You cannot admit to being gay in Iran.

Do you support the death penalty?

What civilized country wouldn't? Its much better than kin justice which is where the US is headed.

Given the broad spectrum of behaviors, a very small minority of them can't be tolerated. Breaking the social contract and killing another human being without provocation would be one of the reasons.

In the US I see Black men and women hitting asians (sometimes dying) without provocation and getting no significant jail time.

Is this a 1st world country? or 3rd? Having no consequences just increases the uncivilized behavior.

I get it you aren't Asian so perhaps it doesn't affect you. But, I would imagine you can have empathy and see it does affect my Asian community.

What is Iranian punishment for being gay?
#29 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

There are no gays in Iran, its a human biological oddity.

"Even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants' willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right," the researchers explained. "Yet despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted and preferred."

This is similar to unconditional positive regard. A psychologist will do the same thing.

I see it more of a testament to how mentally soft people are becoming, and the need for constant affirmation. Recoiling away from any form of accountability is much more the norm.
#3 | POSTED BY KWRX25

I find this a funny statement on a anon website.

If you want accountability? Post on Facebook using your name, and so your friends can see it.

The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson

Thats not what the ATF report filing indicated, it said "inconclusive".

'I Think That MAGA Is Dying'

That was the point of assassinating Charlie.

Welcome to the American melting pot.

You don't really believe this do you? All across the US neighborhoods/towns are siloed races. I think they call it balkanized.
Go to mall near SFO airport, all us Asians. Santana Row, Indians, mall in San Leandro African Americans.
Cupertino Asians, Sunnyvale, Indians. Los Altos, Los Gatos, White people. East San Jose Hispanics.

There's no melting....

Melting pot, what a fantasy you've been sold.

If they're going to reference something the architects said...then maybe quote them.

Very tall!!!

LOL This is hilarious

"Donald Trump and Kash Patel do not get to pick the next governor. Californians do," Swalwell said on Saturday.

Democracy dies in darkness, I see no reason the people of CA shouldn't know the facts about Swalwell. As a Chinese national, and one day voter here in CA, I would certainly like to know the details of this love affair.

Wasn't Swalwell on the intelligence committee? How do we know he broke it off? Is he a Chinese agent, like Trump is a Russian agent?

Israeli Rwingers in Knesset Celebrate the New Law
~ CorkyFromOcala

Why wouldn't everyone celebrate it?

The idea is to get rid of terrorism, they don't want the terrorist getting out and committing more terrorism, like they do in the US.

"deliberately or through indifference, from a motive of racism or hostility against a population, and with the aim of harming the State of Israel and the national revival of the Jewish people in its homeland " shall be sentenced to death,"

A good lawyer, not moder8 or Etal, could make the case this would also apply to Israeli's harming the State of Israel, by attacking "palestinians".

Of course hanging is the best way to execute these Muslims.

Goes without saying.

Analyst neglected to mention the E-3 is being phased because of space based sensor platforms.

#8 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Analyst know the space based sensor platforms doesn't completely replicate all the coverage of the E-3 in the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). Hence the inclusion of the E-2D and space sensors.

Biden admin wasn't stupid in this choice.

The choice was made in June 2025 to go space sensor and E-2D's. Before that it was the E-7 Wedgetail.

I updated from my Stump Jumper.
#6 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Good for you Redial, you should look forward to enjoying cycling more, and spending more time in this hobby.

Electric bikes can be fast and dangerous. Here's how to stay safe.
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#10 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY

Those bikes aren't the bikes Redial has purchased.

I'm currently "leg powered" only :-)

#7 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY

Known as "Analog".

DiPloMacY iS BaD!

... but all the index charts are headed straight down the bunny hill over time.

Gold bugs have peculiar disdain for the country they live in.

------ Lumpers ....

That is true. I don't see any kind of stabilizing force able to stop it.
#19 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Are you a day trader? This a buy on the dip kind of day for us long term investors.

So, basically, lfilthy has been hedging against his own stupidity for all these years.

I don't follow, anyone complaining about US spending ywould invest in gold because the government is "printing" USD.

I see nothing wrong with a hedge, in fact if you didn't hedge you'd be stupid. But you'd be stupid if you think gold is a hedge, its a solid investment when inflation is high.

Gold bugs have peculiar disdain for the country they live in.

I would say they have a disdain for government outspending revenues.
Why is gold such a negative investment on this site?

Gold had stagnated at $1200 back in 2009. Then COVID and, not surprisingly, it went to $1800. It was basically stable thereabouts until he helped elect his baby-crap-orange faced game-show host (again) and drove the price up (again).

Its wild you denigrate gold investors, then can't articulate beyond "Trump", why Gold went up relative to the dollar?

Gestapo gonna terrorize any whom oppose it.
#3 | Posted by Corky

More like Chaplin's that don't see how Nazi's and Muslim's slaughtered Jews and will do so in the future, should be condemned.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

This isn't an argument. Just feel good name calling.

Pope Leo XIV said God "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war but rejects them."

So say the benefactor of the Crusades. The current Pope is a hypocrite.

Condemning genocide has become a "new litmus test?"

Claiming "genocide" has become the new IQ test.

If the Dems were smart they would trot out Shapiro, but he's Jewish so they won't.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw

Its a shame how racist the Lumpers have become, they worry more about a persons identity than their ideas. Shapiro would make an excellent choice.

Will the US be invading North Korea soon?

Do you not understand the difference between North Korea and Iran in the geopolitical models?

I suspect you don't because you're asking such grade school level questions. But enlighten me.

A good exercise to intelligent conversation, is to argue the opposite of your thinking and biases.

#20 | Posted by morris

Excellent breakdown morris, expect to be called a Putin puppet by CorkyFromOcala.

Americans are taught about the ColdWar standoff called the CubanMissileCrisis with Russia over Cuba. They cheer JFK over the blockade. Yet can't understand Russia feeling the same way about their hemisphere & border, via NATO expansion.

If I read the brief correctly they wanted to remove restrictions around the oil production in Texas/La area.

This is the Rice's Whale Range.

CornInMyAnus might need to explain why the TRO would be threatening the whales in The GulfOfAmerica?

There could be other species threatened, such as the Redfish, Crabs, Shrimp. But I don't see the whales being part of that list.

"Under the Labor government of Israeli PM Gold Meir, the Mossad attempted to expel 60,000 Palestinians to Paraguay soon after occupying the Gaza Strip in 1967. Tel Aviv would pay authoritarian General Alfredo Stroessner's Paraguayan government a fee of $33 per deportee, including an advance of $350,000 for the first 10,000. Almost six decades later, Israel's methods and objectives to ethnically cleanse Palestinians remain eerily similar."

I don't see a downside to the plan.