This is what I mean, it’s hard to think what they could be meaningful doing different from what the current crop of fascists are already doing.

In what tangible way though?

Is it really possible to love Israel more than the current regime already does? They literally just approved another 930 mil to keep the genocide going.

I do low key support that though, because it means the west is going to stay complacent allowing China to develop peacefully instead of throwing us into WW3.

indeed

Because of the impact on the US economy. Iran controls the rate the oil is flowing out of the Gulf, and there’s already a severe impact on the global economy. The effects have been amortized by the release of strategic reserves, but those are starting to run dry as well. On top of that, it’s the US and their vassals in Europe and Asia who are the most affected by the crisis.

What Iranians are doing is dismantling the vassals around them which pushes back American bases, hurts American energy supplies, and creates chaos for their vassals in the Gulf. Israel isn’t really the primary concern here. Once US position in the region collapses, they gonna be fucked as well.

On top of that, even American media is complaining about the logistics problems the US navy has because Iran killed the fifth fleet base in Bahrain and now they have to pull supplies from thousands of kilometres away. Even the whole blockade the US is attempting to run is becoming sustainable already.

There’s a reason the US is now trying to move to economic warfare even though Iran keeps clapping them in Jordan. The US isn’t even trying to respond to the last trike. And isolating Iran is obviously impossible because neither Russia or China will agree to that.

We already know the US cannot sanction China because we saw how the tariff war went. The US was forced to walk that back immediately, and nothing has changed since then. If you think China will cave on this, I have a bridge to sell you.

So the US is fucked both militarily and economically now. They have no way out.

Part of the power of American propaganda is convincing people that the reich is invulnerable and nobody can stand up to them.

Indeed, the low end is what I’m most excited about. Qwen 3.8 27b is already comparable to Opus 4.5, so if next version is as good as Fable, that’s good enough for vast majority of things people need to do. And while I’m really thankful that Chinese companies choose to release their models in the open, its far better to run your whole tool chain locally end to end.

It’s pretty clear that Iran isn’t going to run the war on American timelines. And as the US attempts to strangle them economically, I expect Iran will continue escalating military action against the US and its vassals in the region.

You’re not frustrating anybody, you’re just a human slop generator adding noise to threads. If that’s what you choose to dedicate your one life on this planet to being, that’s your choice.

The US is like a chicken running with its head cut off at this point.

I question whether the reich sustain another six months of this.

And people perseverating just adds noise to every conversation. People need to learn how to deal with feeling icky like grown adults.

I suspect a lot of these people are true believers. Liberalism is a vehicle for the whole white savior mythology. Liberals really do think they have the most enlightened system, and it is their duty to remodel other savage races in their own image. So, anybody who resists them is by definition evil. Liberals are the modern day missionaries and crusaders rebranded.

well it’s WSJ, so them bemoaning the loss diamond trade isn’t a surprise. And seems like this one is a hard paywall so even archive doesn’t work.

Oh I should check that out, and I find this is almost always the case.

Are you not aware of the horrors associated with diamond mining in Africa?

they might not need more training infrastructure at this point

One made up number is no better than another. The point is that generating images doesn’t take any more power than most other things people use a computer for. So, what makes it so special that is needs to be singled out?

There are plenty of ways you can make meme, what makes you the arbiter of what the one true way to do it is?

so brave!