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@sentdefender Well, this post exposed a bunch of racists and sexists... The news is that we have an ROTC cadet (our secretary of war, Doug Neidermeyer) undermining a review board made up of senior generals.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals, two of which are Black and two women on a list of roughly three dozen officers up for promotion, in a highly unusual move that has prompted some senior military officials to question whether the officers are being singled out because of their race or gender, according to The New York Times. Hegseth had been pressing senior Army leaders, including Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, for months to remove the officers’ names, military officials said. But Secretary Driscoll, citing the officers’ decades-long records of exemplary service, had repeatedly refused. Earlier this month, Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so. The list is currently being reviewed by the White House, which is expected to sent for final approval to the Senate.

FWIW: high schools and vocational schools aren't common schools under the historical definition. But magnet schools dont survive the courts' own internal logic when striking down charters.

Kentucky Democrats need to explain how Magnet Schools remain legal after this court ruling.

@GibbsCalhoun @billybinion He is selling them, and people are reselling them... Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, John 2. Jesus would literally be flipping Trump's desk over in the Oval Office...

@billybinion How is an autographed Bible incompatible with Christianity?

How does anyone think a Trump-branded, Trump-autographed Bible is remotely compatible with Christianity? C’mon.

@billybinion If there was an antichrist, Trump would be its best candidate to date.

@Facialfindings @gorrillavision @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs

@PatrickRGibbons @gorrillavision @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs What's it like being this fucking stupid and also being a pseudointellectual.

Man has a message for white people: "Why are white people proud to be white? I don’t understand?"

@AllenZutt @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs You are a moron. data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.M…

@HLC_actual FDR didn't micromanage field commanders. FDR issued strategic guidance. orders ran through Marshall/JCS. The claim that leaving Bataan was ‘the only order MacArthur ever followed’ is a slogan, not history. MacArthur should be criticized, but mindreading him ain't it.

Cool AI slop but MacArthur was a POS leader who abandoned his troops on Bataan. Oh and before any of you smooth brains con at me “the president told him to” it was literally the only order from FDR he followed. To save his own skin make a big speech and leave thousands of men to the empire of Japan for 4 fucking years.

@gorrillavision @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs So are a lot of poorer nations than each of those.

@PatrickRGibbons @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs Japan and Korea are heavily influenced by America

@AllenZutt @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs Korea got wealthy before democracy. Japan beat Russia in a war in 1905. Russia and most of Eastern Europe remain poor relative to those countries. Whiteness isnt the reason. Institutions are.

@AllenZutt @CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs Inventing tech ≠ creating national wealth. Japan and Singapore got rich by building competent institutions: courts, contracts, education, anti-corruption, export industries. Korea’s growth began under authoritarianism before democracy. Race explains none of this. Institutions do

@EMoriartyX @jmhorp Another fail Elizabeth. Jim isn’t arguing ‘old = wrong.’ He’s pointing out a repeated historical pattern: nativist panics framed immigrants as resource drains and led to bad policy. That’s an analogy, not circular reasoning. Respond with data, not straw men.

@jmhorp "People said this 100 years ago, therefore they were wrong, because it was 100 years ago. I just proved definitively that their complaints were invalid with this brilliant circular reasoning, QED any similar complaints now are also invalid."

15% of the population of Ireland entered the US between 1851 and 1860 9% of the population of Norway entered the US in the 1880s 6% of the population of Italy entered the US from about 1900-1910

@EMoriartyX @tannenfreund_87 @MichaelJester @BrandonStraka More fallacies, very little sunstance Elizabeth. Dismissing an argument by mocking the person (“the German expert on America”) is ad hominem + poisoning the well. Engage the claims or concede you don’t dispute them.

@tannenfreund_87 @MichaelJester @BrandonStraka 🤣 Of all the Foreign Experts on America, the most misinformed, the most media-gullible, the most comically pompous and self-satisfied in his credulity and ignorance, is the German Expert on America.

OBAMA: “The other side does the mean, angry, exclusive, us/them, divisive politics. That's their home court. Our court is coming together.”

@CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs The US didn’t succeed because it was ‘white.’ It inherited institutions that foster growth: common law, property rights, markets, limits on arbitrary power. Former British vs French/Spanish colonies show different long-run outcomes due to institutional inheritance, not race.

@CJGRISHAM @DefiantLs White’ isn’t a causal variable. Institutions are. Rule of law, property rights, courts, trade, and capital build wealth. Japan, S. Korea, and Singapore got rich without becoming white. Russia, Albania and Argentina are white and struggled. Correlation isn’t causation.

@EMoriartyX @WooleyCm @GermanicFren @elonmusk Multiple fallacies in one tweet Elizabeth. Nicely done. Attacking tone instead of the argument is an evasion, not a rebuttal. If the facts are wrong, correct them. If not, the sneer is just noise.

@WooleyCm @GermanicFren @elonmusk These exercises in "bet you didn't know" are so childish and tedious. Look, I know you think you're blowing people's minds here, but...NOBODY DOESN'T KNOW about these other ethnicities in the early US. And spare us the grade-school history lectures.

For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”! American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@EMoriartyX @InezFeltscher You made absolutist claims (“never polished,” “always flat”). Those are easy to knock down. My point was only that AI can clean up mechanics; it doesn’t supply insight or voice. You attacked a strawman. AI could have helped you there too.

I don’t understand people who use AI to write tweets. It’s like if your hobby was knitting so you went out and bought a sweater. You’ve got to poast for the love of the game, otherwise what’s the point?

@EMoriartyX @InezFeltscher

@EMoriartyX @InezFeltscher Quote where I said “polished = profound” or that they’re synonyms. I explicitly said the opposite: polished ≠ profound. Polish = mechanics (typos/grammar/clunk). Profound = ideas/insight.