And there was also like a real intellectual debate in the Middle East, Delhi city Iran,

about whether or not Israel represented some sort of anti-imperialist bastion against the Gulf Arab powers.

Obviously, that wasn't true then, but it's definitely not true now, as things continue to get dumber.

And Ben Veer's TikTok account is a good example because it's just

him constantly day in, day out, smirking at the camera, smiling, goofing off, laughing,

while talking about heinous crimes that he is undertaking in his role as national security minister.

I remember in particular, like when he stopped serving hot meals, the palisidian inmates.

The most basic, like, right as a human being when you're worried you're in prison.

And he's like, he's throwing around bread.

It's a schoolyard bully mentality, like a cartoonish villain.

Doja Cat was furious about being used as the soundtrack for that as well, I hear.

The dance was particularly distasteful.

Oh, my God.

But, yeah, that is like, it's a continual dumbing down from an already intellectually

void devoid movement, but you lose those trappings and then you're just left with

Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox until it's just nothing of any, I don't know, it's got nothing under.

I want to talk a little more about like the idea that, yeah, like the, the, that, the,

that, the fighting back, unexpected fighting back and sort of how so many of the roots of that

are also in the states and specifically like the Abraham Accords, the, the, the, the, the, the,

the, the, um, the pivoting of Saudi to Israel as well, which created basically

a vacuum for Iran to come in and say, we're going to do this for you, but we're sort of,

we're less of a hollowed out society than Saudi.

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