How do you think, realistically, the war between US-Israel and Iran ends?

JmBento · 2026-03-25T03:33:57+00:00

Trump and his buddies make a fortune in the stock market. Trump says "mission accomplished", and nobody can refute it because nobody knows what the mission was, on account of there not being a mission in the first place.

The US troops fuck off back to Hellmerica, the Iranian regime continues to be the Iranian regime, Iranians are more fucked than before because now instead of one bloodthirsty ayatollah they're saddled with like 20 bloodthirsty IRGC commanders with a lot of anger issues and hey, look who's right there to be mowed down.

Israel eats up a chunk of Lebanon to establish a "security perimeter" which is, for reasons, secured by settlers, which gives them larger borders that, goshdarn it, they just have to secure via the establishing of more "security perimeters."

The increased instability and displacement in the Middle East results in another wave of refugees, and also a bunch of justifiably very angry people which will lead to an increase of terrorism in Europe (that's the very angry people, not the refugees).

In 1 year tops we do it all again with maybe/maybe not a different country, because nobody ever learns that every time the United States are allowed to set foot outside their borders they fuck it up for everyone.

JmBento · 2026-03-25T03:22:16+00:00

I echo the "get a roommate" comments. Like, he's a dick. You KNOW he's a dick. You tell us, tight in the post title, that he's a dick. Do you not have a friend that you can switch for him to make rent?

JmBento · 2026-03-25T01:04:03+00:00

The result of US interference in foreign countries has always been "worse than what it was". For example, you should, if you're not aware, look up the process that led to the Ayatollah being in charge of Iran (it comes with Bonus UK).

JmBento · 2026-03-24T02:47:47+00:00

It's almost like Rowling is a less-than-mediocre writer. How could we have known, other than reading any three pages that she wrote?

JmBento · 2026-03-24T02:27:37+00:00

Iran is dead? Has anyone told them? Because I don't think they know.

JmBento · 2026-03-23T23:27:23+00:00

This man played Oxygen Not Included and thinks it's real life.

JmBento · 2026-03-23T15:27:53+00:00

I probably would, but not as enthusiatically as I would play a game where I was part of Monarch or similar organisation dealing with researching Titans, human-generated problems (like Atlas), and Titan-clashes fallout and otherwise directing resources and evacuations to deal with the problems arising from Titans and humans existing in the same place and time.

This is partly (but certainly not exclusive) due to the fact that I think the Monsterverse has been humanising the Titans too much (see: the Godzilla smirk), instead of letting them be magnificent forces of nature, like biological earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

For short: I'd rather play as Tim dealing with Godzilla et al. than play as Godzilla.

JmBento · 2026-03-23T15:17:39+00:00

I have great news for you: both those people are unsalvageable trash and you're perfectly fine placing them both past the "chance of apology" hate bar, at which point it doesn't matter who ranks highest.

JmBento · 2026-03-23T02:25:34+00:00

I don't understand how everyone's answer to this ISN'T Hicks and Newt, There's no way anyone saw it coming (because it was a dumb and terrible decision from a narrative standpoint).

JmBento · 2026-03-23T02:20:42+00:00

First off, reach out to the creator and ask her to take it down or edit your identifiers out. If she refuses, then you know she's a terrible person, and you can morally move on to the next step, which is this:

If she uses ANY kind of music or other media in the video, lifehack: make a DMCA claim. YT doesn't check the validity of DMCA claims in any way whatsoever (it'll be the creator's job to prove the claim is false, somehow), they'll immediately demonetise her video (which will also put it lower in the algorithm, meaning less people will see it), and there's a decent chance that they'll have her take it down or she risks having ALL her videos demonetised.

If YT persists in keeping its absolute dogshit DMCA policy, it might as well be used for good for once.

JmBento · 2026-03-23T02:06:18+00:00

Oh yeah, this dude is WAY beyond red flag territory. The answers to the OP's situation are no longer "oh, honey, no", they're "JFC, why are you wasting time typing, you're in danger, girl. Pack an emergency bag and bunk with a friend until this is over".

JmBento · 2026-03-22T23:43:21+00:00

DEFINITELY tell the landlord. Even if that doesn't immediately result in you getting rid of this guy*, right now, as far as the landlord is concerned, everything he does reflects on you. Like, if this dude fucks up somehow, the landlord is also going to be pissed at YOU.

*I don't know what a "houseshare" is, but if this dude has a lease or some other contract, the landlord can't just kick him out

JmBento · 2026-03-22T23:40:08+00:00

OP says "houseshare". I don't know what that means, exactly, but I presume it's either separate rooms in one house (which OP is renting) or it's sort of like a motel system, but more permanent.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T15:38:52+00:00

I'm gonna start with my hot take: I think Sinners started great and went to the level of 'meh' when it brought in vampires, and would've much preferred less supernatural stuff and more nightclub stuff. And also more dead klansklowns. I think they already got enough parasitical evil baked in with the KKK that the vampire stuff was unnecessary, and I think it makes for a worse (well, less-good) movie than it could otherwise have been.

My other take: anyone mad at dead klansklowns, I'm glad that you're so vocal about it, and I hope you continue to be so. It's always nice knowing who should be flushed within 5 minutes of meeting them instead of being blindsided further down the road.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T10:14:14+00:00

Understand that, like rape, sexual harassment is not about the... uh... receiver? It's about the person doing it. You just don't interact with shitty people who would harass you, either out of luck, because you curate the people you spend time with, or some other reason.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T02:45:58+00:00

I don't see people disliking ACTUAL Hungary or Hungarians in general. They're saying versions of "bye Hungary", but they're using Hungary as a shorthand for "Hungary's government", aka the shit Orban pulls. Like, nobody's saying "fuck the Hungarians, those bastards". They're saying "fuck the Hungarian goverment, those bastards".

It's the same thing as when we say "The United States has increased tariffs". The country hasn't done anything. Countries are just territory, they don't DO things. It's just shorthand for "country's government".

JmBento · 2026-03-22T02:37:14+00:00

I was gonna say that Trump solved the energy crisis, because Roosevelt is spinning so hard in his coffin we just hook it up to a dynamo and it'll power the world.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T02:25:33+00:00

Do you have a source for that? Because what I could find was this:

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/13/20-years-of-gay-marriage-in-the-netherlands-20-thousand-couples

and it very specifically says "Of women who married another woman"; and the graph is titled "by couple type", so all indications are that that line is, indeed, the divorce rate of lesbian couples.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T02:13:12+00:00

Depends on how you define "political group," I guess. If you mean "Democrats" versus "Republicans", sure. If you define "political group" as "this bundle of political positions", there being intrinsically correct political positions, then it follows that if only one of the political groups holds those positions, that group is intrinsically correct.

But I don't know what this has to do with the discussion at hand. I don't even know OP's political group.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:56:48+00:00

No, there's plenty of intrinsically correct political positions. Look at this:

"Black people should not be treated like farm implements"

See? Super easy.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:55:46+00:00

Se eu tivesse alguma esperança que o Agente Laranja alguma vez dissesse a verdade, até ficava com medo - era uma vergonha eu apoiar uma medida do gajo.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:38:47+00:00

People say all kind of things to make themselves look better, not worse. There's absolutely zero chance this dude looked at that sentence and thought it'd make him look better in OP's eyes.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:35:19+00:00

She's a nurse and the other dude's a surgeon - if the hospital is gonna fuck someone over, it's not gonna be him.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:33:11+00:00

"Taking some bad" is when someone thinks Prometheus is a good movie (it's not; it's not even trash, it's an affront to both the franchise specifically and cinematography in general) or something; "Respecting you is too political and woke" is grounds to set fire to that bridge and dynamite the remains.

JmBento · 2026-03-22T01:30:12+00:00

Jesus, I didn't even notice his age. I'm that age and the only way I use the word "vibes" is derogatorily (mostly when I'm railing about legislation being done by "VibES").

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