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IIRC he was considered a viable candidate for pope as well.

An Iranian civil war would be Netanyahu’s preferred outcome.

Germany and Japan were fascist states that went on the offensive, and both were forced into total capitulation followed by extensive programmes to uproot the fascist elements from their societies, paired with programmes to help rebuild.

Syria was primarily fighting a civil war against a dictator, not against the US and Israel.

In this case, Iran was attacked and its spiritual leader was assassinated. And as much as we dislike that guy, many Iranians did like him. Iran was then heavily bombed, including what appear to be civilian targets. There are no clear signs of widespread civil unrest that could topple the regime entirely yet.

I don’t see this ending well anytime soon.

Unlikely, Europe would sooner buy more lng from the US than from Russia. And Russia’s drone supplier is likely not supplying much anymore, especially after Iran saw that Russia’s response to the US attacking is basically nothing. Putin is almost certainly very unhappy about this.

Isn’t the situation in gonewild a clear sign it’d be wise to set up two separate communities? gonewildgals and gonewildguys or something? If a community is “too broad”, niche content will always lose out. The answer is usually setting up a new community specific to that niche.

Fighting low-effort posts and memes either means setting up a meme community, more moderation on the posts or both.

WWIII is happening and you’re worried about someone worried about optimising their gooning.

IIRC they found that even with balanced training data facial recognition models just do worse on darker-skinned people. Something about cameras picking up less contrast on the skin, meaning there are fewer easily-identifiable facial features it can pick up from an image.

So you were arguing a hypothetical point that hasn’t actually happened. I’m not sure what the point of that is, you’re essentially shoehorning people in a position that you believe they might take, despite them not actually having done so (and possibly wouldn’t take in the first place).

Word of advice: don’t. People tend to not respond well to what is essentially a strawman argument. Don’t focus on hypotheticals but on what has actually happened and what people are actually arguing in favour of. Otherwise you’re having an imaginary discussion with imaginary people.

So either the rules hold, and the seizing was legitimate, or they don’t hold anymore, meaning it doesn’t matter it was seized?

What were you arguing again?

Both Hamas and Israel seem to agree it is a war? Hamas stated goal was to create a “permanent state of war” with Israel, and Netanyahu announced that Israel was at war as well. You think they’re only pretending or something?

I’m not sure what the point of denying that it is a war is? It doesn’t undercut the genocide perpetrated by Israel in any way, nor does it justify it. Perhaps you could explain this as I’m not following.

It can be both.

Sure, but a nuclear program is kinda hard to hide. Even spy sattelites will likely spot the signs, and good luck blocking those.

Espionage.

I’d rather have the war stop though.

Pahlavi himself iirc never ruled and criticised his father who did, so not sure how correctly he can be characterized as an “autocrat”. He might well be genuine. But yes, it’s obvious that there’s foreign countries who’d much prefer him over the theocracy.

As far as I could tell the Shah guy isn’t actually intent on becoming a monarch (he was fairly critical of his dad) but wants to help Iran transition towards democracy. How he does that, no clue.

Still, apparently that guy is the dude most Iranians trust to take over. I say most, but it’s still barely 30% iirc; Iranians are pretty disillusioned with their (potential) leaders at the moment.

He’s authored 60 repos on Github and has forked another 95.

https://github.com/marcj?tab=repositories&q=&type=source&language=&sort=

He also founded companies and used to be CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-j-schmidt-957875110

So I suppose he’s both.

China also knows that other countries don’t exactly share that perspective. And it certainly won’t persuade Trump to not continue his anti-China policies.

Which is the point, it’s rarely tried because it’s very risky and unlikely to succeed or achieve your goals. The US military however was capable enough.

How many other heads of state do you remember being kidnapped from their palace, like from anywhere?

Of course Venezuela is no China or Russia and doesn’t compare to the US military, but they did have fairly modern Russian-made AA installations, all of which were successfully disabled or destroyed. And again: zero casualties.

You expect the operation would be successful, sure. But not as perfectly executed as it was.