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Jay Donde

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1 year

Some more perspective from my days in the IDF: In the weeks ahead, you'll struggle to reconcile your anger at Hamas with awful images of civilian casualties in Gaza. To help you arrive at your own conclusions, here's a primer on the IDF's moral framework for urban combat. 1/x

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"The South will rise again" is an aspirational call for economic prosperity, regional cooperation, and spiritual revitalization, not slavery, insurrection, and Jim Crow.

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Jay Donde

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1 year

Most people here know me from my involvement in SF politics, but from 2002-2005 I served as an infantryman in the IDF during the Second Intifada. I figure my local friends might benefit from the perspective of someone they know and trust, so here goes. (Feel free to share) 1/x

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Friends, do not give way to despair. Yes, many of our institutions have been hijacked by legions of the depraved. But I send you a message of hope from the unlikeliest of places, San Francisco, where we’ve been fighting those legions for the past 5 years. And we are winning. 1/x

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6 months

I am again asking American Jews to recognize that the right's antisemites are mostly neckbearded incels living in their parents' basements, while the left's are running your kids' universities, editing your newspapers, and serving in your Senate. Vote accordingly.

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6 months

On this Easter, let’s ponder Netanyahu’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, which has killed more than 20,000 women and children, and his restriction of humanitarian aid, which has pushed Palestinians to the brink of famine.

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1 year

Just got an email from @UCBerkeley (my undergrad alma mater) Chancellor Carol T. Christ equating Hamas with the IDF. Disgusting. Donors, close your wallets until she and other spineless administrators of her ilk are fired.

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2 years

@chrsdcook Peak SF prog tweet, scratches all the key itches: - Defend manifestly incompetent government ✅ - “I am a nuanced, critical thinker; those who disagree with me are ideologues” ✅ - Doesn’t read article which contains answer to his snarky question ✅ 11/10 bravo. Strong work.

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1 year

But the real world is not Braveheart. It's not always the case that the side with more dead, or the side that's not wearing fatigues, is the side of the morally superior freedom fighter. Again, what's needed is a moral vocabulary not derived from Hollywood blockbusters. 6/x

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1 year

This is why I always find claims of "Israeli commando death squads" and the like so laughable. The people making those claims have based their entire conceptualization of special forces soldiers around John J. Rambo. Sorry to disappoint y'all. First Blood was just a movie. 17/x

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1 year

The NYT doing a bang up job this morning exemplifying the laziness I cited in this tweet. Publishes headline claiming IDF bombed hospital, killing 500. Source? Gaza Ministry of Health. Turns out it was a failed rocket launched by Islamic Jihad.

Jay Donde

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1 year

A reminder that Hamas controls every level and branch of government in Gaza. When journalists credulously parrot Gaza Ministry of Health, etc., talking points, they are lazily taking Hamas—an organization famous for its honesty and moral rectitude—at its word.

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For example, there have been multiple protests -- some internal and some made public -- by both active duty and reservist soldiers in IAF and sayeret units against what they saw as illegal or immoral Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. 16/x

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1 year

I don't blame folks for falling for these claims, of course. Liberal Americans' heads would probably explode if they opened the NYT website one morning to the headline "Delta Force operators refuse to deploy in protest of administration policy towards Iraqi civilians." 18/x

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1 year

But proportionality in war isn't, NOR SHOULD IT BE, a simplistic concept of tallying up deaths on one side and tallying up deaths on another side, comparing the two numbers, and saying that one number is too big or too small. 29/x

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It's also worth noting that I think the reason that many folks struggle with this stuff is because the moral vocabulary of war is ugly, and people would rather not become conversant in it. 3/x

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1 year

So, unlike the dynamic in the US, the Israeli left (again, particularly the Kibbutz community) considers itself the intellectual, social, and spiritual vanguard of Zionism and there's a sort of noblesse oblige around serving in elite combat roles. 12/x

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1 year

Americans, especially, are vulnerable to this, because they're fundamentally good people and love rooting for the underdog. 5/x

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Jay Donde

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6 months

I don't think there's a good moral case against the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, but if we're going to have the debate let's at least get the facts right. This is a VERY well-documented episode in history, so there's no excuse for Tracey's ignorance. Let's go to school 🧵:

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6 months

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as targets specifically to incinerate non-combatants with the most terrifying weapons ever unleashed on humankind. Japan had already been pulverized into submission by August 1945. It was a uniquely psychotic act in the annals of world history

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3 years

Last week, literally on the day my new wife and I came home to SF after our wedding, an intoxicated man confronted us on our doorstep, blocked the way out of our home, and threatened to stab me. 1/x

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1 year

There’s a ton of social cachet in having served in one of these units. Having Sayeret Matkal or Shayetet 13 on your resume in Israel is like having Harvard or Yale on your resume in the US. 11/x

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1 year

Unfortunately, if you don't learn that vocabulary, you'll end up either unable to resolve your conflicting moral intuitions, or at the mercy of propagandists. 4/x

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1 year

But you do have to do better than circulate context-free charts on Twitter comparing Palestinian deaths to Israeli deaths and claiming that, ipso facto, Israel is in the wrong. 35/x

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1 year

So, stay tuned and I'll explain what those other considerations are, and how they played out in different ways when Israel was wrestling with the legitimacy of two effective tactics the IDF developed in the early 2000s: wall tunneling and neighbor protocol. 39/39

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1 year

This is what I meant when I said earlier that the moral vocabulary of war is ugly. It's also why "vocabulary" is precisely the key concept. If the IDF did bomb that building, you'd hear a lot of people, many of whom should know better, talk about "disproportionate response." 28/x

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Jay Donde

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3 years

Two months ago, I examined crime trends in San Francisco and other cities to see whether Chesa Boudin was misleading the public by claiming that crime here was down. I concluded then that he was. Today, I’m updating my analysis, finding even more support for that conclusion. 1/x

Jay Donde

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4 years

In response to claims by some that crime in SF is down despite most residents’ experiences to the contrary, I decided to dig into the data and see whether this claim is true or we’re all being gaslighted. A thread on crime, punishment, and Chesa Boudin. 1/x

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1 year

Why am I mentioned all this? Because the moral calculus the IDF makes when considering whether to undertake operations that put civilian lives at risk isn't solely based on legal or philosophical treatises. It also has to consider what soldiers are actually willing to do. 14/x

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11 months

A number of senior and retired judges in San Francisco held a press conference yesterday denouncing -- wait for it -- challenges to incumbents in judicial elections. Judges who think this way are better suited to tinpot dictatorships than democracies. How did we get here? 🧵 1/x

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1 year

It's worth noting that most of what I'm about to cover applies to all western militaries, not just the IDF. 2/x

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1 year

It will be hard, but to paraphrase Hemingway, “America is a fine place, and worth fighting for.” 18/18

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11 months

I for one am shocked that the people who were doing this three years ago turned out to be a bunch of Nazis. Who could've possibly foreseen this development?

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1 year

In multiple instances just in the last 20 years, the strange dynamic of the most educated and cosmopolitan members of Israeli society also being those serving in the most high-speed combat units has led to some strange outcomes. 15/x

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1 year

You can take issue with how the IDF makes these types of decisions. And you can certainly take issue with how, after the decisions are made, the IDF ensures orders are followed and violations are punished. 31/x

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Jay Donde

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2 years

@rcmoya84 Black and brown families in the Mission want and deserve safe streets just as much as white families in the Mission, or in Pac Heights. Framing this as a difference of cultures is how decades of disinvestment in SF’s southeastern neighborhoods has been rationalized.

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1 year

If there's no air vent to bomb, the apartment building is full of 2,000 civilians, and the tunnel is being used to smuggle in large numbers of missiles to be fitted with chemical warheads? Bombing the apartment is almost certainly valid under international law. 27/x

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1 year

What surprises many people about that last group is that most of its personnel come from the upper echelons of Israeli society, in particular communities like Kibbutzim that have traditionally been identified with the Left. 10/x

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1 year

If you need a primer on why there is no moral equivalency not just between Israel and Hamas, but the vast majority of the Israeli population and the vast majority of the Palestinian population, I recommend this clip. 2/x

Colin Wright

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1 year

This is a pertinent clip from Sam Harris on the moral difference between Israel and her enemies. The moral difference comes down to understanding the answer to this question: what would each side do if they had the power to do it? TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that there is an

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These are bedrock concepts in international humanitarian law that dictate that a combat action must be necessary to achieve a legitimate military aim, and that the benefit derived from that action must be proportional to the risk to civilians. 21/x

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1 year

What you saw yesterday was a Hail Mary operation by Hamas and Iran. The intent is almost certainly to draw Israel into a protracted urban conflict in Gaza yielding enough civilian casualties to torpedo the US-Israel-Saudi Arabia trilateral deal. 7/x

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1 year

So, let's start with some sociological context about the Israeli military. The vast majority of combat operations in the Occupied Territories are conducted by IDF regular army units, whose personnel are drafted from a broad cross section of Israeli society. 7/x

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This has changed a bit in the last couple decades, with many sayeret recruits now coming from the religious nationalist and Russian immigrant communities, but it still largely holds true amongst the pilot and officer corps. 13/x

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OK, but what about the actual framework under which operational decisions are made in light of risk to civilians? Pretty much every explanation of this you'll hear -- whether in regards to the IDF or another western military -- will focus on necessity and proportionality. 20/x

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1 year

I think the only interesting debate to be had now with respect to the moral dimensions of this conflict is whether, after nearly 100 years of repeatedly being offered peace and rejecting it, the Palestinians have lost the right of self determination. 4/x

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1 year

Another major component of the Israeli security apparatus, particularly in and around Jerusalem, is the MAGAV, the Border Police, whose personnel primarily come from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 8/x

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1 year

I think it's worth expanding on this, because it's so fundamental to why discussions of wars in the Middle East, or anywhere, are so rife with misunderstanding and dishonesty. 30/x

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What can I say? Israel is a strange country. 19/x

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Finally, you have the elite special forces units (many of which can be identified by having the term "Sayeret" (reconnaissance) in their name) and the air force. 9/x

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1 year

I don’t know what kind of jobs y’all have, but if I amplified a blood libel and thereby brought humanity to the brink of WW3, and my only excuse was “I thought I could trust this charming, ragtag band of mass rapists and baby killers,” I’d probably be fired.

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You don't simply deserve a state. You have come somewhere near the galaxy of internationally accepted norms of behavior. A century of widespread, popular support for genocide is... not that. 5/x

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4 years

In response to claims by some that crime in SF is down despite most residents’ experiences to the contrary, I decided to dig into the data and see whether this claim is true or we’re all being gaslighted. A thread on crime, punishment, and Chesa Boudin. 1/x

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1 year

Arguably, bombing the apartment building would be proportional. Considerably more lives would be saved by preventing heavy artillery to be used against Israeli towns than would be lost by bombing the building. But it wouldn't be necessary! The IDF could've bombed the vent. 24/x

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2 years

@kevinvdahlgren This person is representative of a large class of folks who are mostly working out their own issues and trauma through performative activism. We're unwilling participants in their 24/7 therapy sessions.

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1 year

If you still need more convincing, just scroll through some of the videos being shared on Twitter rn in what has to be the biggest propaganda own goals of all time. I don't know what Hamas or Iran was thinking with these, but they basically come out looking like barbarians. 3/x

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1 year

Lack of seriousness on this topic in the public discourse leads on the one hand to such a hands off approach that terrorists have free rein to murder thousands of civilians, or on the other hand to illegal collective punishment of entire populations. 37/x

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1 year

Turns out hiring a bunch of pseudo intellectual hucksters and pretending their “fields of study” were anything more than drinking games where you take a shot for every “praxis” and “othering” you can throw into a term paper was not a good financial decision for American colleges.

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You need to explain whether you think the operation was conducted in violation of the IDF's moral framework, and why; or you need to explain why you think that framework is flawed, and what alternative framework you suggest. 33/x

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1 year

But if you want to argue that what Israel did in X operation is wrong, you have to do better than just "too many civilians died." 32/x

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5 months

Just a thought but is it possible that Joe Sixpack in Ohio struggling to pay his monthly farm mortgage isn't going to be too psyched about paying off the student debt of an American flag-burning, Hezbollah-supporting Columbia student majoring in Marxist poetry?

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10 months

Homelessness increased *by* 12%. It is not *at* 12%. These people's brains are so fried by TikTok that they're incapable of reading even the first paragraph past the headline of a news article. Idiocracy has arrived in the form of Gen Z progressives.

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10 months

The U.S, the wealthiest country in the world, has reached a record high of 12% homelessness. While hundreds of billions are being invested in war people across the country are experiencing increasing rents, stagnant wages and displacement. #votesocialist2024 campaign volunteer,

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1 year

Exercising a modicum of seriousness about this topic should be table stakes. Those who don't take it seriously by making specific objections or bothering to formulate alternative frameworks (and explaining why they're better) are doing a grave disservice. 36/x

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Conversely, let's say the tunnel was used to smuggle in small arms only, that there was no air vent to bomb, and the apartment building is full of 2,000 people (there are skyscrapers in this version of Gaza). Necessary? Maybe. Proportional? Ehhh, probably not. 25/x

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The point is, you need to satisfy both prongs. But this works both ways... 26/x

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1 year

For Israelis under 40, yesterday was a jarring wake up call. For Israelis over 40, it's just back to the future. 15/x

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11 months

Some quick reactions to Nasrallah's speech. The topline takeaway is that we now have another data point suggesting the 10/7 operation is not producing the strategic results Iran hoped for, and it + its proxies (Hamas and Hezbollah) are motivated to wrap this misadventure up. 1/x

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But the psychological shock is the result of most young Israelis having come of age during the last 20 years, which have been a sort of vacation from history. Prior to 2002, Israelis constantly lived with the fac that "the front is everywhere." 13/x

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It could collapse the tunnel by bombing the apartment building, or it could do so by bombing an air vent for the tunnel in an unpopulated area. Let's also say that the tunnel is used to smuggle in heavy artillery, and the apartment is empty save for 10 civilians. 23/x

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For example, let's say Israel identifies a tunnel under an apartment building in Gaza used to smuggle weapons. 22/x

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You don't need to know all the operational details, and you don't need to have a PhD in philosophy. Reasonable laypeople can make reasonable objections. 34/x

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Similarly, Iran is deeply worried about a pro-Western, anti-Iranian alliance against it. Most of the Sunni Arab states now see Iran as a regional menace, and have arrived at the conclusion that they'd rather throw their lot in with Israel and the US to ensure stability. 10/x

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Hamas and Iran both know if that deal goes thru, they are A1 fucked. Why? B/c for decades the entirety of the Palestinians' negotiating leverage on world stage has rested on Arab states' unwillingness to make peace with Israel without first giving the Palestinians a state. 8/x

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A deal with Saudia Arabia would quickly lead to full normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and almost every Arab country, and the Palestinians would become a political afterthought. 9/x

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A reminder that Hamas controls every level and branch of government in Gaza. When journalists credulously parrot Gaza Ministry of Health, etc., talking points, they are lazily taking Hamas—an organization famous for its honesty and moral rectitude—at its word.

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1 year

I have now directed coverage of 4 Israeli wars in Gaza and this is the 5th. In each, an average of 20-25% of Hamas rockets fired from Gaza fall short and land in Gaza, often killing Gazan civilians. These deaths are all blamed on Israel by Hamas’s Gaza Health Ministry,

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Wrapping up my prior thread on my time in the IDF and how operational decisions are made when civilian lives are at risk. Again, feel free to share if you find helpful. Going to break this into two parts and identify where you can take an intermission or just skip the rest. 1/x

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This is already getting long, so let me just tease part 2, which I'll try to post tomorrow. In practice, a number of other considerations come into play beyond necessity and proportionality, because those concepts are simply to broad to serve as the sole criteria. 38/x

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Hamas has long been an Iranian client. They're funded, resourced, and trained by the Revolutionary Guard. So, it's almost certain that the Iranian puppet-masters in Gaza ordered Hamas to execute this operation, and Hamas agreed to do it, to forestall a strategic disaster. 11/x

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Don’t let the ugly protests and the tantrums and the hate get you down. Look at the polls. These people are nothing more than a tiny, vocal minority. And they are more vocal now because their meltdown has begun. They can’t believe how insignificant they actually are. 16/x

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As a Harvard alum, I am disgusted by its belated, equivocating statement on Hamas terrorism as compared to the enthusiasm with which the deans condemned Russian aggression last year and police violence in 2020. A moral stain on an already thoroughly compromised institution.

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I can do this all day. "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" is an aspirational call for long-term thinking, strong national defense, and child welfare, not white supremacy, fascism, and segregation.

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They’re weak because, though they’d successfully weaseled their way into positions of power while no one was looking, they collapse when they are challenged. Their narcissism and psychopathy leads them to melt down and turn on each other at the first sign of adversity. 8/x

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Believe me when I tell you that, after the past week, the same awakening is happening across the country. We’ve already seen it begin. It may take longer, but I truly believe that universities, newspapers, and corporate America will never be the same. 15/x

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On the same day that Nordstrom announced it was closing its stores downtown due to “deteriorating conditions,” Aaron Peskin conducted a witch trial of a security guard who defended himself against a shoplifter who threatened to stab him.

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"Blood and soil" is an aspirational call for oneness with nature, agrarian sustainability, and community bonding, not Nazism, Anschluss, and lebensraum.

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In 2019, our city took a dark turn. We elected a radical DA who set criminals above victims, racist education commissioners who vilified Asians and replaced algebra with political indoctrination, and corrupt Supervisors who fed poison to the homeless dying on our streets. 2/x

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The evil are weak because their arguments are bad, and are eventually held up to the cold light of the truth. 7/x

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Before anything, let me say that, thankfully, no one was hurt. SFPD arrived quickly to the scene, engaged the attacker in a calm and safe manner, and were consummate professionals throughout. We’re lucky to have men and women like this protecting us. 4/x

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That's all I got. AMA 39/39

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San Francisco soon won't be able to provide basic city services because people like Dean Preston and Connie Chan spent the last four years race-baiting, funneling money to corrupt "nonprofits," and turning downtown into a criminal's playground.

San Francisco’s Budget Deficit Could Soar to $1.4B, Officials Warn

‘We’re in a tough spot,’ said San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s budget director before presenting a grim forecast.

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This option takes longer, and it's less satisfying, but the result is: 1. Limited civilian casualties. 2. Hamas and Iran propaganda and diplomatic disaster. 3. Preserves Saudi deal (Hamas and Iran strategic disaster). 4. Destroys Hamas and secures southern Israel. 37/x

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For obvious reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about antisemitism lately. If you found my threads about the IDF useful, I hope you take a moment to read and share these thoughts. 1/x

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3 years

I am once again surprised to learn that 68% of the San Francisco electorate is Republican.

We finally have a Boudin recall election poll, and it's bad news for him

Perhaps the most striking finding from the poll is that voters have largely made up their...

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And what did we discover? The evil are weak, and the good are strong. 6/x

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Apologies to all the Tuckers of the world. I get that most of the time you're able to bullshit your way through an interview, but in this case you stepped in it. There's just too much publicly available documentation contradicting your narrative here.

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It's only during the last couple of decades that there hasn't been a real, ever-present threat of terrorist attack within Israel's borders, and that most of the violence of the conflict happened in the territories. 14/x

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Next year, 6 of 11 seats on the Board are up for election. So is the mayor. So is the city attorney. And others. And we have them running scared. 14/x

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Like most organizations, it's really just the top 10 percent that makes the trains run on time. Get rid of the organizers and shooters, and the rest falls apart. By the end of my service, the guys "in charge" of the local cells were seventh string junior varsity types. 23/x

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And, all the while, “experts” in academia and the media told us that crime was down, businesses would tolerate endless red tape and taxation, housing was abundant, and helping fentanyl addicts slowly kill themselves was “reducing harm.” Up was down. Left was right. 4/x

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Some more context. People are calling this Israel's 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, or comparing it to the Yom Kippur War, but these are incomplete analogies. Yes, this is a significant step up in terms of tactical capability by Hamas, and yes, the psychological shock is similar. 12/x

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In SF, our gov responded to COVID (~430 deaths in 2021) with all the resources & energy warranted by a crisis. Yet our DA has launched ZERO new initiatives or prosecution strategies to address the human misery wrought by drug merchants on our streets (~650 fatal ODs in 2021). 1/x

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So, don’t lose hope. So long as we are a democracy that values truth, and accountability, and the free exchange of ideas, good will prevail. The normies will win. 17/x

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In the 90s, Israel ceded control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the newly established Palestinian Authority, as part of the Oslo Peace Process. Then, in September 2000, the Second Intifada began and there was about 14 months of daily suicide bombings against Israel. 20/x

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Last year we recalled our far left DA and three of his fellow travelers on the Board of Education. We took two seats on the Board of Supervisors held by radicals and handed them to moderates. 13/x

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The good are strong because we are cooperative, generous, and honest, and because there are many, many more of us. 9/x

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