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@DavidWibbleone

Technologist, MBA, Retired Triathlete, Blackbelt sometimes student of Aikido. I'd like my Freedom of Movement back

South West Beigetreten Haziran 2013
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The White House
The White House@WhiteHouse·
🚨 SOON President Donald J. Trump holds a major news conference. Tune in live — you won’t want to miss it!
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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets. The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural. Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them. That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it. After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble. The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first. Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon. American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life. Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake. Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs. We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating. So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving. We were manufacturing jealousy. And it worked. The Wall came down. But here’s what no one accounted for. When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs. And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle. An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas. And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized. So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening. Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude. Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated. Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass. Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar. Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity. What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle. For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked. Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid. Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.” We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries. Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit. You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators. What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization. It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine. That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report. Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us” Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
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0HOUR1@0hour1·
Breaking: Rubio is looking into shutting 80% of US BASES down in Europe after the Iran conflict.
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Hazel Moore
Hazel Moore@HazelMoore32·
🚨 BOOM! CORRUPTION BOMB DETONATED — President Trump just announced a MASSIVE press conference TODAY to DROP THE NAMES on BILLIONS in taxpayer cash stolen through kickbacks and dirty swamp deals! “I’m going to read to you some of the names” — Trump is in FULL WAR MODE as DOGE blows the lid wide open on these Deep State grifters bleeding America dry! The swamp is CRUMBLING fast under America First — finally!
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David__Osland
David__Osland@David__Osland·
Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to 80. Life expectancy for British men is 79.
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il Donaldo Trumpo@PapiTrumpo·
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Priti Patel MP@pritipatel·
Not a single wealth creating measure for our country from @RachelReevesMP Only more taxing, borrowing and spending of taxpayers money. No nation ever grew more prosperous by taxing their citizens beyond their capacity to pay.
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP

Minimum wage rising 📈 State pension increasing 💷 Two child limit abolished 🏡 Child poverty falling 📉 Rights at work strengthened 💪🏻 Labour promised change. We are delivering change. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Just Jack
Just Jack@7Veritas4·
Famous Wartime quotes by US presidents: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Washington “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - FDR "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - Truman “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” - Reagan “Open the fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah” - the crazy one
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Mustak Sandhi
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@_MegaPolitics #Britain is responsible for this; they handed over ancient and civilized #Palestine to war criminals and genocides under the tag of the Balfour Declaration.
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Breaking: UK,France and Colombia say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza,Iran and Lebanon.
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Prof Colin Talbot
Prof Colin Talbot@colinrtalbot·
There is no way the UK should be allowing the USA to use British bases to,carry out these attacks. They would be War Crimes. Please RT if you agree.🇬🇧
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Navy Lookout@NavyLookout·
There have been unverified claims made by Israeli media that a British ship was hit by a Hezbollah missile fired from Lebanon. HMS Dragon has not been attacked or struck. RFA Lyme Bay returned to Gibraltar from a brief visit to the Eastern Mediterranean this week and is currently in dry dock.
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Stacy is Right
Stacy is Right@PoliticalStacy·
Brits surrendered their firearms in 1997. Less than 30 years later, they're being arrested for Facebook posts. That's not "safety." That's the speed of tyranny once a government knows its citizens can't push back. When people are disarmed, the state no longer fears the people. And when governments have zero fear of the people, they do whatever the hell they want. History proves it over and over: an unarmed population is a compliant one. The right to bear arms isn't just about hunting or sport, it's the final check against a government that forgets it's supposed to serve, not rule. The Second Amendment isn't about muskets. It's about maintaining the balance of power between citizens and the state. Never give up the means to defend your liberty. Because once it's gone, the slide into authoritarianism happens faster than most people expect. May this never happen here.
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Tim Farron
Tim Farron@timfarron·
Is there anybody sane or with a backbone anywhere near this administration? The UK’s (part-written) constitution is seriously flawed, but there’s no chance that a PM could be even 10% this bonkers and not have been removed by now…
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Keith Edwards@keithedwards·
What’s wrong with Trump
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Wall Street Mav
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
Reminder. The European Union is NOT Europe.
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