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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44300432
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I think I literally quoted Farquad in real time as he said this.
Unless he’s done it more than once, which is sadly possible.
that often happens in war
War, like the thing that congress has to declare before you go attacking places willy-nilly?
It’s a Schrödingconflict - it exists simultaneously as a war and non-war
I am genuinely shocked that the US aren’t referring to it as a “special military operation”.
Trump has apparently settled on ‘an excursion’.
We’ve pretty much literally hit 1984 levels of linguistic fuckery / hyperreality.
Hyper-what?
HyperReality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
Largely (entirely?) from Baudrillard.
Related to HyperNormalisation, but not quite the same thing.
Curtis, in his documentary, essentially derived HyperNormalisation from HyperReality… he cites Baudrillard a lot, uses it as a framework to describe HyperNormalisation, to refine the ideas, make them more specific, expand upon the foundation laid by Baudrillard.
Huh, TIL. Interesting, thanks!
Ahem.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is.
You have to see it for yourself.
What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?
It’s not a war, it’s just a special operation, like the one Russia did against Ukraine in Feb 2022!
It’s seriously looking like both Cold War powers will be caught in a terminal forever war, that they refuse to call a war, at the same time but for different reasons.
I almost forgot this is the joke timeline for a moment there.
Nah, war with Iran can’t last any real length of time, America would collapse first. Maybe if their allies were on board and enemies not actively working with Iran.
Think about this, the oil markets skyrocketed in overnight trading and were on track to skyrocket on March 9th before Trump admin lied about escorting a tanker and then later Europe announces its going to release 400M Barrel emergency release and then the US announces 172M barrel release. If those 20M barrels aren’t getting through each day that’s 29 days of time before the market goes to the moon. It’s already been 3 weeks.
There is no way this lasts as long as Russo-Ukraine has so far. I would be shocked if it lasted longer than six months and I anticipate it to be basically over in 6 weeks with Iran giving some publicly dramatic but unsubstantial concessions and the Trump giving extremely huge substantial concessions, but hand-waving it away as the best for America. Like removing from all of the bases in the area and not enforcing what currency oil is traded in. Maybe they will compromise with some god forsaken crypto solution to settlement.
If it lasts longer than 6 weeks that means inflation the likes most Americans have never witnessed. Words like impeachment and criminal trials will start to become a lot more common when gas goes to $10 a gallon and a banana is $5.
Underneath the pond scum, at the bottle, lies all the duck shit.
And my parents eat this with a spoon and lick the bowl.
Traitor?
whale shit?
