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constans
@constans
hard scrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam. “pedantic plonker”. GenX hegemonist [email protected] if you need to find me elsewhere
New York, NY เข้าร่วม Mayıs 2008
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How many years will pass before they start blaming Europeans for not stopping their “excursion” in Iran?
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@iron_redux No I’m saying it didn’t make a difference when part of eisenhower’s motivation was to show we were not like Soviet interventionists
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@constans Do you think had Eisenhower not done what he did the Soviets would not have or been able to intervene in Hungary or Czechoslovakia?
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On some level I think Eisenhower was wrong to tell England and France to back off their Suez Canal intervention. It didn’t help us look like “the good guy” to the rest of the world compared to the Soviets and didn’t stop the USSR from invading Hungary or Czechoslovakia.
Ross Baglin@ross_baglin
For those with long memories of 1956, it is mildly amusing that the US is now begging Britain and France for help in unblocking what is, in effect, a shipping canal.
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I like the graphite suppliers but my favourite is definitely the woman with the warehouse of engines who likes to sing.
Joe@JoePostingg
If you get deep enough into TikTok your feed becomes mostly Chinese commodity wholesalers
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constans รีทวีตแล้ว
“Every President I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak. It didn’t matter whether it was Jimmy Carter or Gerry Ford or Ronald Reagan or George Bush. Something would happen and they would just absolutely go screw themselves right into the ceiling they were so angry and they’d sort of rant and rave around the Oval Office. I think it was their frustration about knowing that there was so little they could do about it because of domestic politics and everything else that was so frustrating to them.”
— Robert M. Gates
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We have Sky Splitting Thunderbolts of Gold!
Like many pieces of Chinese propaganda, it makes the US look cool and ends with a didactic lesson.
Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸@AngelicaOung
Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅
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@dilanesper Even before 9/11 George W Bush explicitly talked about how the Clinton years were morally empty and a squandered moral opportunity. He didn’t see war on the horizon at the time but after sept 11th saw it as a moment of destiny
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@dilanesper #3 is actually very real. MOST of that attitude was annihilated from the mainstream in WWI. But it never goes away. The wars we entered after Sept 11th were explicitly talked about by neoconservatives as something that would give us meaning…
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The thing I don't relate to is the worldview that thinks what we really need to do is have lots of conflict, over and over again, against "the bad guys" and it doesn't matter that everyone ends up massively poorer as a result. To me, a person who thinks like that needs help.
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constans รีทวีตแล้ว
@TechnoPulp @BonessWF Both are kind of true. He understands when he has leverage that means there’s no consequences. But part of that leverage he understands he has is knowing people won’t push back and make things more difficult
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@BonessWF @constans We’re straying from the OP point which is the claim that people just give in to Trump bc he is annoying to deal with; my claim is that he actually understands the nature of power and human nature better than most people; what appear as “wriggling” is actually just a mistaken…
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Trump has always understood that people find it easier to just go along with him and give him what he wants. But Iran is refusing to do so while Israel his pushing him into a position he doesn’t want to be in, and this is something he’s not used to
david c. porter (read NTTN)@toomuchistrue
fundamentally what's enabled trump to "wriggle out of it" again and again is that when you're president of the united states and say something is so, a great machine is immediately set to work bringing reality into, at the very least, a workable semblance of alignment with it
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@Spiralhetre @PonuryAbsurd @joyful_union You know what a good mechanism is to signal what tasks are necessary in a distributed self organized fashion? Prices.
You think in a communist paradise you’re going to be a community coordinator organizing mutual aid. Actually you’ll be sent the the spreadsheet mines
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@PonuryAbsurd @joyful_union @constans Asking for a master spreadsheet assumes the future must be managed like a giant corporation. We already have massive productive capacity. People will figure out what tasks are actually necessary when they are free to organize their communities and daily lives themselves. 1/2
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constans รีทวีตแล้ว
You killed the moderate (Kantian Philosopher) now you get the radical (PhD in Supply Chain Logistics)
Javed Hassan@javedhassan
Ali Larijani’s successor, Hossein Dehghan, holds a PhD in Management. He was one of the students who occupied the US embassy in Tehran. He also commanded the IRGC forces in Lebanon and was among the orchestrators of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The look on his face says it all.
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@MattBDeano @FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd You can be an agent of change in your workplace by taking a shit on the conference table during a meeting with the CEO. But that’s not what the people hiring you wanted
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@FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd One might say this about Teddy Roosevelt as well. Change argents are rarely what we think they might be ..... We didn't elect Jesus
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From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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@FeserEdward @SohrabAhmari @unherd So Sohrab Ahmari has just figured out what suburban liberal wine moms figured out a decade ago. Golf clap.
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We amend the constitution via SCOTUS appointments.
That is a really stupid but it is our system and both parties now carefully vet candidates to ensure they amend the constitution in the direction favored by their parties.
constans@constans
Roberts was groomed in the 80s to provide legal foundations to get rid of the Voting Rights Act and appointed by W because he had an expansive view of executive authority, necessary to justify Guantanamo detentions, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ROBERTS DELIVERED ON AS CHIEF JUSTICE
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Roberts was groomed in the 80s to provide legal foundations to get rid of the Voting Rights Act and appointed by W because he had an expansive view of executive authority, necessary to justify Guantanamo detentions, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT ROBERTS DELIVERED ON AS CHIEF JUSTICE
Craig Caplan@CraigCaplan
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in Houston today: "The notion that we carry forward the views of the people that appointed us is absurd. President George W. Bush appointed me 20 years ago. The idea that I'm carrying out his agenda somehow is absurd...And history is full of examples of Presidents appointing people and being really surprised how they turned out going both ways."
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@constans Bush signed and a supermajority of Republicans voted for the reauthorization of Section 5 that Roberts held was unconstitutional
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constans รีทวีตแล้ว
Every single last bit of this was obvious in 2022, and 2020, and 2018, and 2016. Armari endorsed Trump after January 6. A couple of months ago, he weighed in on ICE murdering two protesters -- on the side of ICE. Spare the latest monthly flip-flop.
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
From @SohrabAhmari: “Trump…has now fully given way to his liberal caricature: venal, erratic, childish, a chaos agent…The scale of [his] failures...return[s us] to the character problem that first gave rise to the Never Trump movement” unherd.com/2026/03/trump-… via @UnHerd
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constans รีทวีตแล้ว
It's becoming very clear that a transit agency that is run and operated by politicians who are playing double duty as politicians scared to piss off NIMBYs and as transit planners is a very VERY flawed system
lej@_lej44
“The critics mainly consisted of Lafayette Square residents who oppose Metro tunneling underneath their Mid-City historic district” Utter insanity that ~30-50ppl can delay a regional mass transit line for something objectively false. Tunneling 80-120ft below em’ does NOTHING.
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