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🧵How the death of my Dad was the tipping point in my decision to disown the Army: My father passed away 5 years ago today after many years battling Alzheimer's disease. My father was absent during my childhood and a philanderer while married. 1/x
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Either way, I don't care.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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You first paragraph isn't historically accurate. The start of your second is hyperbolic. The inclusion of NORAD's former mission set is nothing more than a nostalgic fallacy framing. The Deputy Commander seat being Canadian is statutory, and more telling of the power dynamics.
The Canadian Armed Forces and DoD have been “ride-or-die” institutions since like 1917.
There’s a closer mil-to-mil relationship between them any other military pair on Earth has probably ever had — even when their respective political leaderships have been at odds with each other (e.g. the CAF didn’t make a fuss about its soldiers/potential volunteers running off and being AOL to join the US military in Vietnam).
The Deputy Commander of NORAD — the organization we’d use to coordinate whether and how we’d shoot down a nuclear bomber invasion — is Canadian. And there are like 50 US bases in Canada that are constantly scanning for nuclear weapons and bombers. Who else on Earth trusts anyone else to do something like that for them?
So it’s probably suboptimal that a DoD and WH that are both frequently oppositional to Canada will not have to come off as giant douchebags to maintain that same level of trust.
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The Australian Army didn't look away when they sent 60k+ military personnel to fight in Vietnam accruing 521 KIA, with a 1975 total national population of 13.8 million. Canada which had a 1974 population of 22.8 million "allowed" 20,000 Canadians to enlist in the U.S. Military, with a total of 134 KIA or MIA.
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These people truly don't understand what is coming, take that as you will.
My latest essay is about how President Trump and his MAGA accomplices use violent acts, speech, and spectacles to politically and emotionally re-educate Americans and transform institutions into vehicles of his authoritarian goals.
lucid.substack.com/p/violenc…
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Peter Wrangel retweeted
Okay my tin foil hat is officially firmly placed upon my head.
New theory on the spell check you can't turn off that changes words around after you type: it is psychological conditioning for interacting with software that edits and censors you in real time, editing timestamps and deleting original file versions that are unapproved.
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Peter Wrangel retweeted
Some thoughts on how this all played out:
In about a week, I started bringing in $5 million per week in jobs for our friends. Zero cut for me. Completely unpaid. I just woke up one day and started doing it without asking permission. I knew how to do it, and I was tired of waiting for someone else to take action. For about 18 months, I had been tweeting about how terrible America's economy was for young men, about how smart hardworking young men will send out 800 applications and simply be ghosted. I was angry enough to do something about it.
$5 million per week is not normal, by the way. I'm not that good of a salesman, or a recruiter. There is massive pent-up energy in this ecosystem, and I was simply the first person to experiment with tapping it. I am not that special. This right-wing ecosystem has enormous floating resources. It's a textbook market inefficiency.
It was a simple business model. We connected smart, unemployed young men with established public companies that had been around for 5-30 years. I refused to handle personal information, I refused to take resumes or anyone's "dox", I refused to get paid in any way. The entire goal was to help young American families rebuild their lives from DEI racial discrimination.
For about 48 hours, this whole ecosystem was supportive. Then it flipped and went viciously negative when people realized I wasn't just getting one or two small jobs, I was actually bringing in millions of dollars and dozens of long-term, high-paid careers. It was the speed, scale, and refusal to ask permission which bothered everyone.
We could've brought in $60 million by the end of the year. We had companies lining up and asking us to fill batches of 20, 50, even 300 jobs at a time (300 jobs that paid $140k each). The entire time, I had a mindset of detachment and a sense of curiosity to see what would break first. At the rate of jobs flowing in and jobseekers flowing out, we would've done $260 million in 2027. I was pretty sure that wasn't going to happen, and that some kind of hard resource limit would crash against a wall at some point.
I had my eyes open, watching and waiting for something to go wrong.
My goal from the beginning was to do a trial run and push it until I hit a limit. I wanted to see what was possible. My expectation was that people would stop sending me available careers, or I would run out of high-quality professionals. We would hit market saturation, or run out of low-hanging fruit. What I didn't expect was that the limit ended up being a loss in popular legitimacy and public support.
About 60% of this ecosystem was strongly negative, about 30% were passively fence-sitting watching to see if I could make this work, and about 10% was supportive by the end of the first week. I could do the math. People hated the idea.
This ecosystem very effectively defeated me and delegitimized what I was doing.
I recognized that I had lost, that there was no point in pressing it any further. I didn't want to fracture this ecosystem and create a permanent schism between groups. We're all supposed to be friends on the same team here. So I shut it down.
My critics won; I lost.
Nobody is going to fight for you in the future. That's what you achieved here. It's self-defeating, but I accept it.
Everyone thinks I'm stupid for trying to help you. Maybe they're correct.
You have successfully neutralized yourselves as a political constituency. Everyone is going to learn the same lesson from my defeat, that if you actually stand up and fight for this ecosystem, your own side will immediately turn on you and start ripping into you as hard as they can.
I am not going to use Twitter as a jobs program anymore. People around here completely hate and reject the idea. We had a one week trial run, and the results are in. I need to respect the crowd and to stop alienating my oldest and best friends by pressing too hard on an endeavor that is not going to work. I need to do the right thing and shut this whole project down in a transparent and honest manner. However, we have dozens of ongoing negotiations for high-paid positions, and I am going to do the professional ethical thing of guiding these job searches towards a productive resolution (rejection, or hire).
Longer explanation to follow.
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Peter Wrangel retweeted
It makes many conservatives uncomfortable- but young men without families are necessary to take this nation back. Which is why so many do everything in their power to push them into churches and marriages and now they’re panicking it isn’t working. Everyone’s got a role to play.
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