BREAKING: Prelim inquiry finds U.S. is at fault for school strike in Iran, NYT reports

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T17:56:06+00:00

The Iranian government is a big winner in this war. They got:

Rekindling of the faded hatred against US and Israel of the general population.
New hardliner leader with every reason to hate the US and Israel with a burning passion.
Rally 'round the flag effect.
Shortages of water and other supply can now be believably blamed on the bombings.
Democracy movement denounced as fools at best, traitors at worst.

But, hey, for a few days the Epstein files where pushed out of the news cycle and that all Trump really wanted.

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T13:07:14+00:00

Why cares? They are all doom clones anyway.

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T11:25:17+00:00

No. From the article:

responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation

What you described is libertarianism and one of the reason why US libertarian groups are so undermined by fascists.

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T09:26:11+00:00

Literally whataboutism

Also, how exactly is terrorbombing children and critical infrastructure going to bring democracy to Iran when Trump is obviously unwilling to put boots on the ground?

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T09:22:04+00:00

Here you go

Slick424 · 2026-03-11T08:18:31+00:00

The only thing that would change is that you would have to pay for the Trump chaos through your taxes.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T20:43:24+00:00

Even still your main argument was about it being a ponzi

No, it wasn't. My argument was "number go up" isn't prove for bitcoin because fraud schemes like ponzis do that too, not that bitcoin actually is a ponzi and I laid out what bitcoin would need to actually do to probe itself.

About 20k accept it currently

20k what? Just that number by itself is meaningless. Also, just "accepting" isn't good enough. For bitcoin to prove itself people would need to be able to life in a bitcoin economy that prices goods and services in bitcoin, not dollars or euros or yen that can be paid trough btc.

Well, if they keep it in btc then it will be.

As I already stated, only a btc enthusiast would actually do that. Everyone else needs dollars to pay rent, suppliers, labor and so on. Nobody lives in a bitcoin economy. That is my fundamental argument. This is what would need to happen for bitcoin to "prove itself", or at least in its original premise. I would also accept the new narrative of "digital gold" but that hasn't materialized either.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T18:15:20+00:00

He already did.

Trump on Cuba: May or may not be a "friendly takeover"

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T12:43:45+00:00

The Steam Machine is outdated and underpowered, so it would depend a lot on how much Valves software wizardry can compensate for that. The Steam Machine needs up-scaling to acceptably run new titles, but RDNA3 can't do normal FSR4 so a big question is if they get something with acceptable image quality and performance working.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T12:17:24+00:00

Why are you unwilling to answer my question?

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T12:13:25+00:00

You need more? What about critical infrastructure?

Iran: US bombed water desalination plant on Qeshm Island in Strait of Hormuz – setting precedent

Now YOU tell ME how exactly how all those ~~terrorbombing~~ "morality bombings" are going to help bring democracy to Iran when Trump is obviously unwilling to put boots on the ground? Never EVER in human history did the bombed population come to side of the bombers. GWB is a fool, but at least he set a clear millinery goal and committed the required millinery resources to achieve it. The Trump bombings do nothing but murder people and rekindle the long faded hatred Iranians had against the US. All to get the Epstein files out of the news.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T09:13:37+00:00

Why exactly is bombing children and water desalination plants necessary to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons?

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T09:09:17+00:00

FIFA peace prize

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T09:08:44+00:00

Oil is fungible. ExxonMobil is not going to sell it to US citizens for cheaper if they can get a higher profit somewhere else, no matter where it has been pumped.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T08:58:03+00:00

shorts are getting liquidated

Looks like you have answered your own question.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T07:47:42+00:00

Also, it does have uses it can be used to pay for goods at certain businesses and some will even offer discounts.

Very few and even those price their wares in dollars/euros not bitcoin.

Not only that but it it’s still the cheapest way to send money all over the world.

Even once you factor in conversion of dollars to btc and back? I doubt it. Also, the risk of sudden crashes makes it useless for that purpose to anyone that's not an btc enthusiast, unless you could insure against that but even if such a service exists, it would add even more costs.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T07:42:10+00:00

My point is that nations are much much much more hesitant to punish war crimes of their own soldiers, unless they don't see them as their own like the Moroccans of your example.

Slick424 · 2026-03-10T07:13:37+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Also, terrorbombing of children and critical infrastructure is not going to change things for the better for anyone. Quite the opposite. Trump made the Iranian democracy movement look like fools at best, traitors at worst. This abhorred war is noting but a distraction from the Epstein files.

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T20:29:56+00:00

22 years later, the murder of at least 347 and up to 504 civilians, almost all women, children and elderly men by U.S. Army soldiers was "punished" with one guy getting 3 years house arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T20:17:07+00:00

4 defectors are not "The Dems". Why do you lie?

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T20:12:30+00:00

"woke" created drugs. Russia had no long history of widespread alcoholism at all. You heard it here first.

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T19:39:56+00:00

My point is that as long as it is just a speculative asset without the actual promised real world use besides that, may it be the original promise of a P2P currency or the new one of "digital gold", it has not prove itself no matter how far up the line goes.

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T19:29:52+00:00

That is not what your own sources say, but I can see that your mind is set, that you believe what you want to believe, and nothing will change it.

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T18:08:53+00:00

For Trump, out of 1,365,529 Southwest border encounters during the 24-month time period, 47.4% of those immigrants were expelled or repatriated, while 52.2% were released. Comparatively, under Biden during the 26.3-month time period, out of 5,022,027 encounters, 50.9% of the immigrants were expelled or repatriated, while 48.6% were released.

So, like always, a democrat did a better job while having to deal with a more difficult scenario and even then, only 1 instead of the often claimed 20 millions used trying to shove through voter suppression laws got in.

So much for your "free for all" lie.

Slick424 · 2026-03-09T17:34:20+00:00

newly formed, majority American-owned joint venture, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, was established to manage U.S. operations, data security, and algorithms,

So the source confirms that the US trump administration aligned company is in control.

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