An excellent suggestion was made to concentrate Iran conversation and posting to this mega thread. Please keep as much as you can here so that the main feed isn’t overburdened by Iran news.
I understand how bad the world order when the USA can do whatever the heck they want is bad, but we can’t act like the Ayatollah is a martyr. The power is always bad, not exclusively when it oppresses us
Megathreads are kinda meh tbh.
It causes new info to be buried and not seen on the front page, and a lot of the discussion also goes unseen due to the high number of comments.
Lemmy isnt so active and big that we need to hide things in megathreads.
It’s nice to get updates on events as they happen this way
I am shocked that the FIFA Peace Prize winner and chairman of the Board of Peace has decided to launch this Special Military Operation. Totally shocked.
FIFA peace prize in shambles, board of peace blown to pieces.
Trump said that this is going to last about four weeks. So he’s really going with “this will all be over by Easter” again like he did with Covid during his first term?
Its part of the plan to rig the elections in November for sure
Yeah, giving a prognosis on the duration of a war is usually not the best idea.
Sincerely, a Russian. We’ve been stuck in our oh so glorious three day war for over four years now.
Yeah, giving a prognosis on the duration of a war is usually not the best idea.
especially when it’s continued operation will be beneficial to him politically.
I think you mean special military operation /s
Yeah, that’s his M.O. - just do a bunch of shit that’s not the best idea.
So basically the plan is to keep air striking whatever administration fills the power vacuum until they get one they like?
This is a good development (creating a megathread) - good for user engagement and retention here.
As someone who doesn’t enjoy megathreads, is it just because people don’t want to see multiple articles in their feed? I’ve seen megathreads
- get abused by mods (mass deletion of anything even loosely related),
- user engagement is buried (100 comments in 10 different articles is better than just 500 comments in a megathread to me),
- and it’s harder to see updates/new happenings without constantly checking back in for edits.
Mod megathread’s also seems like an overreach of moderator’s role. They are now in the driver seat of a pinned, mega popular post and it goes to their head (I’ve been in communities before where they just start blanketing megathreads for anything that’s gaining traction and squash even legitimate posts). They now also have added workload onto themselves by having to curate even further what gets posted at their discretion (and competing with their own post).
Megathreads on Reddit sucked because they were truly mega, but in the olden days of forums and smaller communities you’d get hundreds, maybe thousands of people participating. A kilothread. It’s a good chance to get to know people on a username basis and it’s a good space to have discussions that would just be too fragmented on separate posts
This is a good development (creating a megathread) -
It really depends, also a bit of an experiment. There are is a plusside and downside imo. Until now, with 4k- 8k users it wasn’t necessariy and most users didn’t like it afaik. It creates also some ambiguity for mods & users, as what and how to post , engage and react and so. We’ll see how it goes.
Is there anyone that can help an out of the loop fellow such as myself? I know of the war but I have no idea how and why it started. I thought Israel was all over palestine as of late. And now everyone in the area and the USA are involved?
Who benefits from Trump’s war in Iran? The answer is disturbingly clear.
Who wants Iran bombed off the map, for their own reasons? Who are their rivals and enemies? Perennially, the Gulf Arab states, countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
You know, Qatar. The country that just gave Donald Trump a really, really nice $400 milion-dollar plane, a gilded flying palace for his own use both during his presidency and after?
And you remember the United Arab Emirates, recently structuring a totally pointless crypto financial transaction so that $2 billion of it was stuffed into the Trump family’s otherwise worthless brand-new crypto financial firm?
And you remember the Saudis who stuffed $2 billion into the pockets of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner just as Trump’s first term in office came to a close? Enough people were alarmed about that they actually bothered to come up with an excuse for what made it OK. They said, don’t worry, Jared will never again work for the U.S. government; he’s never coming back to Washington, so we’ll never have to worry about having someone involved in U.S. policy who has also been given billions of dollars by Saudi Arabia.
Well, who was leading the negotiations on behalf of the United States with Iran before we just started this war with them? I mean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in St. Kitts and Nevis. It wasn’t him. It was Jared Kushner, who was recently paid billions of dollars by Iran’s chief rival, sitting alongside Trump’s tiny real estate friend, Steve Witkoff, whose son recently sought to improve his family fortunes by going to Qatar to seek money from its sovereign wealth fund.
But but Hunter’s laptop!
And Hunter’s hog which MTG seemed a bit obsessed with.
This is the second time I’ve seen nevis and kitts mentioned this week.
Trump is desperate to keep the Epstein files out of the spot light so he is doing anything to keep attention elsewhere. As soon as the Winter Olympics stopped distracting people, the orange pedophile launch the USA into war.
On the other part, Netanyahu needs to keep Israel in war so his own corruption trials do not catch up to him… with Palestine raised to the ground, Iran is the next target
*razed
“As soon as the Winter Olympics stopped distracting people, the orange pedophile launch the USA into war.”
Hey, Putin did the exact same thing after Sochi! Remember?
From my perspective, it seems like Israel knows what they have with Trump; a willing patsy who will enact their agenda, as long as they stroke his ego. So you have US-Iran talks making some level of headway, then Netanyahu whispering in his ear about how this makes him look week on terror, goading the US into action. And because Trump is Trump, he’s going to do what he thinks makes him look good and earns him and his billionaire friends money, which is wartime. So while the war itself seems pretty unpopular domestically across most political spectrum, this allows him to fulfill his own vain purposes by Israel continuing to stroke his ego, he gets to feel like the big heroic man he wishes he was by saving the world in his mind, and his echo chamber cabinet won’t go against him, so everyone says this is the right thing to do.
And then also what everyone else says; this distracts from Epstein Files, this is part of his lead-in to trying to take over the midterms and reduce election viability through restricting mail in and electronic voting (were gonna have 2 million people vote in a single precinct in New York, LA, Chicago, etc) while rural red districts breeze on through? It’s all a ploy to keep GOP in power. It’s the most thinly veiled coup ever, and half the nation is eating it up simply because it’s “their guy”.
Also, the GOP is aging out. The Boomers are thinning. The Silent Generation is all but gone. The skeletons are coming out of the closet all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Information moves too quickly now. They can’t keep the cat in the bag anymore. That’s why they’re snapping up ownership of all the news networks and social media platforms or forcing them to spy on us and figure out who we are. AI can do weeks of research in hours and doesn’t get fatigued by massive releases of documents and every average person can wield it to see for themselves.
Israel is no longer the darling ally in latest polls. And we have no real Big Bad. When they try to manufacture one, we see right through the malarkey.
They know they’re probably done, and maybe forever if they lose this time. Goodbye cushy lifestyles and jobs, and their generational wealth. And of course they will have to answer for all their evil deeds if they are forced to relinquish power to a party that is currently getting lambasted for being do-nothing, hand wavy, arrogant, status-quo keeping corporate shill sellouts.
When Russia lost planes to friendly fire, we made fun of them. It’s been 2 days and I think we’ve lost more planes to friendly fire than Russia has in years.
Back in my army days, every chopper that went down, whether in a warzone or not, was deemed an “accident” or “mechanical failure”. Once two choppers went down and we were told they just crashed against each other, lol. I don’t believe these “accidents” anymore, maybe 1 out of 10 cases but this is just a lie to keep morale up, I’m positive.
Nah, that’s just how friendly we are. You shoot at me? Instant friends!
Especially when they keep changing the story.
https://lemmy.world/post/43777365
I’m guessing nukes.
Breaking the nuclear taboo on a country that’s exhausted its ability to fight back seems like it would be buried somewhere in the Project 2025 fine print.
I mean, that’s exactly what we did last time!
