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The Iranian Martyr Makes The Iranian War A Religious One: Inevitable Consequence Of CNPP

The murder to the aged cancer stricken Khamenei by Israeli forces has turned him into a Muslim martyr This has put our Nazi regime on the spot and in response Hegseth now says that this conflict is a religious one, Muslim vs Christianity/Jewish religions This makes this conflict a terrible, dangerous, reckless. emotional catastrophe There are many emotionally charged Shia Muslims in the Middle Eastern region who view the US Israeli warring coalition is creating a religious war Because of this this has the high probability of expanding to many nations in the region

The fascist Netanyahu has long wanted this moment because Iran through its terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis have always threatened his theocratic Jewish state As an oppressive warmongering far right Israeli government with the difficulty to give in to the need for a two state solution, this theocratic state has induced Cheeto’s Dept of War because they are equally warmongers

But the issue is that Netanyahu has coopted the American far right warmongers and it’s right up CNPP’s(Christian Nationalist Pedo Party) mission, to create a “Christian” nation standing up against all pagan states The moniker of CNPP is just an political excuse to create a fascist strongman, autocratic government

Michelle R's avatar

Agree with this interesting take. Sorry to be pedantic, but minor correction, it was Khamenei that was killed during the recent strike (not Khomeni)

Sarah Grove's avatar

Sadly, because of this reckless war from Bibi and his puppet Trump — —- we’re going to see many, many more terrorist attacks within our borders.

Their goal will be to slaughter as many Americans as they can.

Thanks, Trump.

Kumara Republic's avatar

I've come to believe that when Skynet arrives, it probably won't send skeletal androids to nuke us. It'll more likely generate deepfakes that provoke us into nuking ourselves.

Stosh Wychulus's avatar

Sam Altman is one of the sociopathic overloads of Elon Musk, the Zukerberg , Peter Thiel , and the like who are the ruling oligarchs. I would bet Altman has also been promised tax payer support/bailouts if ever needed. Just as rate payers will support multibillionaires for the increasing costs of data centers. And the Democrats continue to be completely impotent.

Rich Byrnes's avatar

I’m a fan neither of the Administration nor Sam nor much of anyone else, the author notably excepted.

Nonetheless I have trouble with any piece like this that doesn’t acknowledge our chief geopolitical rival and its lack of need for any of these gymnastics to get the tech it needs from its “private” sector.

The unfair advantage of data works in their favor, as does their lack of privacy scruples. I believe the government’s decisions to invest in the tech it needs for national security needs to be considered in the context of threats to that security.

If the word China was present in that piece I missed it

…and scrolling down, I immediately come upon the Eileen Gu takedown. I don’t have an opinion on Olympic athletes and how they choose to get paid either, but if we’re ascribing to her a narcissistic values free attitude for skiing for China, we should at least consider the China threat in the calculus of what the defense department decided to do.

The author of the piece absolutely remains a personal hero of this old man.

William Rosser's avatar

Just a minor correction: in the first article the word should be "overstate" and not "understate'. Thank you for your insight in all our articles.

Alessandro Tinivelli's avatar

Because of this I have closed my openai subscription, and opened one with anthropic

Mark Dtayo's avatar

Garry, you titled this exactly right. The AI war at the Pentagon is the story. I've been tracking the consumer response in real time since the contract dropped Friday night.

295% uninstall spike in one day. 1.5 million subscribers gone. Altman's own VP of Research quit and joined Anthropic. The app the President tried to BAN hit #1 in America. By Monday Altman was on the phone with the Pentagon begging to rewrite the deal.

You called it bigger than Iran. The numbers back that up. Full breakdown: tmaark.substack.com/p/hhhooollleee-sht

Daniel Howard James's avatar

Anthropic is not an ethical company. It trained the Claude models on hundreds of thousands of books downloaded from pirate sites.

This contractual dispute is a reminder to the tech bros that the Arpanet and much of Silicon Valley was created by the military-industrial establishment, who are now showing Anthropic who's boss.

It would be impossible for government to comply with Anthropic's naive terms because mass surveillance has been the cornerstone of the tech industry since the invention of the search engine, and under authoritarian regimes before that. Ask yourself why Romania produces so many computer scientists and remains an outsourcing provider.

As for autonomous drones being out of scope, did we really think the military wanted to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more to companies like Anthropic to help soldiers with their homework?

Blue Moon Pie's avatar

I thought it was common knowledge Sam Altman was a creep. I’m surprised you didn’t believe the OpenAI board. At least you admitted your error. Thanks for that.

William Amsbary's avatar

Would we have been better off had Dario accepted an offer to merge Anthropic with OpenAI, and forcing Sam Altman out?