Comrade Ed

@ItsDecado Posting live from Israel...

I am bleeding my pockets dry paying astronomical prices for a half broken internet connection just to read what the outside world is saying. And let me be honest, it is absolutely infuriating to see how completely disconnected so many of you are from the actual mood of the people inside Iran. Do not lose your nerve. Do not be afraid. The narrative you are seeing right now is a complete illusion. The voices currently being amplified online are fake, manipulated, and engineered by the cyber army of this cannibalistic regime. They have locked us in a digital prison and severed our connection to the world specifically so they can control the narrative and project a false sense of fear and submission. We are not cowering in the dark. We are watching a dying terrorist syndicate thrash in its final days. Do not judge the resolve of the Iranian people based on the fabricated noise of our captors. Wait until these walls come down. Wait until this internet blackout is broken and you can finally hear the unfiltered, undeniable roar of a nation that has been stripped to the bone. You will see exactly what an unstoppable force looks like. Hold the line. Level the playing field and we will finish the job.

@LivingXmasTrees @CraigMurrayOrg YOU SHALL DO YOUR BEST.

@CraigMurrayOrg Larry Wilkerson is a class act. I am playing Death in a stage production of Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters in a few weeks time. The Director said, if possible, he would like the character played as Christopher Lee did. A tough act to follow, but I will do my best.

I once had lunch with Christopher Lee at the Travellers Club in London. I was so awestruck I don't think I uttered a coherent sound.

@dancefeverqueen @SConstabl3 @anon_opin Honestly hate it when I get Your / You're wrong. Cringing embarrassment. Blame my raging adhd, or just being stupid. I have completely lost this argument and will attempt to bow out gracefully without tripping over my own feet.

@EdThorman @SConstabl3 @anon_opin *you're Yes I do. I am aware that you do not need an additional license, that is why I used the word 'should', which is used when talking about hypotheticals or beliefs. For example the belief that too many (never said all) SUV/pickup drivers can't actually drive them.

This obsession for American pickup trucks on UK roads is insane. Dave, you live on a fucking estate in Doncaster not on the prairies of Montana. Tax the bastards to oblivion

@ChappellJe13586 Can't be that great love, you support Reform.

@EdThorman I have a great life now..🤣

I'm tired of young people blaming pensioners for their own life choices. I skipped university and started working straight after school. Took an apprenticeship at an accountancy firm, they paid for my training. Wages were low, so I worked weekends and evenings as a babysitter for the first 5 years. No holidays, no credit card, no impulse buys. I saved every penny and lived at home with my parents (who weren't rich and didn't bankroll me). Today I'm a fully qualified accountant and bought my first home at 28. I'm still far from retirement age but have achieved what I wanted. Everyone has choices. I chose to grind, delay gratification, and take responsibility for my future, and it worked. Your life, your decisions but don’t blame people that have different choices to yours .

@andie52 @ChappellJe13586 Shes an accountant. A bullshit job that benefits nobody in society. She wouldnt know hard work if it fell on her. And she doesnt own her house, the bank does.

@EdThorman @ChappellJe13586 A dismal boring life, but she owns her own home and doesn't sit on her backside with her hand out, whining like a baby ... that IS a boring life.

@varadmehta If you like Grace Slick, her collaboration with Linda Perry 'You knock me out' is brilliant.

Has anyone ever explained how they went from Jefferson Airplane and "White Rabbit" to Starship and "We Built This City"? Like, how was that even possible?

@dancefeverqueen @SConstabl3 @anon_opin Sorry Kathryn, your 21 and dont really know anything. Do you even have a driving license? All pickup trucks are derived from car chassis. You do not in fact, need an additional license to drive one... and what youll find is lot of pickup drivers will already have other licenses

@EdThorman @SConstabl3 @anon_opin No Ed that's not what I said, try again

@ChappellJe13586 Jealous of what? You dismal boring life? I think not.

@EdThorman Oh WOW…🤣 Jealous or what…I am far from old, just smart but also respect hard working pensioners.

@SConstabl3 @dancefeverqueen @anon_opin Maybe insinuating that people who drive pickup trucks dont know how to park them?

@dancefeverqueen @EdThorman @anon_opin Ed has a pickup and a hgv license, and a very short fuse.... interesting combination 🤔

@anon_opin Actually most of us driving pickups commercially get a big reduction on our road tax.

@dancefeverqueen @anon_opin Pickup owner and driver here. Ive got my class 1 hgv license, go fuck yourself.

@anon_opin big/wide vehicles like pickups and SUVs should require extra lessons and a different class of licence just like big vans and lorries do. Far too many people on the roads in fuck-off SUVs they don't know how to drive (or park)

Typical boomer, bitter vicious old bitch.

@LokiJulianus You didnt save shit dickhead. You came in for the last hurrah when victory looked inevitable, after a period of intense war profiteering supplying both sides. Get fucked.

We didn't ask anyone to join. We just asked for permission to transit across what was presumed to be friendly territory and that was rejected by a country that we literally saved from annihilation in living memory.

@admcollingwood If I was Donnie id be finding an extremely good hit squad to take out every single smooth brained idiot that talked him into this. If your going to go down, take as many as you can with you

The reason he doesn't know what to do next is because he has NO good options. He is presented with a Devil's Alternative: accept a defeat that would destroy his presidency, significantly worsen the US strategic position globally, thrust the US out of the Arabian Peninsula and destroy his presidency OR a land invasion which would be massively costly and almost certainly not bring strategic victory. What would you do?

@admcollingwood As a Marxist, I also thoroughly agree with this sentiment. Im more inclined for our armed forces to be organised like the JDF with strong emphasis on maritime protection rather than force projection, but yes indeed to getting rid of the Dillitantes

If you think that Ukraine is our war, and Iran is our war, then you should have spent at least SOME of your time in office building the Armed Forces up to a level they were capable of significantly contributing to two expeditionary wars. Did you do that? Did you have a plan to expand the forces? Did you look seriously at the spending required to build them to this level? Did you seek to address the morass of MoD procurement? Did you look at how the budget would have to be restructured, and the sacrifices other departments would have to make to funnel more money to the Armed Forces? Did you think about the industrial and R&D questions associated with this? Did you think at all about the Armed Forces recruitment crisis and how it might be turned around? No! None of that! In fact, he sacked @Dominic2306, seemingly the one man interested in some of this stuff. I am SICK of these dilettantes. They are a national disgrace. People with such mentalities have NO PLACE in our political discourse. They are monstrously malfeasant and dangerously lazy. They cannot even connect desired goals with the sacrifices needed to achieve them. THIS is the REAL cakeism affecting British politics. Enough! Be gone!

@nxt888 @RickFHarris Now I want a tour of Saigon with Sony

Erased is the wrong word, my friend. Layered is the right one. Saigon doesn't erase. She accumulates. French architecture, American concrete, Chinese merchant culture, Khmer echoes from the delta, a street food tradition that belongs to no empire on earth. What looks like consumption from the outside is digestion from the inside. Come back. Walk slower this time. Ask who built what and when and why. The city will answer.

Rick, with respect, you just walked into Ho Chi Minh City and diagnosed it with irony. You looked at a thriving, modernizing Vietnamese city and your conclusion was: this doesn't match my understanding of what communism is supposed to look like. Something must be wrong. Something must be contradictory. It feels like a ghost of America. Let me offer a different possibility. Maybe your understanding of what communism is supposed to look like is the problem. The Vietnamese never read Marx the way Western academics read Marx, as a fixed scripture, a rigid doctrinal system with predetermined outcomes and eternal commandments. We read it the way a military strategist reads a manual: useful here, adaptable there, discard what doesn't work, keep what does, and always remember that the goal is not ideological purity. The goal is Vietnamese sovereignty. Vietnamese survival. Vietnamese self-determination. Hồ Chí Minh was not a communist in the way that makes Western cold warriors comfortable: a Moscow puppet, an ideological zealot, a man who wanted to build a copy of the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia. He was a Vietnamese nationalist who found in Marxist-Leninist organizational theory the most effective available framework for uniting a colonized people against a colonial power. The tool was communism. The project was always Vietnam. When the tool needed to be adjusted, we adjusted it. Đổi Mới happened in 1986. The Vietnamese state looked at the economic situation, made a collective assessment, and liberalized. Not because they abandoned the revolution. Because they understood that the revolution's purpose was never the economic model. It was the sovereignty. What you're calling irony, we call adaptability. What feels like contradiction to you is just evidence that we were never living inside your framework to begin with.

Amerifats have no idea how much of Europe/ the world wants this. We are not our shitty leaders

@CraigMurrayOrg I wonder if this is why Russia is very circumspect about military retaliation. I suspect most EU leader would love to do a zelensky and suspend all elections under the excuse of war

Western "democracy" is in real crisis. In Germany, France and the UK the government is detested at historically abnormal levels. The USA is a lunatic asylum.

@Ingiocabile44 I always thought Nico was very highly rated. How did he fair against Webber?

The biggest achievement of Hamilton was certainly making people think Rosberg was a poor driver. A driver who, during the three years alongside Schumacher, beat him so badly that he scored roughly double his points in the standings. Put some respect on Nico