Dilan Esper
@dilanesper
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Litigator, attorney, appeals, entertainment
Southern California
Joined September 2010
RT @OrinKerr: Here are the first three pages of my new draft article, which I have started circulate to law reviews: "The Moving Property P….
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RT @AlexTurlais: @PurcellGregory @dilanesper Policy in 2025 should not be based on the grudges of 19th century imperial officials.
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Mind you, this tweet (by an author and "ex physicist and inventor") was in response to me making the banal point that China could just decide not to retake Taiwan and everyone would be better off.
@dilanesper I think it is fair to call anyone who believes in violence as idiot. More so if the history is made up to fit one's narrative. As such, you are an idiot.
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RT @RogueWPA: Or to be more precise about it, the job numbers are as real as it's feasible to make them, but there is no malicious bias and….
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RT @petespiliakos: Or, to the extent they are wrong, they are wrong because it's a difficult job to do with precision as things are happeni….
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RT @Sebastian_Hols: @abubunni @dilanesper @residentsparkie Part of the loss of trust in experts is how many times they lean on the magical….
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The weird thing about the claim going around that Bibi threatened to release Clinton phone sex tapes unless Jonathan Pollard was let out, is that Clinton didn't release Pollard and Bibi never released the tapes. So if it's true, it means Clinton called Bibi's bluff.
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RT @abubunni: @dilanesper Exactly. The point about genocide is that it is nuclear, totalizing, and obviates the need to make any other case….
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RT @abubunni: @dilanesper @residentsparkie (by appeal to authority) that this academic definition of genocide is satisfied, because there i….
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RT @abubunni: @dilanesper @residentsparkie It's motte and bailey all the way down. Also a weird kind of bootstrapping: Gaza can be a genoci….
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This tweet, and the tweet after it, nail it.
@dilanesper @residentsparkie It's motte and bailey all the way down. Also a weird kind of bootstrapping: Gaza can be a genocide even though it is nothing like the Nazi Holocaust, under this academic definition, which doesn't at all accord with the common perception of the word. But once we've established.
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RT @somewhatsecserv: @soblackandblue @dilanesper I would argue that China has much more to gain from being friendly to, and working with al….
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RT @Brien_Jackson: @dilanesper I think retired numbers are great but that you run the risk of an inflationary effect with them (what i thin….
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RT @maya_sen: @Sebastian_Hols @dilanesper I think also understanding how academic hiring and promotion work requires pretty specialized kno….
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Obviously folks will come back with all sorts of cultural and historical claims about why this isn't possible, but that's really the point I am making in all these conflicts. That folks get blinded by all the historical BS and stop caring about the actual people on the ground.
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That's objectively true. Taiwan is doing fine and it wouldn't harm the people of China if the government just gave up its territorial claim completely. Indeed, it would help them because Taiwan is very rich and it would be great for Chinese people to have a normal relationship.
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It's kind of tangential to my Israel-Palestine tweets, but just not being a nationalist obsessed with territory is an option. E.g, China could just announce "Taiwan's doing fine, we don't need it back, we'll recognize the government there and stop planning an invasion".
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Really persuasive rhetoric here.
@GSVBemusementPk @smugjd @dilanesper You MORON! Nobody is claiming what you are claiming! Not her parents, not raperaeli officials. Nobody! There is zero proof of what you are saying! She barely wore any clothes!.
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RT @petespiliakos: Just about every nationalist movement has a myth where they feel their state should control more land than in the here a….
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