Sercan Tas

PhD student in Sociology @UTAustinsoc Alumnus of @unibogazici

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid on Iran:

Netanyahu did not understand that the Strait of Hormuz is not a footnote—it is the heart of the story.

The moment fuel prices in the United States started to rise, Trump was no longer looking at Israel.

He was looking at the congressional elections and at his political base, which hated the war.

What happened was that Netanyahu pushed for war with Iran as if it didn't pass through the gas pump in Ohio.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

Chuck Schumer, Dan Goldman, Jerry Nadler, Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, Vanessa Gibson, and Mark Levine all marched in a parade with this wanted war criminal just two weeks ago.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

A Nazi

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

The entire first line of Lebanese villages has been destroyed.

We are destroying all the houses. The residents will never see them standing before their eyes again.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

JD Vance just admitted the White House plan is to take ownership of every major AI company in America.

Steven Bartlett brought up Bernie Sanders' proposal that workers should own 50% of the major AI companies.

Vance's response: "The president by the way likes that idea too. He likes that idea."

Trump's preferred mechanism, Vance said, is a sovereign wealth fund where the US government takes equity stakes in private AI companies.

The Vice President literally just confirmed that an administration is planning the most radical economic policy proposed in modern American history. Partial nationalization of the MOST valuable private companies on earth. And the idea originally came from Bernie Sanders, who Vance said Trump agrees with on this point.

This is not a small thing:

The US has spent 80 years selling the world on the model where private companies stay private and the government stays off the cap table.

The countries that did the opposite, with sovereign wealth funds owning slices of their biggest firms, are Norway, Saudi Arabia, China, and Singapore. And the Trump administration told you on a podcast it wants to do the same to Silicon Valley.

But the reasoning Vance gave for it is where it gets really interesting...

He said the historical analogy that scares him is the original Industrial Revolution. His own words:

"Rich people got way richer. And that led to in Europe fascism and communism."

He believes AI will not cause mass unemployment but mass inequality, and that mass inequality is what breaks societies. His fix is that workers need a seat at the bargaining table before the wealth gets created, not a redistribution check after.

"I think labor unions are a very important model here."

And the other thing about AI that scares him is surveillance. His exact phrase was that AI is "fundamentally a communist technology" because it lets governments and corporations watch and score people in ways NOTHING else can.

He said he doesn't want a social credit system, doesn't want a tech CEO deciding whether you can buy a beer based on an algorithm nobody understands, and is afraid of exactly that outcome.

So here is the full picture:

The sitting Republican administration believes AI will make the rich dramatically richer, that this will radicalize the country the way the Industrial Revolution radicalized Europe, that the answer is government equity stakes plus stronger labor unions, and that the second-biggest threat is the surveillance state these companies are building.

That is not a Republican worldview. That is not even a Democratic worldview.

This is a worldview that has no political home in the United States right now.

Most people are still arguing about whether ChatGPT will take their jobs. But the people with the actual power are already past that argument.

They are quietly designing the framework for owning the companies that will.

The craziest part is how casually Vance dropped it as a sidenote on a podcast millions will half-listen to in the background.

If you have money in OpenAI, Anthropic, or anything like that, you should be watching the full thing yourself.

What do you think?

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

JD Vance is not changing the conversation about Israel in the US. He is changing the entire paradigm:

He is reminding the Israelis that they are alone and - though he doesn't use this word - much disliked internationally. Israel should not undermine the only strong friend they have left.

"If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have left."

And, he is reminding them of their utter dependence on the United States.

Because 2/3 of the weapons that have protected Israel (!!) "have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars."

As a point of comparison, no one in the Biden admin ever spoke like this about Israel when Netanyahu was blowing through Biden's so-called red lines on Gaza...

[Sercan Tas @srcn_ts]

This sounds more like wishful thinking than a prediction.

[RT @RT_com]

Ben Shapiro 'PREDICTS' Trump will BOMB IRAN after MIDTERMS

[Sercan Tas @srcn_ts]

Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren. Together at last. United in their desire for perpetual confrontation with Iran.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"What an embarrassment."

GOP and Democrat senators are casting doubt on President Trump’s Iran peace deal, with lawmakers from both parties criticizing the agreement and raising concerns about its potential impact.

"Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea."

"I think the president unfortunately is receiving bad advice on this deal."

@foxnewspolitics

[Fox News @FoxNews]

"What an embarrassment."

GOP and Democrat senators are casting doubt on President Trump’s Iran peace deal, with lawmakers from both parties criticizing the agreement and raising concerns about its potential impact.

"Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea."

"I think the president unfortunately is receiving bad advice on this deal."

@foxnewspolitics

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚩 VP VANCE: “Israel has the right to defend itself but … what the President has grown frustrated with is sometimes we seem to be right on the cusp of a major breakthrough in the agreement, and then all of a sudden there's a major explosion … in a civilian population center in Beirut and a lot of people who have nothing to do with Hezbollah lose their lives. That's not acceptable.”

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Vance: Do I trust Israel? I don't really trust anybody when it comes to international affairs and diplomacy. Having seen the president operate — Israel is the junior partner. We're the senior partner.

We are the world's superpower. That's simply the way it works.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

I never heard such brutal honesty about the state of Israel from an American official before. Those in the Biden administration would sooner sell their organs than say something like this publicly. In one soundbite he exposes Israel’s utter international isolation and its complete dependence on the US for its security. The masks and the gloves are off.

[serbestiyet @serbestiyetweb]

JD Vance, İsrail eleştirilerine New York Times röportajında devam etti. Aşırı sağcı bakanlar Ben-Gvir ve Smotrich’i hedef aldı:

“Peki sizin somut çözüm öneriniz ne? 9 milyonluk bir ülkesiniz. Yaşadığınız her güvenlik sorunundan insanları öldürerek kurtulamazsınız.”

[Sercan Tas @srcn_ts]

I don't care if Trump/Vance are doing this out of cynicism, nationalism, or spite. I care about the effect—and the effect is: less rhetorical cover for empire, more exposure of its raw mechanics, and possibly more room for real opposition to crystallize.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! JD Vance is DIRECTLY calling out Israeli cabinet members for their personal attacks on President Trump

"Donald J. Trump is the ONLY head of state in the ENTIRE WORLD who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time, and he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower.

If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have ANYWHERE left in the entire world."

"The other thing that I would say is that over the last 3 months, TWO-THIRDS of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by AMERICAN HANDS and paid for by AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.

The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to WAKE UP and smell the reality of the situation that country is in."

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

VIDEO: Vice president Vance in a message to to Israeli cabinet members:

“If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have left

2/3 of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in”

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

And why did she sit on his very important piece of information about dangerous intervention in US foreign policy by a foreign government?

[asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل @asadabukhalil]

Biden never said this. Obama never said this. Harris never said this. Blinken never said this.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Trump criticizes Israel's methods in Lebanon:

You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you are looking for somebody.

There are a lot of people in those houses, and they are not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you.

[Ekremist Sokrat @ekremistsokrat2]

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