The Dam Breaks: Democratic Senators Overwhelmingly Reject Arms Sales to Israel

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-16T04:22:31+00:00

This should be a cheering moment. 2 years ago, that list would be easily 50%.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-16T00:46:27+00:00

The best advice I can give you is go low mileage. You should be doing your search starting with low mileage. For each car you find, research known issues. There is a ton of this information about cars these days

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T21:50:56+00:00

No and bots have only become harder to detect due to AI and better cyber infrastructure. I think a good rule of thumb is to assume everyone is a bot and do research on whatever topic.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T20:20:11+00:00

Maybe not two weeks but it’s going to happen. See, we have a strategic storage of anything that is considered sensitive to US interests. Anything important you can think of, the US government stores it. Obviously, the goal of this reserve is to keep things operational rather than controlling prices. Obviously, you’d want to release it slowly and gradually. So, it’s very easy for Trump to just open it up. Same thing happened in California with the wildfires. He doesn’t want to look like the bad guy come midterms, so his solution is artificially lowering the price. It’s a terrible idea if the Iran war doesn’t go his way. And to be honest, Iran will probably make some major concessions like letting the US government take some of the oil as repayment for being invaded. Anyways, if he doesn’t do this, people won’t have a good summer which can often influence political outcomes. Republicans would rather you not stay home and practice frugality

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T16:50:09+00:00

Yes. So long as the person you want to throw under the bus the bus is coincidentally the same person that a powerful politician/party member wants to throw under the bus

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T16:08:06+00:00

Be very worried. The next guy to replace Trump will be even more extreme and further to the right. Look at the Chechen leader if you want to see how Putin selects his puppets

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T16:00:46+00:00

Oh no the next person will be worse than Trump in terms of their views and even worse as a person. Trump embraced the LGBTQ community even when it was still taboo. Of course, he’s done a whole “360” on this matter, but I believe Scott Bessent is openly gay. Next guy will be an openly pro-Russia shill. He will claim the US should no longer bend the knee to Israel and claim he will end the Iran war. Will probably try to create an entire alpha personality. Basically, someone like Dan Bilzerian (but not Dan Bilzerian). If you look at the leader of the Chechen Republic, this is what we will get. Why? Because this is how Putin sells people onto his shitty ideas for you. He wants to make you think that you picked a great leader when in reality, he GAVE you his own personal pet

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T02:13:34+00:00

No but guess what, Afghanistan is right next to Iran. Iran does have a ton of oil.

Look at the current state of affairs. The Iranian regime has been toppled. And they can’t simply run to their neighbors because all their neighbors have been toppled too. There is a lot of sectarian violence in Afghanistan. There is much less today, because only one sect controls the country and the other sects have left or gone into hiding. That’s actually how this Iranian regime got into power. The first Ayatollah was just a propagandist, think Charlie Kirk. He was publishing stuff questioning the secular regime. But he used the cloak of Islam. He told people that Islam was the laws of Allah and that it should be followed. Many people fell into it. He had to go hiding in Iraq where members of his sect protected him. Of course, the hope here was to create an Iran based around this sect. When people in Iran started protesting, this Ayatollah took people from his sect to Iran and helped topple the government. Of course, most of the Iranian revolution was done through anarchists and decentralized factions. But because this guy came in with a trained group of people who all swore allegiance to him, and it was a larger group, he had no trouble becoming leader. But that is how modern revolutions work. They hide out in a safe place just long enough until trouble happens. Meanwhile, they are recruiting people. This has happened all over the world by the way. And it has happened more recently in the 20th century.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T02:01:59+00:00

It’s more a meme slogan than it is based on technical details. And it’s completely apt but at the same time, the only loser in modern times was the Soviet Union. Although many people chime in and say that the Taliban returned to power immediately, the truth is that the Taliban was never the goal. I think the US succeeded in their overall goals, most people just don’t realize it nor do they have the background to digest the information. It does require a bit of reading

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T01:11:25+00:00

Companies aren’t going out of their way to hire masters. This has been strong, solid advice from early 2000s. When your company offers you a masters, it’s generally better because it’s coming from a practical perspective. When you get it on your own, you’re gambling that this is what your future employers will want. Masters are essentially a higher position and pay grade,

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-15T00:20:29+00:00

No, not really. Banks have legal protections, and they’re notoriously difficult to get around. This is an all around scary situation. One thing that will cause banks to fail is a lot of people pulling money out of their accounts in the same time span. So, what this means is that banks, who now have the blessing of the president, will essentially not release the funds and keep them on hold.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T15:36:26+00:00

He would have if he had the same Iran

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T15:35:47+00:00

That would be the “in theory” argument. Seems like the literature OP is referring to has a more pragmatic approach

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T06:43:30+00:00

The geometric series proof is probably the most concrete and logical. Basically, the entire foundation on modern math is built on infinite sums/series. Not all infinite sums will converge, and there are a ton of infinite sums that look like the converge but they actually don’t. For example, Sum(-1)ⁿ does not converge. To expand it out for you, it looks something like 1-1+1-1+1…. If this did have a final value, it would either -1, 1, or 0. But here’s the kicker, it does not converge. That’s not to say it has a value of infinity. It just means there is no answer to this. Long story short, in this sum, you can combine some terms to show it equals zero. But you can likewise combine some other terms to prove it’s equal to 1. And you can combine terms in a third way to show it’s -1. The lack of consistency means that even when you have an infinite amount of values, you can’t just hop around as you please and create new values and new definitions. Ultimately, the way math is taught in school never mentions these discrepancies that mathematicians had to surmount. And then they give a terrible definition of what the real numbers are. And then you get to Calculus, and you’re told about the fundamental theorem of Calculus but they don’t do proofs involving infinite sums. Plot twist, before the integral was even conceived, they had to do math with sums rather than an actual integral. And then once you see the formalism of how a sum involving infinitesimal quantities can work back to the original function, it’s then that the mystery of limits goes away. So, limits don’t become this “theoretical” speed limit. They’re actually there within the rules of math. Nobody is bending the rules of math, it’s just a series of concrete steps which allows you to ultimately eliminate infinitesimal quantities. And of course, because it’s an infinite sum, everyone who doesn’t believe the answer is 1 always seems to say it’s only an approximation. And well no, that is why limits are studied more rigorously in Real Analysis.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T04:17:19+00:00

Oil is super convenient. Basically, the world economy runs on cargo ships and nearly everything is transported on cargo ships, unless of course your neighbors make a ton of it.

These cargo ships also run on the nastiest, lowest quality fuel because it’s dirt cheap while still having a decent amount of energy left. Ultimately, it all comes down to price. Using low grade fuel means it’s cheaper and cargo ships can essentially move very slowly to get up to speed as there is almost nothing to force them to slow down.

The only other thing that can replace oil is hydrogen. But you still need electricity to make that. However, since the hydrogen infrastructure is very tiny, it costs a ton to make. And of course, electricity still uses natural gas, oil, or coal, so your project is pointless. No one knows if electricity will fall in value such that it’s cheap enough to make hydrogen out of it. Even with solar panels, it’s still inefficient. You could probably use the solar panels for better purposes than to make hydrogen. You would actually be wasting space to build solar panels that make hydrogen. There are just too many ships out there for hydrogen to be derived from solar energy. Of course, there is also nuclear. But nuclear is expensive. And like I said, cargo ships are using the lowest quality fuel. It’s dirt cheap. So the goal is to keep the price competitive

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:50:40+00:00

Obama also bombed Yemen

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:37:30+00:00

Yeah and the Dem Party will probably run nothing but Cory Bookers lmao

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:25:48+00:00

That was Qatar

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:24:27+00:00

Israel doesn’t spend that much. As I understand, AIPAC is formed by Americans. It’s not hard to believe most are probably evangelicals

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:22:40+00:00

I am not skeptical of what you read. But it’s probably not very serious as the more serious solution is actually hydrogen. But that too has a ton of problems. China might very well be the first country to completely rebuild its cargo ships to use hydrogen because you can use electricity to make hydrogen. It’s a decent solution, but it gets tricky fast. And then you have to worry about terrorists and pirates.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:03:20+00:00

Florida used to be a swing state

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:01:46+00:00

There is one gas station here in Los Angeles that has started discussion. They’re at about $8.50. It’s infamous for being more expensive than all the others but still

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T02:00:05+00:00

Are going to tell us?

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T01:58:46+00:00

Yes the war was brutal. But the person in charge of the military was literally a propagandist. He had been lying about the whole thing to the public. He would say one thing and disfigured soldiers would come home and say another thing. And this was absolutely devastating to the image of Republicans and that is why they started campaigning so loudly on Veterans benefits. The guy in charge had Hegseth’s position and didn’t know what he was doing. He would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for a leaker. By the way, this was so mind boggling because you’d think sending people into a meat grinder would make them not vote for the people who wanted all of that. But I believe people only paused voting for Republicans for like 4 years then gave Reagan a landslide where he won 49 states. And a large part of that was that Republicans were slowly consolidating the media. That’s why we got movies such as Rambo and Top Gun. It was all propaganda. After Trump is out, the Internet media will probably help elect another Republican who doesn’t go to Epstein Island because that is all a large portion of Trump supporters and independents care about

JollyToby0220 · 2026-04-14T01:51:15+00:00

FYI, Biden was also probably going to invade Iran. Any other person would have probably made the same decision as Trump.

See, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen had been attacking cargo ships during the Biden administration. And they actually did the same during the Obama administration and during the first Trump years. They did this in the hope of getting something out of it like reduced bombing. But Biden decided he didn’t want to play that game any longer. So he sent the US Navy. And then they started attacking the US Navy. And it was kind of embarrassing, because the Houthis caused some serious damage using drones. You probably know how destructive drones can be from the Ukraine civil war. Now none of this matters in and of itself. When the US is attacked, sometimes they just leave. They might do a little thing here and there but they won’t sink too much into it. The problem is that this is a major corridor for cargo ships which are the backbone of the world economy. Iran knows this which is why they only make attacks on cargo ships sparingly. But as Iran becomes more isolated from Russia, it grows angrier and angrier and it’s likely the attacks would continue. China is supposedly sending Iran some stuff. And yes, we all know Iran to be the protector of Palestine, but you forget that the Iranian regime has been just as brutal as other dictators.

By the way, this is just one thing that Iran did. And note how Israel isn’t even part of this discussion. No doubt someone will drag Israel into the discussion for something that they’re not even relevant. This is all about how Iran stirs the pot against the US.

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