u/Libra — Libra00

Ah, the long shadow of shock therapy. smdh.

I take everything pretty much everyone says with a grain of salt, I am just amused by the fact that he turned what was obviously a barbed and leading question meant to - as he said - distort the truth back on the reporter and pointed out the fallacies in the assumptions she was trying to smuggle into the conversation with it.

Iono who this guy is, but this is the second video I've seen him in and I like him a lot.

Yeah, although they have now pulled out of talks with the US about a new nuclear deal, so maybe they're done?

I don't disagree, I was just providing additional information.

I dunno if you're old enough to remember the Cold War, but both sides having nukes definitely did *not* stop the US and Russia from fucking with each other, shooting down aircraft, bombing shit, and especially spying and sabotage. All it stopped is open warfare, but even then it's debatable since we had several proxy wars.

>They wiped out multiple levels of leadership, nuclear sites, missile sites. This is not a warning, it’s the opening salvo of a full on existential total war.

Yes to military leadership - at least two high-ranking military leaders are known to have been killed in this strike so far and probably more will be announced soon - and maybe to the missile sites. But not so much to the nuclear sites: experts say damage there is limited.

That's twice now they've threatened to attack US bases and twice they haven't done it, this is starting to seem like a negotiating tactic rather than a threat.

Yup, that's the trend I was gesturing at with my initial comment as well, that it's weird that a government-sponsored news source would use a headline that echoes that sentiment in Western media.

Mehr News is an Iranian news agency sponsored by the government of Iran. It is *extremely* not main-stream. :P

Fair enough.

Describing this as a 'new wave of attacks' makes it sound like it's unprovoked, which it extremely was not. Which is a weird choice from an Iranian news org.

Yeah, Isreal is known for how much they care about legal jurisdiction or rights in their genocide of the Palestinian people, that will definitely stop them from doing awful shit to these activists.

Good ol' Great Deal Donnie, stickin' it to the man.. oh wait, he is the man, and also is sticking it to himself (or at least his supporters.)

Both: 'Look, we both have guns, but we also both recognize that we each benefit more from mutually-beneficial trade'.

Both: *Much mutually-beneficial trade commences*

Donnie: 'Holy shit guys, look at my gun! It's SO fucking big! You can't cope with that, my gun is WAY bigger than yours, so you better start toeing the line!'

China: 'Oh we're doing this now? k.' *sets equally-huge gun on table and walks away.*

If Israel didn't have diplomatic cover by way of the US's security council veto it might, but yeah.

The world needs a lot fewer nuclear weapons, preferably zero, to be sure. But nobody seems particularly keen on giving them up, and if Israel has them Palestine - even if it becomes a state - will always live in the shadow of Israel's military power.

I'm glad we have the UN to state the obvious (and then do literally nothing about it.) So helpful.

(I know the person in question is just doing their job, but.)

>Don’t go near animals.

Animals breathe, just like we do, they can expel airborne viruses that can travel for hundreds, perhaps even thousands of miles. 'Don't go near animals' is like saying 'just don't get wet' in a rain storm: the world is full of animals and they utterly suffuse every aspect of our life in ways that might surprise you.

>Vaccines work using either diluted toxins

I don't know what 'diluted toxins' has to do with viruses and immunology since toxins are a rather different matter entirely, but vaccines work (the non-mRNA ones anyway) by infecting you with a weakened version of the virus so that your immune system can learn to identify it without it overwhelming you. Once it learns to identify that disease it will know how to produce proteins and such that can attack the full version (same DNA) should you ever come across it.

>The immune system works by enough of the population dying off until only those with the necessary mutations are left.

Let me state in the sincerest possible terms: lolwut?

It's not about mutation, the immune system can 'learn' and 'evolve' over the course of a single human's lifetime (see: the description of how vaccines work above), it's not something that you either have a good one or you don't (autoimmune diseases aside) and the people with bad ones don't live long enough to reproduce or whatever, your immune system - like your brain - learns by exposure. So being exposed to those diseased animals is literally the only means by which to become immune to them. Viruses do mutate pretty quickly though, so you get the occasional plague/pandemic that overwhelms people's immune systems when they change enough to not be recognizable to our immune system anymore.

>Humans need to go close to the infected animal to get infected.

To some extent yes, but 'get close to' is pretty broad: breathe contaminated air in the general vicinity of animals, drink water they've pissed or shit in, etc.

>Oh, so being exposed to new viruses reduces the risk of dying to a virus you got … because you were exposed to it?

That is in fact how a vaccine/our immune system works, yes.