As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World
You know I think this is the closest my aggressively pragmatic self comes to feeling the juxtaposition of sacred and profane. There are two metrics that we use to describe our species: intelligence and prosocial behavior, and this flapping husk shits on both.
Looks like seven of them grew up Catholic, and all of those but Neil Gorsuch still are. Absolutely nuts.
Fun fact: no!
I mean, I’d argue the emoluments clause should apply here, because poly market isn’t limited to Americans, but given that the sources of counter bets are not really public, I can see why it might not. Damn, I guess the ToS of polymarket?
No, it is an interesting question. I suspect that with such an old culture, it would probably stick around longer than the Roman one did in Britain. Maybe it would be more like the Roman culture in Germany or maybe it would be entirely unique.
Of course, to your point that it’s not a hard and fast line, I’ve seen the argument that the Roman Empire still exists in Turkey or Russia. I don’t agree, but I can see what they’re getting at.
I’m not saying this is unlikely, I just think he’s blood drunk enough to do it. Our understanding of the effects of dozens of modern nuclear bombs on an urban center is theoretical, thankfully, but even with Iran’s geography, it’s going to cause huge problems with oil production, causing downstream food distribution issues etc.
I guess it depends on your definition of society- they wouldn’t have a functioning government for a while, but the people surviving would still be Iranian and depending on whether they’re Kurdish, Persian, or other, might still have loyalty to the idea of an Iranian state.
I don’t think you can do enough damage to the people that there’s no Iranian (or Persian) state in 100 years without damaging the rest of the world irreparably. It’s not 100% clear what the death of a civilization entails, but it feels closer to wiping out the culture to me than destroying the big cities.
My point was, if he throws enough nukes at Iran to kill 90 million people, we’re all going down together.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki still exist. A nuclear bombardment powerful enough to kill everyone in Iran would almost certainly be enough that Iran would be only one of many cultures instantly erased.
God, imagine being one of those astronauts watching it all go down. You’re definitely dead too, just on a separate timeline from the rest of us, whether you for some reason try to get back or not.
What do you mean by older than the concept of white skin?
Light skin has been around for somewhere between 22-28k years. The concept of “whiteness” is a lot younger, but it’s also younger than plenty of countries (including the US), so that’s not saying too much.
I’m not trying to be combative, I just figured I’d mention the two interpretations that occurred to me first.
Imagine paying for gas or electricity.
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TIL Douglas Adams published the real name and address of presumably, either a friend or a former school rival, then only changed it upon request.
In comparison to the rest of the thread, it’s nothing, but that’s fucked up.
Unternehmer/undertaker is also fun
Portuguese doesn’t really have a tilde, but that’s what the h following an n (or an L) is there to indicate
That’s the perfect tone for this letter, it’s very well worded. It maintains deep pride in Iran alongside positive acknowledgement of her emigrants that contrasts with how the west would expect the government to feel towards them as an example of the inaccuracy of western reporting on Iran. I don’t know if it’s genuine (I know too many Persian and Kurdish people from Iran to fully believe it, but I also know several people whose families are refugees in Iran and who feel very positively towards it, so I think the question of Iran’s benevolence has an answer with more complexities than I am capable of understanding without having gone there or even to any politically neutral or allied country), but it’s a hell of a piece of political art. To be clear, I’m just talking about his tone here, I do absolutely believe that Iran was not intending and just about to create and use nuclear weapons against the US or Israel, but that was also true before I read this letter.
Anyway, I hope it works.
It’s that they try to CTRL Z real life situations
For a Klein bottle, it’s pretty fucking groß