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  1. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (4/4)

    ...If #Xi does *not* bide his time and waits until then, it will only be him to blame, because in contrast two the two other authoritarian superpower leaders, ge is *not* a gerontocrat and *can* wait.--As for the other two, their days are very much numbered. Death cannot (yet?) be cheated.

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    global.oup.com/academic/produc

  2. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (4/4)

    ...If #Xi does *not* bide his time and waits until then, it will only be him to blame, because in contrast two the two other authoritarian superpower leaders, ge is *not* a gerontocrat and *can* wait.--As for the other two, their days are very much numbered. Death cannot (yet?) be cheated.

    //

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    global.oup.com/academic/produc

  3. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (4/4)

    ...If #Xi does *not* bide his time and waits until then, it will only be him to blame, because in contrast two the two other authoritarian superpower leaders, ge is *not* a gerontocrat and *can* wait.--As for the other two, their days are very much numbered. Death cannot (yet?) be cheated.

    //

    1)
    global.oup.com/academic/produc

  4. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (4/4)

    ...If #Xi does *not* bide his time and waits until then, it will only be him to blame, because in contrast two the two other authoritarian superpower leaders, ge is *not* a gerontocrat and *can* wait.--As for the other two, their days are very much numbered. Death cannot (yet?) be cheated.

    //

    1)
    global.oup.com/academic/produc

  5. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (4/4)

    ...If #Xi does *not* bide his time and waits until then, it will only be him to blame, because in contrast two the two other authoritarian superpower leaders, ge is *not* a gerontocrat and *can* wait.--As for the other two, their days are very much numbered. Death cannot (yet?) be cheated.

    //

    1)
    global.oup.com/academic/produc

  6. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (3/n)

    ...#GulfWar3 drags on for am extended period of time, they might have to replenish these strategic reserves, before they can launch ๐Ÿš€ the attack, possibly pushing that armed conflict into the next decade...
    Which might even constitute yet another advantage to them, as their military shipbuilding, outstripping any other nations, will lead to yet another "century when the #Chinese navy ruled the seas."1)

    I will go even one step further:...

  7. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (3/n)

    ...#GulfWar3 drags on for am extended period of time, they might have to replenish these strategic reserves, before they can launch ๐Ÿš€ the attack, possibly pushing that armed conflict into the next decade...
    Which might even constitute yet another advantage to them, as their military shipbuilding, outstripping any other nations, will lead to yet another "century when the #Chinese navy ruled the seas."1)

    I will go even one step further:...

  8. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (3/n)

    ...#GulfWar3 drags on for am extended period of time, they might have to replenish these strategic reserves, before they can launch ๐Ÿš€ the attack, possibly pushing that armed conflict into the next decade...
    Which might even constitute yet another advantage to them, as their military shipbuilding, outstripping any other nations, will lead to yet another "century when the #Chinese navy ruled the seas."1)

    I will go even one step further:...

  9. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (3/n)

    ...#GulfWar3 drags on for am extended period of time, they might have to replenish these strategic reserves, before they can launch ๐Ÿš€ the attack, possibly pushing that armed conflict into the next decade...
    Which might even constitute yet another advantage to them, as their military shipbuilding, outstripping any other nations, will lead to yet another "century when the #Chinese navy ruled the seas."1)

    I will go even one step further:...

  10. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (3/n)

    ...#GulfWar3 drags on for am extended period of time, they might have to replenish these strategic reserves, before they can launch ๐Ÿš€ the attack, possibly pushing that armed conflict into the next decade...
    Which might even constitute yet another advantage to them, as their military shipbuilding, outstripping any other nations, will lead to yet another "century when the #Chinese navy ruled the seas."1)

    I will go even one step further:...

  11. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (2/n)

    ...to-be-expectedretaliatory "global sanctions" in the wake of a #Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ invasion.#Xi and his generals must have been laughing their asses of due to all the RL lessons learned from the invasions of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ and #Gaza by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, and
    the maniacal attack of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ and the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.--Better than any #Wargames on a supercomputer.

    The only real downside they have from this is that if the...

  12. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (2/n)

    ...to-be-expectedretaliatory "global sanctions" in the wake of a #Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ invasion.#Xi and his generals must have been laughing their asses of due to all the RL lessons learned from the invasions of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ and #Gaza by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, and
    the maniacal attack of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ and the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.--Better than any #Wargames on a supercomputer.

    The only real downside they have from this is that if the...

  13. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (2/n)

    ...to-be-expectedretaliatory "global sanctions" in the wake of a #Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ invasion.#Xi and his generals must have been laughing their asses of due to all the RL lessons learned from the invasions of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ and #Gaza by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, and
    the maniacal attack of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ and the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.--Better than any #Wargames on a supercomputer.

    The only real downside they have from this is that if the...

  14. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (2/n)

    ...to-be-expectedretaliatory "global sanctions" in the wake of a #Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ invasion.#Xi and his generals must have been laughing their asses of due to all the RL lessons learned from the invasions of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ and #Gaza by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, and
    the maniacal attack of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ and the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.--Better than any #Wargames on a supercomputer.

    The only real downside they have from this is that if the...

  15. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (2/n)

    ...to-be-expectedretaliatory "global sanctions" in the wake of a #Taiwan ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ invasion.#Xi and his generals must have been laughing their asses of due to all the RL lessons learned from the invasions of ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ by ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ and #Gaza by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, and
    the maniacal attack of ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท by ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ and the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ.--Better than any #Wargames on a supercomputer.

    The only real downside they have from this is that if the...

  16. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (1/n)

    Correct. I've been watching this
    strategic built-up for several years. It is self-evident that they have been doing so for a disconcerting reason, as all stockpiling leads to additional, "unnecessary" inventory costs. They might not have sent the #US-#Israeli-#Iran #Gulfwar3 coming, but the #Geostratic position they've manoevered themselves Info an excellent strategic position
    If I had to guess, it is in preparation for the...

  17. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (1/n)

    Correct. I've been watching this
    strategic built-up for several years. It is self-evident that they have been doing so for a disconcerting reason, as all stockpiling leads to additional, "unnecessary" inventory costs. They might not have sent the #US-#Israeli-#Iran #Gulfwar3 coming, but the #Geostratic position they've manoevered themselves Info an excellent strategic position
    If I had to guess, it is in preparation for the...

  18. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (1/n)

    Correct. I've been watching this
    strategic built-up for several years. It is self-evident that they have been doing so for a disconcerting reason, as all stockpiling leads to additional, "unnecessary" inventory costs. They might not have sent the #US-#Israeli-#Iran #Gulfwar3 coming, but the #Geostratic position they've manoevered themselves Info an excellent strategic position
    If I had to guess, it is in preparation for the...

  19. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (1/n)

    Correct. I've been watching this
    strategic built-up for several years. It is self-evident that they have been doing so for a disconcerting reason, as all stockpiling leads to additional, "unnecessary" inventory costs. They might not have sent the #US-#Israeli-#Iran #Gulfwar3 coming, but the #Geostratic position they've manoevered themselves Info an excellent strategic position
    If I had to guess, it is in preparation for the...

  20. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #ChinaPol
    #HPsCommentary
    (1/n)

    Correct. I've been watching this
    strategic built-up for several years. It is self-evident that they have been doing so for a disconcerting reason, as all stockpiling leads to additional, "unnecessary" inventory costs. They might not have sent the #US-#Israeli-#Iran #Gulfwar3 coming, but the #Geostratic position they've manoevered themselves Info an excellent strategic position
    If I had to guess, it is in preparation for the...

  21. @orionkidder

    #HPsCommentary #SciFI

    *A Critique of #FrankHerbert's #Dune Saga*

    You've raised important points about context, and you're right that the #BeneGesserit are morally compromised manipulators whose #Eugenic project deserves scrutiny. Your reminder that #Paul and the Bene Gesserit aren't simple heroes is genuinely valuableโ€” #Herbert absolutely subverts the "chosen one" trope.

    However, I'd gently push back on a few specifics. Paul isn't presented as a #Hitler admirer; rather, ๐Ÿ‘‰his...

  22. (17/n) #HPsCommentary

    ...reading to the endโ€”a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
    โ€œCONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
    1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

  23. (17/n) #HPsCommentary

    ...reading to the endโ€”a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
    โ€œCONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
    1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

  24. (17/n) #HPsCommentary

    ...reading to the endโ€”a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
    โ€œCONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
    1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

  25. (17/n) #HPsCommentary

    ...reading to the endโ€”a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
    โ€œCONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
    1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

  26. (17/n) #HPsCommentary

    ...reading to the endโ€”a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
    โ€œCONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
    Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
    1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

  27. @[email protected] @philip_cardella

    #HPsCommentary
    #USHistory #Legal #FediLaw

    (6/n)

    ...their peers or another branch of government. (#Impeachment, at least in its current form, is clearly not working for the Presidential office, the chief reason being the undemocratic #filibuster.)

    So, any any special Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights ( #LEBOR, #LEOBR, or #LEOBoR) for the police is undemocratic and should be ruled unconstitutional, including contractual means to circumvent this fact.

    From...

  28. @philip_cardella

    #HPsCommentary
    #USHistory #Legal #FediLaw

    (2/n)

    ...of the #MagnaCarta 2), which only applied to barrons and the clergy, ๐Ÿ‘‰the #US--despite #Reconstruction and all the Amendments--were never able to really overcome systemic racism and plutocratic discrimination.๐Ÿ‘ˆ

    In fact, ever since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, the pendulum has been swinging in the opposite direction, so far culminating in the overturning of #RoeVsWade.

    Alas, we are living in at...

    2)
    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_

  29. @[email protected]

    #UShistory
    #HPsCommentary

    (1/n)

    Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.

    However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, ๐Ÿ‘‰all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.

    Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

    @philip_cardella

  30. @[email protected]

    #UShistory
    #HPsCommentary

    (1/n)

    Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.

    However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, ๐Ÿ‘‰all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.

    Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

    @philip_cardella

  31. @[email protected]

    #UShistory
    #HPsCommentary

    (1/n)

    Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.

    However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, ๐Ÿ‘‰all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.

    Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

    @philip_cardella

  32. @[email protected]

    #UShistory
    #HPsCommentary

    (1/n)

    Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.

    However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, ๐Ÿ‘‰all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.

    Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

    @philip_cardella

  33. @[email protected]

    #UShistory
    #HPsCommentary

    (1/n)

    Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.

    However, as #MathewCooke rightly analyzes in his podcast*, ๐Ÿ‘‰all #US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.

    Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

    @philip_cardella

  34. #HPsCommentary

    *PeterThiel: The Godfather of #2034--A Reboot Of #1984*

    (10/n)

    ...the #German-born #Billionaire #PeterThiel 1), who financed #JDVance's election to #Veep and who l thinks ๐Ÿ‘‰we will have an #AI military "general" productized #SaaS soon enough as #AIP, #Palantir's #ArtificialIntelligencePlatform๐Ÿ‘ˆ:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1103.

    And let's not forget, the many feats #Thiel has already accomplished with the military-grade #Spyware, #Palantir, from...

    1) * 1967 in #Frankfurt a. M.