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@Indian_Bronson
Nov 14 • 2 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
A depressing feature of modern war and modernity; in our collective memory, war is a young man's game - but now every side has NVGs, artillery, drones, etc.

Birth rates being what they have been, the crop of 18-25 year olds runs out fast. Can't make 10-15 y.o.'s fight, so...
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I don't think (I sincerely hope) the US will get into a conflict with China, but if it does, one might even *hope* things get close to nuclear, fast—because that might force de-escalation—else, there could be just as brutal a price to pay for the US, too:

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Nov 12
Notice:

There's no second amendment in Spain.

No pretense of being the world's font of 'liberty and freedom'.

Yet *their* right wing/populist/nationalists can assemble millions of men in their cities to forcefully object to the State or the capture of the State by Socialists:
American Conservatives (charitably, uncharitably; 'patriotards') tell themselves many self-justifying stories about their strength, the 'rightness' of their cause, its moral foundations, and their inevitability from history: these are mostly coping strategies for powerlessness.
That powerless is a result of being entirely bought into Liberalism.

Post-War Conservatism is trapped; from its devotion to free markets and free trade, to 'liberty' and 'individualism'. It can only make specific complaints, never to seek the general overturn of the status quo.
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Oct 29
It’s sadder than @DavidSacks says, though not hopeless.

Claim: A Network State is the way out (or to survive, even thrive ‘til “later”)

“MAGA” / America First—insofar as they mean ‘prioritizing American wellbeing’—have no effective political constituency, bc the post-War US dissolved American identity.

There’s nothing to coalesce around.
If you want to ‘Make America Great Again’ or ‘put America First’, you have to define American nationhood, then use the State to help it/defend it to the exclusion of others (possibly working with or accommodating other groups, by combination of self-interest or principle);
But that is irreconcilable with—if not also the telos of the philosophical demands of Enlightenment Liberal doctrine on which the American Revolution was fought—the post-WW2 mantle of US Empire seeking “global stability” (world domination).

And Americans have no alternative.
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Oct 17
You don't need to leave the US, though:

You can get a sense of "What it's like to live there" looking at political, racial/demographic, and financial realities on the ground at any level: National and Federal, State and County, District, Neighborhood/Census Tract, etc.



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There is a lot to be said for the US, especially rule of law - yes, you heard that right.

For instance, did you know you can set up your very own ethnically exclusive bank in the United States?

Behold the incredibly based Self-Reliance Ukrainian American Credit Union:



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I know what you're thinking "No fucking way"

Yes fucking way.

It's very legal, and very cool: Image
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Oct 7
Shit is popping OFF in Israel: Hamas is invading/shooting rockets, Israeli police seem completely blind sided, Israeli govt declaring war.

Thread of craziest shit:
Hamas is *hang gliding* into Israel:

Hamas rolling around in a pickup truck in an Israeli neighborhood, aimlessly shooting

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Oct 7
The last chance to fix the US as polity was Patrick Buchanan. Trump's not gonna be able to do anything.
Even if they let him win the presidency (lol), he's not gonna do anything with it - just like last time. The changes required would be beyond those of ending the USSR.
The demographic situation is beyond repair since 1986 IRCA (again, last chance to fix it was Buchanan in the 90s). There are anchor babies from that amnesty who are nearly 40. Even if there weren't another amnesty (MILLIONS amnestied since), those illegals have grandkids here.
ABC news actually silently deleted parts of this story because it's too inflammatory to admit what's happened:



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Sep 11
Reminder:

Israel working alongside the US, knowingly, to deliberately lie America into the Iraq war, pretending it was linked to 9/11 and that Saddam posed a greater threat.

Here's Netanyahu, lying, performing like a snake.

But what if they played an even larger role?🧵
To make sure Young People understand....At the time, when it was obvious there were no WMDs post-invasion they all said "Oops - we didn't know, everyone just messed up in the same way! Guess we gotta topple Saddam and occupy Iraq in any case now, though!"
washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
But just like the US government, the Israeli government did know.

They did know were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11

So what about the 9/11 attacks?

The event that galvanized American resolve in the GWOT?
theguardian.com/politics/2004/…
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