*snorts line of coke* your politics are boring as fuck

*fucks butch lesbian on the popes tomb*

rachel maddow is a personification of the shallow american white liberal political consciousness

Unfortunately, that's everyone.
Game Theory is so bizarre. How can you accommodate the effectiveness of people's interests, factor in given conditions, and produce a mathematical outcome? Sounds like magic to me. But I hope the results are right. It's not a bad thing for the Iran government to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes, and NOT build a bomb (as the Game Theory projects). But I think the Game Theory doesn't give enough credit to the power of the rising Ayatollahs and the deeply rooted religious mindset in the area. Proponents of the Game Theory claim that history doesn't affect this outcome much. That's according to our increasingly liberal society though, where history doesn't play much of a role (as demonstrated by that Iowan legislator link and how our generation doesn't care about gay marriage). Contrarily, history in the middle-east is a huge factor in their society, and in many cases the 'historical' religious forces actually stepped in to check and reverse liberal ideals, according to John Laffin's book "Holy War" (a terribly biased source, but it makes some sense). What scares me is the Islamic concept of jihad (religious war). According to the Q'uran, Mohammad in his conquest split the world into two categories, Dar-al Islam (the lands of Islam) and Dar-al Harb (the lands of war), and it's basically Islam's duty to dominate the opposing faction. Even if Iran's nuclear program is strictly for civilian use, during times of war (I distrust the area's stability) they will surely use that as an asset to their power. This might sound pretty terrible, and I trolled about this earlier in some other thread, but I sincerely hope that this nuclear program will add a sense of luxury to the Iranian civilians' interests, and that this sense of luxury will mitigate the rising powers of their religious belligerence.