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Grumpy old American mathematician and computer scientist, now retired. My ErdΓΆs number equals 1.

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Congrats on the Gish gallop. I didn't say a word about Obama, so don't lie and pretend I did.

And it's "Libya".

07.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

06.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 3242 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 61

Ryan Grim can look in the mirror every day and say "deeply unserious" about himself, and he'd be right.

07.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Huh? Are you paying attention? We're talking about mainstream support for the Iranian regime, not mainstream opposition to bombing them indiscriminately (two probable war crimes already!), having zero plan for what will happen afterwards, at the behest of a deranged and demented moron.

07.03.2026 14:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.

07.03.2026 05:36 πŸ‘ 1802 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 9

I condemn the US attacks, too. They're being conducted at the behest of a senile idiot who is trying to distract from his presence in the Epstein files, with no planning for what happens afterwards. Didn't we learn a lesson from Iraq? I sure did, I supported that war and I regret it now.

07.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I asked you a question, which I will repeat now. Is there any evidence Mamdani was praising the current Iranian regime?

No, there isn't. Just the opposite, he's on record as condemning them.

A person of integrity would have simply acknowledged this.

07.03.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mamdani criticizes Iranian regime’s β€˜brutal government’ while still condemning U.S. and Israeli attacks The New York City mayor said getting involved in Iran could replicate β€œdevastating consequences” of previous interventions.

Mamdani is on the record as condemning the Iranian regime.

www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

07.03.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mamdani is on record as praising the current Iranian regime?

You're delusional.

And you don't have to tell me about anti-Semitism. I'm the guy who stood solo outside a local business with a protest sign because the owner was advertising a talk by a Holocaust denier.

07.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can't distinguish between believing the US shouldn't attempt regime change on its own (it worked so well in Iraq!) and thinking Iran's government is legit and benefits its people, what's wrong with you?

Black and white thinking in the extreme!

07.03.2026 08:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can always find a handful of extremists, but to pretend it's a mainstream position on the Left is deeply dishonest.

07.03.2026 08:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Who exactly "admires" the current Iranian government?

What ridiculous lies.

06.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

In my understanding of the words, "subjective interiority", whatever that is, is distinct from consciousness. For me, consciousness is when your model of the world is sufficiently detailed that it includes yourself.

06.03.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best concise definition of consciousness I've seen is that consciousness is when your model of the world is sufficiently detailed that it has to include yourself.

06.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop".
Frederick Douglass, 1894

05.03.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 595 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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This is the kind of thing I find fascinating. The relative frequencies of writing "two following" and "following two" (as in "the following two books should be on everyone's shelf) has switched places in the last 200 years, with the switchover point being approximately 1927.

Why has it happened?

06.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!

06.03.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 2517 πŸ” 405 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 7

Except for the people who have been killed, nobody has been killed.

06.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was β€œJUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ”₯”

06.03.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 3399 πŸ” 1192 πŸ’¬ 710 πŸ“Œ 1236

Gladder than ever that I unsubscribed

06.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst" who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles

Yes, same guy.

05.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 385 πŸ” 195 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

Never trust a god-botherer

06.03.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump sides with crypto firms in trillion-dollar battle with banks over stablecoin yield The dispute centers on whether crypto firms like Coinbase can offer yields on stablecoins, which banks warn will siphon trillions of dollars from the industry.

Follow the money

The Coinbase CEO met with Trump at the WH & hours later Trump attacked banks for opposing stablecoin yields

His family has made hundreds of millions from World Liberty Financial, which issues USD1 β€” a stablecoin that benefits directly!

Corruption in plain sight

05.03.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 788 πŸ” 325 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 10
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05.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 86 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

That's one of his schticks

05.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just replacing one insane and corrupt idiot with another.

05.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The video shows a US military veteran protesting the Iran War and being violently assaulted by Sen Sheehy, who broke his arm in several places. Sheehy is a violent thug, little more. bsky.app/profile/juan...

05.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 4

Everybody is so full of praise for the "teachings of Jesus", but don't forget that in John 14:6 he said, "No one comes to the Father except through me," an exclusionary claim setting up 2000 years of division between Christians and non-Christians.

Christian nationalism is a direct result.

05.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

05.03.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 1153 πŸ” 217 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 13

THIS is what RFK Jr. is doing right now in reverse. He is undoing incredibly effective disease prevention efforts.

Scientists and healthcare professionals are screaming at the top of our lungs about what the result will be.

But until people see it for themselves, many will not believe.

27.02.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0