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Politicizing your entire life is not only exhausting, it's terrible politics that is too far removed from normals to be electorally viable, writes @NoahCRothman. commentarymagazine.com/american-socie…
Adopting a brash style to compete with Trump isn't going to work, writes @jpodhoretz: people who want that will vote for Trump. commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas…
Bernard Lewis once predicted that #Turkey + #Iran would change places: Turkey would lean further to its Islamic identity at an official level, and the more secular opposition would triumph in Iran. The trendlines are vindicating Lewis, writes @SohrabAhmari commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas…
A lot of great stuff at @Commentary Magazine this week.
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Even when getting people to the point of admitting that the U.S. is supporting the #PKK and that's a problem, there has been a tendency to then speak as if it's a political problem for U.S.-#Turkey relations, rather than PKK being of itself a problem.
The #PKK was on the other side in the Cold War. It's doctrine is anti-Western at its core: its campaign against #Turkey is framed as one where the state is illegitimate because it is the imprint of Western imperialism. The PKK has the same view of #Israel.
The PKK fled Turkey after the coup in 1980, and was nurtured under the Asad regime, acting as a cut-out for the Soviet Union. After training at the Palestinian terrorist camps in Lebanon, the PKK launched its war against Turkey, a frontline NATO state, and was harboured in Syria.
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#YPG/#PKK publicly invites the #Asad/#Iran system into the border areas, particularly Minbij, which was captured because of the efforts of the U.S., working in coordination with #Turkey, having promised that the city would be handed over to local rule after #IS was gone.
It doesn't seem that the #PKK has handed Minbij to the #Asad/#Iran system just yet, though a regime delegation visited this morning.
Worth noting here that the #SDF/#PKK opened Minbij up to Asad's secret police a long time ago, and if the Asad regime is present it means Iranian operatives are, too. thedailybeast.com/us-arms-kurds-…
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9 Sept:

1543: Mary, Queen of Scots, 9-months-old, crowned

1923: CHP becomes a political party

1944: Communist coup in Bulgaria

1970: "Black September" events begin, end with PLO expelled from Jordan to Lebanon, where they cause another civil war

2001: Ahmad Shah Masud killed
9 September 1976: Mao Zedong finally died.

Mao is the only rival to Stalin as the most murderous tyrant of the 20th century. Sadly the totalitarian regime he created in #China survives in somewhat modified form to the present.
9 September 1922: The Turkish forces enter Izmir, effectively defeating Greece.

The nationalist revolt against the Allied occupation was triggered by the Greek landing at Izmir in May 1919 (The Emergence of Modern Turkey, p. 241).
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@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK “…so the date @Womans_Place_UK event feels like a concerted effort to make #trans ppl, & particularly #transwomen, feel #intimidated and #invalidated” Is it the position of SN that the sensitivities of #transwomen mean that #democracy should be suspended any time they say so?
@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @Womans_Place_UK #Transwomen do face special challenges but they remain #bio #logical #males but it is fine for them #Gender express as ‘women’ but with the best will in the world, they remain #bio #logically #male @WomenEqualities @Commonswomequ @PennyMordaunt @MariaMillerUK @LesleySemmens
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#American friends, if I lived in your great country, near an outstanding public official like @SecretaryCarson, I'd respond to this #LeftistHarassment by standing silently outside with 🇺🇸 & a #MAGA sign.

"Protesting" can't undo the election. It helps with #WalkAway though.😄
Exhibits A, B, C, and D.

Stay classy, Leftists. #WalkAway
The fed officials the Left is targeting are protected by one or more of the:
>US Secret Service
>Federal Protective Service (DHS)
>The US Marshals (part of the DOJ)
>US Capitol Police
>Other agencies at fed, state & local level
>Private security.

This won't happen>
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Politics makes me angry. Leftist hivite lies & blatant attacks on our Constitution anger me. Ignorant followers &/or deceptive bad actors spouting hate, vitriol, & ideology so far removed from American ideals they might as well be speaking Chinese. Calling SCOTUS & ICE terrorists
This is a coordinated ASSAULT on American & #WeThePeople. This is an overt attempt to overthrow a lawfully elected @POTUS and install Tyranny of the Minority upon the rest of us. These psychopaths we call celebrities & representatives are literal MURDERERS & CHILD RAPISTS.
@POTUS They talk about Nazis and Internment camps because THEY are actual Nazis who fancy themselves superior to humans and who want to literally EXTERMINATE all who oppose them or pose threat to the. That means you and me and #WeThePeople are on their HIT LIST. Wake up, fight back. NOW
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Hi everyone thank you for all your support and empathy in the past few days.
To minimize further injuries, the original voicemail with the intended subject's name has been removed, but I am reposting here with name obscured: soundcloud.com/user-251012259… (thanks for tech help!)
I am also reposting my entire Twitter message regarding this incident, with other important ideas I forgot to include:
four days ago my work phone got a rambling but confrontational 3.5 min voicemail from someone questioning my legitimacy to teach based on my presumed #citizenship and #ethnic identity. You can hear the actual message here: soundcloud.com/user-251012259…
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This is not the mega-thread on the Enlightenment I promised but a quick response to this from @NoahCRothman:
commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas…
I think there are obvious dangers in anti-Enlightenment thought, whether it takes right-wing or left-wing or some overlapping far-left/far-right form. At the same time the scenario where @jbouie and I team up to take down Lockean liberalism seems pretty remote at the moment.
What seems less remote is the scenario we're actually inhabiting, where liberalism is 1) still basically unchallenged, Viktor Orban notwithstanding and 2) manifesting many of the problems (alienation, stratification, etc) that critics on the left and right identified in the past.
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It's called lying in wait, Gerald Clark!!
IN ADDITIIN TO THIS FUCKERS CAPITAL CRIMES AGAINST MY FAMILY AND ME, THIS IS THE 24/7 365 SHIT @JEFFSESSIONS NEGLIGENCE SUBJECTS ME TO!!! AND THIS IS BENIGN COMPARED TO THE COLLOSAL LOSSES DUE TO CRIMINAL DAMAGE TO MY PROPERTY WHICH IS WHY HIS FUCKERY IS ALARMING!!
HOW BOUT YOU REFER TO ALL THOSE VIDEO OF HE AND SCARTOZZI'S LYING IN WAIT FROM LAST SUMMER AND FALL!! @WhiteHouse @DeptOfState @UnderSecPD @AmbJohnBolton @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @IvankaTrump @jeffsessions @TheJusticeDept @FBI @FBIWFO @DHSgov @GenFlynn @PrivateStarNYC @POTCUS3
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