XcentricXennial

If you feel personally attacked by something I say, then there's probably a reason.

@SimonAR65 @commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork That's fine. By screwing us over with Vietnam, it accidentally handed the US the role of Team America World Police. Similarly, you didn't mean to, but you actually inspired me to write out a counterfactual of how France inadvertently created US hegemony. x.com/i/status/20397…

@XcentricXennial @commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork I think Americans are idiots, but not to the point of going to war for 20 years to protect the interests of the French colonial empire. If that’s the case, thanks for your contribution.

France’s President Macron: Hormuz Strait can only reopen in concertation with Iran

So the next time you hear someone talk about how unacceptable they find the concept of American Exceptionalism, American Imperialism, and American Capitalism...Tell them to thank the French.🇫🇷

Without Vietnam, European countries don't abdicate their global agency, shrugging and saying, "The US can handle it," and increasing the US's de facto global authority over parts of every continent on the planet.

I'm going to make Americans angry at the beginning of this thread and the French irate at the end of it. BUT what the US is, in the way of being a military superpower and Team USA World Police, is because of the French... 🧵

@SimonAR65 @commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork Saying, "at least we didn't spend that much money on a war of Asian colonialism the French instigated, dragged the US into by asking for help, then left the US holding the bag," doesn't make the point you seem to think it's making...

@XcentricXennial @commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork at least we didn't put trillions of dollars to loose Saigon and Kabul in a matters of weeks

@SimonAR65 @commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork You should have left the first country off your list. Go pick up a history book and see who drew the US into that war by trying to reclaim what they had lost in WWII, getting the US to support them physically and financially, then tucking tail and running home.

@commanderdata85 @FaytuksNetwork You did really well in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, you don't need us for that anymore

"How was I supposed to know the X post was a lie? I don't have time to fact-check every claim on X." The problem with this kind of excuse is that it always comes from people who spend hours a day amplifying misinformation but refusing to spend five minutes verifying.

@Fever_MD @Gianl1974 Part of the issue is that it's not even the same facility. The other part of it is that at least a good chunk of the claims are outright fabrications that linking to the actual AP story would have exposed immediately. It's outrage bait to prey on emotion. x.com/i/status/20393…

@XcentricXennial @Gianl1974 Probably not many real pics of the actual conditions, and if that’s what it looked like in 2019, do you think is any more humane in 2026?

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.