Tim Burnham

Hey man, just FYI: Ukrainians have been talking about the environmental impacts of Russia’s war for a long time now. But I don’t suppose you’ve read any of that or were even aware of its existence. How odd.

@DerekPederson3 @CitedNeed Rejected. Anti-colonialism is just a dishonest name for blood and soil politics. Again, ultranationalist bullshit.

@AstroBurnham @CitedNeed Fair enough but some of them see it as an anticolonialist position.

Every time you try to engage with one-state solution leftists the mask drops in like two minutes and they make it clear that they just hate Israel and so they are supporting the most hypothetically anti-Israel proposal that they think they can rationalize.

@TheTrashBin007 @Porkchop_EXP @itsfrankcobbs Maybe I just live in a hipster city. This is a fake newspaper that is widely used in the kind of American bars that sell $18 cheeseburgers. Every page is the same. To me, the burger looked fake and Euro, while the fries looked fake and American.

@Porkchop_EXP @itsfrankcobbs Chippies used to wrap up fish and chips in Old newspapers back in the day. Oh.. and the overuse of those stupid baskets they put the chips in..

He was running an experiment to show what nonsense this type of posts are, but I could tell right away this is a European burger. Can’t put my finger on exactly why though. Maybe my American frens can help out?

Will Europe Save Hamas in Gaza? I recently met with a high-ranking European official from a country deeply involved in the Israel and Palestine file to discuss Gaza’s future and immediate options for relieving civilians trapped under Hamas’s grip. I presented a simple proposal: create safe zones across the "Yellow Line" into the Israel‑controlled green zone and support new, organized, secure, Hamas‑free communities where Gazans could finally begin rebuilding their lives. Whether the issue is humane living conditions, deradicalization, education, healthcare, or shielding civilians from both Hamas or Israeli strikes, the green zone is the only place where meaningful action is possible. Instead of engaging, the official launched into a long monologue about their country’s contributions to the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA, and other institutions, all while insisting on their own “humility” as a faraway European nation. Then came the truly alarming part: a casual normalization of Hamas. The official proudly described how easy it had been to work with Hamas before October 7, praising the group for providing “excellent security” and being “easier to work with than others.” What they called pragmatism was, in reality, a twenty‑year pattern of enabling a violent terrorist organization responsible for immense civilian suffering. When I explained that any Hamas‑free zones would require vetting at the Yellow Line to prevent weapons or operatives from entering, the official reacted with shock. “This vetting would violate international law,” they repeated, insisting that their country could not fund projects with any checks on who enters. I noted the absurdity: I had undergone extensive vetting just to enter their country, and even this building, yet they believed Hamas fighters should be able to walk into new civilian safe zones unimpeded. Their only response was vague appeals to “international law,” which, in their interpretation, seems to require allowing terrorists to hide among civilians. The meeting ended on an even more surreal note. When the official asked what would happen to Hamas fighters left in the red zone, I said I didn’t care; they could fight the Israeli military on their own all they wanted once they no longer held two million civilians hostage. The official lamented that “this isn’t the old American West” and expressed concern for what would happen to Hamas without human shields. Disgust doesn’t begin to describe my feelings and reactions. I left convinced of something long suspected: Hamas’s twenty‑year rule was sustained not only by its own brutality but by an ecosystem of NGOs, donor nations, Western European governments, journalists, academics, activists, lawyers, and even self‑styled human‑rights defenders who normalized Hamas, treated it as a legitimate authority, or tolerated its abuses because their hostility toward Israel outweighed their concern for Gazans.

@InsaneMegaCD Dreamcast, absolutely! Huge fan. Have never seen a Saturn in person, and have struggled with those emulations. I'll figure it out one day.

@AstroBurnham I take it that you're a very big Saturn/Dreamcast fan, then.

I suspect that many so-called "Sega fans" in America were really just Sonic fans and didn't really care about anything else from Sega 😅

Moderate Ds yearn for a coalition with the Left against the Right. They mute themselves to preserve unity. ("Maybe he didn't know it was an al-Qaida front group when he volunteered for it?") Meanwhile the Left fantasizes about partnership with the Far Right against the Center.

@costlylogics Breathtakingly dishonest. There is no problem with individual soldiers with bad opinions serving their nation in the army--as Platner did, as Azov Battalion did. It is unacceptable to elevate such an individual to represent their nation in the senate.

Worth pointing out that “liberal homo-fascism” is a favorite bugbear of Russian propaganda. That “globohomo” stuff from Carlson Jr., recently. Or calling Euromaidan “Gayromaidan”

@SevaUT @profmarichal In Peter Watts' _Blindsight_ this was the work of the synthesists: translating expertise across domains, without fully comprehending them. I've often found his Chinese Room exploration to be a useful metaphor for AI.

@profmarichal yes I call it a "translator" in the piece

what can AI actually do for social science, beyond cranking out empirical papers? can it actually help with theory? I'm still skeptical, but the answer is more complicated than I initially thought. (link in reply)

@SinjinDelmore @ParanoidPol You are aware that your heroes Hamas started from M.B., yes?

@AstroBurnham @ParanoidPol Do any of the Palestinian one-staters want that one state to be a Palestinian ethnostate? No, bc every single one of them are wanting equal rights for all and an end to the apartheid. Also lmao referencing the Muslim Brotherhood in the year 2026 hilarious

All one state solution people are making a bad faith argument and they know it. Completely duplicitousness.

@SinjinDelmore @ParanoidPol Ok, then the Palestinian one-staters are part of the Muslim Brotherhood lebensraum-esque project to expand their territory. Unbelievable hypocrisy. It's why I'm a two-stater.

@AstroBurnham @ParanoidPol The settlers are part of the Israeli lebensraum-esque project to expand their territory. The expulsion is not due to their Jewishness, as there are Jewish & Christian Palestinians, it is due to their being a cog in an ethnonationalist ethnic cleansing project

@SinjinDelmore @ParanoidPol "Jewish" is part of the definition, of course. If they were Arabs instead of Jews, you would not call them settlers. (For the record, I am firmly against the settlements, and cheered Biden for sanctioning them. I just think you guys are incredible hypocrites.)

@AstroBurnham @ParanoidPol The settlers in the occupied areas are there as extensions of the Israeli state. I said nothing about jewish people but about settlers. Learn to fucking read

@SinjinDelmore @ParanoidPol You. You did.

@AstroBurnham @ParanoidPol Who tf said anything about "Judenfrei"? Also that's not really how that works considering those Palestinian Israelis don't have the same rights are Jewish Israelis. Since you don't know what you're talking about here's some reading btselem.org/topic/apartheid

@SinjinDelmore @ParanoidPol Why? Wouldn't they just become full voting citizens of the new government, just like the millions of Arabs who live in Israel? Must every Arab state be Judenfrei?

@ParanoidPol It currently is a one state. Israel de facto has control over everything from the river to the sea. Two state could only work if all settlers in the occupied W. Bank, Golan Heights, & S. Lebanon was expelled. And they had a hard time removing the settlers in Gaza in 2005

@moghaoui Super Yugoslavia II: Turbo

Simplistic views, seem idealistic and who can argue idealistic paper-theories? You lose that argument because you dont factor in decades of tribalism+radicalism as much as you factor in good people. I actually would support one state and in my early drafts i explained how it can work mixed with reality, but not even close to the simplistic one state here. In short (as much as possible) My imagination drew the land of Israel including Palestinian territories as one Israel. Law and order, security and national laws applies to all. However, federalism kicks in when it comes to local mayor/president like titles because arab tribes love their identity parades and posh titles. Federalism also lets palestinian territories vote separately, and evolve marriage and inheritance laws at a slower pace. This era should last no less than 50 years to also cleanup the education+radical text views from schools (national) and allows people to let go while coexisting and enjoying freedoms. What am trying to say is, outside x we have people comparing federalism, one state, two state and all the mixes in between and trying to advocate for the least harmful and logical path and all are appreciated for their thoughts. But going out and saying voila solved it ... Is a definite proof you know nothing about the details of the many mix of communities.

@_spiritualmind_ @Cthulhu4Prez Ukrainian drones would work wonders!

@Cthulhu4Prez Blaming the people of a country for lack of embargo on a business by its government and EU. Top smart. You should share your advice to Ursula how to handle the closure of the refinery.

Shame on the Irish people for siding with the filthy Russians.

For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine. So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show. He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected. Avoidance.

This man was a personal translator (& subsequent defense witness) for the convicted terrorist mastermind of the first NYC World Trade Center bombing, then went to Bosnia to ‘volunteer’ for an organization later exposed as an Al Qaeda front group. Dem Congressional frontrunner.