Camberville Dad

Classical Liberal. Zionist.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@BillAckman @Harvard 💯. To celebrate something positive:
A beautiful installation at the Harvard Divinity School.

[Liberty Hannes @LibertyHannes]

Der Genozid in Gaza. Komplett erklärt in nur drei Minuten.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

When you believe Israel has a right to exist and is a strategic geopolitical ally

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

He should have just played his music, and not try to appease the communist crocodiles, never works.

The Overton window didn't shift, it widened, and now it starts even further on the left.

Ed Sheeran is really in a tough spot. He has FU money, but seems to need stadiums full of people for his artistic ego. I dont think he could go back to play smaller venues for people who just love his music.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

Super Gelegenheit für noch kehr Sondervermögen, und wer hat denn was gegen mehr Vermögen.
Die Wirtschaft wird auch angekurbelt! Erst die Rüstungsindustrie, danach die Bauwirtschaft . Hater werden vielleicht Bastiat und zerbrochene Fenster etc bringen, das ist aber looser talk.

Bin mal gespannt, welche Trümmerfrauen zuerst viral gehen auf Insta. Und sind Trans Trümmerfrauen auch Trümmerfrauen? Oder sind die alle an der Front?

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

Watching Bill Maher explain how bad the modern Democratic Party has become to Democrats who refuse to acknowledge it has become my favorite show on television

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@LiberalMut Tausche Saarland gegen Elsass!

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@CassandraRules Thank you for making me aware. Good thing Spotify has a feature to block an artist and remove from all Playlists.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@LiberalMut Mancher Leute Ideen-Armut kotzt mich an.

Da muss der ÖRR besser informieren, aber eventuell hat der nicht genug Ressourcen?

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Life is not fair. If we force the public to choose between everything or nothing, they will choose nothing.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@TDrygala da gibt's ein passendes Lied

https://t.co/jhr4RepO7y

[Todd Headlee @ToddHeadleeAZ]

I thought @jaredkushner gave a spot on magnificent answer to the really nasty-toned question from @RichardEngel . Kudos to Jared 👏👏👏👏👏

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@BobbyBizScout Real estate is available, not included.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@robbystarbuck Dennis Rodman would be a formidable candidate!

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@ulfposh Sind die Mietenden nicht die Wohnungsbesitzer, da sie tatsächliche Sachherrschaft ausüben? Vermieter sind Eigentümer.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@schorn_stephan Inhaltliche Zustimmung! Bzgl Kilometerstand, das verstehe ich nicht, soll das eine Anlehnung an YMMV sein?

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@JohnLeFevre We are doing a 4 week Asia trip with 2 children and 2 adults, and only 4 carry-on suitcases.

In many countries, you can get laundry service for a few bucks per pound, avoid hotel dry cleaning.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

Just listened to @GadSaad on @joeroganhq . Why is Joe Rogan so upset about buildings getting destroyed?

Iran revolutionary guard killed more innocents in one week than Israel in 2 years, but luckily they didn't blow up any buildings, that would have really upset Joe.

[Camberville Dad @Uberbrain]

@MsMelChen @Akira__Kanazawa Land acknowledgments are my favorite of these rituals!

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Everyone who is up in arms about Trump "kissing Xi's ass" needs to understand that this is realpolitik and dealmaking.

Trump is, by a mile, the most aggressive president America has had against the CCP in modern history. No one else imposed sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods, banned Huawei from domestic networks, put the entire CCP military-linked ecosystem on the entity list, restricted semiconductor exports, strengthened the Quad, and publicly called out China's currency manipulation, IP theft, forced tech transfers, and South China Sea aggression the way he did.

Pre-presidency Trump was blunt. If you recall, as a candidate, he often complained about how "China was screwing us over." Literally in 2016 on the campaign trail, he said that "China is raping us."

You need to understand that this posture completely shattered what was bipartisan elite consensus at the time - which was that more engagement with China on economic terms would liberalize and democratize China (ethnocentric projection once again), and that as China became more integrated into the global system, they would act more and more like responsible stakeholders. Every President since Nixon pushed closer economic integration while ignoring the OBVIOUS signs. This was especially supercharged under Bush, Clinton and Obama (but not Biden).

And yet at the time, the mainstream media painted him as a xenophobe for this kind of rhetoric. It wasn't even a subtext - they directly alluded to how Trump was being racist against the Chinese for calling out their unfair trade practices.

Once in office, Trump refined it into a strategy that actually moved the needle while dialing back his strong rhetoric.

The personal flattery - calling Xi a "great leader," talking up respect for China, saying they'll have a "fantastic future together," is all Machiavellian Art of the Deal stuff. Flattery costs nothing and makes the other guy more willing to give ground without looking like he's folding domestically.

The CCP's entire system is built on the leader's prestige. Publicly humiliating Xi or treating him like a subordinate would make him dig in, rally nationalists, and push him to retaliate harder just to save face.

I don't actually think Trump knows about Chinese "honor culture" and the obsession with mianzi (face), but for whatever reason, Trump instinctively understands authoritarian psychology and how to work with it.

The problem is that intellectual types, especially those steeped in liberal internationalist frameworks, tend to struggle with parsing the difference between rhetoric vs. revealed preferences. They're hard-wired to overweight the former.

They treat diplomatic language as a window into the soul, as if it maps directly onto intent rather than as front-facing tool of statecraft. China weaponizes this brilliantly.

It's a lesson everyone should've learned by now. With Trump, ignore the optics and ignore what he says. Just look at his actions, and look at his results.