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@1981Descartes

Canadian-based Descartes fan (since ‘81) 🇨🇦 | Philosophy, history, geopolitics, northern lights & pothole poetry • Tweeting life’s big ideas and small wonders

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Welcome to Montréal, where potholes are basically heritage sites and spring arrives with the traditional ritual of sacrificing a tire to the asphalt gods. Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada recently called the situation “catastrophic”—which feels about right when “Hold on, Jack” has become the unofficial city motto for orange-cone season.
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Trump being asked about Iran’s execution of protesters and responding with "Tell that to the Pope" is going to be the Rorschach test of the week. Is it a dismissal? A commentary on international moral authority? Or just pure Trumpian unpredictability? Either way, the clip is going viral. #Politics #Iran
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Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet·
A pretty amazing response from President Trump to this reporter question: REPORTER: Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran? TRUMP: Tell that to the Pope.
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@junonewscom Punishing success is not a policy; it’s a red flag. Poilievre calls out the $500,000 "exit tax" proposal. Governments should compete for our citizens by being the best place to live, not by holding their futures hostage. #NoExitTax #CdnPoli #LibTax
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Juno News@junonewscom·
WATCH Poilievre calls out the Liberal Party for debating a "$500,000 exit tax" to stop Canadians from working and opening businesses in the U.S. "Any country that feels it must punish people for fleeing is not a place of hope and optimism."
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We need to talk about the "fresh vs. tinned" myth. A tin of sardines is a time capsule. Oxygen removed, heat-sealed, and suspended in olive oil exactly as they were the day the boat came in. You’re getting restaurant-grade safety with more Omega-3s than your "fresh" fish that sat on ice for three days. #KitchenHacks #CannedFish #FoodScience #HealthyFats
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Nobody has ever given a full-throated sales pitch for a tin of sardines. That is a market gap. Allow me. The tin is food-grade steel, lined, sealed, oxygen removed. The environment inside is more controlled than most restaurant kitchens you have eaten in happily and without incident. No preservatives. Canning is heat and the absence of oxygen. Just the fish, suspended exactly as they were the day the boat came in. The omega-3s survive it. Studies comparing fresh to tinned show no meaningful difference in EPA and DHA. The fish was caught, canned within hours, and the fatty acids went nowhere. The bones are edible. They have been sitting in olive oil long enough to become soft, and they are the calcium delivery mechanism the sardine built for itself. You eat them. That is the intended use. What the tin actually contains: EPA and DHA in immediately usable form. Selenium, iodine, B12, CoQ10, vitamin D, calcium, complete protein with every essential amino acid. Your protein shake has twenty-three ingredients. The sardine grew its own nutrition in the North Atlantic and asked for nothing. A food humans have eaten since before written history now apparently requires a defence. Buy the tin.
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It’s mind-blowing to see Lebanon used as a model for peace. Between the massacres of the civil war and the rise of Hezbollah, the "coexistence" narrative feels like a total fabrication. If Lebanon is the "example," the outlook for religious pluralism is grim. #MiddleEastPolitics #Lebanon #TruthToPower
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Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
The Pope cites Lebanon as an example of peaceful “coexistence” between Christians and Muslims. Fun fact: Lebanon was literally created to be a homeland for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. And it was for a few decades. The moment Muslim invaders thought they had the numbers, they started a civil war that lasted 15 years because they didn’t want to live with the same Christians who made them part of the country. Thousands of Christians were massacred, Muslims became the majority, Hezbollah took over, and the country hasn’t known peace ever since. Lebanon is the first and ultimate example that coexistence between Christians and Muslims is quite literally impossible. It’s mind-blowing that anyone would use it as an example of coexistence, let alone the Pope.
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@realMaalouf The CSSDM in Montreal has reportedly parted ways with roughly 150 employees due to the expanded religious symbols ban. Most are Muslim women wearing hijabs. #Bill21 #Bill94 #Montreal
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Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
BREAKING: 🇨🇦 Montreal school board has fired 150 teachers for refusing to remove their religious symbols. Almost all of them Muslim women in hijabs. Quebec prohibits educators from wearing religious attire, regardless of religion. But Muslims claim they are being targeted.
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Seascape Nature@SeascapeNature·
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 🇲🇾
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Another day, another $120,000,000 added to Canada’s record deficit. Minister Anand is sending this "new money" to Sudan, but where is the relief for the millions of Canadians struggling with food insecurity at home? Charity begins at home. It's time to address the humanitarian crisis in Canada. #FiscalResponsibility #FoodBanks #AnitaAnand #Canada
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Kirk Lubimov@KirkLubimov·
Oh ffs 💸 Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announces that Canada will be sending Sudan $120M new funding. Every single penny is new debt on top of record deficit. While record Canadians are using the foodbank. When will they care about the humanitarian crisis in Canada?
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Education is now a "permanent" impossibility for women in Afghanistan. Where is the global outrage? Where are the Greta Thunbergs and the human rights NGOs? Their silence while focusing solely on Israel tells you everything about their priorities. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #UN #HumanRights #Afghanistan
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Vivid.🇮🇱@VividProwess·
Afghanistan’s education minister announced that women are permanently banned from attending schools. The United Nations? Silent. Women’s rights organizations? Silent. Greta Thunberg? Silent. They’re too busy being obsessed with Israel and the Jews.
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Ursula von der Leyen and the EU elites cheered too soon. Magyar Péter just doubled down on Hungarian sovereignty: ✅ Rejects the EU Migration Pact ✅ Pledges to reinforce the border fence The message is clear: Hungary's borders are not up for negotiation. 🇭🇺 #PéterMagyar #Sovereignty #EU #HungaryFirst #MigrationPact
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Based Hungary 🇭🇺
Based Hungary 🇭🇺@HungaryBased·
🇭🇺 HUGE! Magyar Péter REJECTS the EU Migration Pact: "Hungary will not accept any pact. In fact, I'm going to reinforce the border fence even more." Ursula's European Union cheered for nothing!
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BREAKING: The first woman to ever lead the International Olympic Committee has made a landmark decision. Transgender women are now banned from female events at the Olympics to prioritize biological fairness. DO YOU SUPPORT THIS DECISION? A. YES B. NO The obvious answer is YES. #Olympics #KirstyCoventry #FairnessInSports #IOC #BreakingNews
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Dark Darling@Darkdarling00·
🚨BREAKING: THE FIRST WOMAN TO EVER LEAD THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE JUST MADE THE DECISION TO BAN TRANSGENDER WOMEN FROM FEMALE EVENTS AT THE OLYMPICS DO YOU SUPPORT BANNING TRANSGENDER WOMEN FROM FEMALE EVENTS AT THE OLYMPICS? A. YES B. NO
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Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavid·
“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.” —Jordan Peterson
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Justin Trudeau really went from “Sunny Ways” to Coachella stays. Ruining a G7 economy and tearing the social fabric is apparently exhausting work. Nothing says "retirement" like hitting the VIP tent with Katy Perry while the rest of us check the inflation rates. #Trudeau #Coachella #KatyPerry #CanadaEconomy
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Nobody saw this coming. Lebanon’s mandate to hunt down and deport IRGC operatives marks a historic pivot in their sovereignty and foreign policy. This could fundamentally redefine the power dynamics in the Levant. Watch this space. #LebanonNews #Geopolitics #IRGCBan #Sovereignty
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WATCH: In a massive move that nobody saw coming, the Lebanese government has imposed a full ban on all Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps activities inside Lebanese territory. Security forces have been ordered to hunt down, arrest and deport any IRGC members found operating there.

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From the streets to the shadows—masked individuals reportedly took down Basiji commander Shirmohammadian last night. This isn't just an isolated incident; it’s a reflection of the deep-seated anger felt by a generation that has had enough. #WomanLifeFreedom #IranRevolution2026 #Pardis #Tehran
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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
Last night, notorious basiji commander Mohammad Shirmohammadian was stabbed 14 times and killed by masked individuals near Pardis, Tehran. Bear in mind: This is not how the Mossad operates. We are likely seeing the rise of Iranians taking action with their own hands.
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Liz Churchill
Liz Churchill@liz_churchill10·
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex is going to MELT DOWN HARD… Children’s Health Defense just EXPOSED THE SCAM…Ivermectin is CRUSHING cancer like chemotherapy NEVER could. Nearly 200 patients. Multiple cancer types. 84% POSITIVE OUTCOME.
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@MarcNixon24 "So far, you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing." Poilievre isn't pulling punches. With a majority comes total responsibility. You can't point fingers at the past when you hold all the power in the present. Everything is on you now. #CommonSense #CanadaPolitics #EconomicReality
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Marc Nixon
Marc Nixon@MarcNixon24·
Pierre Poilievre WARNS Mark Carney. A Majority comes with great responsibility. You can no longer blame anybody except for yourself. So far you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing. EVERYTHING IS ON YOU NOW Even MSM cant save you
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CJ Howard@kazoo8888·
Lake Michigan evening glow, near St. Joseph MI from May🌤
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MJTruthUltra
MJTruthUltra@MJTruthUltra·
Dear Unvaccinated citizens of the world,THIS is a reminder, to congratulate you on surviving a multi-billion dollar psychological propaganda operation meant to demoralize you into compliance. You beat them… but don’t ever stop demanding they pay for what they did to us. They all belong in prison. rumble.com/v2nr2ry-the-un…
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Solzhenitsyn survived the Soviet Gulags only to tell the West: "You are not the solution." His 1978 Harvard address shocked the world by claiming Western materialism was just as soul-crushing as Eastern Communism. A jarring reminder that freedom without responsibility is a dead end. #HistoryFacts #Solzhenitsyn #ColdWar #Culture
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Athenaeum Book Club
Athenaeum Book Club@athenaeumbc·
Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave the most controversial speech *against* Western Civilization at Harvard in 1978. As a survivor of the Russian Gulags, they expected him to praise the West. Instead, he made a jarring accusation: The West is a dying civilization. If it doesn't change its ways, it is doomed to collapse. In fact, he said this has been the case for 500 years, when the West made a crucial mistake: "How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? ...the mistake must be at the root, at the very foundation of thought in modern times. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was born in the Renaissance… I refer to humanism — the proclaimed autonomy of man from any higher force above him." Solzhenitsyn said humanism made man autonomous from God, Truth, and objective morality. If all morality is subjective, then man has nothing to live nor die for. Naturally, he loses his courage, embraces materialism, and grows effeminate to modern evils. So, what is the solution? A return to belief in a transcendental morality under God: "If, as claimed by humanism, man were born only to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to death, his task on earth evidently must be more spiritual… The fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life journey may become above all an experience of moral growth: to leave life a better human being than one started it." All cultures live, or die, based on their respect of the True, Good, and Beautiful. To save the West, Solzhenitsyn says start with beautifying your soul, for that is both how you live well, and begin to make civilization itself beautiful again.
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