What is your current analysis of ...

[Atla]

Who wanted a war with Iran for 20+ years?

No one, don't you have some caveman business to attend to?

What the heck did I do to justify such a dismissal?

[Arising_uk]

You asked who 'they' were. Never do this with conspiracy nuts it upsets them.

[henry quirk]

You asked who 'they' were. Never do this with conspiracy nuts it upsets them.

I figured he'd post a screed on Reticulans...or jews.

[Walker]

What is your current analysis of:

The potential consequences and implications of Iranian citizens currently protesting their government?

President Donald Trump responded to the protests on Saturday by posting a message on Twitter in both Farsi and English supporting them.

“To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage,” President Trump wrote. The Farsi language post has reportedly broken Twitter engagement records in that language.”*

* https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... ne-flight/#

[Walker]

What is your current analysis of:

Is Meghan a mole for anti-monarchy forces or is Harry just another of these coming-of-age annoying anomalies who places individuality above the responsibilities of birthright?

[henry quirk]

What is your current analysis of:

The potential consequences and implications of Iranian citizens currently protesting their government?

President Donald Trump responded to the protests on Saturday by posting a message on Twitter in both Farsi and English supporting them.

“To the brave, long-suffering people of Iran: I’ve stood with you since the beginning of my Presidency, and my Administration will continue to stand with you. We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage,” President Trump wrote. The Farsi language post has reportedly broken Twitter engagement records in that language.”*

* https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2 ... ne-flight/#

Obvious misinformation, cuz no one in the commie propaganda machine, er, world of respectable journalism is reportin' that.

[henry quirk]

What is your current analysis of:

Is Meghan a mole for anti-monarchy forces or is Harry just another of these coming-of-age annoying anomalies who places individuality above the responsibilities of birthright?

I can mebbe see why Brits would give a shit, but I'm mystified why anyone else would.

[Walker]

What is your current analysis of:

Is Meghan a mole for anti-monarchy forces or is Harry just another of these coming-of-age annoying anomalies who places individuality above the responsibilities of birthright?

I can mebbe see why Brits would give a shit, but I'm mystified why anyone else would.

Plenty of folks are class-conscious, and the focus of this piece sheds light on why discussions of ethics can go skittering into the weeds of irrelevancy when hypocrisy is the philosophical centerpiece.

The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision
https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... ls/604714/

“In Britain, hypocrisy is the killer charge, the worst sin of all.”

[Walker]

Obvious misinformation, cuz no one in the commie propaganda machine, er, world of respectable journalism is reportin' that.

Iran's only Olympic medalist has also defected from the country, which will be ignored, smeared, or praised.

[henry quirk]

What is your current analysis of:

Is Meghan a mole for anti-monarchy forces or is Harry just another of these coming-of-age annoying anomalies who places individuality above the responsibilities of birthright?

I can mebbe see why Brits would give a shit, but I'm mystified why anyone else would.

Plenty of folks are class-conscious, and the focus of this piece sheds light on why discussions of ethics can go skittering into the weeds of irrelevancy when hypocrisy is the philosophical centerpiece.

The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision
https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... ls/604714/

“In Britain, hypocrisy is the killer charge, the worst sin of all.”

Me, I'm far more interested in Brexit...

[henry quirk]

Obvious misinformation, cuz no one in the commie propaganda machine, er, world of respectable journalism is reportin' that.

Iran's only Olympic medalist has also defected from the country, which will be ignored, smeared, or praised.

Where did the medalist defect to?

[Immanuel Can]

Me, I'm far more interested in Brexit...

Let Albion rise; and rise, Arthur, in our day of direst need.

A relevant poem, by Englishman Philip Larkin:

Going, Going

I thought it would last my time—
The sense that, beyond the town,
There would always be fields and farms,
Where the village louts could climb
Such trees as were not cut down;
I knew there’d be false alarms

In the papers about old streets
And split level shopping, but some
Have always been left so far;
And when the old part retreats
As the bleak high-risers come
We can always escape in the car.

Things are tougher than we are, just
As earth will always respond
However we mess it about;
Chuck filth in the sea, if you must:
The tides will be clean beyond.
—But what do I feel now? Doubt?

Or age, simply? The crowd
Is young in the M1 cafe;
Their kids are screaming for more—
More houses, more parking allowed,
More caravan sites, more pay.
On the Business Page, a score

Of spectacled grins approve
Some takeover bid that entails
Five per cent profit (and ten
Per cent more in the estuaries): move
Your works to the unspoilt dales
(Grey area grants)! And when

You try to get near the sea
In summer . . .
It seems, just now,
To be happening so very fast;
Despite all the land left free
For the first time I feel somehow
That it isn’t going to last,

That before I snuff it, the whole
Boiling will be bricked in
Except for the tourist parts—
First slum of Europe: a role
It won’t be hard to win,
With a cast of crooks and tarts.

And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guildhalls, the carved choirs.
There’ll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres.

Most things are never meant.
This won’t be, most likely; but greeds
And garbage are too thick-strewn
To be swept up now, or invent
Excuses that make them all needs.
I just think it will happen, soon.

-- written in 1972

[Walker]

The news is new. Where hasn’t been yet reported. She’s probably dodging Iranian justice at this point.

“Alizadeh is the third top Iranian sports person to stop representing the country in recent months.

“In December, Iran's Chess Federation said top-rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran over its informal ban on competing against Israeli players.

“Three months earlier, the International Judo Federation said Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei had refused to return home over fears for his safety after he ignored orders from his national federation to pull out of fights to avoid a potential final meeting with an Israeli opponent.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran ... e-n1114146

[henry quirk]

Me, I'm far more interested in Brexit...

Let Albion rise; and rise, Arthur, in our day of direst need.

As I say elsewhere: The world needs to pay attention to Brexit. How it ultimately plays out sets the stage for the decade to come.

In the same way: Americans need to pay attention to what happens in Virginia, for the same reason.

[henry quirk]

The news is new. Where hasn’t been yet reported. She’s probably dodging Iranian justice at this point.

“Alizadeh is the third top Iranian sports person to stop representing the country in recent months.

“In December, Iran's Chess Federation said top-rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran over its informal ban on competing against Israeli players.

“Three months earlier, the International Judo Federation said Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei had refused to return home over fears for his safety after he ignored orders from his national federation to pull out of fights to avoid a potential final meeting with an Israeli opponent.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iran ... e-n1114146

Where these defectors go determines coverage down the road.