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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 18h

It works best when your neighbors don't think to copy you

Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

30 or so years ago Grant came out with a book entitled "The Trouble with Prosperity." My father commented, "the trouble with prosperity, from Grant's point of view, is it falsifies all of his bearish predictions"

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

Tucker is more like "Jews won't let you ask that question"

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

very unfortunate to drop out of the EU just before this person got elected President

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

Being half a meter above your neighbors in a dead-flat area (eg Houston) can be a huge advantage. They get flooded and you don't.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

that's very good! I hope it gets translated into Eng, would be interesting to read the whole book

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 19h

well that's very well for you to say. Do you think Trump would honor any trade agreement he made with the UK?

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 04/10/2026

Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Moscow Times is now published out of Amsterdam. There's no particular reason to doubt their reporting

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recall that in 1975 they joined with great solemn promises of perpetual fidelity, etc etc. Then in 2016 they capriciously left on the basis of a 52-48 referendum. There isn't even any precedent in the UK system for referenda! They just made it up as an excuse to leave!

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"any deal made can't be ripped up by the next government" would require the UK to put said deal in the constitution that they don't have. So you begin see the scope of the problem.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"ingrates" = we bribed them but they didn't stay bought Dubai is a "city of salt" that only exists because it can plug into security and financial systems created and funded by other countries. It isn't the US that needs to be worried here.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

but the Brits already told the EU to go fuck themselves And Trump told the UK to go fuck themselves options are narrowing somewhat

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Answer by saying that UAE citizens can enter the UK on single entry visas and after an in-person interview at the Embassy.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

classic counterintelligence move, to include erroneous information in material you want the agent to steal

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"irregardless" doesn't appear in the WSJ article. They don't even use "regardless"

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

so in other words the Brits have to somehow purge themselves of the conviction that they are all Very Special Boys and Girls. good luck

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

like a pre-packaged bankruptcy. Just hand them a pack of documents and say "when you've done all the work you can come back and not before. And "North" Macedonia is ahead of you in line."

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Justine Musk has gone public with a lot of dirt, including acknowledging that Musk took her to a meeting with Epstein. As far as I know they have not gone back to court over custody issues.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bettina Stangneth's "Eichmann Before Jerusalem" is excellent on the subject of how much of this was unknown in the early postwar years, and how much work was required to bring it to the surface.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

During his imprisonment, at the request of the Polish authorities who gave the aura of lenient treatment, Höss wrote his memoirs, released in English under the title Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_...

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Rudolf Höss - Wikipedia

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If Susie Wiles writes a memoir, which I doubt greatly, what you'll learn from it is that she has a great ability to excuse, deny and rationalize. Her father was an alcoholic, remember? She developed those skills probably before she could walk.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Schacht and von Papen were acquitted. Which was kind of interesting b/c Schacht was never even a Nazi party member (!) and von Papen survived the Night of the Long Knives by sheer luck. Speer got 20

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

she'll be happy for him to spend time with the kids during his extremely occasional visits

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they'll stop when people stop clicking on the stories. When I was a kid the National Enquirer ran stories about how Hitler was still alive, but after a while even the thickest shoppers realized that a guy born in 1889 couldn't still be alive.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

that's why he calls himself "Shipwreck"

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hubris and Nemesis together are not quite 2000 pages. having read them I felt educated on the topic.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it was? I just saw Ian Kershaw slam it as "banal memories" and moved on

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"the limited time allotted for substantive discussions between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies." TIME set aside lots of time for a substantive discussion. How did that work out?

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, what did Xi need to do? Were there important arms control or trade agreements that they needed to sign? Xi just looked at the helicopter pad, the construction site that Trump calls a "ballroom," then flew home. You can take a break inbetween those activities.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To be sure, Xi had just completed a roughly 14-hour flight from Beijing, and jet lag alone could account for some of the schedule adjustments, particularly on the night of his arrival.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026

Attendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ok. "Downfall" was based on Junge's memoir.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you're trying to imply that Musk has an interest in his children?

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's like standing in line to read the New York Times. Well I guess not everyone can afford $30 a month for a NYT subscription

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Howard Nutlick lives quite well, next door to his now-deceased friend Jeffrey Epstein

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

interesting how "wrecking the state tax code" is conservative now

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2. We've got the Italians on the run, basically wrapped up their whole army in Cyrenaica. Now to strip all of our best units for a wild goose chase in Greece! 3. Following (2) we're now defending the outskirts of Alexandria. Fire Wavell! 4. Oh look! The "soft underbelly" of Europe!

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Here's a rocky peninsula 3 hours' drive south of Istanbul, protected by forts and an impassable minefield. Let's do an amphibious invasion! 🏆

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is unclear how Alferova knew that Trump was indeed running for President approximately five months before he officially announced his candidacy. She did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"the demand for loans has gone up, therefore the price of loans is also going up" "WHAT! You're fired!"

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't like Hassett, but it is literally true that demand for loans can cause the price for loans to go up.

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Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

they both start with N, how much difference could it make

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