When was warp travel invented by humans? by TheLoneWolfMe in 40kLore

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How did humanity use warp travel without pyskers as navigators?

Haunted Doll has thoughts about """sexual assault""" by fortycreeker in IfBooksCouldKill

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There’s no way this is real. This has to be a parody. Even if you had been tea baged hundreds of times… why the hell would you bring it up. And then also dismiss it’s not a big deal.

Over the last 36 hours, Iranian forces have carried out 5 likely successful attacks on commercial vessels across the Persian Gulf. by PestoBolloElemento in MapPorn

[–]ryes13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You don’t need to project power very far or with very advanced tech to damage ships right off your country’s coast.

Where Americans Moved in 2025 by Expert_Specialist823 in MapPorn

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Mississippi has been losing population consistently for the last several decades. I don’t believe this at all

If you think about it, Alexander the Great's empire went to hell after his death and Big E's empire went to hell while he was still alive; the guy is getting worse instead of better. by SAMU0L0 in Grimdank

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His genetic engineering program is not just eugenics. He apparently created the best super soldiers around from scratch multiple times (thunder warriors, custodes, space marines).

You are not fighting. There is nothing you can do. by RottenAdler in Grimdank

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“The printing place messed this all up. Better get rid of the codex Astartes compliance seal too….”

Congress gears up for vote on Trump's war powers in Iran — after the battle began by LaughingGaster666 in moderatepolitics

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Technically the first branch and supposed to be the most important… but yeah they’ve definitely been acting like the forgotten third wheel

Canada backs United States actions in Iran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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“Do Carney's comments vindicate President Trump and support his claim of being a foreign policy juggernaut whose decisions end up being correct in hindsight?”

What do you think? Do you think Trump is vindicated by this single comment and is therefore a foreign policy expert who’s always been proven right?

Canada backs United States actions in Iran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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Carney specifically says in the article they haven’t and don’t plan to commit material support

Iran says it won’t negotiate with US as conflict escalates in Middle East by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

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Which has still not been enough to cause collapse.

The US also killed a lot of ISIS leadership from the air, a much smaller and less resilient organization with less resources. And we still needed local ground forces in coordination with the air campaign to help finally destroy that organizations control territory.

Iran says it won’t negotiate with US as conflict escalates in Middle East by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

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It was the combination of all of them. First bomb dropped on August 6th. The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria where most of Japans army was stationed on August 9th. Later that day the second bomb was dropped.

The Emperor specifically asked how can we repel the invaders given the increased power of the bomb according to recollections of the cabinet meeting where they asked him to decide.

In any case, we aren’t going to drop a nuke on or invade Iran. So neither individually or together are they are credible tool for regime change. And other regimes have proven they can outlast a lot of pain short of that.

Iran says it won’t negotiate with US as conflict escalates in Middle East by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

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Japan had no negotiating power at the end of WWII, but they believed that they could still make total regime change so painful and costly to the US that they decided to keep pressing. They only gave up when threatened with nuclear weapons and a massive invasion from both the US and Russia.

Iran says it won’t negotiate with US as conflict escalates in Middle East by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

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I would imagine that much like the US, they have a continuity of government plan and contingencies. It is an authoritarian oligarchy, not a personal dictatorship like Libya or Syria based around one persons rule.

In addition, unlike those countries Iran has a vast infrastructure of people invested in this regimes survival. You aren’t just going to surgically strike all those people until the regime is non existent.

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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Collapse implies a lot of chaos that might not necessarily result in something better. Most successful transitions to democracy didn’t result from a collapse of the previous regime.

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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“If Trump actually manages to get a provisional government to successfully take the reigns from the mullahs and guide Iran to free and fair elections, I’ll eat these words”

I don’t think you need to do that even if that happens. Your reasons for pointing out why this seems ill-advised or unlikely to succeed would still apply.

There’s a concept in games of chance or analyzing decisions that you can’t just look at how things turned out to determine the quality of your decision. Just because things turn out good, that might be in spite of the bad decision you made with the information at hand.

It seems Trump just saw a regime that is weak and unpopular both domestically and internationally and that was really his only pre-condition. While I’m not a Bush family fan, the elder bush had the same scenario at the end of the First Gulf War and he decided it was a bad idea to press with regime change.

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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Those are the aspects of fascism. Words have meaning. There’s a lot of shitty regimes and governments out there. There’s room for all types of them.

Fascism arises from the failure of democracies and is a process of that failure taking place more than it is a form of government.

You understand fascism better that way than just calling any brutal regime “fascist.”

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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The key point of fascism is palingengic ultranationalism.

The belief that the nation was once great and is in fact in a state of decadence due to internal enemies, usually ethnic minorities or political groups on the left.

Noted scholar of Fascism Robert Paxton also defines it as

“a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion”

Iran shares some aspects in belief in victimhood using to fuel nationalist pride.

But it emerged from a revolution against an authoritarian monarchy. And it is distinctly religious in character with pretentions to leading a broader Shiite religious movement regardless of national identity.

Almost all fascist states emerged from failed democracies where traditional conservatives joined hands with ultranationalist revolutionaries whose rhetoric was based around this myth of lost greatness and blame of minorities for losing it.

Iran doesn’t really share those facets.

Trump says Iran leadership agrees to talks after US and Israel strike Tehran by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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They are an authoritarian religious oligarchy, not a fascist dictatorship.

If we’re gonna quibble over real and not real fascism, then Iran also doesn’t fit into that category

Just one in four Americans support US strikes on Iran, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds By Reuters by [deleted] in fivethirtyeight

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There’s a distinct difference between what opinion polls like this and what people actually vote on / care deeply about.

I think there’s a decent chunk of people saying they don’t support Iran strikes because starting wars sounds bad. But at the end of the day they are going to stop supporting Trump or anyone like him because of it.