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Nov 30, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"Grampa, what does 'Eiffel tower' mean? I heard some frat boys joking about it."
What I'm about to say is more serious than it seems. Remember Brett Kavanaugh and Mark Judge"s yearbook entries about the "Golden Triangle"? That isn't a drinking game, but a sexual position in which two men simultaneously have sex with the same woman w/o touching each other. 1/
A variation is the "Eiffel Tower," where the men bond by high-fiving or forming a bridge with their arms over the woman's body. Importantly, it's less about sex than dominance (over the subordinate woman) + homoerotic male bonding (with the woman as a bridge for deniability). 2/
This isn't obscure, dude-you're-a-perv stuff. It's really old and it's especially pervasive in strongly patriarchal/sexist cultures -- such as (to pull random examples out of a hat), rich-kid East Coast private boys' schools.

Or Russia.

Or Saudi Arabia. 3/
So: two men bonding over a conquest. The intimate "I'm SO not gay but I love you bro so bring it in" bro-hug. And what the @Telegraph described today as a "bro-five": telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/3…

Bonding and dominance. With the submissive conquest in the background.

See it now? 4/
@Telegraph This is not good for America. 5/5
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Dec 29, 2021
Holy HELL, @bootbarn. My wife and I went into your Tualatin, OR store, + as we entered a family of five was leaving – none masked. Then the employee who greeted me (quite cheerfully!) had her mask under her nose...
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@bootbarn Then I counted six other maskless customers + another employee with a mask half-off.

We left immediately.

Because we're not stupid, we respect the law, and we don't want to die.
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And science is science. If my vet said I needed to mask to keep my animals safe from an infectious disease, I'd wear it. Because science is f*cking SCIENCE.
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Dec 28, 2021
Context thread:
• The defense bill is DOUBLE the COMBINED costs of COVID stimulus + infrastructure + Build Back Better. (Where are the deficit hawks like @Sen_JoeManchin?)
• And it's unnecessary: U.S. defense $ exceed Russia + China + the next 9 countries COMBINED. ...
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@Sen_JoeManchin Some will argue, as @BroadbrainTV does here, that it's ok because "the defense bill is a jobs bill." And that's sort of true: the defense industry accounts for at least 800,000 jobs and 10% of U.S. manufacturing. is.gd/Brn8g0 ...
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@Sen_JoeManchin @BroadbrainTV But as a job creator, defense sucks. About 14MM people work in manufacturing; at 10% of total manufacturing, defense should employ about 1.4MM, but actually employs about half that, because defense toys' materials, research, etc. are expensive compared to labor cost. ...
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Aug 15, 2021
History from 2001:

The Taliban weren't involved with 9/11. A council of 600 senior AfPak Muslim clerics – essentially the Taliban's governing body – expressed dismay at the 9/11 attacks and offered to expel bin Laden from the country.

Bush said no. edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asi…
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The Taliban acknowledged that 9/11 violated Islamic law – but remember, bin Laden initially denied being behind the attacks. At the time, even the U.S. only labeled him a "prime suspect," stopping short of saying we were sure he did it.

That uncertainty was VERY significant.
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Muslim ethics require protecting guests from their enemies – UNLESS the guest has done something to bring trouble on the host. The Taliban COULDN'T surrender bin Laden without evidence he was behind 9/11 (ie, committed a crime while in sanctuary).
usip.org/publications/2…
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Jul 27, 2021
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Today's testimony by Capitol Police officers about the Jan. 6 insurrection is making me rethink the Boston Massacre, which in hindsight sounds more like 1/6 than a righteous revolutionary act.
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.@RadioFreeTom's written an interesting thread here, but I keep thinking back to this old discussion where he said that conservatism's main feature isn't standing for things, but standing against them:
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@RadioFreeTom (Thread referenced above:)
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@RadioFreeTom That's the classic Buckleyesque statement of conservatism that all '80s college students (including both Tom and I) learned: that a conservative is someone who "stands athwart history, yelling Stop."

It's essentially nihilistic...
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Apr 17, 2021
I just read the Anglo-Saxon/America First Caucus statement of (so-called) principles, and it's clear that the writers used "Anglo-Saxon" only because "Aryan" already was taken. It's the Racist/Nativist Caucus.

Here are some thoughts about "our" "Anglo Saxon" roots:
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First, who WERE the "Anglo-Saxons," anyway?

Immigrants and invaders. Germanic ones. Nothing "native" about them.

"Saxon" = "Germanic." "Anglo" = "the subset of Germanics who ran England for a while."
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And those foreigners arriving unwanted on British shores didn't respect the culture they found when they arrived: there was "hostility between incomers and natives... violence, destruction, massacre, and the flight of the Romano-British population."
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