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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Apr 5
Dunking on this bird brain is boring because they're all the same, so I'd like to use it as an opportunity to explain my political thinking for those who actually want to know why fighting with antisemites on the left is a worthwhile endeavor.
1) Some background context for the unfamiliar: there is a lot of partisanship in the American Jewish community. A lot of it is stupid mindless partisanship that increasingly dominates this country, but it has different implications for Jews than for bored rich white people.
The politics of the white elites seeking conflict amount to a form of social decadence; they are bored. They are seeking meaning and community. The parties and the ideologies amount to window dressing for dilettantes.
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Mar 23
Something that continuously gets underrated when assessing wars is the value of a short war that advances tactical gains. A thread.
A person who understood this well was von Bismarck, the creator of the German empire. Bismarck's genius was war as a limited political instrument. He never sought to destroy his enemies, he wanted to rearrange the European order to be more favorable to his state.
In the Second Schleswig War Bismarck had a limited aim: strip Denmark of Schleswig-Holstein. Austria was brought in as co-belligerent to legitimize it within German politics.

War ends, aim achieved, no further escalation. Bismarck resists pressure to humiliate Denmark further.
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Mar 1
The international reaction to the U.S.-Israel op in Iran is not quite as harsh as I was expecting. Here's a quick round up.
The Germans were quick to say they weren't involved, but their view is more complicated than that when pressed. Image
President of the EU Commission, herself a German, had this to say.

Notably absent was any real criticism of the U.S. or Israel.
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Feb 28
Shavua Tov.

Some preliminary thoughts on the news of a joint U.S.-Israel campaign against the Iranian regime.
1) What we know:

Targets reported so far include:

-IRGC infrastructure
-Air defense systems
-Weapons depots
-Command and control nodes
-Senior regime-linked figures, including allegedly Supreme Leader of Iran Khamenei
2) The Trump admin seems to be claiming that this is because of the Iranian nuclear program and their unwillingness to negotiate. It is true that Iran has a nuclear program and is not serious about negotiating. It's not the real catalyst for this.
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Feb 9
It's gonna be a thing again, so I am juts putting the take here in advance:

The problem with the antisemitism ad is it's not capturing the reality of how Jews are experiencing antisemitism in America today.
It is not mean kids in the hallway putting well written post it notes on backpacks.

The dominant experience now is social, institutional, and cultural pressure. It shows up in schools, workplaces, activist spaces, and elite institutions that claim moral authority.
Jews are told, by these people in positions of power over them and claiming moral authority over them, that Jews are safe, privileged, and powerful, even as Jews are excluded, harassed, or asked to disavow their identity and ties to our people to participate.
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Alex ื’ื“ืขื•ืŸ ื‘ืŸ ืฐืขืœืฐืœ Profile picture
Jan 20
Some thoughts on what will be a very brief media cycle about questions Harris's team asked Shapiro, a thread.
1) Very regularly in our media culture we take things out of context, pick up the spiciest sound bite, and then have very heated conversations based on out of context words attributed to a person. Let's try to put this all back into context.
A) Harris became the de facto nominee around July 22. Before that it was still Biden's campaign, not hers.
B) The vetting for Shapiro and presumably the other people being considered basically happened the next week
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