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"The teacher stands in front of the class, but the lesson plan he can’t recall. The student’s eyes, don’t perceive the lies, bouncing off every fucking wall. His composure is well kept. I guess he fears playing the fool. The complacent students sit, and listen to the bullshit that he’d learned in school.

Europe ain’t my rope to swing on. Can’t learn a thing from it, yet we hang from it. Gotta get it, gotta get it together then, like the motherfuckin’ Weathermen."

Adding one more that speaks to me alot at the moment, even if it’s not an all time favorite:

"All at once,

the world can overwhelm me,

there’s almost nothing that you can tell me,

that would ease my mind.

Which way will you run?

When it’s allways all around you.

The feeling’s lost and found you again,

the feeling that we have no control."

Jets are definitely not bigger than zeppelins. The Hindenburg was 240+ meters. No jet has ever come close to that size.

Can you point me to a source for that figure? I’ve been trying to follow the news pretty closely, and all the reporting I’ve seen has stated that Japan spent around 85 billion dollars, with the US adding about a third or fourth of that sum. So if the trillion dollar figure you stated is correct, they absolutely have done an incredible job masking it in the media reporting.

Japan is supposed to be the largest holder of US Treasury bonds in the world, and the total amount of the holding is regularly reported to be just above 1 trillion. I don’t really see why the US would bail Japan out to the tune of 1 trillion in order to stop japan from dumping its US holdings valued at around the same amount. It doesn’t make sense to me, but I’m admittedly no expert in finance so maybe I’m missing something.

He also deleted Qatar and Bahrain, his supposed allies, for some reason.

They’re asking for 1,5 trillion for next year. Pentagon is the biggest single mechanism in history for transferring money from the poor to the rich. That’s why all of silicon valley have gone into the weapons industry.

Should’ve specified that I meant internationally. Unfortunately, I haven’t followed the internal stuff. Before this war, the international public diplomacy was very academic and formal as far as I’m aware. I guess it’s to be expected that the social media generations would excel at memes, Iranians tend to excel at most things they take seriously. That’s apparent even outside Iran, where Iranian minorities in the west are generally more ambitious in most areas compared to the majority of immigrant communities.

The embassy in South Africa has been particularly good since the war started. Funny thing is that Iran always was very stale, buttoned up and intellectual in it’s communication before this war. Former president Khatami infamously referenced Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work Democracy in America, remarking that it was a text he was “sure most Americans have read” in a CNN interview in 1998. Now they’ve realized that most Americans can barely read, so it’s been memes and Lego videos during this war, and they’ve demonstrated that they are better at braindead propaganda too. Quite impressive.