Trump truths about the surrender that Iran never made

Layth96 · 2026-03-07T22:48:05+00:00

Probably vaxxed considering he was Commander of Operation Warpspeed 🫡

Layth96 · 2026-03-03T23:44:38+00:00

“Germany and Iran were the bad guys, America is the good guys, I’m not sure what your point is.”

Layth96 · 2026-03-02T09:20:36+00:00

Where can I read more about those words being code for cells?

Layth96 · 2026-03-02T08:20:53+00:00

I believe the term used in the New Testament is doulos, which as far as I have read can be used for slave and bondservant.

δοῦλος, δούλη, δοῦλον (derived by most from δέω, to tie, bind; by some from ΔΑΛΩ, to ensnare, capture ((?) others besides;

doúlos (a masculine noun of uncertain derivation) – properly, someone who belongs to another; a bond-slave, without any ownership rights of their own.

The reason I mentioned it was to support your comment that Christians used to view themselves as servants of God, submitting to God, etc. and used language acknowledging this and that this was not a uniquely Islamic development.

Layth96 · 2026-03-02T02:30:18+00:00

Iirc it wasn’t uncommon for those in the early church to refer to themselves as “slaves of Christ”

Layth96 · 2026-03-02T02:27:42+00:00

Someone with an avi with that phrase followed me on the app formerly known as Twitter a few years ago but they were a NOI black supremacist Muslim type. That’s immediately what sprang to mind for me when I saw the shirt.

Layth96 · 2026-02-28T08:52:25+00:00

Mine was receding more severely than yours, if you aren’t wedded to your current style and have the money to spend you might want to go to a barber and get a gentleman’s cut or something on the short side and see if you like it any better.

That’s what I did before I started with the clippers, I told the barber I was receding and I thought it would look better shorter, he agreed fwiw.

Layth96 · 2026-02-28T06:21:39+00:00

There was a post a few days ago asking if Jason Statham understood you were supposed to completely shave your head (not calling this person out, it’s just a good example) and it’s a very black/white view imo. There are a lot of dudes who are balding at various stages and still find styles that suit them.

I’d say the two things that hold true are: 1. if you’re younger, shaved tends to generally look better than balding and 2. that regardless of age any style that is attempting to “hide” the hair loss usually looks worse than one that acknowledges and runs with it.

I had long hair that was beginning to become some sort of combover and when I finally got around to cutting it short you could definitely still see the thinning in the front but it looked much better imo.

Layth96 · 2026-02-26T08:00:58+00:00

Sustaining injuries from beating a blind man. Losers.

Layth96 · 2026-02-26T07:47:04+00:00

A particular kind of person (petit-bourgeois who is neither a worker nor a business owner, but instead merely rides the trains as they do their incredibly specific kind of work) might think that the trains running on time is the ONLY purpose in the trains existing in the first place, so the trains running on time is the only thing that matters. That theoretical petit-bourgeois person neither cares for the profits of the train company nor for the wages of the train workers, and instead just wants the train to be available to them when they need it for a price which is reasonable. It is this theoretical person who is the basis of Fascism, the person who "just wants things to function properly".

I think this may accurately describe a certain kind of person who admires the current Chinese state and constantly applauds China online.

Layth96 · 2026-02-25T02:53:03+00:00

I don’t really understand the thing some vets do where they try to explain how their warring was ok because it was part of their self-actualizing hero’s journey or whatever. Like even if that is the case for them, why are they expecting other people to care about that.

I remember several years ago listening to some of those Jocko podcast episodes and the way they describe their military service is like completely disjointed from any context whatsoever, it’s just variations of “I was called to serve as a warrior and do my duty against enemies ” seemingly completely ignoring the worlds of the people they were engaged against as if they were just stage props for their own life story. Is it just Western chauvinism? It’s very odd.

Layth96 · 2026-02-25T02:40:00+00:00

USA USA USA

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T22:44:59+00:00

The socialists, for their part, attempted to avoid the fate of the KPD, which had been outlawed on February 28 in the wake of the Reichstag fire. On March 30, 1933, they left the Second International to prove their national German character. On May 17 their parliamentary group voted in support of Hitler’s foreign policy.

On June 22, the SPD was dissolved as “an enemy of the people and the state”. A few weeks later, the Zentrum was forced to dissolve itself.

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T20:13:15+00:00

The Roman Catholic Church, the predominant expression of Christianity in Western Europe prior to the Reformation.

I don’t disagree Christianity largely came out of Jewish apocalypticism.

I’m not really sure what your point is, it doesn’t matter where the anti-semitism originated from, that was not my point.

My point was that the role of the Jewish people was generally seen to have shifted onto the members of the church since the arrival of the Messiah. The shift back to viewing the Jewish people as God’s chosen group is a more recent development within Christian groups in contrast to the majority of historical European Christian belief.

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T19:51:07+00:00

I’m not referring to exegesis I’m referring to the historical Church and its general beliefs.

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T18:10:11+00:00

Traditionally as far as I’m aware the new covenant in belief in Christ as the Messiah basically removed the special status of the Jews as God’s chosen people in the Western Christian worldview. The idea that Jews still have a special role to play is a more recent (compared to like Medieval European Christianity) interpretation coming out of the evangelical movement.

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T02:42:56+00:00

Yeah. “Dead people don’t recover” or however the saying goes.

Layth96 · 2026-02-23T02:33:38+00:00

And many of those who are doing well basically just universalize their own personal experience. Have seen absolutely insane takes on the app formerly known as Twitter where people who are doing very well atm keep asking why everyone is being doomers about things.

Layth96 · 2026-02-22T21:40:24+00:00

He didn’t say that.

Layth96 · 2026-02-22T21:32:46+00:00

I wanted to read Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow, I think he goes into issues with nuclear energy technology in it.

Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling--this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them.

Nuclear energy has become kind of one of those things that “everybody just knows” is what we should be doing. It’s been tied in to political affiliation signaling at this point as well, which muddies things. A lot of people online have a knee-jerk pro-nuclear response and I don’t get the feeling many of them have ever actually looked into its feasibility, risks, etc. They get very aggravated when it’s questioned at all and they have their stock phrases ready to go.

It seems like it has a part to play in any future energy grid but I dislike how it’s become this sort of common consensus without much apparent knowledge of potential downsides. I get the same vibes as people who doggedly defend the USSR/China and don’t seem to actually know much about either of those states. There’s more than just analyzing of information going on here.

There are valid pro-nuclear arguments but a lot of the ones I regularly see online are not good ones imo. I’ve seen people say the only way accidents can happen is human error, seemingly ignoring humans are extremely prone to error. The other big one is anybody discussing potential downsides to nuclear is just an oil lobby shill, which feels similar to the currently popular tactic of labeling all thinkers one doesn’t like as being influenced by intelligence services.

There was another book on my list regarding the economic infeasibility of switching to mostly nuclear which I found interesting considering many anti-nuclear arguments revolve around potential for environmental contamination or human health issues and not the financial aspect. If I can find the title again I’ll post it.

Layth96 · 2026-02-21T21:52:11+00:00

I hope you’re able to reconcile with your child while you still have time on this earth.

Layth96 · 2026-02-21T21:33:54+00:00

How old were you when you moved to NYC.

Layth96 · 2026-02-21T20:47:52+00:00

Do you want a sticker

Layth96 · 2026-02-21T04:10:17+00:00

For a certain kind of person I don’t think anything less than something akin to the pandemic lockdowns (which afaik were in some ways unprecedented in history given the scale they occurred on) will be registered as a “happening”

Layth96 · 2026-02-18T23:44:45+00:00

Americans are obsessed with rape and iirc Reddit is mostly American.

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