Severely allergic to BS, including my own if the case. Echo chambers not my thing. Children are humanity's greatest treasure.
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As at this moment in time, this guy is an idiot.
Hope he'll soon have the good sense to revise these statements.
Honestly, we will survive the Return of the Woke
But what we won't survive is this kind of ignorance, which is functionally indistinguishable from maliciousness.
Seeing this clip of Abdul El-Sayed discussing AI and China, I'm reminded of what Robert Conquest once said:
"the behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies"
Unilateral restraint by the US will not stop China from continuing in AI, nuclear technology, space, EVs, etc.
It doesn't matter whether he privately hates America, because he's going to govern as though he does.
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China is expanding export controls beyond rare earths to solar manufacturing processes, AI models, drones, and other technologies.
The restrictions are designed to make Chinese factories and laboratories harder to replace. They could limit foreign access to the latest Chinese AI models and make it more difficult for companies outside China to build competitive solar equipment factories. Beijing is applying the same approach it has used with critical minerals to a wider range of technologies.
The controls are not a ban on finished goods. They target the processes and equipment that others would need to reduce their dependence on Chinese production. The goal is to keep the manufacturing advantage inside China.
NYT: China’s Message to Its Rivals: You Need What We Make—It’s not just rare earths. China is making it harder for other countries to shed their dependence on its solar, drone and drugmaking technology.
@dhpierson
nytimes.com/2026/11/02/world…
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Whether its Iran or Russia, our adversaries testing Western Civilization. We're going to have to respond in a serious way - and that means winning in Iran and winning in Ukraine.
Don't know, @JDVance...maybe replacing heavily decorated, combat-experienced leaders with political loyalists, and alienating allies, was one of the administration's not-so-finest moments, when embarking in a conflict that was critically necessary to win, and comprehensively.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Genetic sequences have immense commercial (and other) values. Yet 🇨🇳 companies (say: BGI group) often price their services at levels that closely match the cost. How can they sustain that? Is the PRC government subsidising the difference?
asiatimes.com/2026/10/pre-ap…
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Mr. Vice-President,
Please allow me to present a different perspective.
The problem was not the Iran War. It was the cease fire.
If you start a war, you need to win it and finish it – otherwise don’t start it.
This war should have been over six months ago, with the Strait of Hormuz wide open and oil flowing. The second and third tiers of Iranian leadership should have been destroyed, and we should have supported the pro-western forces who could have taken leadership. We stood on the brink of a new, more peaceful Middle East - and then we blinked. We had a chance not only to deny Iran nuclear weapons, but to get rid of the world’s biggest supporter of terrorism.
Instead, we had a cease fire, which was followed by months of will we or won’t we finish the job. Every day was a different message. There still is. Is the war over? Is it about to begin? No one knows. There is confusion and inconsistency.
In June 2025, America was not involved. This was an Israel vs Iran issue.
No one forced the United States to attack Iran then, or in February of 2026. It was a decision made by President Trump. In my opinion, it was the right decision.
Once the decision was made, we should not have stopped until the regime fell. But instead, you negotiated a cease fire that didn’t last, didn’t work and left us in no man’s land, with higher prices and our troops still deployed.
Our troops could have been home, the Navy returned to its bases, a peaceful regime in place , new alliances forged, and gas prices below $3.00 a gallon.
No, Mr. Vice President. It’s not the war. It’s the so-called cease fire.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
In other news, the CCP assures us all that Uyghurs in Xinjiang benefit from unprecedented freedoms, a statement to be taken as seriously as this inquiry.
share.google/g9JHr00QHp5GfPH…
"The few 🇨🇳 studies programs in 🇦🇺 universities have neither the will nor the capacity to pursue such an agenda."
A combination of execs cultivation activities via UFWD and 🇨🇳 domestic legislation specifically aimed at curbing independent research for good
aspistrategist.org.au/amid-o…
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I’ve said this before, and here’s another example: just about every time someone in the China field calls for “nuance”, it means “let’s adopt the Chinese government’s framing”.
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"Putin will wage war. I don’t know when, but he will. And you, Europeans, will be surprised to discover that this war is aimed at you, too... You think that what is happening in Moscow has nothing to do with you—that it’s our problem.
Putin hates people like me, certainly. But through us—in Russia, or through the revolutionaries in Ukraine or Georgia—it is you he hates: your democracy, your society, your freedoms.
Do you think his regime is merely a threat to us? Your awakening will be brutal."
Anna Politkovskaya, in Paris, 2005.
She was assassinated in the lobby of her apartment building on October 7, 2006—Putin’s birthday.
One of the reasons why 🇨🇳 is so worked up about the #Mbappé #MaoZedong thing is that it otherwise has to admit that #XiJinping (aka Mao 2.0) is equally a dictator.
2026 China: an immature, paranoid country fostering generations of emotionally and intellectually castrated youth.
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This seems like a great time to reshare my favourite Sir Patrick Stewart performance, ‘What has the ECHR ever done for us?’ It’s just perfect in every possible way … including the ending 😂😂😂 RIP.
🎥 The Guardian
Also, post-Mao China is too young a country to have the maturity for any sort of introspection and self-deprecating humour.
aspistrategist.org.au/ccp-en…
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Chinese people seem to be having a hard time grasping the fact that in the West don’t give a fuck about others mocking our past or even present leaders. We do it all the time ourselves.
We don’t worship people here, especially not mass murderers.
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The perfect South Park clip for this Mbappé moment:
the Chinese market doesn’t just buy your product. It buys your spine.
