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a frog with a keyboard
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yes, there is an enormous amount of destruction happening. but the idea that there is some irrecoverable golden age being destroyed is loser mindset. the idea that we cannot create, only preserve is dead as a doornail. wake up and smell the 21st century.

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The Present Crisis and the End of the Long '90s
The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and cu...
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October 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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(1) I say again, you cannot actually surrender to these people because they're too stupid and angry to know what they want.

(2) "Al Quaeda's status as a foreign terrorist organization is ironclad" sounds like a blurb they'd put on their magazine cover next year.
fuck if I know
September 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/
January 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Given this week’s events Assad's regime is finished & it’s a race to Damascus. The Russian position in Syria, and MENA region writ large is consequently in deep trouble, because of Syria’s importance as a logistics hub for Russian operations. Short thread. 1/
December 7, 2024 at 6:54 PM