Don’t throw it away. Give it away for free to someone who was going to buy one.

Maybe there’s more than one problem, and none of the governments involved in this are the good guys.

Yes, America and Israel are responsible for the current clusterfuck, but Iran’s government is still pretty fucking evil.

The th8ng about this administration is that they’re drumming constantly about everyone. Yeah - they attacked Iran, but the also threatened to attack Canada and Mexico and Greenland and China and everyone else. They’ve overwhelmed us with so much bullshit we’re too busy being shocked by the new attrocity to give a proper response to the last one.

Maybe we understand that the US is the greater of 2 evils in this specific war, while also feeling like the Iranian government is evil.

I’d prefer he commit suicide rather than have his clients murder him.

We can talk about more than one thing.

Was looking for any kind of context that would somehow make it even slightly less-outrageous than the headline indicated.

It was worse.

Yes, but there also is a legitimate issue related to staffing.

Everyone should be in unions, but unions ARE going to fight this level of automation to the bitter, as it will result in job cuts. In this particular instance, I think if you cut the CRO compensation to 0 they’d still be in trouble against some of these factories that automate almost the entire process.

This is the kind of “machines coming for your jobs” that’s realistic. AI may be a bunch of vaporware, but this stuff is different.

Isreal stopping it’s assault on Lebanon was one of Iran’s conditions of the 10 point-plan to end the war in 2 weeks, so Israel decided to accelerate the bombing to wipe them out before the 2 weeks is up.

Oh yeah - totally on the same page, then. That place was a toxic hellhole.

Admit to making a reddit account 15 years ago to filter out a toxic community full of rage comics flooding the frontpage?

Because that’s what we should be ashamed of.

That’s what convinced me to make an account.

There’s a lot of rot, but they’ve been depending on a cluster of personality. Those often collapse when the personality dies without a sucessor with popular support, which requires the cult leader to groom the public to their sucessor.

The thing with Trump is he has too much ego for that, and Vance doesn’t have the loyalty of the MAGA militant.

Claudius wasn’t 2nd in command. He was way down the list.

And the first thing he did as emperor was execute some of the Praetorians for being overzealous when cleaning house.

I mean… the first instance of that was replacing Caligula with Claudius. It just kinda went south after that.

I feel like you really don’t need Lego to depict Trumpnas a war-hungry pedophile.

That’s what the news and objective reality are for.

Sometimes economic damage ends up being deadlier than bombs. I don’t care about billionaires, but I do care about people who suddenly can’t afford to travel to their job or pay for groceries or healthcare.

American here.

Our asshole government started this fucking war and is fully responsible for the consequences. Other countries should embargo us until we agree to pay reparations to cover the economic damage caused by the war. Or better yet - seize any assets of American oligarchs to cover damages.

It sounds like I’m ignoring the human cost of the war, and that’s because the human cost isn’t a concern for those behind Trump. The billionaire class running this country doesn’t care about how many innocent people suffer, so they need to be attacked economically.

Yeah. We might bomb their schools and assassinate their leaders.

Edit: On second thought… we didn’t bomb Saudi Arabia for 9/11.

I’m pretty sure it’s actually a written rule.