enframed wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:58 am

zorg wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 8:29 am

enframed wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 10:16 pm The people of Iran must be fucking desperate if they are cool with the school being bombed. So sad. I truly hope it was unintentional. Fuck the Iranian regime for putting whatever that military building was next to a school, too.

I hope you mean this as a sick joke. You realize the Pentagon (and I would guess almost all military bases) has a daycare/schools?

Sick joke? Where's the joke? It's so sad.
I actually hadn't thought about that. Maybe daycares and schools ought to be a couple miles away from military complexes.

I'm not quite sure how to respond, but this will probably do just as well.

zorg wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:05 am

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:58 am

zorg wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 8:29 am

I hope you mean this as a sick joke. You realize the Pentagon (and I would guess almost all military bases) has a daycare/schools?

Sick joke? Where's the joke? It's so sad.
I actually hadn't thought about that. Maybe daycares and schools ought to be a couple miles away from military complexes.

I'm not quite sure how to respond, but this will probably do just as well.

I don't understand.

What did I express incorrectly/not express that I should have expressed?

Don't worry, FM enframed. I'll just make another Kristi Noem joke, it'll just blow over. You're good.

ChudFusk wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 6:58 pm At least this administration is crystal clear on where it stands regarding girls.

I mean, half right. They didn't get to rape them first. I mean, sex traffic them first. I mean, allegedly!

Military bases are often self contained like that - it serves a purpose. Readiness for one thing.

Not trying to make a judgment on either of the positions you're each taking - tho I think you're both kinda saying the same thing, but the school for kids of military families being on base is not unusual. My mom went to one in Okinawa across the road from the AF landing strip where her dad was stationed. At that time, if they would've blown up that airstrip, the school probably goes with it..

I don't know shit about Iran or this specific case, just offering this info for context.

enframed wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:58 am

zorg wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 8:29 am

enframed wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 10:16 pm The people of Iran must be fucking desperate if they are cool with the school being bombed. So sad. I truly hope it was unintentional. Fuck the Iranian regime for putting whatever that military building was next to a school, too.

I hope you mean this as a sick joke. You realize the Pentagon (and I would guess almost all military bases) has a daycare/schools?

Sick joke? Where's the joke? It's so sad.
I actually hadn't thought about that. Maybe daycares and schools ought to be a couple miles away from military complexes.

yes they should! But they don’t. And there’s a strategic reason for that.

Yes, they have spent the last 50 years planting elementary school girls as human shields in strategic locations, so when the infidels start dropping the bombs they can get good press. Simple enough, but when you realize they need to keep supplying new little girls every year, while making sure they are suitably innocent and cute, you can see this took a lot of careful planning and effort. But it finally paid off, huzzah!

Once again, I fear the fate of nations rest on the minds of madmen. There are three factors already in play that could wind down operations in Iran sooner than later:

- Gas prices (and their impact on overall inflation)
- Public opinion on the operation (and its effect on polls)
- A leader of the free world with the attention span of a horny 13 year old and the mental acuity of a nursing home resident

Perhaps this will be a turning point in his long, dumb story. Or maybe he'll find the fortitude to stick to it and keep ruining things for innocent people. Or best case he'll stop bombing and leave the country in chaos.

The positive spin he's got right now is that he's just lowering prices for American families. That's right folks, we're murdering Iranians for American families. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel soooo much better about all this.

I know every day it looks like he's winning, and he's certainly done a lot of irreparable damage at this point. I mean, way more than anyone could have imagined really. But if you take a peak under the surface, you'll see it's not going well. There's like a special election every other week that some democrat completely trounces the republican in a red district. The primaries are kinda nuts, for the republicans. There was a primary (I forget which state) and all the democrats that were voting in line with Trump-style policies lost. This guy is so unpopular and you can tell because he's doing his best to look strong and smart. He's just worked himself into a corner, and the senate and half of congress knows it, despite not doing anything about it. In the meantime, we (meaning, everyone on earth at this point) all get to suffer because of his mental problems.

Whoever is writing Mamdani's speeches and making his policy decisions is getting genuinely bizarre.

Last month, b/c he knows he can't convince the governor to do his tax-the-rich thing (which I support, but he won't be able to enact), he instead proposes an increase in property taxes across the board, on everyone. Which the rich here can well afford. But the rest cannot.

That's mostly gonna pinch working-class homeowners, and there have been many recent cries of "what the fuck?" in black, Latino, and Chinese communities. What sensible politician would use this as a pawn in a losing game w/the governor?

Dude could have clearly pulled a far better alternative out of his ass. Fortunately, it seems like the City Council will shoot him down—b/c he doesn't have the authority to raise property taxes w/o them. Is he just grasping at straws or saying shit just to say it? What, exactly, is his strategy here? More info, local news, not partisan:

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/prop ... ul-albany/

Then yesterday, he makes a speech after a couple of ISIS-inspired Muslims—looking to repeat the Boston Marathon bombing, but bigger and in NYC; nothing to do w/Iran, supposedly—get caught w/explosives, and most of what he can muster is complaining about the admittedly gross white-supremacist rally that they sought to blow up (along w/um, a ton of innocent bystanders). It would be painfully easy for him to call out both sides of the equation by name (perhaps emphasizing the one w/the IEDs a wee bit more), yet he does not. He doesn't even mention ISIS or Islamists or any of that in his speech. Which would be well and fine if they didn't just try to detonate a bomb in his city. All the while, his openly Zionist police commissioner stands at his side looking weird and uncomfortable. Reminds me a little of Trump's shitty speech after Charlottesville, but somewhat less idiotic and in reverse.

https://www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamdani ... s-11646841

Any way you cut it, both of these moves just seem absurd to me. Come on, bub. I know you're strong on social media posts, but let's put some of that to work in the real world.