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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They are, at all times, trying to derive the true, hidden principles of the world, of social dynamics writ small and large, using just engineer-brain and the cognitive-bias-form that Yudkowsky taught them. They have no interest whatsoever in the idea that these things may have been studied before.

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

more of the same nonsense from a wealthy "rationalist". people who love to model the future with zero idea of or interest in political economy or frankly any prior work in the humanities. Like little kids imagining, plus crude and senseless appeals to Bayes' theorem, worshiped but unused

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A 2012 Congressional Research Service report on Israel considering a military strike on Iran's "nuclear facilities" nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB... non-pdf link www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R424...

text from report; "Attempted Closure of the Strait of Hormuz
One potential scenario that Israeli decisionmakers may consider, were Iran to expand its
retaliation beyond Israeli targets, would be an Iranian attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz. In
December 2011 and January 2012, Iran issued the threat in response to looming additional
economic sanctions, not specifically in response to reports of a possible Israeli air strike.
Nevertheless, the threat suggests that Iranian leaders see closing the Strait or attacking ships
transiting it as a viable option for raising the cost to international actors of pressure on Iran—no
matter what form that pressure might take.265 An Israeli analysis co-authored in January 2012 by
former head of military intelligence Amos Yadlin, and not explicitly contemplating Iranian
responses to a possible Israeli military strike, expressed skepticism in Iran’s abilities to block the
Strait for an extended period and further asserted that doing so would run counter to Iran’s own
economic and strategic interests.266 For more information on possible conflict scenarios in the"

Iranian Ballistic Missile Attacks239
It is clear from the many reports discussing the possibility of an Israeli air strike that Israeli
leaders generally assume that, at the very least, Iran would retaliate against Israel directly with
ballistic missiles.240 According to one U.S. defense analyst, this could include “Israeli military
and civilian centers, and Israeli suspected nuclear weapons sites.”241 Iranian leaders almost
certainly calculate that missile strikes against Israel could provoke additional escalation and—
perhaps more importantly—bring the United States into conflict with Iran, whether or not Iran
conducted any strikes against U.S. targets.242 Still, Iranian leaders could be under significant
pressure from key constituencies, such as the IRGC, to demonstrate a forthright response to an
Israeli strike. It is widely expected that Israel would prepare and deploy its ballistic missile
defense capabilities prior to attacking Iran.

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Under these conditions it is criminal to continue to call Russia a workers’ state as does the Socialist Workers Party." Excerpts from "Labor Action", Freddie Forest, October 1946. Some other sections: "The Ruin Caused by the War", "Russian Imperialism". www.marxists.org/archive/duna...

Two sections; "Reparations and Trade", left off of alt text for reasons of length, and:

Forced Labor

Finally, and by no means the least important, there are prisoners of war, mainly from Germany and Japan, who have been transported for work in Russia. No one knows their exact number, but it runs into several millions. These are hardly ever mentioned in the Russian press, but their forced labor has definitely entered in the calculations on the Russian rulers. It is impossible to gather anything from the Russian press as to the attitude of the Russian proletariat to these proletarians of other lands that are now to be found as part of the forced labor army. Is perhaps the existence of forced foreign labor the reason for the liquidation of the Building Commissariat under the NKVD which had utilized Russian forced labor?

There is no way of knowing the exact degree of burden these unfortunates take off the backs of the Russian workers, to the detriment of both. But one thing is clear. The Russian worker is dissatisfied with his lot. His productivity is as low as the prices on consumer goods are high. The amnesty granted them for wartime labor offenses has not put an end to their dissatisfaction. The latest Pravda to arrive from Russia, dated August 19, suddenly refers to Stalin’s speech of a few years back in which, in his own crude manner, he had spoken of labor as the greatest productive force of all, thus: “of all capital in the world, people are the most valuable.” The tone of the article would make us believe that leaders who do not realize this truth should be purged. Is this really the reason for the purges? We will turn our attention to this next week.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If only there were a word to describe a legal system that treats two groups of people differently under the law based on their identities. www.timesofisrael.com/katz-boasts-...

timesofisrael.com

Katz boasts of ending administrative detention for Jews, increasing its use against Arabs

Speaking at right-wing conference, defense minister also touts IDF demolition of 24 historic villages in southern Lebanon, which included '15,000 to 20,000 homes'

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This is the written decision by Texas Immigration Judge Blake Doughty in March, rejecting the appeal of DACA recipient Jacob / Ya'akub Vijandre, based on social media posts seeking legal aid for convicted terrorists. media.freedom.press/media/docume...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

nytimes.com

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Of particular interest in this (liberal academic) military historian's analysis is the idea that the US, while still of course the senior partner, handed Israel the proverbial keys. In Devereaux's estimation, this was an ill-considered mistake, i.e. not in "America's strategic interest".

A screenshot of a few paragraphs from the shared blog post. Text is a bit longer than alt text size limits, and so cannot be fully reproduced here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2025

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country? TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Volodymyr Ishchenko, February 2022, on long-term prospects for the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Much of the new form of post-MAGA right-wing antisemitism is going to repeat the same old tropes about Jews as rootless cosmopolitan degenerates, but will conscript Israeli Jews on the “good” side of people victimized by those dastardly Jews. Groups like the ADL are unprepared to talk about this.

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Jess @jessincolor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Lmfao, it doesn't remain to be seen. This shit has been going on for decades.

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grumpenprole.bsky.social @grumpenprole.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

this whole place is appalling and microblogging has clearly driven you all insane

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

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