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Charles Wang retweeted
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Charles Wang retweeted
If Eisenkot and co show enough courage to cobble together a coalition with Arab-led parties, they'll be able to adopt a new social contract for Israel and integrate 20 percent of their citizenry in unprecedented ways.
The new government will have new levels of good-faith in the region and able to expand a circle of peace with Arab neighbors. Arab members of the government can become emissaries to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
It will also be a PR coup for Israel and improves its image abroad.
Charles Wang retweeted
"Eisenkot needs to show the same cold-blooded determination that Netanyahu would, were he in the same position: To form a feasible coalition, to force compromises... to constantly keep his eye on the prize."
Astute from @EstherSolomon
haaretz.com/israel-news/haar…
Charles Wang retweeted
Even the Simpsons have a better historical understanding of Mao and China than people on Twitter.
Charles Wang retweeted
If Gadi Eisenkot and the opposition bloc are remotely serious about getting rid of Netanyahu, and about Israel’s democratic future, they’ll do the obvious, strategic, and non-racist thing of forming a government with the Arab parties.
A Jewish-Arab political partnership is necessary to meet this political moment, and for any shared future.
haaretz.com/israel-news/haar…
Charles Wang retweeted
If you’re pitching a space tech startup don’t use AI to make your videos, the space nerds will be suspicious.
Make your videos using Kerbal Space Program and they’ll know you at least did simulated engineering.
Charles Wang retweeted
I have in the past asserted that the fate of Israeli democracy depends on the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
That framing is totally incorrect.
The fate of Israeli democracy - and by extension, the fate of Israel - depends on the ability of Israeli society to engage the Palestinian citizens of Israel as equals.
The onus is on us, and not on them. The future demands that politically, this is no longer "us" and "them", but rather an inclusive "we the people".
Charles Wang retweeted
If Israel's current exit polls hold, the parties representing the Jewish center will have to make a choice: partner with Arab parties or else keep Bibi in power.
A pretty clear metaphor for the choice facing Israel more broadly.
Charles Wang retweeted
If these exit poll results hold up, the big question will be whether the Eisenkot-led 'change bloc' is truly committed to change because it will have to rely on the parliamentary support of Arab-majority parties to govern. If it isn't willing to do that, then Netanyahu will remain caretaker prime minister until another election takes place.
Charles Wang retweeted
The Israeli election is today! The situation is complicated and it could be decided by weird, idiosyncratic factors, such as which small parties get to the 3.25% threshold for representation and which don't. Here's a nonexhaustive list of the reasons why I want the opposition bloc to win:
1. The opposition will stop the Bibi Netanyahu bloc's "judicial reform," which threatens to destroy judicial review in Israel. Israel has no federalism or separation of powers, and judicial review is the main obstacle to a dangerous "tyranny of the majority."
2. An opposition government would stop the depredations of settlers using violence to force West Bank Palestinians off their land. This is a grave injustice, and terrible for Israel's image in the West. Bibi mostly turns a blind eye to this, because his coalition depends on the support of far-right nationalist parties that back the violent settlers.
3. Bibi bears a huge share of responsibility for Israel getting surprised on October 7. There is now extensive evidence he ignored warnings from a variety of sources. He refuses to take any responsibility or hold an independent investigation (as Israel did after comparable military failures in 1973 and 1982). He needs to be held accountable for his horrific failure, and there needs to be an investigation to help ensure this doesn't happen again.
4. The scenarios are complicated. But one very possible one is an opposition coalition with the Arab Raam party (which has tried hard to make itself a potentially acceptable coalition party for the Jewish parties). Better integrating the Arab population is an important objective.
5. Bibi's coalition includes horrible authoritarian racists like Smotrich and Ben Gvir. These people are a grave menace, and must be removed from government.
To be clear:
1. An opposition government would still have many policies I think are very bad. That's true of virtually every government in the world. From a libertarian perspective, pretty much all elections are a matter of identifying lesser evils.
2. Even under the Bibi coalition, Israel is far better than adversaries like Hamas and Hezbollah. But a liberal democracy should aspire to more than being "better than Hamas."
Charles Wang retweeted
Virgin American voters: waaah it’s to inconvenient to drive my air conditioned SUV ten minutes to the Millard Filmore High polling place on any of the thirty days of early voting
Chad Arab Israelis: habibi get the democracy camel
Charles Wang retweeted
it's easy to gloss over how rare it is, but it's beautiful to see millions of jews and arabs freely flooding the ballot box alike in a region where theocracy and despotism is the order of the day. israel is deeply flawed, but it's the only real democracy in the middle east
Charles Wang retweeted
It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
Charles Wang retweeted
Nithya Raman really is running to be the Zohran Mamdani of L.A.
Someone who is pretty far left, but also technocratic, results-focused, and intent on dismantling the city's machine politics. And also aggressively pro-housing.
If she wins, I wonder what other big cities could see candidates with this brand of politics pop up.
Charles Wang retweeted
Democracy in the balance over the next couple of weeksz with elections in Brazil, Israel and America.
nytimes.com/live/2026/10/25/…
Charles Wang retweeted
Respectfully, you underestimate how fickle and cowardly most politicians are. 90% of them would throw their friends under the bus for a nickle.
If 15 Republican senators think it might save their careers in the post-MAGA era, they will jump ship and vote for Trump’s conviction.
Charles Wang retweeted
The way Hasan Piker and other media millionaires have built their platforms by telling people in my isolated and anxious community that their only allies are Maoist revolutionaries makes my blood boil.
Trans voter to @AOC: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that?
AOC: