Simon Darnbrough

The adversarial system causes so many problems. It seems to be embedded deeply in so many aspects of our life. May we only want to seek truth & let it guide us.

@lady_valor_07 Would benefit the world if he did it full-time.

Do you have an issue with Trump taking days off to play golf?

@Lovandfear I danced around the truth.

If you're a writer, write “I lied.” Without writing, “I lied.”

@DearS_o_n Good mates and a brother. Both male and female.

MEN ONLY!!!! Who was there for you when you were at your lowest?

@bluewmist Healing takes work and time. You don’t gain wisdom from a smooth ride in life.

To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now

@MikeCarlton01 I don’t want to hear an Australian journalist repeat the lie that Trump was previously shot in ear in previous supposed assassination attempt when his actual ear is evidence of it not occurring. The stupidly of repeating a lie where objective evidence contradicts is astounding.

I really do not want to read another word about the Trump assassination attempt. The United States is a failing society where gun violence is commonplace. It’s not that interesting…

@RichardAngwin Confirmation bias, and it’s astounding how many people in positions where critical thinking skills should be a given are unable to change their minds when presented with objective reality.

question of the day

@Demeter_Erinia That’s a stereotype maybe. I wake up late and would love nothing more than waking early enough to watch the sun rise.

Serious question. Why do people 50+ wake up like at 5 a.m.?

@BraddrofliT @lesstenny Baby got back and all he does is lie.

60 Minutes released a photo of Trump ahead of their interview. What do you notice?

@TheFungi669 @tedeakin Tweet of the week.

Just in: Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. I wish Trump would also step down. Of course, I’m comparing apples to oranges.

@Patrickwebb You’ll have to start analysing how wide spread insider training is. You’ll have to start questioning how wide spread raping children is, because the elite won’t bring their counterpart down.

BREAKING: BBC alleges that the Trump admin may be engaging in insider trading.

@Wescott464348 How far down the list of ‘in line for acting President’ do you guys need to go before reaching a decent human? Amazing how you can have an absolutely fvcked President and VP and next in line has no morals.

Trump is scared that Democrats are going to impeach him when they reclaim Congress. He’s right. We’re also going to impeach Vance. Raise your hand if you agree ✋

Retweet if you believe Netanyahu is a war criminal.

@omgsidewalks Some will convince you they’re your soulmate, but will end causing lowest points of your life if you don’t protect yourself. Don’t move too quickly. Accept that trust takes plenty of time to build. Never trust too much, too early.

I'm 22. Please recommend to me oddly specific life tips. No general “surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible please.

Just when you think Australia has bottomed out, that our politicians and judiciary cannot fuck it up any further, you hear about this. #auspol #insiders

The blood-drenched Butcher Netanyahu is due to address the UN General Assembly at 11 pm tonight our time. I really do hope that the Australian delegation walks out on him, with the rest of the civilised world. @SenatorWong RT if you agree.

#Peace is not something we must invent: it is something we must embrace by accepting our neighbor as a brother or sister. We do not choose our brothers and sisters: we must simply accept one another! We are one family, inhabiting the same home: this wonderful planet that ancient cultures have cared for over millennia. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

@purplepingers @potcalling 😂😂😂

They should have a minister for illegal vapes that does a presser like this every time your local tobacconist gets a restock

I've lost faith in Australia after its decision to extradite Dan Duggan. Sending him to Trump's hell hole is a criminal act in itself.

USA – Just Another Country Every Ally Gone. Every Bridge Burned. For decades, the alliance had a problem member. Everyone knew it. The country that invaded Iraq on a lie, tanked the global economy in 2008, and elected its own demolition crew in 2016 and again in 2025. The others adjusted. Covered for it. Kept showing up. You don't abandon a friend just because he occasionally drives into a ditch. You wait until he drives into yours. Then Trump made it simple. The friend who had always been difficult had finally done something unforgivable. The room went quiet. And then everyone moved on. America was never strong alone. It was strong because it sat at the center of the most sophisticated network of power ever assembled. British diplomats carrying influence into Canberra and Wellington. French connections opening doors across Africa and the Middle East. Norwegian and Greek shipping moving a third of the world's cargo. German engineering. Japanese capital. South Korean semiconductors. Canadian stability. Australian intelligence. Dutch and Belgian ports as the gateway to 750 million consumers. Danish and Italian naval presence across two seas. Every one of them a multiplier, lifting Washington into rooms it could never have entered alone. It was not one football team. It was hundreds of teams, running the same plays, on every field, simultaneously. Trump dismantled it the way a bored child dismantles a Lego set. Not to build something else. Just to watch the pieces fall. What is left is 340 million people staring across the Pacific at 1.4 billion. China did not need to do anything during the Iran war. It watched. It waited. It took notes. While Washington burned its relationships one by one, Beijing made calls, signed deals, and let the silence do the work. Silence, it turns out, is a remarkably effective foreign policy. The allies are not mourning. They are discovering something they perhaps always suspected: that Washington was often the ceiling, not the floor. The ally that needed managing. The friend whose chaos you had to absorb before you could get anything done. Turns out the meeting goes faster when he's not in the room. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said it plainly: "The old relationship we had with the United States is over. It's clear the US is no longer a reliable partner." At Davos he told world leaders the scaffold of American power was being abandoned. "Friends," he said, "it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down." Germany said the war had nothing to do with NATO. France blocked arms flights. Spain closed its airspace. Italy denied landing rights. Poland kept its missile batteries home. Kallas delivered the European verdict: "This is not Europe's war. No one wants to actively get involved." Which, translated from diplomat into English, means: absolutely not. Starmer condemned "regime change from the skies." Sanchez accused Washington of playing "Russian roulette with the destiny of millions." Macron said: "When we want to be serious, we don't say each day the opposite of what we said the day before." Coming from a Frenchman, that is essentially a controlled demolition. These are the countries that sent their sons to the Gulf in 1991. That stood in line at NATO headquarters on September 12, 2001. They know what the alliance was. They have decided, with remarkable calm, that they are better off without the version currently on offer. This is what it looks like when an alliance leaves one of its own members behind. Professor Robert Pape put the result plainly: "Iran is far stronger than it was 40 days ago. It is in control of 20 percent of the world's oil. It is now an emerging fourth center of power." Washington went to war to prevent exactly this outcome. It succeeded, just not in the way it intended. One country launched a war alone, begged Pakistan to broker peace talks, and came home empty-handed. French Senator Claude Malhuret said it on the floor of the French Senate, viewed millions of times across the world: "Washington has become Nero's court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a buffoon on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service." Americans flooded his inbox asking why it had to be a French politician to say what nobody in Washington would. A year later he corrected himself. Nero's court was too dignified. "I was wrong. It is the Court of Miracles." A medieval Parisian slum where criminals and thieves pretended to be something they were not. He listed the cabinet: an anti-vaxxer and former heroin addict as Secretary of Health, a climate denier running environmental policy, an alcoholic television host handed the world's most powerful military, a Qatari lobbyist as Attorney General, a Putin admirer as National Security Advisor. Then he cited a Turkish proverb: "When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become king. The palace becomes a circus." Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump had Truth Social and a golf cart. He posted images of himself as Jesus on Easter Sunday, then deleted them before breakfast. Threatened to erase "a whole civilization," then teed off by Monday morning. At least Nero stayed in Rome. A country so institutionally broken that it took a French senator to say out loud what every American already knew. Congress watched. The Republicans said nothing, because nothing pays better than silence. The Democrats couldn't find their spine. The entire apparatus of the world's oldest democracy stood on the sidelines while one man helped himself to powers the constitution told him he couldn't have. Either everyone in that building has decided this is perfectly fine. Or they've concluded it's already too late. Either way, the word for that is not democracy. The White House became the circus. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@JaneCaro Suppressing reality rampant in USA.

Electing idiots.