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B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
.@SECWAR “Today, at my direction—we are announcing the creation of Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom:
A new 4-star combatant command—with service-like authorities—built to scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the Joint Force in the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history."
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Queridos musulmanes de España:
Mi familia y yo hemos decidido mudarnos a un país musulmán. Todavía no hemos elegido cuál — seguimos comparando cuál ofrece el mejor paquete de beneficios.
Naturalmente, todos mis vecinos quieren venir también. Y los vecinos de mis vecinos. Y sus colegas. Y los colegas de sus colegas. En nada, medio país aparecerá con maletas y un vago sentido de derecho adquirido.
Como una gran comunidad cristiana, necesitaremos unos pequeños ajustes:
Por favor, empezad a construir iglesias inmediatamente. Iglesias de verdad, con campanas. Campanas bien fuertes, que se oigan desde la plaza del pueblo.
También necesitaremos cerrar ciertas calles una vez al año para nuestras procesiones. Tranquilos, no es cinco veces al día — no somos animales.
Cada supermercado debe tener cerdo de verdad, jamón serrano, chorizo, panceta y fabada en lata. Ahora somos minoría, así que tendréis que ser comprensivos y acomodaros a nuestro estilo de vida.
Traemos todos los perros. Esperad muchos Labradores felices dejando regalitos en vuestras aceras. Necesitaréis parques caninos, y tendréis que sonreír mientras los paseamos delante de vuestras mezquitas.
Ya que estamos, vuestras fiestas religiosas son un poco… demasiado. Podrían ofender a la comunidad cristiana, así que agradeceríamos que las eliminarais discretamente. Gracias.
En escuelas y lugares de trabajo, nuestros niños y empleados deben poder llevar crucifijos grandes, comer bocadillos de jamón en la cantina y, en general, irradiar vibra cristiana sin que nadie se escandalice.
También exigimos salas de oración en cada edificio, además de traductores porque no tenemos intención de aprender árabe.
Si algo de esto se rechaza, por favor enviad una lista de direcciones de comisarías para poder denunciaros por discriminación, cristianofobia y mala leche en general.
Una cosa más: si mis hijos queman vuestra bandera porque España acaba de ganar un partido de fútbol, por favor sed comprensivos. Les echaré una bronca muy seria. Incluso podría hacer que escriban “perdón” 50 veces.
Por último, queremos beneficios generosos, vivienda gratuita y dinero de bolsillo mientras “nos integramos” durante las próximas tres generaciones. Trabajar es opcional, obviamente. También queremos beber alcohol y apostar de vez en cuando en las carreras de caballos.
Y cuando hace buen tiempo nos gusta ir sin camiseta. Tened paciencia. Ya os acostumbraréis.
Agradecemos vuestra tolerancia por adelantado. Al fin y al cabo, ¡la diversidad es nuestra fuerza!
Atentamente,
Un Cristiano Muy Razonable
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Left and right wing is a lie designed to disguise the true gulf of right and wrong.
It’s a foolish scale. Many political leanings don’t even fit on it.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Hey @Republicans, it's a great day to DEFUND Planned Parenthood.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
I’m seeing a lot of “Everyone aborts Down syndrome kids, it’s no big deal!” posts.
That is EXACTLY why it needs to be a big deal.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Since we're comparing humans to lower species, you should know that rape is practiced by 10K species, filicide and cannibalism by 1500.
They are all very natural.
Should we also practice them?
Atheism: a race to the bottom.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Christians argue about virtually every point of scripture. I’m not sure why tha should be controversial?
Not every opinion is equally right or valid.
Not every Christian is saved.
Not every Christian-adjacent movement is even Christian.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Proverbs 16:18
“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”
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As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump just said:
"The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about."
For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and now war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity.
We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher.
If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at their own country losing a war and getting bombed… I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this.
We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror.
Now, less than 24 hours before Trump’s deadline, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran:
Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare.
This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard.
The world will soon understand why we say:
Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil.
#IranMassacre
#IranRevolution2026
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.
Run the math on why.
A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.
The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.
Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.
Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.
67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.
Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.
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I am an evangelical Christian. I am a Trump supporter. I believe in America First with every fiber of my being. And I am one of the most dangerous people to anyone trying to peddle Jew hatred as foreign policy because I know my Bible, I know my history, I know what this movement actually stands for, and I am going to TRIPLE down.
Trump inherited a Middle East on fire and left it transformed. He moved the American embassy to Jerusalem. Three presidents before him promised it. None of them did it.
He destroyed ISIS.
He killed Qasem Soleimani.
I supported getting out of endless wars. I still do. Demanding that American foreign policy serve American interests is legitimate. Being skeptical of neoconservative nation-building fantasies is legitimate.
None of it has any bearing on Iran.
I am not a neocon. I cannot be dismissed as a warmonger or an establishment stooge or a globalist who doesn’t care about American lives.
I care enormously about American lives. I want American soldiers home. I want American money spent on Americans. I want an end to the era of nation-building fantasies that turned the Middle East into a graveyard for American kids from towns that never recovered from losing them.
AND I know my Bible. And my Bible tells me in terms that do not require a seminary degree to understand that God made an unconditional covenant with the Jewish people, that the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable Romans 11:29, look it up and that the nation that has returned to its ancestral homeland after two thousand years of exile and survived seven wars of annihilation is not a geopolitical accident.
I am dangerous because I hold both things simultaneously and I will not let either one be used against the other. My foreign policy skepticism cannot be weaponized into antisemitism because my theology won’t allow it. My theology cannot be dismissed as naive because my foreign policy analysis is serious.
The Jew-hating fake right currently parasitizing this movement has a very specific vulnerability.
It depends on people not knowing what Trump actually did. It depends on people not knowing what the Bible actually says.
It depends on people not knowing that the foreign policy critique they are nodding along to is a vehicle for a destination they never agreed to travel to.
It depends on the evangelical base being too polite, too conflict-averse, and too institutionally cautious to name the operation for what it is.
I am none of those things.
And those who can’t win on the message always try to take out the messenger.
I do this because I want my kids to grow up in a free country, because God blessed with this platform even though I have no podcast, no coupon code, no vitamins and no endorsement deals.
I say what I want. And if you don’t like it, scroll up.
B. Betterson 🆙 retweeted
Letter reportedly sent by Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), to American servicemembers across the Middle East on February 28, 2026, prior to the start of strikes against Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury:
To America's extraordinary sons and daughters deployed around the Middle East,
By order of the President of the United States, we are embarking on a mission of profound consequence. The time for preparation is over. The time for action has arrived.
As we move from deterrence into active combat, I write to tell you how honored I am to serve with you - the most exceptional Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Guardians and Coast Guardsmen on this earth.
Some of you are stationed in the Middle East. Many of you have deployed overseas on short notice. Others have been extended on deployment for this critical mission.
You represent the strongest, most lethal warfighting force the world has ever known.
You all selflessly serve our great country and make us so very PROUD.
Since 1979, the Iranian Regime has killed and wounded thousands of Americans, and they continue to threaten Americans and our friends. Today, by your courage and grit, you will change the course of human history.
My guidance for you is simple:
- Be Relentlessly Lethal. In the heat of conflict, remember who you are. Let your conduct be as professional as your aim is precise.
- Take Care of Your Teammates. The men and women on your flanks, in front of you and those at your six are your Guardian Angels. Be theirs.
- Steady Your Resolve. Combat is inherently chaotic. The hours, days and perhaps weeks ahead will challenge you. There will be noise and confusion. Fall back on your training. It is the best in the world.
You are the shield of the free world, and today, you are its sharpest sword.
As the eyes of the world fix upon us, stay safe, and GODSPEED.
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SEC. RUBIO KEY TAKEAWAYS ON IRAN OPERATION 🔴
— Iran is producing 100+ ballistic missiles per month and thousands of one way attack drones, aiming to build a retaliatory shield that would make its nuclear program untouchable
— Iran is approaching a “point of immunity” within 1 to 1.5 years, where its missile and drone stockpiles would deter any strike
— Sanctions have failed to stop the weapons buildup
— The operation was timed while Iran is weakened and before it reaches that immunity threshold
— U.S. intelligence assessed Iran would immediately retaliate against U.S. forces, so preemptive action reduced potential American casualties
— Mission focus is destroying ballistic missile launchers, stockpiles, drone capabilities, and naval assets threatening global shipping
— No ground invasion planned; air and missile strikes are sufficient for objectives
— Regime change is not the official goal, but the U.S. would welcome the Iranian people replacing the current leadership
— Congress was notified through the Gang of Eight and in compliance with the 48 hour War Powers reporting requirement
— The U.S. denies targeting civilians and says any alleged incidents are under investigation
— Iran controls roughly 20% of global energy flows via the Strait of Hormuz; mitigation plans are being prepared to stabilize markets
— No active diplomacy underway; operations will continue as long as necessary with no fixed end date
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IDF spokesman confirms Khamenei was ELIMINATED.
Senior officials killed with him:
Supreme Intelligence Officer.
Defense Minister.
Spanad Organization Chairman.
Ali Shamkhani, advisor to the president.
Mohammed Shirazi, head of the Military Bureau.
Also killed in another meeting:
Heads of departments and leadership of the Iranian Ministry.
No terrorist leader has immunity.
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Events in the Middle East and the Gulf region are unfolding extremely rapidly. Unfortunately, Ukraine knows all too well what this is about. Although Ukrainians never threatened Iran, the Iranian regime chose to become Putin’s accomplice and supplied him with “shahed” drones, and not only the drones themselves, but also the technologies to produce them. Iran also provided other weapons to Russia.
Over the course of this full-scale war, Russia has used more than 57,000 shahed-type attack drones against the Ukrainian people, cities, and energy infrastructure. Other nations have also suffered from Iranian-backed terror. Therefore, it is fair to give the Iranian people a chance to rid themselves of a terrorist regime and to guarantee security for all nations that have suffered from terror originating in Iran.
Our position is well known, and Ukraine has stated it repeatedly, including recently. It is important to preserve as many lives as possible. It is important to prevent the war from expanding. It is important that the United States is acting decisively. Whenever there is American resolve, global criminals weaken. This understanding must also come to the Russians.
People cannot know the day or the hour, yet every act of evil, terror, and aggression against neighbors ultimately meets a just response. We expect that, in the end, the Middle East region will become safer and more stable. Much has already changed toward that goal.
Ukraine is ready to help every nation so that security and justice increase, and terrorist regimes decrease.