Mark Marksson

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Mark Marksson

Mark Marksson

@MarkMarksson

"The winning side is Chaos and Unreason, but the gods, who are defeated, think that defeat no refutation" Thus, the defeat of conservatism, over the long C20th

Katılım Nisan 2020
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Mark Marksson
Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@WaywardRabbler Because you learning foreign names for places to use in English language exchanges & arguing with people who disagree with you about it, is not as much indication of a "need for a hobby" as me doing the converse is? Ooookay.
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Mark Marksson
Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@WaywardRabbler A matter of opinion, obv. I care enough to not change my language according to foreign dictats, & enough to occasionally point the truth out in public when occasion arises. No great hardship.
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@MLiamMcCollum He's still a neocon tool spouting the obvious black propaganda lie about "30k protesters killed", excusing US aggression against Iran, etc. He just can't twist truth quite far enough to openly justify this particular war at this particular time. Yet.
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Liam McCollum
Liam McCollum@MLiamMcCollum·
Man, when you've lost Konstantin… He defended all of Israel’s actions until basically yesterday
The Free Press@TheFP

“The things that people are saying about the rationale for this conflict are not true,” says @KonstantinKisin. “I do not believe that Iran was about to pose a threat to the United States… Currently, as I sit here, I don't understand the strategy… I am seriously concerned this will drag on... I’m struggling to see how this ends well at this point.”

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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@WaywardRabbler My points stand. In the end, if you want to pander to such nonsense you're just as entitled to do so as I am to decline, but the English word for the country in question remains Turkey, & "Turkiye" remains a foreign term for it that you use because foreigners tell you to.
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Brad Pearce
Brad Pearce@WaywardRabbler·
@MarkMarksson official in the very real sense of it is what their government's name is in English and the name used by the largest international body of nations I don't believe the United States is a member of any substantial bodies which don't use English as the primary language of business
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Russians With Attitude
Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast·
Kremlin should learn from this. If you Bomb Everyone enough, they will lift sanctions
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Russians With Attitude
Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast·
>In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water Just Bomb Everyone Theory vindicated
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47

.@SecScottBessent: In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that's 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we'd be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.

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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@WaywardRabbler 1 Not "official" in any sense that requires respect. 2 If they're so precious they take offence at foreigners using the proper foreign name for their country, screw them. I've never wasted a second worrying what Frenchmen, Germans et al call my country in their own language.
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Brad Pearce
Brad Pearce@WaywardRabbler·
@MarkMarksson 1) there are absolutely official names of countries 2) as one of our only allies worth a damn it is worth granting these particular foreigners this thing that costs nothing
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@CptHastings1916 Far from "anti-Jewish", it's a modern coinage specifically designed to pander to US dispensationalist fruit-loopery about Israel, & to the Israel lobby in general. x.com/MarkMarksson/s…
Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson

@JjinUk64 @ComicDaveSmith "Western civilisation" means Christendom, which was built & flourished for nearly two millennia in explicit opposition to *both* Judaism & (later) Islam. "Judeo-Christian" is a manipulative concoction pushed by the Israel lobby, making about as much sense as "Christiano-Muslim".

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NPRG@CptHastings1916·
I'm not especially fussed either way about the term "Judeo-Christian", but given the occasional suggestion that it has anti-Jewish undertones, it's noteworthy that the late Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks had no problem with it.
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Maurice Cousins
Maurice Cousins@MDC12345678·
A perfect storm is gathering over the UK. Failure to take strategic planning and energy security seriously will carry severe economic, political and social consequences. Plenty of us in the energy realist camp warned about scenarios like this throughout the 2010s. We were further marginalised in 2022. Policymakers chose to listen to Dr 9x Cheaper at Carbon Brief and the rest of the blob. Labour will seek to blame the Conservatives, but this was the product of a cross-party consensus forged by Miliband in 2008. Together, they depoliticised decisions to blow up coal power stations, engineered the managed decline of the North Sea, banned domestic gas production, and doubled down on a renewables strategy that cannot reliably meet demand. Lib Dems and Greens were in on it too. The result is not greater resilience, but greater exposure, with Britain now increasingly dependent on volatile global LNG markets. The “common sense of the epoch” turns out to have been pure folly.
Al Jazeera Breaking News@AJENews

BREAKING: Qatar's Ministry of Interior is reporting a fire in the Ras Laffan area - home to the world's largest LNG production facility - following an "Iranian targeting". 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/b8762y?update=…

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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@WaywardRabbler There is no "Official" English language, & I couldn't care less what nonsense the UN is spouting on the topic. Turkey's been used in English for centuries, & there's no reason to change it to pander to foreigners.
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Brad Pearce
Brad Pearce@WaywardRabbler·
@MarkMarksson no, their name change was recognized by the UN, that is the official English language name of the country with Ankara as its capital. Except they use accents but I never use those in any language as I don't actually know how they work in English either.
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Mark Marksson
Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@RothLindberg F the "Ukrainian language". In English, it's the Ukraine, Kiev, Lvov, Odessa & Kharkov.
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David Roth-Lindberg
David Roth-Lindberg@RothLindberg·
Sorry, the dish will always be called "Chicken Kiev" and "Odessa" will always be the correct spelling of Russian Empress Catherine the Great's city.
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@ZoomerHistorian Using the term "Judeo-Christian" as though it has real meaning is a major red flag. We know now that Reform in office would betray the country just as Trump betrayed the US. x.com/MarkMarksson/s…
Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson

@JjinUk64 @ComicDaveSmith "Western civilisation" means Christendom, which was built & flourished for nearly two millennia in explicit opposition to *both* Judaism & (later) Islam. "Judeo-Christian" is a manipulative concoction pushed by the Israel lobby, making about as much sense as "Christiano-Muslim".

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Zoomer@ZoomerHistorian·
If Britain was built on Judeo-Christian values why were Jews literally banned from being here from 1290 until the late 17th century and even then they were never here in any meaningful numbers until 200 years after that? Jews have almost no relevance to British history until the past century or two.
Nigel Farage MP@Nigel_Farage

What we witnessed in London at the historic Trafalgar Square, in a country built on Judeo-Christian values, was a group of people attempting dominance over our capital city and our culture. We are not going to surrender everything that was built over centuries and defended at great cost in two world wars for us to be a free, independent nation. The British people will not put up with this any longer — simple as.

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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@AaronBastani On a point of order, Mr Bastani. I believe that's a neocon liar there, not a MAGA imbecile. Though granted he could well be both.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
The venerable English gentleman trying to talk sense, relaying facts and logic - his furnishings essentially a Laura Ashley show home - while the MAGA imbecile attempts to distract him. It’s never over.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

Former UK Ambassador drops a massive truth bomb: Iran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal to the letter. Trump sabotaged it purely on Israeli advice, and the claims that Iran was cheating are absolute lies debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@realhansard "There won't be any refugees this time. In fact, making a pro-western monarchy in Iran wil result in lots of Iranians going home..."
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@Gary_Starlorn @Danjsalt So your point is that neither the Iranians nor te aggressors want to stop. Hardly going to reassure @Danjsalt that there's likely to be meaningful "backchannelling" going on...
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Gary@Gary_Starlorn·
@MarkMarksson @Danjsalt Did you seriously think USA and Israel want an Islamic leadership They won't stop now until all the Terrorist organisations are obliterated USA is in the position of being able to fix all their enemies whilst Russia & EU is tied down
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Dan Salt
Dan Salt@Danjsalt·
Okay it's pretty basic Either the war stops soon and without much more damage to infrastructure or we will at minimum have a big economic crisis Thus I place my limited and decreasing hope in the fact that no rational person wants that and thus I assume many many people will be back channeling the crap out of the situation
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@Citizenuk1927 Care to take a guess at how many ships "Starmer" could put into Hormuz? With what readiness & capabilities? And how long they would last?
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@Danjsalt It's a shit sandwich, & as you are forced to get used to the taste over the next few years, you should ponder on the people who forced you into that situation: The US, Israel & the US Israel lobby.
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@Danjsalt And they tend to be pretty damned pissed off, as well, having seen friends, colleagues & often family murdered by the enemies you think they should sit down to talk with. I suspect the global economic well-being is not at the forefront of Iranian elites' minds, atm.
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Mark Marksson@MarkMarksson·
@Danjsalt How do you "backchannel" at the same time as murdering every leader who reveals his location, as a matter of interest? Plus, if you murder the established, older heads who tend to have more to lose & be more cautious, you open the way to hungrier & hotter heads to take power.
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