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[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

Restarting their pipeline like I restart my earbuds after spilling water on the connector pins.

[People's Art of War @pplsartofwar]

The Saudis learned an influencer politician tactic from Trump. It would take months to restart at full capacity. A trickle is not full capacity.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@brainsturbator Look forward to this being scraped and regurgitated as one of Osho's more famous sayings at some future point in time.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@brainsturbator Heard you were dead, Snake.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@JavierBlas @opinion And what magical rule of physics makes pipelines immune to attack by ballistic missiles & drones?

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh This and his forced resignation being the only things to visibly move him to emotion certainly paints a picture.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh If he was indeed killed by Russia, it would be as (presumably unintended) collateral damage in an iskander strike.

Something neither side would be too keen to disclose given current operational realities.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

What needs tackling is usury, rent-seeking and financial criminality (covered by legal looholes or otherwise).

Force banks and other lenders to eat losses from bad debt.
Criminally charge high-ranking bankers instead of fining banks.
Etc. etc.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

The problematically wealthy are less than 0.1% of the population. If a larger subset of private households become poorer, the total private debt burden increases and they become -richer-. This is just standard neoliberalism.

[Red MMT @RedMMT]

A sophist arguing against wealth taxes. He is trying to soften your heart and take the side of billionaires and rentiers.

No!

Wealth taxes target excessive wealth accumulation which creates oligarchy and corrupts democracy. They target the wealthiest 10%.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@ripplebrain He really wanted to become the mayor of that village.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh You mean sending the Marine Corps into mountains riddled with ambushers native to the land may not be a tactically sound ploy?

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

Trve aspiring great power behavior: bootlicking and obedience.

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

Indian Oil Tanker attempted to use the US-controlled corridor ... had to turn back.

Indians never had any issue with the Iranian corridor but for some reasons, they love to risk their lives to support the US.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@pplsartofwar State-building out of a heavily contested ex-colony surrounded by very capable neighbors who all want a piece: eh, pretty mid.

Industrializing an existing state using established methods: somehow far more impressive.

Not to suggest the latter is *easy*, mind.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh Fatherhood found to lead to sharp increase in fathering.

Incredible work being done on the frontiers of science.

[WH @hastifliche]

kill him

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@seanpaulkelley @iwelsh First as tragedy...

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh The rate this is going, there won't be a US presence left in the gulf to enforce control.

They'll be lucky to be in a position to impose sanctions.

[Triquetrea @Triquetrea]

@iwelsh Trump has never been the sort to show real interest in mil. tactics or strategy except for coercion.

Think it's safe to assume this is as much of a lame duck admin as Biden's was. Lots of hands on lots of levers.

Ofc this also means there is no central strategy at all, so...