So to recap:
•Trump illegally bombed Iran.
•Iran responded by closing the Straight of Hormuz, thus spiking oil prices.
•Trump is now responding by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, thus funding the regime he's bombing—all as the Straight of Hormuz remains closed.
So in short, Trump bombed Iran, raised oil prices for Americans, and gave Iran more money. Masterful gambit by the author of the Art of the Deal.
Are we great yet?
See, I look at the world and see all this little idiotic nation states, each with their own legal system, all the while, the cold anarchic winds of heaven blow over them all.
When wars start, laws stop. Let's quit with all this hooey about legal and illegal. Hizballah kidnapped a friend of mine, tortured him, eventually hanged him and the Navy named a ship for him.
Iran doesn't seem to understand what's coming. Qom will become another Gaza City.
Why do we have law - thats made at some great effort to take into consideration many peoples perspectives and direct a common "sense" onto all society - to make up for the people who did not get to learn respect, consider others or know what taking responsibility means.
In theory law=less war.
But as you say all these little states with nasty disrespectful greedy egos running them is what we end up with because people dont want society they want chaos it seems.
What is the chief impediment to peace? It's religion, far and away. We try to accommodate religion but it just keeps on emerging.
Honestly, Iran's cities are cosmopolitan, they're lovely people with a musical and poetic disposition, writers, thinkers -
- and these fucking mullahs won't allow anything. They oppress everyone, but those burkhas tell us what we ought to know, peaceful coexistence with Iran's mullahs is not possible.
Good point, and why do people need belief systems so bad - its in my view because they dont spend enough time on knowing themself and their relationship with the world. They are fearful people.
So (dont) learn and grow as indiviuals to the fullest potential, then take or bolster others words for how to think and what they do in life. They forget consideration and taking responsibilty.
Our predicates in the West are stunted and selfish. Philosophically, we have elected a man not much advanced from a pig.
At 8 BN people, I sense we've reached Earth's carrying capacity. The nation-state paradigm has failed. The USA, once the great bulwark, has become a Clown Show.
We need to give the USA a decent burial. It's done.
Start over.
The first thing we need, if we ever regain power, is to put forward a repeal of Citizens United. It has reduced politics to a money game and the sewage is flooding out onto the streets.
Everything else is secondary, however important. We need to jump start Congress and make it do its job.
@tuban_muzuru @CressSalad @QasimRashid "if we ever regain power"
who is this "we" you're referring to? Because there's no "we" that has *ever* had power in this country who would willing overturn Citizens United. Democrats aren't going to shut off the dark money hose.
@fenixmaster Yeah, in my understanding there is no easy reply to this statement.
Following a personal knowledge path, I think ultimately we can be taken through our life learning (of shit and roses) to a point where we are just better at seeing and separating truths from lies and get good at it enough - hopefully before we die!
People into polarised belief systems cannot be bothered with this.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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