@gatocabron49 @hailthebluemoon @Makeshifts98 @captive_dreamer At least 10% is North African, and it’s mostly Algerian.
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@_samwhy @hailthebluemoon @Makeshifts98 @captive_dreamer That figure is incorrect. Furthermore, colonisation involves seizing land and power in a country and ruling it; it does not mean filling prisons, selling drugs or delivering burgers
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Pascal Bruckner: "Europe got over the loss of its colonies much more quickly than the colonies got over their loss of Europe."
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Ironically, if France treated Algerians well during the French Empire, a well-governed French Algeria might still exist, and France would not be 10% Algerian today.
samwhy@_samwhy
It's not like the French treated the Algerians poorly or anything, right? I mean, aside from systematically confiscating their most fertile land, denying them basic citizenship, and subjecting them to a separate, highly punitive legal system for over a century, everything was great! The fact that Algerians want to live in France shows they want to live *equally* under French rule, not as subjects. Maybe France can try again?
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@Humble0Observer @captive_dreamer I didn’t say that at all! I am clearly blaming Algerians for their inability to create a better society for themselves. After all this is why they want to live in France.
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@_samwhy @captive_dreamer Before that Algerian slavers and pirates were attacking European ships and etc etc. That your view of history stops and ends with White people points to the real issue at hand: only White people have agency, a fact which is implicitly acknowledged by every political faction.
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@_samwhy @Makeshifts98 @captive_dreamer The Algerians specifically, or a 40-country Camp of the Saints coalition?
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@Maysaloon It’s funny that he would make a misstep when the Christian right is actively reconsidering its support for Israel though!
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@teortaxesTex @mormongoblin Every state who obtained nuclear weapons did so with ten years or so (even India and Pakistan for God’s sake!). And you think the Iranians were just not able to?
They chose not to for ideological reasons and they are being obliterated for making this idiotic decision.
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> and we're supposed to believe they never figured out how to build nuclear weapons?
oh they know how to build them
they just get bombed or killed before they can complete the job.
the fatwa is real too ofc. but they can't even finish the preparatory stages
Uncensored.AI@GoUncensored
So Iran has hypersonic missiles, cluster munitions, the most advanced, war ready and cost efficient drone model on the planet and they've effectively been fighting 6 countries at once for 3 weeks with a yearly budget of $10 billion. and we're supposed to believe they never figured out how to build nuclear weapons? Nonsene. If Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, they'd have one. They don't and never did. Joe Kent's telling the truth, they literally voted against developing them in 2004. "Iran must NEVER get a nuclear weapon" is the "Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction" of 2026. This entire is treasonous and based on a total lie.
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@Makeshifts98 @captive_dreamer Well, it seems like the Algerians are conquering the French now, so...
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@_samwhy @captive_dreamer Who give a shit? They were the inferior civilization, that's why they got conquered.
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@CoffeewClassics @RachelXReads I honestly wouldn't worry about it. As a technical problem, AI detection is pretty much solved (see Pangram).
If you don't use AI to write, you have nothing to worry about—use as many em dashes as you want.
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@RachelXReads I’ve done the same thing. Which feels like a surrender.
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Has Pangram compared the ability of humans vs. Pangram in detecting AI writing?
AI writing seems to have some obvious signals ("it is not X, but Y", em dashes, "blah blah is real", and so on), so whenever I am tempted to check Pangram, I am usually right (that the piece was written by AI).
Of course, there is a severe selection bias here—I don't check any writing that I don't suspect, so I am curious whether I am consuming a lot more AI slop than I think.
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@goblinodds It was right though. It said 100% human. I’d rather people use Pangram (which has a vanishingly low false positive rate) than rely on error-prone heuristics like number of em dashes
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pangram is for cowards
2HP goblin advisor@goblinodds
@callanable @dismaien @pangramlabs i feel like the whole "trying to suss out AI writing" thing is retarded. humans and LLMs train on human writing. feels like people trying to out trans people, like 30% of the time they end up just roasting a cis woman for being ugly. good job everyone
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@policytensor @MacaesBruno But it's undoubtedly a massive strategic blunder on Iran's part not to go for a bomb. Pretty much every other country did it in 5-15 years. And the US ended up attacking anyway! So their calculus clearly failed.
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Certainly breakout would have. But a rush to achieve breakout would’ve invited a US attack. So it wasn’t an easy decision.
Imagine on the other hand if they had shut Hormuz when they were attacked by Israel and then the US. They’d have forced the issue that they are forcing now after taking 100X the punishment.
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No. Conventional. Had they drawn blood last year, he wouldn’t have gotten the bully boner that he did. It was a miscalculation.
Bruno Maçães@MacaesBruno
Iran is now being blamed for *not* having a nuclear bomb
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@ripplebrain The recent stock market boom that @teortaxesTex was referring is pretty much all due to Israeli defense companies. Other countries want war-tested equipment and Israel is always at war.
It’s hard to say it’s fake, or more fake than typical stock markets.
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I'll grant you this: given the status quo the Israelis will probably be able to finesse whatever they need from the US government to keep their fake economy propped up, and it'll be paid for with my tax dollars. This parasitism, corruption, and scamming just screams first world.
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You say this as we witness the most obvious market manipulation in living memory. Your line is fake, and is composed of absurdly suspicious deals and open looting of the US economy that even the fake market identifies as such. Childishness is believing this charade can be kept up even as your coethnics' most critical economic assets erupt into fireballs as we speak.
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
Israel has been on an exponential bull run ever since Oct 7. If you don't understand (or don't want to understand) why that will continue, you're in no position to dunk on me. The world doesn't work according to your childish third worldist wishes. Matthew 25:29.
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@favelaoverlord @ObtainerOf Why do you not think the Iranian won’t keep going until they get a peace deal? That is their goal most likely.
Aside from destroying civilian infrastructure to pressure them, it’s hard to see what else US/Israel can do to stop the Iranians.
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@ObtainerOf what’s the new paradigm? on a long enough timespan (a couple months) they facilitate such immense demand destruction that the SoH becomes useless; also continuation of the war means further trading of fossil fuel infrastructure - which, once again, makes the strait useless.
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I’m feeling a ‘vibe shift’ and I think this will be resolved, some way, within the next 10 days or so.
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But how does he finish it? There are really no good options for him. A US ground invasion (not just limited ground ops) is really the most plausible path at this point, and I do think if it happens, it will eventually succeed.
Israel is getting everything it wants, of course, but Trump is stuck in a position where he is either humiliated or he escalates what is the most unpopular war in US history.
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He will.
The saddest part of all this is that it's all pointless. Iran doesn't have the means to stop the US and Israel. Iran is simply imposing pain, damaging global economy, to spoil the rest of Trump's term. It's a move for an iterated game, but there won't be another round.
Clash Report@clashreport
Trump reposts Fox: Why Trump must finish what he started with Iran’s regime.
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There is an NYT published article that is 100% LLM generated. Check out the 6 March 2026 Reza Aslan article:
nytimes.com/2026/03/06/opi…
According to pangram, it all AI generated. I contacted NYT with the evidence (pangram as well as stylistic evidence) and they refused to acknowledge that AI was used (as if they would know!).
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Saw that @gwern found an AI-written op-ed in WSJ. @jennajrussell's recent paper on AI in the news found that op-eds contained 6x as much AI content as regular news outlet pages (4.5% overall) and most contributors using AI were from guest contributors.
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@benlandautaylor And guarantee centuries of war in this new homeland?
It's also not clear that it has worked well for the Israelis just yet. Israel has historically been very dependent on Western support, and I don't think Armenians will be able to capture Western interest to the same extent.
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What if some other persecuted groups also tried the strategy of carving out a new state in a distant land where the locals can’t put together a real army. Kurdish homeland in South America. New Boer Republic in western Indochina. Armenian settler state in central Africa.
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@teortaxesTex Reading your tweets, it seems Israel's every move is 4D chess. I think your confidence in them is too high. It's impressive to see their decapitation strikes. But that's probably the height of it. In the real world, everyone makes mistakes, even Israel.
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Btw Israel is perfectly OK with this
Gulf petrostates are quite uppity. Zionists have been whining for years now how Qatar lobby is flush with cash and is intruding on their turf (or even lobbying in *Israel*, the chutzpah!)
Iran can take care of that. That's some real 4D chess.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Major Fire Breaks Out at Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG Complex After Iranian Attack — World's Largest Facility Affected
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@mmjukic Interestingly, Moody's is now at 50% for a US recession in the next 12 months.
euronews.com/business/2026/…
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@ayatr0llah On the contrary, attacking the GCC and destroying (or threatening to destroy) their oil facilities is Iran's best move for ending the war on its own terms.
They can't win a war against the US, but they can win a war against the stock market.
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really open question the point at which everyone will admit that iran's attacks on the gcc are backfiring
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