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Founder (building something big). Ex-SWE @Capgemini. @USC CSBA. Tweets about tech, startups, geopolitics and hidden truths.
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Oct 9 16 tweets 7 min read
Silicon Valley didn't start with garage startups.

The $7T tech empire was founded by eugenicists who sterilized 20,000 people.

It started with genocide, stolen land, and a university running America's eugenics program.

This is the story they don't want you to know 🧵 Image
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Before Google. Before Apple. Before venture capital.

The land was Ohlone territory.

50 tribelets. 10,000 people.

A gift economy that lasted over 1,000 years.

No kings. No prisons. Just sustainable living and ecological balance. Image
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Oct 2 14 tweets 7 min read
In 1606, the Dutch became the first Europeans to land on Australia.

For 164 years, they mapped 70% of the continent.

Then they just... walked away.

What they did next gifted Britain an entire continent and changed world history forever 🧵 Image
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1606: Dutch captain Willem Janszoon becomes the first European to step on Australian soil.

He charts 250km of coastline.

Mistakes it for New Guinea.

Finds no gold, no spices.

Files a report.

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Sep 17 16 tweets 7 min read
While Europe wallowed in its "Dark Ages," Africa's medieval empires were flexing wealth that makes today's billionaires look broke.

Mansa Musa was so rich his generosity crashed entire economies.

But your history books forgot to mention it. Here's why 🧵 Image
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The Mali Empire wasn't some small kingdom.

It was 1.24 million square kilometers - bigger than France and Germany combined.

50 million people. 100,000 troops.

While Europe's kings begged Italian bankers for loans, Mali literally grew gold like crops. Image
Sep 16 17 tweets 7 min read
The Roman Empire didn't "fall" in 476 AD.

That's Western propaganda to hide the truth.

Rome survived another 1,000 years, thrived, and only died in 1453.

Your history books lied to you about the greatest empire cover-up in human history 🧵 Image
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When barbarians sacked Rome in 476, the Eastern Roman Empire didn't blink.

Emperor Zeno in Constantinople absorbed Western titles, maintained Roman law, kept imperial succession intact.

Same empire. Same Romans. Same power.

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Sep 15 15 tweets 6 min read
A 2011 WWF study called Genghis Khan "the greenest invader in history."

He killed 40 million people (11% of world population) and accidentally cooled the entire planet.

Here's how history's greatest mass murderer removed 700 million tons of CO2 🧵 Image
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This isn't medieval folklore. It's peer-reviewed science.

The 2011 Carnegie study revealed Mongol massacres cleared so much farmland that forests reclaimed 700 million tons of carbon.

That's equivalent to removing every car from Earth's roads for an entire year. Image
Sep 13 14 tweets 6 min read
Stalin killed 20+ million people (Double the Holocaust) yet Hitler gets all the villain spotlight.

In 2025, every school teaches Anne Frank but skips the Holodomor famine that starved 7 million Ukrainians.

Here's how the world's deadliest dictator escaped justice 🧵 Image
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The numbers aren't even close.

Stalin's death machine ran for 30 years:

- Great Purge (1.75M executed)
- Holodomor famine (7M Ukrainians starved)
- Gulag camps (2.5M worked to death).

Hitler's 4-year blitz killed 6M Jews.

Both evil - but Stalin's scale dwarfs it.
Sep 7 16 tweets 7 min read
Everyone's calling Japan's PM resignation "political chaos."

But I dug into the timeline and discovered something insane: $550 billion extortion + 15% tariffs = one dead government.

This wasn't political failure. This was economic execution.

Here's the pattern nobody's talking about 🧵Image
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Shigeru Ishiba didn't fail Japan.

Trump's 15% tariffs did.

While Modi campaigns through similar pressure, Japan's "honorable" leader takes the fall.

The message?
Bow to America or get destroyed.

Even your own party will turn on you. Image
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Sep 6 17 tweets 6 min read
Trump just lost America's most important ally against China.

With 50% tariffs on India for buying Russian oil, he's not punishing Moscow - he's gifting Beijing the world's largest democracy.

The biggest foreign policy blunder of the 21st century 🧵 Here's what Trump doesn't understand:

India buys 1.7 million barrels of Russian oil daily (35% of their imports).

China?
1.2 million barrels daily but gets 47% of ALL Russian oil exports.

Yet only India gets punished. The math doesn't math. Image
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Sep 5 14 tweets 7 min read
Trump's tech dinner wasn't networking.

It was a $1+ trillion auction where billionaires bought American policy.

All while 5 Indian CEOs sat at the table as their homeland faces 50% tariffs.

The most expensive meal in political history just redrew global power lines 🧵 Over 30 tech titans crammed into the White House State Dining Room.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook all pledging loyalty.

Apple: $600 billion. Google: $250 billion. Microsoft: $80 billion annually.

Elon Musk didn't show. The world's richest man snubbed Trump. Image
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Sep 3 13 tweets 5 min read
🇨🇳 China just held their biggest military flex in decades.

They revealed 11 weapons that have never been seen before in public.

Military analysts are calling it a 'strategic message.'

Here's what each one actually means 🧵 👇 Hypersonic missiles were front and center.

China unveiled new models, including the DF-17 and the anti-ship DF-26D.

These weapons are designed to be unstoppable, capable of evading current missile defense systems.
Sep 1 16 tweets 7 min read
September 1st, 2025: The day three nuclear powers buried the American century.

Modi, Xi, and Putin didn't meet in Tianjin for photo ops - they met to architect the post-dollar world.

While Trump threatens tariffs, they're building the infrastructure to make him irrelevant 🧵 Image
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5 years ago, Indian and Chinese soldiers were beating each other to death with nail-studded clubs in Galwan Valley.

Blood in the Himalayan snow. 20 dead. Shattered trust.

Today?
Modi calls Xi a "partner, not rival."

This isn't reconciliation - it's strategic revenge against Washington.Image
Aug 29 15 tweets 7 min read
Private equity bought your hospital and doubled your bills.

Imagine checking into the ER for a broken arm, only to walk out with a $10,000 debt.

This isn't dystopian fiction; it's America's healthcare nightmare in 2025, where profits trump patients.

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Let's start with the big picture:

U.S. healthcare spending is exploding, projected to hit around $5.3 trillion in 2025 alone, growing at 5.6% from the previous year.

That's more than the GDP of most countries, yet outcomes suck- life expectancy lags behind peers.

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Aug 28 15 tweets 5 min read
Three companies control whether 330 million Americans can buy homes.

They've been hacked, sued, and caught in massive errors.

Yet they face zero competition and make billions selling your data back to you.

Here's how the credit cartel legally robs families blind 🧵 Image FICO controls 90% of U.S. credit decisions with a black-box algorithm they won't reveal.

Created in 1958, this "proprietary formula" decides if you can afford a home.

Translation: A private company with zero accountability controls your American Dream. Image
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Aug 27 15 tweets 5 min read
The IRS audits poor families 5x more than millionaires.

But when Congress gave them $80 billion to "fix" it... they made it worse.

Here's the shocking truth about America's most corrupt government agency (and why they'll never change) 🧵 Image
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The numbers don't lie: EITC recipients (average income under $20,000) face audit rates of 0.9%.

Millionaires? Just 1.1%.

The poorest Americans - scraping by on less than $25,000 - get audited at rates matching the top 1%.

This is class warfare disguised as tax enforcement. Image
Aug 26 15 tweets 6 min read
Pfizer has been in business for 176 years and hasn't cured a single disease.

Not one.

They've made $100+ billion treating symptoms, managing conditions, preventing infections - but never actually curing anything.

Let that sink in. A Thread 🧵 Image
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This isn't an accident. It's the business model.

Cures eliminate customers.
Treatments create them for life.

Pfizer's blockbusters?

- Lipitor (lifelong cholesterol management)
- Viagra (ongoing dysfunction treatment)
- Lyrica (permanent pain management)

Recurring revenue, not recovery.Image
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Aug 24 16 tweets 5 min read
Every product you "buy" is now designed to fail without monthly payments.

They're not selling you things anymore - they're selling you the temporary right to use things you thought you owned.

Why everything is a SaaS now 🧵 Image
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Adobe didn't "innovate" with Creative Cloud. They executed the perfect heist.

Revenue jumped from $1.23B to $18.28B in a decade by turning $149 software into endless $60/month payments.

You now pay $7,200 over 10 years for what once cost $149.

Highway robbery disguised as "updates."Image
Aug 23 14 tweets 6 min read
Nestlé didn't accidentally become the world's largest water thief.

They spent decades perfecting the art of stealing public water for pennies and selling it back for thousands.

While communities face droughts, Nestlé gets richer. This is legalized theft 🧵 Image
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The numbers are obscene.

California: 62 million gallons yearly on expired permits.

Michigan: 210 million gallons for $200 in fees.

That's less than a single family's monthly water bill.

Meanwhile, they sell it back at 2,000% markup. Image
Aug 22 15 tweets 6 min read
You've been sorting your plastic bottles for decades, thinking you're saving the planet.

But Exxon's internal memos from 1989 laugh at you.

They called recycling "fundamentally uneconomical" while spending millions convincing you it works.

The biggest environmental lie ever told 🧵Image
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Only 5% of US plastics actually get recycled.

The other 95%? Landfills and oceans.

Big Oil knew this since 1973 but pumped out ads showing bottles becoming new bottles "over and over again."

They even targeted your kids with fake educational videos. Image
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Aug 19 20 tweets 8 min read
Student loans weren't designed to be repaid.

They created the only debt in America that survives bankruptcy, death, and Social Security.

$1.81 trillion extracted from 42.5 million Americans through a system Congress deliberately rigged in 2005.

While families believed in the American Dream, banks engineered permanent debt slavery 🧵Image
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These aren't education investments.

They're wealth extraction machines.

Federal portfolio: $1.66 trillion
Private loans: $134 billion
Average debt: $39,075
Parent PLUS rate: 8.94%

5.3 million already in default.
4 million more heading there.

This is systematic extraction.
Aug 17 15 tweets 6 min read
Blackstone didn't buy 274,000 homes to be landlords.

They spent $1 trillion turning homeownership into subscription housing.

They are creating a generation that will own nothing and rent everything.

While families dream of white picket fences, Wall Street dreams of permanent tenants 🧵Image
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These aren't real estate investments.

They're wealth extraction machines.

Invitation Homes: 53,000 houses.
American Campus: 144,000 student beds.
AIR Communities: 27,000 apartments.

Mobile home parks where lot rents tripled overnight.

This is systematic dispossession. Image
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Aug 16 16 tweets 6 min read
Three pharma giants control 90% of insulin.

A century-old drug costing $2 to make but selling for $300+ in America ($6 in Canada).

8.4 million Americans need it to survive. 1 in 4 ration doses and risk death.

The FTC has proof it's all coordinated.

Here's the $22B conspiracy 🧵Image
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Jesse Lutgen, 32, Iowa. Dead 2018.
Rationed insulin because $1,000/month was impossible.

Jeremy Crawford, 39, Texas. Dead 2019.
Tried cheaper alternatives that failed.

Alec Smith, 26, Minnesota. Dead 2017.
These aren't rare tragedies.

They're business casualties. Image
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