Bashar Zeedan

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

This is insane. Twitter suspended the account of the British consulate in Jerusalem for this tweet! WTF

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

@VincentJCurtis1 @DaniMayakovski “Not fought a war” is doing some Olympic-level heavy lifting when your definition excludes bombs, drones, missiles, and special forces.

The record includes extensive U.S. drone campaigns in Pakistan, airstrikes and military operations in Syria, and repeated bombing in Yemen.

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

@elonmusk The only glaring thing here is your combined stupidity and racism.. a dangerous mix for a sleazy billionaire

[Araquel Bloss @AraquelBloss]

You backed, armed and funded Israel’s genocide. Vetoed every UN resolution to help Palestinians from our permanent Security Council seat. Launched two illegal wars of aggression against Iran, bombed a school of children, kidnapped the President of Venezuela, bombed ships in int’l waters deemed “narco terrorists”. And you’ve hosted a man - wanted for genocide and crimes against humanity - at least 7 times in this Admin alone.

You don’t believe in international law and have defunded as much of the UN and WHO as possible.

NOW you want the UN’s help? That’s fucking rich.

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

The evil manifesto of the century. Unhinged and dystopian!

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

If only there is a word for a country that imposes laws based on ethnicity.
Hang on, is apartheid even a word?

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. https://t.co/2ANXrfQ7In

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

@LindseyGrahamSC The religious Nazi regime in the region is the Zionists you’re cuddling.. everyone clearly sees that but maybe in South Carolina it’s not that clear.. maybe go back and educate yourself and your the people of South Carolina trying to dodge ICE!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

The Palestinian resistance will be studied for generations to come

They fought off 3 genocidal nuclear-armed powers

In a hermetically-sealed prison

With weapons that were mostly repurposed from the occupation’s arsenal

Unprecedented

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

@jacksonhinkle That’s the normal for @47soulofficial way before the 7th of October! This band was ringing bells before you had Twitter accounts 💪🏽✌🏽

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This is how the BBC describes Palestinian ethnic cleansing and forcible displacement.

[Joseph Attard @josephattard02]

Say what you like about Banksy, but with these two pictures, he's managed to sum up the attitude of 'British democracy' to free speech when it comes to Israel and the genocide in Gaza.

Trotsky once said that art must tell the truth. I'd say he's met that standard.

[fair wes @ezrizx]

@ashrafnsier @grok
هل هذا صحيح

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

@SecRubio @EmmanuelMacron @UN And the 200 thousand victims of the genocide deserve no justice and no state? Your blind support for the genocide is a slap in the face for humanity.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

🇮🇱Israeli soldier: Maybe you think you are in Malmo; you are not in Malmo, my friend. Okey?

🇸🇪Young Man: You maybe think you are in Israel?

🇮🇱Israeli soldier: I am in Israel.

🇸🇪Young Man: You are in Palestine🇵🇸

[Noah’s Ark 🚢 @NoahsArk1000]

What actually changed overnight and why did it change overnight?

Candace Owens unveils the only reason.

[Bashar Zeedan @BasharZeedan]

https://t.co/oRbMHyFF94

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

As the Israeli "aid" scheme, staffed by US mercenaries, begins in Gaza, there is already a report of a Palestinian being kidnapped when he went to get one of the small boxes of food. His family says he went to Muraj Crossing aid distribution center.

"To our shock, he called us under threat from Israeli intelligence officers, demanding information about one of our relatives with whom we’ve had no contact since the beginning of the war.

"When we were unable to provide the information the army requested, communication was cut off, and we were later informed that he was transferred to a detention center. He is now considered missing."

Here is a statement from Eyad Amawi from the Gaza Relief Committees describing the overall situation with the "aid" distribution:

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

The insecurity and narcissism is completely off the charts

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Hilarious & absurd evidence provided by the Deputy Secretary DHS against Mohammad Khalil.

United States is no more a DEMOCRACY!