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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Amerasia?
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The Ayatollah leading Iran claimed to believe in an apocalyptic war as his duty!
As opposed to American evangelical commanders, according to whom Trump is anointed by Jesus to light the fire of Armageddon in Iran for Jesus' second coming? And as opposed to Netanyahu who is out to destroy Amalek?

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(Yeah, I know you say "Zionism" but I'm not fooled.)
You fool yourself, so nobody else needs to.

Since you understand nothing about qualitative things, let's try quantity. How many wars has USA started this century? How many wars has Israel started this century? How many wars has Iran started this century? Compare.

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(Note: he won't pay any attention to how Russia and China react.)
Oh, you mean you are paying attention to how Russia and China are reacting (and of course actively drawing lessons)? Please tell more!

I'm very much appalled by the official European response. Everybody is calling Iran to restraint. They have not even the slightest reproach to the aggressor. Europeans were always talking big about their values but since the Ukraine war these values are not even in rhetoric anymore. European values were never a thing.

Europeans are almost as bad as the American Congress who has de facto approved the Iran war. The approval of the war means that Trump has war powers, which means he has no obstacle to cancel or steal elections and declare himself a third term. The judiciary cannot interfere when war powers are active. That's the Peace President for you, law and order and constitution and all that.
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Amerasia?
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Nice tp see you haven't changed your way of viewing the world! But I am a little surprised  by your turn towards Jew-hatred.... (Yeah, I know you say "Zionism" but I'm not fooled.) And your professed ignorance of Shia Islam!
You and I both know that Sharia is not religion, it is lawless law. It is state power — nothing more; other than the trappings that allow it to survive in a Westernized world.
The Ayatollah leading Iran claimed to believe in an apocalyptic war as his duty! Surely no minor cleric could have talked him out of it... So, your claim that nuclear weapons are proscribed by Sharia is fatuous.
Taqiyya remains an indispensable principle of "Islam".
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Browsers & Technology / Re: The best versions of Opera and Firefox probably came out in 2009 at the latest
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Artificial intelligence is getting out of hand.

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model
Quote from: https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/anthropic-finds-22-firefox.html
Anthropic said the LLM detected a use-after-free bug in the browser's JavaScript after "just" 20 minutes of exploration, which was then validated by a human researcher in a virtualized environment to rule out the possibility of a false positive.

"By the end of this effort, we had scanned nearly 6,000 C++ files and submitted a total of 112 unique reports, including the high- and moderate-severity vulnerabilities mentioned above," the company said. "Most issues have been fixed in Firefox 148, with the remainder to be fixed in upcoming releases."

The AI upstart said it also fed its Claude model access to the entire list of vulnerabilities submitted to Mozilla and tasked the AI tool with developing a practical exploit for them.

In other news: Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Amerasia?
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As always, ersi takes the wrong lesson.
Welcome back, teacher of lessons. Here's a random little lesson you taught me once upon a time.
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... -I think- Trump recognized that America should not be the world's cop... (For which belief many still call him an Isolationist! A pejorative term, among the neo-conservative gaggle...)
How is this no-world-cop Peace President doing, in your opinion? Care to list his successes in his second term? How many Nobel Peace Prizes has he rightfully earned already for stopping so many wars? And he can stop this one too, increasing the number by a lot...

Nice to see such a cozily isolationist president after all those neocons and Democratic warmongerers and interventionists, isn't it? Killing Soleimani averted WWIII. The 12-day war last year obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities. And now we are re-obliterating them while staying out of wars half a globe away that are none of our business!

In actuality, the USA/Israeli Zionazis (of whom Trump is not an ideological member, but he has no choice because Netanyahu got him by his member, if you know what I mean - well, you don't of course, so, khm, Epstein that) killed the principled great ayatollah who had spearheaded the Iranian policy of strict avoidance of nukes. In Iranian theocracy it is a blasphemy to have nukes - this is why they don't have them and they were not developing them. Zionazis keep insisting that Iran must develop nukes, and the next great ayatollah might finally oblige because having nukes seems to be the only way to make Zionazi aggression stop...
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DnD Central / Re: What's Going on in Iran?
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Another Iran war by Trump. It started on weekend, so as to not impact NYSE immediately. What else did they give a thought to before launching this attack, what do you think?

A few days ago Iranians remarked that talks would continue on Tuesday or so. They had been evidently given the wrong impression. They have not learned the lesson: You must have nukes or else...

US and Israel launch an attack on Iran with tensions high over nuclear talks


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DnD Central / Re: The Epstein Files
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Quote from: ersi – on
Of the entire New Atheist gang, Sam Harris was always the most far-right extremist one politically, openly pro-W and genocidally Islamophobic.
As such the shady dealings surrounding for example Israel, Russia, and Syria that are in there could also play a role.
No. Sam Harris's islamophobia was singularly informed by 9/11. He may have marginally updated his knowledge by now and maybe even introduced some nuance lately, but this was not the case even ten years ago.

This article scratches the surface somewhat.

Note: The heading "How the New Atheists merged with the far right" is wrong and the contents of the article do not bear it out. On my view, New Atheists are either politically quiet or very close to mainstream political establishment position. Harris is a meanstreamist. A "Muslim ban" and such views are perfectly mainstream in USA, not necessarily connected to Trumpism. As to misogyny and institutional grifting - and Epstein was institutionally embraced and embedded -, the article is spot on. Edit: The subheading "What once seemed like a bracing intellectual movement has degenerated into a pack of abusive, small-minded bigots" conveys the spirit of the article. Of course, I thought of New Atheism as small-minded bigotry since the moment they emerged.

On this forum we have also this foray into international relations by Sam Harris with Noam Chomsky. Sam Harris general view is very clear: When "we" attack, it's justified; when "they" do it, it is unjustified, no matter how they try to justify it. This view or sentiment was always mainstream in USA, W put it on steroids after 9/11 and Harris was 100% on board with it.