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For the uninitiated on Rojava (Western Kurdistan) - zwan.substack.com/p/rojava-and-w… The Libertarian Socialist experiment must be defended by force of arms, ideally and preferably via transnational Kurdish unity.

@DanielGoldersUK @DavidGauke @mikegalsworthy @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Daniel, I’ll say this slowly because I think you’re limited, Kamala Harris was by no stretch of the imagination a communist. She was an awful corporate democratic nominee, perfectly aligned with Joe Biden.

@DavidGauke @mikegalsworthy @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg What - You'd rather have seen vile rancid Communist nutjob Kamala "Word Salad" Harris as President??

Any regrets yet from @Nigel_Farage @BorisJohnson @trussliz @RobertJenrick @Jacob_Rees_Mogg for backing this man to be President?

@TzillaSaid @mohammedIhysse Are you dumb? West Asia is the Middle East. You could have remained silent and hidden your ignorance yet you decided to advertise it.

@mohammedIhysse You’re a liar. You’re not in Gaza. This is some creative writing prompt.

While we were trapped in northern Gaza and the bombardment intensified, I decided to move to the south to escape death. There was an Israeli army checkpoint. When my wife, my children, and I crossed, an Israeli soldier shouted at me, telling me to lower my head to the ground. He ordered me loudly to say that Palestine does not exist and to say that I am a rat. Sadly, I said it — I even said I was a rat. Not because I was afraid for myself, but because I was afraid they might kill my children in front of me, or kill me and leave my children alone after me. I remembered this moment now, and today I say it openly: Palestine is our land, and you occupied it. One day it will be free. I am not a rat — and you know that. You were standing with your weapon in front of my children, while I had nothing but the clothes I was wearing. I am not a rat, and Palestine is my homeland...

@BritishPsycho__ Yes but he doesn’t believe this, slight bit of pressure and he returns to his usual nastiness and close mindedness.

Obviously I’m team Green but this is smart

So, if I got that right, here's the narrative: - A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated." (apnews.com/article/donald…) - The plane's weapons systems officer - a "highly respected Colonel," according to Trump - ejected from the plane and got "seriously wounded" (still according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…) - He still managed to "hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice" in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (time.com/article/2026/0…) - U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all "Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American's location]" (x.com/ByChrisGordon/…) - To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an "abandoned airport," 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (bbc.com/news/articles/…), which happens to be where Iran's largest atomic scientific center is located (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_N…) - They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) in an operation involving "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" (time.com/article/2026/0…) - Both MC-130 planes got "stuck in the sand" and the U.S. destroyed them themselves "to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands" (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - They deployed "three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel" on the ground (theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s…) - There are videos circulating online of "heavy clashes" with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli…) - Iran sent pictures of the aftermath at the "abandoned airport" and it's a sight of utter destruction, with US plane and MH-6 helicopter parts scattered all over the ground, still smoking (turkiyetoday.com/region/wreckag…). Iran claims they are the ones who in fact destroyed all the aircraft. - Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/04/0…). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently "safely rescued." - In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the "hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel" operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed "or even wounded" (according to Trump: @realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…). - And the 'highly respected Colonel' this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is. So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn't exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it's at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to "sand" and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down - but not a single person got "even wounded". And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is "SAFE and SOUND." And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous. Trump concludes this all proves the US has "achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies" (@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTru…), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky. Basically, the only thing that's "overwhelming" here is the audacity of the storytelling...

@thisisnotmark_ @sircalebhammer Not the case Mark.

@sircalebhammer literally all this guy does is interview amazing world changing people, talk about how filled with love he is for everyone, even those he disagrees with or who hate him, and try and put as much good as he can into the world. I suppose that's enough for the internet

What did he do? I feel like the internet just decides to hate someone after they are popular long enough, for no reason.

@piersmorgan You are by every metric right wing Piers.

Given this has me down as ‘right-leaning’, I question its accuracy or relevance….

@GNucals @BretWeinstein @Sargon_of_Akkad No you didn’t because you’re a bot.

@BretWeinstein @Sargon_of_Akkad The man saving the world, mark these words! I voted for this

Trump, who I advocated for in 2024, has gone full "mad king." In considering my responsibility, I'd ask you to remember: The case I made rested on the fact that Biden/Harris were figureheads, shielding a cabal that couldn't be held to account, whereas Trump could. And we must.

@ggreenwald @Jsp_Nic well, will it?

Will this incessant self-pitying, self-victimizing whining ever end?

@Acyn Just propaganda, getting the wife of the VP to say nice things about her own husband while an illegal war has been waged abroad by his president.

Kayleigh: What’s something that we don’t know that you want America to know about your husband? Usha Vance: There are a lot of misconceptions about him. He is the nicest, funniest guy.

@quantum_shadow_ Bloody hell haha

@quantum_shadow_ Physically fight you or verbally? 😅

@RationalyYours @ImBreckWorsham You can’t negotiate with yourself buddy.

@ImBreckWorsham that's how you get your country heavily bombed. we do not negotiate with terrorists

The spokesperson for Khatam al-Anbiya: "We will exchange the captured American pilot for the release of 10,000 Palestinian prisoners."

@JoeEffOff @yannispappas Yes, they are, Kurds and Armenians are good examples.

@yannispappas Is modern day Turkey torturing and murdering a captive people? No? Then, no.

I don’t think the way Israel was founded in the vacuum of a defeated Ottoman Empire was good. But how is its creation fundamentally different from all nations, most of which were formed after empires collapsed, borders were redrawn, and populations were displaced?

@ConceptualJames How so?

Fact check: Trump is making America great, even despite all these anti-American losers who don't want him to.

@ginamilan_ @TheSK2023 Why’s it sickening?

@TheSK2023 It’s soooo sickening.

Never thought I’d see Americans rooting for Iranians to capture U.S. soldiers. Fucking sick.

@quantum_shadow_ Extremely accurate. It’s embarrassing how fawned over he is.

Still the most accurate description I've ever read of Joe Rogan.

@sneako You’re an idiot of monumental proportions.

I miss Barack Obama man

@nfergus Is there anyone who still takes this idiot and apologist for war criminals seriously? Please someone stand up and say they do and argue their case.

American Suez. A doleful essay for Good Friday. "There is now a rising probability that Trump’s war backfires on him much as Eden’s did—economically, politically, and geopolitically. Which raises the question: Is this the American Suez?" 1/5

@ItsJuliansRum WHY did you vote for these people?

“bUt ThEO vOn VoTeD fOr tHeSe pEoPle” Yea exactly that’s why he’s pissed. It’s why we’re all pissed. We thought we voted for America First but we got more of the same bullshit.

@petsonii @beyoncegarden This is just word salad nonsense, inspired by Peterson’s own style. He could not meaningfully answer the question because it would undermine his original position.

The fact that most people think that he didn’t answer the question is beyond me. Seeing a lot of shallow thinking people commenting on that is crazy. When he asked do you BELIEVE, it’s logical that you state your views and understandings about the word you are trying to use to ask or answer the question. Belief is the definition that JP gave. People who believe something don’t need to give a cheap, binary “yes or no” to satisfy a gotcha-style hypothetical. Jordan Peterson didn’t dodge the question, he took it far more seriously than the Parker ever did. He refused to play the superficial game of treating “belief in God” like some casual opinion you can test with a pen-in-hand scenario or a Nazi-at-the-door dilemma. Instead, he drilled down into what belief actually means: not just intellectual assent or a verbal checkbox, but a lived commitment that shows up in your patterns of action, your moral choices, and the way you orient your entire existence. That’s why he defined the term first. It wasn’t evasion, it was precision. He turned a shallow trap question into a real philosophical discussion about what it truly means to believe something as profound as an all-knowing God. Most critics missed that because they want sound-bite simplicity. Peterson gave depth. That’s the difference between shallow thinking and actual intellectual honesty.

he CLEARED him so bad i’m crying he just wouldn’t answer😭