Trump is so unhinged that I am now looking at posts from the speaker of the Iranian Parliament and thinking, "He is not wrong".

[doppelganger75@mastodon.world]

@wesdym @randahl Valid point, but most Americans I know are rooting for Iran.

[kevbob@xoxo.zone]

@randahl seen this yet?

[nomadskateboarding@mastodon.social]

@tomatensson @randahl #RobotJox got it almost right. I would have the leaders do battle with each other if they want war...

"50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox."

[silkester@mastodon.social]

@randahl @tomatensson

And if the politicians and volunteer soldiers were put into an arena to hash it out, I'd agree.

But the civilians didn't ask for this shit. Even most of US soldiers joined the army out of desparation to get an affordable education not dying in Iran.

[silkester@mastodon.social]

@nomadskateboarding @tomatensson @randahl

Oh no. No robots allowed. Can we keep in mind that both countries are governed by dictatorship with a minority representation.

Even pro-crimes-against-PoC-MAGA is against THIS war.

[mason@partychickens.net]

@randahl Their command of messaging is daunting.

[danielpree@chaos.social]

@randahl you are so right.

[osma@mas.to]

There's some pretty hard trolling going on by one repressive, violent regime towards another. If they keep this up, I'm afraid it may escalate to a full blown hot war.
https://xcancel.com/IraninSA/status/2040058819179315528#m
@randahl

[sstrader@masto.ai]

@randahl We're all going through an "are they the goodies?" moment.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@mason @randahl No, it is just that the Trumpista messaging style has been accepted by many as "normal".

So any actual "normal" communication, that is pointing out clear truths in a coherent way seems to come from the minds of genii.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@wesdym @randahl I suspect that most of the RotW just wants its cheap oil back.

Go back to Carney's Davos speech.

We just wanted to believe that the US were the good guys.

Now it is not just that the signs have been taken out of the shop windows it is that the shops windows together with the shops themselves have been bombed out of existence.

[nimbius666@comp.lain.la]

@randahl clearly a reasonable man who didn't watch us try to murder the head of state of Cuba 62 times and fail. The man literally outlived Reagan.

[lynnd@spore.social]

@randahl here’s the thing that I keep thinking. Our Western (Israeli-propaganda sympathetic) media has continuously demonized Iran leading the West to continue horrific sanctions against the Iranian people. Now, I’m not claiming that Iran are a “good” regime, but are they any worse that say, authoritarian Saudi Arabia, (whose citizens quite literally attacked the US on 9/11), and who for years have imposed much harsher restrictions on women, torture prisoners, etc. etc. ?

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Can say that again indeed…

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@sstrader @randahl
There can always be just baddies. It's incredibly rare for the goodies to be the government of a nation state, and Iran's is not a contender to be that exception.

[idjansazov@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Just checked ... Trump is the only person in USA to launch nukes, and no one has the authority to veto it.

This is so messed up!

[cwsound@mastodon.social]

@randahl is it a good time to remind people that Trump thinks that pilots who gets shot down are loosers? That’s what he said about John McCain

[panel82cz@mamutovo.cz]

@cwsound @randahl Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot... He should be confronted with it..

[melissabenyon@climatejustice.social]

@randahl Right? This whole thing has made me realise how much I value competence and rationality. I'm looking at two violent, evil regimes and about one of them I find myself thinking, "But at least they're logical and use language well," whereas the other, "And on top of all the rest, they're so ignorant and stupid." It is yet another disorienting element in humanity's tightening predicament.

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@randahl The #FelonsCrusade in #Iran is going according to the nonexistent plan. https://newrepublic.com/post/207228/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-iran