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Jack Rocks

@Destiny_Chiild

American committed to equality, liberty, and justice. Former student of Russian language, literature, and 20th century European conflict. Grinnell College alum.

Unceded Neanderthal land Присоединился Kasım 2021
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Aidan McLaughlin
Aidan McLaughlin@aidnmclaughlin·
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale apparently still believes the Minab elementary school was hit by a "failed Iranian missile," a belief that is not supported by *any accounts*
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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@nkulw JFC you're an incessantly whining little bitch
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noah kulwin
noah kulwin@nkulw·
If my friend took a job at one of the highest-profile military contractors making possible the current war on Iran then I wouldn’t jack him off for it where everyone else can see. Just one man’s take!
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noah kulwin
noah kulwin@nkulw·
From tracking air strike deaths at Airwars to dealing death from above with Claude: truly a career arc in “journalism” to be proud of!
Santi Ruiz@rSanti97

Some professional news: I'm joining Anthropic's editorial team! I'll be leading the team's work on economics and policy, and working closely with the Anthropic Institute (about which more here: x.com/AnthropicAI/st…). Dramatic AI progress is coming in the next two years, and researchers+policymakers+the public alike will need the best information available about that shift. It's a big new challenge, and I can’t wait to get started. [Some important housekeeping: I’ll keep running Statecraft at @IFP as a Nonresident Senior Fellow! And will remain on the board at Recoding America/ as a journalist-in-residence at @johnshopkins School of Government and Policy. I start at Anthropic in a few weeks.] The move from frontier think tank to frontier lab is bittersweet. I’ve been at IFP for three years, and it’s been the most formative professional experience of my life. In a short period of time, IFP has become one of the most effective institutions in DC, generating a truly shocking amount of counterfactual policy impact (not all of it public). Being on this team has permanently raised my ambitions. I'm very grateful.

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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@davison_al @aidnmclaughlin It's a big world, no doubt you can find a few Iranians on social media and explain your perceptions about their reality and extrapolate how they should feel.
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Al@davison_al·
@Destiny_Chiild @JellyKind @aidnmclaughlin Was that before or after the US bombed a school full of kids? If I hated my government, if another country bombed the absolute shit out of my country, hitting a school and killing kids, I'm not sure I'd be aligned with the aims of that country's billionaire paedophile class
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Tara Ann Thieke
Tara Ann Thieke@TaraAnnThieke·
When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians. A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.
conspiracybot@conspiracyb0t

On Israeli national television: “Everyone in Gaza must die. They should all be left to starve to death, even children. I don’t care”

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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@AttilaTheLund @mwaresh1 @brithume As someone who was adamantly opposed to the Iraq war from the start and equally opposed to the occupation of Afghanistan, no one is more annoying to me than ppl like you who dumb down the reasons for not fighting a war. Simply a mirror reflection of the mindless pro-war folks.
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John Lund
John Lund@AttilaTheLund·
Fair enough. Just curious, did you withhold judgement and trust the military leaders and their public statements all the way through Iraq? Did you believe the yellow cake uranium story? Incubator babies? Did you feel the pressing urgency of action, despite now knowing it was BS pushed to sway public opinion?
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Brit Hume
Brit Hume@brithume·
"If the United States can hold firm for the next few weeks, it can fully degrade Iran’s war-making apparatus. This would usher in a multiyear interval of calm of the kind that neither sanctions nor diplomacy has been able to produce in..four decades." nytimes.com/2026/03/19/opi…
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Fair-Is-Fair
Fair-Is-Fair@MHarrisonW·
@brithume There will never be "calm" in the Middle East until Israel either owns the whole of the territory or ceases to exist.
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Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@Zonalynn @HarrisonHSmith @JillianFaithVA Could you stop the leftist moral purity tests? You're acting like a queers for Palestine bitch who hates Trump because he didn't take down Maduro for the right reasons.
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Ari
Ari@Zonalynn·
@HarrisonHSmith @JillianFaithVA Anyone who supports this man doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Period.
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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@cosmiccrucifix @buchananite97 @HarrisonHSmith That's true, best outcome is power sharing among Druze, Christians and Sunni. My Lebanese Sunni friends support the IDF bombing of Hezbollah as strongly as the Maronites do. But there's no hope without the IDF. No one else will do anything to stop the Shia horde.
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Jostein Hauge
Jostein Hauge@haugejostein·
This is wild. People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
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julia kassem
julia kassem@jmaher568869·
Iranian politician - PhD in quantum physics of philosophy, authored 17 books, fought in 3 defensive wars while doing 4th dissertation, speaks 3 languages US politician - borderline illiterate pedophile
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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@NickBMarketing @haugejostein Leftist brain rot is a real thing. Same people who were 100% sure that Putin would never invade Ukraine. Or complain about "genocide" in the Gaza War while ignoring China's massive concentration camp network that's visible from space and the genocide of the Uyghurs.
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Josh
Josh@antiflea·
@Destiny_Chiild @JellyKind @aidnmclaughlin Yeah yeah f*gg*t and less than 40% of Americans support the Trump regime and trust the federal government, doesn't mean we want to be bombed. Hating their government doesn't mean they want us to destroy their country. They hate us.
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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@NickBMarketing @haugejostein True, now that Canada is starting to open its auto market to the Chinese, US automakers won't need Canadian manufacturing facilities. No doubt all those Canadian blue collar workers have a lot of great job prospects. Nothing like standing up for the working class.
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Nick B
Nick B@NickBMarketing·
@Destiny_Chiild @haugejostein Not my fuckin problem keep providing US cheap quality clothes, rare earth goods, chips, AI & apparently badass electric cars to put EM out of business. Funny this american journo in China said 93% own homes and all this crazy shit yesterday I"m like yaa sure bro..
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Viking at home.
Viking at home.@VikingInBangkok·
@Destiny_Chiild @NickBMarketing @haugejostein I would rather get spied on by China than by Palantir, China is not starting wars that result in global energy crisis, China also did not threaten to invade a NATO country. China could only stab me in the front, not the back. I would rather buy Chinese than American.
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Jack Rocks
Jack Rocks@Destiny_Chiild·
@antiflea @JellyKind @aidnmclaughlin Based on polling, about 30% of the Iranian population actually supports the regime. Persians are much more westernized than anyone in the Arab world outside of Dubai.
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Jack Rocks
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@nabeelazeez @JTLonsdale sure bro, US is intentionally targeting dozens of schools and doing double taps all over Iran, like genocide. tiny brain Aziz needs a double tap of something to increase his IQ
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Nabeel Azeez
Nabeel Azeez@nabeelazeez·
@JTLonsdale was palantir tech involved in double-tapping that girl's school
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Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale·
Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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