It’s not a mindless sort of belief - they want to believe. They’re believing as hard as they can, because the alternative is ruin.

And this will only hurt them more, prices are just going to keep going up. Anyone who waits that extra week is paying more than anyone who already bought what they needed. The people who wait the longest will be hurt the most.

The government of Iran won’t fall before they mine the Strait, and then it’ll be closed without any further input. Then all Iran has to do is survive the occupation while the global economy collapses, eventually starving the occupation of the funds it needs.

They don’t need to take on the full brunt of the US, they just need to keep the Strait closed to US-friendly traffic until the US economy collapses.

There’s a propaganda effort by white supremacist society to paint all reparations as “evil revenge against white people :<” instead of what it actually is: correcting the injustices of slavery by making whole the descendants of slaves who have been robbed of their heritage and generational wealth.

I’m really interested in what you think reparations even are - do you think they’re just going to shake down all white people for money? How are they going to punish you? Why would they punish you?

I directly quoted a study from Duke University, how is that “even less substance” that your anecdote?

Cool anecdote. Every time we actually see real data, though, the numbers don’t reflect much in the way of productivity gains or increased efficiency or better output. People say that LLMs are useful because it feels useful, but we aren’t seeing actual usefulness. The most recent study out of Duke University observes “a productivity paradox, in which perceived productivity gains are larger than measured productivity gains, likely reflecting a delay in revenue realizations.”

A delay. Sure.

But benefiting from it is okay?

Robots aren’t like software, it’s immediately obvious when they don’t work the way they’re advertised whereas chatbots can trick people into thinking they’re way more useful than they actually are.

You sound like your family owned slaves.

I suggest that there’s no meaningful benefit to be gained by looking backward rather than forward.

Okay, as long as we also take away all the historical family wealth that goes back generations too.

But that’s not how it works, is it? Great great great grandad gets to get rich off having slave plantations and his son gets to get rich off of Jim Crow sharecropping, and his great great great grandson gets to inherit that wealth without any complications.

Oh also I should say, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has warned that torture in Israeli prisons has become a “central tool” and that the Israeli detention system has “deteriorated… into something resembling a laboratory for cruel and deliberate practices” and they have documented severe treatment, including beatings, starvation, humiliation and other forms of inhumane practices. Among the detainees are included at least 1,500 children.

Israelis torturing a child to make a father confess is completely in character. They’re a sick society.

1/3rd of USAmericans are irredeemable.

More evidence that the US and Israel are the same country.

Outdated info from where?

Seems to me like it would have come from plans drawn up 10+ years ago about where to target.

Naw, these plans were sitting around for a long time. Trump just picked them up and ran with them, even though a lot of stuff is out-of-date. The biggest clue is the the girl’s school bombing, it was once part of an IRGC compound ten-ish years ago.

If your country has a plan to go to war with every other country in the world and a warmonger gets elected then one of those plans will be implemented regardless of whether its justified. See: Iraq, Iran

The next fascist that gets elected will probably start a war with China regardless of the Taiwan situation.

The Red Cross doesn’t make statements prior to investigation, and it’s not like Israel is going to let them conduct one.

But there’s literal footage of the wounds. Where do you think those wounds came from?

It comes from a Palestinian journalist.

That’s convenient, because Israel isn’t allowing journalists into Gaza. There can’t be other sources, Israel has made sure of it.