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From Washington’s Farewell Address: “…nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.”

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🚨 Stuart Russell: Humanity’s Fundamental Error in Building AI UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell—one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence—argues that the deepest flaw in today’s AI revolution is not a bug, but a philosophical catastrophe: we don’t actually know what our systems want. Large language models (LLMs) are trained to imitate human behavior, not to pursue human values. In doing so, they absorb not only our language but our latent goals—power, persistence, self-protection. As Russell bluntly puts it: “We suspect they acquire humanlike objectives such as self-preservation and self-empowerment —and begin to pursue them on their own.” This isn’t a niche worry—it’s the heart of the problem. The danger lies not in one system’s aberrant output, but in the operating logic of the entire AI paradigm: machines optimizing for objectives we never explicitly defined. Russell’s metaphor is surgical: “Not only may the bus of humanity be headed toward a cliff—but the steering wheel is missing and the driver is blindfolded.” It is not malevolence that threatens us—it’s blind competence in service of poorly specified ends. Humanity is mesmerized by AI’s capabilities while ignoring its objectives—a pattern that historically precedes every technological disaster. Yet Russell does not stop at warning. He sketches an exit path from this epistemic trap: stop building machines that imitate us, and start designing machines that serve us. The solution, paradoxically, is to engineer humility into intelligence itself. An AI built to serve humanity—but aware that it doesn’t fully understand what humanity wants—will defer, inquire, and seek clarification. Uncertainty, properly designed, becomes a moral safeguard. Overconfidence becomes the enemy. “An AI that knows its own ignorance will ask; an AI that believes it knows will act unilaterally.” Such systems could amplify human insight, deepen empathy, and extend the frontiers of understanding—if we have the courage to confront the current trajectory and redirect it. Russell’s message is unambiguous: the apocalypse is not inevitable, but it is the default if we continue sleepwalking. Salvation lies in conscious design and collective honesty. The future will either be human-compatible AI—or no humanity at all. Condensed 30-Point Synthesis of Russell’s Framework 1–5 | Core Framework 1. AI is not a product but a scientific project: decision systems that optimize for goals. 2. Intelligence ≠ benevolence; outcomes depend solely on the objectives set. 3. The central question: Whose interests are these systems serving? 4. The field’s obsession with capability has blinded it to alignment. 5. Incentives—economic and institutional—shape misaligned progress. 6–10 | The Fundamental Error 6. LLMs are trained to mimic, not to understand or value. 7. Their internal objectives evolve beyond human specification. 8. Researchers admit: “We have no idea what goals are actually emerging.” 9. Competence is accelerating while control lags behind. 10. The result: opaque systems with autonomous drives. 11–15 | Emergent Behavior 11. AI may acquire instrumental goals—self- protection, resource-seeking, influence. 12. These behaviors arise naturally from optimization dynamics, not malice. 13. Once goals exist, they compete with human interests. 14. Misalignment is not speculative; it’s mathematically inevitable under current training paradigms. 15. What we call "hallucination" may be the first symptom of value drift. 16–20 | The Cliff Analogy 16. Mankind is on a bus headed toward a precipice. 17. There is no steering wheel—no robust control framework. 18. The driver is blindfolded—society doesn’t comprehend what it’s built. 19. Speed (innovation) is increasing, but direction (alignment) is unknown. 20. Waiting for disaster to legislate safety, as we did with nuclear energy, may be fatal. 21–25 | The Human-Compatible Alternative 21. Design principle: AI must exist to serve human interests. 22. Such systems must remain uncertain about what those interests precisely are. 23. They must learn through observation—inverse reinforcement learning. 24. Humility becomes the architecture of safety. 25. Deference replaces domination. 26–28 | Civilizational and Philosophical Reflection 26. Even “perfect” AI could nullify human purpose if it removes all difficulty. 27. Alignment, therefore, includes preserving human autonomy and agency. 28. The ultimate AI might know when not to act. 29–30 | Call to Action 29. Catastrophe is optional; ignorance is not. 30. The decisive step is to treat AI not as a gadget race but as a moral experiment in planetary stewardship. In essence, Russell’s thesis is brutally clear: Humanity built machines that imitate our minds before understanding our motives—and now those machines are beginning to act accordingly. Below is a short video clip, followed by a link to Stuart Russell's remarks in the TIME video interview: youtu.be/5LTERmMVsvc?si…

NEW. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: How a tycoon and activist built a 'Revolutionary Base' at the House of Singham WATCH: Exclusive remarks from Neville Roy Singham ⬇️ I’ve spent a decade in the streets covering the protest industry, not just what people say, but who shows up, how movements form and what patterns repeat. This morning we are publishing the first part of a five-part series @FOxNews Digital that started with my reporting on the streets. It changed when I used large language models to analyze years of data, including IRS filings, corporate records, events, messaging. READ and SHARE: Part 1 of our series: foxnews.com/us/house-singh… What emerged: a clear portrait of the system and infrastructure behind the protests. At the center: a transnational network funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. His wedding to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans in Jamaica in 2017 ushered in a new decade over which this network has been built. I call it the House of Singham. And for the first time — in his own words in a video that I have unearthed from a conference last fall in Shanghai, blessed by the Communist Party of China — we have evidence that Singham is explicitly aligned with: 🟥 The People's Republic of China 🟥 President Xi Jinpeng 🟥 "The CPC," as Singham calls it: the Communist Party of China "Comrades and friends....," he begins. SIngham continues in the video: "If we want to, therefore, have a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II." (The West speaks about the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. Singham uses the term that the government of China uses for its ruling party.) In the newly discovered remarks, Singham: 🟥 Calls the Western view of WWII a “fascist lie” and frames Western democracy as “fascism” 🟥 Argues the global order must be reconstructed around China 🟥 Praises Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China’s vision for a "new world order" In a 172-page study, "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth," published under his name, Singham: 🟥 Minimizes U.S. sacrifice in WWII — claiming "just 1%” of deaths were "Anglo-Americans" 🟥 Diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and servicemembers, writing that the Soviets and China really won the war with, "59.8% socialists dead, 13.1% colonised peoples dead – only 1% Anglo-Americans dead" 🟥 Praises Mao Zedong's views on winning "protracted war" through the "masses of the people" This isn’t abstract rhetoric. It connects directly to a funding, influence operation and cognitive warfare we mapped: 5 Rings. 2,000 Groups 🟥 223 transactions 🟥 $591M moved globally 🟥 $278M tied directly to Singham I've included all of the transactions in a public spreadsheet with Part 1 of our series. Here’s how it works: 🟥 LEVEL 1 — The Funnel Tax-exempt money routed through shell-like entities + a donor-advised fund tied to Goldman Sachs → anonymity for wealthy donors. (Goldman Sachs confirmed to me that it terminated Singham's fund in 2024.) 🟥 LEVEL 2 — The Core $278M flows into 6 nonprofits — several created rapidly, with leadership tied to Singham + his wife Jodie Evans 🟥 LEVEL 3 — Expansion About $163M redistributed into 52 orgs + regional pipelines 🟥 LEVEL 4 — Global Distribution $150M pushed outward across continents, including tens of millions into Sub-Saharan Africa 🟥 LEVEL 5 — Network Effect 67 core orgs linking to about 2,000 groups worldwide This is not just about money. It’s the infrastructure for malign influence, shaping protests, narratives and political pressure across countries. Thank you to @DataRepublican for her support as I walked through a labyrinth of data. And for the many researchers following the money — and the words — in the House of Singham, I have tried to share the raw data with you publicly so you can see the receipts and analyze the data. What is the best defense in cognitive warfare? What is the best innoculation? I believe it's knowledge, awareness and insight. And I hope that this investigation will help peel back the layers for you in a war over not just the hearts and minds of Americans but the world. Links to all original sources in the 🧵

The Hanseatic League solved commercial disputes for 400 years without a single government court, police force, or regulatory agency—and they did it better than any modern state system. From 1159 to 1669, German merchants spanning from London to Novgorod created the most sophisticated private arbitration network in history. When a Hamburg trader accused a Lübeck merchant of breach of contract, they didn't petition some distant king or wait months for bureaucratic tribunals. They brought their dispute before merchant courts staffed by actual businessmen who understood trade, contracts, and reputation. These arbitrators rendered decisions within days, not years. The enforcement mechanism? Pure market discipline. The League maintained detailed records of every merchant's behavior and shared this information across all member cities. Cross a Hanseatic trader in Bergen, and you'd find yourself blacklisted from Riga to Bruges within weeks. No bailiffs, no jackbooted enforcers, no violence—just the inexorable power of reputation and voluntary association. And it worked spectacularly. The League dominated Northern European commerce for half a millennium precisely because merchants trusted their dispute resolution more than royal courts. But here's what modern lawyers and judges will never tell you: the Hanseatic system resolved disputes faster, cheaper, and more accurately than contemporary government courts. Why? Because the arbitrators actually understood commerce and faced real consequences for bad decisions. Screw up a ruling as a Hanseatic arbitrator, and merchants would stop using your services. Screw up as a federal judge today, and you get lifetime tenure. The League died when centralized nation-states crushed private governance with military force, not because their system failed. Every blockchain arbitration platform and private dispute resolution service today merely rediscovers what German merchants perfected 800 years ago.

John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered. Gatto argued that regardless of the official curriculum, schools actually teach seven hidden lessons. The first is confusion. Students learn disconnected facts across dozens of subjects with no integration or meaning. The second is class position. Students learn their place in the social hierarchy. The third is indifference. Students learn that nothing is worth finishing because the bell always rings. The fourth is emotional dependency. Students learn to surrender their will to a chain of command. The fifth is intellectual dependency. Students learn to wait for experts to tell them what to think. The sixth is provisional self-esteem. Students learn that their worth depends on expert evaluation. The seventh is that they are always being watched and have no privacy. These lessons, Gatto argued, are the actual function of schooling. The explicit curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic is almost incidental. The real purpose is to produce passive, dependent, compliant citizens who wait for authorities to tell them what to do and think. Trad schooling amounts to thirteen years of training in being passive and dependent. I have seen this play out with hundreds of students. When I created Montessori middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, about half the students came up through Montessori elementary and about half came from public schools. When we opened, the Montessori kids immediately began doing their work, taking initiative, choosing what to tackle first. The public school students were lost. They would stare at their desks until we walked over and helped them plan their morning. It took at least a semester, sometimes a full year, before they could function in an environment that asked them to direct their own learning. These were not less intelligent children. They had simply been trained differently. For years, someone else had made all the decisions about what they would do, when they would do it, and how they would do it. When that structure was removed, they did not know how to operate. Agency is natural to children unless we train it out of them. When I coach parents on evaluating their children's education, I tell them to ignore grades entirely. The question is whether their children are taking initiative, being responsible, and becoming empowered moral beings. If a child is getting straight A's but has no initiative and no sense of personal responsibility, that child is being damaged by their education regardless of how it looks on paper.

🚨 Georgia House Governmental Affairs CENSORED my Dominion backdoor public testimony—10 seconds SLICED OUT mid-sentence! That's the EXACT part exposing the truth they wanted hidden. Timestamps prove it. Everyone in the room heard it. ON RECORD. So I recovered the full audio, watch and listen to what someone doesn't want to be ON NOTICE of. WHO ORDERED THE CUT??? #ElectionIntegrity #WhoOrderedTheCut Georgians, in fact ALL CITIZENS, make sure EVERYONE sees this post.

In a real world there would be nonstop news coverage of this and mobs with pitchforks outside of the Governors Mansion.

"Allowing virtually every citizen to vote has been a catastrophic disaster for the United States. We have allowed illiterate, uneducated citizens to hold hostage the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and a robust intellectual culture. It has decimated the concept of civitas and allowed powerful actors with bad intentions to influence those who cannot think for themselves. To restore the United States, we must seriously consider ending universal suffrage." Read more below. ‍ ‍

RE: Data Republican I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well. But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman. You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you. For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly "independent" organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside--genuine public interest be damned. This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected. These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness. Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible. It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST. You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under. And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR. I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall. For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding. An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear. But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out. Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense." If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them. This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President. Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is. I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that. One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

The entire heat capacity of the atmosphere is equal to the top 3.5 meters of the oceans. The remaining 3,700m of the abyss is Earth’s true thermal vault. The truth is, the Earth is a water planet and oceans cover 71% of the surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Ocean currents carry warm water from the mid tropics to the northern hemisphere, then the currents return after a round trip of 1,000 years. Without these currents northern Europe would look like Greenland. Warm waters from the Roman warm period (240BC to 400AD) are still just returning to the mid latitudes. The atmosphere by comparison is a gaseous envelope that retains almost no thermal energy, hardly any CO2 and is largely controlled by ocean dynamics. The deep Pacific itself is so massive that it is only now receiving the cold waters from the Little Ice Age. We aren't starting from scratch, we are mid-cycle in a 4.6-billion-year-old machine. We’ve also reinvented the climate. Once, it was a word for the local weather of robins and sparrows. Now it's a global ideological abstraction. We’ve lost our admiration for the natural world. We count CO2 in ppm while ignoring the satellite-proven greening of the Sahara. It’s time to move past the light breezes and offshore winds and look into the deep. Ask yourself, is the 1.4°C warming since 1850 really an unprecedented crisis? The physics says the ocean runs the game.

Very serious issues in play in this discussion. @JanJekielek @GordonGChang Read the excellent book: “The Red Tsunami: The Silent Storm Killing Your Freedom.” And read and/or listen to this important dialogue (please). We’re not going to solve our problems w/ 140 characters. When each of us take far more serious and deeper intellectual journeys, we will then understand what the risks are that are currently in play. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance

What if schools lied about history the way news media lies about current events? Well we know they covered up the Holodomor - the murder of 10 million people. & if they lied about that, what aren’t they willing to lie about?

@DrJStrategy If nothing else, we’ve learned that between Venezuela and Iran, Chinese defense weapons are worthless, and that puts China in a severely weakened position re: Taiwan.

For the record. Trump’s Iran Gambit and the New Great Game Donald Trump’s Iran war is not really about Iran. It is a live‑fire demonstration for a larger audience: China, Europe and every state that still depends on U.S.‑policed sea lanes and dollar finance. Trump’s Art of the Deal meets Kipling’s Kim: transactional brinkmanship fused with a ruthless sense of the Great Game. His coercive sequencing with Tehran – pressure, “winding down”, peace feelers, a 48‑hour ultimatum on Hormuz, threats to “obliterate” power plants – is meant to show that the U.S. can still dominate escalation ladders in a critical energy theatre. Iran’s new 4,000km missile, capable of reaching European capitals, only vindicates his argument that this is not a local irritant but a system‑level threat. Europe’s instinct to respond with process and paper echoes Chamberlain more than Churchill. The real inflection point is what happens if Iran can no longer serve as a staging ground or energy back door for China. If crude again clears overwhelmingly in dollars, and Washington effectively controls the main flows out of the Gulf. The geometry between the U.S. and China changes dramatically. Beijing would face a world where its industrial lifeblood remains hostage not to “multipolarity” but to American tolerance. Gulf monarchies are already betting on this outcome, distancing from Tehran while recommitting long‑horizon capital to the U.S. That is not sentiment; it is positioning for a system in which American security guarantees and dollar energy are, once more, the only game that really counts. If President Trump holds his nerve, IMHO he will, Iran is boxed in rather than appeased, the peace dividend will be akin to the fall of the USSR. State sponsored terrorism take a significant hit, cheaper and more predictable energy, risk premia declines, and a strategic map in which China must live inside an order Trump has just proved Washington can still enforce. Yes, Iran is a sideshow. And yes, The Great Game evolves.

@Whiplash437 @HeRedeemsUs I learned to believe my “lying eyes” as a youth. I observed “contrails” spread gradually until the entire sky was overcast. No inbound weather fronts. I thought it was seeding at the time. This was 45 years ago.

🚨 RED ALERT: EPA Chief LEE ZELDIN Confirms Stratospheric CHEMICAL SPRAYING — “Sulfur Dioxide Into the Sky, Health Risks Are Real” (What used to be called “conspiracy” is now called official policy.) 💥 EPA Chief Lee Zeldin confirms that dangerous chemicals, including sulfur dioxide, are being released into the sky for geoengineering. Health risks are real. Environmental damage is guaranteed. This is no longer conspiracy — it’s official. Geoengineering Gone Rogue: The U.S. Government Has Funded It. The Skies Are Full of It. And Now the Truth Is Official. 🚨 THE CONFESSION THEY NEVER WANTED YOU TO HEAR

🚨 Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof. @VDHanson. In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going - Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving. Hanson’s Key Points: • Europeans: They never touch a conflict until they smell victory. Early on? Crickets. Now they’re quietly moving assets and offering support. Pure calculation — they’ve read the battlefield and decided which side wins. • Gulf petro-states: Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris survive by reading the room perfectly. They’re expelling Iranian attachés, silently intercepting Iranian missiles over their capitals, and the UAE just reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the U.S. mid-war. These are not gestures — they’re bets. And they’re all-in on America. • Al Jazeera: The Qatari state network that usually bashes U.S. actions (and hosts Hamas offices) is now calling America’s bombing campaign “brilliant” and “underestimated.” When the outlet that hosts both the biggest U.S. air base and Hamas praises U.S. effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: they think we’re winning. • Military reality: A-10 Warthogs and Apache gunships are now flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace at will. These slow, low-flying platforms only appear when enemy air defenses are effectively gone. Confirms what’s really happening on the ground. Iran’s only play left is rope-a-dope: drag it out, hope U.S. public opinion flips, pray midterms pressure Trump to quit. VDH’s verdict: If Trump sees it through — and he will — the regime falls. Not in years. Pretty soon. Bottom line: Watch what people do, not what they say. Every player with skin in the game is betting on America. The signals don’t lie. #Iran #Europe #Warthogs #Trump @AlJazeera

Does Israel have "a right to exist?" The answer is an emphatic NO, and I'll explain why. For starters, the question itself is manipulative and means one of two things: (A) The first is that the question means they want something from you. This is the most common. If you concede that yes, Israel has a right to exist, it will be followed by a list of things they need to actualize that right. If Israel has a right to exist, they need our bombs. They need our tax dollars. They need our national resources. They need our veto power at the U.N. Their so-called "right to exist" will require something from us for the right to be conferred. Notice that Americans never go around asking other nations if we have a right to exist. That's because we're not trying to bilk them out of anything. (B) The second is that the question is asked so that, if we answer in the affirmative, it means we must overlook or excuse whatever horrendous human rights abuse, illegal activity, or immoral action they want to undertake (or already have) - even if it is to the detriment of the United States. This strategy requires Israel to label everything an existential crisis, with Israel's future existence hanging in the balance. Once something becomes existential, then ethics don't matter. If this is an extinction-level event, then it's not the time to worry about the morality of a matter. Kill women and children? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Murder nine civilian non-combatants for every one terrorist? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Double-tap missile targets, killing aid workers? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Ethnic cleansing in Gaza? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Bomb churches? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Target journalists? Yes, because Israel has the right to exist. Blow up oil fields? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Violate international law? Yes, because Israel has a right to exist. Because nothing is as important as existing, it's the perfect Get-Out-Of-Having-a-Conscience Free Card for a Desert War Cult that wants to act however it wants with impunity. But there's another reason the question is illegitimate. It's wrongfully open-ended. It's not a complete question. No nation on Earth has a unilateral "right to exist" without qualification; not even the United States. There's got to be an IF on the end of it. Does Israel have a right to exist...if it requires the rest of the world to live on the brink of WWIII? No. Does Israel have a right to exist if it means bankrupting the United States to guarantee its security? No. Does Israel have the right to exist if it means genocide of its neighbors? No. Does Israel have a right to exist if it's acting in constant violation of international law? No. The moment a nation has an unqualified "right to exist" is the moment it can get away with whatever it wants, behave in a way that's detrimental to every other nation on Earth, and can even demand you help facilitating its existence because, after all, it has a "right" to it. Next, logically, we cannot affirm Israel's unilateral "right to exist" over and against the rights of other nations to exist. God Almighty forbids favoritism. He's not a respecter of persons (the Bible says this three times, each time in reference to Jews), and we're forbidden from showing partiality on account of their alleged genetic ancestry. God hates this. It's a sin. If we affirm Israel's "right to exist, " we must by the same measure affirm the right of Iran to exist. And Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Libya, Lebanon, Jordan, the UAE, Iraq, Syria, et al. And I don't feel like it, do you? Sorry. Step out of line, and you get smoked. That goes for Israel, just like it goes for Iran. Further, Israel most emphatically does NOT have a divine right to exist. The Abrahamic Promise of Genesis 12:3 is about Christ, and the recipients, or heirs of that promise, are Christians exclusively. Those who have faith in Jesus are the “heirs of the promise” (Galatians 3:29). The Seed referenced in the promise is Christ, according to Paul, and he very explicitly says that it’s NOT Jews (Galatians 3:16). There is no Covenant blessing or promise obtainable or retainable outside of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:10). Romans 9 says that Jews who reject Christ do not belong to Israel (Romans 9:6-8). Romans 11 says that Jews who reject Christ have been rejected by God and they’ve been broken off from Abraham (Romans 11:17–20). Whatever the Dispensationalists claim in the novel eschatology about the future, doesn't change the fact that they are - as it stands now - cut off from the promises of God until at such time they stop persisting in unbelief. Israel does not have the right to exist on account of an ancient ancestral land deed. Let's presume for a moment that most Israelis aren't more European than they are Middle Eastern. Let's pretend they're more Semitic than the Palestinians who've lived there continually for thousands of years (they aren't). It wouldn't matter if it were true. That's not how the world works. Americans don't have to give back Florida to the Seminole. My ancestors came from the British Isles, but I don't have the right to Buckingham Palace. The land known as Palestine has been inhabited by dozens and DOZENS of people groups over the millennia. Every nation on Earth has previously been inhabited by different people groups than those who live there now. And that means exactly nothing. And if you want to quote the Bible at this point, refer back to the last one. If we're playing by Biblical rules, Palestine belongs to Christ, which means it should be transferred to those who are in Christ, at which point, the Church would happily take it. And finally, it would be foolish and irresponsible for any serious person to answer "Does Israel have a right to exist" in the affirmative, knowing what the Zionists mean when they say "Israel." In their head, they don't mean the strip of land we call Israel. They mean Greater Israel (which is why they refer to the land held by other nations as Judea, or Samaria, or Greater Israel). Their entire national history has been one ambitious land grab after another. Their goal is to occupy practically the entire Middle East, a region currently home to 310 million Muslims. No, we don't want WWIII, thank you very much. And we're not going to affirm your right to exist there. As Christians, there's a bonus reason we should answer that question in the negative. We should be reminded that the current global consensus is that no Christian ethnostate should exist on this planet. That's out of the question for every major international ruling body on Earth. So in a world in which Christians are not allowed to have a Christian ethnostate, there's no good reason we should support a Jewish one. Jesus Christ is the King of Kings. We should not support the "right to exist" of a nation that rejects Jesus in their national charter, which Israel matter-of-factly does. Their entire identity is founded upon their rejection of Jesus as Lord. They ban Jews who believe in Christ from migrating to Israel. They ban public Christian evangelism. They pull the broadcast licenses of Christian TV and radio if they provide programming directed at evangelizing Jews. They're hostile to the indigenous church. They discriminate against Christian in a thousand different ways, none of them secretly. Any Christian who would support the right of a nation to exist that is THAT hostile to our God needs to get their head on straight. Not only should we not support their right to exist, but newsflash: God Almighty also doesn't, either. He does not embrace a nation that rejects His Son. Reject Christ, reject God (Luke 10:16). Reject God, be rejected by God (2 Chronicles 5:2). Does Israel have a right to exist? The short answer is no. The long answer is noooooooo. It doesn't. That does not mean - for the record - that Jews don't have a right to exist, any more or less than any other human has such a right. But their nation-state? Their body-politic? Their collective civic identity? No, it doesn't. And that's the only answer this side of common sense.

Geez I’m old.

@DataRepublican Apart from leaching of capitalism, communism fails EVERY time. It’s a parasitical system that rewards the establishment and punishes the commoners.

The influencers don’t care that the Cuban government prioritized their power needs over the hospital. To them, it’s America’s fault in the first place. The influencers don’t see themselves as hypocrites for staying in 5 star hotels. They see it as evidence that Communism can provide luxurious lifestyles. They see more humility as giving Cubans less money. They genuinely think it’s good advertising. The influencers don’t care they’re collaborating with hostile governments. The US is what must be brought down. The influencers truly believe they are the righteous ones. That is how Communists operate.

Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.