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Partner @vashoncompany, Law Enjoyer, Goethe Appreciator, 🇺🇸/acc

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Erik Prince discusses the SR-71 program, Cortez, and Sir Francis Drake: “What a few picked men can do given money and authority to affect the course of a nation’s history is spectacular.”
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Daniel Friedman@DanFriedman81·
Matt Yglesias is a blogger. He is guy with a bachelor’s degree who posts his opinions about things on the internet. His standing is exactly the same as Roman Helmet Guy’s, which is: His writing is influential to the extent people find it persuasive. We no longer live in a world where some people are arbitrarily designated as the good and important opinion-havers, and those people become the columnists and are real thinkers and intellectuals, while everyone else is just the schmucks on the “letters to the editor” page. The walls of Old Twitter’s garden have been torn down. Vox has been sold for scrap to Rupert Murdoch’s second-favorite son. Anyone can put on a Roman helmet and build a platform now, and their opinions are just as good and can be just as influential as Matt Yglesias’s or Nick Kristof’s.
PoIiMath@politicalmath

Someone needs to explain to Matt Yglesias that this whole "lol, you're just a rando twitter anon" attitude is no longer viable I would explain it to him, but he blocked me years ago although he weirdly keeps screen capping my tweets for commentary

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Enhanced Games so far has been a major missed opportunity.
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An above average Sim Racer could do this rather easily. Not a particularly difficult track or length of race.
CW@C_Westling

@ryjlocal Indy 500 is great, but I'd like to see the Indy 500 drivers do 78 laps through the streets of Monaco, going inches from a wall and be competetive. Calling it pagentry is just pure ignorance.

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Swan@AndySwan·
You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.
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@St2station Less about his reputation. More about his work / destiny. Also on my read looked more like an offer out of formality.
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St2station@St2station·
@ryjlocal x.com/St2station/sta… Napoleon tried getting Goethe to come to Paris and be a sort of court intellect for the Empire; it was smart of Goethe to wave off. For all his genius, it might’ve been tough on his reputation in post-Napoleonic Germany.
St2station@St2station

Goethe had that effect. On the sidelines of his summit with the Tsar in 1808 in Erfurt, hard by Weimar, Napoleon made time for an extensive audience with Goethe. And earlier in 1806, in the French blitzkrieg on Prussia, a string of Napoleon’s Marshals paid him a call. In 1812,

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Arguably the greatest mind ever produced talking about a mind even greater than his.
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Billy Rubin@BillyRubin1974·
@ryjlocal In On Heroes by Carlyle, despite twenty-odd years passing since Napoleon's death, Carlyle could not name a single hero after Napoleon.
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If there is a “secret” to life, it’s this.
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Will is the purest form of genius.
Beautiful Architecture@frozenmusic

@ryjlocal Napoleon was a G, but he's not above Goethe in pure genius. Schopenhauer even suggested Napoleon didn't posses genius at all: but was the purest form of "will" the world has ever seen.

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