The fiction is just what you painted which while informed and maybe even insightful isn't actually true, it's a theory. You are betting on your crystal ball hinging in Iranian regime change which at this point is down to some type of internal populist overthrow which doesn't seem like it's happening. You can shout names at me all day long but right now, Sept 2026, the region is unstable. Pipelines are bombed, both straights are a mess, the Houthi are maybe taking over Yemen. What you call constructive chaos is the fiction, it doesn't exist, at least not yet. Regime change from the air has yet to be proven.

You don't hate Trump if you support this war because if you are a person who legitimately wants regime change in Iran Trump has been the one to screw it up royally, a completely blown opportunity, you should be fuming against this war because he is not the person to commit what actually needs to be done, he's leaving it to change with no plan. Hoping chaos becomes constructive on its own and that is a recipe for disaster.

Here's what you really should have wanted but will never, ever admit to because it would tell us you are actually informed and not just knowing a bunch of names. Hillary wins in 2016, stays in JCPOA, makes sure whatever provisions are in there even if more limited than we would like are still enforced to the letter, inspections are happening, intelligence still tracks what's they're doing, which Hillary would do because she's not a buffoon.

If Iran actually does violate the agreement, with actual proof and not handwave it like Trump does you can actually make a case with a coalition behind you, all the signatories can be shown the evidence and hold Iran to account and if it does come to military action maybe we actually have allies, a plan, a mission, an endgame. We could have had Gulf War 1990 instead we're getting Iraq 2003 but worse.

Thank you for exactly illustrating my point. You don't cite the actual facts on the ground, all you have is stories, maybes and what-ifs. Good story, but you're writing a fiction techno-thriller. The inconvenient reality yet again is there is no plan, that's what in yet again the real world we all live and not the one you've crafted in your head this military operation so far is a failure. Seriously when is the last statement about the status of the nuclear sites which this is all about?

That inconvenient thing called reality is your entire argument is undone by Trump himself, like we all remember this, it happened and nobody here is objecting to it's objectives. Can you admit the President and the entire admin were knowingly and purposefully lying about the success of that mission? If your answer doesn't start with a Yes or No then you should not be listened to about anything by anyone.

See the thing is that while you are crafting a compelling story it's just a story, it's fiction because the reality is pushing against all these things.

You are getting everything you want right now outside of a ground based invasion and it's going terribly, particularly if your goal is for Iran to stop pursuing nukes long term. Sure you pushed the timetable back some years but that's what JCPOA did too and didn't give us global instability while also leaving the rest of the world with less leverage over the regime.

Your problem is to get what you wanted you chose to elect the worst possible people to do it since only the most fucking retarded politician would ignore every bit of global analysis and do it anyway because you've created a political movement that is built around confident ignorance, you take pride is having no fucking idea about how anything works, just how you want it to work, like a child. Maybe I should thank you though, 2 years ago I never thought Texas, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas would be Senate toss-ups.

But hey, I am sure the Cuban war will go better than this, certainly not a history of failed military actions there.

"I am your father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's, former roommate."

Oh you got me good! TDS amirite?!?!

And you're right. I don't hate Trump enough, I need to hate him and his cadre of fucktards more.

Understand the word "multivariate" challenge: impossible

The police force seem like the ones who take any attack on any of them as attack on all of them, they seem allergic to oversight and what they do get is done kicking and screaming, the entire culture got built around these concepts and that's a big root of the problem with today's police in my opinion, the culture is kinda rotten and that swallows up the good cops even when they are the majority. There's a reason we call them bad apples, that thing they do, it erodes trust.

The story of a cop, a shitty cop breaking rules is sure, whatever, it happens right but when you hear oh he broke the rules 3800 times over an entire year and did that to engage in pretty troubling antisocial behavior. It's either people knew and looked the other way or there's just no safeguards over there, everyone's asleep at the wheel. I think there are many reasonable reforms to be made in American policing today.

"No, your narrative simply cannot figure out what to do with me."

We're good here.

I have to believe that also, the time frames and numbers here are just too wild that this was just an oversight, this is sanctioned behaviour. Thousands of searches? a dozen every day? With no warrant or having to check oversight for a reason for that many searches?

I also have to assume every search request is probably charged as well so did the taxpayers pay for these creeps to stalk women all day?

I appreciate cops making their own case for defind-the-police, obviously they have too much free time and access to toys than they can be trusted with.

"President Xi looking strong, vibrant and fit - better than ever!"

The President of the United States of America everyone. Good thing we don't have a woman President amirite? She might make us look weak on the world stage!

All I am doing is providing an explanation for why that is the case. It wasn't always this way and it doesn't have to stay that way, a monoculture of thought is never good but conservatives have to stop carrying around boulder sized chips on their shoulders and not participating.

You're the cynical sounding one here.

If OP is going to remove nuance why would you expect me to add more? But hey, whatever you need for your self esteem.

I expect the Fed to do it's job. Would you agree with me that we should rescind the Bush and Trump tax cuts?

"Let me tell you liberal circle-jerkers a thing or two"

*Proceeds to do every conservative circle-jerk talking point about colleges*

Nothing you said refutes what I said, in fact, it heavily reinforces it. Look at you you are bought-in, this could be a segment on Fox News anytime over the past 30 years.

Anti-intellectualism is the conservative brand. That and being weak "Wahh wahh, too many liberals, we can never be smart again"

Not the OP but you are right, I also as a kid thought it would be wild to go there (parents did not agree with the costs so I didn't).

DigiTech is the guitar pedal company famous for the Whammy pedal (used in like every RATM solo)

And this is majorly because they abandoned those existing institutions due to not wanting to have to put their ideas up to scrutiny anymore, easier to just cry "bias! indoctrination! liberals!" instead of debating anymore. Conservatism was a core part of academia for a long time, the bedrock of conservative thought leadership was in academia, your Milton Friedmans, John Birch Society types, William F Buckley types. It wasn't really until Reagan brought the evangelicals to the forefront that it fell off so much.

Tell two generations that academia and the arts and teaching is all useless and stupid and just for ivory tower egghead elites and then wonder why in a few decades you are a minority in all those areas.