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@2worldsPodcast Anzac Day is the key point. Let’s demilitarize, defund the police etc etc etc Chinese state before you know it

No murder weapon. No body. No access to Afghan crime scenes after 15+ years. No forensics, no post-mortems, no projectiles recovered. The witnesses are all battling PTSD, which will get ripped apart in cross-examination. Memory loss, faded combat memories, all the usual side effects and the defence will hammer that hard. And remember, it still has to be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Good luck with that. No jury's going to convict Ben Roberts-Smith on this evidence. And don't get me started on the timing… arresting him right before Anzac Day, in front of his family as he gets off the plane, with the cameras already there waiting like they knew exactly what was coming. Something here really doesn't add up.

As an Iranian, let me tell you what @POTUS is talking about here: In Iran, if you protest, you die. Not metaphorically. Snipers on rooftops shoot people in the head and chest. In January, the regime massacred thousands in the streets, many of them young people whose only crime was demanding a normal life. When he says Iranians are telling the U.S. “please keep bombing” he’s describing a population so desperate to be free from a regime that murders them for protesting, that they’re willing to endure war if it means the system that has terrorized them for 47 years finally falls. You may not understand that. Most Westerners can’t. You’ve never lived in a country where your daughter can be shot in the face for not covering her hair. Where your son disappears into Evin Prison and you get a call to come pick up the body. Where the internet goes dark so the world can’t see the killing. That’s what “they have lived in a world that you know nothing about” means. Before the media turns this into “Trump wants to bomb civilians,” understand: the Iranian people have been begging the world to see them for years. This is the first U.S. president to say it out loud.

@craigkellyAFEE Corruption is rife. And all before Anzac Day… how convenient

There is something that doesn’t sit right when the Director of Public Prosecutions "sought consent from Attorney-General Michelle Rowland" to arrest Ben Robert Smith - when that very same Attorney-General was recently busted rorting her travel allowance, but face no penalty other than having to repay the money.

@jedifractal How do you come to that conclusion man:)

Just like that Iran triumphs over the US.

@ozols_aldis @Livi17647594 @johnkonrad You’re onto it mate

@Livi17647594 @johnkonrad 🧐

Something is really bothering me about the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Nobody likes being a hypocrite. Unlike most, I actually go for a walk when I suspect myself of being one. On one hand, this prosecution stinks of liberal bias. Out of thousands of potential war crimes cases the social justice warrior police chief could have pursued, she picked THE most decorated soldier on the entire continent. That isn’t justice. That’s a public humiliation ritual. On the other hand, I do believe actual war criminals should stand trial regardless of rank or honors. And I know what’s coming: “John, Roberts-Smith already lost the 2023 defamation case. Justice Besanko found he committed the murders.” Yes. On the balance of probabilities. 51 percent. That’s the civil standard. Criminal conviction requires 99 percent. The same fragile evidence that barely cleared a coin flip is now supposed to send a man to prison for life. Here’s why my post is not hypocrisy. When the school got hit in Iran weeks ago, I said mistakes aren’t war crimes, but if it was intentional or grossly negligent, someone should be court-martialed. That strike is recent. Physical. Investigable. The Roberts-Smith allegations are 20 years old. And here’s what the Brereton Inquiry, for all its 510 witnesses & four years of work, could never get: No crime scene access. The Taliban didn’t let investigators into Uruzgan. No Afghan witnesses interviewed. No secured scene. No blood-spatter analysis. No DNA No autopsies. No recovered bodies. No weapons tied to victims. The investigators themselves admitted they “lacked access to Afghan crime scenes and were missing the physical evidence that would normally anchor a murder prosecution.” So what’s left? Memory. Twenty-year-old memory from men in the fog of war. The science is unambiguous. Countless research studies confirms memory is reconstructive: later suggestion, media exposure, and repeated questioning distort it. This is the textbook misinformation effect. Confidence and accuracy decouple within months, let alone decades. Studies on soldiers who suffer PTSD show the gaps get even larger. I admittedly don’t know 🇦🇺 law but US courts admit decades-old testimony but warn juries it is inherently fragile, not scientific proof. Australia is treating it as load-bearing concrete. The media says “20 former soldiers testified against him.” Fine. Was all their testimony actually against him? How clear was it? Did 20 people watch him murder a civilian in broad daylight? And even if they did, you still have to prove the dead man wasn’t Taliban. In Uruzgan. In 2009. Without a body. Some will say I’m being pedantic. Yes. I. Am. Because Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with murder, and under war-crimes law the same act can be framed as murder, willful killing, or killing a person hors de combat depending on the framing. How it gets framed sets precedent for every future war. And here’s the question nobody in Canberra wants asked: Why is the trigger-puller in the dock while the officers who wrote the rules of engagement, approved the missions, and signed the after-action reports keep their pensions? The Victoria Cross winner hangs. The chain of command walks. Past “War crime” cases with more hard evidence remain “unsolved” That isn’t accountability. That’s a scapegoat ritual. You do not get a Victoria Cross just for killing. You get it for extraordinary gallantry, valour, self-sacrifice & devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. And here is what Australia just told every soldier watching: the reward for a VC is fame which will make you a target for future show trials built on 20-year-old memories, prosecuted by a police chief with no combat but more ribbons on her uniform than you. If murder can be proven without hard evidence decades later. That isn’t justice even if he is guilty. Proof of guilt matters. That’s a Marxist humiliation ceremony leading to national strategic disarmament by lawfare.

@johnkonrad It's also just two weeks before ANZAC Day, our biggest national military commemoration on April 25th. It's almost as if it was designed to demoralise.

@Brit_Aus_Com Country is cactus

"Military investigators have taken the highly unusual step of reaching out to Australia’s Afghan community for information on any wrongdoing committed by Diggers in Afghanistan. Notices calling for details of “rumours” of possible breaches of the rules of war in Afghanistan were placed in Afghani newspapers publishing in Australia, including Victoria’s Arman Monthly and the NSW-based Persian Herald." via @AntipodeEmpire

The Australian government is running Arabic language ads encouraging foreign non-citizens to access the “First Home Owner’s Grant” - subsidising non-citizens to buy homes in Australia even if they have property overseas. The First Home Owner scheme allows non-citizens to purchase homes in Australia with a 5% deposit, regardless of whether they own a home overseas. The Australian government acts as a guarantor for the remaining 15 per cent of the deposits, allowing the first homebuyer to avoid paying lenders mortgage insurance (LMI). Just unbelievable how badly our country is managed

@anishmoonka How do you reliably measure iq

Your walking speed at 45 was partly decided before you started kindergarten. Scientists in New Zealand followed 904 people from birth to age 45, testing them 13 times over five decades. At the final checkpoint, they measured how fast each person walked, scanned their brains, and ran IQ tests. The slowest walkers scored 16 IQ points below the fastest. Brain scans showed the gap in physical form. Slow walkers had smaller brains and a thinner outer layer (the wrinkly part that handles your thinking and memory). They had tiny spots of damage in their brain wiring that doctors normally see in people in their 70s, not their 40s. Their lungs were aging more quickly. Their grip was weaker. When strangers viewed photos of these people without knowing their ages, they rated slow walkers as looking years older than they actually were. Then the researchers pulled up the test results from when these same people were 3 years old. Language skills, frustration tolerance, coordination, and emotional control. The toddlers who scored lowest at 3 grew up to be the slowest walkers at 45. A 12-point IQ gap was already visible four decades before anyone measured a single stride. Walking speed doesn't make you smarter, and being smart doesn't make you walk faster. Walking is one of the few things your body does that needs your brain, heart, lungs, muscles, joints, and eyes all firing at once. The Duke team behind the study called it a window into how your whole body has been aging since childhood. A separate 2011 study in JAMA (one of the biggest medical journals) pooled over 34,000 older adults and found that a tiny bump in walking speed, about four extra inches covered per second, was associated with 12% better survival. Doctors now treat walking speed as "the sixth vital sign," right next to your heart rate, temperature, breathing, blood pressure, and pain level. The data in this tweet is verified. The link between walking speed and brain size holds up. But your walking speed at midlife is a report card on how fast your body has been aging since you were a kid. And for some of these people, that process was already showing up before they could read.

@AbudBakri Please don’t be a statin guy

You can debate lipids all day in cardiometabolic healthy people but if you’re on TRT you need to aggressively be managing lipids

BREAKING: Housing Australia says 48,000 non-citizen migrant first homebuyers have used 5 per cent deposit scheme. TAX PAYERS are funding homes for non-citizens. Absolute crime. news.com.au/finance/real-e…

@SamaHoole Man i just love them. Full carnivore and right now they are fantastic for a bit of variety and maybe it’s all mental but i feel so good after eating them. Pretty sure the ones we get down here in Australia are clean.. but fuck it you need one vice and this one keep me carni

The oyster post apparently upset some people. That's fine. Let's do nuance. Yes, oysters are nutritious. High zinc, B12, copper, selenium. The argument was not that oysters have no nutritional value. The argument was that oysters are filter feeders, they bioconcentrate their environment, and the quality of what you get is therefore a direct function of where the oyster was sitting. A Pacific oyster in clean water off the Scottish coast is different from a farmed oyster in a crowded estuary near agricultural runoff. The label does not tell you which one you have. The menu does not tell you which one you have. The polished presentation on crushed ice, with the half lemon and the mignonette, does not tell you which one you have. That was the point. The nutrients are real. The caveat is also real. Calling that "fear-mongering" is the same logic as saying cigarettes aren't bad because some smokers live to ninety. The average matters. The contamination risk is measurable. The clean-water provenance question is worth asking. Ask it. Before the second dozen.

@ChrisVMDHealth Are you a lefty? You just never have any context in your “reposts”. If you can’t see the satire, i think you’re just engagement farming

Just so you know, this isn’t optimization, this is mental illness.

@Sophiemcneill You are an idiot. People like you are driving this country into the ground.

Australia must end AUKUS now & develop an independent foreign policy. We simply cannot continue to be hitched to this unstable fascist in the White House & his growing list of war crimes.

@_SinRG Very much disagree bro. You got the wrong media sources my friend

@SBO8085 Do you just love seeing the world burn? Dude is unhinged AF 😂

This can't be real life. What timeline are we living in? And where is the DeLorean when we need it most?

@ZssBecker Accurate. Can’t believe I’d ever write that on an Alex Becker post but there you go.

If I could give you one success life hack. And trust me. I literally have a hyperbaric healing chamber in my house. I take life hacks seriously. If I could give you one tho. It'd be this. Grab a bunch of epic fantasy books as thick as your head. Replace all your TV and social media time reading them. Your brain will slowly start to work again. The focus from reading the thick ass wordy books will slowly put it back together. Sanderson. Abercrombie. Gaimman. Pierce Brown. Great places to start. Replacing this as your main time wasting hobby will give you absolutely crazy returns when it comes to actually making money. The focus you gain will make you lethal.

@Arrogance_0024 You’re an idiot

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@KobeissiLetter I love this guy. Fkn legend

BREAKING: President Trump tells Iran “open the f***** Strait of Hormuz, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell.” Trump declares Tuesday as “power plant and bridge day.”

@DrewPavlou Wtf

WAIT, the Australian government gives subsidies to non-citizens to buy housing??? The First Homeowner Grant is available to non-citizens??? What the actual fuck??