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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • The US is going to deal with sunk costs especially if there’s a ground invasion and legitimacy crisis in the world sphere and it probably won’t be able to muster enough missiles for Taiwan. I imagine anyone who relies on Iranian oil is going to suffer too

    Various military groups across Africa are probably going to lose one of their financial backers. Shia Islam may lose some of its sway, as Iran is the main actor promoting it I know most of those groups are non-state actors, but that’s a list of people I can think about. The biggest loser is Iran and it’s people right now and it remains whether the powers that be will actually be able to win the peace. Seeing who’s at the helm though?

    …I don’t see peaceful years ahead for them




  • The reason why trans people are in the spotlight isn’t because we are new or anything. They just had a hatred for gay people instead. It has been the same fight for gender non conforming people today. Once the obergefell case happened, conservative forces needed something else to be pissed off about and so there was this the unknown narrative that they could shape. The first shot was fired a long time ago in the gay rights movement and it’s a continuation of those same forces today






  • One can’t just quit the National guard. There’s a contract that holds them for a period of time. Imagine somebody signs a 6-year contract in 2022. I don’t think they can be held liable for Trump’s actions when it wasn’t even clear he was going to actually run again. I signed a 4-year contract as an active duty service member in 2021. I got out in January last year and so I’m thankful for that. But every day or so I have to think about what my colleagues would have to decide. They’re not in it to subjugate people. They’re in it for a steady career and because they believed in a liberal America and looking to make the world a more stable place. The military is a sword and it really depends on who’s using it, whether it’s good or bad.