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مروری بر آنچه که نسزد فراموش کرد.

آنچه زیر این توییت می‌آید، اوراقی از تاریخ معاصر ایران هستند که هر چشم و گوش داور و دادوری، حتی برای لحظه‌ای نباید از آنها غافل شود. اوراقی که بدون آنها، تفسیر و توصیف دوران جمهوری اسلامی، سقیم و ناقص است.

این مجموعه، به مرور تکمیل خواهد شد.

در اینجا تنها یک روایت تاریخی، فارغ از درجهٔ اهمیت و بازتاب در منابع و رسانه‌ها مطرح می‌شود. این مجموعه مبتنی بر روش‌های تاریخ‌نگاری آکادمیک نیست و صد البته نمی‌خواهد هم که باشد. اینجا تنها بارقه‌ای کم‌سو برای بازخوانی بخشی تاریک از تاریخ روایی چند دههٔ منتهی به امروز است ولاغیر.

۱. از کارون شروع می‌کنم. کارون سهمگین‌ترین تراژدی ممکن در ذهن نویسنده است. خلاصهٔ سروریِ یک ایدئولوژی واپسگرای ویرانگرِ بی‌رحم.

کارون حاجی‌زادهٔ ۹ ساله به همراه پدرش حمید، توسط قاتلان در استخدام وزارت اطلاعات جمهوری اسلامی در خانه‌شان کاردآجین شدند.

I've been playing Project Sekai: Colorful Stage for a bit. So far, it's fun! It's a combined vocaloid/human rhythm game and VN. With different controls than Project Diva...tapping, and a sort of guitar-hero-like track for the notes.

@threadreaderapp unroll

For all of the big brains out there that believe "National Socialists" are not "real" Socialists, please pay attention
- National Socialists claimed to be Socialists
- National Socialists implemented Socialist policies

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The National Socialists did not disagree with Socialism. They just believed they were "better Socialists than those other Socialists"

Imagine, if you will, rival gangs competing for absolute control over the Revolution (this is why rival factions of Socialism fight each other)

Remember, originally the terms "Communism" and "Socialism" were interchangeable, and really mean the same thing

This explains the general Socialist love for the Hammer & Sickle

Help me out here. Are the assumptions of “Horseshoe Theory” and the “Political Compass” just Dualism applied to politics?

They both seem to assume that too much of one side is bad/destructive, and only a balance of the 2 sides is good

This assumption leads to false framing

If Horseshoe Theory and the Political Compass are based on Dualism, this would explain why they don’t have a paradigm for mapping “right and wrong” and also why they assume a centrist (or “balanced”) position is the best

I think this diagram is closer to the truth

Dear @DataRepublican

Since you are a Database master I assume that consuming data in a table format may resonate with you.

Here is a table that goes deep under the ideological hood on the differences between Classic American Liberalism and the Woke Left and the Woke Right.

Here is a diagram of the strikingly different intellectual lineages between Classic American Liberalism anchored in Christian Realism and Scottish Realism and the Woke Left and the Woke Right based in Nominalist Idealism/Constructivismcoggle.it/diagram/Zr2IjP…

Here is a quick screen shot of the different intellectual Trees.

1st Pic: Classic American Liberalism (Realism)
2nd Pic: Everything else (Nominalism/Idealism)

Al observar la habitación, que parece de una torre, presenciamos a un híbrido de búho y humano involucradọ en una tarea que al principio parece pintura, pero que en realidad es mucho más. 🧵

🎨 Creación de las Aves, Remedios Varo. 1957

Sosteniendo un pincel de punta roja colgado de un instrumento y conectado al corazón, la figura aplica pigmento a un soporte. Sin embargo, esto es solo la mitad de la técnica; con un prisma en la otra mano, refracta la luz de una estrella lejana sobre un pájaro recién pintado.

De alguna manera, esta combinación da vida a la imagen, que, ahora animada, se levanta de la página y extiende sus alas para unirse a sus compañeros que vuelan hacia la ventana.

Great article in today's Winnipeg Free Press. To schools that are cancelling tests, grades, percentages: we see the impact of this at post-secondary. Employers do too. "We can't keep [kids] wrapped up in bubble wrap, hoping life will be kind to them. It won't be."

Giving students the tools to succeed winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analys…

I’ve been thinking about this “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp down in Florida. As a student of the Concentration Camps of WWII, I wrote an entire graduate thesis on the psychology of those working there, I see many parallels to Nazi Germany in the early 1930’s. 1/3

Early Dachau was, much like Florida, a “holding facility” for Jews, political prisoners, and anyone seen as “undesirable.” It was a form of terrorism, a propaganda campaign. Early Nazis did encourage Jews to “self deport,” seem familiar? 2/3

I often wondered as a young man, just how everyday decent German people, allowed such a thing to happen right under their noses. I studied transcripts of trials, interviews, even spoke with Germans who lived through the Holocaust, and the parallel to today is uncanny.

SARS-CoV-2 can trigger Alzheimer’s-like pathology even without genetic predisposition.
New research confirms fears: even mild COVID can leave neurological footprints.
The virus induces amyloid-β formation in the retina - a window into the brain.🧵

Researchers from Yale and Harvard examined postmortem human retinas and 3D retinal organoids.
They found that the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of amyloid-β - the protein behind Alzheimer’s plaques.

This effect was seen even in the absence of Alzheimer’s mutations, including:
Ex vivo human retina
Healthy retinal organoids
Retinas from COVID-19 patients without any dementia history

🧵 THREAD: Michael McFaul, the lunatic

Meet @McFaul , who wears many hats but is perhaps most famous for being Obama's ambassador to Russia from 2011-2014.

A career ideologue turned diplomat, McFaul spent decades preaching regime change from the safety of academia and NGOs. All the while making insane statements he had to repeatedly apologize for and having a good dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

This is the story of how a “democracy promoter” helped set fire to U.S.-Russia relations.

Patience as I pull together this thread in real time.
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Remember how I've made the point that activists are "discovered" in college and trained from early on?

McFaul was no exception. He was sent to the Soviet Union by several NGOs during his university years, where he also volunteered for the National Democratic Institute, one of the Deep State NGOs.

He was never a "neutral party" in any sense - he was groomed to be an activist early on.

@McFaul In fact, he openly wrote of regime change from his college years and bragged about training democratic activists within the Soviet Union. And, yes, this was done with partial federal dollars.

If you wear shoes, you might have hallux valgus.

"Bunions" make your feet look weird, walking difficult, and even trigger back pain.

Here's how to fix them: 🧵

First, we need to understand what causes bunions.

Problem #1: Shoes with narrow toe boxes

Most people are silently suffocating their toes.

Because modern shoes are designed to make your feet weak:

Problem #2: Flat feet/fallen arches

There are really only two reasons for this:
1. It's hereditary
2. Poor posture

For most people (like me), it's from poor posture and over rotating.

Here's why your shoes are giving you flat feet:

The miracle that baffled science.

In 8th century Italy, a doubting priest raised the bread at Mass, it turned into living heart tissue.

In the 1970s, the Vatican invited secular scientists to conduct 500+ tests.

What they found defied biology.

The miracle of Lanciano 🧵

The priest—tormented by disbelief in Christ’s Real Presence—was celebrating Mass in the town of Lanciano.

But at the moment of consecration, the bread visibly became flesh, and the wine turned to blood.

Those present were stunned.
(Source: EWTN, St. Michael’s Center)

The blood congealed into 5 distinct clots. The flesh was thin, round, and brownish—resembling heart tissue.

Pilgrims have venerated these relics for 1,200+ years.
They are still on display in Lanciano’s Church of St. Francis.

(Source: Vatican, St. Michael’s Center)

Last night Black Sabbath made history at their final show.

A thread 🧵

1. This is how Ozzy came out on stage

2. Black Sabbath performing "Paranoid" one last time to end their final show

3. Black Sabbath performing "War Pigs" one last time

I've got ADHD, Joanne.

It comes with the territory.

Now we've cleared that up:

What's the explanation for The World's Number One Women's Rights Defender™ saying zero, zilch, nada about the impact of Israel's genocide on Palestinian women?

Here's a thread on what JK won't say

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1941753554785517778

70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.

@jk_rowling says nothing.

In the first year, Israel's genocide exterminated more women and children in Gaza than in any comparable conflict in the 21st century.

@jk_rowling says nothing.

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What if your daughter was dancing at a festival, believing she was safe, and monsters came? On Oct 7, Hamas dragged women from crowds—beaten, stripped, raped beside friends or corpses. This could happen anywhere. Share, don’t look away. Read next—what they did next… 🩸

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Imagine your sister hiding for hours, hearing her friend’s screams—then, silence. One Nova survivor barely escaped rape; others didn’t survive at all. Eyewitnesses saw girls tied naked to trees, bodies mutilated after group rape. Could you bear it? Share & continue below. 💔

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Victims were left naked, bound to poles, shot in the genitals. Some executed after rape, their bodies paraded in Gaza while crowds cheered. Hamas filmed their crimes, sending the footage to parents—forcing them to watch their daughters’ last moments. More details below. 🚨

12 soldats pour 5km, incapable de tenir les rivières et lignes de défense, une défense aérienne à l'agonie, l'armée ukrainienne 🇺🇦 serait-elle au bord de la rupture ?

Dernièrement, l'armée ukrainienne subit des revers important, sur le front et à l'arrière.

🧵THREAD🧵1/14 ⬇️

"Sur un tronçon de plus de 5 km, on compte 10, voire 12 combattants. La défense est assurée par des chauffeurs, des artilleurs et des cuisiniers. Mais eux aussi sont « finis ». 25 % du personnel des bataillons est resté"

https://x.com/BohdanKrotevych/status/1938170915574985170

La pénurie d'hommes devient problématique pour l'armée ukrainienne.

Sur le papier, de nouveaux corps d'armée ont été créés pour regrouper les unités entre-elles, en théorie, 50 000 hommes. En pratique ? Personne ne sait, peut-être seulement la moitié.

15 Italian spots that seem too beautiful to exist

A thread🧵

1. Lake Garda

2. Scopello, Sicily

3. "In Tuscany it is not clear whether the painters or the farmers are painting."

War, Croats, Church: What the mega-concert of the far right and Croatian nationalist singer Marko Perković in Zagreb reveals about today’s Croatia. Some remarks based on an article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Marko Perković, stage name Thompson, gave a concert in Zagreb on Saturday that—depending on the source—was attended by between 300,000 and 405,000 people. Numerically, it was the largest concert in Croatian history and one of the largest in European history.

There is just one problem: For decades, Perković’s business model has been not only to profit from his reputation as a patriotic lover of his homeland, but also to use his influence to rehabilitate the Croatian Ustaša regime, Hitlers junior partner in the Balkans in WWII.

UN ANÁLISIS DE LA GUERRA DE UCRANIA DESDE UNA PERSPECTIVA PERONISTA - ACTUALIZACIÓN SEMANAL: 30/06 - 06/07/25. CHICAS RUSAS

Resúmenes anteriores:

https://x.com/IvanSid1122MRR/status/1939431191431479742

Esta perspectiva se encuentra explicada en el libro Conducción Militar de Perón y se enfoca en:
#1 Obtener enseñanzas para la conducción militar
#2 Promover el interés ciudadano de la defensa y evitar que sea un conocimiento de nicho de los militares.

El #2 es importante para que ni la petri, ni prorrancio, ni palmito, ni pistolita battaleme ni el “donuts killer” service point ni ningún terraplanista de la estrategia o de la virgósfera chantactica te venda humo en asuntos de defensa nacional.