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@captive_dreamer Nah. Remigration will.

Immigration is and will be the defining issue of 21st century Western politics.

@philliplede He’s unincumbered by what has been… or wait is that Kamala

Do regular people actually find this sort of thing inspiring? Against what is, and toward what should be. America is "we"—our greatest strength. Who is "we"? We do not know. What I like about Trump, for all his faults, is that he cannot help but wander into oddly-specific tangents, divulging more detail than necessary. By contrast, Obama, a truly loathsome figure, would recite only the purest and emptiest platitudes so as to alienate no one. His supporters would then assail any objectors who called for clarification as “pessimists.”

@antoniogm At this point I literally wish we did have a right wing secret cabal

As someone who's gotten invited to this Dialog business just about every year from 2022-2025, let me explain to you what I call 'The Green Room Confederacy'. The 'green room' is the waiting room in a conference or media studio, and who populates it is an ever-shifting cast of writers, founders, tycoons, and general people of note who shuffle around to the various podcasts and retreats that define a certain stratum of influence and cultural valence. The billionaires: They're the only lifetime members, mostly because they're paying for the entire thing. Everyone is to some degree there to cozy up to them. The founders: Usually not actually the leading founders (who are too busy or disinterested to attend), but the type of founders who 'thoughtfluence' and are making a bid to be taken seriously intellectually, moving themselves from the intellectual Premium Economy of Harari/Gladwell to the First Class of Ferguson/Henrich (but never quite the Yarvin/Land level, as that's too dicey and weird). The writers/creatives: They're the intellectual backbone here, and probably the only ones in a group chat with the billionaire, kept there as a sort of court jester (don't ask me how I know). It's all top-of-funnel and brand accrual to however they monetize, which is likely a Substack and/or podcast. Historically, these things were about as uncontroversial as it got: Davos, Aspen Institute...nobody is losing a job over going; on the contrary, going is a major brand-building exercise. But since 2020 or so we've seen the rise of a counter-elite attempting to create counterbalancing cultural institutions and media, which is where the sparks really start as attending the upstart version is declaring your side in the culture war (which is why Ezra is furiously backpedaling here...he's got his NYT roost to maintain). (If this is all sounding like a high-school popularity contest, it's not too far off, though the downstream implications here are rather more real.) The claim this is some secret cabal though is laughable, and thought mostly by second-string writers at places like WIRED who've spent their lives with their noses pressed against the glass and never entering, and write about this as a form of envy and pandering to their credulous outsider audiences. Oh, and did I ever go? No, for two reasons. I had an iron-clad rule that I'd only go to one of these events only if free (or they paid me), never as a paid attendee. Free/paid, and you're the creative; pay, and you're just a striving customer. And AFAICT, all but the true A-listers had to pay for Dialog. Also, I was working on @spindl_xyz and this is all very distracting, and getting swept up in all this (as the writer talent), means putting yourself on the relevance/virality treadmill, something I wanted to escape by making a bag instead. But I will say there were some real intellects on the Dialog invite list (along with a lot of strivers and arrivistes), and I'm all for billionaires creating alternative cultural institutions since our current ones are so clearly decayed and in need of overthrow. There, that's the backstory to all this. It's all a lot less lurid and conspiratorial than anyone is letting on here.

@wil_da_beast630 @realDonaldTrump @JDVance YES

Like and RT this status if you would genuinely like to see President @realDonaldTrump and VP @JDVance award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Thomas Sowell.

@Kaarnema @Noahpinion What’s it like caring about a foreign country’s domestic policies this much? Like I can’t imagine going on Twitter to trash talk the minority leader of the Japanese diet or something like bro get a life

@trypnbpv @Noahpinion Yes, his shamelessness is visible all the way over here. I don't see how that's supposed to be a defense.

JD Vance is the Republican Kamala Harris -- an amoral careerist with no core values who knows he wants power but has no real idea why

@TheeDrGroyper There are millions of millennial women in their 30s who will never marry that would pay top dollar for this guys sperm. Imagine being so hot you could jerk off for a living and also leave the earth a superior genetic army of sons

For what? So Sophia can have her 10th abortion and then choose Malik to beat and rape her?

@johannesmkx These people are just humiliated by America in ways that come out through having temper tantrums over the fact that we don’t care how they want the English word Turkey spelled

Turkish people call England 'İngiltere'. English people should submit a "formal political request to Turkish dominated global systems and order to change the Turkish spelling of their country's name". Imagine being this dense, though. Do they have psychologists in Turkey?

@Kaarnema @Noahpinion Lmfao

@trypnbpv @Noahpinion He changed from "Trump is Hitler" to his biggest fan in a single election cycle. He's appeasing retarded racists while being married to an Indian. I wouldn't even be surprised if he leaves her for a white woman before 2028. The man clearly has no shame or morals.

It’s more humane and sensitive to transfer migrants to safe 3rd locations that are more culturally aligned with them. Why would we bring people fleeing a desperate situation into a country that’s experiencing massive anxiety around immigrants that’s now devolving into sectarian violence? There are 58 Muslim counties to choose from, several wealthy East Asian countries. There’s no need for non western migrants to be in the west.

Mass deportations are the Christian response to mass immigration, The American Spectator replies to Pope Leo. "Pope Leo urges that Western nations treat foreigners with respect, dignity, and charity, yet dismisses “remigration” and mass deportations as a viable option. He ought not." The author suggest that the alternative to dignified mass remigration is going to involve less pleasant approaches to dealing with the diversity fallout.

@DRPOOLQ17 @JDVance This is the second time he's made this terrible joke. "Im just here for the free coffee." Americans will not respond to self deprecating millennial humor we want a ruthless leader.

🚨 TRUMP: Mr. Vice President @JDVance is here. You have anything to say? You're a good vice president. VANCE: I'm just here to watch the show, sir. I think air planes are pretty cool, so I'm here to check this out. You never saw this chemistry in Trump/Pence.

@captive_dreamer The people who voted for Trump this time around who hate JD are not actually aligned with any of Trump's policies. their only reason for supporting him was Israel, and if JD won't do that as reliably they actually VASTLY prefer a dem president for their domestic agenda.

@garrisonwriting with AI translate you sort of don't have to....

I've lived in Japan for close to ten years, I passed the JLPT N1 in 2020, and I use Japanese every day, and tweeting in the language scares me half to death.

@Lynette71979 @OverReactor1776 @OverReactor1776 Thank you for your service. Maybe you can convince more tech people to step away from whatever they are doing in Silicon Valley to use their talents for America as you did! This is the admin to do it!

@trypnbpv @OverReactor1776 I believe his plan was to just go for a year. There were several successful people who volunteered to leave their careers/life to go & contribute whatever their expertise is to help with DOGE. Trump's EO for DODE was from Jan 2025 - July 4 2026. So he stayed almost the whole time

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species. Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty. Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve. As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers. I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing. If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own. My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!) Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future? America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

@yifever 2 years is not long enough. 5+ minimum, ideally a decade.

all japan lovers and japan haters should try to live in Japan for 2 years before being allowed to have an opinion

@mattyglesias It's standard in other languages to have different words for western countries too. Japan calls England "Igurisu" and British people don't go around like dicks trying to correct them and lecture them on how to speak their own vocabulary words lol

It’s completely standard for a country’s name in English to be different from its home language name — Deutschland, España, Italia, Zhongguo, etc — why should Turkey be special?

My America First agenda is that we are going to stop this Türkiye nonsense and call the country Turkey like normal people again.

@PNWConservative Man I wonder what that was like for the Seattle locals. It’s gotta be like the grinch experiencing Christmas and his heart growing three sizes larger

What was so cool about the America vs. Australia FIFA match was seeing people celebrating our amazing country. We aren’t perfect, but we should take pride in being the greatest nation on God’s green earth!

@ericweinstein @Jason @auren Imagine what it must be like to be Ezra, though- that the audience or political company he keeps demands such apologies or explanations. I'd feel pity for him but he's one of the principal architects of the very prison where he now finds himself in a hostage situation.

Jason, It’s much worse than that. There were both men and women. I knowingly engaged in networking. I met people who were very rich. Others had advanced degrees. I involuntarily laughed at the jokes of people I later found out were registered republicans. I myself was, at times, *deliberately* intellectually provocative. Not everyone was vegan. Four letter words were occasionally heard. It’s as bad as you can imagine. You should go.

This is pathetic & weak. I’ve been to Dialog. Multiple times. Peter Thiel invites me. He remains a close friend. I enjoyed Dialog just as I have enjoyed many other private gatherings. What I saw at Dialog was not immoral, illegal and is no one’s business. I’d go again. Clear?

@Kaarnema @Noahpinion there's no evidence he "shows up drunk in public" meaning that he shows up without having any moral values and wants power for power's sake. That's your accusation not a verifiable empirical fact like someone being drunk is.

@limit2984p @Noahpinion For the analogy to be complete, you'd also have to assume he constantly turns up drunk in public. That would show his book of confessions in a little different light, wouldn't it?

@Kaarnema @Noahpinion Noah writing this tweet when this book exists, would be like if JD wrote a book about how he used to have a problem with drinking and then got sober, and Noah tweeted "JD Vance is an alcoholic"

@limit2984p @Noahpinion Yeah, clothing his naked villainy with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ and seeming a saint when he most plays the devil. I've read that one before.