The Iranian people seem pretty alright TBH, but their government sucks

Yeah, and it’s not like there’s a reason they don’t have a democracy or anything…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

I’ve got very few problems with people, but man, a lot of governments are dog shit these days.

It’s important to remember the distinction because actual wars are breaking out and it’s always the people that pay the price, rarely the governments

It wasn’t that they’d go bad, it was the flexibility to have a spare, but more importantly an easy way to do a hard reset or even clear the CMOS.

This isnt a special snowflakes issue

What I meant is the modern accepted view is that Homo Sapiens are, well, what the name implies. The smartest hominds.

We started out saying we knew that was true because of jewelry, burial rituals, and cave paintings. All of which were found in Europe and thought unique to us, specifically Europeans because everyone was hella racist back then.

Then we found out Neanderthals did all that, then we found out Denisovans did it…

Semi-recently we found out the last common ancestor we all shared also did those things that we claimed made Homo Sapiens “the smart ones”.

That’s what I mean later about moving the goalpost so we can still say we’re better.

We’re not smarter than the other hominds were.

We were just the one with an innate drive to kill other hominds that didn’t look exactly like what we grew up around. The vestiges of that is why “in group/out group” still develops in modern humans and why racism is a thing.

That, and we reproduced faster than others, which enabled the crazy levels of aggression. So even when the occasional hybrid tribe showed up, our genes would mostly drown out the genes of other hominids. Wed absorb a few good traits into the population, but still be mostly human in a short amount of time on the evolutionary timeline.

It’s not a pretty story, but all available evidence points to that being the reason why we’re the last standing homind. It’s just hard to admit.

To be fair…

That’s why they always say Iran is perpetually 1-5 years away from having nukes.

And why that left Iran with one logical path: actually develop nuclear weapons.

Because even if they don’t try. Israel is going to keep saying they’re trying, and pre-emptively attacking, until Iran actually launches a nuke. Hopefully in a test capacity at least.

False. Have you even tried looking this up?

They identified the right problem, but came up with the opposite of the right answer…

Similarly, human evolution was rife with interspecies sex. Modern humans have interbred with both Neanderthals and Denisovans, Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred, and Denisovans interbred with an unidentified hominin.

They’re saying because they could interbreed, it means some species can interbreed.

Because the author isn’t ready to acknowledge it means they’re the same species.

We really need to stick to one issue at a time if we’re gonna make any progress.

If you just want an argument, I’m not investing the time to help tho.

Quick edit:

Nevermind, double replies are a big red flag.

Same genus, different species.

Species can’t interbreed…

That’s like, the main thing for speciation

think like wolves vs dogs.

You mean like one species? You do know wolves and dogs are still the same species if they can produce fertile offspring, right?

Like, there’s a lot of misunderstanding to unwrap here, but I’m thinking you think it’s a hard-line and a German Shepherd and a Chihuahua are the same distance from a Gray wolf…

That’s not real life, that’s the dumb downed version we teach 12 year olds in science class.

All races of homo sapien came from a species out of Africa at the same time

Wildly untrue, is that a typo or did you really mean that?

You really should read up on what actually makes a species a separate species, and stop just memorizing the list some racist made centuries ago…

Like, those same people said Africans were a separate species, do you believe that too?

If not, you really should take the time to learn what you’re talking about, instead of just repeating centuries old racist takes.

Organisms are grouped into species partly according to their morphological, or external, similarities, but more important in classifying sexually reproducing organisms is the organisms’ ability to successfully interbreed. Individuals of a single species can mate and produce viable offspring with one another but almost never with members of other species. Separate species have been known to produce hybrid offspring (for example, the horse and the donkey producing the mule), but, because the offspring are almost always inviable or sterile, the interbreeding is not considered successful.

https://www.britannica.com/science/species-taxon

I understand why we give them different names…

But they’re not really different, it’s just human variation. Like a German shepherd and a beagle, they’re still both dogs and can still reproduce, which is why they’re not separate species.

So all those other hominids whose DNA we still carry…

They’re still the same species as us. Our branch of the family tree just has the “uncanny valley” hatred, so anyone that doesn’t look like who we grew up around became “them”. So we pruned the shit out of our family tree till it’s basically a straight line.

There’s a lot of shit racists came up with 200 years ago that we just haven’t thrown out yet, but it’s going to take a while before we get the widespread acceptance that all those “distant relatives” really weren’t that different than us.

All the shit that was supposed to make us “special” was present so far back on the family tree that it’s almost statistically impossible for only our branch to keep those traits and everyone else to have lost them.

We’re still in the moving goalposts phase of why we were special snowflakes, but another couple decades and we might finally widely acknowledge the truth

trump is mad Russia isn’t listening to him about Ukraine.

He thought it was a two way relationship, he didn’t understand Russia viewed it as a one way relationship.

Tucker is a piece of shit, but he understands he works for Russia and not with Russia, you can’t just fucking walk away from that relationship like trump is trying to.

Loads of his support was because Russia wanted him to be supported. If Russia yanks that away, trump can’t maintain his razor thin margins in the House and Senate, at least a handful will side with Russia over trump due to various reasons.

They’re unlikely to side with Dems, but they’ll stop anything from passing till midterms.

Like most scenarios, trump doesn’t understand the situation and is acting early which is going to fuck everything up for Republicans in the long run.

The top comment on OPs link said that, but now it’s deleted.

I think they had a link to the actual original, but it’s gone now

And Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers say he’s totally innocent too…

trumps been using the DOJ as his own lawyers, they’re always gonna say he can do whatever he wants. Literally, they said nothing about this can be weighed on by any court:

“Our view is that this statute commits the decision whether to call up the forces to the president’s unreviewable discretion,” Shumate answered. “So no, there’s no role for the court to play in reviewing that decision.”

It two trump judges and one from Biden. And while the trump judges clearly disagree, they’re gonna kick it to the SC.

Which is what was always going to happen here. Newsom isn’t dumb enough to think a lawsuit would fix anything, he’s just grandstanding because he wants to run for president.

I remade it not because i agree or disagree with the message but the original was ai

No, originally it was made by a human…

Then some idiot made it with AI

Now you did a shitty job of copying the AI version for whatever fucking reason you just did a horrible job of explaining.

He’s retiring after the end of this term, around the time he announced (I think) is when he kept “freezing” in public…

But he’s back out of his shell, and seems to have a reverse Fettermen situation going on…

https://newrepublic.com/post/196689/mitch-mcconnell-pete-hegseth-russia-ukraine

But McConnell has always been about the long game, he’s spent an entire lifetime setting up a conservative coup of the US government…

And then trump showed up out of nowhere and has zero patience or planning and is blowing the whole thing up by acting early.

It’s possible McConnell isnt pissed about what’s happening, he’s just mad they didn’t wait another decade or so till the coup would be a sure thing. But out of all the Senate Republicans, he’s by far been the most critical of this admin.

The reason Cali has strict gun laws is ole Ronny Reagan got scared when he saw Black men with rifles marching in formation.

It’s important to note that MLK and Malcolm X were friendly and saw themselves as allies.

There’s a big push of revisionist history where they want to portray it as them disagreeing about methods and arguing with each other over the best path forward. Because that’s what the wealthy want us to do, because it doesn’t work.

If you give a privileged population the choice between:

1. Status quo

2. Things getting better for someone else, but stays the same for you.

It’s really hard to get the majority of priveleged people to pick #2

But when you add in:

3. Shit gets much worse for you and much better for the people you persecuted

Suddenly #2 becomes a popular choice. It’s often the only way to get the majority to agree to equality

I wish that was true…

But surely you’ve seen/heard how cops react when they’re out numbered but protestors aren’t visibly armed…

Most commonly with this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling#United_States

Ask the folks at MOVE how well fighting back worked for them

Are you giving the class an example of what happens when we dont stand together?

Because we all already know how cops act when they have the guns and numbers.

We know when they have the guns but not the numbers they escalate and use violence.

But when they dont have the numbers and protestors visibly are carrying rifles, suddenly the cops aren’t escalating to violence anymore.

If you aren’t familiar with a “visual deterrent” then frankly you’re not in a position to be advising people.

We don’t have to like it, but it’s undeniable that cops treat protestors in plated vests with rifles different than they treat protestors in tshirts with signs…

30 some years ago?

Everything was just more fractured. Instead of a handful of options for social media, there were thousands of forums on their own websites. ICQ handled IMs and away messages was basically twitter. Before YouTube/spotify everyone used Winamp and internet radio streams for music, you didn’t have songs on demand, but compared to local “real” radio or MTV it was an overwhelming about of choice.

It’s honestly not that much different though.

It does actually

So …

You think the only two people who could have won the election is Biden or trump?

That’s fucking crazy considering Biden dropped out due to record unpopularity…

Almost like you’re wrong…

Anyone claiming that Biden was senile needs to look at the current incumbent

Hot take:

Two elderly racists can both be simultaneously senile.

In fact recent events would point to large amounts of people like that in America.

That doesn’t mean we got to pick one to be president