Neurondorp

Mapping the perilous waters between Corporate Nationhood and International Anarchy while sailing through them in pursuit of Paradigm Nationhood.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani Che va benissimo se sei un poeta e scrivi 5/7 anni prima di Gramsci. Come politico uno avrebbe il dovere di trovare una sintesi tra le divergenti convinzioni che, come i cavalli delle torture medievali, dilaniano la società che Picierno e sodali tengono tanto a voler governare.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani «Codesto solo oggi possiamo dirti, / ciò che non siamo, ciò che non vogliamo»

[Policy Tensor @policytensor]

Brilliant note. Reminds me of my conversation with Gopal about boldness; about the willingness to confront greater power; to stand up and fight; a decisive control for balancing vs bandwagoning; the real reason why Iran is a great power and India is not. https://t.co/H11cOL2IGm

“One side has internalised US-Israeli power as the permanent horizon of political reality, while the other treats that same power as contingent and contestable.

Iran's refusal is therefore not merely the product of religious solidarity, ideological affinity, or shared strategic culture with Hizbullah, but is better understood as a rejection of the defeatist rationality that presents imperial power as the invisible limit of the possible, the zero point beyond which politics cannot go.

What Iran and Hizbullah share is a political ontology grounded in the refusal of this defeatism, and a conception of sovereignty not as formal recognition conferred by power, but as the substantive capacity to reject subordination, even when the cost is very high.”

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

The Iranian world order: Shipping tycoon prefers $200,000 fee to cross Strait of Hormuz to ‘this hassle’ https://t.co/HiA90w7hmw

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

USD remains most USED global currency.

Gold becomes most RESERVED global asset.

Behold the new global monetary system, where the "Store of Value" function is separated from the "Medium of Exchange" & "Unit of Account" functions...hiding in plain sight 👇

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

The U.S. Director of National Intelligence

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

Interesting post from a former Chinese MFA staffer

Why China responds so forcefully to latest EU legislative moves is once they’re in place, they’re impossible to unpick

Unlike Trump’s tariffs or piecemeal EU trade probes, these would be locked in - permanently and structurally

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:

Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.

This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.

Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.

The rules built to protect passive investors:

1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.

2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.

3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion.

To get there he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in.

Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani @VCaccianemico Mi sembra un'implicita ammissione di fallimento da parte dello Stato. Se non lo si è fatto negli anni 1990s, quando lo Stato era diventato una specie di fondo di magazzinoo ho seri dubbi che sia proponibile oggi. Qualcuno ricorda la parate militare del 2 giugno 1993?

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani Prossima meglio. Ci aggiorniamo su WH, scegli tu il giorno.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani Come avrai capito qui viene la parte dove ti dico "Stefano, avrei alcune domande da farti. Quando hai un attimo per un caffé?".

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani La penso come te. Penso solo che la politica non possa tutto. Penso che sarebbe già molto se ascoltasse proposte.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani Cioè, in teorie nulla lo vieta ma pare che il Piano Solo fosse (in larga misura) la reazione del Blocco edilizio.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

@stebellentani Mi pare chiaro che non potendo fare "gabbie salariali" (a maggior ragione statali) l'unico modo per alzare gli stipendi sia ridurre i costi. Il costo principale è l'affitto ma non lo si può ridurre chiudendo gap con richieste del "mercato" né tassando a sangue "extra" profitti.

[Neurondorp @wikipolis]

cc @EIF_EU

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

After SpaceX' IPO, Elon will have 42% equity, and 69, no, 79% voting power. Elon is going to be supreme commander of the star fleet and emperor of the solar system

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

raising a seed round in 2030 like

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

At least Frum is honest that his objections to Platner are all downstream of the fact that Platner is vocally opposed to Israel’s genocide

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Dubowitz isn’t just any neocon pundit, he is the CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). FDD is very pro Israel & is closely advising the admin on Iran policy.

When Dubowitz says “for the next two & a half years” he is basically admitting that the initial goal of the pro Israel lobby was to get us into this war knowing that once we were in, it would be very difficult for us to get out.

Dubowitz & the Israelis alway knew this would be a very long war, but lied to Trump & the admin with tales of a decapitation strike leading to a popular uprising, resulting in a quick victory.

They knew this was a lie. They will continue to lie to get us to do their bidding, regardless of what it costs our nation.

Rooting out foreign influence starts with cutting off access to Israeli surrogates like FDD.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
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