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Katılım Mayıs 2024
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Ahmed Al-Khalidi
Ahmed Al-Khalidi@khalidi79397·
I envy the Israeli left. Not their politics. Their freedom. They march through Tel Aviv calling their own country an apartheid state. They go on CNN and call the IDF war criminals. They write op-eds in Haaretz comparing Israel to the worst regimes in history. They join NGOs funded by hostile governments to produce reports designed to delegitimize the Jewish state. And then they go home. Sleep in their beds. Send their kids to school the next morning. No one threatens their family. No one disappears them in the night. No one drags them from their home. Zero consequences. Now imagine, just imagine, if Iranians had 1% of that freedom. If an Egyptian columnist could criticize Sisi the way Gideon Levy criticizes Netanyahu. If a Palestinian in Ramallah could call Abbas corrupt on live TV and walk home safely. If someone in Gaza could have held a sign saying "Hamas does not speak for me" without being executed. The Middle East would be unrecognizable. The great irony is that the people who enjoy more political freedom than virtually anyone else in the region use that freedom to paint Israel as a tyranny while the actual tyrannies they're silent about would imprison or kill them for doing the same. You're not brave. You're spoiled. You mistake comfort for conscience. You scream "genocide" into a microphone the state itself protects, then sleep soundly in a democracy you spend your days trying to destroy, while millions across this region would trade everything they have for five minutes of the freedom you use to spit on your own country.
Satlanchik@idansat

@khalidi79397 How many days has it been since the occupation began?

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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@RichardHanania If people truly cared about funding essential government services they would volunteer to contribute, you wouldn't need tax enforcement
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
The funny thing about "Buy American" is that you're allowed to do that now. But people shop according to price and quality. If they truly cared about nationalist goals, you wouldn't need to force them. richardhanania.com/p/two-ways-to-…
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John Ridge
John Ridge@WeaponScientist·
@NOTAINOTSPAM Targeting electrical infrastructure in ODS and OAF served explicit military ends. The distinction matters for lawfulness.
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John Ridge
John Ridge@WeaponScientist·
Applying the rationale explicitly espoused by POTUS, striking these targets would likely not fulfill the tests of necessity, proportionality, humanity, or distinction.
Rebeccah Heinrichs@RLHeinrichs

It is not true that all attacks on bridges and power plants are violations of LOAC. Those are not considered inherent civilian objects. What matters? The purpose (is it meant to cripple the military capabilities/ability) and degree to which it may impact civilians as an unintentional outcome; is that unintentional outcome acceptable in relation to the military outcome achieved?

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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@YanagizawaD @DinaPomeranz If I was starting now I would personally quit the program and learn to weld or some other useful skill that won’t be as quickly taken over by ai
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D. Yanagizawa-Drott
D. Yanagizawa-Drott@YanagizawaD·
Wise words @DinaPomeranz I’d say that was good advice even *before* AI… but perhaps even more so now. Here’s one way to think about it: 1. Find your mission. (Like some socio-economic problem you *really* care about solving) 2. Except AI capabilities to keep increasing, perhaps rapidly 3. Develop a strategy where #2 actually helps you achieve #1 faster Not easy to figure out… but do lots of introspection and lean into the uncertainty with curiosity-driven exploration… and you may come out on the other side happy and having had real-world impact. And if the returns to *human capital* in the traditional sense (Isiah’s point) turn out to be lower, so that your wage isn’t as high as you had hoped for, or the jobs you had expected are not there… then having doubled down on pursuing your mission #1 is even more important. In this sense, it’s probably a good hedge.
Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣@DinaPomeranz

FWIW, here's my advice for econ PhDs: it's currently extremely difficult to know what and how fundamental the changes will be that result from the expansion of AI. Trying to figure out the "right path" under such large uncertainly may be futile and can lead to paralyzing anxiety. The best strategy IMHO: Work on something you're genuinely interested in. This increases your chances to end up working on something you're interested in in the long term (as you acquire experience in that area), plus it reduces the risk of regretting ex post having spent years doing something you don't like and that ended up being unnecessary. Overthinking in the face of genuine uncertainty like this is a real risk here. In such situations, it makes sense to follow to some degree your gut and to weigh heavily in your choice what you personally enjoy.

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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@DrewPavlou Not to mention two missile/drone barrages at Israel in 2024
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James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯
James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯@mr_james_c·
Asymmetrical morality is destroying Western civilization. Example: - US and Israel bomb Iran military targets - Iran attacks civilian shipping - US and Israel blamed for economic consequences - Iran barely criticised You see this over and over again. "Oh the US should have planned for this." Ok sure, but you're still allowing Iran to attack civilian targets without any sanctions. It's one thing for Iran to respond by attacking military targets, but the moment they attacked civilian infrastructure and shipping in the region the rest of the world should have condemned them and started punishing Iran. But they didn't. Total moral failure.
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@defencewithac We certainly don’t want to be the global hegemon, it’s a shit job we’re stuck with by default
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Defence With A 'C'
Defence With A 'C'@defencewithac·
The U.S. wants to be the global hegemon. That means managing allies, not insulting them. If you don't want to do it, someone else will and then you get to live in their world instead of yours. This really isn't rocket science.
Andrzej Kozlowski@akoz33

The most committed supporters of NATO in the U.S. have always been Trump-skeptical Republicans but I can see that the closing of air-space to U.S. planes at this critical time has almost achieved the impossible and made many of them doubt that the game is worth the candle.

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Bundschuh
Bundschuh@Bundsch90207916·
@ThomasBordeaux7 Just listen to any US Offical talking about China for 5 Seconds , or Just listen to yourself talking about china .. they need to be able to glass you from sea to Radioactive Sea and be able to repeat it times 3 when ever one of Your Pedophile Lords steps out of the bunker again.
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Thomas Bordeaux
Thomas Bordeaux@ThomasBordeaux7·
For months, we’ve been digging into China’s nuclear weapons program, identifying where weapon components are built and how those sites are changing. Every production site we found has expanded significantly in the last five years. 🧵: cnn.com/2026/04/01/chi…
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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@conor64 Not energy, just gasoline, natural gas prices, inter alia, are down in the US, and under Biden, housing prices went up 25%, much more significant than temporary gas increases. We don't care about the strait being closed, not our problem, and the public is short-sighted and fickle
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Conor Friedersdorf
Conor Friedersdorf@conor64·
If you couldn't even envision better than the status quo of skyrocketing energy prices, the regime still in power, the strait closed, cratering public support, and a widening gulf with almost all of our allies, supporting this war was a bizarre choice.
The Free Press@TheFP

Militarily, the war is going as well as could be envisioned, yet Democrats seek to turn it into another Vietnam or Afghanistan—hoping to win control of Congress at the expense of national security, writes Victor Davis Hanson. thefp.com/p/victor-davis…

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MJTruthUltra
MJTruthUltra@MJTruthUltra·
🚨 Democrat Senator Harry Reid introduced legislation in 1993 to end Birthright Citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. "No sane country would do that — No sane country would give illegals citizenship" “If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. Citizenship and a guarantee to have full access to all public and social services this society provides.” rumble.com/v77yymm-1993-d…
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Seth Frantzman
Seth Frantzman@sfrantzman·
We did quite good in 1991. And the fact is that we did fine in Afghanistan initially and Iraq 2003. Follow-through not so great Also got Noriega out of Panama; went into Grenada; and Maduro removed. Also our counter ISIS campaign was excellent; got around 80 members of a coalition and worked by, with and through partner forces to vanquish ISIS. And in Korea we turned the tide and did Inchon and held the line so South Korea could prosper Actually we are quite good We made mistakes in Vietnam and in the long GWOT. Must learn from this
Damir Marusic@dmarusic

The thing we Americans keep forgetting is that while we're great at tactical operations, most of our wars have gone to shit since WWII.

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Michael Tracey
Michael Tracey@mtracey·
Seymour Hersh says the ground war with Iran "is on" as of today, April 2
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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@DanLinnaeus @KenRoth people clamoring about human rights are almost always either virtue signaling to gain status or partisans using the claims as a cudgel to try to constrain their opponents and not let them win
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dan linnaeus
dan linnaeus@DanLinnaeus·
How is threatening to bomb Party B because Party A takes defensive action lawful deterrence and not a prima facie violation of UN Charter Art. 2(4)’s prohibition on the threat of force? Retreating in the face of unlawful armed extortion is not a genuine peaceful alternative under even a strict reading of the Caroline doctrine. After all, Art. 2(4) cannot sensibly be read to forbid threats of force while Art. 51 is concurrently read to require the threatened state to comply with those threats as the price of remaining lawful.
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Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth@KenRoth·
More than 1,000 international law experts (myself included) warn that U.S. strikes on Iran violate the U.N. Charter (no evidence that Iran posed an imminent threat that could justify a self-defense claim) and may be war crimes (attacks on civilian sites). trib.al/lyTCOJB
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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@aliostad changed their mind, how? they are now regime supporters? If the regime stays, they should be made as weak as possible. If the regime goes, Iran will thrive and everything will be rebuilt better.
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Sallymae@NOTAINOTSPAM·
@McFaul Hey, have you ever made similar arguments about Ukraine bombing Russian infrastructure?
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Is there a way to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” that only destroys the despotic regime but does not harm the pro-democratic, pro-American people of Iran? Love to see that war plan.
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Barak Ravid
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid·
A U.S. official tells me the bridge was attacked because it was used by the Iranian armed forces to try and secretly move missiles and missile parts from Tehran to launch sites in Western Iran and for giving logistical support for Iranian military in Tehran
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid

🚨🚨🚨Trump on Truth Social: The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow! IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!

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@BabakTaghvaee1 You probably didn't see what Bill Clinton and NATO did in Serbia
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Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch@BabakTaghvaee1·
The United States had never seen a terrorist who rules a country as a president and is now proud of his acts—acts of terrorism. Donald Trump, by targeting major civilian infrastructure in Iran, the B1 bridge in Karaj, has proven to be nothing more than a terrorist leader. He can be compared to terrorist figures such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Osama bin Laden. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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