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To our community: We wanted to follow up on yesterday’s message to better address the questions you are actually asking and that matter most to you.
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There are just too many irreconcilable contradictions here. First, you claim that Benjamin Netanyahu is aggressively mounting pressure on Donald Trump to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran. Tell us, how can this logically or militarily be true when the radioactive fallout and nuclear winter from such an apocalyptic explosion are mathematically guaranteed to have a devastating environmental impact on Israel, considering that Israel is barely 1,000 miles away from the Iranian border? Let us even assume Israel is perfectly ready to live with the nuclear-grade pollution, the radioactive contamination of their airspace, and the total destruction of their water desalination plants as a necessary, acceptable trade-off to decapitate their biggest regional enemy. This still makes absolutely zero strategic sense because a nuclear strike against Iran in the Levant is tantamount to absolute political, economic, and geographic suicide for Israel. Israel exists today strictly due to Western financial aid, American military support, Pentagon weapons shipments, and United Nations diplomatic cover, all of which would instantly disintegrate, evaporate, and vanish into absolute oblivion should Washington break an 80-year-old nuclear taboo and drop an atomic bomb on Tehran. Without this continuous, life-saving imperial backing, the Israeli state would violently collapse overnight. Furthermore, a nuclear strike in the Middle East automatically means that Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt would immediately kick off a frantic regional arms race to either develop, purchase, or acquire their own nuclear weapons, which is absolute geographic suicide for Tel Aviv. How do we now logically reconcile these glaring material facts with your proposition that Netanyahu is pushing Trump to nuke Tehran? If you argue that it is simply because he wants to stay relevant politically, maintain his emergency war powers, and avoid the domestic corruption trials that would put him in a prison cell, then we have every single right to aggressively rebuke this as just another sanitized, highly coordinated piece of propaganda from Washington. This exact same deceptive propaganda was heavily used to convince the gullible public that Netanyahu is pushing for more carpet bombings in Gaza just to avoid his corruption trials. All of these were calculated lies cooked up strictly to make the systematic genocide of Palestinians look like an isolated act caused solely by the personal moral failings, political desperation, and individual greed of Netanyahu, when it was, in stark material reality, a fully American-funded, American-armed, and American-sanctioned genocide. So this begs the screaming question: are you truly here as a brave whistleblower to expose Netanyahu, or are you merely acting as a highly sophisticated, well-paid intelligence agent who is here to deliberately deflect the righteous public outrage away from Washington and redirect it toward Israel? You desperately want us to view the war against Iran as Israel manipulating America to fight, instead of seeing it for exactly what it is: a calculated, imperialist war meant to cement America's fading superpower status, secure global energy routes, and violently conquer Eurasia. Secondly, you deliberately took the time here to insert the tired, racist trope that the Iranians are irrational "hardliners" and incredibly difficult to strike a diplomatic deal with. How can this possibly be true, and what exactly is the "deal" that America actually wants with Iran? If it is genuinely about nuclear weapons, Iran already agreed to and signed a comprehensive nuclear deal under the Obama Administration. This was a strict, binding deal that even the most ruthless international nuclear inspection agencies, European diplomats, and American intelligence units all unanimously agreed that Iran was strictly obeying and fully compliant with, confirming there was absolutely zero threat of uranium enrichment at weapons-grade levels. If it is not about nuclear weapons, then what is it? Is it their sovereign oil? If it is about the oil, then please tell us who gave America the divine, controlling right to arbitrarily decide that Iranian oil, natural gas, and mineral wealth rightfully belong to American oil majors, Wall Street hedge funds, and Western energy cartels. If it is about the oil, then it completely ceases to be a diplomatic "deal" and has violently metamorphosed into a naked imperial declaration of theft, of which Iran has every single legal, moral, and sovereign right to fiercely resist, reject, and defend themselves against. If you are actively using your massive media platform to portray the Iranian leadership as stubborn hardliners simply for refusing to accept total, humiliating economic capitulation, then what exactly does that make you? Tucker Carlson, this is absolutely not independent whistleblowing, objective journalism, or anti-war advocacy. This is a textbook CIA agent using right-wing fear-mongering to pass a subtle, highly weaponized psychological message to an unsuspecting audience. You are deliberately trying to make them believe that the bloody war in the Middle East continues solely because Benjamin Netanyahu is desperately trying to cling to power and avoid going to jail, while at the exact same time making it look like a benevolent America is actively, tirelessly working for peace to negotiate their way out, but the Iranians are just radical Islamists, irrational fanatics, and stubborn hardliners who are impossible to deal with. We the people have completely, aggressively, and permanently rejected your cheap propaganda campaign on behalf of Washington. We see the strings, we know the puppet masters, and we will continue to expose this imperialist theater until the entire global capitalist war machine is dismantled and buried for good.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha. The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people. And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final. We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it. Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made. They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making. One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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jeff retweeted
Haha hey I like your boyfriend’s costume, the big fat sewer chud from Resident Evil. Oh the party isn’t until tomorrow?
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Remember, Halloween isn’t until tomorrow. If you go out tonight and see a vampire or skeleton, you shoot them with a gun.
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Texas Tech hate week, post saguaros to confuse them
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In memory of how awesome the WSTR shotgun was, we’re giving away a REAL one🥳 We have teamed up with @TauCetiBingus to giveaway a hand crafted WSTR shotgun that actually reloads made by them! How to enter: 👍- Like this post 🔃- Retweet this post 👥- Follow @MarathonGG_ & @TauCetiBingus Extra Entry - Subscribe to our YouTube Channel (youtube.com/@Marathon_GG) & comment down below showing proof 👇 US ONLY. Winner picked on May 4th!
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justin bieber headline coachella set but he doesn't have youtube premium so every time he clicks on a new vid he gets a 15 second ad
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🫵 your entire worldview was hand selected for you by Jeffrey Epstein
This meme gets truer by the day
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Anybody actively cheering for hundreds of people to lose their livelihoods in one of the worst job markets we've ever experienced (especially for the gaming industry) is a heartless worm. I am begging you all to stop giving this mutant attention.
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Sean McVay looks like a white Kash Patel
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Rickmaxxing. #KirbyAirRiders
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jeff retweeted
Here’s an utterly insane Adidas ad, directed by David Lynch in 1993
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No Silksong news at the game awards
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Game Awards are certainly going so far
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Great new clip dropped
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Sigh. So QA are some of the most video games engaged people in any company. They are integral to your community teams. To publishing. They give you the real feedback. They know what is good and what is bad before the audience does, and they are the most resilient department.
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027. vgc.news/news/square-enix-sa…
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