It's strange how access to information has sped up the self-education of the general public to a point where I think it is becoming a problem for the ruling class. Maybe that's why they're becoming insane and trying to make the public discourse so insane. Lets talk 🧵
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There's a very fundamental reorganization planned for the Air Force, and anyone familiar with the USAF status quo can see it for what it is, reading the tea leaves and seeing war is coming.
Lets talk about the CSAFs writeup on "Great Power Competition" or "GPC" 🧵
First of all, the sources I'm looking at can be found in full at the below link, under the documents tab. This comes from the office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I don't know if other components are undergoing similar restructuring or not.
First off, I want to note that throughout this, the note that keeps getting foot stomped seems to be worries about a singular competitor. This shift is very explicitly aimed at China, and doesn't offer any real regard to Iran or Russia as adversaries in GPC.
Do they actually outperform or do they just immediately start hiring their coethnics until they have a ton of influence in an organization and push everyone else out to make room?
In my tech sector work I've never been wowed by an Indian or Chinese national literally ever.
In fact the hallmark to working with these people is where they cut their responsibilities into little slivers and they will ask for your "help" on regularly until you notice you're teaching them how to do their job because their resume is a paper tiger.
Indians and the Chinese have a similar evolutionary strategy as expats, 1 in 20 is genuinely very smart and helps the other 20 pretend to be just as smart.
In light of rumors that Kamala screamed at her campaign manager over the Molly Shannon SNL skit flub during the Al Smith dinner, lets talk a bit about Julie Chavez Rodriguez, manager of the Harris Campaign: 🧵
To start off with, her only interesting quality, and the only reason she's gotten anywhere in life, is that she is latino labor activist Cesar Chavez' granddaughter. The irony of this, is that Chavez' entire struggle was defined by being against illegal migration.
You would think that a hispanic woman in such a prominent position would be some foreign born or 1st generation woman who was groomed from adolescence, like the manchurian candidate county judge of Houston, Lina Hidalgo. But Chavez' roots in America are the late 1800's.
"Dark MAGA" has been a magnum opus tier experiment in timeline hyperstition, I'll explain the background on where the phrase came from in a short thread here: 🧵
In January of 22' someone in a GC made a joke that a picture of Yugi from Yugi-oh was "Dark MAGA" and we all started riffing on it in other group chats with photoshopped pictures of "gothic" Donald Trump and silly joke posts about what exactly "Dark MAGA" was as opposed to MAGA.
It wasn't particularly serious, just some anons clowning around on the TL. The type of libs with no sense of humor who lurk this particular side of twitter as "researchers" took it seriously and wrote some lame hit piece on it: isdglobal.org/isd-in-the-new…
You know, people him and haw and dodge and talk about immigration in abstractions like legal and illegal, criminal and law abiding, and it frustrates me.
Simply put, I don't want to be surrounded by foreigners with alien and unpredictable values, worldviews, and allegiances.
I just don't want to be around these people, I especially do not want them to outnumber me at Costco or whatever. I want to live in a nation, where the people I'm surrounded by have a similar frame of reference for how they see the world. *That* is a culture, a nation, a people.
In small numbers this doesn't feel like as big of a deal, but there's this barrier that gets broken when in public spaces you start to see more of them than people like you, in a space you've inhabited since before that state of affairs. It's anxiety inducing.
Even the media still talk about Trump like he's the president. It's hilarious and baffling. Nobody cares what Biden is up to beyond asking "Do we actually have a president right now?"
Nobody actually *likes* Harris, they can only *hate* Trump.
That's what's hilarious and insane about all this. The entire election that determines the existential fate of the greatest nation in the world rests on the axis of who likes and who hates this singular man and the aspect of America he is symbolic of.