The bots would make sense, too, a Chinese cyberattack last year took Steam and other online publishers down for a couple of hours using a compromised router botnet.
I knew a retired carpet cleaner who occasionally did that. He wasn't wealthy by any means but if he was going to owe more than 3k in Taxes it was always better for him to spend it on a "business trip".
Businessmen don't get to write off their living expenses either, but feasibly you could start a business and become a contractor for your employer so you could write off things like footwear, home office square footage, and a standard deduction per mil driven between two work locations.
Best part is the (Canadian?) IRS? CRA will never audit you unless they have the staff and they can get more out of you than the cost of the audit (roughly 20k minimum).
Was the starvation also staged? Has the USA been running Iranian Economic and Agricultural planning in secret for years? Was Climate Change all a ploy in order to put pressure on Iran?
I'm in the same boat, I think the USA needs to be working with revolutionaries and a War Powers Resolution needs to be done to limit Trump's bomb-happy attitude.
Two options that concern me are that the USA and Israel might support the Shah Royalists (EW GROSS, AUTOCRACY) or even worse would by Israel expanding its borders into Iran.
If you look at news from the past few months you see Iranians were in famine and drought and political violence leading to many protestor deaths in Tehran and the Iranian leadership moving out of the capital. Now was the perfect time to strike.
It's a part of an infinite proxy war between the USSR and their successors Russia and China, against the interests of the USA and Europe.
Iran is a puppet state for China, currently, and they provided weapons and funds for Hamas leading up to the October music festival attack and capture of hostages reigniting the war and consequently the Gaza Genocide. Previously the Russian backed Syria was also a key player but they collapsed recently due to civil war (revolutionaries partially funded by the USA and UK).
Israel is supposed to be the USA's "puppet state" in the same vein, but tbh they're so rogue and don't fuckin listen on anything and they've got so much economic ties to Russia such as Abromovich steel and international distribution that they're just a bad friend that the USA is stuck with because the second best friend they had in the region, Afghanistan, fell due to Trump incompetently releasing 5,000 Taliban fighters from US Custody, and number 3 is Iraq and the USA spent a long time waging war in Iraq for virtually no reason due to Bush incompetence and oil executive greed but I guess we're sort of cool for now.
The USA and NATO often cooperate with Saudi Arabia as a way to fight extremism in the region, though they're not US allies and they are often much more aggressive than the USA are in their tactics.
Basically, the cold war isn't over.
Oh, and, forgot to mention the "why right now" part. Yeah, so, Iranians were revolting against their leaders like a month ago because of famine and drought hitting the region. Now's just the perfect time to strike.
Okay so 4x the number of protests compared to Trump 1.0 happened in 2.0 in the same time period, but the US Voters didn't vote out very many GOP from the house or senate in 2018, or 2020, or 2022, or 2024, and tbh my hopes aren't very high for 2026 I sincerely doubt the GOP senate will drop below 48 out of 100. Right now they have 53 and a house majority.
We need actionable plans, we need results at the polls, in order to remove this evil from the roots.
Iranian leaders under Ayatollah were starving the people and starting wars in neighboring countries, like when they armed the forces who reignited the war in Gaza by attacking the music festival. While it's important for us to minimize casualties and accept responsibility for our mistakes, the blood is on their hands.
US Congress should pass a war powers resolution to keep Trump in check, but it's beneficial for all of us to bring the conflict in Iran to a close with competent new leadership capable of caring for its people and promoting peace for the region.
It's a post on Aneurysmposting where the joke is conservatives using a bunch of buzzwords in order to shift the conversation away from Trump fascism, poking fun at both their tactics and their general lack of mental competence.
The next election will still be FPtP no matter how ignorant you are to the evils of the GOP.