2026-02-28 Iran War - Israel and USA strikes Iran - "Preemptive Strike"

[chaos]

Probably a rough morning at the nursing home.

The prune juice must have been extra spicy.

[Van_Bilderass]

I don't believe Eeron either, skithuvud.

Well, there was of course no meeting today in Doha, so the stuff about Iran begging Trump was the usual baloney, the Iranians were telling the truth again. It was Trump begging, he can't afford for the SOH to be closed even for a day. The Iranians might actually want some more kinetic action knowing how bad it is for the US. It's unfortunate that Trump has to degrade himself like this every day. Apparently Pakistani mediators in Switzerland told the US delegation to please tell Trump to "shut the fuck up" because his Truth Social posts made the Iranians walk out 3 different times and they had to beg them to come back to the table.

Don't worry Van, he can't fathom that there are gradations of belief. Believing someone more than the other doesn't mean you completely believe them.

Simple logical thought is lost on the maga's. They think in black and white, win or lose.

Yes, I don't automatically believe the Iranians either but in this war they've been amazingly honest. They have embellished about targets they've supposedly hit but otherwise they've pretty much kept their word as far as I can tell. In war there's always a parallel propaganda war also so you should expect some lies but Iran has been able to afford more "honesty" than the US.

I think the Iranians have some Iranian-Americans writing certain troll posts like this one by Ghalibaf I cited above. Trolling is modern day psy-ops

[chaos]

have embellished about targets they've supposedly hit but otherwise they've pretty much kept their word as far as I can tell.

Agree to peace then attack ships in the straight......totally kept their word.

This is why we should kill them all. Every last one of them, gone from earth, send them to allah.

[Donny]

Agree to peace then attack ships in the straight......totally kept their word.

This is why we should kill them all. Every last one of them, gone from earth, send them to allah.

Trump's caused quite a mess

[Griffith]

Hopefully it ends soon and the US and Israel stop attacking countries for a few years.

[Van_Bilderass]

Agree to peace then attack ships in the straight......totally kept their word.

This is why we should kill them all. Every last one of them, gone from earth, send them to allah.

Would you want me to explain how Iran attacking these ships is in line with the deal, in my opinion, which I think I can substantiate pretty well? I don't think you do so I won't waste my time, but that's what I think, the US violated the deal wrt how the ships' transits were supposed to be administered.

I don't mean to anger you and some others here just because, but I just have to quote this absolutely beautiful article I just read. I've always though Trump's sense of style is unbelievably ugly, very kitch. It's a fitting testament to his presidency.

The Kitschification of America
Simplicius
Jul 01, 2026


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"Not to get too pedantic or pretentiously sciolistic, but kitsch is in some ways the embodiment of a culture of excess, a culture that has reached its zenith, its peak flowering phase, and has begun to wilt, shedding its invasive spores haphazardly over the once-virgin garden. It is the exaltation of “memeified” cultural tokens to the point of parody, which had come long before the invention of internet ‘memes’. It purposely calls attention to itself, to become a kind of self-mockery in the way “irony” had become a modus vivendi under the thankfully-brief ‘hipster rule’ of the aughts. It resonates even in the chosen names: Golden Dome, Golden Age, Make America Great Again, a strange kind of spiritually inert alchemy in reverse—turning what was once real gold, into fool’s gold and other debased byproducts."

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"But this began as a reflection on the kitschification of America in general, for which Trump is merely a last apostle. A culture becomes kitschified when it has lost its original vital force, the creative spark which once drove it forward, and has turned into a recursive parody of itself. That is America today, sapped of its original vigor and innovation, now trapped in an endlessly recycled loop, like degeneratively rewinding a cassette of oldies thousands of times until only barely-intelligible rasps remain. It’s a nation whose ethos has run dry of ideas and which has resigned to borrowing from the past—Monroe Doctrines, Gilded Ages, down to more recent times: replaying the neocon GWOT broken record over and over until the US military is ground down to chaff over the millstone of history."

Indeed, the country has become much like that painting: a pastiche of better times and misguided hopes, a place where George Washington can sit beside a Tesla robot beneath the St. Louis arch while staring up at a bald eagle magnificently volant o’er the Statue of Liberty."

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-kitschification-of-america

What does everyone think of Trump's sense of style?

[IroNat]

Powerful Iranian clerics call for assassination of Trump, Netanyahu

https://nypost.com/2026/07/01/world-news/powerful-iranian-clerics-call-for-assassination-of-trump-netanyahu-send-them-to-hell/