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Mike Coté
@ratlpolicy
History, 📚, geopolitics, war | Words @NRO @ProvMagazine @Commentary @Quillette | Winning the Olympics of psychopathy - @realcandaceo 🥇🍾🏆
Jun 22 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
These people are so upset because this one raid has totally destroyed the entire Obama foreign policy legacy & worldview.

A short thread 🧵: They claimed that a nuclear deal was the only way to avoid total war with Iran. In reality, that deal incentivized & augmented Iran's malign actions - nuclear & otherwise - culminating in October 7 & Iran's growing nuclear weapons program.

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Feb 16 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
It's amazing to see these supergenius tech bros, who claim to have the ability to fix all our problems with government, fail to grasp even the basics of modern American fiscal & economic history. Just embarrassing stuff.

So here's a lesson for you, @DavidSacks.

🧵: The men who came back from WWII voted for a massive expansion of our already-growing social welfare state, one that was built by the man their parents voted for, FDR. They didn't want to pay exorbitant taxes, so they financed it with debt.
May 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Had a great dinner tonight at Lazy Days South here in Marathon.

Went with a bit of a Cinco de Mayo theme to honor the defeat of the French by our Mexican neighbors 161 years ago today. Started off with a spicy margarita, while my wife had a Corona.

#twittersupperclub Image For food, we began with a couple of appetizers: raw oysters & conch ceviche. The ceviche was quite tasty, especially with some lemon & avocado. And the oysters were downright spectacular. They were enormous, too, which is always a treat!

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May 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
To round out the day in Key West, we stopped at the awesome Hemingway House museum, where the famed author spent quite a bit of his fascinating life.

The whole place was about as Key West as you could get, from the architecture, to the gardens, to the cats everywhere.

1/7 ImageImageImageImage The interior of the house was awesome & chock full of Hemingway history. The tour guides are informative & quite humorous too.

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Sep 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A brief 🧵:

The impact of the pandemic on mental health has been enormous. I've heard a lot about this from close family members who are psychotherapists. But as far as I can tell, the virus itself isn't the proximate cause.

1/ We humans are biologically programmed to thrive on social interactions & live in social situations. But in the past year, those basic human interactions & needs were newly coded as terrifying, dangerous, & even potentially deadly.

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Jun 8, 2021 • 132 tweets • 40 min read
I'm reading The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes for fun (yes, I'm a huge nerd) & it's remarkable at how many passages stood out as applicable or relevant to our modern day. This thread will contain a few standouts from my reading. 🧵 Image This first one really made me stop & reread it: "The technique of translating specific complaints into general political demands would become a standard procedure for Russian liberals & radicals. It precluded compromises & partial reforms: nothing, it was alleged, could be...