fitzk.bsky.social
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
Proud member of the professional-managerial class.
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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
- Cicero
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Lie down and write it!
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Turns out he can't run faster than .22
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Make sure it's pencil: if we're *really* unlucky, it'll all go into sealed archives for 99 years/until the government in question falls and our kids will be the ones who know. Good old history - nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there!
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The real negotiations are going on via backchannels, we'll start to hear the details of them in 20-25 years. The Istanbul talks are just blowing smoke up Trump's ass and making the Turks look more neutral than they are.
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What is he even jabbering about here? It doesn't make any sense...
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The USA has a world-class healthcare system, it's just gated behind a world-class paywall. The UK doesn't have anything like a world-class healthcare system - I and everyone I know must pay for any non-emergency care, despite technically being entitled to it for free. Insurance is cheap though!
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One fine day in 1836 Charles Dickens sat down at his typewriter and cracked out the first two chapters of the Pickwick Papers, apropos of nothing, and he did alright. Notes shmotes.
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Same reason everyone hated on Kneecap all of a sudden.
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'I walked the streets with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by a “black bastard” so that I could kill him'
- Liam Neeson, famous Ballymenian, describing (for the record!) the time he planned to carry out a premeditated racial murder in response to sexual violence
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Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
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It's more than lovely, it shows genuine talent!
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It's time to build the Gute Dome. Seriously.
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TRUMP:
I loved you, you know.
MUSK (quiet):
I know.
TRUMP:
And I wanted— (Stops.) Never mind. You’ll never understand it.
MUSK (softly, leaving):
That’s what scared me.
(Stage freeze)
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TRUMP:
You’ll circle back. When your rockets crash. When your followers turn. When they realize you’re not a prophet. Just a very rich troll with a daddy kink.
MUSK:
Better than a reality show Mussolini with a tan line crown.
(Silence again.)
(A long one.)
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MUSK (bitter):
You wanted loyalty. From someone like me. That was your mistake. I optimize. I move on. You... linger.
TRUMP:
I endure.
MUSK:
You decay.
(A beat.)
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MUSK:
You poisoned everything. And I stayed. I wanted to prove I could stay near rot and not rot myself.
TRUMP (suddenly angry):
Don’t dress it up like tragedy. You left because I was sick. Because the algorithm dipped. Because you saw the next shiny thing.
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MUSK (sits, finally):
You were... you were the first one who ever looked at me and saw something mythic. Not a CEO. Not a spreadsheet. A thing. Bigger than life.
TRUMP (softly):
Because I know what that is. Being a myth. It’s lonely, isn’t it?
(A silence. Not quite truce, not yet war.)
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TRUMP (quiet, cutting):
You’re still failing. Every time you tweet. Every time you walk into a room and pretend you’re not broken. You think being the richest boy in the room means you're not alone?
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MUSK:
You lied about everything. You pretended to be something you weren’t: strong, divine, inevitable. And I—I believed in it. For a second. That’s on me. That’s my failure.
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TRUMP:
You ghost. You disappear when the market dips. You date autist brides and tweet anime memes. You melt down like ice cream in a tanning bed and then call it vision.
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TRUMP (mocking):
Oh please. And you sold freedom in 280 characters. You're just mad I was better at it. Louder. Stickier. Viral. You whisper in code. I shout in capitals.
MUSK (wounded, defensive):
I build. I launch. I innovate.
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MUSK:
Corrupt. Morally and financially. You skimmed from the nation like it was a casino. You monetized nationalism. You sold hats while the world burned.
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MUSK (standing awkwardly, holding a tablet like it’s a shield, wearing a SpaceX hoodie and thousand-yard stare):
I didn’t leave because of that. You were— You are—
TRUMP:
Say it.
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TRUMP (in a bathrobe that reads “MAGA FOREVER,” one hand shaking slightly, the other gripping a Diet Coke):
You left when it got ugly. When I wasn’t trending. That’s all this is.
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And how many divisions does Kara-Murza command?
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Well it can't be that bad given the small scale of the budget increases! If spending was boosted to say 5%, I'd have been eyeing up crofts in county Galway...
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You could go and ask him where he got his lime-green thawb
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Presidential engagement farming eh?
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Drone strike!!
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*sigh* Musk 2028
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m.vk.com/duginag
Here is his real account
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They know that we know, so they're saying this in order to make us think they might attack. It's a second-order ruse.
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He blocked me for that one, must have hit home!
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Paul Graham does
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We are agreeing, just making the point in different ways. Bapaume is, was and will be worth as many lives as Pokrovsk, Da Nang and Kandahar: zero. Not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier, as a wise man once said.
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He writes under threat of defenestration to be fair, and unlike Prague there are no helpful shitheaps below...
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To be honest, northern France was never at any point worth several million dead and there are few who'd make the case that it was.
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Is this the same Dugin who rambles about Solar Putin Vs Lunar Putin and said the West is waging war against Russia in order to promote universal homosexuality? The only reason he gets any attention is because the media has a habit of exploiting the mentally ill for views, in Russia too...
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Time to get the chequebook out?
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Berlusconi and Putin were an interesting pair. Also while the article is good, it misses a key actor: Slobodan Milosevic. He wrote the book on modern autocracy, problem is only the autocrats bothered to read it!
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2/3 of Congress to pass, 3/4 of the states to ratify - does anyone think that's likely?