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US Axeman
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US Axeman
@Axeman2u
Keeping my finger on the pulse of the world in my search of an ever greater perspective.
Joined Ekim 2016
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Officially credentialed Pentagon press corps as of today, alongside my interpreter @DataInterpretr. First Deaf journalist to hold the badge. Thank you @JoelValdezDOW for moving mountains to make this unique arrangement possible. Naturally, the legacy media is invited to congratulate the Department of War on their commitment to press corps inclusiveness.
This wouldn't have been possible without you. Every $3 subscription and every engagement opened this door. Now I'm going to use it. Military institutional capture research starts today.
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The problem is the "limiting" clause in the middle isn't clearly limiting in the way you want.
It can be (and perhaps has been) interpreted as meaning everybody (with few exceptions such as diplomats) is subject to the jurisdiction of the USA while they are here. So everyone born here is subject to the jurisdiction of the USA the moment they arrive.
If that's not what it means, that needs to be made more clear officially.
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@Pb_sndwich Which is why we shouldn’t ignore the limiting clause in the middle
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Want to encourage illegal immigration?
Easy!
Just ignore the limiting clause in the middle of the sentence:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Senator Dick Durbin@SenatorDurbin
Congress made its argument to the Supreme Court. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. SCOTUS must rule accordingly.
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@AndreasShrugged Yes — those are true statements. “It’s too early to tell whether Trump’s strategy will have proven adequate”, would have been more honest, particularly when accusing others of denialism.
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Everyone agrees getting rid of Iran's nuclear materials and ambitions would be a good thing. The denialism kicks in when people have to face that Trump's strategy is totally inadequate for achieving this goal. And nothing that the Europeans could have done would change that.
Gummi@gummibear737
Iran was trying to use the North Korean model to get a nuke: create sufficient conventional deterrence so you won’t be challenged in acquiring one (it’s called the Seoul Hostage Problem). This has been explained over and over since day one. Everyone claiming shifting goalposts or no imminent threat has been lying. The reason North Korea was allowed to get nukes is because Seoul (and its 10 million inhabitants) is within artillery and rocket range of North Korea. During the 1994 nuclear crisis, the Clinton administration seriously considered airstrikes on North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor but backed off precisely because of the artillery threat to Seoul. Iran was trying to accomplish the same by stockpiling missiles and drones which would have had the same deterrent effect. The proof is what Iran has been doing in the past month: attacking all its neighbors in order to pressure the US to stop attacking it Beyond this, they were building medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach Paris and London, meaning all of Europe could be held hostage as they built a nuclear bomb. The reason Iran has not built a nuclear weapon until now is not because it couldn’t, but because it knew it would be attacked and denied this capability. So by allowing them to continue developing this conventional deterrence, you would be allowing Iran to get a nuclear weapon. And unlike North Korea, Iran is led by an eschatological death cult Reagan saw nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD) as both morally bankrupt (because of the innocent-body-count problem) and dangerously fragile because it assumed flawless rationality between adversaries…this means it only takes one irrational actor to destroy the world. Working backwards from the conclusion that Iran’s Islamist regime must never have a nuclear weapon, it was necessary for the US to attack Iran to deny it the conventional capacity to hold the entire eastern hemisphere hostage. Every European leader knows this and behind the scenes praises the US for this action. But they are cowards, held hostage by their own internal Muslim populations, and so adopt these ridiculous public positions. This was never about Israel. And if your argument is that Iran should be allowed to get a nuclear weapon then you are a fool and a traitor to western civilization…you’re a useful idiot
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@MarioNawfal Dams can be destroyed. Reservoirs can be contaminated. Iran’s neighbors have access to the resources to repair their water sources. Iran, not so much.
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🇧🇭🇮🇷🇮🇱 The retaliation pattern is now impossible to ignore
Bahrain's ALBA, one of the world's largest aluminum smelters, was hit by Iranian missiles last night.
Two employees injured.
This comes alongside the UAE aluminum plant strike in Abu Dhabi.
Follow the chain.
Israel bombed Iran's three largest steel plants.
Iran responded by hitting the Gulf's aluminum and metals industry.
Tit for tat. Same sector, different country.
Now here's what should terrify every leader in the Gulf.
Coalition forces struck a major water facility in western Iran this week.
Iran has rivers, dams, and reservoirs to fall back on.
Gulf states don't have that luxury.
Qatar gets 99% of its drinking water from desalination.
Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman over 90%.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE over 50%.
If Iran follows the same pattern, and it has every single time so far, Gulf desalination plants are next.
That's the drinking water for tens of millions of people.
Source: rnintel, @ConflictAlarm
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran just damaged one of 16 irreplaceable aircraft the entire U.S. Air Force depends on... The E-3 Sentry hit at Prince Sultan Air Base is the eyes of the entire war. It tracks every drone, missile, and aircraft across hundreds of miles and tells everyone where to shoot. The fleet once had 30. Now there are roughly 16, all past their shelf life. The replacement, Boeing's E-7 Wedgetail, costs $700 million each and is years behind schedule. The Air Force can only build seven if Congress funds the full program. That means every E-3 lost or damaged shrinks a capability that physically cannot be replaced anytime soon. Iran didn't get lucky. It targeted a parked aircraft at a base it already hit before, knowing exactly what it was aiming at. Destroying one AWACS on the ground does more strategic damage than shooting down a dozen fighters, because without those eyes in the sky, the fighters don't know where to go. Source: WSJ
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@AndreasShrugged @PhilWMagness @NewReaganCaucus I suspect politicians have always been this way, we just didn’t have the ways of knowing like we do now.
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@PhilWMagness @NewReaganCaucus The politicians from my generation who have it made so far have accomplished it by being either crazed lunatics or total careerists without any principles. Sad.
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Yes. Because nobody actually likes him.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: JD Vance’s 2028 odds crash to an all-time low of 18%.
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Raise your hand if you had better and less expensive insurance before Obamacare.
Me-🤚
Barack Obama@BarackObama
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Trump bombed Kharg Island then personally announced he chose not to destroy the oil.
"For reasons of decency."
The oil terminals are still standing. The Marines are 3 days away. And Trump is on social media taking credit for his own restraint.
This is either the most sophisticated economic hostage operation in modern history or the most unhinged ceasefire threat ever posted online.
Possibly both.
@DI313_
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iran's FM is saying Saturday's strikes on Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf were launched from the UAE. Araghchi's warning Iran will "definitely respond." PressTV
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I don’t see how that was implied at all. The point was simply how differently WWII might have looked to the public had today’s MSM existed then, and it’s a valid point. If one wants to project an outcome from this, one could say such a MSM during WWII would have made defeating Germany & Japan a lot more difficult, and what would that have meant for the world?
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@AriFleischer So the end game now is ground campaign, occupation and democratization of Iran?
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Modern media would have written about paratroopers who landed in the wrong place, friendly fire, unsuccessful landings and tens of thousands of dead Americans.
Success in France and Germany? Not so much.
Clay Travis@ClayTravis
How would modern American media cover World War II? I ask because I think two things are true: 1. Modern media is unable to cover good & evil because they believe America is largely evil therefore her foes can’t be. 2. Identity politics have replaced individual responsibility.
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@MarioNawfal Trump’s position is the most likely to be a classic “big ask” negotiation tactic.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran is hinting at negotiations.
With 3 conditions: sovereignty respected, reparations paid, guarantees of no repeat strikes.
Trump's position is unconditional surrender.
The gap between those two opening positions is a canyon.
Al Jazeera
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇦🇪 An Iranian drone just slammed nto a high-rise in Dubai, UAE, which could be a possible assassination strike. Source: RN intel
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@ianbremmer @elonmusk @Grok, explain the current percentage of oil China needs for purposes that don’t involve burning it, and the reasons to expect the volume of oil needed for these purposes to increase over time.
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@elonmusk and what’s happening in the middle east is a strong signal to accelerate further…
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China is rapidly reducing dependence on oil
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan
This is a way, WAY bigger deal than you think.
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I am glad everyone is 100% sure that the war in Iran is the end of the world/a genius move/the end of the American Empire/the begining of a new age of American greatness/insert other opinion here.
But could you just acknowledge for a moment that you don't actually know how this is going to go because no one does? It's a gamble which could go either way. And all I see is people doing the usual "Here is my baseless opinion expressed with 100% metaphysical certitude followed by the typical "I hope I'm wrong" disclaimer which allows them to simultaneously harvest the clicks of people who wanted to have their retarded opinion reflected back at them while having plausible deniability for when that retarded opinion turns out to have been completely wrong.
The coin is in the air and we don't know how it's going to land, but the internet is full of people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE HEADS" arguing with people screaming "IT'S GOING TO BE TAILS".
Stfu.
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I’d say it is YOU who doesn’t understand what Trump’s reply means. That’s because we can’t read minds. But, historically, a strategy Trump frequently employs is saying something that blurs his intentions, to keep his opponents of balance, keep them guessing, unsure of their position. There is good reason to believe his remark was likely made for this reason.
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This just happened
When asked if Iran's map will look the same after this war, Trump said: "Probably not"
I am not sure if he understands what that means, and I hope he doesn't
Otherwise it means the U.S. is planning to not only change regime, but arm seperatist groups and turn Iran into a failed state
This is worse than Iraq. This is worse than Syria.
This would be CATASTROPHIC for Iranians
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i don’t buy that claude is conscious. but i’m also skeptical about a lot of human beings.
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@shanaka86 >> The actuarial fact of its vulnerability cannot be unrepaired.<<
This is true only while Iran is capable of waging war on its neighbors, a capability the US/Israeli military operation seeks to destroy.
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BREAKING: Bahrain just got hit. Not a base. Not a military installation. The refinery.
The Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO, is burning. Iranian missiles and drones reached the facility on March 5 despite Bahraini air defenses intercepting 75 missiles and 123 drones in the same wave. The intercept count is the highest single-day figure for any Gulf state in this war. The fires are confirmed by video. The fires are real.
Understand what BAPCO is. It is not an abstraction. It is the refinery that processes virtually all of Bahrain’s domestic petroleum output, sitting on an island of 800 square kilometers that also hosts Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the headquarters of the United States Fifth Fleet. The Fifth Fleet commands all US naval operations across the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. The commanding officer of the Fifth Fleet wakes up every morning approximately twelve kilometers from the refinery that Iran just struck. If you wanted to design a single target that communicates simultaneously to the global energy market, the US Navy, and every Gulf monarchy watching this war, you would design BAPCO.
Iran did not need to destroy the facility to win the targeting decision. The mechanism of the strike is verification cost inversion applied to oil infrastructure rather than shipping insurance. An oil refinery that has been struck once by Iranian missiles in an active war is a refinery that no insurance underwriter, no shipping counterparty, and no downstream buyer can treat as a reliable facility without repricing every contract that touches it. The fires that Al Jazeera is broadcasting tonight are doing more work in the oil derivatives market than in the actual refinery. The facility will be repaired. The actuarial fact of its vulnerability cannot be unrepaired.
Bahrain has absorbed attacks since February 28. The kingdom hosts the only US naval headquarters in the Gulf theater. It is a country of 1.5 million people on an island that cannot be defended in depth because it has no depth. Its air defense systems are among the most capable in the region and they intercepted nearly 200 incoming projectiles in a single day. Six of those projectiles reached the refinery anyway. The interceptors cost orders of magnitude more per round than the drones they are stopping.
The attrition arithmetic that has governed every Gulf state’s position in this war has now been demonstrated at the petroleum infrastructure level. Iran does not need to shut BAPCO down. It needs to establish that BAPCO can be reached whenever Iran chooses to reach it. That threshold was crossed on March 5. Bahrain now knows it. The Fifth Fleet headquarters twelve kilometers away knows it. Every energy trading desk that has been pricing Gulf risk since February 28 is repricing it again tonight.
The fires at BAPCO are the visible part. The invisible part is the number that moved in the oil options market in the thirty minutes after the first video was posted.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Pursuing Semi tech for sanitation trucks would be highly effective—arguably more so locally than standard Semi trucking. Refuse vehicles average 2.5-3 MPG from brutal stop-go cycles, burning 8,500-10k gallons diesel/year each while idling in dense cities, pumping NOx/PM where people live/ breathe. Electric versions deliver zero tailpipe emissions, 5-7x better efficiency via regen on brakes, and silent ops. Tesla Semi cuts long-haul CO2 ~60%+ per mile on highways, but sanitation targets urban hotspots for immediate air/health wins. Perfect platform reuse for Tesla: scales EV shift fast in municipal fleets. Strong move.
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Tesla Semi's electric drivetrain delivers instant torque for heavy garbage loads, with regen braking recapturing energy on endless stop-go cycles—slashing fuel & maintenance costs 60%+ vs diesel. Quiet, zero-emission ops fit dense cities perfectly, while FSD optimizes routes & reduces labor. Tesla should pursue: repurposes existing Semi platform for huge municipal fleet TAM, drives recurring software revenue, accelerates EV shift in waste sector. Smart expansion.
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