English is not generally considered a race anyhow. Depending on context and how ignorant of actual England you are, that could still be making fun of a culture or ethnic group, or it could just be making fun of a dialect.

My money is on Syria but bigger.

It’s not about qualifications, it’s about why would anybody in Iran listen to him? This is military logic, it’s not like you take out the previous guy and then everyone listens to you; you have to make them. As it is, Trump might as well declare the guy in charge of the UK. Brits would about as motivated to give up their money when it comes time to pay him taxes.

If there were American troops on the ground they could make it meaningful, but there won’t be, and an airstrike isn’t precise enough to enforce laws.

He’s about as prepared to run Iran as I am. Well, I guess he speaks the language at least. It’s not like you get one guy people don’t hate/sorta like and just plug them in, though.

Who does have organisation and some support is the IRGC and the normal military. And probably all kinds of paramilitary movements on the peripheries. If Trump was going to send in troops and occupy it on the ground, they could try to slap together a shitty government of misfits like in Iraq, but he’s not.

Hmm, they did hit a girl’s school, didn’t they? This says he was in a bunker, though.

Do people actually think that?

We produce it, but it only goes in recipes that include it. Usually pancakes. I don’t know, do Americans eat everything with a hamburger on top?

Edit: Another dumb one at that at least somebody thinks: we all live in igloos. No, sometimes there’s no snow. Even in the arctic where it’s traditional they don’t typically anymore, because that’s just a hut made of frozen water. It has no toilet or electricity.

TBF a lot of us do; it’s our big sport. But, not everybody likes sports. It’s kind of like saying all Americans like American football. (Canada’s official national sport is actually lacrosse)

I’ve heard there’s a stereotype we’re all outdoorsy. I guess in my region everybody does camp, and knows basic camping stuff, but there’s also a tendency to start the fire with copious accelerants and a blowtorch. At that point you might as well just bring a space heater and plug it in.

Per the CIA (I think? Someone in the West), some hardliner will step up, Iran is not defeated.

Flip to what, though?

Iran was built to be redundant, and the protest movement is just a protest movement, to date. This isn’t going to be a clean transition to a different united regime.

It’s not an extraordinary claim, though. It was a decapitation strike, and the sudden timing suggests they thought they had a particularly golden opportunity.

Basically because there’s no obvious uniting figure, so they go with somebody irrelevant and inoffensive.

The US has opened a huge can of worms they have no interest in actually managing. This is going to be Syria but bigger and in an economically significant area.

Canadians are super nice. In my experience, people are people everywhere, and there’s always a mix of agreeable and disagreeable personalities.

The idea probably just comes from Canadian manners, which are different than American ones in a way that seems “polite” to an American.

Ah, thank you. I have a strong feeling Oman is leaving bits out, though. Since when has a nuclear deal with Iran been that easy? They have no reason to trust the US, especially after they blew up their own deal the last time. And Trump is hard enough on people who aren’t US enemies at a vulnerable moment.

I’m not the only one who’s been saying a confrontation was inevitable. The only real question is how far Trump is willing to go before he TACOs.

Iran signaled thgat they were going to give them everything they asked for so they attacked instead.

When? It was more like they were signalling they’d be willing to go to the mat rather than become a US puppet or whatever Trump had in mind.

I think those are over.

Public service announcement that if you use a VPN, a private browser and Invidious they can’t really track you. Actually just Invidious might be enough, I’ve never looked into it in detail.

I use Tor but it isn’t seamless, and you do have to go for a really low quality setting.

Oooh, the layers of psychology keep piling on. So they’re using a sex worker, who they probably believe is inferior and doing a bad thing, if they’re MAGA, but are themselves into being sexually humiliated within the context of a private interaction.

Yeah, we’re an interesting species sometimes.

To be clear, “we” is the US? Iran is also known for it’s large and sophisticated missile stockpile; some of the smaller items within it are being detonated in Dubai or keeping the critical strait of Hormuz shut right now.

You might not appreciate just how much bigger Iran is than Gaza (or how many digits there are in that multiplier). That amount of conventional munitions doesn’t physically exist. Maybe if all the worlds nuclear powers worked together and dropped nuclear bombs on a nice equally spaced grid they could achieve something similar.

I can’t be the only person on here that’s fully off the algorithm/surveillance grid. It’s still possible to get caught in bubbles the old-fashioned way, I guess. I try to listen to something/someone new and weird every once in a while.

I didn’t notice that, it is an awful lot. I wonder if it’s a series of interviews recorded over days, rather than one big meeting.

It’s also possible this is just the raw video, and then there’s a bunch of “best takedowns” compilations they actually push. Like how Charlie Kirk would do live debates with inexperienced suckers.