Spreading the glory of Georgism one tweet at a time. Regular Econ, Chess & OSINT twitter lurker. Peak lichess rating: 2496 - Eng/Deu/Esp/Rus - 27
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I got banned for a week for telling a Nazi to drink bleach, so I’m going to keep my backup pinned for the foreseeable future
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The basically objectively correct take is this is good if it materializes, although obviously the makeup of the deal matters significantly
BREAKING: Pakistan's Prime Minister announces that the US and Iran have officially reached a peace deal and the official signing will take place on June 19th in Switzerland.
"Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon," he says.
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Woke 2 is a lot more antisemitic than Woke 1
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Jun 13
This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen in my life
Jun 13
MAGA-influencer Riley Gaines being told/paid by Patriot Mobile handlers what her "sincerely held" beliefs are in leaked video.
Mar-A-Lago Face is a phenomenon that needs to be studied academically.
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Jun 13
“Why are Liberals afraid of the thing that turned the Republican Party into a personality cult with no real values” big mystery dude
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It’s called World War I
Jun 12
Its called Eurovision
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Jun 12
Tulsi Gabbard released a map of bioweapons labs in Ukraine that has Kyiv right next to Moldova.
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Jun 12
Incredible. Publishing what appears to be (if you care to read the "evidence") a totally legitimate US program, and even citing the risks of these being used as "Russian information campaigns", Tulsi Gabbard - the gift that kept giving - presents the Kremlin with yet one more information operation.
Read our investigation from 2025 where we presented evidence that the hybrid ops unit of GRU's 29155 came up with the whole "bio-labs" concept - and co-opted Tulsi into it. theins.press/en/inv/281731
Jun 12
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/…
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Honestly if they wanted, instant citizenship for this alone. They understand America better than most 🇺🇸
Dude, the Algerians picked—like—the worst hotel in Lawrence because it would let them smoke inside.
HEROES.
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Jun 11
I hate soccer and couldn’t care less about the World Cup but I am actually totally down for these videos of normal non-internet poisoned Americans being like “we love the nice Algerians who chose our town!”
Jun 8
🗣️ “I want to say thank you to Algeria for choosing Lawrence, Kansas.” 🇺🇸
The locals in USA are all getting behind Algeria. 🇩🇿
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Jun 12
I apologize for the language, but JESUS EFFING CHRIST. Evil. Pure fucking evil. Burn in hell, you unspeakable bastards
This is the flight set to take multiple people who proved to an immigration judge that they would be persecuted in their home countries and dump them in a war-torn nation that the United States warns its own citizens to avoid traveling to for any reason.
Stop the flight!
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I can’t believe I actually forgot about this story
“The President and his seemingly alcoholic Defense Secretary blow up a bunch of boats to look cool” really deserved to be a headline for more than a week
Jun 10
One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.
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Jun 11
3 strike laws are probably bad
20 strike laws I think are a reasonable compromise
Jun 10
63 New Yorkers have been arrested 5k times for crimes on the subway.
327 New Yorkers were arrested 6k times for shoplifting in 2022.
Imagine how much we could increase quality of life in NYC by arresting a tiny population of career criminals
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Jun 11
Congratulations to everyone who correctly identified Snowden as an obvious Russian asset!
Russian asset Edward Snowden appeared in a Rossiya 1 report claiming that foreign intelligence services compromised phones of Russian officials through cooperation with Microsoft, Apple and Google. The segment promoted an FSB statement about a Western operation using companies such as CloudFlare and Fastly for surveillance.
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You are not scared enough about CPI inflation - 4.2% is a concerning top line number, but May’s annualization is 6%, and the annualization since the start of the Iran War is 8%
We can only hope a significant cool off hits in June but with oil reserves running low there’s absolutely no promise of this
Biden had to face an opening economy with a bunch of savings flooding weakened supply chains, and a large energy crisis in Russia/Ukraine - his inflation is as inevitable whether you think they managed it well enough (I think they did).
Trump’s inflation is entirely self inflicted. It’s a rare instance where you can in fact look at the economy, point to a President, and say “you did this.”
BREAKING: May CPI inflation rises to 4.2%, the highest level since April 2023.
Core CPI inflation also rises to 2.9%, the highest since September 2025.
Inflation in the US is officially back above 4% and more than double the Fed's target.
Odds of Fed rate hikes are rising.
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The question of when exactly the *instantiation of Nazi policy* of mass extermination started is debated, but even if you subscribe to the theory that it began after Wannsee, or under the Warthegau in Poland after Barbarossa had started, it’s important to realize that the Nazis didn’t have a term “Holocaust” and many Genocidal actions that we consider to constitute the Holocaust, rather simply, far preceded Barbarossa in the occupied Polish territories.
The Germans at this time had a number of odd ideas about how to deal with the Jews including a rather outlandish plan to ship them all to Madagascar (with full intent that many would die en route). The Holocaust was not completed inked out and planned on September 1st, 1939, but the ideology behind it was alive and active and taking lives before the eastern front opened up by the tens of thousands.
A better statement would be that the scale of the Holocaust was a consequence of Barbarossa, as the Einsatzgruppen mowing down 1.5 million Jews is often less talked about than the Polish camps of Treblinka, Auschwitz and Chelmno, which too coincided with military action in the USSR.
However we Holocaust was not a “consequence” of operation Barbarossa - the scale of it certainly was, but genocidal intent preexisted the operation, and in fact informed the operation.
Christopher Browning in The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942 (pages 240-241) writes:
“In addition to the practical measures taken to prepare for the war of destruc- tion against the Soviet Union, in particular the formation and training of the Einsatzgruppen, Himmler like so many others reveled in the coming possibilities for demographic engineering that would dwarf the experiments of the previous 18 months. On June 12-15 he met with top ss leaders (including Heydrich and the three future HSSPF for the Russian front: Bach-Zelewski, Prützmann, and Jeckeln) at his renovated Saxon castle in Wewelsburg. According to Bach-Zelewski, Himmler said: "It is a question of existence, thus it will be a racial struggle of pitiless severity, in the course of which 20 to 30 million Slavs and Jews will perish through military actions and crisis of food supply." (Es gehe um eine Existenzfrage, daher werde es zu einem Volkstumskampf von unerbitterlicher Härte kommen, in dessen Verlaufe durch die Kriegshandlungen und die Ernährungs-
schwierigkeiten 20 bis 30 Millionen Slamen und Fuden umkommen würden.)”
We also can see in the Oldenburg Plan written up by Hermann Göring that prior to operation Barbarossa, the intent to killed over 30 million in the east existed. Herbert Backe State Secretary in the Reichs Ministery for Food developed “der Hungerplan” to instantiate this policy.
It’s from these developments and others we can come to the following conclusions:
1. The ideology that produced and motivated the Holocaust preexisted the war in its entirety, and genocidal mass killings started prior to Barbarossa, although not to the infamously huge scale we think of today.
2. The articulation of Nazi policy of genocide was being crafted prior to Barbarossa, and was not a consequence thereof.
3. Operation Barbarossa allowed the Holocaust to develop into the massive scale we think of today, and the Nazi policy further developed during this time.
I will also note, there is an increasingly popular pseudohistorical theory that the Holocaust was driven due to a lack of resources and poor planning for keeping prisoners after Barbarossa began - I do not believe this is what @souljagoyteller is attempting to say based off of my previous interactions with him, and I don’t want him being confused as saying such based off of this post.
For more sources and references on this secondary pseudotheory, you can refer to a blog post I have here which completely dismantles the lies of Nazi Propagandist Darryl Cooper:
bluerepublik.wordpress.com/2…
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The Holocaust was a consequence of Operation Barbarossa. The idea that a war can’t be genocidal is ludicrous
Community note
The Holocaust predates Operation Barbarossa. Nazi persecution began in 1933, the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, and systematic mass killings in occupied Poland began in 1939. Operation Barbarossa (June 1941) was a major escalation and turning point, not the cause. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art… yadvashem.org/holocaust/abou… worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/this-w…
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I will also add a few notes, as @souljagoyteller has linked to this Wikipedia article in a reply.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functi…
Humans are capable of wanting many things at once, and erratic humans will change what they prefer due to the flapping of the wings of a butterfly.
Hitler in 1929 could’ve been deadset one day on wanting all the Jews dead and envisioned his rise to power on accomplishing this, and then the next month be tired and exhausted and would’ve settled for simply pushing them all out of Germany in mass expulsion.
One notable example of Hitler’s erratic nature is his reaction to encircled forces at Dunkirk in relation to his back and forth on “peace deals.”
(See pictures 1-2 from my earlier blog post)
The personal role of Hitler is debated but that he at many key stages spoke of war and destruction of world Jewry indicts him beyond counter with regards to the Holocaust - in addition to direct testimony from Nuremberg.
The internationalists largely focus on Hitler, and place the Holocaust largely at his feet and say that this was a longstanding plan.
The functionalists take a different stance:
After Hitler, we have a second layer of upper level officials who were less erratic, but had to stay in step with Hitler. Göring, Himmler and down to Heydrich, Eichmann, Backe, etc.
Then, you have lower level commanders as well, who also had their own genocidal intent.
These lowest level men, according to the most extreme functionalists, are where the Holocaust originated, and bled into policy at the upper levels.
I have qualms with this and far too many - such as within the Wikipedia article that Sami cites with Götz Aly - ignore that in many cases resources were diverted from the upper level in order to make the mass killing happen, whereas many conservative Germans in the Nazi government would’ve rather kept Jews alive as slave labor for the war effort! But especially by Wannsee, these are obviously the losing faction within Nazi high command.
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In some sort of conclusion, most modern historians take a moderate stance on either side of functionalism or intentionalism, and we’ve ended up with a sort of agreed upon synthesis for the broad consensus for historians.
Christopher Browning - whom I cited! - is a moderate functionalist, but even he correctly cited meetings and documents prior to Barbarossa indicating clear genocidal intent. But this was not a cohesive singular decision to implement an Endlösung, and it is informed by aspects of the war, so it’s not considered intentionalism.
However, in this vein, we can see even some moderate functionalists would disagree with the flat statement that “the Holocaust was a consequence of Barbarossa.”
I consider myself a believer in the synthesis hypothesis with a lean towards functionalism- there were broad ideological goals to destroy world Jewry, but the Nazi regime had to react to what was in front of them.
But the mass killing of Jews as an ideological standpoint or even a hypothesized policy (and on a smaller level of local mass killings) simply did not come about as a consequence of Barbarossa.
The instantiation of the mass killing was made available by Barbarossa however.
I think these distinctions matter - any comments are greatly appreciated however because this is a topic I’ve studied intensely and I’m always open to more critical and intelligent discourse.
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The cruelty with which a lot of people dismiss the deaths of children can be rather telling as to some black empty pit in their souls
Also, there’s a question that’s pestered my brain for years and this is very important for everyone to consider:
I’ve never heard a clear explanation from almost anyone on the truly optimal way to deal with a military that embeds itself in, and hides behind, civilians as a shield
If your position truly is just “well I’d rather die than risk killing the innocent” I can sympathize with your empathy towards children and women and all civilians… also - does this not just incentivize the most depraved actors to use human shields? Sure we’d hope most societies are decent enough not to do this, but this just isn’t guaranteed from everyone - and by practice it isn’t!
Take an extreme thought experiment:
A guy walks up to you and your family in the street and he has babies strapped to his body and he’s carrying an assault rifle. He starts shooting your family… do you shoot him back and almost certainly kill a baby? Or is the morally optimal route to let him kill unchecked? What is the governing ethical principle here?
We can make critiques about when civilian lives are needlessly threatened and to what extent you have a responsibility for caution, and about even if an innocent person being killed might’ve been under justified circumstances, the cruelty and indifference to that death is evil in and of itself
But… at some point people need to actually be able to give an explanation on what the rules of engagements are when human shields exist. Not in a police or hostage scenario where you’re able to mass deploy resources for a single incident - but on a broad military and societal conflict
Because I feel like most people on here never even try to grapple with this question
(Note: if your entire response is that Israel shouldn’t exist, or that they’ve already lost the moral right to respond because they’re an occupying force - that’s an applied position we can argue about! But that applied position is dependent upon these second order questions.
What still goes unanswered is that underlying principle of a a military situation with a human shield. We have ROAC on this, but our society and culture seems to have given this issue exceedingly little thought)
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It's amazing how many on the far right scream "dindu nuffin" for any and all police shootings, but seem to have a sort of interesting blind spot here
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He tried to stab someone.
Why did you edit the video?
Why do you people always lie?
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"separate from any moral question of the conflict, all militaries to function must have clear, achievable objectives, and articulable mechanisms to achieve those."
If I could I would have this tattooed on everyone's forehead until we stop starting stupid wars
This is just an objectively true statement and you should be more mad at Netanyahu, Ben Gvir and Likud, than me for stating facts.
Yes, even after October 7th much of the world hated Israel, but there was a unique uptick in sympathy compared to be, and since then a downturn.
This didn’t mean everyone all at once loved Israel, but rather than Israel actually had a chance to build away from its previous trajectory of slipping away as a pariah state, and Israel decided that as long as they were in America’s good graces they didn’t care (and barely even that).
Israel had a right to respond to the October 7th attacks, but even separate from any moral question of the conflict, all militaries to function must have clear, achievable objectives, and articulable mechanisms to achieve those. Likud has simply spent 3 years mindlessly screaming about ending Hamas with no coherent long term vision, and they are now even causing Donald Trump - the most pro Israel President of my lifetime - to become alienated.
This is a historically bad long term strategy and it’s embarrassing how few people are able to understand this.
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Netanyahu took a historic moment on October 7th where he had historically unparalleled international sympathy for Israel and…
He got this? This is where he’s led you guys?
Well good luck with that jfc
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Netanyahu is definitely fuming right now, though let’s wait and see if he is willing to risk further support from the United States, one of the last countries that still staunchly supports Israel, just for the domestic points he will score by striking Iran. I’d say it’s 50/50.
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Im just trying to fill in gaps in an oversimplified moral problem
The British were not evil in their post war management of Palestine
The Jews were not evil trying to build a safe haven in Palestine
The Arabs were not evil in wanting to maintain control over Palestine
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Every 2 weeks for the next 6 months I’m going to quote tweet this and check if Israel still exists
And after 6 months, when Israel still exists, you reconsider whether or not Israel is as weak as you think they are, and if armed resistance can actually accomplish anything
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