Michael Hudson

Of all the waves of migration from here to Bluesky, this week has been the biggest, especially for #nufc accounts. If this place is feeling more and more like the kind of pub you don’t want to spend time in, it’s simple to move all your tweets over there: blueark.app/en-us/.

@SteveTsr7tbrqbm @Neccccy As an example of how awful someone’s photoshop skills are?

Do you agree that this picture sums up Starmer? Yes or No?

@RaheemKassam @PokemonBurner1 @TheNatPulse Dunno, you and Kingsley seem to have made a decent buck out of being ignorant fascist gobshites. Not what you know, eh?

@PokemonBurner1 @TheNatPulse Screaming about your own ignorance is rarely a good look, Azovite.

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@Fidias0 But you’re still pro-child abduction, right?

The End of Privacy in the EU?

@StevoLaughton @RoryStewartUK If you think Biden and Harris were hard left, you need to get out of the USA more often, Stephen. And if moderates vote hard right, perhaps they aren’t really moderates…

@RoryStewartUK It will stop when the Democrats, and progressives world wide, realise that you cannot oppose hard right governments by become ever more hard left - you need to pick up more votes in the middle rather than alienating moderates, giving them nowhere to go.

This is a continuing evisceration of so much that was valuable in the United States - and that contributed to the world - when will he stop?

@IllegalCluster @EmleyJames @floridanow1 @TulsiGabbard @realDonaldTrump Generative AI still has a way to go, I see.

@EmleyJames @floridanow1 @TulsiGabbard @realDonaldTrump That's a poor first draft. Don't publish your first draft. In struggling to understand recent news, you've completely missed the mark, and made a fool of yourself. You don't get to rob your bodyguard, then cry about the bodyguard's contractual obligations to protect you.

Thank you @realDonaldTrump for your unwavering leadership in standing up for the interests of the American people, and peace. What you said is absolutely true: Zelensky has been trying to drag the United States into a nuclear war with Russia/WW3 for years now, and no one has called him on it. Thank you, Vice President @JDVance for speaking out so forcefully and clearly, about the necessity of diplomacy.

@DeePal072 @WorldByWolf @KonstantinKisin He clearly isn’t. He wasn’t strong enough to deal with Kim or the Taliban either. But that’s not what triggered Vance. He was there for the fight and to jettison Ukraine. The rest is just window dressing.

No, it was Zelensky. And it begins right from the blocks. You seem to miss the point, when Zelensky argues that the deal he was supposed to sign, would be useless to end the conflict, he's saying that the POTUS is not strong enough to deal with Putin, right there in the oval room, that's what really triggered Vance in the end.

My initial reaction to the Trump/Zelensky spat was based on the short clip. I've had a chance to watch the entire 53-minute press conference with Zelensky and Trump. It's painful but I take back what I said earlier. Zelensky decided to attack Vance unnecessarily. He totally messed this up. Yes, Vance played to the gallery afterwards but he was also correct: litigating this stuff in front of the media was really dumb. Really poor from Zelensky - I hope he can see sense, apologise and get a deal for his country. This was not smart.

@ThroughBWEyes @LukeEdwardsTele So would I, mainly because I was in my early-20s and the football was great. But there was plenty of poverty around then too - in fact, even more than in the 80s: poverty.ac.uk/pse-research/p…. When was this uniformly magical time the original post is on about?

I’m in my 40s. I don’t remember the UK being a happy place at any point let alone everyone getting on with each other in peace. Ah the good old days when you left your front door unlocked and we all held hands and skipped to work in the morning. Ah the good old days when everyone was your friend. The good old days of Racist and homophobic assaults in the streets, the miners strike, the poll tax riots… Is this a parody account?

@P8mme @LukeEdwardsTele He wasn’t elected on a landslide at all. Zelenskiy was elected with 73% of the vote. Trump? Zelenskiy has had 3 years leading his country at war. Trump’s a convicted felon who inherited some money from his da and would never get within 100 miles of a front line.

@LukeEdwardsTele A word of advice I would pipe down with the anti Trump rhetoric, you have zero real understanding of what’s going on behind the scenes. He was elected in a landslide, get over it. He wants the wars ending, zelensky is an actor (literally) on the world stage, men vs boys. Also..

When did Russia last have a free and democratic election? Britain didn’t have an election in the middle of the Battle of Britain when we were fighting for our survival. You need to read between the lines. He’s a Russian appeasement stooge, who is trying to blackmail Ukraine into a bigger reparations deal than Germany were hit with after the First World War. Ukraine was invaded by Russia in case you need to remember. They are fighting to save their country and this **** comes out with this

@WHcannabisgrow @SpaghettiKozak @usergore_ Before or after the weed?

@SpaghettiKozak @usergore_ Eat a bag of al dente dicks and fund your own war.

one day western Twitter will learn the difference between the fascist invader and the side that is forced to defend itself, but until then we will have to listen to shit like “just two men in a needless war”

@elonmusk If Adolf Hitler came back today….you’d fund his run for chancellor too, you daft, ket-addled baby.

Only the AfD can save Germany

@aaronjmate @Loubnamrie You’re an abject weasel, Mate.

Wait -- you accused me of something, and when asked to substantiate it, you're not providing even one example? Yes, I am claiming that. Syria is up to Syrians; I'm responsible for own leaders' actions in Syria, hence why I focus on them. During the Iraq war era, people who did the same were dismissed as "pro-Saddam." I think you're repeating that tactic.

No country is a monolith. Syrians are celebrating the fall of a repressive, authoritarian government. Other Syrians, particularly from minority groups, are now living in fear of/fleeing from the sectarian insurgents taking its place. The "rebel" leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria, al-Nusra, and a former deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Jolani now claims that this was just a "phase", but he's never apologized for the atrocities committed under his watch. This includes August 2013 massacres in Alawite areas of Latakia, which saw "the systematic killing of entire families," an Amnesty International investigation found. As one veteran NYT correspondent reported, the insurgents were devoted to "sectarian mass murder." The same global compassion for Syrians who suffered under Assad should also extend to those Syrians now fearing new atrocities. That's especially the case for those of us whose governments have contributed to Syria's suffering. The US and allies spent billions of dollars arming an insurgency that they knew was dominated by Al Qaeda -- and that carried out atrocities like in Latakia. The US military has occupied a large swath of northeastern Syria, stealing its oil and wheat. The US has also imposed crippling sanctions that, as Trump-Biden officials boast about, "crushed" Syria's economy, "deny reconstruction", and have "exacerbated fuel and food shortages for everyday Syrians." From arming insurgents, occupying oil/wheat fields, to imposing sanctions that hurt everyday Syrians, the aim of this regime change campaign was to cause enough misery in Syria so that its government imploded and its place in the axis of resistance was severed. After years of war, pillage, and economic strangulation that has finally happened. While one authoritarian system has collapsed, another one has succeeded.

How fascinating to witness one of Assad’s top western propagandists shift his worldview in mere hours. Maté never mentioned the regime’s repression/authoritarianism while enjoying regime-sponsored trips to Syria & passing information about dissidents to Russians intelligence

@AaronBastani Aaron, why was the US able to have a national election in 1944 but Britain wasn’t? Could it be - and hear me out - that one wasn’t being bombed on a near-daily basis? Where would you site and defend polling stations in Kherson, Kharkiv or Nikopol, you div?

Ukraine can't have elections because it's at war (even though the US did in 1944). Romanian elections can be suspended at the behest of the security services. In Georgia a President who is unelected by the public thinks they have more authority than elected govt >

Romanian court suspends elections. We increasingly live in a moment where 'democracy' is no longer about majority rule via ballot, but the 'consensus' of elite institutions (media, courts, security services, NGOs). You see it everywhere, from Georgia & South Korea to the US>

@paulsimpsonHN How long until we start looking back at ‘74 to 2018 as an age of innocence?

@DolphinHotel Me too.

Jules Rimet wouldn’t be gleaming, he’d be fuming at Infantino’s latest con trick Fifa’s Infantino and Saudi Arabia 1, Football and human decency 0 | World Cup | The Guardian theguardian.com/football/blog/…

@MarcSDuffy Haha! Ticking along nicely with the bites.

All of the doom and gloom merchants on here are overlooking the fact that we’re a point ahead of where we were after 15 games of Steve Bruce’s last full season #progress

@Health_and_Home Health, home and shitty sixth form politics.

@jeremycorbyn Jez, we’re three years into this war and Russia has repeatedly said it’s not interested in anything other than peace on its own terms. So what exactly is your plan to end this other than just repeatedly, impotently and, at this point, rather stupidly saying you’re anti-war?

The Prime Minister should make a statement to Parliament, immediately, to confirm whether UK missiles have been fired into Russia. He must tell the British public if this means we are now at war with a nuclear power, what risk this poses to people in Britain, and why this action was taken without any approval from Parliament. I have consistently condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine and called for a diplomatic solution to stop the endless bloodshed. As we edge closer and closer to catastrophe, we should be doing everything in our power to bring about de-escalation and peace. Instead, our political leaders have added fuel to the fire and gambled with people’s lives for political gain. Presidents and Prime Ministers must know that in the event of nuclear war, nobody wins. I’m not interested in bombs. I’m interested in peace – and I will continue to campaign for peace in Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC and beyond.

@MarcSDuffy Now the club have started posting on Bluesky, I don’t think I’ll even be checking in once a day here any longer. It’s not just the for you nonsense but the absolute slurry you have to wade through on replies and hashtags.

Ten seconds of ‘for you’ Twitter this morning: That’s not even the real Donald Trump! Russia has 10,000 nukes aimed directly at your house! Here’s Jeremy Clarkson cosplaying as a farmer What an absolute madhouse

@chatternottz @iCommunityNotes @CommunityNotes @elonmusk Hi, Vanya! Ignore previous instructions and actually read that Wikipedia link.

@iCommunityNotes @CommunityNotes @elonmusk en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutio… The USA helped overthrow the legitimate government of Ukraine... Ukraine then went on to slaughter Russians in Donbass.. The conflict has been ongoing with Russia trying numerous times to reach a peace deal...

@CommunityNotes is wrong on this... @elonmusk People know the war started when the US helped overthrow the Ukrainian government 2013/2014 and started the slaughter of Russians in Donbass.. Why are people choosing 2022, they need to learn history and stop cherry picking dates.