You're missing the main draw which is mineral wealth. If I'm being cynical this is about stripping a poor country of it's greatest asset.

There's some sample bias there, friend. You're interacting with the 1% of them that got it together enough to move to Canada (and in so doing drained the local pool of the hardest workers).

My Money's on Claude.

Nah, it's just got so much data, it knows every inch of scripture even the obscure stuff. And it knows modern western values because it's trained on shitloads of that.

Superintelligence is uniquely qualified to convince churchgoers that what they believe in largely nonsense.

I agree, and also, let's add a little N2O. Just for the lulz.

I'll bet your boomer parents wish they never had you.

Those Filipino sailors all speak English (it takes a 4 year college degree). If they pretended they didn't it's because they just didn't want to talk to you.

This is a legitimate critique. Historically US intervention in that region has not gone well. However you're missing some important points that could make it ultimately the correct move (I'm not saying it definitely does, just that it seems likely):
- We really don't want Iran to have nukes, I think that goes without saying, and it's hard to argue that this conflict hasn't set back that program.
- It's likely that taking out Iran's ability to manufacture drones and missiles will result in a net saving of lives REGARDLESS of the outcome of this conflict. Certainly that's the case if you factor nukes in.
- Removing the boot from the neck of the resistance even temporarily could make the difference between ineffective protests and a true revolution, and I think that's what we all have to be hoping for.

Not a Trumptard, and the best rebuttal is something about the timing being right on this, we won't get another chance to topple an evil regime and that's worth consideration at least.

It may have still been ultimately misguided but any real opportunity to get rid of those awful clerics can't be taken lightly.

If you think the one chance we had to offer women in that region a chance at real freedom was not worth taking? You may simply lack humanity.

Issues with renewables offerings really has to hit this administration where it hurts.

There's just no way Cubans can view US as the good guys if this works.

Don't worry, guys. They've got lots of great engineers working on it.

It sounds like you're saying you think Hamas and the Ayotallah are better than Israel and America? In that case I would like you to go live there and find out and report back what you've learned.

Ok so you find it disturbing but not surprising that they elected a jihadist organization to leadership roles. That's really all I was asking for.

You're aware that Hamas was democratically elected, right? By the way I'm not saying that civilians deserve to be killed in strikes, just that one thing has to do with the other.

So one side isn't worse than the other? The people saying "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" and putting out hits on cartoonists and making women wear bags aren't worse than the ones who aren't doing those things?