Felix van Litsenburg

@RavetsU @picklefingers38 @PaddyOhTeaSea @The_Banned_Vids Then they’d be war criminals themselves, it’s a war crime to pretend to surrender.

@FLitsenburg @picklefingers38 @PaddyOhTeaSea @The_Banned_Vids No, they would pick up the weapons right before the position, clear it and move to next assault without getting killed.

Feels like a predator playing with prey before the inevitable🇷🇺 Historical Footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone chasing a lone Russian soldier in the field!

@RavetsU @picklefingers38 @PaddyOhTeaSea @The_Banned_Vids Err no they’d become prisoners

@picklefingers38 @PaddyOhTeaSea @The_Banned_Vids So you could go on assault, hell, even take over countries by just throwing or kicking your rifle towards the enemy positions. They could not kill you because you're "unarmed". Wonderful logic.

@EyelandAes Love how the cannibals get off scott free

@campbellclaret @EdwardJDavey @RoryStewartUK @Nigel_Farage Churchill’s legend has already waned *despite* being on a banknote independent.co.uk/news/winston-c…

Sorry @EdwardJDavey I have stood up for you when @RoryStewartUK has attacked your “silly stunts” as he calls them because I know how hard it can be for smaller parties to get attention. But this is BS on a @Nigel_Farage scale. Nobody alive imagines that Churchill legend will wane because we see his face less on a banknote. And the public demand (inc I imagine many many LibDems) is for our nature and wildlife to be celebrated alongside our great humans. Leave the culture wars to the bullshitters who have nothing else to offer. These are really serious times. Be serious.

@MasterMaliq Same level as “why don’t people just walk around naked”?

Serious question. What danger exactly does a woman in a burqa pose to the community?

@chribreuer The whole premise is ridiculous because Switzerland was clobbered by Napoleon, and provided Europe’s premier mercenaries, during that 500-year timespan

One interesting thing about the Swiss is that, although they’re essentially “super Germans” in terms of efficiency and economy, they never developed the same kind of high culture as Germans or Austrians. No composers, no poets, and no philosophers

@chribreuer Carl Jung?

@gerardvongevers De man die voor Orbán de nieuwe grondwet schreef is homoseksueel dus dat zal zo’n probleem niet zijn.

Ik vind het nogal eng en eerlijk gezegd volkomen gestoord, wat Jetten hier beweert. Hoe zou Orban dan met Jetten’s seksualiteit moeten dealen? Hoe is Jetten’s seksualiteit onderdeel van, of van belang voor zijn beroep? We hebben een totale gek als Minister President.

@NoContextDutch1 Dit is goed op meerdere lagen

@aClassicLiberal @CyStemSell @xenocosmography It’s perhaps comparable to perhaps English and American

@CyStemSell @FLitsenburg @xenocosmography I understand that Catholism and legal structure (Spanish) makes a difference.

Are Sweden, Germany, Austria, Spain, UK and Ireland lost? Left pic: 15-29 year olds without EU/native heritage Right pic: Muslim population projection 2030 (Pew) x.com/aclassiclibera… @xenocosmography

@aClassicLiberal @CyStemSell @xenocosmography Huh? How so? Literally speak same language

@CyStemSell @xenocosmography Not really. South Americans are 50% of Spanish new migrants. Can hardly be considered native Spaniards culturally and barely genetically.

@LindyTasteful This was more wholesome than I had anticipated

The mullahs in Iran saw this in the '70s and said "we have to do something"

@finlaycomedy @_ednight I do not want a martini and I will not be gambling was great actually

James Bond if he was Nigerian. Featuring @_ednight

@MaMoMVPY Yes eg Merkel’s decisions to abandon nuclear were very deliberately chosen, following all procedure - and therefore not a disaster

That post from Ursula von der Leyen is getting quite a bit of attention on social media. It's mostly people poking fun at Europeans for not wanting to work at weekends (often from self-loathing Europeans). But seriously – what are Europeans supposed to say? The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran. An attack that in no way adheres to international rules. And the Europeans were not consulted in the slightest. In Europe, we have a war – Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine. That should be our focus. The US has demonstrated time and again that it has no respect for Europe. So why should we even have any opinion on this whatsoever? Europe's view of the Iranian regime is crystal clear and always has been. That hasn't changed – and everyone ought to know it. Foreign policy is not conducted on social media – and it is exceedingly rare that a decades-long problem can be fixed with missiles over a weekend. It has never happened. It is therefore completely irrelevant what the Europeans might have to say in the middle of an attack whose outcome nobody can predict. So yes, it is perfectly reasonable to announce that we in the EU will meet on Monday – and yes, there has undoubtedly been a great deal of inter-European communication in the run-up to this attack and over the weekend, but political decisions are simply best taken when proper procedures are followed and a strategy is put in place. Trump may well believe that problems are solved with bombs and idiotic pronouncements on social media, but day by day the long-term costs of this behaviour are mounting – geopolitically and economically. And yes, when the time comes to clean up after Trump's mess, I rather suspect the Americans will come expecting the Europeans to muck in with the clean-up. That'll be a no from us.

@JohnHarveyWY @bandy1803 Peter Turchin’s War and Peace and War makes this comparison, said it was key for solidifying American/Russian identities. May have useful references for you.

@bandy1803 I really want to learn more about the parallels of Russia's eastward expansion with America's westward expansion.

"In a period of just 10 years (~1865-1875), the Russians had conquered territory in Central Asia half the size of the United States."

@carolecadwalla @dailytelegraph Do you know what ‘sectarianism’ means?

@dailytelegraph ‘It’s difficult to know what this means’. It’s really not. ‘Sectarianism’ is a racist epithet. Matt Goodwin made a racist and inflammatory losing statement. It needs to be described clearly and properly otherwise UK press is going to perpetuate racist narratives.

This is racism, pure and simple. It’s also a test. The UK press needs to describe it for exactly what it is: that Reform’s candidate made a racist and inflammatory losing statement

@DiggingInTheDi1 Infosys pretty recognisable. Tata.

Think of just how improbable it is for this many global companies to select Indians as CEOs by pure merit For this to happen, Indians would have to be so much more competent than Whites, Asians, Jews, etc that they dominate all measures of performance Instead: - Highest rank at ICPC international programming contest: 59 out of 144 - Highest performance on PISA international school testing: 73 out of 74 - Number of notable Indian game studios: 0 - Number of globally recognizable megacorps originating in India: 0 - Number of academic Nobel Prizes won by Indians in India in the last 25 years: 0 Now repeat this test for Whites or Asians and you get the exact pattern you would expect Indians simply took over these companies through nepotistic fraud, on a scale few are able to comprehend

@Sorcerer0fEld By this same logic, the purpose of gun control is also to gun down schoolchildren…

Systems theorist here. The purpose of the Second Amendment is to gun down schoolchildren.

@rcbregman Leftists shot the first one

Proud day to be Dutch. Rob Jetten sworn in as the first openly gay prime minister in Dutch history. We were the first country to legalize gay marriage – and the fact that Jetten's sexuality hardly played a role in the campaign makes me even more proud.

@D66 maarT