Paul Szydlowski

Data geek, fact freak, news junkie. Wish I was as clever as I think I am | Visit Rediscovering Reason on Substack

[Paul Szydlowski @pszyd]

@RobSchneider The ignorance running rampant on this thread is a far greater threat than communism will ever be.

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@StephenM This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.

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@JayTC53 @HunterBiden Biden did not give us the highest inflation in history. That is easy to prove. And gas prices, adjusted for inflation are lowered than they were in the 70s and 80s.

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@RealJamesWoods If representation roughly reflects the vote percentages, then this is ok. If it leads to what we saw in Ohio eight years ago, where the congressional vote was 52/48 but representation was 75% GOP/25% Dem. That's not how democracies, and especially republics, are supposed to work

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@ggreenwald @jbouie Can you explain what "inciting" means if it does not involve words?

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@RogerJStoneJr Wtf are you talking about? Like the polonium that you told Alex Jones you'd been poisoned with. Go find a cave to dwell in. Please.

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@RogerJStoneJr I'd tell you to get your head out of your ass, but it's clearly up Donald Trump's. Good lord.

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@ksorbs Are you nuts? Classic old days nostalgia. Watch Breakdown 1975 and listen to the NYC sanitation worker explaining how he bangs garbage cans to chase away the rats, or Martin Scorcese talking about how you didn't realize how bad it was, like a fish that doesn't know it's wet

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@0IvankaTrumpRV2 E

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@AndyOgles No it is not. And I am a Christian.

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@ArtCandee Ooh, big man, you. WTF? You think I care if you're upset? You need an ego-reduction.

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The opinion of a pro-American French writer

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

Utterly, completely baffled by the notion that the US could wake up one day and launch a massive regional war, purely unilaterally without at any point consulting allies, and a week later be like "Join the war now" and said allies should be expected to snap to attention and commit their troops to said war. I am pretty sure this has never ever happened in human history and that no alliance has ever worked like this. Just utterly deranged.

And this is still true even if the war is a very good idea!

To take a couple obvious examples:

- In the run-up to the Iraq War, some European countries (very wisely) opted to abstain, other countries opted to join. If instead of engaging in a multi-month diplomatic campaign to make their case the Bush Administration had taken an opportunity to effect a decapitation strike, the number of countries that would have joined would have been a big fat zero, for very obvious reasons.

- In the run-up to World War II, France repeatedly intended to go to war to stop Hitler before it was too late. And each time they tried to get their ally Britain onboard, and each time Britain said no. If France had acted unilaterally—which they should have—and then demanded Britain join the war, Britain would have told them to buzz off, for very obvious reasons. Note I’m picking an example where the unilateral war against the rising threat to stability is THE RIGHT CALL. But it still would have been the case that the UK would not have joined, and nobody would have expected them to.

Just insane insane mindset.

[Paul Szydlowski @pszyd]

@HeerJeet He has always relied on BS to keep his businesses afloat until it was no longer possible. Now he's doing the same with us and the rest of the world. We survived the first term, I'm not sure we'll survive the second.

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@HeerJeet His ignorance regarding the most fundamental economic concepts helps explain his countless business failures.

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@SecScottBessent This is reacting to Iranian tactics you didn't anticipate. This is a sign that we're behind the 8-ball.

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Any doubt that the U.S. is playing the role of puppet state and Benjamin Netanyahu the puppeteer was put to rest when Donald Trump put all the blame for the attack on Iran’s South Pars gas facility squarely on Israel.
https://t.co/hoFtsB5wzw

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@atrupar Well, at least she's not calling it A-One anymore.

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@patriottakes What's your point?

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@ggreenwald This backs up what the Omani foreign minister told Face The Nation the day before the war started. This strengthens the argument that Netanyahu was afraid we'd strike a deal, meaning we didn't go to war to secure peace, but to prevent it.

[Paul Szydlowski @pszyd]

Launching a war just as a historic agreement is about to be concluded defies all logic — unless one accepts that the nuclear issue was clearly not the real central concern. The objective lay elsewhere. According to the available information, it was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who initially pushed for action during an Oval Office meeting on February 11, 2026, with the aim of sabotaging the ongoing U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations.
https://t.co/9vTjUKiwPl