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Will Brewer

@CandideOptimum

Internet privacy & security starts with one's personal choices. Last member of the "Know Nothing" party. Extremely reasonable

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Will Brewer
Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
The best modern tome on human rights comes from Henry B. Veatch in "Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?," from 2007. He builds his argument step by step, carefully laying the foundation for his central assertion that our basic rights are discoverable directly in the facts of nature.
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@ggreenwald I'd advise you to go to Iran and broker a peace deal, but they would throw you off a building
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@ms_babyrussell Don't sweat it, sister. There's lots of psychological games being played here
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Angela 💭@ms_babyrussell·
You can hope and wish, but some things never change. Well… except those opinions and reasons for voting..
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Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald·
Notice how quickly all that bullshit about liberating Iranians disappeared, and now it's all about bombing them back to the Stone Age, destroying their bridges and universities, poisoning their air and water, and stealing their oil.
ALX 🇺🇸@alx

New from President Trump:

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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@Polymarket I remember the first time I saw gas for $3.64 back in 2002. It was a rural place called Placerville, CO. It was before 6am and I had to do a double-take
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Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: U.S. average diesel price surges to $5.53/gallon, just 30 cents below its record high.
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@cheeseheadexpat I mostly drink PBR these days. I went to the Great American Brew Fest in my 20s a bunch. The ale vs. lager (pilsner) question is significant
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Cheesehead Expat@cheeseheadexpat·
Lunch. Capacola wrap and a pretty good Aldi pilsner.
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@TexanDevilDog I didn't get any shots, but you should try to understand how excited everyone (in biotech) was in the late '90s about the prospect of mRNA shots that could hijack the immune response
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COOP@TexanDevilDog·
If you made THE list congratulations!!! The 15%. They definitely know which of us didn't take their bioweapon clot shot. Think about that for a minute.
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Hans Mahncke
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke·
It is almost impressive how consistently this “professor” showcases his ignorance, apparently without any awareness of how ridiculous he looks. The United States absolutely helped the United Kingdom win the Falklands War, so much so that the victory would not have been possible without the United States’ support. After initially trying to assist with negotiations, which failed, the United States provided critical military support, including advanced Sidewinder and Stinger missiles, intelligence, satellite imagery, and perhaps most importantly, access to the United States base on Ascension Island.
Michael McFaul@McFaul

Did we join the UK in support of their war against the Falkland Islands? no.

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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@AndrewKolvet There were books written thousands of years ago about the reality of what your wrote, but that can't overpower the emotionally driven
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Andrew Kolvet
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet·
Let's break down why this F-15E Strike Eagle being shot down matters to the legacy media so much this morning. When President Trump declared that we had air dominance over Iran, and then this happens, they were only all too eager to play it up because they want to make the president look bad. This is war. There's always bad things that happen in war. This is why we haven't been frothing at the mouth to go to war and why I don't support boots on the ground. But the legacy media practically cheering this on is disgusting, too. We've successfully flown thousands of sortie missions without incident in Iran. We've transitioned from stealth aircraft (F-35s and B-2s) to non-stealth aircraft as Iran's air defenses have been degraded and destroyed. Despite the air dominance, there is always a chance of our aircraft being shot down by a "golden BB," which is usually heat seeking missiles that are very difficult to detect, and the military pilots flying missions over Iran know this very well. This is war, bad things happen, even when you have such massive dominance of the skies. The fact that ONE F-15E being shot down is such big news only underscores how effective our military actually is.
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@michaelmalice They really should have gone with the buildings we have in our industrial parks like this:
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Michael Malice
Michael Malice@michaelmalice·
This is probably the strangest ratio Ive ever gotten, esp since he wasn't being particularly serious
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@willchamberlain To be fair, he probably got it from some European recipe site and that's what they used. I've waisted so much time converting units when trying to something new
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Will Chamberlain
Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain·
“Yes, indeed, I’m an expert on the Middle East, global energy markets, and American military norms. Also, since you asked, here’s a recipe for crème brûlée in metric.”
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Will Chamberlain@willchamberlain·
Is there a guy who is more clearly just regurgitating AI slop than this guy?
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@shanaka86 All the wokesters must be relieved of duty. They oversaw record low recruitment levels, which doesn't work in an all-volunteer army
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Will Brewer
Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@bonchieredstate I have very little understanding of Catholic teachings/practices. The entire thing is bizarre to me except some leftist trying to sow discord
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@AGHamilton29 Sounds like something of a planned operation? Don't worry, humans don't conspire because they just don't know how... Anyway, you are probably too pessimistic on people's ability to separate fact from fiction, and understand the biases of the podcast hosts
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AG@AGHamilton29·
I have long described the death of mainstream media credibility as a suicide. The intentional bias and misinformation cost them trust that can’t be easily recovered. People started seeking alternate sources a a result. The problem is that many of those sources have even fewer standards. Eventually it will also catch up to them for the very same reasons. When many of the figures in Podcastan are constantly interviewing the same 15 guests because the all push the same false narratives and dishonest claims (many fused from foreign propaganda efforts), the audiences will eventually reach the same conclusions about their credibility. The problem is that then people increasingly feel like they can’t trust anyone. Which will lead more people to simply tune things out completely and we will end up with a public that’s less informed overall. Or actively misinformed.
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@cheeseheadexpat Yeah, which is kind of an innovation. I wonder why Kroger and Albertson's (that's what we have) haven't gone the same route. I know Kroger white labels numerous other products (often good quality like Tillamook cheese). My best guess is you got Bren's? Look like Breck's?
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Will Brewer
Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@UsefulIdiotpod @ofercass @dianabuttu I have no idea what the details are, but this is a decidedly different take from that of the Israel supporters in The States. Would be good for a debate. I despise race essentialism, as do most Americans I've ever met in person
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Useful Idiots
Useful Idiots@UsefulIdiotpod·
The Israeli Knesset passed an ethnicity-based death penalty law that targets Palestinians. We speak with Israeli Knesset Member @ofercass and Palestinian lawyer @dianabuttu to break down the "genocidal" new law:
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Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@cheeseheadexpat I had to look it up :) "State of Brewing/Octopi (Wisconsin), Brouwerij Martens (Belgium), Wernesgrüner Brauerei AG (Germany), and Cervecería Centro Americana (Guatemala)."
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Will Brewer
Will Brewer@CandideOptimum·
@drakonomicon @michaelmalice We have lots of industrial parks with ugly buildings. Find out where your local FedEx and UPS distro centers are and see for yourself. My buddy's machine shop is in one, and it ain't pretty. It's in one of those metal buildings
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