MrPiss

The union state is basically an attempt to bring together former soviet republics after the ussr collapsed as some kind of political continuation. It would be weird for Iran to join. Iran joining the CSTO would make more sense but that has been losing members because of American imperialism and Russia's foreign policy in reaction to that.

Given the mood of the Iranian people, even if the government wanted a ceasefire I don't think they can. The time for talk is long past. Israel finally bit off something they can't chew up.

Public opinion was probably the major reason the IRGC wasn't able to properly respond to Israeli aggression until now. The Iranian people now properly understand the position of the hardliners and IRGC. The zionists chose war and it's what they are going to get.

I don't know how long this war will last but my guess is this has at least another month. This reasonably gives Iran enough time to punish Israel and deplete weapon stocks.

Honestly not a bad idea, and they can also let him organize or host the award shows too. He would love deciding all the decorations, pageantry, and the possibilities for celebrity gossip.

Getting to the point where tech bros are handed out bullshit military ranks like Israeli soldiers just makes sense. They're not a junior web developer, they're actually brigadier general of the home page.

Things happen but they don't change much, just isn't as catchy.

Trump is a parody of himself. He's always doing things that are surreal and sound like a joke like with that McDonalds dinner for the athletes or whatever.

It's a fascist tradition to have an incomprehensible death drive.

English also has no organization to oversee it like French or German does, so the rules are more described by custom than formally defined by an organization and nothing is done to make things coherent.

They have no empathy, and I expect them to learn nothing from this other than the strength of Iran's military might. They have only learned to not punch a bear in the face and will still brutalize others when they can.

It's something that's been popping up in the news more frequently in the past year or so. The avian flu has been going through and destroying wildlife populations as well as farm animals. Factory farm condition make it a lot easier for the disease to mutate which scares people since we have gone through covid.

More doomer parts of the internet circulate the stories and act like it will kill a billion people and collapse the modern world. It does have a high case fatality rate currently (~60% of people who end up in the hospital) but if it transmits human to human then it will fundamentally be a different disease and less lethal. We already have a vaccine for an old strain which is good news.

It is something that should be taken seriously, but modern, neoliberal countries don't care about having a functional society so it's a waiting game for something to happen and see how bad it gets. No idea how long evolution will take to make it happen though.

Edit: also people who survive commonly get to have completely fucked up neurological issues.

We'll never really know because antivaxxers are running the department of health and human services. RFK Jr. and his buddies are destroying public health in the US so we won't have any good numbers.

I disagree because they'll report it only after it's wreaking havoc. Imagine if covids first city crippling outbreaks had been in the US and you basically have what could happen with the bird flu if it starts to transmit human to human. It would be a complete shitshow but they'll go through weeks of denial and "it's just the flu".