Powell, the Don just called you a "major loser". Are you just gonna take that?

Hexbear can throw a little shade at the institution that has had 2000 years to "fix it's problems" instead of being the supporting ideology for much of the west's exploiters during that time. I'm sure class consciousness won't be impacted by what 100 hexbearites say about this.

Here is a DeepSeek translation of the 10 tweets. Anyone who speaks Farsi can feel free to provide a better translation and I can delete this if better translation emerges. The AI overlords have spoken thus:

Here are the English translations of all 10 tweets by Reza_Mad (@maysam21901), numbered and translated individually while preserving their original structure and split threads:

Tweet 1

Mar 30, 2025 · 8:17 PM UTC
If war breaks out and we face a conventional attack, aircraft carriers will position themselves at a safe distance. Fighters will launch cruise missiles and standoff bombs from outside our air defense perimeter. B-52s will fire 1,000 km-range cruise missiles. Carriers will deploy Tomahawks. Growlers and F-35s will suppress air defenses. Primary targets: #Rasht

Tweet 2

Mar 30
Primary targets include Chabahar, Bandar Abbas, and Bushehr airbases; naval bases; shipyards; fixed HAWK and S-200 air defense systems; and early-warning radars. They will also attempt to suppress mobile air defenses activated to counter missiles. Attacks will continue for several days.

Tweet 3

Mar 30
In response, we will first minimize the impact of enemy missile strikes using our air defenses. Then, we will mine the Strait of Hormuz extensively, causing merchant ships to hit mines and creating major disruptions. We will also use existing submarines, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles...

Tweet 4

Mar 30
...and long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles like the Abu Mahdi and Qadr-380 to attack the enemy’s naval fleet. Simultaneously, we will strike their bases in Bahrain, Qatar, and Iraq. If we are conventionally attacked, the enemy will gradually move their fleet closer to our borders to extend air defense suppression around nuclear facilities and create a corridor for B-2 bombers. We will try to prevent aircraft carriers from entering the Persian Gulf.

Tweet 5

Mar 30
To prevent war, we must activate diplomacy: engage in direct negotiations with the U.S. on peaceful nuclear energy while threatening that if America attacks us, we will first strike Israeli cities and facilities, then seriously pursue nuclear warhead development.

Tweet 6

Mar 30
In my opinion, a Trump-like figure is both a threat and an opportunity. If we negotiate directly and rationally, perhaps this 50-year hostility could end—provided both sides genuinely want peace. Israel and Iranian hardliners will sabotage efforts to ensure no agreement is reached. This is a major problem.

Tweet 7

Mar 30
After resolving this crisis (whether through war or diplomacy), our defense doctrine must change. Prioritize air, naval, and land forces over missiles and drones. Our navy needs real destroyers and submarines to project defense beyond coasts and into the ocean.

Tweet 8

Mar 30
Our air force needs long-range interceptors like the Su-35 in large numbers to defend beyond borders, fifth-gen fighters to counter neighbors’ future stealth jets, multirole fighters for offensive ops, AWACS, and transport aircraft.

Tweet 9

Mar 30
Our army needs tanks with active protection systems, mobile artillery, and truck-mounted towed guns. Artillery requires computerized targeting and fire control. If our defense doctrine doesn’t change, we will face heavy casualties in war.

Tweet 10

Mar 30
[Continuation of Tweet 9]
If our defense doctrine doesn’t change, we will face heavy casualties in war.

Notes:

• The original Persian tweets include engagement metrics (e.g., "22 replies · 5 retweets · 1 like · 177 views"), but these are not translated as they are numerical data.
• Threaded tweets (e.g., Tweets 3–4 and 9–10) are preserved as separate entries to reflect the user’s request for 10 distinct translations.
• Military terminology (e.g., "HAWK," "Tomahawk," "Su-35") is kept in its original form for clarity.

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Things just happen. Nobody knows why. Some democracies are like lemons, they just go bad.

Agreed, the idea that it is Israel that has leverage is like people thinking it's the tail that wags the dog. That it's somehow the outposts giving orders to the empire. And, though I don't think it's intentional by people who espouse it, it comes across as downplaying America's responsibility as the empire, as if we are hostages in the situation and wouldn't be giving our outposts weapons and support to extend imperialism's goals.

I have an older friend who is really into aliens. It's like, their thing. And they are completely 100% convinced that once the truth about aliens comes out it's

GOING

TO

CHANGE

EVERTHING

and my other friends and I try to tell them like "oh yeah, well you're still gonna go to work the next day, I'm still gonna have to pay rent, and I'm still gonna want my coffee. 'Knowing' about aliens doesn't really change any of that."

Like others have said, people will learn about things and find a way to square it with their life as already lived. And like you said, it's absolute idealism. But this friend is convicned that we need no politics, no revolution, no change, just aliens, and that'll do.

Europeans. Why are you this way?

Most progressive vice president since Truman

Capitalism only knows how to find the worse solution to fuck everything up

This is an interesting animation (abstracting away from the human costs of war). Did you make it yourself or is there a link in the megathread that I've been missing?