Saying what I want
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Imagine the highs and lows of this guy's life. One day he's an ordinary college student...then becomes the head of the largest illicit drug distribution organization in the country...is then sent to federal prison for the rest of his life...after that is pardoned and is going to be a father (I assume has a lot of crypto as well).
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Tbh I’m tired of hearing “Israel has the right to defend itself”
Our new army motto should be “if you mess with us, we will fucking kill you”.
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This video will forever change why you go to work.
May Mr. Weinbergers neshama have an aliyah.
Some real cowards on X that are so afraid of discussion of their poor ideas that they block you after responding. If you want to block someone for disagreeing with you, fine I guess, but to block you right after doing so, shows how much you trust your own arguments.
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It's absolutely wild to me, and supremely disappointing) that there are American hostages held for fifteen months in abhorrent captivity by terrorists (after they murdered many other Americans) & the US government has made no threats or real effort to get them back themselves.
RT @visegrad24: JP Morgan has raised Argentina’s GDP growth forecast for next year to 8.5%, one of the highest in the world.
JP Morgan is…
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Clown show:
The UN had their aid trucks looted in Gaza. They show no interest in who did it (Hint: likely starts with an “H” and ends with “amas”) & instead blame Israel.
Yet when asked, admit they are rejecting Israel providing security for the aid.
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You can read some of my previous writing about this case at astralcodexten.com/p/model-c…… , but my impression is you're uncritically buying the Honduran socialists' propaganda version of this conflict.
A more pro-Prospera/balanced version: investment courts are a useful vehicle to prevent countries from inviting international investment, then stealing it as soon as it materializes. Countries voluntarily sign on to these courts to allow them to credibly commit to protecting investors, should those investors pour money into the country.
In 2009, the socialist president was couped by the military after he refused to comply with a Supreme Court order not to try to overstay his term limits. In the process, he had tried to fire the rest of the government when they resigned in protest or wouldn't carry out his orders. The Supreme Court ordered his arrest, and the military couped in sympathy with this. Coups are bad in general but in this case I think just saying "it was a coup so they're evil" is extremely deceptive. Democratic elections were then held (which the socialists boycotted), producing the government that approved Prospera. 78% of Congress approved the law to create charter cities with an explicit guarantee that they would protect it for fifty years. They enshrined this in various bilateral treaties with developed countries doing the investment, and within international investment law, because investors wouldn't invest without this.
Prospera wasn't directly involved in these negotiations, but *after* Honduras had made all these guarantees to other people, they got together and invested about $100 million in building a new city on a greenfield site in Honduras, at the government's invitation. After a few years, the wife of the socialist who got couped was elected, and her government tried to seize the city without compensation. Prospera sued in the exact international court that the agreement which created them said they should sue in. This was one of several (I think 9, but might be wrong) different suits that different people lodged against the socialist government for trying to nationalize their infrastructure projects in Honduras without compensation.
Prospera doesn't actually want the $11 billion, it wants for the socialists to stop trying to seize their stuff and leave them in peace. I believe it has said many times that the second the socialists agree to leave them in peace, they will drop their suit (and I would be disappointed in them if this wasn't true). The socialists have instead announced that they have no obligation to follow any treaties or international law, and they will continue seizing these 9 projects (including Prospera). They refused to send a lawyer to defend themselves in international arbitration, and so the arbitration court ruled against them. The arbitrators can't actually seize the budget of Honduras, but countries that follow the international treaties that established the international court will now be allowed to take whatever Honduran government money is in their countries in order to pay back their investors.
There are a bunch of people who hate charter cities because they feel "colonialist" and they would rather these countries languish in poverty than touch "polluted" first world market structures. They have dominated the news coverage on these issues. You can reach out to anyone at Prospera and they would be happy to tell you their own side.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what you want - for international investment law not to exist? A world where countries can woo investors by saying "please build infrastructure within our borders, we promise we won't steal it" and then immediately turn around and steal it? Where it's illegal in the court of public opinion to even attempt to create institutions to get around this problem? All this does is ensure that nobody will ever invest in developing countries ever again.
There *are* things in the general vicinity of this that are moral gray areas. If some corrupt dictator promises a foreign country all of his country's oil for cheap, costing the country its most valuable resource, can later governments go back on this? I think international law (and the broader court of public opinion) include some mechanisms for dealing with this, but I admit that if those mechanisms fail it's a really hard problem. But this isn't one of those problems. Prospera hasn't taken any resource except a few hundred acres of previously unoccupied land (which they bought at market price from previous owners). This is the easiest, most slam dunk version of this generally-difficult-sort-of-question you could imagine.
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Consider that Hamas chose to execute an American hostage with a bullet to the back of his head during the last two or three days (along with five other hostages) whose parents just spoke at the DNC less than two weeks ago, while hostage negotiations were underway.
Consider that the U.S. strategy over the last 330 days has been to pressure Israel to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, including through the withholding of weapons from @Israel, and by periodically leaking our failure to support our ally to the media in the midst of hostage negotiations.
Consider what pressure if any the U.S. has brought to bear on Hamas and our friends in the region who harbor Hamas’ leadership?
Why? Why has our leadership adopted this failed strategy?
Because @POTUS Biden (who has been on vacation for 16 days) and @KamalaHarris, who also just skipped a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery to honor 13 fallen soldiers from the failed Afghanistan withdrawal, along with their advisers in the DNC, believe they will lose important votes in certain key swing states and from Hamas supporters on campuses.
It has been proven time and time again that the only thing that terrorists understand is brute force. Rather than pressure Israel, the United States should have put more pressure on our other allies in the region to help, and done everything we can to help Israel defeat Hamas and recover the hostages, but unfortunately this was not good politics for Biden/Harris and some of their supporters.
By being weak and lacking resolve, we failed our captured, now dead citizens, and the other hostages and their families while emboldening terrorists around the world.
The result:
It has become much less safe to be an American since October 7th because of our failed leadership.
It has become much less safe to be a member of the free world since October 7th because of our failed leadership.
We are in desperate need for a change in leadership so our enemies once again fear the United States and think twice before they act against us and/or our allies.
The time has come.
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After Taylor Swift's Vienna shows were canceled due to a terror plot, @TODAYShow listed recent concerts attacked by terrorists.
With one notable exception.
The deadliest one: the Nova music festival in Israel, at which 364 were killed by Hamas.
Why?
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You will not see anything more brilliant than this in describing the simulation that has been the last few weeks of the presidential campaign… 😂🔥
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It should not be hard for Gascon to strongly condemn antisemitism and the violence at the LA synagogue, as I and many leaders including Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Newsom have done. It’s extremely concerning that Gascon apparently cares more about placating anti-Jewish extremists than he does about standing up for LA’s Jewish community.
#gasconmustgo
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The fucking state of these pro-Hamas scum. Idiotic smug privileged pricks in academia who have zero contact with reality. The supposed brains of society who put their fingers in their ears and turn their backs and don’t engage when confronted with any push back. This lady is faculty staff. Madam - you are a wanker and thick as shit.
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Ben, my friend. You think you do, but you have no idea what this series of events meant to me. My only explanation for the opportunity and the timing is, as @petermayermusic writes in his song "Loose in the World" is that this was all "the hand of the Divine." Blessings on you and your family. 🤟🤟🤟🤟
🧵 With the news that TNT might lose the NBA, it’s time to share the story about Ernie Johnson and the @NBAonTNT halftime show he made for my Bar Mitzvah.
It began w my dad and ended w me being called a drug addict & ballhog (fair, tbh) in front of family & friends
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Khymani,
I wouldn’t normally bother to give an antisemite a platform. But since you’ve decided to tell the world that Zionists like me don’t deserve to live, I’ve decided it’s only fair to return the favor by responding to your hypocritical, hateful and pitiful beliefs.
I am a Persian Jew. I doubt you’re surprised to hear a person like me exists. Because Jew Haters like you - the ones who mask their antisemitism behind words like “Zionist” - purposely ERASE Mizrahi (“Brown”) Jews from the narrative so they can maintain the lie that their Jew Hate is a fight against “white oppression.”
There’s other prominent Persian Jews at Columbia University as well. Brave voices like @edenyadegar who has more integrity in her pinky nail than you will ever have in your entire hate-filled life.
I’m confident you’ve heard of Eden. She spoke outside the Congressional Hearing on Antisemitism at Columbia University to tell the world how students like you - those who believe “Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live” - have made campus dangerous for Jewish students.
In addition to Mizrahi Jews, there’s also Ashkenazi Jews, Black Jews, Asian Jews, Indian Jews, Latin Jews…we cover a broad spectrum of shades, colors, and backgrounds. But whether or not we are “white passing”, we are all a singular RACE and RELIGION, who trace our roots to the land of Israel, our indigenous homeland.
The majority of Jews - in fact, over 95% of Jews - believe Jewish people have the right to self-govern in their indigenous homeland. That’s what it means to be a “Zionist,” i.e., the people YOU think “don’t deserve to live.”
And as for your desire to intentionally exterminate these “Zionists” (the 95% of Jews who believe they have the right to self-govern in their indigenous homeland)? There’s a term for that too. It’s called GENOCIDE.
Goebbels would have been proud of how well you’ve managed to utilize Nazi-era propaganda to convince other students to want to murder Jewish people.
Actually, maybe “proud” is the wrong word. I mean, the Nazis DID also murder Blacks and Queers in addition to 6 Million Jews, Romani, disabled…
In fact, Goebbels probably would have laughed his ass off that someone who was once targeted by Nazis could be so stupid as to fall in with Radical Islamist Nazis, but I digress.
Right now, you feel self-important. You’re having ten minutes of fame as you call for the slaughter and genocide of Jews. You’re adored by similarly brainwashed idiots on campus who, like you, are using the pretense of caring about Palestinians to justify their lack of moral integrity and ethics.
But this will pass. You’re not the first antisemitic genocidal piece of trash the Jews have seen, overcome, and outlived.
They, like you, thought they were justified to hate Jews. And they, like you, became a stain on humanity, a warning of how weak and fallible the human conscience can be.
I pity you. Your life will no longer be defined by your good deeds (if you ever had any), but by your willingness to be used as a puppet of the radical left.
A pathetic Black & Queer Token used to trick others into believing in the false righteousness of your hateful cause.
What great things you could have achieved with the opportunities available to you at Columbia.
And how sad it will be when your usefulness to the radical left has run its course, and they abandon you to the dregs of your shattered and miserable life.
#AmYisraelChai
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Elephants loudly protesting their own slaughter in the Roman arena:
(Cassius Dio 39.38)
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Religion Super Bowl ads:
Christianity: “join us!”
Scientology: “join us!”
Judaism: “leave us alone!”
