[-] xerxes@piefed.social 48 points 16 hours ago

Do you want a civil war? Because this is how you get a civil war.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 45 points 16 hours ago

It wasn't enough that we reduced the from 60 million to less than 1 thousand in the 19th century?

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 174 points 1 month ago

Attacking an institute of science. This administration could not have orchestrated a better representation of itself.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago

Then why were both US and Israeli officials saying they were doing it in coordination?

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/israel-strikes-iran-natural-gas-infrastructure

"The Israeli officials said the strike was coordinated with and approved by the Trump administration. A U.S. Defense official confirmed that."

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 90 points 1 month ago

Why is he on trial? He was just eating at a McDonald's by himself.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 30 points 1 month ago

"well that's a risk we're willing to take" - Israel, probably

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[-] xerxes@piefed.social 19 points 1 month ago

Exactly. It's like they can't read. Everyone knew this shit was gonna happen.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 22 points 1 month ago

Seems the attacker had family members recently killed by Israel https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2032204336244171027

Unfortunate we have to face local blowback for a war no one but Israel wanted in a region that has nothing to do with us.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago

It turns out "idiocracy" is actually a documentary.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 29 points 1 month ago

I've lived in both and while the similarities are there, it's a bit different. Singapore still has a majority non expat population while Dubai has only about a 10% local population. Singapore also invests heavily in local education with one of the highest densities of PhDs in the world.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 41 points 1 month ago

Dubai was always an economy built on a bubble. As much as I hate how they treat foreign laborers and as much as I hate their current leaders, I have some respect for how far they were able to get with this model.

But ultimately, they are a country with little land, little water, terrible weather, and surviving on a vast expat population that has no path to citizenship and will always just see it as a destination to milk for as much money as possible.

I don't see how such a model could ever be seen as sustainable in the long run.

[-] xerxes@piefed.social 27 points 1 month ago

Death and destruction from the sky all day long

  • Pete Hegseth

Someone who uses such psychotic language would not have cared what the probe found, I assure you.

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