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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@nabeelazeez @JTLonsdale IRGC placing its military base next door to this school did you moozlams never take responsibility for your decisions and crazy impulses
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Nabeel Azeez@nabeelazeez·
@JTLonsdale was palantir tech involved in double-tapping that girl's school
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Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale·
Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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@AcrossTheBay Israel has an interest in a peace agreement with Lebanon, but Lebanon does not exist beyond drawings on maps and in people's minds & maybe hearts. It has the appearance of a sovereign state but it isn't, as such any agreement with it is impossible.
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Tony Badran@AcrossTheBay·
Israel has exactly zero interest in a "peace agreement" with "Lebanon." Lebanon is merely territory; a theater of operations and buffer zones. Everything else is noise--especially the garbage coming out of DC think tanks.
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Badinal@Badinal·
@Doranimated @hughhewitt @ckasapoglu1 I’m guessing if you fly enough planes over a country, they might get a lucky shot off eventually. The fact the plane was able to make it out is a testament to the plane and we should be thankful.
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Mike@Doranimated·
Tehran says it hit a US F-35, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Tehran may be lying. Then again, it may be telling the truth. If it is telling the truth, I asked @ckasapoglu1 to explain how, in its weakened state, it might have pulled this off.
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@Beluga3085 @Michaeach3 @LizaRosen0000 Vance also doesn't really do anything. He's a pretty statue that makes Tuckerites feel like they have influence. What policy does he run? Trump gave him a domestic assignment to keep him away from foreign policy - Medicaid fraud. Nice and "exciting".
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Beluga@Beluga3085·
@Michaeach3 @LizaRosen0000 It’s why Trump praises Rubio endlessly and hasn’t said anything nice about Vance since the election.
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Michael C@Michaeach3·
Is anyone paying attention? JD Vance's Deputy Press Secretary is Buckley Carlson This is Tucker's son. He shared a post claiming that an Israeli lawyer who was shot in the head in Australia faked his own injuries. He called it a "Zionist false flag." This man speaks for the Vice President of the United States. Does it makes any sense to you?
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@DrewPavlou A lot of people care. Also he lies/is definitively wrong. He's some 14yo white dude from America who got into the Twitterbux grift game 2 years ago and suddenly he knows anything about anything?
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Tyler Rogoway
Tyler Rogoway@Aviation_Intel·
Former CENTCOM Commander’s Candid Take On The Situation In The Strait Of Hormuz Retired Army General Joseph Votel offers unique insights into what it will take to wrestle the Strait of Hormuz from Iran's clutches. Exclusive: twz.com/news-features/…
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@kangminlee Tell that to the Muslim hordes that conquered Constantinople and Jerusalem from the Christians in the 15th century.
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@JJ_McCullough Pierre did thorough research into what gym bros talk about and made sure to cite the consensus opinion within each of the subjects. Targeted pandering. Hopefully it works.
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J.J. McCullough@JJ_McCullough·
Finished the entire 2.5 hours of Pierre on Rogan. My review: Pierre really had Joe eating out of his hand. No conflict, no second-guessing. Mostly innocuous, non-newsworthy topics. Kind of incredibly so. There were a few corny moments, but could not have gone better for Pierre.
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6ixBuzzTV@6ixbuzztv·
Tonight the CNTower will be lit green and white for Eid al-Fitr
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@Babygravy9 Being pious and peaceful does not protect you against powerful evil. That is the point. That is the right wing position.
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@oteycoueye Exactly. Redeem and save his damn legacy. His egomania was the biggest thing going for Israel. He was not gonna let 10/7 he his swan song.
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PolicyRespecter@oteycoueye·
Awesome. Bibi is an old guy working on his legacy. After like 50 years of endless Israeli bailing, half measures, self-imposed humiliation and cuckery, he wants to see this thing through I also want to believe that Trump is determined to use this war for 5D domestic chess...
InsideNK/GeoPolitics@inside_nk

ALERT | Netanyahu "I’m alive" Israeli PM Netanyahu: -Israel is a regional power -Iran cannot make missiles -Iran has zero capacity to make nuclear weapons -Iran's industrial base is wiped out -Iran is blackmailing the world by closing the Strait of Hormuz -All Iranian senior officials eliminated -War with Iran will take as long as necessary -Too early to say if there are conditions to change the regime

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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@Briskerov Good. Elon has got to clean this place up and he never will until the watermelonium enjoyers all self flag.
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Friendly Stranger@FriendlySt79779·
@MLiamMcCollum > lost him all he said was that he is 'seriously concerned' about the risks also - who the fk appointed him to secure world peace?
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Liam McCollum
Liam McCollum@MLiamMcCollum·
Man, when you've lost Konstantin… He defended all of Israel’s actions until basically yesterday
The Free Press@TheFP

“The things that people are saying about the rationale for this conflict are not true,” says @KonstantinKisin. “I do not believe that Iran was about to pose a threat to the United States… Currently, as I sit here, I don't understand the strategy… I am seriously concerned this will drag on... I’m struggling to see how this ends well at this point.”

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