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Consciousness creates riddles without solutions and then puts Age 2+ on the box.
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Philosopher-Jester
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Philosopher-Jester
@philosopherjstr
Antipodean son of fortuity. Lapsed public interest lawyer. Novice superfluous man.
Ruins of Plato's Court (NYC) Katılım Mart 2017
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@SalomeSibonex I'm thinking about collective property rights (e.g., of the kind held by some indigenous communities). They're not (necessarily) inconsistent with the UDHR.
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@SalomeSibonex I don't think collective rights are opposed to inalienable individual rights, but I do think the individual more fundamental (because the individual is the unit/scale of agency).
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Individualism: 1) The belief in treating all people as the individuals they are, not as interchangeable representatives of a collective.
2) The foundation for inalienable individual rights vs “collective rights" given on the basis of group identity.
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@Legal_Fil Especially when 'proving the point' do Russia could have been done on terms which vindicate (and is vindicated by) the minimal defense of a rules-based order (i.e., re-establishing the sovereignty of Ukraine's borders (even if Crimea is a matter for negotiation).
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@Legal_Fil i think knowing what we know now about just how much of a paper-tiger both Russian and Iranian regular military capabilities are, it would have been preferable to prove the asymmetry with Russia first, and then have done a deal with Iran on more 'realistic' terms.
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While I will commend Trump in all sorts of ways for his Iran policy, his pathological hatred of Zelensky really is a major weak spot.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: The country that learned to shoot down Iranian drones over Kyiv is now teaching the Gulf to shoot them down over refineries. Nobody asked Trump. The Gulf asked Ukraine. President Zelensky confirmed at the UK Parliament on March 18 that 201 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, with teams en route to Kuwait and 34 more ready to go. These are active-duty government military personnel, not private contractors. They are sharing combat-proven expertise from three years of intercepting Iranian Shahed drones over Ukrainian cities, power grids, and civilian infrastructure. The Gulf states requested the assistance. Saudi Arabia explicitly approached Ukraine. The arrangement is reciprocal: Ukraine provides the expertise that no other country possesses at this depth of operational experience, and the Gulf provides what Ukraine needs most, funding, technology, and air defence systems. Zelensky specifically highlighted Patriot missiles as part of the exchange. The country that cannot get enough Patriots from the West is earning them from the Gulf by teaching drone interception. Trump did not request this deployment. No reporting in any outlet, from Reuters to Al Jazeera to the Kyiv Post, indicates American coordination or approval. The recent Trump-Zelensky tensions over aid disputes and public friction are well documented. This is not a Washington-orchestrated move. It is a bilateral arrangement between Ukraine and Gulf capitals that bypasses Washington entirely. Zelensky built a parallel channel to the Gulf that gives Ukraine what America has been reluctant to provide while giving the Gulf what America’s $23.5 billion arms surge does not include: the people who know how to fight Shaheds because they have been fighting them every night for three years. The expertise is specific and irreplaceable. Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahed-136 and Shahed-238 drones since 2022. It has developed detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small-arms interception methods, and integrated air defence coordination that no training manual teaches. The Gulf states purchased Patriot batteries, THAAD radars, and anti-drone systems through the $23.5 billion arms package. The hardware is American. The operational knowledge of how to use it against the exact Iranian drone variants now striking Gulf refineries is Ukrainian. Israel views this positively. Anything that strengthens Gulf air defences against Iranian drones reduces the threat environment for every country in the region, including Israel. Ukrainian-Gulf cooperation reinforces the anti-Iran alignment that the Abraham Accords established. Israel and Ukraine share a common adversary’s weapons system: Iran builds the Shaheds, Russia deploys them against Ukraine, and the IRGC deploys them against the Gulf. The expertise flows in one direction. The threat originates from the same factory. The Putin dimension is real but secondary. Iran supplies Russia with Shahed drones for use against Ukraine. Ukraine now teaches Gulf states to destroy those same drones when Iran uses them directly. The feedback loop is elegant: every Ukrainian lesson learned from shooting down Russian-deployed Shaheds over Odesa is now applied to IRGC-deployed Shaheds over Ras Laffan. Putin’s Iranian drone supplier is being countered by the country Putin is fighting, on a battlefield 4,000 kilometres from the front line. The irony is structural. The aggravation is intentional. Two hundred and one experts. Government military, not contractors. Gulf-requested, not Trump-directed. Shahed-specific, not generic. And the country with the most relevant expertise on Earth got there before the $23.5 billion in hardware arrived. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Heidegger this Heidegger that why don't you say Hi there girl?
I like this.
vanilla sweet cream cold brew@blublubluberri
Hegel this hegel that, why don't you say hey to a girl
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@JacobALinker @gnuseibeh @UNESCO it's either end-of-days nihilism or they're getting more desperate to generate circumstances that compel an end to the war
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@gnuseibeh @UNESCO They’re trying to blow up Al Aqsa because they know a huge chunk of the world’s two billion Muslims would blame Israel.
It’s apocalyptic
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Iran’s targeting of Jerusalem must be unanimously condemned by everyone.
The Old City of Jerusalem has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site at the request of Jordan since 1981. Has @UNESCO condemned this?
Iran must immediately stop this madness
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@Legal_Fil The question is if anyone should ever feel authorized to sit.
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What a great comment by Thoreau:
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Agreed, but hasn’t Iran left the question strategically undetermined?
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The common Western take says if Israel has a nuke, Iran having one makes things more stable.
This argument says that logic collapses once psychology enters the equation.
Follow me on Substack: mrandrewfox.substack.com
#Iran #NuclearWeapons #Deterrence #NuclearProliferation #Geopolitics #MiddleEast
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@Liv_Boeree Seems pretty clear the psychosocial experience of the Anglo-American sphere is significantly different to the balance of the West, which I think might have more to do with the failure of the eschatological liberal idealist expectations that prevailed in the English speaking world
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Maybe the Queen dying had a bigger impact on the Commonwealth’s psyche than people realised
Daniel Foch@danielfoch
Canada has observed the largest decline in happiness in the world (along with the UK)
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@LJS527 @ratlpolicy to be fair, views on this are split between people who believe iran was determined to get a nuke, people who believe they were leveraging their stated intentions to gain better terms in a negotiation, and people who believed it remained an as yet finally determined strategic q.
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@ratlpolicy Tommy Vietor: big believer in the word of Ali Khamenei.
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If there was a binding fatwa against building nuclear weapons, why were you guys so gung-ho about getting a deal with Tehran to stop them from building nuclear weapons?
Tommy Vietor@TVietor08
Netanyahu is such a despicable liar: - Ali Khamenei had issued a fatwa against developing nuclear weapons. Now his younger, more extreme son is in charge and is MORE likely to seek a nuke - US intelligence said the soonest Iran could get an ICBM that could hit the US was 2035
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@theoluminati @OdchanTrangmo smash cut to a montage of me from ages 17-22 that ends with you (justifiably) burning me at the stake on account of my insufferability
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@philosopherjstr @OdchanTrangmo you should be an egotistical megalomaniac it’s fun
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the worse everything gets under right wing policy, the funnier it is every time someone does a self-important ‘I’m becoming right wing because I was CANCELLED ONLINE’ monologue. sorry a 16-year-old called you a literal nazi girl but we’re on the brink of nuclear war
Brandon Straka #WalkAway@BrandonStraka
Another voter just walked away — and said it out loud. “I’m officially coming out as a Republican. The Left pushed me to the Right.” “I’m voting Republican across the board. I’m done.” #WalkAway
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@OdchanTrangmo @theoluminati but theo should feel free to remain a egotistical megalomaniac. not everyone is built for this kind of existence.
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@theoluminati @OdchanTrangmo my self-hatred kinda tarnishes my views of anyone who agrees with me too much
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@philosopherjstr @OdchanTrangmo I kinda like them, ‘best people out there’ is a little much but I def enjoy speaking with them & have a lot more respect for them than the magas
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@OdchanTrangmo @theoluminati there are few things i enjoy more than chat with a legit small government conservative - some of the best people out there imo.
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@theoluminati I'm fascinated by these self-impotents. I think she reveals at least some of the R vote represents weaklings who hope for the 1-2 year forceful respite from their natural lesser cultural station rather than principled support for small government, tax policy, federalism, etc
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@ratlpolicy @dilanesper That basis for refusal is at least a little reductive. Arafat refused the Taba/Clinton parameters because he thought the long arc of the moral universe would inevitably lead to better terms down the road in the near future, but 9/11 proved that to be a grave miscalculation.
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@dilanesper The Israelis have offered peace deals over & over again for nearly 8 decades. They have been rejected in favor of exterminationist terrorism every last time.
When the Palestinians are ready to give up their genocidal antisemitism, a deal can be made. But that's not in the cards.
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What a novel idea! No Israeli leader has ever tried to negotiate with the Palestinians! This must be the key to unlocking the whole region!
Doing the same thing repeatedly & expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
There's actually only one thing Israel can do that will actually reduce terrorism directed at it, and it's the thing the Israeli right desperately doesn't want to do (because elements of its coalition want to steal the land)-- negotiate with the Palestinians.
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@carney I’m using liberal universalism in the sense that ‘fundamental classically liberal rights’ are taken to be universally incident to the condition of human existence, not as requiring any particular form of policy or structure of government.
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@philosopherjstr No argument there. But “informed by classically liberal principles” is not the same as a fall embrace of liberal universalism.
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It’s amazing that leftists persist in trying to convince people that a revolution led by wealthy landholders (many slave owners) and the New England capitalist merchant class was a “radical leftist” movement.
The revolutionary generation made George Washington the first president and John Adams the second president.
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese
The lengths American conservatives go to retcon the American Revolution as anything other than a radical leftist anti-colonial movement is astounding. "Ah, you see, we were actually restoring an even *more* ancien regime"
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@carney I don’t think universal rights could be vindicated other than in the particular (group, time, place, context). But their vindication by one group does not suggest the group opposed their vindication by/among other groups in different places (hence support for the French Rev).
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I just don’t think that statements about “all men” having rights granted by God should be regarded as particularly evincing liberal universalism.
That is particularly true when it preceded by a statement about “one people” deciding its own fate. That’s nationalism and particularism.
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@carney It also ignores that the model of republican government adopted via the constitution is clearly informed by classically liberal principles (e.g., representative government, separation of powers, individual interests/rights inviolable by the legislature, etc).
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@carney ‘just as easily’ is doing a lot of rhetorical heavy lifting there.
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@dilanesper I think it is more than they don’t plan for bad stuff because of their degree of certainty that divine provenance and/or the (supposedly) secular long arc of the moral universe is on their side.
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Beyond just "Venezuela made it seem a snap", a deeper answer here is because people who "planned" for Iranian responses were MILITARY people, and they are a different group from war supporters. Hawks are unserious-- they don't plan for bad stuff because they think war is great.
Collin Reid@CREID2852
@dilanesper I have no idea why the Trump team did NOT prepare for Strait of Hormuz being closed even if every single US military plan on invading Iran since 1980 had this reality in it.
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