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I don’t intentionally watch gore videos, but I unintentionally watched some drunk kid blow his hand apart with a firework some years back.

It was horrifying and all I could think of is how lucky I was as a kid, because we did some really dumb shit that could of gone just as a bad, just as fast.

But launching fireworks from your head…!!! I was never that young, dumb, or intoxicated.

Which is why all of my 4th of July hats include built in launch pads.

It’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible.

However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default?

Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.

Butterymales vibes.

Also, Trump isn’t the President. So whatever he may, or may not do, is hypothetical… It’s also irrelevant to what Biden is actually doing…you know, because he’s the current president…

That’s all well and good. They clearly deserve much much worse.

Unfortunately, what comes next is New Labour pissing on everyone’s head, while their media toadies write endless columns about how their prayers for rain have finally been answered…and everyone better be grateful for it.

This is mostly just public posturing and open diplomatic signaling.

Nuclear weapon submarines are always deployed, and have been since the advent of the Nuclear triad.

That’s as true for America, as it is for China, Russia, UK, etc. Basically every county with both nuclear weapons and a capable submarine platform/program.

That is a Project Veritas level edit to generate a completely out of context quote.

That’s not how this type of influence is exerted. It’s done by putting people in charge who will run it in a way that will keep their boss happy, which then leads to them hiring people who will keep their boss happy, and so on and so forth.

Editorial discretion, self-censorship, or pink slips, that message is going to do one thing: not rock the billionaire’s boat.

That’s not how those schemes work.

Buffet, Gates, the Patagonia family, etc., all those Billionaires do is transfer all their wealth, tax free, into “charitable” entities that their descendants can continue to live off of, and profit from, indefinitely.

That by itself is sinister, but the worst part is that the majority of people actually believe they’re really giving away their wealth. So they cheat the system, that they already rigged, and it actually gives them a better public image.

Just because he was the lead actor, producer, partner in the production company, and gave orders to the cast and crew, doesn’t mean he has any responsibility for what happens on set

The term witch hunt came to be used because magical witches don’t actually exist.

But the criminally unsafe working conditions that lead to a woman’s death the set of Rust did exist and Alec Baldwin was in charge of, or at least responsible for them, in his role as producer and partner in the production company.

The other type of witch hunt is basically malicious harassment or persecution for being different in some way (political, religious, etc.)

His patterns of behaviors, direct actions, and personal role in setting the working conditions of the set directly resulted in a woman’s death, and that’s before even taking into account that he pulled the trigger.

For anyone to claim that despite all of that, he’s actually being persecuted for his personal views or political leanings, is disingenuous at best.

Zoom in even closer, there’s another related hidden treasure.

The production company, Rust Movie Productions.

Alec Baldwin was both a producer of the movie, and part of the part of said production company.

So to answer your question, yes, he was.

https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-rust-movie-productions-llc/

There’s just so many Easter eggs in this still frame from one of her interviews.

Amazing.

I agree, but I will say that the armorer was exceptionally negligent. Like, seriously went above and beyond to be unsafe in her role and her handling of the weapons.

But even though she does bear some responsibility, ultimately it was Baldwin’s fault. Not because he pulled the trigger, but because he was in charge of the conditions on set, was aware of all the safety concerns raised the crew, and he was responsible for keeping the completely unqualified armorer on the crew.

Yes, that is the most likely outcome based on all available historical data.

But, I will say the DA and local court system don’t seem to be playing along with making it easy.

So, while money is a statistically significant predictor in these situations, it’s not providence.

There’s a lot more to sovereign monetary policy than currency exchange rates, such as the capital controls being exercised here

It’s wrong precisely because Taiwan is a client state…

They have thousands*. Although due to the high cost and difficulty of maintaining them over decades, it’s quite possible that only hundreds will actually detonate once they reach their targets.

Which is still enough to cause a nuclear winter.

*Thousands of warheads, but many of those will be MIRV, so a single ICBM can impact multiple locations.