# ![@ThatchEffendi Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::289120280.png) @ThatchEffendi Alexander Thatcher

Alexander Thatcher posts on X about turkey, armenia, azerbaijan, in the the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"5 minutes into rewatching the Cronenberg classic Shivers and I realize that the doctor who begins the movie but strangling a [--] year old girl to death cuts open her stomach and pours acid and then cuts his own throat probably inspired the glasses I'm currently wearing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1429892476144345092)  2021-08-23T19:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@idvck @ILotem BiH What the hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1481304903117066246)  2022-01-12T16:39Z 12.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@ILotem @idvck Albanians make the best burek. Scientific fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1481306256124129282)  2022-01-12T16:45Z 12.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Don't really agree with this. Armenian cuisine is hard to pin down because of the vagaries of Armenian history and ranges from Karabakh to versions of Istanbul Meyhane cuisine. Georgian cuisine benefits from greater fertility of Georgian soil and diversity of climate. Unpopular opinion; The most overrated is not khachapuri and khinkali but overall the Georgian cuisine. The Armenian and Azerbaijani cuisines are far richer and tastier than the Georgian cuisine. Unpopular opinion; The most overrated is not khachapuri and khinkali but overall the Georgian cuisine. The Armenian and Azerbaijani"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1607027875831582720)  2022-12-25T14:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Do ethnic Russians actually believe this Uzbekistan was the center of the Islamic Golden Age Ancient Armenian churches Never contributed anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1619373252379570177)  2023-01-28T16:34Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements


"Someone set up a large TV next to the Kadky ferry and they're showing Ouzhan Uur a Turkish YouTube celebrity who's doing a show with Kldarolu. TBH as an American I've never seen the level of political engagement anywhere that I've seen in Turkey over the election"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1661462911187836928)  2023-05-24T20:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"One of my favorite anecdotes I've read in a book on the Late Antique was in P. M. Bradford's The Early Slavs. Basically the argument was that the invading Slavs succeeded in assimilating the local Balkan populations because they could straight vibe. Slavic tribes would live very"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1674527933522665472)  2023-06-29T21:28Z [----] followers, 67.7K engagements


"@VNachkebia I literally talked yesterday with a Trans friend in Turkey about her plans to leave the country. I don't want to have the same conversations with Georgians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1677705053421879297)  2023-07-09T04:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Biggest story in the South Caucasus in the last year is Azerbaijan's increasing inability to maintain facade of being a 'normal' post-Communist state. Internal radicalization has reached a point where major figures in the regime don't understand or don't care about looking bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1677989059480674307)  2023-07-09T10:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Good News: I'm losing weight Bad News: My waking hours are 2PM-5AM so I'm only eating [---] meals a day and maybe 1/3 meals are the Georgian bean dish Lobio pictured here. (Lobio is often serves with mchadi ((hard corn bread)) pickles and sometimes cheese.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678058488478543872)  2023-07-10T01:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@SeniorMushroom Wow I hate this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678124045051543553)  2023-07-09T19:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@nikicaga Literally the same. It's absurd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678322665944219648)  2023-07-10T08:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@orientalismus You're supposing that the Minoans were the pre-IE inhabitants of Greece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678355449182146563)  2023-07-10T10:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"IDK who needs to hear this but Georgian food Real good. Had kharcho with ghomi for dinner. So good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678411096699355138)  2023-07-10T14:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I literally could not survive without this place. It specializes in the corn meal stew ghomi and cheese but also has a variety of dishes associated with ghomi (the nut-meat stew kharcho) as well as the bean dish Lobio. All super reasonably priced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678413954207342598)  2023-07-10T14:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@idiehyd8iebebhe It wasn't because of the Genocides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678516209078116353)  2023-07-10T23:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Especially amused by this because I just had two people in the same conversation this weekend one of whom got very angry at me for being a cringe liberal and one of whom got very angry at me for being a reactionary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678679616007950337)  2023-07-11T08:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Azerbaijan working hard to integrate it's Armenian citizens by readying them for lives of constant humiliation and deference to arbitrary and cruel authoritarianisms"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678744630337101825)  2023-07-11T12:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Dawn of Everything is fascinating. Christ I love Native American history and culture. In College was actually considering doing a Master's comparing Russian and American attitudes towards indigenous populations but my Intro to Native American Studies course was terrible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678752011754389509)  2023-07-11T13:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's happening guys. It's happening. We're getting integalactic janissary lesbians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678793910913576960)  2023-07-11T15:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@broom_error What remains of [----] 'progressive' Media criticism will not survive watching a major movie where an intergalactic praetorian military force of lesbians is called the Fish Speakers. Their heads will explode like in scanners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678796381127933952)  2023-07-11T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PinstripeBungle He's not really a liberal. He's a Christian Democrat (OVP) with barely-closeted Pan-Germanic/FPO leanings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678829901401452571)  2023-07-11T18:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@PinstripeBungle TBH my problems with Gunther are that he's.kind of a Nazi by impulse even if his party is the OVP. You run into guys like this. People who went from party meeting halls when the party was the Christian Socials and then when it was the Nazis and then when it was the OVP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678832733336793103)  2023-07-11T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@PinstripeBungle Did you see his post about "Better the War than the Pact""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678837081236283394)  2023-07-11T18:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@KarnesMellagio Why would I want to play a game when I could read about Reichsfuhrer Bormann having a public melt down at Disney World"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678847443927023621)  2023-07-11T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@NelliGrigori What's happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1678858518038708227)  2023-07-11T20:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Ramush an ex-UK fighter is trying to portray himself as the advocate of the Serbian minority in the ongoing crisis. Pretty baroque political alliances coming out of this fracas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1678869525528190980)  2023-07-11T20:54Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@ExquisiteRebelN Still love how real Horseshoe was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1679086107609145345)  2023-07-12T11:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@tik_tik_khanim I actually agree with you. The comparison is ludicrous. Holocaust guilt has been a main factor of German culture for decades. In Turkey the national conversation has actually turned *against* recognizing the Genocides"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1679504101397131267)  2023-07-13T16:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Anybody want to guess who liberated Montenegro Hint: it wasn't the USA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1679899579502788608)  2023-07-14T17:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"So Georgi Derluguian once told me that the primary source of fats and protein in the Armenian diet was nuts. Anyone know if there were Armenian dishes like satsvi erkez tavuu - Jed de ships sch'etu or kharcho They're all Caucasian dishes that use nuts but can't think of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1681253706715615232)  2023-07-18T17:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I kind of suspect Gunther isn't actually paid by any Albanian organization. This is too far out for a major political actor to publically argue for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1681794991666987010)  2023-07-19T23:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Floor here is made with a technique called Opus Sectile. It's similar to a mosaic but the cuts of stone are much larger and form actual shapes. It was a major artform in the Classical World but I think it's broadly a Byzantine/Italian thing in the Middle Ages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1684314815781543938)  2023-07-26T21:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Azerbaijan is falling apart. The state is losing the ability to maintain the facade that it is a normal post-soviet authoritarian petrostate comparable to Kazakhstan. The economy has stopped growing even though they're funneling Russian gas. The hydrocarbons are running out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1684499740128313344)  2023-08-04T17:30Z [----] followers, 11.8K engagements


"1) My name is my handle. If you think Thatcher is an Armenian name then I'm not sure why anyone should take your views on Armenia culture history or politics seriously. 2) Insisting that Armenians have a "nature" that is "distortion lies manipulation and deception" is racist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1684873866504458240)  2023-08-06T02:25Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements


"These people are out of their fucking minds. They've undone three decades of Azerbaijan attempts to cultivate an image as a multicultural stable dependable partner of the West. They're setting it all on fire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685369809712578560)  2023-07-30T06:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@orientalismus ideology transformed from the universal pretensions of Justinian to the claim that the Romans were an elect a kind of New-Israel meant to be elite members of the true faith. This identity arguably remained intact until Filiki Eteria and the emergence of a secular Greek identity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685430695328382976)  2023-07-29T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@orientalismus However elements of this were predicted earlier. The late Byzantine thinker Plethon advocated for an abandonment of Christianity and reemergence of the old Hellenic identity (at a time when Hellen meant pagan.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685430960681074688)  2023-07-29T23:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"As someone who's worked with Rohingya Genocide victims they.do complain about things. They're human beings. Someone steals a cell phone sometimes they'd lose a rice ration sometimes the power would go off for days. People complain about stuff. It's human. I hate this man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685559641101443072)  2023-07-30T19:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Apparently Oppenheimer was inspired by Pattinson giving Nolan a collection of speeches by Oppenheimer at the end of shooting Tenet. It sucks so hard that our best looking most talented actor is also a sensitive genius a-level gift giver"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685588850356183040)  2023-07-30T09:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@adnanhuseyn Oh Adnan I'm actually quite confident you'll be blocked again. No worries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1685727565871276032)  2023-07-30T19:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@HovhanNaz Yeah I saw. I remembered him from Chicago. There used to be a yearly Turkish cultural event in downtown Chicago I'd go to when he was Consulate General there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1687567592787943424)  2023-08-04T20:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"One of maybe [--] monuments in Turkey that's more yonic than phallic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1688131420550561792)  2023-08-06T10:16Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Tural is the unelected representative in Baku of the Nagorno-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert (called Khankendi.) Here he is celebrating the ethnic cleansing of Hadrut a town which never had a substantial Azeri population and now has none of the indigenous Armenian population"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1688564197083283456)  2023-08-07T14:54Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements


"I'd be a lot more inclined to take unofficial mouthpieces of the Azerbaijani state seriously if they didn't spend their entire time on social media trying to sound like the DC villain Darkseid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1688601117934997504)  2023-08-07T17:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If you're going to spend your time ln the internet trying to justify authoritarianism ethnic cleansing irredentism and massacre try to avoid sounding like ThatWineGuy68"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1688608950265008128)  2023-08-07T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Why are we doing this. This person isn't interesting. Not talented. Not smart. Let's not do this. Let's pretend this person doesn't exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1688632917365264386)  2023-08-07T19:27Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"They're losing the media argument and they know it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1689298782502981632)  2023-08-09T15:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Scratch an Armenophobe find an Antisemite. No exceptions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1689398022327664640)  2023-08-09T22:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Taking a ride in God's Perfect Car [----] Niva"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1689901123165986816)  2023-08-11T07:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@AlTonno1 Radically inappropriate joke. Not in a fun way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1690081120530911232)  2023-08-11T19:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This regime is laying the groundwork for an unprecedented ethinc cleansing campaign by flooding media in every regional language - even Bulgarian - with its racist pseudohistory. Utterly loathsome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691320134323822592)  2023-08-15T05:25Z [----] followers, 12.3K engagements


"It will never stop puzzling me that American government officials expect Armenians to be treated as human beings by the Azerbaijani state. These people are radicalized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691706313871335744)  2023-08-16T06:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"🤝 Trophy Parks of Military Equipment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691796852926996752)  2023-08-16T12:59Z [----] followers, 14.6K engagements


"Not especially subtle reference to the now widespread racist Antiziganist conspiracy theory that Armenians have roots in South Asia. Azerbaijani government officials actually believe this. Their world view is racialist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691936487124656307)  2023-08-16T22:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"These people are so lost in the sauce. Their representative to the UN quoted a *Twitter troll* who collects pictures of Karabakhtsis eating cookies and they view this as a diplomatic victory rather than a reflection of how insane the epistemic closure of their elite is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691939225485165019)  2023-08-16T22:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I think the Azeri UN speech was truly and bizarrely online. It's DeSantis campaign-level. They spend their entire lives sharing Scourge of Tengri memes about Karabakhtsis eating McDonald's in Stepanakert and thought that would convince.the UN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1691941190424313952)  2023-08-16T22:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"These people are just alt-right trolls. The only difference is that they target "Hays" instead of Jews or women. It's the same bizarre mentality - belief in the magical possibilities of posting focus on domination and humiliation conflation of that with physical violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1692171133012033559)  2023-08-17T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"A safe bet that this page has "complicated feelings" about all those red dots in Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1692319833038221799)  2023-08-17T23:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Adnan is useful because he gives the game away. Don't report his account. Let him post. He's not clever enough to realize when he's arguing indefensible and hideous positions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1692985047253483619)  2023-08-19T19:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Truly bizarre to see how stable Austria's borders are and how precisely they correspond to national and ethno-linguistic boundaries again especially with regards to the boundaries between German Slovak Czech and Hungarian speakers. Map is of Imperial Circles around 1500"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1693015884892078351)  2023-08-19T21:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People are going to hate this take but I think in 5-10 years it will be clear that the far left in the West is essentially a minority view within the far right. The synthesis has already happened we're just waiting for people to be comfortable with it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1693218962945749336)  2023-08-20T11:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Ronald Grigor-Suny is one of the two or three most important living Sovietologists and the only insult this troll can muster is "he's a filthy Armenian." Loathsome. Utterly loathsome"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1693320769730740724)  2023-08-20T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hatred of the racial enemy allows for shame-free sexual fantasies of coercion and violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1693888215738880253)  2023-08-22T07:29Z [----] followers, 23.8K engagements


"Yerevan occasionally feels bizarrely American like when you're at Cinnabon and Lana del Rey's Video Games comes up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1693914109492826582)  2023-08-22T09:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's so funny to me that people love to make contrarian takes about how the Central Powers were morally comparable or even superior to the Entente when they literally had Generalplan Ost [---] as a stated war aim even besides the backing of the Enver regime in Constantinople"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694103081808543767)  2023-08-22T21:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Hard for me to think of any other city that's improved as rapidly as Yerevan. It occasionally feels unrecognizable from the city I first visited in 2017"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694267718868910303)  2023-08-23T08:37Z [----] followers, 15K engagements


"Farah legitimately does not understand what a Junta is. It's so funny this account influenced what their government said at the United Nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694292404969304521)  2023-08-23T10:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm at Hummus Kimchi. It's a mixed Korean-Israeli restaurant in Yerevan. There's a portrait of the radical conservative Moroccan Rabbi Baba Sali on the wall. The food is good. Almost everyone here is an attractive alt/hipster Russian. How is this happening. How"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694357438852473033)  2023-08-23T14:34Z [----] followers, 30K engagements


"A German pseudoscholar supported racist myths about a population with Western Asian origins that are a historically persecuted minority associated with skilled trade crafts and money lending"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694596422417477787)  2023-08-24T06:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"One of the funny things about Azerbaijani trolls is that you see normal looking Western Asian women who just do Groyper posting 24/7. Like it's their job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694604388235354186)  2023-08-24T06:55Z [----] followers, 10.8K engagements


"@Tiiyee @jdryan08 @MazMHussain Spicy pickled carrots are a mainstay of every Georgian restaurant and from what I've heard their origin is completely Korean"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694621471048351785)  2023-08-24T08:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I'm at the fancy Lebanese-Armenian restaurant Mayrig and ordered an "Oriental Coffee" in Russian. The waiter corrected me - "Armenian Coffee" - but I'm in the middle of an insomniac episode so when he asked if I wanted sugar I almost blurted out "orta eker" which is Turkish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694732519067775478)  2023-08-24T15:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Lot of people in Turkey and Azerbaijan seem convinced that Armenians are hostile to all Turkic people but animus to Central Asians in Armenia itself is pretty limited. This is an advertisement for the Kazakh Russian-language comedian Nurlan Saburov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1694957990263013541)  2023-08-25T06:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"God's Perfect Buddy////God's Perfect Buddy (sleepy)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695022590404788529)  2023-08-25T10:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I have spent [--] hours on various Azerbaijani irredentist Facebook pages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695154006165737968)  2023-08-25T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I know it's not true but I really really hope that this whole relationship was partially instigated by the Azeri meme that Armenians are from India"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695178902677705041)  2023-08-25T20:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@gvbrdghvnian @ArchysLife Yes. The sea to sea in Tigranes is the Caspian to the Mediterranean. However here there's a clear aspiration to join the Black Sea coast with a larger Armenian polity which was seen in a few proposed Armenian borders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695197825162777051)  2023-08-25T22:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"An interesting side effect of the intellectual insulation of Turkey and Azerbaijan by the establishment of authoritarian right-wing anti-intellectual regimes is that they've lost the ability to produce intellectuals capable of making their arguments convincingly. They used to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695347301965803849)  2023-08-26T08:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"13 Movies to Get to Know Me The Night of the Hunter RoboCop Paprika Princess Mononoke Videodrome Cargo [---] Boogie Nights Y Tu Mama Tambien Alien Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Silence of the Lambs Le Samourai Andrei Rublev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695351149308608522)  2023-08-26T08:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Armenian Genocide and Diaspora has somehow lead directly to me eating poutine with beef brisket within visual distance of Idr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695392311830589462)  2023-08-26T11:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Going to be really funny when Pakistan manages to negatively polarize an entire generation of Turks away from Islam simply through posting horny on main"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695402015571009610)  2023-08-26T11:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"It's difficult to overstate this. The Armenian Genocide is accepted as fact in every country outside of Azerbaijan and Turkey. The debate is mostly over. The fact that the conversation has gone the other way in Azerbaijan and Turkey isolates them from the rest of the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695511273117524243)  2023-08-26T18:59Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements


"Not really processing the information that Trump and I both love Phantom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695519460830912868)  2023-08-26T19:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Going back to [----] and explaining to the kids in my middle school guitar class that the lead singer of the band they keep talking about will in [--] years retweet me. None of them will think I am cool because 1) I was not cool 2) They will rightfully ask what a tweet is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695527348420911120)  2023-08-26T20:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"My name actually is my name. I know hundreds of people from this site in real life. I know there's dozens of Azerbaijani trolls that use fake European and American names but I can assure you I'm a very real person and your projection won't change my passport"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695652321370210616)  2023-08-27T04:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"So we went to the Yerevan location of the Armenian restaurant Mayrig. Mayrig originally a Lebanese restaurant focuses on Western Armenian cuisine- dishes from the North Eastern Ottoman Empire. This is i Kfte a shared Armenian-Turkish-Assyian-Kurdish dish from Urfa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1695689416906265062)  2023-08-27T06:47Z [----] followers, 28.4K engagements


"LIVE FOOTAGE: Azerbaijan's diplomatic relationships with the West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1696123252291047902)  2023-08-28T11:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An ideological right-wing revolutionary regime with roots in paramilitary organizations stating a war to establish a continent-scale racial empire and then murdering disproportionately economically successful minorities when the attack fails"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1696215892370059661)  2023-08-28T17:39Z [----] followers, 42K engagements


"Wouldn't the Mughal and Ming Empires have multiple times the wealth population and power of the Ottoman Empire Why is England on here before 1700"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697140193319322054)  2023-08-31T06:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The idea that Azerbaijan is a check on Russian influence in this region rather than a bunch of compradors is insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697185818232729647)  2023-08-31T09:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is probably a Big Brain Take but I think a lot of the Caucasus' problems stem in one form or another from the [----] Islamic Revolution in Iran. We'd be looking at a wildly different region if Iran was in a position to and interested in projecting power here post-91"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697215083854635113)  2023-08-31T11:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Vogue Arabia did a shoot on the Circassian community in Jordan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697489589546446969)  2023-09-01T06:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Nazm Hikmet the way he would want to be pictured: next to decaying symbols of the Soviet Union. Hikmet spent some of the most important years of his life in Georgia but I had to get this book shipped from America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697604580777886136)  2023-09-01T13:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I joke about Turks being negatively polarized away from Islam because of Pakistani fetishization but if this becomes an actual phenomenon it's likely going to be picked up by the anti-immigrant right. And the anti-immigrant left. And the anti-immigrant center. ngiltere'de yaayan Pakistanl Youtuberlarn Mslmanlara Trkiye'ye g etmeyi neren videosu sosyal medyada gndem oldu: Arap lkelerine g etmek zor hatta Endonezya ve Malezya bile zor. Bu lkeler kolay kolay oturum vermiyor. Trkiye ise ok kolay. Binlerce Pakistanl https://t.co/kCyBN4stTf ngiltere'de yaayan Pakistanl Youtuberlarn Mslmanlara"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1697899674865226059)  2023-09-02T09:10Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements


"A lot of non-Azerbaijani mouthpieces of the regime are losing their ability to maintain the pretense of impartial expertise or even decency. Radicalization is not just hitting Baku it's hitting the people who take Baku's money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1698306490442956993)  2023-09-03T12:06Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements


"I've said it before. I'll say it again. A major advantage Armenians have in the international public debate is that this is how spokespeople of the Azerbaijani government talk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1698410040971898931)  2023-09-03T18:58Z [----] followers, 33K engagements


"I grew up with The Far Side but it's amazing how much it predicts the exact vibe of Gen Z Internet humor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1698514802593661427)  2023-09-04T01:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Some major aggression by Azerbaijan in the next few days seems very likely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1698799978146075035)  2023-09-04T20:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The loss of Central European and German cultural heritage in the US is TBH one of the great tragedies in American history that no one remarks on. Germans made our economy the greatest in the world fought our wars built our universities and then almost totally assimilated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699140189237498081)  2023-09-05T19:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Yusuf is a pig who defends the people who ruined his country's economy political institution and international reputation because they're the people who put slop in his trough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699303583148122519)  2023-09-06T06:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm always tempted to use Reichbanner Schwartz-Rot-Gold imagery on social media but somewhat ironically the imagery of a coalitional organization of Christian Democrats Social Democrats and Liberals meant to fight Nazis and Communists looks too Nazi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699310368500113751)  2023-09-06T06:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1896: Armenians fleeing the Hamidian Massacres in the Ottoman Empire settle in Fresno California. 2023: The biggest living rapper of his generation and one of the most widely beloved celebrities in the world uses the Armenian Nationalist term for Nagorno-Karabakh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699327329267261825)  2023-09-06T07:43Z [----] followers, 49.1K engagements


"Last Chance: Anyone know where the Azerbaijani theory that Armenians come from India originated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699350066820010136)  2023-09-06T09:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Spent two hours trying to read everything I can on religiosity going up or down among young people in Turkey and after an exhaustive look at the extent literature I have reached the following well-informed opinion:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699379292998603078)  2023-09-06T11:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"A few major people in diaspora organizations and the Armenian government follow me so I'll make something clear: The button to push is this World Bank loan. Hit DC. Hit European capitals. Make it clear that if there's war Turkey can say goodbye to this loan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699417184856953235)  2023-09-06T13:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If Georgians are feeling especially generous to Armenians they could repair Shamkhoretsots and give Norashen back. I believe that #Armenia armenian people and their outstanding leader #Pashinyan deserve to be included in enlargement policy. new geopolitical formula of defined by chancellor #Scholz " from Lisbon to Tbilisi" must be expanded: "from Lisbon to #Yerevan" https://t.co/yQdYyevoU9 I believe that #Armenia armenian people and their outstanding leader #Pashinyan deserve to be included in enlargement policy. new geopolitical formula of defined by chancellor #Scholz " from Lisbon to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699525728021209232)  2023-09-06T20:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Imagine telling Hannah Arendt she was not able to write about German history or culture because she was Jewish. Armenians have been at the forefront of studying Turkey for all of Turkey's history. There's not many Armenians left in the country and the community still produced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699691025214722459)  2023-09-07T07:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"So this weekend my friends and I went to Kavkazskaja Plennitsa a kind of South Caucasus answer to The Cheesecake Factory. The entire restaurant is a hallucinatory trip through Boomer Soviet nostalgia. It's inspired and dedicated past the point of fetishism to a [----] Soviet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1699787611882266914)  2023-09-07T14:12Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements


"The ethnic Azerbaijani Turkish Fascist politician Sinan Oan posts "Khankendi (Stepanakert an Armenian city in Nagorno-Karabakh with [-----] people) is the Turkish world's pride" with a an upside down A symbol that is being used on Azerbaijani army vehicles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700067180451164313)  2023-09-08T08:42Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements


"Sinan Oan is a mercurial figure who sided with Erdoan in the election because Erdoan promised him a prominent political position that he never received or a future position in the Fascist MHP that in reality he's also very unlikely to get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700067182883823921)  2023-09-08T08:42Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"1) Claiming indigeneity is racist. 2) We are all part of a beautiful rich tapestry of the region. 3) Actually your ancient heritage belongs to everyone. 4) Actually your ancient heritage belongs to us. 5) Actually we will destroy your ancient heritage and claim it never existed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700102072853561455)  2023-09-08T11:01Z [--] followers, 15.3K engagements


"I legitimately hate how I almost always end up agreeing with BHL. We must save the Armenian cities of #Shusha and #Stepanakert. Protect them against #Erdogan and #Putin. And for that give them the status of free terrority. I call for the preservation of #NagornoKarabakh as a sanctuary. #Armenia https://t.co/rTe6MdJkid We must save the Armenian cities of #Shusha and #Stepanakert. Protect them against #Erdogan and #Putin. And for that give them the status of free terrority. I call for the preservation of #NagornoKarabakh as a sanctuary. #Armenia https://t.co/rTe6MdJkid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700403363714589104)  2023-09-09T06:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"An Armenian American academic's teenage daughter asked me to recommend her some Turkish literature after she read and enjoyed Elif afak. I brought up Yaar Kemal. Turns out Yaar saved the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Aghtamar in Lake Van"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700536645718519921)  2023-09-09T15:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Going forward I think it should be clear that the onus on improving the Turkey-Armenia relationship is entirely Ankara's. Armenia sent aid during the earthquake and Pashinyan went to Erdoan's coronation and Turkey is still completely backing Azerbaijan's threats of a new war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700727229943026026)  2023-09-10T04:25Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements


"Why is this account even still up Yerevan is a city of over a million people. I was there last weekend. People have families. People have children. There's museums with art that's thousands of years old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700758188218265631)  2023-09-10T06:28Z [----] followers, 21.2K engagements


"I feel like people are starting to say this out loud. This regime is radicalizing. It's likely reached a point where no one with substantial power in the system has an interest in slowing it down. We're likely seeing what Hans Mommsen called "cumulative radicalization.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1700773685496263077)  2023-09-10T07:30Z [--] followers, 16K engagements


"Uh could someone translate II. Mehmet's gay poetry in this meme It's way too Ottoman for me to make sense of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700780150957215874)  2023-09-10T07:56Z [----] followers, 17.1K engagements


"This is a loathsome PiS/Fidesz-loving account and people who share it without reflection or irony are not to be trusted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700954441183051864)  2023-09-10T19:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Eagerly anticipating the RWA takes on the Council of Chalcedon the Third Council of Ephesus and the Miaphysite/Diaphysite controversy I expect it on be as nuanced and accurate as their account of the defenses along the Kharkiv front on September 5th 2022"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700964431935463796)  2023-09-10T20:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Armenia is an astonishingly high trust society with vertical social ties like nothing I've ever experienced. Keep thinking of the Khaldunian term "assabiyyah" while there. It's hard not to admire it when you're there even if it's difficult to penetrate let alone integrate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1700972005552775569)  2023-09-10T20:38Z [----] followers, 33.2K engagements


"If anyone is wondering how the Turkish diplomatic corps is doing after avuolu this dude just tried to prove the Armenian Genocide wasn't real using the same tool that lazy 9th graders use to cheat on their political science homework"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701116167782269330)  2023-09-11T06:11Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"@para_praxis @arash_tehran I think Armenians tended to develop strong social bonds partially because they had to become used to living in diverse societies that often persecuted them and their lifestyles often depended on long-distance social/professional contacts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701133060018733470)  2023-09-11T07:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"This guy is completely convinced that the Armenians tried to use a dog bomb and that sharing this information is proof of the Armenian's "hideous existence." He has [-----] followers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701451368857305525)  2023-09-12T04:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm literally speechless"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701492190810100089)  2023-09-12T07:05Z [----] followers, 137K engagements


"@ArzuHuseyn @AbelScott11 You mean Armenia gave aid while Azerbaijan laundered Russian gas and oil and maintained Moscow's hegemony in the region by annually punishing Armenian attempts at democratizing and building ties with the west"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701503039297720467)  2023-09-12T07:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"So I've been trying to figure out what the song in Live With My Dad sounds like for multiple years. I was eating a sandwich yesterday and realized it was The New Pornographer's Myriad Harbor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701879285584199941)  2023-09-13T08:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"You can trust Taras to have accurate and informed views on the opinions of European Jews that's why there's an OUN fighter with an MG [--] in his cover photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1701986215124144334)  2023-09-13T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"It's interesting to watch authoritarian nationalists continue to deploy "peacebuilding" rhetoric from the previous End of History moment. Now everyone *knows* that the goal of establishing Azerbaijani administration in Karabakh is the ethnic cleansing of the region's Armenian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1702215078588604495)  2023-09-14T06:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


""There is a reason why people of European descent are referred to as Caucasian and it is linked to their origins in the Caucasus region encompassing areas such as Chechnya Serbia and Dagestan." If progressives are going to play archaeogenetics with internet race scientists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1702613519726776360)  2023-09-15T09:21Z [----] followers, 30.1K engagements


"If I was purposefully trying to wipe away thirty years of relatively successful Azerbaijani diplomacy I'm not sure I could do a better job than write letters like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1702903746756317504)  2023-09-16T04:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The love of Botero in Georgia and especially Armenia is so funny to me. Yerevan is a pretty conservative place and there's all these unambiguously horny paintings and statues of naked fat people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1702954380054384768)  2023-09-16T07:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"There are people who follow me who still argue in public that this government can be allowed to govern ethnic Armenians in a fair and just matter and at this point I think it's worth asking. Why You see this. You know that they're starving [------] people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703044595037188420)  2023-09-16T13:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"It's so funny to me to see maps or Hungary that somehow reach the outskirts of Belgrade. My Brother in Christ I have been to Zemun. Dozens of times. I promise you Grado Tower might be there but it is still not any more Hungarian than umadija"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703064045727735837)  2023-09-16T15:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Kemalists were probably right on trying to maintain state secularism and not enough western observers are questioning their priors now that HDA PAR and Yeniden Refah are calling for the implementation of gender apartheid on the floor of the Meclis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703421931133743549)  2023-09-17T14:53Z [----] followers, 17K engagements


"@AlTonno1 There's a lot of good examples of the style in North Macedonia and Greek Macedonia. The pic I used is from Ohrid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703486801598415087)  2023-09-17T19:11Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Gh0stxF4C3 Her bio reads "Racist-Turkist""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703661701839675570)  2023-09-18T06:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I think the NAFO freaks annoy me in particular because I'm way more involved in Armenian issues than any of them but still manage to have hundreds of Turkish and Azerbaijani friends and contacts. Caring about a country you're not native to is not about adopting local hatreds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703736092636201299)  2023-09-18T11:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@td2411 Literally yes. Portugal like dominated the entire Indian Ocean for over a century partially to have direct access to goods coming from South East and Southeast Asia without having to go through the Ottomans and Italians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1703890523507872167)  2023-09-18T21:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"But I thought Armenia was a spineless tool of Russian colonialism and imperialism Zakharova basically accuses Armenia of being pro-American and anti-Russian https://t.co/kd7mcRV0M4 Zakharova basically accuses Armenia of being pro-American and anti-Russian https://t.co/kd7mcRV0M4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704088912073806271)  2023-09-19T11:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Turkey out of NATO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704089503130865874)  2023-09-19T11:06Z [----] followers, 26.2K engagements


"NAFO is what happens when school shooters have second thoughts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704103894203175103)  2023-09-19T12:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"The Azeri Groyper account Asasiyun celebrating the fall of an Armenian monastery and baselessly claiming it is "Caucasian Albanian" a people totally unrelated both to the monasteries and to the people of contemporary Azerbaijan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704248550522028136)  2023-09-19T21:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"For the record Azerbaijanis have about as much claim to Caucasian Albanian physical heritage as Elizabeth Warren has to Cahokia or Chichen Itza. The local Armenians are much closer to the Caucasian Albanians in terms of cultural heritage and the archaeogenetic research"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704378561811902664)  2023-09-20T06:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"In [--] years there's going to be a lot of self-mythologizing by educated Azerbaijanis about how they represented a "quiet resistance" a secret Baku Widerstand. Oh the destruction of the Nakhchivan khachkars was terrible but it didn't represent the real Azerbaijan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704406953932275825)  2023-09-20T08:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Oh Ramil Safarov was terrible but it didn't represent the real Azerbaijan. Oh the ethnic cleansing of Karabakh was terrible but it didn't represent the real Azerbaijan. Oh the destruction of Dadivank was terrible but it didn't represent the real Azerbaijan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704406956784410691)  2023-09-20T08:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"In retrospect it seems likely that Azerbaijani lies about the Armenian population of Karabakh-routinely claiming that there's only [-----] people there- were probably about setting up lies about the % of Armenians who will remain in a Karabakh ruled by Baku"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704433167128518742)  2023-09-20T09:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Yeah. Sure. Armenian-Azerbaijani relations in Georgia are great. No problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704441111371026483)  2023-09-20T10:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is how diplomats act. Imagine how [--] year old Azeris with rifles act. The whole system has radicalized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704458476632580102)  2023-09-20T11:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"There's going to need to be massive funding for housing of refugees from Karabakh. Yerevan's housing market is already hyper-saturated. I suspect a lot of people are going to want to settle in Syunik a region nearby Karabakh that speaks a related dialect and has family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704466390546042912)  2023-09-20T12:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Sinan Oan the Moscow/Baku backed ethnic Azerbaijani Turkish Fascist politician is celebrating in Baku. He explicitly claims the Armenians comitted genocide in Karabakh while the Azerbaijani military is expelling the region's autochthonous inhabitants. "We're better than them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704473111217779020)  2023-09-20T12:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm still thinking this through but I think three factors helped make this day possible. 1) Armenophobia. Armenian concerns were ignored. Alarms about the turn in Turkish and Azerbaijani politics were ignored. People just enjoyed Turkey and Baku more than they enjoyed Yerevan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704476046899187835)  2023-09-20T12:42Z [----] followers, 11K engagements


"2) Ironically Turcophobia and Azerophobia. Nothing more was expected from Turkey and Azerbaijan because of an underlying belief that Turks and especially Azeris were somehow "special" and incapable of weening themselves off pseudohistory genocide denial and racial hatred"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704476049252233486)  2023-09-20T12:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I had a Caucasus expert imply that I deserved to be stalked for months that it made sense that my sisters were getting death threats because I was so obviously biased in a pro-Armenian way. This was the culture. People wanted Armenians and people who cared to shut up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704525002710618402)  2023-09-20T15:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RussianTrollCap The ability of some Georgians and even some foreigners to convince themselves that Georgia is actually the land bridge between Lazio and Sardinia is completely amazing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704603291068289433)  2023-09-20T21:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"To those who don't follow this conflict closely Azerbaijani Telegram channels regularly post videos of war crimes. The worst of these is Khacherubka literally 'Armenian (slur) chopper.' In about [--] hours it will start posting videos of the war crimes happening right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704790319613583810)  2023-09-21T09:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"EU and American response to what's happening in Karabakh:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704798409348063670)  2023-09-21T10:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I'm not sure anyone's written this yet but it seems possible that one of the reasons Moscow gave this the green light was to essentially show people in Moscow client unrecognized states what happens when they step out of line. Tskhinval/i Sokhum/i. Shows what's possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704800823551643682)  2023-09-21T10:12Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Obviously Russian-occupied Ukraine as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704801556460114208)  2023-09-21T10:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"If the Azeris are killing Russian peacekeepers willy nilly it's worth wondering how they're behaving with Armenian civilians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704811246795587681)  2023-09-21T10:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Don't think today is going according to Baku's plan. They probably expected to be waving the flag already. There's chaos. Different narratives everywhere. Shooting across the region. Unfortunately this chaos would seem to indicate that terrible things are happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704827276741824616)  2023-09-21T11:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"We told you these people were out of their minds. This is Jerusalem Syndrome. This is what happened when the Serbs took Kosovo in [----]. They emptied entire cities because they were so out of their minds that they thought they were riding with the ghost of Milo Obili"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704849933877284904)  2023-09-21T13:27Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"Armenia sent aid to Turkey after the earthquake. Pashinyan attended Erdoan's inauguration. They are still trying to destroy this government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704948398997020821)  2023-09-21T19:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@ghakopian1 I think that's optimistic. They're fine hating dead Armenians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1704950061585813919)  2023-09-21T20:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Brenda is posing as an advocate of Ukrainian interests and she can't even spell Kyiv properly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705089984099664030)  2023-09-22T05:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Azerbaijan is not a tolerant country. Turkey is not a tolerant country. In the last [---] years there is not an example of Armenians living free dignified safe lives in either Turkey or an independent Azerbaijan. Armenians should not lose their lives-see their churches and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705132040142676116)  2023-09-22T08:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"There were "liberal" Azerbaijanis who supported the war effort in [----] on the hope that victory would lead to liberalization. How'd that work out Vast increase in political prisoners. Closed borders. Theme park dedicated to humiliating dead Armenians. The formation of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705149371833111034)  2023-09-22T09:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is going to keep happening. It's all they have. The Azerbaijani and Turkish economic and political systems are already spiraling towards dysfunction and decline. The worse things get at home the greater the temptation to kill Armenians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705150524524220528)  2023-09-22T09:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"tolerant culture they should leave. Azerbaijani Dissidents: I'm fine with Armenians but a lot of people hate them here. Russians: Man Azeris and Armenians hate eachother. Maybe they shouldn't live together. White People: AZERBAIJAN is a TOLERANT Partner in PEACE. Karabakh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705162552739537018)  2023-09-22T10:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Konul has written for the BBC. Now she's tagging Azerbaijani government officials to make sure individual Armenians in Karabakh are targeted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705164417443217803)  2023-09-22T10:17Z [----] followers, 24.4K engagements


"Something my Turkish and Azerbaijani friends seem to be agreeing on: The mood isn't celebratory in the same way it was after the [----] War. Don't know why that is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705186961026101355)  2023-09-22T11:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I unironically kind of think Tito was the last real European Emperor. SFRY was essentially a continuation of Austria Hungay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705196646735176090)  2023-09-22T12:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"They're setting up a narrative to continue the eternal racial struggle against the Armenians Even members of Azerbaijan's nominal opposition are backing it. Southern Armenia is next. If they get that they'll start demanding Sevan and ultimately the rest of Armenia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705198118118027772)  2023-09-22T12:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Apparently there's a conspiracy on the Turkish racialist right that Erdoan is a member of the Bagratuni/Bagrationi dynasty (historic rulers of Armenia Georgia and Alania) and is therefore of mixed Jewish/Armenian/Georgian ancestry. He was put in charge by the CIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705211228858028233)  2023-09-22T13:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Konul claimed I was lying. Here's a section of the thread. I was arguing that the linguistic evidence pointed to the formation (not even the introduction) of the Kartvelian languages across the South Caucasus sometime around [----] BC. Two Georgians got mad at me and Konul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705231181539684453)  2023-09-22T14:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Little after [--] at Yerevan's central Republic Square. No signs of protest. Groups of young and middle aged men have congregated but there's also just random pedestrians. Journalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705268763182956822)  2023-09-22T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@HHampikyan You are unwell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705342141193404906)  2023-09-22T22:03Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"People do not understand how deranged Armenophobia is. The author of this tweet lives in Berlin. He's well educated. Speaks three languages fluently. He also believes that Armenians have a collective racial consciousness that is "twisted" and that this is evidenced by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705450412118069256)  2023-09-23T05:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"People want Karabakh Armenians to live in the same country as this guy. Visited Rose grandma to say hello yesterday I met her in the Stepanakert church. She displaced from her home in Stepanakert. Says cant stay at the basements here because no enough air to breathe. https://t.co/woiKUCMbd5 Visited Rose grandma to say hello yesterday I met her in the Stepanakert church. She displaced from her home in Stepanakert. Says cant stay at the basements here because no enough air to breathe. https://t.co/woiKUCMbd5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705589902044282950)  2023-09-23T14:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"They're going to start playing games with Armenian paperwork confining them only to certain areas not allowing them to leave enforcing random curfews They're already doing it to ethnic Azerbaijanis in Soyudlu. This is all very similar to what happened to the Rohingya in Burma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705669771268657236)  2023-09-23T19:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Azerbaijani propaganda often depicts Nagorno-Karabakh as profoundly underdeveloped and impoverished. Look at that hospital building. Stepanakert is a modern city. It was prosperous. Orderly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705857357677285601)  2023-09-24T08:11Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements


"People thought the Armenians were insane to burn down their own homes Would you want anyone to do this to your house"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705879026995179878)  2023-09-24T09:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Anyone know if the Azeris were taking phones from Armenians leaving through Lachin It seems like they're trying to limit the spread of videos of war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705911941493846318)  2023-09-24T11:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"This is the state Brenda Shaffer works for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1705982190230659296)  2023-09-24T16:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Some day the Erdoan regime is going to come crashing down. The totality of Erdoan's mismanagement and hatred will be made obvious to the entire world and those who made it possible will attempt to flee Turkey. On that day I will send at least an hour watching Yusuf trying"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706192245966131308)  2023-09-25T06:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"This is.just how Turkey is going to act from now on. Greece is next"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706201719422484971)  2023-09-25T06:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"I remember talking with a historian at UChicago in [----] during the anniversary of the Genocide who talked about Aleppo Armenians keeping elements of the dialects from their homes in the Ottoman Empire. Certain streets talked like Antep some like Diyarbakir. All gone now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706205133871145348)  2023-09-25T07:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@RussianTrollCap Yeah I've talked with some Armenian friends about the development of Eastern Armenian across the republic of Armenia. The standard developed in the Russian Empire (honestly often Tbilisi) and only became standardized when Genocide Survivors arrived and had to learn it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706206013727150464)  2023-09-25T07:16Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I finally read the entirety of Yusuf's post and honestly I'm just kind of flummoxed. The picture he used is probably from the Armenian Genocide. Is he stupid enough to think people dressed like that in Khojaly in February [----] Does he know what pictures from the 90s look like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706223769574900193)  2023-09-25T08:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"If there were thousands of Armenians spread all over Azerbaijan who were comfortable talking about their Armenian identity Azerbaijani government media would make use of them. If there were functional Armenian churches in Azerbaijan Azerbaijani government media would tell us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706252098315149764)  2023-09-25T10:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Armenophobia is socially acceptable in a way very few prejudices are. For whatever reason the Armenian Genocide is increasingly acknowledged as fact while the increasingly Armenophobic rhetoric and actions coming from Turkey and Azerbaijan are tolerated by everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706379421479768192)  2023-09-25T18:45Z [----] followers, 28K engagements


"Please refrain from Khojaly trutherism under my threads. The massacre happened. The Armenians did it. Placing it within a context of mutual massacres and cleansing is fine. Denying it is wrong and besides that unproductive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706440944461943138)  2023-09-25T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"The ideal world already existed and we threw it away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706651165167845574)  2023-09-26T12:45Z [----] followers, 17.1K engagements


"Emrah is one of my favorite Turkish political commentators but he's far enough on the right that I was legitimately very scared when I read the words "Dalk Karaba" Mountainous Karabakh. Thankfully his position is extremely moderate for Turkey"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706697238183809376)  2023-09-26T15:48Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@ArchysLife @AnonymousLeftie Honestly Archy it's weirder than that. The equivalent here would be if Turkey claimed The Acropolis because the Turks made a special claim of descent from the Ancient Greeks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706768969225375911)  2023-09-26T20:33Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@Suada1976 @ArchysLife @AnonymousLeftie Oh no no. I'm not arguing genes determine anything. They don't. A funny thing about Turkey something I've actually been talking a lot about with my friends this week is that a lot of the populations in Turkey with the most Medieval Central Asian ancestry are the most likely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706781988869353687)  2023-09-26T21:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"I don't know if I believe that Europeans and Americans actually thought that there was no way Aliyev would start this war but it looks like people in Brussels and DC are embarrassed and at least want to appear to be setting up a "permission structure" to pivot in the region"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706793706274394305)  2023-09-26T22:11Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements


"I have an Azerbaijani stalker who goes after me and will bring up my baby sisters (who are famous) when he can. I was originally worried he'd actually try to contact my sisters so I told them about him. I had to start by explaining what Azerbaijan is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706802912150589603)  2023-09-26T22:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"I regret to inform everyone that the Mid-Tier Yoga Instructor Nazi has entered into the conversation on Nagorno-Karabakh. A really bizarre claims of Turkish extreme nationalism is that Turks even when invaders somehow "know how to distinguish oppressed from oppressor.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706924343610032131)  2023-09-27T06:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Interesting to watch Azerbaijan weaponize Long 90s narratives of coexistence and multiculturalism while simultaneously weaponizing exaggerated statistics to buttress the argument for their own ethnic cleansing. If/when Turkey attacks Greece we'll see the same things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ThatchEffendi/status/1706934854003339429)  2023-09-27T07:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

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