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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47584733
Trita Parsi May 18, 2026
We should first recognize that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit — the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades.
Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realize that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow.
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Restart? Did it end?
If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn’t gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it’s not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.
when people stopped focusing epstein files, it ends, when epstein comes up every time it will restart.
Indeed, WTF is the orange idiot yapping about.
Epic Fury is done
Now it has a new name
Someone check the betting sites.
Then toss him on the front line if he so fucking keen.
Did it stop at some point?
He’s won the war multiple times every day since it started.
I dispute that it’s not still happening. It’s absolutely still happening, likely on taxpayer dime right this minute.
Raped and murdered little girls.
He also fucking ate some of them.
Used to? I’m sure they still do.
doubtful they could even get it up anymore with all the drugs they abuse.
It’s not a war, it’s a war, it’s a ceasefire but we’re still shooting each other cuz Iran did it first, it’s not a war there are no hostilities it’s a ceasefire and on and on it goes, we’re going to restart the war.
For fucks sake, can we start discussing solutions to the conservative problem? I’m open to final solutions but really any solution will do.
Solutions are long term. Shit like education. It is not glamorous. Short term stuff is not truly effective.
The fascists are ruining Canada too. Nearly everyone I’ve talked to wanted to vote NDP last election but instead voted Liberal. Why? We were afraid that the fucking Trump supporting conservative Pollivere would win the election if we didn’t vote liberal. And he still hasn’t given up, he is still the conservative leader. I really want the NDP party to be in power but we have to settle for the liberals to protect us from the fucking nazis
Fuckin pp had to move to bassakwards magaville alberta because he was voted out of his riding. God i hate maple millhouse
Obviously for his “Christian” masters.
Unhinged murder
Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact “stopped”.
Right? We all know wars only end when the President dresses up in a pilots outfit and lands on an aircraft carrier to announce Mission Accomplished. The decades of slaughter after that are don’t count as “war”.
It ended?
Only for it to “stop” again just before the deadline where Congress needs to vote on a war powers resolution. Convenient.
so congress passed an extension to the war powers act?
iirc this a new not-war so gets is own deadline.
I mean its not but I think he wants to sell it that way if congress does not give him something.
He never really stopped.
Yes. Please drag the country and the world into complete economic chaos. It’s the only way the cult will understand their actions.
Eh… even then they won’t care as long as browns and queers are getting it worse.
Side note: I made this exact comment on reddit and they removed it and gave me a warning for encouraging violence… Wow that site has gone to complete shit.
Dude I got banned for defending compassion. They’re using ai to ban and it’s absolutely hopeless over there. Reddit is dead, let ai and the bots have it.
Oh, your IP address hasn’t been permabanned sitewide from reddit yet? Not sure if I can trust you in that case, to be honest… /s
Stop interacting with Reddit.
It still has the best niche subs though. Like /r/weeviltime, or any random hobbies, it has the largest community anywhere. Anything remotely about news or politics or anything is dogshit though and I try to stay away from all that (and keep it here).
If you don’t build it here they won’t cum. Fuck u/spez
Damn I just know some tech bro sex bot company is gonna use it as their slogan or something lol
They still won’t come here even if you do.
They are centrists, we have tankies here, it simply is what it is.
Some people don’t enjoy reading the incessant calls for murder e.g. Luigi-ing or guillotining. We can be anything that we set our mind to, I’m just trying to illuminate how we are - wishful thinking about what might have been does not help us in any way.
We turn them away, we routinely say that we don’t even want them here, we (collectively) don’t want them here. So they both do not want to come nor are welcomed if they did. This matter has been settled and decided and seems extremely unlikely to change.
Meh. I came here from Reddit and it’s fine.
We all did, and agreed it is better here:-).
Here is the last discussion about it afaik. Here is a quote from the comments in that discussion:
While the Fediverse may be “strong” overall, the individual pieces are too fragile to handle a significant Rexit onslaught. If even a small fraction of all Reddit users came to the Fediverse en-masse, this place as we know it would be gone.
Here is another quote:
I don’t want people from Reddit here. The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing. ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.
These were both highly upvoted, with tens of upvotes and almost no downvotes. I could go on… and in fact, here’s one more:
Ready for a bunch of teens coming in and trashing the place? No.
(this one had many downvotes, but it had >3-fold more upvotes than down so…) Another one is:
No, not ready for another USA spam shit. Other than that, the rest is fine.
On the bright side, the upcoming Lemmy 1.0 software should help a bit, as moderation reports will finally federate out to mods on other instances besides exclusively the one that the community itself is on.
But there are more downsides too - such as the fact that since that discussion the anarchist flotilla has been pushing strongly to defederate from lemmy.world, and any instance that runs PieFed software too, for being “zionists” - thereby further fracturing the Threadiverse into tankie-tolerant vs. tankie-intolerant spaces, and increasing the complexity of someone having to pick an instance. This includes lemmy.dbzer0.com that is the #7 most popular instance.
Leftist in-fighting and the complexity of signing up are the top 2 reasons why people do not join. Lack of content is the third, which is further aggravated by defederations and in-fighting.
I am so very glad that you felt welcomed here. I am so glad that you persevered through all of this. But… I can understand why people choose not to. At the end of the day we cannot control how others feel.
I think you wildly overestimate “leftist infighting” as a reason people wouldn’t join.
It’s peripheral drama at worst. Just here for the memes. I just want to grill for God’s sake!
Reddit has tankies too. Sure, it’s fucking annoying to have an argument with someone who you can’t tell whether they’re a troll or just thoroughly deluded, but overall they’re not that hard to avoid.
Just block a couple instances, a few comms, and the worst users. Tag the ones who aren’t quite bad enough to block outright and avoid engaging with them except to stick up for someone they’re hounding. It’s not that bad.
There’s plenty of good stuff here. Especially if you’re a techie or a trekkie, but also just plenty of general internet silliness, and some nostalgia bombs here and there.
Maybe there aren’t as many niche communities as reddit has, but that might build over time.
Really? I thought Reddit was fairly right-wing, and loved to ban leftist viewpoints? Reddit definitely has trolls though, that’s for sure. And bots, and perhaps a couple irl humans occasionally here or there mixed in as well 🤪.
You are offering solutions that every single one of us here has done to handle the trolls in this place, but remember that non-technical normal folks think different. Also, when they first browse a place with anonymous guest access they do not have an account yet nor the ability to ban anyone or anything - they simply see what they see, and that is it. (which is why they leave rather than stay)
Or for someone who joins, later after that the trolliest places never honestly announce their true intentions, so they have an enormously steep learning curve. We know the unwritten rules, but to a new joiner the process of catching up is overwhelming. Look up the Wikipedia definition of “Nazi bar” - hint it has little to do with actual irl Nazis and everything to do with the Paradox of Intolerance. We host tankies here, hence we are a tankie bar, like it or not. And just as a Jewish person might not feel comfortable around actual Nazis, American centrists do not feel welcomed in a space where tankies run the major portion of the show. Plus they get relentlessly trolled, e.g. by hexbears, and hence they leave. And after they leave, they complain about us, which causes others to not want to join us over here.
My argument is that I wish that we were not the incels that we clearly, collectively, are. DoN’t YoU rEaLiZe WhAt A nIcE mAn I aM? If we are going to be offensive to people, I would hope that we could at least do so honestly and genuinely, not living in ignorance of that fact (as the tankies themselves do).
And yes there’s genuinely great stuff here - there’s also genuinely great stuff over on Reddit btw, and even on Xhitter and Facebook, not that I want to go to any of those places to see it, but I acknowledge that it is there. I choose to be here. But most people do not choose that, and that’s okay. Or at least it’s facts, which we should own up to imho.
Post has real “you people” energy
there are current subs, that are niche that people want to ask questions about, like trying to solve a specific issue. just not replicated on lemmy, if its even possible.
I’m so incredibly angry that the fucking economy is the only thing they care about. This is killing people, but nobody gives a shit.
It was the same way with the Vietnam war. It didn’t stop because people were upset about the humanitarian crisis it was causing, it stopped because of how fiscally ridiculous it was, especially near the end.
This is how it’s always been.
“I got the bag so fuck you” is like THE ideological cornerstone of Western civ. To call it how it is and be disgusted by it is radical and anti-West, unironically.
The cult will never understand. They cannot be persuaded, only defeated.
Fascists never go away through appeasement unfortunately, as we’ve learned throughout history
America mist be punished
Which subreddit was it?
