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Nov 5 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
An absolutely brutal article where NATO is all but admitting they lost the war to Russia, and now must beg for peace, hoping Russia will be satisfied with 20% of Ukraine.

There are now going to be many people pretending they were against this monstrosity all along: who weren't.
Key here is not credit and blame but the lessons.

The die was cast early on when US media maximized the emotions of decent people by getting them riled up with emotional videos.

**Rage and a thirst for vengeance lead to self-destruction.**

9/11 taught that. Use that now.
It's not just this NBC article. Ukraine's top commander called this a "stalemate." The @TIME article was a call for help from Ukrainians against a delusional Zelensky.

Learn these lessons. An emotional need to destroy Bad Guys is a child's mindset.

time.com/6329188/ukrain…
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Nov 6
Of all the deceitful and morally bankrupt claims I've heard Joe Biden make over the years, that he's sadly powerless to affect Israeli behavior -- when he just demanded $14 billion for Israel, and Israel has long received more US aid than any other country -- is appalling.
Over several decades, Israel has received more money by far from the US than any other country, and the US has given Israel more aid than any other country.

Biden has long been a fanatical Israel supporter, and is only now pretending to object because they're afraid of polls.
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The last US president to leverage US aid to Israel was Bush 41. They told Israel: settlement expansions harm US national security, so you don't stop, we'll withhold loan guarantees.

Obviously that option is available to Biden. He's too sacred to use it and doesn't want to. Image
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Nov 2
Nothing has provoked more mockery and scorn from the American Right than grievances from college students and journalists of feeling "unsafe" due to others' views.

And there's nothing that parts of the Right have done more in the last 3 weeks than express such grievances.
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The Right when black NYT reporters said they feel unsafe due to an op-ed calling for the military to crush George Floyd protests:

"Journalism is not about creating safe spaces."

Bari Weiss' site today: A jewish Guardian staffer feels "unsafe" due to anti-Israel reporting.

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Conservatives pushing this "safety" rhetoric -- which isn't due to violence but words -- should either apologize to the minority groups they mocked all these years, or realize they're suddenly endorsing such flamboyant victim narratives because a group they like is claiming it.
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Oct 26
Absolutely pathetic that frauds like this one spent years parading as free speech warriors -- mocking college students who urged protection from views they find threatening -- only to now exploit this war, that is not even an American war! (😲), to seize broad censorship powers:
One thing that has provoked intense mockery and scorn from the right are victim narratives:

Students weeping, claiming mental trauma from feeling unsafe by bigoted views; depicting college students as children who can't hear upsetting views rather than as adults who must....
Those victim narratives have seen a huge boost in popularity recently, now defended most vocally by exactly the same people who led the mockery and derision when these victimhood claims, and demands for censorship, were invoked by other minority groups:

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Oct 25
I'd like to note again that the theory advanced here - that there's no such thing as an innocent Palestinian, or no difference between Palestinians and Hamas, because they elected Hamas (back in 2007) - was bin Laden's view for why all Americans are legitimate military targets:
This was also Hamas' rotted view on Oct. 7: that because Israelis voted for Netanyahu, they are all equally responsible and legitimate targets.

It seems that Americans should be the last people wanting such a theory to take root, given how many countries we bomb and invade. Image
One last point: there are many arguing that pro-Palestinian protests and petitions can and should be censored and outlawed because some entail calls for violence against Israelis.

Isn't the same true of a theory that says all Palestinians should be treated as Hamas?
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Oct 15
The attempt to destroy the concept of "civilian" with this rotted rationale -- all citizens are responsible for their leaders' violence -- is dangerous and vile.

This was bin Laden's defense of 9/11 (and Hamas' on Saturday).

It applies more to a democracy (US/UK) than Gaza.
Are Americans really ready to endorse the idea that every American, including civilians, is responsible for the aggression and violence of US leaders? That would make all Americans, and civilian infrastructure, legitimate targets for reprisals.

Compare:

After bin Laden invoked this rationale to deny the validity of the "civilian" category for Americans, the first time I heard someone adopt this view was when Alan Dershowitz argued in 2006 that many "civilians" weren't really civilians in Lebanon.

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Oct 10
The EU hired an Omidyar-funded firm ("Reset") that claims to be "disinformation experts". It issued a study accusing Big Tech platforms - especially X - of insufficiently censoring "pro-Russia propaganda."

The EU has a new censorship law and intends to use it to punish X:
The fraudulent "disinformation industry" was invented after Brexit and Trump's 2016 win because Western elites concluded online free speech is too dangerous.

This EU study -- designed to legally force X to censor more -- is supremely fraudulent:

rumble.com/v3ffei8-system…
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You should assume that everyone claiming to be a "disinformation expert" is a fraud and censorship advocate.

One of them - @jaredlholt of @ISDglobal - just had a major retraction in @thedailybeast, a tabloid with no standards. Look who funds ISD Global:



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