@jamestalarico Dude, you're a psychopath. You think mutilating kids is a key pillar of your campaign. You should be institutionalized. End your campaign and seek help.
🧵 THREAD: Shashank Joshi, a foreign think tank careerist, has a 16-year record of attacking US foreign policy... and now he's lecturing our military leadership on how to take the oath. Why does he still have a work visa?
He's an Indian national who arrived in April and is already the loudest critic of the Pentagon on social media.
The Economist's new Washington Bureau Chief — an Indian national on a visa who just arrived in April — went on a Canadian national security podcast literally titled "The Problem of America" and said this about US military operations:
"They have attacked scores of small boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean. They've killed dozens of people in a campaign that is, by most accounts, quite illegal and contrary to international law."
That's Shashank Joshi, @shashj . Defence editor turned bureau chief. Two months in the country and he's already built a 16-year paper trail calling American power "malevolent," "predatory," and "quite illegal" — while sitting on the advisory board of a UK think tank funded by the European Commission, BAE Systems, and the US State Department.
And he's now lecturing our military leadership on what it means to take the oath.
I have the receipts.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
For the last 109 years, Americans like @infantrydort and my family (4 generations) have gone to Europe to protect your effete inbred feckless asses from yourselves. Oath? You have no concept of what it means to uphold an oath. We put our lives behind our oath; I wrote my first will at age 19. You? You got your feelings hurt because someone told the truth.
The first written record of slavery was over 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. The first set of rules for dealing with slaves (ownership, fugitive slaves, etc.) was written over 4,000 years ago.
NO white person alive today owned slaves. Teach your kids that.
NO black person alive today was born a slave. Teach your kids that.
Not all white people owned slaves back then. Teach your kids that.
Millions of white people fought and died to end slavery. Teach your kids that.
People should not inherit guilt from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.
People should not inherit victimhood from their ancestors. Teach your kids that.
You are responsible for your own actions, not the actions of people who lived 200 years ago. Teach your kids that.
America is not perfect, but it is not uniquely evil. Teach your kids that.
The West is responsible for some of humanity's greatest advances in freedom, science, medicine, and prosperity. Teach your kids that.
Loving your country is not racism. Teach your kids that.
Wanting secure borders is not racism. Teach your kids that.
Wanting safe communities is not racism. Teach your kids that.
Wanting merit over quotas is not racism. Teach your kids that.
Questioning political narratives is not racism. Teach your kids that.
People should be judged by their character, not their skin color. Teach your kids that.
History should be taught honestly, not used as a weapon. Teach your kids that.
A nation that teaches its children to hate their heritage will not survive. Teach your kids that.
Your country is your home. Protecting it is not something to be ashamed of. Teach your kids that.
You do not owe an apology for being born. Teach your kids that.
Never let fear of being called names stop you from speaking the truth as you see it. Teach your kids that.
The thing that will never cease to amaze me about bureaucrats is their obsession with credentials. To the point where it takes a lifetime to amass them.
Everyone is out there giving shit to the government about hiring young professionals.
Alexander the Great was 22 when he became famous.
Napoleon was 24.
I mean you get the idea and the list goes on.
But there’s something to be said about youth and virility. It lets you buck back against the system, usually.
The most dangerous person to a bureaucracy is the one who’s put in charge of it who hasn’t had time to marinate in it. To be molded by it.
Rising in a curated bureaucracy gate-keeps you. Until you’ve crossed every T and dotted every i.
And by that point, you’re nice and docile. Tame. Old AF. The non-boat rocker.
The fire that was once inside you for change, long gone.
Now you just want a future. A retirement. Something nice to settle into.
The youthful man you once saw in the mirror is now dead. A casualty of your desire to sacrifice principle for comfort.
Outsized bureaucracy is the enemy of civilization. Treat is as such.
Destroy it from the inside out.
Rebuild it in the spirit that it was meant to serve.
The American Spirit.
The fact that you think any American gives a shit what you think about how the US military selects the officers that have been defending your feckless ass for the last 109 years is a perfect demonstration of why we need to cut off NATO. Incapable of the most basic defense tasks yet somehow an expert on how your protector should do it ... what a dewsh
You can't get into the military with asthma or diabetes...but cut your tool off and take a load of drugs that would tranquilize an elephant and two DEI judges think it's ok.