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@gothburz It's a good thing that money and power are the only things that matter.

I am the VP of Workforce Economics at Oracle. We are worth $420 billion. On Tuesday, we sent 30,000 employees a termination email at 6 AM. Not 9. Not business hours. Six in the morning. They woke up to the word "eliminated." The email came from "Oracle Leadership." Not a manager. Not a name. Oracle Leadership. It said: "We are grateful for your dedication, hard work, and the impact you have made." By the time they read the word "grateful," their access to email, files, and Slack had already been revoked. The gratitude was the last Oracle communication they received. We did not eliminate the roles. We eliminated the salaries. In the same fiscal year, we filed 3,126 H-1B petitions to hire foreign workers. 436 this year alone. The roles are identical. The pay is not. An H-1B software engineer earns $87,000. The domestic median for the same work is $106,000. Eighty-three percent of H-1B workers are classified at entry-level wages for senior positions. The industry calls this a skills gap. It is a pay cut that requires a passport. The visa is tied to the employer. If the worker leaves, they lose their legal right to remain in the country. If they negotiate, they risk the same. If they organize, the sponsor declines to renew. That is retention. Our revenue this quarter is $17.2 billion. Up 22%. Net income up 95%. We have $553 billion in committed future contracts. Up 325%. These are not the numbers of a company that needs to lay anyone off. We took a $2.1 billion restructuring charge. That is the cost of the gratitude. It frees up $8 to $10 billion in annual cash flow. That cash services $156 billion in AI data centers we are building. Starting 2028, OpenAI pays us $82 million per day. Larry Ellison is worth $189 billion. He pledged $51 billion in Oracle shares as collateral for the Stargate AI venture. Announced at the White House. The stock rose 4% on Tuesday. The day of the 6 AM emails. Wall Street did not see 30,000 people. They saw the margin. Amazon laid off 30,000 since October. Filed thousands of H-1B petitions in the same window. This is not one company. This is the operating model. Fire the salary. Keep the role. Fill it with someone whose legal right to remain in the country depends on your continued sponsorship. Pay them less. They will not complain. They cannot. One employee's father worked at Oracle for 20 years. No phone call. No meeting. An email at 6 AM and a locked laptop. The role is still open. The people we fired are free. The people we hired are not.

@IAMJUSTICE555 @StevenR77038897 I'm more afraid of the ones at McDonald's.

🚨 JUST IN: The "Black Panthers" are now organizing and "training" to guard their community against mass ICE raids Yeah, good luck with that. Lay a finger on an agent and you will meet the FAFO of your LIFE. ICE RAIDS WILL CONTINUE!

@CryptoGuru_48 @RealSpitfire Except the 32,000 unarmed citizens they massacred.

@RealSpitfire Wrong. I see people unhappy with Trump and US foreign policy. They see the Iranians as victims defending themselves from crazy warmongers.

Watching Americans root for Iran and against the American pilots who are missing is so grotesque. This is how bad TDS has gotten.

@ZackAttackP1 Badass

Before and after EMG install. I installed white EMG 81X/60X set to give it that "bright moon at midnight" look on my Ibanez Gio. I think it turned out amazing and the tones are killer.

@PaulRChase @DrJStrategy Your first paragraph undermines your history lesson. Had the info about the petrodollar been the eye catcher I'd have spent the time, but starting off with typical character judgement "Trump is dumb" is weak.

Well, here are my thoughts... Firstly, I doubt that Trump has ever heard of Hegel or would have the slightest inkling of what 'dialectic' means. But the picture you present is essentially Trump's narrative - that NATO allies and others are free-riders on American hard power. But your analysis is ahistorical. You write as if America has no skin in the game - like they're doing the rest of us a big favour keeping the bad guys at bay. You don't mention the petrodollar system that replaced the Bretton-Woods Agreement that was repudiated by the 'Nixon-shock' in 1974. That new system was a deal between the US and Saudi Arabia, and then the other Gulf petrostates, whereby in return for American guarantees of security and investment these states would price and sell oil in US Dollars - and then recycle the Dollar surplus back into the US economy by buying US debt. It is this arrangement that has created an almost limitless demand for US loan notes and funded 50 years-worth of US budget deficits. Part of that US security guarantee was to keep the Hormuz Strait open so the oil exports could keep flowing. But in this present conflict America has failed to defend its Gulf allies from Iran's retaliatory strikes and now the Hormuz Strait is closed. This is a strategic catastrophe for the US - proving themselves to be unreliable allies to the very states that buy their debt. This could be the fulcrum on which the petrodollar system is undermined or even collapses and the Yuan becomes the currency for pricing oil. This isn't some Trump-genius Hegelian dialectic working its way through, it's a god-almighty cock-up by a President being manipulated by a Zionist Israeli leader. The tail wagging the dog nearly always leads to disaster.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@Gandalf_da_Grey @DrJStrategy Agree, anyone can conduct business in any city in the world and put up hotels and country clubs with their name on them. Picking apart someone personally with a list of attributes readily available in your mind sounds more like jealousy than accurate character judgement.

This is very interesting thesis but has one big flaw: Trump is a moron and isn’t thinking about any of that. He is vain, self centered, greedy, thin skinned, and extremely emotional with no discipline or self control. He’s just going off his gut feelings and then reacting to what the Iranians (and to a lesser extent, the Israelis) are doing. He’s not playing 4D chess, he’s putting the pieces in his mouth. And before the MAGA cultists show up ask about Biden, yes, I also thought he was a moron.

You being hyperbolic. 13 KIA measured against our operations’ tempo is remarkably low. 13 were killed in the Afghan Withdrawal alone. Sec Hegseth is proving an incredible man for the job. Respected and loved by many troops. He purged DEI and Trans, Restored Combat gender-neutral standards, restoring Covid kick outs, and is responsible for Maduro and Midnight Hammer. Your political posturing far outweighs your prior status as an Army Officer. You chose emotion partisanship over objectively measurable success. It’s ok, you’re just no longer credible

@ChazzonKe @SecWar You seem more like a LinkedIn type of guy.

The sheer amount of negligent discharges that will inevitably follow is gonna be wild. There is no legitimate reasons non-mp's to carry service rifle/pistol when not within a combat zone or conducting training. Accountability, safety, and oversight will be a nightmare. This is a straight up "good idea fairy" bullshit coming from an officer. As seems to always be the case. Stupid.

Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones—leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed. That ends today.

@mlc0317 @guy_next_to_me @SecWar @andersonDrLJA Well we take his service and passion seriously as he is a combat veteran first. If you have proof that alcohol is a factor then post it.

@guy_next_to_me @SecWar @andersonDrLJA It’s puzzling how you feel only Democrats don’t think Hegseth is qualified for the SOD. He’s an alcoholic TV hosts who cheats on his wives. I can assure you, it’s not just Democrats.

@JD31974505 @guy_next_to_me @SecWar @andersonDrLJA No they killed 13 service members at Abbeygate and left half our military resources with the Taliban. Idiot.

@guy_next_to_me @SecWar @andersonDrLJA those weirdos didn't get us into a forever war with iran so that's 1-0 in their favor.

@SecWar You sure, sir? I just read some edgy replies from sulky blue/ pink hair septum pierced nobodies with anime and other shit that has nothing to with actual military training or experience, and they think soldiers are going to start shooting each other for no reason. I'm torn.

@shanaka86 Funny thing is some big long foreign jibbering name based in Australia talking about our military. You should probably go somewhere in your blue suit with that stupid grin and fuck yourself. You don't know shit, you weren't on the call, ain't nobody talking to you about shit.

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…

@JustElliot2 @Emilio2763 @JoshShapiroPA The original post is lol - Shapiro running for president but here's something that should count against him. Then you came with wHaT aBouT miSsiSsipPi

@12986Fay @Emilio2763 @JoshShapiroPA I don’t know who’s running for president in 2028. We aren’t talking about a presidential election.

The Fact @JoshShapiroPA is Running for President of the United States When the State He Runs looks like This is INSANE…

@PeriklesGREAT How can we ever deal with these large groups of people who are in tight groups and unaware of their surroundings.

x.com/EithanDHaimMD/… This video was taken in Washington Square Park, NYC at 8:45 in the morning. Per Dr Haim: "The third world battle cry being blasted from loudspeakers is the same one yelled by every Jihadi", before the carnage follows. It can now be found, all over America, & in your hometown or mine. Per Dr Haim: "I believe the MAGA coalition is the only movement capable of preserving America's Christian heritage and upholding the legacy of Western civilization. Unless we pulls ourselves together, however, our nation will be turned to ashes". Thoughts ? from: @EithanDHaimMD

@joeybagovdonuts Was going best but had to go it depends ... I won't go after a landlocked slice on a large Sicilian, too much work

When you eat pizza, do you get the next slice available or pick the best slice regardless of where it’s at on the pizza?

@Polymarket Have they tried rebooting?

JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.

@JustElliot2 @Emilio2763 @JoshShapiroPA Mississippi governor running for president?

@Emilio2763 @JoshShapiroPA Republican run Mississippi looks like it’s doing fantastic!!!!

American drivers have paid an additional $8.4 billion in fuel costs since the Iran war started, according to a new estimate from the Joint Economic Committee's Democratic minority. cbsnews.com/news/gas-price…

@SenAdamSchiff She didn't prosecute you, you fucking criminal. Please keep reminding us how much a corrupt shitbag you are. The absolute worst.

Pam Bondi oversaw an unprecedented weaponization of the Justice Department that brought our nation's rule of law to its knees. Countless and baseless political investigations, hundreds of career law enforcement professionals purged, a massive cover-up of the Epstein files, and a wholesale effort to turn the department into a criminal law firm representing the person of the president instead of the American people. But Pam Bondi was merely a symptom of Donald Trump's chronic allergy to our nation's laws. And, in the end, her sycophancy could not prevent the inevitable defenestration that eventually befalls most Trump loyalists. Her firing does not mitigate the need for her to answer for her conduct as Attorney General, and Todd Blanche should expect to receive the same scrutiny.