Editing Iran (section)

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|content=@ario @MrMosis Thank you good sir.
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|content=The U.S. has every right to step away.

But if Israel alone frees the Persians from the Mullahs, and rids the region/world of a malignant thermonuclear theocracy…again alone…then that will have consequences as well.

Israel is *not* attacking the people of Iran. It’s trying to end a regional and global nightmare regime.

At least let us wish them and the Persian people a safe night while Israel is working through the wee hours to make sure that the mullahs won’t be able to strike us here with WMD. And let us pray they know what they are doing. Godspeed.
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|content=@Blackbeltnerd I’m using Ron Paul’s.
|timestamp=2:11 AM · Jun 13, 2025
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|content=@MrMosis I’m a pretty huge fan of the Persians. Amazing culture. Amazing humans.
|timestamp=2:13 AM · Jun 13, 2025
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|content=We have very short memories in the west, that this isn’t just a regional problem. 

That isn’t just an opinion. It’s a fact.

We just forgot:

https://t.co/eTicb710se
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|timestamp=8:36 AM · Jun 13, 2025
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|content=@NatyaGatya @ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Fakat, sirf torra torra.
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|content=@michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Ross is not being careful about what I have said I believe. And you in turn are not being careful about what Ross says in the clip here. Listen again. Then correct please.
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|content=For the record, many of us with contacts in the National Security complex are told this regularly: “The lesson of the Manhattan Project that the government took away is that physics in particular is too dangerous to do fully in the open. Hence the separate Q-clearance system, separate laws on free speech, National Laboratories, and physics funding from the Dept of Energy.” 

And I have said that I do *not* think it is at all likely that they cracked fundamental physics secretly. Very publicly. On Rogan.
|timestamp=10:41 PM · Jun 22, 2025
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|content=A) I don’t know that the USG did derange fundamental physics for security reasons. This may only be true at the level of nuclear physics, material science/condensed matter, etc. 

B) I don’t know that there are *any* successes in fundamental physics in black programs. Let alone “anti-gravity”: 

C) What I do wonder about is whether the U.S. government is blocking all public university fundamental physics preemptively with quantum gravity…while likely *failing* at it in secret (e.g. in national labs) as well.
|timestamp=10:59 PM · Jun 22, 2025
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|content=That is accurate. 

And I have also pointed out that physics has been recognized to be dangerous since Los Alamos.

And I have also pointed out that some physics is known to be done in secret (e.g. national labs).

And I have speculated that some of it may be deliberately fake (e.g. why doesn’t anyone in government question what happened to 40 years of ignoring competitor proposals and blindly following the string theory and  quantum gravity bandwagons?). Why speculate? Because it *IS* dangerous to do fundamental physics in public with rivals like China and Russia and Iran. 

What I don’t believe is that the U.S. solved gravity secretly or has a final theory of physics in some secure location. It’s not impossible, but I think it is highly highly highly unlikely.
|timestamp=2:30 AM · Jun 23, 2025
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|content=@ritunjoy2000 @michaelshermer @rosscoulthart Kyuu Merra dost? Mai soch raha hu ki yeh admi theek hai. Lekin, yahaa, is topic to ke barre mem, shayad torra torra pagal hai.
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|content=Good to know from an Iranian ally and thus an authority with inside knowledge.

Anti-War/America Firsters: Read quoted tweet carefully.

“Now we can say it outright…”

And thank you for clarifying, Mr. Medvedev.
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|content=@edfrenkel @coreyum It’s hard for people to hear it. We haven’t seen this in earnest since like Iran-Contra or thereabouts. Or maybe Abu Ghraib. Dunno.

Church committee was too long ago.
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|content=That was what confused me in part. 

But it isn’t “detached from reality.”

What @edfrenkel is actually pointing at is quite subtle. (We had an almost 2hr phone call around it and other things this morning where we realized we lacked good language for what we were describing.)

His point is really that these structures were semi-dependent, semi-independent. At least in my way of looking at it.

They weren’t an independent press. And they weren’t a mouthpiece press either. Same for universities. And Think Tanks. Etc. They were a semi-independent archipelago of institutions. And we don’t have language for this. I don’t think Ed has language for this either. But I agree with that. It wasn’t as tightly coupled into the soft fascism of the “Whole of Society Approach” formulated only recently.
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|content=My usual critique of many things Israel does still stands. It doesn’t get a free pass. 

But Iran specifically is not just an Israel reponsibility. It is a U.S. responsibility. And a U.K. Responsibility (“Operation Boot” as it was called there.)
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|content=“No more wars for Israel!”

Enough of the Anti-Jewish Brainrot bullshit.

Let’s talk Kermit the Roosevelt. Operation Ajax. Etc.

My thoughts on @StevenBartlett’s podcast:
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|content=Sorry about the typos. As always.
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|content=If you want to save our country from what is coming you are going to have to face hard facts: 

A) We have growing fringe movements in the parties looking for opportunities to turn to armed struggle.

B) The main asymmetry between the parties is party affiliation of institutional actors.

C) Media and Education are the two most dangerous institutions, and they are now suffused with normalized revolutionaries.

D) Revolutionaries have been normalized as if they were liberals. They are not. They are different.

E) Revolutionaries recruit people who have not been “dealt in”. You can’t stop this without dealing people in. No one is dealing these people in. They don’t see a path. 

F) Every attempt to point out E) results in someone who got themselves dealt in talking loudly about how easy it is if you have grit. This works….bur it only works for some individuals. If it is so easy: show us all how to deal in three generations AT SCALE with AI on their heels as well. 

G) We are going to have to stop fighting the kids and fight the party leaders.

H) The big tents are a huge problem. The sane center people have to see more in common with counterparts across the aisle than with their fringes itching to kill. 

I) We need to help those who can be brought back. Identify those too far gone. And pray we can know the difference. 

J) We are going to have to recognize how far gone this situation already, is and work like hell of we want to bring it back to sanity.

K) China, Iran, N Korea, Russia, etc. are watching. Likely not always passively.
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|content=L) We are going to have to have an entirely different conversation about the collision of  internet anonymity, targeting behavior and free speech.
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