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darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]

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  • Not specifically environmentalism as a whole but taking too much care, enacting those bad government regulations which hurt businesses, that type of thing. I suppose it's because my parents had money issues so they adopted certain environmentalist stances because they were cheap. Don't use too much of things because they cost money but that doesn't sound great or make you feel good so they say oh for the environment, don't use too much for the environment (but they'd burn down 10 acres of rain forest in a heartbeat to save $5).

    It was a personal responsibility issue and good Christians™ had a responsibility to be stewards BUT also because of the Genesis "dominion" clause it means we have a right and almost a duty to exploit nature, animals, etc as god has given them to us for our use and thus using them is not defiling them and this world is disposable anyways as god is going to rapture the faithful and destroy it any day now™ so it's fine to trash it a bit because we'll be moving onto some place better. So it was kind of mixed messaging but it came down to the EPA was bad, government was bad, man was given charge of this for a reason, yes some people were bad and irresponsible and good Christians™ had a duty to give at least a moment's thought about the more egregious environmental crimes but could do most of them anyways especially if they saved money.

    That dominion clause does a lot of heavy lifting for a lot of garbage opinions but it's a pretty strong clause so I wouldn't say they're stretching it on a textual basis just that the whole thing is way past its best by date and should have been discarded oh many centuries ago.

  • The United States Cannot Defeat Iran

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  • And get the technical knowledge stolen by Mossad given how deeply infiltrated and compromised Iran is? I wouldn't think so.

    Russia doesn't have a ton of production capacity and last I checked s-400 systems are very expensive, India bought some and they're going to be delivered in future for example and given how much force the west would likely hit Iran with they'd need a lot of them to prevent them being overwhelmed and destroyed by drone and cruise missile volleys. It would be as much an opportunity for the west to gather technical data as either of those powers.

    Another problem is as we've seen the zionists are firing munitions from outside of Iran's borders to clear the way. Iranians don't want to engage them in the airspace outside their borders as it risks bringing another country actively into the war against them and also don't have good radar visibility which increases the chance of these systems just being killed without doing much good.

    China already got to test their systems with the Pakistan vs India situation I believe. Russia has already tested them against Ukraine.

    Neither power seems particularly interested in enraging the US by sticking their neck out here. Both go out of their way to kick the can down the road and bide their time and strength. Russia is full of capitalist liberals who genuinely want to find a way back to some sort of compromise between full NATO membership and the reality that the US and NATO will seek to destroy them because they're not sharing Europe or central Asia and control of those or other parts of the world with Russian bourgeoisie. They want at the very least to PLAY Trump into not escalating in Ukraine and not slapping on more sanctions for as long as possible by not doing anything that would cause him to walk away from negotiations as like it or not they can't win Ukraine decisively in the way they want that doesn't end in a smoldering conflict that keeps flaring up without a negotiated solution and if Trump walks away they fear years more of fighting Ukraine in a drawn out war deep into central and eastern Ukraine at great cost and damage to their economy as there are like it or not problems Russia is experiencing from this conflict and it can't keep this footing forever in a capitalist mode of production. They were able to do a deal with the DPRK because it's already off the chessboard for the US given the DPRK has nukes so it didn't matter to the US that Russia agreed to defend them as it doesn't change a strategic calculus nor is the DPRK near as important to global control as Iran. China has its own reasons as in basically biding its time to build up its own military and because it still hasn't resolved Taiwan and still needs the US economically (which is why they're willing to do deals with Trump and restore access to critical minerals despite some of them being bound to be used in weapons that are likely to be used on China within a decade).

    Neither has had a break out moment showing a turn towards outright hostility towards the US which this would be perceived as and both seem to accept the US ruled order of the world. For example despite the staggering sanctions on Russia they haven't moved to destroy dollar hegemony because they don't want to anger the US and Trump and because they believe if they don't they'll get their stolen $300 billion dollars back held by the west.

  • The United States Cannot Defeat Iran

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  • A lot of good that did Syria in the end. Or Hezbollah. It's cope.

  • Gotta get those minerals

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  • This stuff is why I say don't count the US out or laugh at the idea of its plan of encircling, blockading, and decoupling from China.

    It's "moderate rebel" proxies and terrorist groups it supports to destabilize regions including markets for consuming goods as well as raw minerals (both of which China needs) have been wildly successful for many decades and I see no Chinese counter to that at present. Russia is doing slightly more to counter that but only barely and it's more a taking the edge off thing as we saw with Syria where Assad eventually fell anyways because Russia wouldn't commit the necessary level of support. Frankly the US can afford to do these things in 12 places at once while Russia can't afford to counter them in even a third.

    For every AES (Sahel) that tries to throw off the shackles of neo-colonialism and succeeds for a time (how long is anyone's guess) there are a dozen examples of countries the US successfully suppresses, color revolutions, coups, destabilizes, debt-traps, installs compradors in, etc.

    China has an uphill fight and I'm increasingly doubtful the US goes without a world war against it. Even proxies that don't "win" their war like Ukraine do provide benefits for the west, arm sales, knowledge on cutting edge enemy tactics and weaponry, experience, and battle-hardened "moderate rebels" which leave the battlefield at the end or in Ukraine's case even before the end to directly serve in the intelligence agencies or proxies of those agencies around the world. We've already seen that with Ukraine bragging about countering Russia's anti-colonial Wagner group helping the Sahel states and that's the tip of the iceberg.

    The US is stoking a hundred fires and has means to turn many of them on short notice into an inferno. Even if they can't they just keep stoking it and burning and they still win by default by denying China new markets and resources while already controlling the old existing markets and resources.

    There are going to be a hundred color revolutions, palace coups, moderate rebels taking down or throwing a nation into instability, compradors turning around to betray and sell their nation out, etc that are going to be popping up and going off against China and Russia from Africa to central Asia in the next 15 years as the US fights like hell to enact the project for a new American century.

  • 5 years ago /r/chapotraphouse was banned

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  • Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels

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  • I do think 10 years is quite excessive but I also think western media would lie about that so I'm going to assume that with good behavior and reform they'd probably actually be out in much less than half that.

    Secondly I don't presume that this was per se special punishment because of the orientation, non-hetero nature of the works and that the law provides for the same for straight works. I admit there are likely problems with selective enforcement as with any law like this that runs into existing societal biases and prejudices so I think that would be another argument in favor of leniency but again I don't really believe that sentencing is necessarily accurate or the whole story.

    Thirdly we don't know all the details about the ages of the characters or any aggravating factors about the content or the nature of payments or whatever.

  • Bobby Vylan celebrating the Zionist seeth

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  • Such a good chant. Going to have to look into his music now.

    Also more seriously, this guy is a hero and braver than the troops. He's put himself at risk against the entire zionist propaganda apparatus, against the British state which has already shown a willingness to criminalize and prosecute musicians, something he knew before going on given who followed him.

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    "I've never had sex with anyone outside of my family!" (CW: nonce shit)

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  • Oh so not satisfied with the rich Epstein circles of mutual blackmail for the western elite that provide him with UA teenagers to SA he is now saying we should legalize the teenagers so the blackmail circles have to provide him with pre-pubescents instead. That is the way I am reading this. That or he has grown very tired of the company he has to be in at those Eyes Wide Shut style events.

  • Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels

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  • While the making of lewd content is legal in China, profiting off of it is very heavily criminalized.

    That is how it should be. Sexuality for enjoyment not profit. I don't have a problem with this. Now if any of these people were not making money off this and just publishing it for free and got in trouble yes that would be something I'd be against and think it an area of improvement China needs to work on but also an understandable one given how rapidly Chinese society has progressed in just the last half century. I am confident that with time and effort by good comrades inside China that any such problems will in time be rectified. (Also I suppose I do have mixed feelings given the amount of capitalist exploitation China allows to disallow women to make money in this way which is relatively harmless and given they probably don't have great financial means... an imperfect situation all around)

  • 50 Cent Deletes Post Offering To Paying NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani To Leave NY - HOT 97

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  • Pathetically cheap. Even 10x that (2.5 mil) likely represents less than 1% of the amount the city's bourgeoisie will end up spending in attack ads and various campaigns trying to stop him.

    You need to make $100k annually just to have a moderately comfortable life living in some parts of NYC. So he's offering him maybe 2.5-3 years of salary to leave.

  • New MI6 chief’s grandfather was Nazi spy

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  • Like grandfather, like granddaughter. Proudly following in the steps of evil and fascism. I'm sure he'd tear up with pride.

  • Shameless video: How 20 CIA Spies Mysteriously Disappeared in China

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  • Good job using a front-end so this racist, imperialist, ignorant, white supremacist doesn't get views. This channel called Hong Kong "Chinese occupied territory". Way to show your whole unserious biased, propagandized, historically illiterate ass. And whats great is the youtube comments are for once lambasting them for it but the most they concede is:

    "Correction: I referred to Hong Kong as a “Chinese occupied territory” — fair point, that’s not accurate. Thank you to all of you who have pointed it out. I’ll be more precise in the future."

    I'd take anything said in this video with a huge grain of salt.

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    Bulletins and News Discussion from June 23rd to June 29th, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Deep Military Sites

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  • Zionist entity sought to kill Khamenei according to a TV interview in the entity Source: Russia Today

    Apparently they weren't able to because he went into serious hiding. He didn't contact or accept contact with any of the new people who replaced the assassinated IRGC generals. There was a report a day or so ago about there being problems reaching him for negotiations because he didn't have any comms where he was and it was difficult to get to him so I believe this and this also shows the lengths the entity will go to decapitate its enemies. If he'd been a little less serious about protecting himself and remained in operational command they'd have dropped a bunker buster on his head just like Nasrallah IMO. This also I think is a serious threat in the near future if Bibi gets another indictment dropped on his head or whatever and would likely lead to the war they desperately crave which would force a US intervention. They said they'd do it without US approval too. Iran needs air defense.

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  • Locking down the middle east for the coming fight with China I see. China's attempts to woo Saudi Arabia and other US Arab vassals with minor soft power gifts and trinkets and partnerships have failed. Of course they still need to neutralize or overthrow Iran but I suppose they have a few years left to do that.

    IF and it is a big IF they succeeded in burying most of their nuclear material with the US strikes and IF Iran's eventual formal ceasefire with the entity includes provisions of not accessing those sites and the zionist right to bomb them in a Lebanon style loss of sovereignty then they may consider that good enough and just go back to preparing a civil war and insurrection quietly in the background.

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  • Yeah too bad they murdered the communists. Almost like we're a threat to their rule and we have to be critical in our support for a place like Iran that despite having a revolution also did the exact kind of dirty work the west would have done (mass killings of communists) to cement their own power.

    It's interesting to contrast this to Russia where the successes of the Soviet era are so great they cannot be denied so there is some allowed historical veneration for the communist state and symbols despite the best attempts of the traitorous capitalist leadership there to pry the people away from that and fill their heads with "traditionalist" reactionary nonsense. And part of that legacy is a certain amount of understanding (perverted through reactionary/liberal thinking of course) of imperialism. I expect Russia could end up in the same place in 20 years though. We've already seen this situation in many places where the progressive forces against genuinely backwards and reactionary thinking are co-opted (often from very early on) by western intelligence and interests. Which is why of course the US had its regime media and intelligence spreading that kind of stuff which is something domestic reactionaries don't understand. Or more importantly after the success of naked fascism in Ukraine and the failure of progressive NATO propagandists to bring the global south onboard against Russia they've decided that they'd rather just push the naked reaction angle.

  • Trump calls for cancellation of Netanyahu’s corruption trial in Israel

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  • He knows deep down this guy is going to keep doing shit like attacking Iran if he's at risk of going down for this corruption stuff. That and the whole doing the very out loud genocide when Trump just believes they can quietly push all Palestinians into Egypt and Syria and so on and take the land.

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  • I'm honestly not sure how wise it is for China to give Iran top of the line air defense at this point. I think they have structural deficiencies in their government, are deeply compromised by Mossad and generally just unstable. Put those together and if the US really wants to go in on them they'll still knock them down. Add in that the US would want desperately to study Chinese air defenses including just attacking and defending against them for their coming war with China to give them much needed intel and ways to disable, overcome, etc those and the disadvantage it could present to China in that coming war which many seem to think is happening within about 5 years and it becomes a big strategic question mark.

    Obviously if they KNEW for a fact that giving Iran these would prevent the zionists and US from overthrowing them and would keep the belt and road open and Iran as a vital link and outpost for Russia/China free of imperialist rule or descent into civil war then it would be a worthy sacrifice to let the US get knowledge on these systems from engaging them and studying them and perhaps even getting close to them with Mossad infiltrators. But not knowing that, knowing how divided Iran is between the hardliners who refuse to compromise on social and domestic issues and the liberals who are such suckers and the inability for them to form any kind of coalition that lets the Iranian people have it both ways (hardline religious foreign policy, progressive reformist domestic policies) there's just so many chances for Iran to crumble that China should think long and hard on this unless they have some truly older (but still much better than s-300) systems they can sell them which won't reveal their cutting edge secrets. Russia I think may be in a better position here to sell them something better than s-300 that still isn't as advanced as the s-500 and doesn't give away any secret sauce if captured or studied up close by a Mossad specialist. I mean they sold s-400 to Turkey which is a NATO state and unless they had round the clock Russian guards on those you know NATO studied them so maybe even s-400 could be sold and they could replace their own remaining s-400 with new production s-500 and s-600 systems to have a win-win.

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  • It's just 576 but with some black-boxing to reduce it down to 568 in this case a loss of 4 pixels on both top and bottom. So it's an aspect-ratio thing.

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  • Now obviously this would not result in a nuclear weapon, assuming the country is fractured and unstable. But whoever ends up controlling the fordow site now just needs to do a bit of excavation and we are looking at material to make dozens of dirty bombs, potentially falling into the hands of a group as extreme as ISIS. How is burying half a ton of nuclear material and destabilizing the country at all going to lead to safety for the world?

    Others gave good reasons but I'll underline most extremist groups are western proxies and even if they made a dirty bomb out of this stuff the damage to the west would be minimal and would be a welcomed excuse for an even more intrusive police state and powers for the nat-sec state as well as control of people and rollbacks of limited freedoms.

    Besides that though, the west couldn't invade and hold Iran. But in your hypothetical scenario where it devolves into civil war, they could do one of two things IF somehow they decided such a buried stockpile was a problem. They could 1) hang back and sponsor various groups, maneuver pliant leaders into place for the various factions so no matter who comes out on top controlling that part of Iran they'll have access to move in machinery to excavate and remove it. 2) Just monitor the site and air strike anyone who tries to move in heavy equipment to excavate. They could also heavily mine it, potentially from the air or via special forces or proxies thus acting as a further deterrent.

    For the west controlling Iran or at least removing it as an anti-imperialist power is worth an awful lot of risk, far more than would be incurred by such a scenario you outline. Most likely if they did overthrow Iran and a Syria situation developed, one of the resulting factions would agree to sell access to the material and/or the ability to remove it in exchange for things like food aid, weapons, aid, etc.