You’re so brave for defending Reuters. What would they do without heroes like you? 🤡

It’s not like any of them read the legislation they pass anyway.

It’s only 24 miles wide at its narrowest point. You’re right that they couldn’t clog it completely, but making the waters un-navigable for large oil tankers seems doable. Especially since the crews wouldn’t just have to watch out for the sunken ships, but also large and dangerous chunks of floating debris and hazards they can’t see under the water.

The imagery conjured by “death valley” to me is a boat graveyard - endless wrecks from shore to shore.

One needle can’t. Wanna find out how many flaming wrecks Iran can fill the Strait with?

Never mind the fact that workers aren’t going to sail to their deaths into “death valley”. Even with hazard pay it’s going to be hard to actually find crews for every vessel, and the costs of insurance would be enormous.

Iran saving the world from endless US aggression by keeping them occupied.

Yeah, if the Strait becomes “death valley” then that quickly transforms into economic collapse anyway.

A bunch of immovable wrecks will close of the Strait just as well as a blockade.

I keep seeing this and it’s not clear to me if this is general literacy or specifically English literacy. 21% of USAmericans speak English as a second language (or specifically “a language other than English at home”), which has to weigh on these statistics right?

Not enough to explain it away. Even if every single one of them were counted that’s still a large number of English-as-a-first-language speakers who are reading below a 6th grade level. It just seems like something that’s important to consider.

Well. They’re trying to use it as human replacement. They keep finding out that they can’t.

Amerikkkans don’t have free healthcare because they’d have to give it to Black people - they’d rather die.

When it’s our turn, shall we just hug it out with the former ICE agents and border patrol? Just send the fascists home?

Because if we do, they will come back. They always do. After the Civil War we just let the slave owners and the Confederates go, and they came back with the Klan and Jim Crow. After the civil rights movement we just let the Klan and their politicians go, and they came back with “tough on crime” and “states rights” and now they’re wearing masks and murdering people in the street again.

We can’t do this anymore. When we defeat them again, and we will, we can’t let them regroup. Marx said it himself: “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

Something I’ve been thinking about:

Tall people have a biological advantage in certain sports, like basketball. That means the should be banned, right? Just based on the same logic (that biological advantages are unfair) then what’s the difference?

Lehman Brothers went bankrupt 2 months after oil hit that record high. Something to think about.

Oil peaked at $147.27 in 2008, it will almost certainly go higher than that.

Hey, by the way, did something else happen in 2008? I forget! 🤔

The US briefly tried out democracy during Reconstruction but the white terrorists quickly defeated that experiment.

The difference between 2008 and today is that the US is a net exporter, which means the US has the option cut its exports to keep oil prices down at home. That’ll have fascinating effects on global oil markets.

Adjusted for inflation in today’s dollars: $220

Highest oil got was in July 2008 at $147.27

Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in September 2008

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The whole stock market has shaved off 2%, with the Dow down 900.

I wonder if we’ll see the markets trip their circuit breakers tomorrow and halt trading.

I could see this playing out. Already, people in the admin and media are saying that we started this war to protect Israel (or because of Israel, or even dragged into war by Israel) and that seems like the first step to an off-ramp.

It’s also going to impact fertilizer prices and shipping prices. No one is going to be fine.