I will confess that I cannot fathom a religion which insists that you have to love the likes of Hitler, the Islamists of Iran, and Nancy Pelosi in order to get into heaven. These religious commentators are just thoroughly silly people. Even Jim Baker was more impressive.
The man is saying he would choose to hate people he was not longer able to impact or be impacted by, instead of eternity with God.
I genuinely don't think he understands the severity of his words here. He just chose Hell on video.
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Given his first comments about it being scary being a public speaker, I get the feeling that there is more to the context here. I want to hear the next 1 to 3 minutes of the monologue before passing judgement.
Dave Chappelle: “Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.”
This isn’t even comedy. It’s just sick…
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Pakistan is closing a critical land trade corridor with Iran as the United States expands its blockade of the Islamic Republic.
Commercial traffic through the Gabd-Rimdan and Taftan crossings was suspended on October 17, disrupting one of the regime’s most important remaining routes for overland trade.
Gabd-Rimdan partially reopened after approximately one week, but restrictions, changing paperwork requirements and incomplete clearances continue to obstruct normal movement. Tanker drivers have reportedly remained stranded for days in Bandar Abbas after loading fuel intended for the Rimdan and Pishin crossings.
This corridor became strategically important after the American naval blockade restricted the Islamic Republic’s maritime access.
Pakistan had activated six overland routes connecting Karachi, Port Qasim and Gwadar with Iranian border crossings. These allowed third-country goods to enter Iran by truck when the regime’s ports were constrained.
The largest flow is liquefied petroleum gas.
Before the closures, Pakistan imported approximately 7,000 tonnes of Iranian LPG every day. More than 4,000 tonnes crossed through Gabd-Rimdan alone.
The disruption has imposed serious costs on Pakistan. The price of a 12-kilogram LPG cylinder reportedly increased by approximately 56 percent, rising from around 4,500 to 7,000 Pakistani rupees. Prices climbed even higher in some regions.
LPG is widely used for cooking, heating and transportation. Approximately 70 percent of the Awami Rickshaw Union’s 43,000 rickshaws and nearly 8,000 Qingqis depend on it.
Pakistan therefore has powerful domestic reasons to keep this trade moving. Yet it has still accepted the economic pain of restricting the border.
That reveals the balance of power.
Pakistan conducts approximately $2.8–3.2 billion in annual trade with Iran. However, its access to international finance, IMF programs, military cooperation and strategic partnerships remains far more dependent on the United States.
The cost of defying American sanctions pressure is greater than the value of preserving unrestricted trade with the Islamic Republic.
The restrictions coincide with Operation Economic Outcast, the American campaign targeting the regime’s remaining trade routes, aviation links, financial networks and sanctions-evasion channels.
The Islamic Republic responded to the naval blockade by shifting more commerce and military procurement onto land. Pakistan became one of its most useful alternatives because of the countries’ 909-kilometre border, established barter networks and proximity to major Pakistani ports.
That alternative is now becoming increasingly unreliable.
The border is too long and porous to seal completely. Informal trade, smuggling and limited authorized commerce will continue. Gabd-Rimdan has also reopened for certain consignments.
But economic strangulation does not require complete closure.
It requires making every shipment slower, more expensive, less predictable and increasingly vulnerable to interception, confiscation or sanctions.
The regime loses or delays revenue from LPG and other exports. Imported goods accumulate at depots and border crossings. Transport companies face changing rules, while foreign traders become more reluctant to risk involvement.
The political signal may be even more damaging.
Pakistan is a Muslim-majority neighbour with historic ties to Iran. It previously mediated between the Islamic Republic and the United States and helped broker earlier negotiations.
If even Pakistan restricts trade when American pressure intensifies, the regime cannot expect nominally friendly countries to sacrifice their own economic stability to protect it.
The naval blockade is depriving the Islamic Republic of oil revenue. Task Force Iron Gate is targeting its military supply routes across its land borders and the Caspian Sea. Operation Economic Outcast is pressuring the financial and commercial networks that keep those routes functioning.
Pakistan’s restrictions show that the blockade is no longer confined to the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
The Islamic Republic attempted to escape maritime pressure by moving its trade overland. The United States is now closing those exits through the regime’s own neighbours.
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Photojournalism is a misnomer. Photos can never be journalism, because proper journalism is about providing context - and still photos can never hope to do that. All photojournalism is propaganda. Nothing more.
Its interesting how this image came to signify the "excesses" of the Vietnam war but the reality is that the communist being executed had just killed an entire family of people.
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Only older Gen X and the generations before them are old enough to remember the OPEC blockade which caused actual gasoline rationing in the country. There is no way that today’s generation could cope with anything resembling that.
Iran was pursuing the N. Korea path to a nuke - impenetrable missile arsenal first, untouchable nuke not far behind. This was the US IC assessment on which Trump relied. If you hate gas prices now, think what they would be if Iran was permitted to finish its plan.
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One of my biggest fears is realizing the possibility that Gen X was simply extremely lucky to be born in a rare, unnormal era - and that what we’re experiencing now is actually normal.
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@MJnanostretch is being his usual disingenuous self.
The DEFUSE document IS the “single piece of forensic evidence” that broke the case wide open (whose validity is confirmed by mountain of surrounding evidence). Yet he still dismisses its significance.
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Concur - even though I consider myself a reluctantly-believing and periodically-rare practicing Jew myself, rather than secular.
It’s Orwellian being a secular Jew right now. You have a lot of liberal friends, but you no longer fit the camp.
So you watch from afar as they celebrate the blue wave, convinced they just crushed tyranny and saved America.
And you’re thinking, shit… what they’re actually cheering is the election of a Senator and several Congresspeople whose agenda is to sever American ties with the only Jewish state, and whose ideology is the same socialism our grandparents fled a century ago. All from a party now vowing to “stop AI,”handing China the lead in the technology that will decide the next century.
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A foreign communist with no long-term ties to this country or city will be in charge of Los Angeles during the Olympics.
#BREAKING: Nithya Raman will be the next mayor of Los Angeles, defeating incumbent Karen Bass. Latest: abc7ne.ws/0nDMjA
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The problem with life without the possibility of parole is that the next regime to take power can always change their mind and easily grant parole for any number of reasons (their prisons are too crowded, they don’t think criminal should be punished, etc.).
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to change all death sentences in California to Life Without Parole.
He penned this open letter to the public about the decision.
“I am compelled to follow my conscience and… take this action for the welfare of the state California.”
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When I lived in Cali this is exactly what I saw.
All you needed was to vote was a name and an address. So if you knew a couple people on your block you could vote for all of them if you just came back various times throughout the day.
The cheating in blue states is a feature, not a bug.
But, as I said in an earlier tweet today, nobody is gonna do anything about it, so…
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Will easily sellout in a flash.
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I have friends who experienced the same thing. It takes many generations to build a high-trust society, but only one to tear it down. It’s not something that can be produced through immediate legislation or public policy. It’s the quality of the people.
Brendan Fraser says he returned from living in Japan and immediately realized America is ‘doing it wrong.’
After spending four months in Tokyo filming his new movie, Brendan Fraser experienced some major reverse culture shock coming back to the U.S. When Seth Meyers asked about his reintroduction to American culture, Fraser didn't hold back.
i got back and I went, ‘We're doing it wrong.’ We don't know how to eat. Public transport... I think we could work on our manners a little bit more.”
Fraser praised the Japanese mindset, adding: “It’s anathema to a Japanese person to burden someone else with their troubles... or whatever they got on board.”
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True leadership. Refreshing. I will probably never see it again in my lifetime.
.@POTUS: "I think it's largely true because it drove the gasoline up... At the same time, if I had to do it again, I'd have to do it again because long-term, it's the only answer. You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon."
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Both the restaurant and film production industries have been decimated under Newsom and Bass the past number of years.
As local post-production dwindles, Burbank studio plans to lay off 81 latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
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