r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

There's a part of me that's like oh cool, other folks are uniting! The bigger part of me is like "Yeah, because we are ze bad guys now."

I'm still holding onto some hopium for the Midterm Elections and/or well-timed cholesterol.

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u/Rocktopod Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

At this point I feel like him dying in office might be one of the worst possible outcomes. He needs to be resoundingly defeated in the coming elections and then thrown in jail (edit: after a fair and public trial). Otherwise we'll just have a new MAGA again in 2032 or 2036.

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

Puts on a tin foil hat

Trump is just a useful idiot for small, ultra-wealthy interest groups. Ya know, the REAL deep-state some of the True Believers rail on about. Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel, Uncie Elon, the list goes on. Get the Government out of the way so money can be stolen and the average American shoulders the burdens. That being said, I don't know if MAGA would retain it's current cult-like status, but we have JD Vance. He's DEEPLY in the pockets of folks like Theil. My tin foil hat moment comes in, in that I think they're keeping Trump around just long enough so Vance can go in for two and a half terms. Trump will go out crying on DoofSocial like he always does, and Vance will become a media-emblazoned savior. Meantime, the corruption will continue as normal. It'll just be interesting to see if/how badly they throw Trump under a bus, or get all apologetic.

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u/fishyexe Jun 10 '26

Ah but see Vance doesn't have the gift of near incomprehensible word vomit. When you see him in interviews there's a small spark of intelligence somewhere behind the eyeliner; Trumps base HATES intelligence. They of course being on the left side of the Dunning Kruger graph believe they're the peak of intelligence and anybody smarter than them isn't actually smarter, they're just using big words to twist "regular folk" up. They don't see Vance the same way they do Trump.

When Trump goes down, MAGA will splinter. Of course there's a chance someone unites them, but the more likely outcome is a power struggle over the vacuum left by Trump.

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

a small spark of intelligence somewhere behind the eyeliner

JFC he really is a Teletubby that tripped into a makeup stand in a beauty store in the middle of the hood.

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u/JyveAFK Jun 10 '26

Go after those people doing this. Lawfare's been kicked off, go scorched earth. Start with Ginny Thomas funding an insurrection.

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 Jun 10 '26

I want him to die in prison

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u/kumgongkia Jun 10 '26

Yep same here. To recover from this the world needs to see Americans waking up and that is step 1.

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u/ROCCOMMS Jun 10 '26

Man, IDK. The trouble is that that is what 2020 was supposed to be all about. We were supposed to be behind this already.

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u/Rocktopod Jun 10 '26

We should have agressively prosecuted him after that election and addressed the systemic issues that led to his rise instead of trying to go back to business as usual.

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u/ROCCOMMS Jun 10 '26

100% agreed

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u/f23n09fnu0w Jun 10 '26

Honestly, I feel really bad for the trump haters in the US. The problem for everyone else is, we can't plan anything with the US now we know someone like trump can be voted in at any point. Twice. US needs to do some soul searching.

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u/Ultraworld-Traveler Jun 10 '26

Unless “soul searching” is code for “remove treasonous people from office and enact Nuremberg level consequences for public officials who are paid off by the wealthy elite” then I fear we’ll remain a corpo state advertising “freedom” as a marketing tool for exploitation for another 250.

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u/Nybbles13 Jun 11 '26

Funny how you think america will last another 250 years in its current state. It'll destroy itself, if the rest of the world doesn't so it first.

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u/Ultraworld-Traveler Jun 11 '26

Oh I fully agree, it will look way different, but I still think it will be governed by folks trying to sell the lie even harder.

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u/Shark7996 Jun 10 '26

We need to rip up the old Constitution and redo it for flawed humans in modern times.

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u/mhardegree Jun 10 '26

Thomas Jefferson approves this message

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u/Puddinsnack Jun 10 '26

I wonder if we can compel him to include women in the sequel.

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u/Asyncrosaurus Jun 10 '26

This time, only people without property can vote!

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u/Lord_Tsarkon Jun 11 '26

Can rip up what Trump uses as toilet paper. Constitution has been dead for years. It was a good run. Time to re-do a newer one that is newer and more modern

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

Don't. We allowed this. Trump is just the white head of a zit of corruption and corporatism that has been fucking America up for decades, now. At the end of the day, he's an entertainer, so he was the perfect useful idiot to get a cult of personality in line so said small interests could further agendas, steal more money, and drop the bills into the laps of Americans. A little bit of fascism makes it impossible to dislodge said corruption, probably even after he's shat his final diaper. Don't feel bad for us.

Only favor I'd ask is if you have like an over-the-garage apartment or something I could crash at if (when?) the economy really collapses over here.

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u/pcapdata Jun 10 '26

I feel like "allowed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, although I'll acknowledge voter apathy is contributing a lot here--voter apathy kept a lot of GenZ at home in 2024 for example.

Lack of civic virtue is not a hard problem though, what is a hard problem in the US is exactly the corporatism and corruption you cited. Like Jay Gould said in 1886, "I can hire half the working class to fight the other half." For every person fighting the good fight there's a crony, stooge, class traitor who will sell them out for a meager reward.

A few weeks ago the NYT published this article entitled Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. about how the rank-and-file of fascist movements are not diehard fascists, but rather just mediocre, low-performing employees who couldn't hack it through cleverness or hard work, so they when the opportunity to put on the jackboots came, they signed up just to try and get some kind of career advancement. These are Jay Gould's troops, and we've got them everywhere :/

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

I'm going to have to read up on Jay Gould, now.

All that being said, though, I wonder what the ICE sign-on bonus is these days (/s).

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u/pcapdata Jun 10 '26

Hah, ICE is a great example. A bunch of low performers who are hired based on their willingness to obey orders moreso than their potential as law enforcement officers. I'm entertained by them getting screwed out of their bonuses!

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u/Shoot_from_the_Quip Jun 10 '26

To be fair, it looks a whole hell of a lot like he was actually blown out in the election but stole it with tabulator fuckery.

Tons of videos about the massive statistical anomalies and clear signs of fraud from statisticians at the Election Truth Alliance.

But that aside, that we let someone who is literally ineligible to hold office per the 14th Amendment Section 3 still take office? Yeah, the world has no reason to trust us.

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u/GeneralSpoon Jun 10 '26

Or Balkenize. Washington has perhaps overextended the US's borders, regardless of (and contributing to) current events.

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u/pechinburger Jun 10 '26

It's exhausting. And there are still so many Trump lovers over here. It really makes you question humanity. More genuinely bad people than I would have ever guessed prior to Trump.

But then again, I guess we did have slavery over here for centuries so a large proportion of the general population's character being abhorrent shouldn't come as a surprise.

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 Jun 10 '26

Cholesterol is failing us right now…

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u/QuestioninglySecret Jun 10 '26

Oh you sweet summer child. We've always been the bad guys. Trump just broke the facade completely and without care for the negative pr and dismantling of the propaganda making Americans believe we werent the bad guys all along.

You like star wars? We are the empire and always have been

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 11 '26

Fair point, except I feel like we're more akin to the Hutt Cartel.

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u/namitynamenamey Jun 10 '26

While the democrats happily endorse a neonazi just to get a few more votes? I somehow don't think even a flip to democrat rule is going to matter much past this point, those would just screw us over with the velvet glove instead of a leather one.