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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

@Casey: as part of the nuclear armageddon conversation above. 20th century visions of the future when the dates actually roll around can sometimes be way off. And Bradbury didn't really paint himself as a futurist. But this vignette of a smart home still attending to the needs of its vaporized family seems frustratingly prescient.
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

From a BBC article:

"The suggestion from Iran that it will now jointly coordinate control of the Strait with Oman is extraordinary.

Has the war turned the Strait of Hormuz into the world's most lucrative toll booth, with many ships paying million dollar transit fees?

Clearly none of this was on the cards before the war."
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James Johnson
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

The White Brains Grifter got Grifted.......

Everything he touches turns to 💩

He clearly did not anticipate this scenario.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

I like to call him King Shidas for this very reason, James. 
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

He has them right where they want us
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

From someone on Reddit (no modifications from me)


The total and complete victory that Donut J. Trump has achieved in just 38 days, in a move that will surely belong to history books, has:

- Replaced Khamenei (86) with Khamenei (56)

- Reclaimed exactly 0kg of uranium from Iranian plants

- Opened a Strait that was open before the war, with an updated $2M toll per ship (used to be $0)

- Proved F-15s and F-35s can actually be taken down by people who "belong to the Stone Age" (sic)

- Got US military bases destroyed across four or five countries

- Broken the mutual trust between these countries that the US will actually be able to defend them should need arise

- Got Iranian people on the street (although to protest in favor of the government, whereas they used to protest against the government)

- Instated Pakistan as a reasonable neutral party in Middle-East conflicts

- Officially admitted to sending weapons to Kurds so that they stir trouble in Iran (they didn't do anything and kept the weapons)

- Bragged about the Crown Prince of the biggest petro-monarchy in the Gulf "kissing his ass" (sic)

And all this at the very cheap price of a few thousand civilian lives, tens of billions of equipment and severed trust with about anybody not named Israel. If that is not the Art of the Deal, I don't know what you could reasonably expect.

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Brian Miller
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

As I said…
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Casey Sager
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

@Dave: I don't look at the work of a science fiction writer and get alarmed over anything...it's fiction, not fortune telling. There's enough happening in reality to be alarmed over IMHO.
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Dave Kopperman
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

@Casey: Good on ya. Considering a number of the American architects of this war believe it to have been predicted by a two thousand year old book, I'm pretty comfortable with remaining impressed and slightly disquieted by how specifically prescient Bradbury was in his five decade old story.
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Edward Aycock
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Posted: 08 April 2026 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Sure didn't take long for the ceasefire to go to hell.  
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Koroush Ghazi
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Posted: 09 April 2026 at 2:24am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

As an Iranian-born person who has been an Australian since 1983, I found it mildly disconcerting that the US came close to wiping out my civilisation.

I guess the key takeaway from the Trump negotiation method is that if you don’t do what Trump wants, he will instantly implement a scorched Earth policy. To be fair, that’s an expected negotiation method if you’re a psychopath and/or 8 years old.  But I can see some flaws in using this method if you happen to be, say, an alleged world leader who was elevated to that position through a combination of Dunning-Kruger and a brainless voter base. 
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David Miller
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Posted: 10 April 2026 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Planned Trump Arch Would
Dwarf Lincoln Memorial





 QUOTE:
The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250
feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall
Lincoln Memorial. It would be the tallest triumphal arch
in the world, like the president said he wanted, roughly
30 feet taller than the Plaza de la República in Mexico
City.

The proposed building site sits in a traffic circle on
the Virginia side of the Potomac, in between the Lincoln
Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, on land that
technically falls within the boundaries of the District
of Columbia. The plans show inscriptions reading "One
Nation Under God" and "Liberty and Justice For All" would
be on either side of the arch. Gold-colored statues of
Lady Liberty, flanked by two eagles, would top the
structure, with four statues of lions around the base.


My father is buried in Arlington. Imagine if Barack Obama
announced he was going to take such a shit on "our
nation's most hallowed ground." Fuck Trump and every
Republican.
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