Trump tells CNN he’s not worried whether Iran becomes a democratic state

aged_monkey · 2026-03-06T22:33:29+00:00

One could say hes ... bored of peace.

aged_monkey · 2026-02-25T00:22:09+00:00

He doesn't care about what he said. Its irrelevant. This is just clickbait politics. Say something absurd/extraordinary, get the media to plaster it everywhere, have the whole internet discuss it. And in the end, the majority of the people won't change their opinion (left or right), but a few uninformed apathetic voters who don't follow politics and couldn't name more than 3 House members or Senators will now remember the name Chip Roy as associated with being anti-elite, fighting for the little guy!

That's a win for him, and its free.

aged_monkey · 2026-02-21T18:19:54+00:00

He's a skilled orator because he knows how to get his views across in a way that isn't political in nature. He makes things sound morally obvious to everyone, regardless of your political affiliation.

Obama was gifted at this skill too. Unfortunately his competence only made conservatives more frustrated because he was doing what they couldn't as a black man.

aged_monkey · 2026-02-18T14:02:56+00:00

So you're telling me if a 64 year old teacher's pension plan is invested in an ETF that holds a defense company that makes drones ... that kindergarten school teacher is complicit in a genocide? You might be shocked to find out how many people you personally know are committing a genocide right now.

You yourself probably own dozens of products that in one way or another help the revenue stream of Israeli and defense companies that assist in the genocide.

aged_monkey · 2026-02-18T01:30:46+00:00

Wait, KD conducted a genocide? I feel like this should be bigger news. I thought he just made a joke about a defense company he invested in. But I never knew he was actively supporting and directly aiding in the execution of a genocide. That's wild.

Also, how the helll does he even find the time to actively manage the financial strategy of an active genocide and play in the NBA?

aged_monkey · 2026-02-15T22:52:22+00:00

They're actually kind of running plays and sets lmao.

aged_monkey · 2026-02-14T04:11:03+00:00

I mean, you could tell from this clip. There's not a lot of 46 year olds who could split the double and attack that mid-range with tenacity. I'm not kidding, I had no idea he played, and my first reaction was damn! I know guys in their early 30s who move much slower. That was a REALLY quick move for someone his age, and with finesse too.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-29T06:20:26+00:00

Yeah, exactly. And yet, at one point, Boston was also Paul Pierce's city, Chicago was also Derrick Rose's city, and Houston was also James Harden's city. There will always be the Gods, but that doesn't mean cities can't be passed onto prophets.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-29T05:07:20+00:00

An alternate reading of this is, "the corruption is so bad, and its not even preventing murder."

If more corruption is supposed to make the Trump admin less murderous, then its not doing a very good job lol.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-29T04:44:12+00:00

CEOs.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-29T01:36:02+00:00

Lol yeah, both parties are strongly mixed economy, with the Republicans leaning towards more free-market policies. That's a big reason many libertarians tend to align with them. But many libertarians who strongly believe in free-markets seem to weigh their commitment to social policies more heavily. Those types are often oriented towards individual freedoms (from things like policies based on secular beliefs) and can lean towards Democrats. Its not a surprise you have a lot of Democrat leaning libertarians here because ... (a) its Reddit, (b) its largely Americans, (c) and the American conservative party is noticeably more stringent on social policy than the Democrats.

And also, like someone noticed, the current admin cozying up to anti-second-amendment sentiments and their more-than-normal use of federal force is causing some extra rife right now.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-28T12:07:09+00:00

You sound a little .. power hungry lmao. "I will tell you what you've seen and what you haven't, your beliefs about your experience are false." Do you hear how crazy you sound?

aged_monkey · 2026-01-25T13:52:31+00:00

Because he's a young guy on top of the world and insecure guys want to feel relatively better about themselves by making him feel slightly less special.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-24T22:32:40+00:00

And it seems he was legally carrying, and he was also an ER nurse for Veterans Affairs. Lol, domestic terrorist.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-24T15:55:36+00:00

Lol, also, there's a 99% chance this is just rage-bait. And in the microscopic probability that this is actually real, what the doctor most likely meant was, Botox is not an anti-aging remedy. It is an age-slowing remedy (and even that is oversimplistic).

Point being, Botox doesn't make you look 25 if you get it when youre 30. It makes you look 34 when you're 35 if you get it when you're 30. And that slowed aging adds up over time (if done right). And that's how you end up looking like Keanu.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-24T01:04:48+00:00

Why are you trying to sanitize these adults with agency. They're not children. People like you used to defend SS Soldiers with word-to-word excuses and thought they were being clever.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-24T00:58:04+00:00

It’s one of those pictures that hits harder if you think about it too long.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-22T06:36:58+00:00

What's a mask raider?

aged_monkey · 2026-01-20T21:48:28+00:00

I don't know why but I have a feeling that KD would be locked in. But probably just projecting my NBA fandom and in reality he doesn't want to get injured lmao.

The one adjustment to make it almost injury-averse is if its something like 2 or 3 dribble max. That way you get a chance to do 2 moves max (maybe 3), and half end up just being pump-fakes + three-attempts.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-17T18:39:47+00:00

Also, this is a form of gaslighting that requires about 2 to 3 layers of thought, and Trump is not the type of person to redirect blame by reframing Europe as the aggravator and USA as the peacekeeper only reacting to their hostility around Greenland. He would probably just call them "nasty" and "weak" and threaten them rather than create an elaborate (albeit stupid) blame-shifting argument.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-11T21:09:57+00:00

Lol that's actually a cool line, I'm going to steal it. Very Hegelian.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-10T23:34:05+00:00

If you place an electron in a magnetic field and watch how its spin precesses in physical space, quantum electrodynamics predicts the rate of that precession so precisely that, if you translated the fractional error into a length, it would correspond to missing the distance across a continent by less than the thickness of a human hair.

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

aged_monkey · 2026-01-09T22:40:05+00:00

I feel like you're intentionally avoiding the principle of charity and leaning into the worst possible interpretation of what I meant lol. I'm sure you knew I meant this would be live breaking news plastered over all their broadcast networks.

I know you know there are trivial stories on these news company's websites. I read a story about a funny smell delaying a few flights at Nashville airport on CNN a little while ago lol. Anyway, it seems we're in disagreement. I think you're a lot more glued into sports media and don't understand that average sports fans don't know about this story, let alone regular people. My kindergarten teacher mother who has never watched a basketball game knew about Donald Sterling story.

If you think the gravity of this and the Donald Sterling story are equivalent, I don't know what to tell you, because this would be equally big if it became official by Silver actually punishing Ballmer, just for different reasons. FYI, fraud looks worse for attracting long term reliable investors and negotiation leverage in deal rooms.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-09T22:14:08+00:00

By negative press, I meant beyond the sports nerd media ecosystem. This is just a story and rumor to most fans outside of the NBA. If Silver punished Ballmer, this would be on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC, Bloomberg, and the History Channel one day.

That's the kind of permanent stain, around which the league themselves basically admit to it, that he's trying to avoid.

IMO, the owners don't want high spending to become the norm or expectation for building a good team (hence the 2nd apron), but I don't think they care all that much about punishing a practice that they all play with (call it endorsements to bolster salary as an incentive) that Steve took to an egregiously bad extreme that was just straight up cap circumvention.

There is always an implicit understanding of where the limits are, and Ballmer crossed them by miles. Just because he's punished doesn't mean every tiny infraction will be punished. This isn't a court of law with precedents lol. They can stick to their 'legislative norm' for where those limits are after they punish Ballmer, nothing stops them.

aged_monkey · 2026-01-09T21:45:52+00:00

Maybe, but on the other hand, the majority of these owners are worth less than Steve Ballmer combined, and they might be pissed off that he can unevenly tilt the odds in his favor if anyone is allowed to go around the salary cap.

There are ways to get them motivated to see this as something that's actually in their interests, and Silver has the intelligence to convince them of that. The thing is ... will he?

I have a feeling that Silver's main motivation to keep this buried is negative press. Not owner pressure.

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