Ben Basche

John 14:27. Husband, dada, founder @PopPayMoney

[Ben Basche @basche42]

New blog post:

Like an alien technology from the future, Zero-point software has arrived

https://t.co/1s46lMogzt

[Ben Basche @basche42]

“Or that, having ineffably encrypted Himself in the logoi of beings for our sake, He is obliquely signified in a proportionate way through each of the things seen, as if through letters—a most complete whole together in the wholes, and a whole according to each particular, whole and undiminished, the undifferentiated in the differences and always self-same, the simple and uncomposed in the composites, the one without origin in the things subject to origin, and the unseen in things seen, and the untouchable in things grasped.”

- JDW quoting Maximus Ambiguum 33

[Ben Basche @basche42]

“Balthasar called Maximus’s Christ the (supposedly Hegelian) “identity of identity and nonidentity.” We can be more precise (and likely more Hegelian): Christ is the hypostatic identity of natural identity and natural difference. He himself, his very person, became an “is” otherwise unthinkable between created and uncreated nature. And yet his becoming that “is” is the ground and possibility of the most absolute and real natural difference. We might say that the Incarnation makes absolute natural difference thinkable for the first time in human thought. Hypostatic identity names the actuality or the fact of the very difference between God and man. If we were to grow hasty and expand Christo-logic to creation itself, we might even say this: the Son’s hypostatic identity manifests, is, the very mode of creatio ex nihilo.”

[Nostra, House of Gold @Nostre_damus]

Trump has no incentive to restart the war with Iran

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Mailing in your ballot from a military base across the world to vote for the fake Dan Sullivan

[Ben Basche @basche42]

TINA

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

BREAKING: Russia effectively abandons efforts to replace the US dollar with China's yuan

[Ben Basche @basche42]

@_OH_71 Good karma attitude

[Ben Basche @basche42]

@rocinante2d Iran is slightly weaker than it lets on, US much weaker, a very lopsided deal is incoming

[Ben Basche @basche42]

A peaceful resolution is the contrarian position and will be vindicated

[Sam Kovacs @SamKovX]

US VS IRAN GAME THEORY IN 7 POINTS:

1. Trump wants out but not on Iranian terms. He needs something he can spin as a win.

2. The Dems can't squeeze him out. Congress never voted a dollar for this war which will continue to be paid from the Pentagon's ordinary budget.

3. The IRGC won't let him off easy. They believe that a man who needs an exit will pay for one. Tehran republished the same 7 demands which Rubio called "outrageous and ridiculous" (end the war, lift the blockade, pay reparations and release frozen funds).

4. Iran can last longer than the forecasts say. The economy is in its worst shape in decades, but they don't need the economy to endure, only the IRGC, which has plenty of support and funding to endure. Also Washington just created a new task force to shut land borders. Why do that if the squeeze was already working so well?

5. But Iran keeps misreading Washington. It thought closing Hormuz would force a quick deal. Then it thought the midterms would. Now it thinks Congress will. Maybe they will wake up at some point.

6. Washington has its own agenda. The day SpaceX launched in June oil fell 5% on hopes of an MoU. Anthropic IPO is due on November 19th + gave the Qataris 2 weeks for diplomacy. Coincidence?

7. Who blinks first? Neither side can accept the other's terms without looking like a poor loser, and neither side thinks they are losing. Both are misreading the other's clock.

The correction and reality check can only come through escalation.

It's mostly a question of when, not if, given the prevailing positions on both sides. The status quo can remain messy for a while, but a peaceful resolution is totally overestimated right now.

[Ben Basche @basche42]

@rocinante2d Hard to say exactly but US will give 5.87-6.87 of 7 and Iran will basically just return to jcpoa

[Nick Dorsey @Midnight_Captl]

🚨 According to the FT, Alice Huang was such an incredible spy that even the CCP didn’t know who she was and was actively trying to gather intel about her

Amazing!

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP: WE WON IN IRAN

[Σοφία in the Shell @Plotinusmoder]

>Reading Dignitatis Humane (Vatican II decree on religious liberty)
>it’s indistinguishable from Spinoza’s teaching that every person should individually decide the religion that they particularly feel is most in accord with reason

[Ben Basche @basche42]

@whatdotcd CIA leftism

[Yaugourt.hl @Yaugourt]

Hyperliquid.

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

This is sheer Hegsethian bloodlust applied to a different war.

[Biral @biral_r]

Given the two interviews today (Ghalibaf AlJ + Rezaei AlM), Iran is basically making diplomacy public.

Repeating the call for the US to deliver the 7 conditions, or to formally (publicly) decline.

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

The only humanism left standing is going to be Christian humanism.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN'S QALIBAF TO AL JAZEERA: IRAN HAS NO DESIRE FOR THE WAR TO CONTINUE, ITS PRIORITY IS PEACE BUT ITS DEMANDS SHOULD BE MET

[Ben Basche @basche42]

@koolkrypto223 Hyperliquid s3

[Ben Basche @basche42]

Restating what he’s said for 3 months and lying about negotiations. Not news

Oil bull trap

[WW3 Monitor @WW3_Monitor]

In recent days, General Mohsen Rezaei has issued statements stating there are no ongoing negotiations with the U.S. and he has repeatedly stated that Iran will not budge unless the U.S. meets Iran’s conditions.

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[Ben Basche @basche42]

Honestly based @DonaldJTrumpJr

[Jejune The Annihilator @Midnight_JJ0]

Barnes: the reason DJT didn't attend Don Jr.'s wedding was that they got into a shouting match over the Iran War, which Don Jr. denounced as a betrayal. DJT turned his plane around in mid-air.

(Not enough - Don Jr. needed to denounce the war *publicly* *at the time*!)