cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47584733
Trita Parsi May 18, 2026
We should first recognize that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit — the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades.
Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realize that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow.
Restart? Did it end?
If a US military action lasts longer than 60 days, congress gets to vote on it to make it a war, or force it to stop. Trump is arguing that the ceasefire means it has stopped, and therefore hasn’t gone over that limit. And also that if they now start fighting again, it’s not the same conflict, so they get another 60 days.
when people stopped focusing epstein files, it ends, when epstein comes up every time it will restart.
Indeed, WTF is the orange idiot yapping about.
I dispute that it’s not still happening. It’s absolutely still happening, likely on taxpayer dime right this minute.
Used to? I’m sure they still do.
Raped and murdered little girls.
He also fucking ate some of them.
Yes. Please drag the country and the world into complete economic chaos. It’s the only way the cult will understand their actions.
Eh… even then they won’t care as long as browns and queers are getting it worse.
Side note: I made this exact comment on reddit and they removed it and gave me a warning for encouraging violence… Wow that site has gone to complete shit.
Stop interacting with Reddit.
It still has the best niche subs though. Like /r/weeviltime, or any random hobbies, it has the largest community anywhere. Anything remotely about news or politics or anything is dogshit though and I try to stay away from all that (and keep it here).
If you don’t build it here they won’t cum. Fuck u/spez
Damn I just know some tech bro sex bot company is gonna use it as their slogan or something lol
They still won’t come here even if you do.
They are centrists, we have tankies here, it simply is what it is.
Some people don’t enjoy reading the incessant calls for murder e.g. Luigi-ing or guillotining. We can be anything that we set our mind to, I’m just trying to illuminate how we are - wishful thinking about what might have been does not help us in any way.
We turn them away, we routinely say that we don’t even want them here, we (collectively) don’t want them here. So they both do not want to come nor are welcomed if they did. This matter has been settled and decided and seems extremely unlikely to change.
Meh. I came here from Reddit and it’s fine.
We all did, and agreed it is better here:-).
Here is the last discussion about it afaik. Here is a quote from the comments in that discussion:
While the Fediverse may be “strong” overall, the individual pieces are too fragile to handle a significant Rexit onslaught. If even a small fraction of all Reddit users came to the Fediverse en-masse, this place as we know it would be gone.
Here is another quote:
I don’t want people from Reddit here. The fact that half of Twatter moved to Bluesky instead of Mastodon is a blessing. ActivityPub is by design a data harvesting goldmine, the fact that it flies under the radar is the only saving grace.
These were both highly upvoted, with tens of upvotes and almost no downvotes. I could go on… and in fact, here’s one more:
Ready for a bunch of teens coming in and trashing the place? No.
(this one had many downvotes, but it had >3-fold more upvotes than down so…) Another one is:
No, not ready for another USA spam shit. Other than that, the rest is fine.
On the bright side, the upcoming Lemmy 1.0 software should help a bit, as moderation reports will finally federate out to mods on other instances besides exclusively the one that the community itself is on.
But there are more downsides too - such as the fact that since that discussion the anarchist flotilla has been pushing strongly to defederate from lemmy.world, and any instance that runs PieFed software too, for being “zionists” - thereby further fracturing the Threadiverse into tankie-tolerant vs. tankie-intolerant spaces, and increasing the complexity of someone having to pick an instance. This includes lemmy.dbzer0.com that is the #7 most popular instance.
Leftist in-fighting and the complexity of signing up are the top 2 reasons why people do not join. Lack of content is the third, which is further aggravated by defederations and in-fighting.
I am so very glad that you felt welcomed here. I am so glad that you persevered through all of this. But… I can understand why people choose not to. At the end of the day we cannot control how others feel.
I think you wildly overestimate “leftist infighting” as a reason people wouldn’t join.
It’s peripheral drama at worst. Just here for the memes. I just want to grill for God’s sake!
I’m so incredibly angry that the fucking economy is the only thing they care about. This is killing people, but nobody gives a shit.
Dude I got banned for defending compassion. They’re using ai to ban and it’s absolutely hopeless over there. Reddit is dead, let ai and the bots have it.
Oh, your IP address hasn’t been permabanned sitewide from reddit yet? Not sure if I can trust you in that case, to be honest… /s
The cult will never understand. They cannot be persuaded, only defeated.
Fascists never go away through appeasement unfortunately, as we’ve learned throughout history
On Friday. He always fucks with shit on Friday so the stock market can churn over the weekend, and then he walks it back on Monday and cashes out.
He’s already laying the groundwork for a military op in Cuba. Probably going to happen in the next month.
It’s not a war, it’s a war, it’s a ceasefire but we’re still shooting each other cuz Iran did it first, it’s not a war there are no hostilities it’s a ceasefire and on and on it goes, we’re going to restart the war.
For fucks sake, can we start discussing solutions to the conservative problem? I’m open to final solutions but really any solution will do.
The fascists are ruining Canada too. Nearly everyone I’ve talked to wanted to vote NDP last election but instead voted Liberal. Why? We were afraid that the fucking Trump supporting conservative Pollivere would win the election if we didn’t vote liberal. And he still hasn’t given up, he is still the conservative leader. I really want the NDP party to be in power but we have to settle for the liberals to protect us from the fucking nazis
Fuckin pp had to move to bassakwards magaville alberta because he was voted out of his riding. God i hate maple millhouse
Solutions are long term. Shit like education. It is not glamorous. Short term stuff is not truly effective.
Considering that a blockade is an act of war, it has not in fact “stopped”.
Then toss him on the front line if he so fucking keen.
TACO Tuesday on schedule (shed-dew-all like Picard says it)
Did it stop at some point?
He’s won the war multiple times every day since it started.
He never really stopped.
Someone check the betting sites.
Kamala would’ve been the same, right?
She was openly 100% Israels creature, so yes absolutely she would have done whatever zionists paid her to do. Exactly the same as Biden was. People like to forget that most of the deaths of Israels genocide of Palestinians and other war crimes were during Bidens presidency. I’m not sure Trump has managed to catch up to Bidens zionist butchers bill, illegally paid for by our tax money. Biden, Harris, and trump should all be in jail for breaking the Leahy laws against aiding in genocide. You’d like to think the DNC is less bought by bribes than the GOP. The facts say thats not true, they both let Israel do whatever they want, with only purely performative pushback.
Harris would have opened a literal portal to hell and used the demons to kill infants so the rich could bathe in their blood.
Take a look at the Democratic Party’s 2024 platform position on Iran before you get too carried away…
Have you seen the Republican primaries this month? Trump’s endorsements won across the board. Even Thomas Massie; a Republican who rallied against data centers, big tech remotely controlling cars, and AIPAC; lost his seat because Trump bashed him. It doesn’t seem like voters regret backing Trump at all, as evident by how much shit Trump’s administration is getting away with.
The whole republican party needs to go
The whole republican party needs something done to them that likely involves 2-stroke engine driven machinery.
any R that opposes P47 will get primaried immediately by the gop thats a fact, Mccains daughter for example, MTG quit before being primaried. kAZINGER is another one. nope none, they fully bought into the cult, to think otherwise is uncomfortable to them. 4 years of trump being aired 24/7 +manosphere helped cement his support, and all the gaffes he did prior to the election too, anti-vaxxers are just an extra cherry on top.
Moscow Mitch’s endorsements couldn’t beat Trump. Mitch McConnel. That guy IS the Kentucky Republican Party…except when Trump disagrees.
he helped brought TRUMP to where he is right now, and plus entrenching the scotus picks to be “permanently” conservative. hes just bailing before he gets the blame for it, plus when he was a Majority leader he had so much sway in the senate too, even when compared to lame duck chuck.
All the more reason to tell any American trying to say “but we’re not all bad” to shut up and get to work. This gets a lot worse the longer you leave it.
to shut up and
getavoid going to workI share your sentiment. There’s a lot of work to be done in running general strikes. There’s also work in sabotaging workplaces.
Yes
It ended?
Mate, they’ve won that war at least 17 times since it started this year. Of course it ended. At least the same amount of times they’ve won it.
I will believe it when I see it. Right now it’s just taco
