Keith Plum

Here's an easy to understand description of the differences between socialism and communism. thoughtco.com/difference-bet…

so much about the US feels like a deeply perturbing horror film, the seamless passage from imperialist bloodshed to staged innocence, where Obama, a man who helped sanction the bombing of children across Africa and the Middle East now sings nursery rhymes in a childcare center.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the next 48 to 72 hours could be decisive for America’s interests. If through sober diplomacy, we prevent the war with Iran from erupting into a new phase, we can limit the damage already done, and have a realistic path, over some extended time, to getting back to having genuine national security and enjoying economic prosperity. But if President Trump chooses - again - to try and burn down Iran (by reigniting the war), the damage done to our armed forces and the commensurate weakening of our overall national security, will be grave. More importantly, we could be lighting the fuse on blowing up the global economy, and taking ours down with it, in a way that, in a worst case scenario, could take a generation to recover, if at all. There is no military solution to the war in Iran, because Iran’s geography, size, culture, and defensive capacity cannot be overcome with the resources we have allocated. Even if we chose to devote the entirety of our own forces, to include hundreds of thousands of ground troops, we would simply increase the cost of our loss. This war cannot be one militarily, period. That should’ve been evident from before the decision to attack on February 28 was made. But now that we have more physical proof, the president dare not reignite this flame. It’s time to acknowledge reality, limit the damage, and bring this war to a diplomatic close.

The self-proclaimed Middle East scholar, Israel loyalist @MaxAbrahms, spent the day telling everyone that the photo of the IDF soldier smashing the head of the Jesus statue in Lebanon was an "obvious AI job." Sadly for him, even the IDF was forced to admit it's real.

Democrats will sue to keep Greens off the ballot and then argue it's third party voters who are responsible for undermining democracy.

Unserious shitlibs will see this as a Mamdani W when in reality it's a massive L. Obama was the entire reason I stopped voting blue. Propping him up as a good guy is unacceptable. Democrats are a regressive right wing party.

Palantir Manifesto is much more important than Trump. Trump is insignificant pawn on the serious chess board. His role is total destruction. The preparations stage. Palantir is much more serious. It is the plan to safeguard the declining dominance of the West by radical means.

There's literally no end to the influence and contamination of Qatari money in American politics. Just look at this:

Normie Democrats just ran a center-right genocide supporter and lost EVERY single swing state AND the popular vote to an obviously insane carnival barker. But sure, the left is the problem. 🤠

And what happens when we elect Democrats to all three branches of government? Genocide Corporate for profit healthcare More oil drilling on federal land No codification of Roe No minimum wage hike Weird, right? Almost as if they work for the same masters.

Gay marriage is illegal in Israel. As is marriage between Jews and non-Jews.

If governments were actually doing their job, this Palantir document 👇 wouldn't be a manifesto they proudly boast about, but a clear sign of the urgent need to purge its software from the public institutions it has infiltrated. What are they saying, essentially? They basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a "they" - the supposed enemies of Western civilization, whose cultures the document codes as inferior - and a "we" who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software (which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure). Look at point 4 for instance. They write that "the limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software." It all rests on a pretty massive assumption: that coexistence is impossible. Why would "free and democratic societies" (by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal-democracies) need to "prevail"? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems out there? Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption: it's simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument. But it's the entire ballgame: if civilizations and political systems can coexist - as they largely have, imperfectly but recognizably, throughout history - then the entire case they make in the document evaporates. In fact one can argue that, studying history, the big problem was not that civilizations couldn't coexist: it was that, from time to time, one of them decided that others were inferior, threatening, or standing in the way of its rightful expansion - and acted accordingly. So many catastrophes and so much human suffering in history trace back not to the fact of plural civilizations, but to one of them deciding it could no longer tolerate the others. The problem, in other words, has almost always been exactly the worldview Palantir is now selling. Their manifesto isn't warning against the cause of some of the worst periods in history: it's arguing for reviving them! Or take point 15: they explicitly call for the re-armament of Germany and Japan, and an end to "Japanese pacifism". Basically undoing one of the foundational settlements of the post-WW2 order. I mean, think about the insanity of this for a second: a private company - unelected, answerable only to its shareholders - is casually proposing to overturn the security architecture of two continents. A settlement that took a world war, and tens of millions of dead to establish. Why do they propose this? There is obviously a commercial motivation: a remilitarized Germany and Japan are massive new defense-software markets. But the more troubling answer is that point 15 fits into the ideological project the rest of the manifesto lays out - a civilizational contest requires a consolidated Western bloc, and pacifist members are a liability in such a contest. So taking a step back we now have what's the most influential defense-software company in the world, with its code deeply embedded in all the machinery of Western states - intelligence agencies, militaries, police forces, welfare systems, border controls - openly outing itself as an ideological project. They're effectively saying "our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours." Because, worryingly, that's what they CAN do. Palantir software is all about basically telling states: "these are your threats, these are the people and groups to watch, these are the patterns that matter, these are the targets that warrant action." For instance the DGSI - the French intelligence services - use Palantir (see: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…): do you honestly think the software is warning them about, say, the NSA tapping the phones of French government officials? About the weaponization of US extraterritorial law against French companies? Did it warn them about the AUKUS ambush that cost France a sixty-billion-euro submarine contract? Obviously not. And that's exactly what the manifesto is saying. They've positioned themselves as advocates of Western civilizational unity, so their software can't undermine it. The ideological position and the product roadmap have to align, or the whole project falls apart. This makes their software not only deeply dangerous for the world as a whole but also, almost by definition, for any country using it. When it comes to your security as a state, it is primordial you base yourself on truth as opposed to ideology. The entire point of an intelligence agency is to tell its government what is true, not what your so-called "allies'" defense contractors would like you to see. A state that outsources its threat assessment to a company with an explicit ideological agenda is not gathering intelligence, it is essentially subscribing to propaganda. The conclusion couldn't be more obvious. Every government still running Palantir software in its intelligence, security, or public-service infrastructure needs to start ripping it out, now! Lest they want to be embarked on the delusional and deeply destructive clash-of-civilizations crusade Palantir has now openly committed itself to.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

Rahm Emanuel has been an Israeli op from the start — helping politically destroying Rep Paul Findley who treated Palestinians like human beings — even his dad was in the terrorist Irgun.

How very tragic and sad that the America that used to champion the rule of law and the international rules based order, now the WSJ cheers on a categorically unjust, and illegal military operation to take control of another country by force. Is this what we have become now? A country where the so-called elites celebrate lawlessness, and boast about reigning within the law of the jungle, believing that we are the lions, and therefore we can do as we will? Hear this folks: this will not end well. History has always shown that any nation, no matter what justification they may claim, that tries to use force of arms to compel compliance all over the world, eventually collapses under the moral rot of its own weight, creating so many enemies that should never have been formed, and never would have existed, absent adopting the role of a conqueror We will be no different.

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Just Put the Strait of Hormuz on LIMITED MODE - Signs Point MAJOR Escalation x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

There’s so much wrong with this but her saying “if we have the numbers they’ll probably listen to us” is so laughable it should disqualify her from any political discussion. Israel is an 85-15 dem issue and still tripping over themselves to support them

PROFESSOR MARANDI SAYS THE WAR WILL LIKELY RESTART “I believe Trump is probably saying all this nonsense about agreements with Iran so that he can later claim, "Iran didn't keep its promises".

Democrats getting what they deserve.

Barely a single ship has passed through the Hormuz Strait since we were told it was "Totally Open" Why?

Interesting, it’s about a coordinating price algorithm