Paul B

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@Spike_Mordant @policytensor The story about an Iranian plot was probably just setting the stage for the Trump admin to order the assassination of Iranian leaders. Israeli Intel is just cover for that because they can't rely on their own to generate fake Intel without someone blowing the whistle

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@PaulSan56345114 @pickover True 😂

[Dominic Lee 李梓敬 @dominictsz]

People don't call China Infrastructure maniac for no reasons!

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@Glenn_Diesen What a strange response. Is he suggesting that Israel has a right to start a war with Turkey because of what happened on October 7th?

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Now that so many of you have finally gotten comfortable with the fact that Israel IS committing a genocide and any criticism of said actions or said nation are in fact permissible, I think you’re ready for the next stage of learning.

“Semitic”, which is a historical term used to describe a family of languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic), was adopted incorrectly by a German intellectual in 1911 to create a racial category to describe ONLY Jews, in order to explain the rising European hatred of Jews. This is how the term “antisemitism” was erroneously coined.

Expectedly, when racial terms are made-up in this heedless manner, they become rife for continuous manipulation and exploitation. Not only are the origins of the term antisemitism inaccurate and asinine, the current definition of the term has deviated completely from it describing hatred of Jewishness as a faith identity category to it describing hatred of Zionism as a national/political identity category.

Zionism not only co-opts the term Semitic by claiming all Semites are Jews (they’re not) and all Zionists are Semites (they’re not), it also co-opts Jewishness by claiming all Jews are Zionists (they’re not).

What makes matters worse is that Zionism as an ideology heavily leans on the notion of Jewish supremacy. And this is where it’s going to get a bit “sticky” for you now.

OK, so I am glad that most people understand by now that not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews, in fact, there are over 30 million Christian Zionists in America alone. That’s more than double the amount of Jews in the entire world. However, one thing that people are still quite uncomfortable with is the fact that many Zionists are indeed Jews or at least claim to be “culturally” Jewish.

And what this means is that it’s highly likely that when you criticize or express hate towards a Zionist you WILL be criticizing and hating a Jewish person. Will you also likely be hating a Christian person? Yes. Does it matter, though? No.
Because anti-Christianism isn’t a thing and it especially isn’t a thing that can be weaponized to harm you.

Now that we have accepted that Israel is a European settler colonial state and its political ambitions are rooted in Zionism, we need to be able to talk about the Jewish supremacist ideology that fans the flames of its genocide against non-Jewish Palestinians.

We need to be able to criticise anyone who supports Israel and Zionism and in doing so endorses and enables this genocide, whether they are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish.

Be as unafraid and unapologetic in calling out a Jewish supremacist Israeli as you are in calling out a white supremacist American.

Be as principled and steadfast in challenging ridiculous accusations of antisemitism when confronting a Jewish-Zionist as you would be in challenging accusations of anti-Christianism when confronting a Christian-Nazi.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

So much for Elon's self-proclaimed free speech absolutism. He criticised Twitter under Dorsey relentlessly for censorship. The data show his X is far worse.

[Perception Correction @PerceptionCorr]

@mandyarthur @grok Hey @grok which Twitter era had/has a higher percentage of taking down content at government's request between the Jack Dorsey era and Musk era. Be concise only answer relative to the question

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@NiohBerg You worship the people who would enslave your own people. Greta risked her life to help foreigners - people she owes nothing to. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@PaulSan56345114 @pickover Yes that could work. I imagine it would be a bit awkward if they're pulling in opposite directions though.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@mattj65816 @pickover Yeah that's right. It's a bit hard to see in the picture, but the yellow line should be shorter than the blue.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@GeriJSchear @ThisVastExpanse @Kathleen_Tyson_ @dlLambo And your views arise from nothing more than ignorance and hatred. Open your eyes and look at what is happening. Israel is far more barbaric than Nazi Germany was. Israelis openly flaunt their brutality and celebrate it. The Germans at least had enough shame to hide their crimes.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@Xtremepess61067 @EddyJokovich Funny, I remember seeing Hamas's hostages being released in good health. It's not often you see abducted Palestinians walk out of an Israeli jail in good health. Even Australians are abused by the sick Israeli scum.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@pickover I mean the horizontal distance to the centre of gravity. The X word limit prevents me from explaining in detail.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@pickover Think of the weight as a downward force at the centre of gravity. This creates opposite torques at each of the pivots (hands). The torques must be equal in magnitude to prevent rotation. The horizontal distance (lever arm) is smaller for Amy, so her force must be larger.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@max_gagliardi I sometimes read lotr to my 4 year old. He enjoys listening to me read it even though he can't really understand. Occasionally I'll stop and explain the more exciting parts in simpler terms.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@KellieTranter What an imbecile he is. Why do we let half wits like him represent our country?

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

China is well aware of US plans to encircle and contain it both economically and militarily - it is also well aware of Washington's use of social media to infiltrate and capture national information space and use it to destabilize and politically capture the nation itself.

China has spent decades building up its military, economy, infrastructure, information space, and its population to overcome these US efforts.

This includes the massive Belt and Road Initiative, its unprecedented investments in energy of all kinds, investments in education and industry, and of course the development of its military capabilities.

China has also built up is own ecosystem of social-media platforms to control how information is created/shared/consumed within its own information space - rather than Washington and Silicon Valley doing it for them...

I don't want people to misinterpret my warning about what the US is doing.

The US is not "unstoppable."

The US is only successful because people are too easily divided and distracted from doing anything at all to stop it.

China is already working hard to create a different future and a different global paradigm - Russia as well. So are many others across the multipolar world.

But the world needs as many people as possible everywhere to contribute as well.

The moment people realize what the US is doing and become determined to stop it, they can move mountains to do so - China is already doing it.

My warning is in the hope that many others far beyond China realize this danger and become active in confronting and overcoming it - and contributing to a better future.

The future is what we make of it - but if we are disarmed by information operations, political circus, and diversions - we won't have a part in making that future at all.

[CATERINA😇 @Caterin49788702]

Foto restaurada de un grupo de civiles coreanos a punto de ser fusilados durante la masacre de la Liga Bodo, en la que los militares fascistas de Corea del Sur, con apoyo de EEUU, asesinaron hasta a 200.000 civiles sospechosos de ser "comunistas".

Daejong, Corea del Sur, 4 julio de 1950.
Seguro que te lo contaron ya, pero los buenos de la película, esos demócratas de Corea del Sur, antes del inicio de la Guerra de Corea, desde 1949, crearon campos de concentración para reeducar a más de 300.000 personas.... hicieron listas negras de comunistas, sindicalistas e incluso gente que ni siquiera era ni de izquierdas, simplemente no quería su tierra dividida en dos por una potencia imperialista... a este sistema le llamaron La Liga Bodo.

Obviamente La Liga Bodo era una lista de exterminio, en 1950, el régimen surcoreano de Syngman Rhee ya había metido a 20.000 personas en esos campos de concentración... y apenas 3 dias después de la Guerra de Corea, empezaron las masacres contra los sospechosos que estaban metidos en esa lista.
Desde el 28 de junio de 1950, durante todo el verano, hasta 200.000 coreanos fueron fusilados por el régimen surcoreano de Syngman Rhee solo por ser sospechosas de izquierdas... pero incluso mataron a niñas de 12 años, según testificaron los propios soldados de EEUU, en venganza por la ideología de sus padres.

Las brutalidades que cometieron los surcoreanos en las masacres fueron terribles, a algunas víctimas les rompían la espalda con la culatas de los fusiles antes de ejecutarlas solo para hacerlas sufrir, a otras las ataban y las arrojaban al mar desde los helicópteros para que muriesen ahogadas, "casualmente" el mismo libreto que en la Chile de Pinochet décadas más tarde, donde también EEUU y la CIA estuvo metida.

EEUU supervisó y apoyó todas estas masacres, las ocultó deliberadamente, incluso fueron los oficiales estadounidenses quienes fotografiaron la masacre, como es el caso de la foto que expongo.
La masacre fue ocultada durante más de 4 décadas por Corea del Sur y EEUU, que tuvo la cobardía de incluso atribuirla macabramente a los propios comunistas que fusilaron...

[Paul B @B84Paul]

@EthanLevins2 What's most surprising about this is that someone as stupid as Ian Miles Cheong could believe he is intelligent.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

If China's development strategy in the 1990s followed the theory of comparative advantage, they wouldn't be making batteries, EVs, drones, AI chips, or robots today.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

It's even worse than it appears at first glance. The graph shows share of total manufacturing value added. Our entire manufacturing sector is very small. So medium and high tech is a small proportion of a small sector.

[Paul B @B84Paul]

What a sad position Australia occupies on this graph. In spite of investing a lot in human capital, we have very little high tech manufacturing.

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

As I suspected. Human capital gives us excellent control over relative specialization in higher-skilled manufacturing. There is really nothing magical about this game. Those who invest in their human capital win. Simple as that.