David Gondek

I wouldn't lead you into paradise even if I knew the way. Because, if I could lead you in, someone else would just come along & lead you right back out again.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

Which side of the wall do you want to be on? https://t.co/Hff7RfO38s

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@RandyCarter9455 @SZunes What you are referring to is submission, capitulation and/or collusion. Winning is a corrupt world order which is designed to funnel money and power to the already rich and powerful is a nice scheme...if you have no values beyond self enrichment and sustaining elitism. Goodbye.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@nmavrantzas @Marcus_R_Scott @nxt888 https://t.co/LnOTxNPz85

[David Gondek @mutex7]

Which side of the wall do you want to be on? https://t.co/Hff7RfO38s

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@nxt888 All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@davereiss9 @matthewstoller They are the families and friends who benefit from powerful people being able to do what they want.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

54% of Americans think that "when it comes to politics and society, nothing really matters because powerful people will always do whatever they want."

Just 25% disagree.
https://t.co/zzpc0UAmz3

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

At the center of your argument is an assumption worth naming.

The assumption is: a consistent pattern of explanation is evidence of bias.

If you explain multiple bad outcomes through the same structural lens, you must be forcing the data into a predetermined framework.

But consistency is not the same as rigidity.

Gravity is a consistent explanation for why objects fall.

We do not accuse physicists of bias for applying it to every falling object.

When you examine American foreign policy interventions across eighty years, Korea, Guatemala, Iran, Vietnam, Chile, Nicaragua, Iraq, Libya, and on and on, and find a consistent pattern of: democratic or independent governments threatening American corporate or strategic interests, followed by American destabilization, followed by outcomes that serve those interests at the expense of the local population, the consistent explanation is not bias.

It is pattern recognition.

The alternative, treating each case as entirely independent, requiring a separate, unconnected explanation, refusing to draw structural conclusions from structural patterns, is not sophistication.

It is deliberately induced blindness.

You are not asking for complexity.

You are asking for amnesia.

One intervention at a time.

Never connected.

Never accumulated.

Never allowed to become what it actually is:

A pattern with a logic that the documents, the declassified records, and the people who lived through it have been describing for decades.

The pattern is the argument.

Your move is to refuse to see the pattern.

That is not a rebuttal.

That is a choice.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Just kind of left speechless at an invading army whining to the United Nations that the people they are invading — and killing their civilians by the thousands — are fighting back. This is a mystifying level of lack of self awareness

[Ignus Nilsen @halvardous]

@nntaleb @asadabukhalil The genuinely believe that it’s not permissible to defend yourself against their soldiers, it’s a psychology I’ve never encountered before in any other people on this planet

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

People don't grasp the sheer speed and scale of Europe's decline.

This 👇 is an extraordinary number shared by Luis Vassy, director of Sciences Po (one of France's most famous schools) in this article: https://t.co/BQbkXb2kPl

He calculated that the EU is declining 3 times faster than the Qing dynasty at the height of China's century of humiliation.

Back then, it took China 50 years to drop from 30% of world GDP to 17%, whereas it took the EU just 17 years (from 2008 to 2025).

Insane 😢 And, sadly, given the current direction and the EU's systematically suicidal policy choices (latest example: https://t.co/6EYJgdXVVo), it's just the beginning...

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@RandyCarter9455 @SZunes AI can answer your history questions but terrorism is the only weapon most nations have to resist US global domination and exploitation. Read this entire thread (including replies) to understand my perspective on what the world is fighting against. https://t.co/3lTk84O8cK

[David Gondek @mutex7]

People seem to believe that the US military encirclement of nations which oppose its global domination is in preparation for an invasion. The truth is that these forces are there to intimidate and coerce nations into not fighting back. The goal is to win without firing a shot.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is a concept in law called depraved indifference.

It means: you did not intend to kill. But you acted with such reckless disregard for human life that the law treats your indifference as equivalent to intent.

You did not pull the trigger knowing someone would die.

You just didn't care whether they did.

The legal system, at its best, recognizes that the absence of malice does not equal innocence.

That you can commit a profound moral wrong without hate in your heart.

That you can kill with a policy memo and a straight face and an anchor thanking you for your time.

"Worth it" is a depraved indifference statement.

It is not a statement of hatred.

It is a statement of category.

The children are in the category of things whose deaths are a cost-benefit variable.

Not the category of things whose deaths are a crime.

Not the category of things whose deaths produce the specific, irreversible, haunting weight that a death should produce.

The category of "costs."

And a Secretary of State who has placed 500,000 children in the costs column is not expressing hatred.

She is expressing something the law, at its best, recognizes as its own kind of killing.

Depraved indifference.

Empire is depraved indifference institutionalized, funded, staffed, and seated on the Security Council.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@RandyCarter9455 @SZunes The choice of nations which are much weaker militarily than the US and its allies is either to submit or to engage in asymmetric warfare (aka terrorism). The US itself engaged in terrorist acts during its revolutionary war with England. The hypocrisy is obvious.

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

History will record that Iran was the only country that defended southern Lebanon and forced a halt to the bombing of Beirut at a time when all Arabs, including the Lebanese government, remained silent.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@RandyCarter9455 @SZunes US global domination is not an internal affair. My point is that nations everywhere in the current world order are responding to US aggression - not initiating aggression. The US empire has far too much power, control...and the desire for more.

[Stephen Zunes @SZunes]

One of the three main agreements contained in the 1981 Algiers Accord, which led to the release of American hostages from Iran, was that the United States would never again intervene politically or militarily in Iranian internal affairs.
There is a reason they don't trust us.

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@RandyCarter9455 @SZunes Aren't hundreds of foreign military bases and control of the global financial system an external affair?

[David Gondek @mutex7]

@ZhaiXiang5 @RnaudBertrand Both sides understand a major conflict would be catastrophic but this doesn't change the fact that China will continue to rise and the US will never be willing to peacefully share global power and control.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"It has always been this way."

Five words.

Slavery always existed, until it didn't.

Colonies always existed, until they didn't.

Kings ruled by divine right, until they didn't.

"Always" is the story power tells about itself to make itself sound like gravity.

It isn't gravity.

It's a choice someone is making, right now, that requires your belief in its permanence to keep working.