179 Days of Artichoke Dips

@petersavodnik At some point, we're going to have to grapple with the fact that most (not all!) leftists really have destroying the US as a core tenet And that many liberals (but I don't think most!) are so negatively polarized against Trump that they'll just be against anything he does🤷

@AnaKasparian @JillianMichaels "devastating"

I remember when @JillianMichaels attacked me even though I correctly predicted Israel would drag us into a devastating war with Iran. She did so in a video with Dave Rubin…whom she considers an “expert” on foreign policy matters. Lazy, unsophisticated Hasbara peddlers. No effort. Easy to dismantle. Simple to debunk. Anyway, enjoy the inflation everyone. Hope it was all worth it for Israel’s blood-drenched empire.

@TheFuturist2045 @gfodor @pegobry_en Why not read the thing that started this whole conversation, that I even linked you?

@TheRealFitzroy @gfodor @pegobry_en Got it. thanks Well, I'll go look up some lectures by you folks to tell me how/why the US is amazing and only going to get better. Though i'll probably use logic to conclude its 90% propaganda. You all thought all roads would lead to democracy, end of history, etc etc

I don’t remember who first came up with that analogy but increasingly I think the best explanation for Trump’s behavior is that failing empires try to shore themselves up by demanding more tribute from their provinces; but this causes the provinces to rebel and only makes the empire worse off.

@TheFuturist2045 @gfodor @pegobry_en Yeah, it's called history or international relations, typically You don't seem very informed

@TheRealFitzroy @gfodor @pegobry_en Is there a degree in predicting the death of an empire? If so, how do i obtain it? and do you have it? I get it. You work for the State & you have to cheerlead for it. you have to believe that whatever you do is for the greatness of the empire. its not. Its all going to shit.

@TheFuturist2045 @gfodor @pegobry_en What does "take care" mean

@TheRealFitzroy @gfodor @pegobry_en i just want you to articulate your positions.

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler Lmao

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler What? I literally told you how I feel about kids being attacked by adults. Did you not read what I wrote?

I challenge you to find me a *single* Conservative woman in a position of power (e.g., politician, wife of a politician, staffer) who has written as many hateful comments across as many categories of people as Zohran Mamdani's wife. Please post names here.

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler If you had seen someone calling out the kid who smiled at the Indian, would you have acted the same way? This isn't about tribal politics? Really?

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler What compelled me is I saw a stupid tweet from an adult woman on my TL when I don’t even follow her. And I wanted to call her out for being a pathetic, emotionally stunted freak.

@IHeddaji @WinnerInvestor @sentdefender ...yeah. I'm answering your question lol

@TheRealFitzroy @WinnerInvestor @sentdefender One small lapse shows the bigger picture

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the near-exact location of the French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) was publicly exposed on March 13, when a naval officer utilized the online physical exercise tracker Strava to log his run on the deck of the carrier while it sailed through the Eastern Mediterranean to the west of Cyprus.

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler You didn't specify that. If you had specified, I would've talked about the kid who got dragged for smiling. But I just responded to what you said 🤷 x.com/i/status/20347…

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler Yes it’s poorly thought out to compare a spouse of a politician to a Supreme Court justice. Compare the politician to him!

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler I'm asking what compelled you to defend her but not them

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler Ok so do I have to actively tweet about everything otherwise it means I support it? You don’t know me but I will tell you, whether you believe or not, that adults going after kids is a bad look & never constructive. FYI I have friends who went to that school so :)

@IHeddaji @WinnerInvestor @sentdefender If you don't have a culture of having to use it, you're more likely to have lapses

@WinnerInvestor @sentdefender That feels like a stretch honestly Is OPSEC really that different country to country?

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler I'm asking you if you rushed to defend his actions as just dumb teen things when he was being criticized for it. What about the kid that smiled at an Indian. Anything then? What compelled you to defend her but not them?

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler Posting about what? I have never posted about someone who as a kid said something dumb. I generally think it’s asinine, performative and in bad faith.

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler There was nothing poorly thought out. No one excusing the actions of teenagers now was excusing the actions of teenagers then So the question is why? Just tribal politics?

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler No you replied to ME with that photo as if I’m someone who complained about it. And I called you out on a poorly thought out comparison when she isn’t the mayor or a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

@dp270 @FreeMikeWhite @academic_la Do you know what OPIR is without googling it?

@FreeMikeWhite @academic_la Satellites have known orbits. Imaging satellites do not sit stationary over a target. Iran knows when they are overhead and move when they are not.

I talked to two Israeli sources on why Iranian launches continue to increase, despite US-Israeli claims that they have destroyed almost all of the launchers. Here is what they said: 1) The 90–95% drop in volume claimed by CENTCOM earlier in the month was probably a temporary lull as Iran repositioned its remaining launchers into hardened sites. Independent satellite analysis suggests that a significant portion of the "80% destruction" claimed by the IDF actually hit high-fidelity decoys. 2) Despite fewer launchers, the lethality per strike has increased. Iran's shift to cluster warheads has allowed a single missile to impact multiple locations simultaneously, compensating for the lower volume of launches 3) Iran has successfully set up mobile, underground units able to fire at steady rates. Iran used that quiet period to move their remaining ~100-120 heavy launchers into "Super-Hardened" facilities 4) Iran is utilizing its Zolfaqar and Dezful road-mobile launchers. These units move from hardened tunnels to pre-surveyed launch spots, fire, and return underground in under 10 minutes, often before coalition drones can re-task for a strike. 5) Because these launching units are decentralized, it is very hard for US and Israeli intelligence to get info on them. Israel and the United States do not have an answer to this problem. That is why they are trying escalation on energy sources instead. But that is backfiring.

@emskirchener67 @FreeMikeWhite @academic_la Do you not know what OPIR is?

@FreeMikeWhite @academic_la These launchers are the size of civilia trucks and no you cant track every single one of them in a country the size of the continental EU

@ggreenwald Why didn't you report that Snowden met with MSS in Hong Kong? You were there lol

How can so many Americans possibly support this regime? You oppose a regime-change war against them even as they do this?

@Plastic_Dingus @LevattW @thomaschattwill @haugejostein Tremendous irony lol

@LevattW @thomaschattwill @haugejostein Nobody cares what you want

This is wild. People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

@Plastic_Dingus @thomaschattwill @haugejostein The same reason they trust China?

@thomaschattwill @haugejostein We can hope opinions of the US without Trump will be better, but what reason should anyone ever trust us again? It's the American people who have shown ourselves untrustworthy.

@haugejostein @Ethan_Norof Then they should do so. I'm sure they'll appreciate china's philanthropy

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler So it's not okay Were you posting about it?

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler I mean I think it’s not ok but I still think it’s stupid comparing what a Supreme Court judge or president or even if it was Mamdani himself did as a 15 year to a spouse of one. If Mamdani said something like that as a 15 year old, then sure bring it up as he was running for —

@A82978 @Dani43656125 @michelletandler What? All I did was point out that the people who are complaining about this weren't complaining when people did it to people on the right

@TheRealFitzroy @Dani43656125 @michelletandler mayor for one of the most important cities in the world. But his wife? It’s a joke. See how having a fair argument works? But you & the other dumbass in this thread are crying about ThE LeFT. I think it’s stupid to do so even if it was idk Vance’s wife tweeting shit at 15.