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Too late for Canada Day, too early for Independence Day, but I won't be around for either so I'll have to dump the memes I have for both now

Can attest, as someone who was born & spent his early childhood years in Indonesia and continues to keep up with its internal politics to the best of my ability, that this is usually the case. Most Indonesian Muslims are pretty chill towards non-Muslims, reject Wahhabism and of a syncretic mind...

Well, a show of power would require Iran to still have enough power to keep their subjects in line & forcefeed them this (very unconvincing) propaganda. There's a ceasefire in place now but Israel has dealt out some pretty heavy damage to the Mullahs' security apparatus, they killed a bunch of...

The initial reports of Senator Bloodfeast's demise may have been exaggerated

Personally I think they'd have looked less ridiculous & impotent if they had done nothing, rather than talking a big game and then catastrophically failing to live up to it. Iranian media boasting about having totally obliterated the Al-Udeid base & such just has pure Baghdad Bob (Tehran Tim?)...

Problem here compared to 2020 is that Iran's weakness is more exposed than ever, and they've made a LOT of enemies in the region while all their friends are dead, dying or sitting out of the fight altogether. Hezbollah for example has refused & continues to refuse to join in after Israel broke...

Anyway, on a more serious note, have some news to get this thread back on track: the Iranians have launched retaliatory attacks against the US bases around the Gulf. They claim to be lobbing as many missiles as there were bombs dropped on them, but so far their barrage appears to have been...

Update on Senator Bloodfeast's condition,

IIRC the agitated Kurds in Iran are mostly calling for autonomy instead of total independence, so maybe those can be bought off (assuming it's not a ruse and they wouldn't gun for independence if the opportunity arises of course, as seemed to be the case in Syria until it became obvious that a...

Looks colorful enough to me... Of the above groups, I know the Kurds and Balochs are already up in arms to varying extents, with the Iranian Kurds in particular becoming more aggressive since the killing of Mahsa Amani - that girl who wouldn't wear the hijab a few years ago, herself a Kurd...

Million dollar question right there. To my understanding there is real & organic discontent with the Mullahs, it's been building up for years and only growing bigger & increasingly violent over time; this doesn't seem to be some astroturfed color revolutions, otherwise they'd have stopped under...

How likely is it, do you guys think, that the elimination of the Iranian high command (doubtless staunch Islamist loyalists to a man, or else they never would've been given the positions they got) and the relative impotence of the Iranian response so far (needed over 12 hours to start launching...

Taking bets on which of the following flags will be the most numerous one found at these protests, if they aren't totally overshadowed by the ongoing Israeli-Iranian hostilities of course... Mexican flag Other Latin American countries' flags Pride flag (six-colored rainbow) Palestinian flag...