The Kremlin's chief ideologist can barely contain his glee today.🧵
Aleksandr Dugin wrote an article in the "New Right" journal Arktos in which he explains Putin's smirking claim that he wanted a Harris victory.
Those claims were eagerly repeated by MAGA with a tone of "See, morons? Putin likes Kamala."
Astonishingly, it turns out he was lying.
Nov 4, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This question is key.
The answer is the Kremlin, Trump and a small group of oligarchs weaponized what has always been America's greatest vulnerability: the ignorance, gullibility, and childish instincts of a large part of its population.
54% of US adults cannot read at a 6th grade level.
The US today proves that you can have mass functional illiteracy and still have a successful - even thriving - economy.
But what you can't have with mass functional illiteracy is a successful democracy.
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Sep 4, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
(1/4) “Two Nice Jewish Boys” bills itself as Israel’s “longest-running English-language podcast”. Here hosts Naor Meningher & Eytan Weinstein discuss their desire to exterminate 5 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank — to “erase every living being”, (Meningher)
(2/4) This is not a fringe show or fringe people. Meningher has done media for Netanyahu's last five political campaigns.
Jul 29, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israeli soldiers had a strange clash and standoff with each other today at the IDF’s Sde Teiman detention camp, when military police arrived to arrest a number of soldiers after media reports of a prisoner was left severely injured by rape and torture.
Some troops tried to … 👇
Canada well was a state-of-the-art solar-powered water treatment plant supplying water to hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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May 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a FM MAG 7.62mm machine-gun with a rate of fire of 12/second. It’s meant to fired in short, aimed bursts. Here an IDF soldier sprays a whole belt of unaimed ammo into a neighbourhood.
You can see it’s not the first belt because the breech is already scorching his fingers.
Much has been said about bombing in Gaza, but less about the way IDF uses smaller weapons.
Here’s an IDF tanker spraying MG fire without looking or caring where it goes.
7.62 rounds can penetrate walls and can travel 4km+. This soldier also doesn’t appear to be under fire.
Aleksandr Dugin wrote an article in the "New Right" journal Arktos in which he explains Putin's smirking claim that he wanted a Harris victory.
