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@cstross@wandering.shop @isaackuo@spacey.space I think its even simpler - Iranian leadership has been planning for this for 50 years and are clearly prepared to extract maximum pain from the world until the us is stopped. Meanwhile us leadership appears to have thrown out 50 years of knowledge about Iran, strategic alliances, soft economic power, and every other advantage they had that wasn't "more expensive weapons" and started a war with about 5 seconds of thought More planning went into the Iraq War for fucks sake

@cstross@wandering.shop @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social Guys who believe in bullshit race science absolutely believe that anyone who dies of infectious disease was genetically inferior and polluting the gene pool. They come to antivax stances by thinking vaccination is bad because it saves lives These are stupid, stupid people. As you'd expect from folks who believe their ancient ancestors' vitamin d deficiency that caused them to mutate their sun protection away is the thing about themselves they have the most pride in