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@neontaster is a smart guy, and I always liked interacting w him on twitter, but he's very sympathetic to the neocon / perpetual war party.
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18/ If you didn't work at a neocon think tank, say so. If you're not related to a famous neocon (not a taint by blood, but suggestive of household culture, family loyalties, etc.) say so. Saying "TJIC cites MT for the source of this claim and MT is bad" is >>>
19/ either an ad hominem vs Michael Tracy, or the genetic fallacy, perhaps, because my data comes from a source you dislike.
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ok, this is an actual rebuttal, and my it shows that my claim was somewhere between "not useful" and "flat out wrong".
I retract it and apologize to you @neontaster .
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1504450491287224327 …
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anyway, I continue to think that @neontaster is a fine person and I enjoyed being mutuals with him. I have no particular fight there.
22/ I did google it, Noam. I google pretty close to absolutely everything before I state it in a twitter thread. (or, rather, used Brave search engine). If there's some hit on the first page of results that would have clarified, I didn't see it. >>> https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1504451113420046340 …
23/ In my attempting to verify the information - BEFORE POSTING - I also googled for your name with "site: hudson institute", looked at linkedin, etc. I make mistakes all the time, but usually not ones out of laziness. I retract when corrected.
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Anyway, @neontaster and I are cool now.
We both got hot under the collar.
25/ A term that a socialist Michael Harrington coined in 1973 to refer to Democrats who were pro-war is "anti-semitic" ? Even if your claim was true (a) again, genetic fallacy, (b) I don't care. I refuse to stop using useful terms bc someone is upset.https://twitter.com/Gatoraid20/status/1504456833980903425 …
26/ > How about actually explaining what is wrong with interventionism? * it costs US dollars * it costs US lives * it's not our right * the USG does not have the legal authority to do with without a declaration of war
27/
Have you volunteered to go fight the Russians in Ukraine, @Gatoraid20 ?
If not, maybe stop trying to spend other people's dollars and lives in something you don't apparently care THAT much about.
28/ > Would you have not intervened in WW2 to stop the Holocaust? First, the US did not intervene in WW2 to stop the Holocaust. Second, the Nazis, while absolutely terrible, did not architect the Holocaust qua the Holocaust until after US blockades, etc. Without US >>>
29/ involvement it is plausible that the antisemitic and murderous Nazis would have done something else like the original plan to relocate populations to Madagascar. Retconning WWII into "US intervened to stop the Holocaust" is lazy and propogandistic. Actual rhetoric >>>
30/ at the time was off in the direction of "OMG OMG OMG the secret German plan to invade the US through Mexico!!!".
31/ Always remember that war is the health of the state.
32/ no, I entirely get that it's a bad thing. I'm just saying that it's also a COMPLICATED thing, where the US foreign policy establishment worked hard, over a decade, to push Putin into a lose/lose horns-of-a-dilemma where if he does nothing >>>https://twitter.com/derail33462704/status/1504456207192498184 …
33/ Ukraine slides into the NATO / EU / American orbit, and if he does something, then Ukranians and Russian conscripts die, and he looks terrible on the international stage.
34/ In law, you can't claim self defense in a fight that you've initiated or escalated. I'm pointing out that perhaps we should use a similar moral principle - not to argue that Ukranians shouldn't defend themselves (they should!) - but to argue that this situation was CREATED
35/ The scene: 1am, outside a liquor store. Five drunks with broken bottles and switchblades are menacing two other unarmed drunks. Should "we" get involved? What if I told you that we'd been telling those two other drunks for ten years "if you piss on those guy's shoes...
36/ ...we've got your back" ? Is this still a smart fight? Is this something that uninvolved third parties (like American taxpayers) should have to contribute to? Should Americans die in this fight? The whole situation was CREATED. Not a conspiracy theory. It's documented.
37/ I am literally an anarchist, man. I support the right of people to donate money and sign up for a volunteer legion. If people want to donate $10B, and 5k people want to fight, more power to them.https://twitter.com/Gatoraid20/status/1504459540103942150 …
38/ I 100% agree. Every party has agency. I'm not saying "US bad, US caused all of this, other side has no agency, is just reactive". Takes N to tango.https://twitter.com/JayGSlater/status/1504460828824715271 …
39/ I don't remotely give a shit if my suggestion is "awful" or not. My suggestions are either true or false. If they are false, give me evidence, and I will apologize and retract. "Awful" is a shaming tool used by women on other women. >>>https://twitter.com/n0th1ngm4n/status/1504461360331165702 …
40/ I am not a woman, and I don't give a flying fig about your attempt to shame me. So pick up some facts and stand a post, or GTFO.
41/ > you should be ashamed to have even typed it for public view. you're really not understanding who you're arguing with, do you ?https://twitter.com/n0th1ngm4n/status/1504462296285855745 …
42/ > it’s just bizarre you even said it "bizarre" is another word that women use a lot. It's something that powerless people say to other powerless people to make them afraid that they don't have allies.pic.twitter.com/DEjoLv7UK5
43/ You're telling me that my opinions and behaviors are outside the mainstream?pic.twitter.com/64tDMQKXtw
44/ No idea who that is. Don't care.https://twitter.com/Gatoraid20/status/1504463278759677960 …
46/ I am not remotely a Nazi, and I request that you retract and apologize (for two things: (a) calling me a Nazi, and (b) for having poor reading comprehension).https://twitter.com/NewtypeApologia/status/1504466933588054022 …
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