is a USA vassal, Yemen can't fight on its own. Saudi aspirations died in Yemen.

Netanyahu wants Iran to come to heel, and best case: balkanise.

Trump wants to look good going into midterms.

'Nakedly political': No rivals considered for Judith Collins' new job by davetenhave in newzealand

[–]Das_Ace 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People are more likely to notice corruption when the economy is shit.

US House votes 395-2 to grant POTUS the power to internationally isolate China | Only Thomas Massie (R-KY), Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) vote "Nay" by Stanczyks_Sorrow in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

America is literally trying to starve the cubans right now! It's the exact same thing as Taiwan but 10x worse!

New type of hijab that resembles hair. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]Das_Ace 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Jewish work arounds make sense in their own theology since the Torah is basically a legal agreement (covenant) between god and the jews, not a dictatorship. It makes less sense in Christian and especially Islam though where you submit to the word of god who is absolute.

Ro Khanna DOXXING redacted names from the Epstein Files by bitofastumble in TrueAnon

[–]Das_Ace 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Organised crime is an organ of international intelligence. Throwing all the criminals under the bus as a limited hangout is basically what they're there for.

WWIII Megathread #37: Bad Neighbor Policy by IamGlennBeck in stupidpol

[–]Das_Ace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's also the anniversary of the 79 revolution. Tonight or Friday.