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@MacaesBruno @policytensor (Note I make a point of saying POPULAR culture, I’m not opining on whether the U.S. has contributed as much to classical orchestral music or poetry as Portugal has, I genuinely don’t know; obviously the U.S. invented jazz but jazz isn’t popular globally)

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@MacaesBruno @policytensor American popular culture - like Italian food - IS globally popular on an empirical basis

That suggests there’s some kind of intrinsic appeal in the “marketplace of culture”

I’d add that Europeans are in many ways the most resistant to it

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@williamwintergr @gbrew24 With what military assets? The U.S. Navy and the GCC state owned merchant marine have defeated Iran’s blockade.

Saudi will soon launch its state backed insurer & more private carriers will run the risk too.

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@BrettErickson28 @gbrew24 Even if that were true, Iran should have prioritised getting imports in, replenishing its stocks and stabilising the economy

Prioritising the principle of controlling Hormuz was a moronic miscalculation

They even failed to time it to get imports in from China

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@DrMakavelli @mashabani Yes

You guys are in fantasy land, GS are in the real world

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@sfrantzman But….you supported the equivalent policies to those of Mladic being carried out by Israel back in 2023 and 2024

Did you really not understand what you were supporting?!?

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@policytensor Macaes is often wrong about many things and this is a very vivid example

The substance of American culture is attractive and enjoyable and that’s objectively the case regardless of American dominance

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@DrMakavelli @mashabani https://t.co/EiuLVUeLIj

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@DrMichaelBonner @RashaAlAqeedi @business …running down its magazine (ie it “shoot loads at Hormuz” or “shoot 1 or 2 a day to try to create fear”) - & fear is effective on private carriers but obviously GCC state owned vessels won’t be affected by that/can run more risks. So the IRI blew it. 2/2

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@DrMichaelBonner @RashaAlAqeedi @business 1/2 What’s happened is that after Iran breached the MoU, the GCC’s state owned marines began running shuttle deliveries under US Navy escort to awaiting private carriers outside of Hormuz where ship to ship transfers took place. Iran can’t calibrate closure of Hormuz without…

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@RashaAlAqeedi It’s genuinely remarkable how those clowns turned a winning hand & turned it into defeat by overplaying their hand & deliberately breaching an MoU - and we’ll mostly likely find out this was driven by internal factional positioning

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@BrettErickson28 Israel doesn’t pose any danger to the US & Iran’s leadership’s committed to hostility towards the US (their hostility is tempered by incompetence)

And the hostility will never end no matter what you do because they believe confrontation is the only way for them to stay in power

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@mashabani Yet millions of barrels are flowing every day - according to TankerTrackers

https://t.co/FH8TC4f4wD

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@JasonMBrodsky I was sent this photo of him - is it genuine ?

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@asadabukhalil Says the man who lives a nice modern life in California

Allow me to remind you of the words taught to Seamus Heaney by his father: “you can’t eat a flag, son”

Your obsession with national pride & honour is just fascism

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@ayatr0llah They’re misogynists

That’s all

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@megha_lilly @zriboua It can once hezbollah disarm

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@Ricardo89952433 @im_PULSE @omid9 (Basically Omid is now a member of the far right, partly because his career is failing, partly because of his own extremist tendencies - he opposes social liberalism - and partly because of negative polarisation against far left for supporting the Islamic republic)

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@Ricardo89952433 @im_PULSE @omid9 But they’re not liberals

There are “campists” but not a single campist has shown any interest in topics like gay or trans rights - in fact most of the far left campists are consistently socially conservative & make a point of performative anti wokeism