Why JD VANCE thinks you should NOT vote for Donald Trump (from his dossier), a 🧵 1/

1. Racism and Xenophobia (2016): Vance linked Trump's base to racism and xenophobia, stating, "There are people who are drawn to Trump because he says racially insensitive things" (p. 80-81). 2. Failure to Condemn Racism (2017): Following the Charlottesville protests, Vance criticized Trump for not showing moral leadership, saying Trump "really missed an opportunity to name this phenomenon...and show the moral leadership people want from a president" (p. 85-86). 🧵2/

A STRATEGY FOR IRAN 🧵: Islamic Republic is contemplating escalation w/Israel after Israel assassinated a senior Hamas leader in Tehran. Questions circle re how Israel, U.S. & allies should now deal w/the ongoing threat posed by this regime. We need a strategy for a free #Iran 1/





Bad Idea #1: “Bomb their nuclear facilities”. This came up in a space last night. It’s a catastrophically ineffective strategy for many reasons, mostly the civilian casualties involved. It’s also not in Islamic Republic’s interest to produce a weapon (topic for another time). 2/

https://twitter.com/bradheitmann/status/1781153754445910243

0/ By meeting with Netanyahu and other foreign leaders in this way, FORMER president Trump is engaging in a strategy known as a “parallel structure”. This is a common fascist tactic with many historical precedents. A thread 🧵

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1816880932546109453

1/ A “parallel structure” or "parallel state" action is a concept highlighted by historian Robert O. Paxton in his excellent work “The Anatomy of Fascism.”files.libcom.org/files/Robert%2…

One reason #conspiracies thrive is most humans need simple narratives to make sense of the world. When faced w/complex uncertainties, they revert from positivism, empiricism and logic to metaphysics, myth and superstition to fill the dark abyss where meaning should be. @NovelSci twitter.com/i/web/status/1… This is because the ways they used to determine what is true no longer seem to work. It’s inexplicable why they lost their job or why they can’t seem to move up the social hierarchy or why they can’t find a mate. The reasons are not clear, so a narrative fills the void.

One of Mike Lee's largest donors was a lobbyist for Russia's 2nd largest bank. Let's get into it.

A thread. With receipts.🧵1/

#mikelee #utah #senate #evanmcmullin In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, disturbing facts have come to light regarding the 7th largest donor to #MikeLee’s campaign committee, Sidley Austin LLP. 🧵2/ @EvanMcMullinopensecrets.org/members-of-con…

How Russians Define Nazism: interesting paper explaining how a Russians’ definition of Nazism is really anyone who opposes Russian imperialism. @domenpresern @SalomeTseretely

uvm.edu/~aivakhiv/Umla… Why Russians think Jews are Fascists: “The standard Soviet interpretations of fascism as the dictatorship of financial capital have sometimes been linked to anti-Semitic trends in Russian publicism above all to theories that present Zionism as a form of fascism”. @domenpresern

As we consider a heavily armored Russian advance in the east of @Ukraine, @VZaluzhnyi & @DefenceU continue to keep in mind the strategy of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus — “The Delayer” — who fought a war of attrition against #HannibalBarca in Ancient Rome 1/ @TheStudyofWar As you are well aware, Fabius knew he couldn’t go head to head with Hannibal on the battlefield. There’s an argument to be made that even with armored reinforcements, playing against Russia on an open field of combat might not be the best strategy. 2/

“Dismantling the Russian state” is a very dangerous idea. By “dismantling” what you actually mean is disrupting Russia so much that the government collapses—a government with the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet. 1/

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1511078629316435968

An autocratic strongman at the head of Russia is all but inevitable at this point even if Putin’s regime fails. What we need is simply a Russia that is stable & secure and preferably not hell bent on realizing imperialistic totalitarian revenge fantasies against the west.