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The lowly bald forum mod strikes again.

Misprediction? They are simultaneously surveilling everyone in the world and are getting nothing out of it. Confident statements from the administration are no longer worth a dime.…

Blinken on July 7: “We are staying, the embassy is staying, our programs are staying. If there is a significant deterioration in security...I don’t think it’s going to be something…

It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left it.

The article was published hours before those later Tweets.

It's the side-effect of politicians being chosen for legitimacy (identity), not competency. > The reason for this sudden silence is that in the year 2021, the cream of American soc…

Not your keys, not your data. These compromises only strengthen the argument for decentralisation and pseudonyms.

As it should. It was an abject failure. Public military defeat cannot be spun away.

Biden would disagree: > Q Mr. President, some Vietnamese veterans see echoes of their experience in this withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal…

A theorised benefit at the guaranteed cost of perpetual surveillance. No thanks.

What do you gain from carrying water for tyrants? > but mileage delta over time would be insufficient to collect and disburse road taxes based on what is needed/used/traveled the m…