@LemanWalters It's supremely arrogant and odd for a man of his education to be throwing around the claim that He knows the truth and that He will tell You, since You do not possess Truth but He does. Reeks of charlatanry.
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Merlin
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Merlin
@Merlin67684223
Profile image is AI-generared but account is all too human. Pronouns: oh/ffs.
Katılım Aralık 2017
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Slopwin, Slopwin, he's our man, if he can't do it AI can!
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
🚨Westminster doesn't want you to know the truth That’s why critics claim my new book is written by AI, footnotes are wrong & quotes made up Here’s the TRUTH - & what they’re not telling you We are losing our country Read & decide for yourself ⬇️ dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
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@BraudelMarx @eugyppius1 Your post is far too logical and supported by the evidence to do well on X.
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Iran today sits in an exceedingly powerful position. They have placed a tollbooth on the Strait of Hormuz, allowing their own tankers and those of their allies to pass free while the rest of the world either pays or is blocked. They are on the strategic defensive. All they must do is hit any tanker that runs the strait, and they have the weapons--fired from multiple distances, from multiple platforms--to make that threat credible.
The United States can take a first step and interdict Iranian tankers with relative ease, but they can only reopen the strait with great difficulty. Removing the tollbooth merely escalates the toll since it slams shut the strait and thereby reduces global oil supplies-sending fossil fuel prices spiking.
To actually reopen the strait, the US would need to launch a massive land invasion to wrestle complete control of the coastline from Iranian forces. Regaining control, if it is even possible, would take years, by which time the global economy would be in a deep depression.
Iran does not need to win the war, they just need to make winning too expensive for anyone else to try.
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This obviously contributes to a general tendency to overstate Iran's position (which is anything but good, even if the Iranians are not on the verge of unconditional surrender).
Glenn Diesen@Glenn_Diesen
The lack of narrative control in the Iran war is remarkable. In large parts of Europe, arguing that Iran is the clear winner is still dismissed as "pro-Iranian propaganda." By comparison, after Russia invaded Ukraine, virtually every media outlet repeated the same slogans of an "unprovoked" and "full-scale" invasion with zero dissent.
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@aquavoice I was a pro subscriber but stopped. If I re-subscribe, do I get access to the iOS app? Also on iPad?
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Today we sent early access invites for Aqua Voice iOS.
Public access will be coming shortly.
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@McCormack_Tara This guy is surely one of the most unlikeable people in the known universe.
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Which of course is only closed because of the US-Israeli war.
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews
Ben Shapiro—after telling his audience for months that bombing Iran wouldn't lead to a wider war, and then claiming the war was just going to be a quick bombing campaign—is now telling Americans to prepare for a long war. "There is no way to extricate ourselves from this situation right now." Americans only got "tired" of Vietnam after 50,000 troops died, he says. "Our" military members are "heroes" because they're willing to "sacrifice" their lives "for a greater good"—a future world where "energy will become cheap again because the Strait of Hormuz will be free again."
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@AaronBastani @willsolfiac You're both right. I subscibe to the maxim that 'the workers have nothing to lose but their chains' in the economic dimension. Culturally, however, it is far more complex. Marx himself wasn't a modern leftist on this point.
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@willsolfiac I think the point is that even if there was even more opposition to immigration, more overt racism etc - there was also greater class consciousness, purely by virtue of Britain being an industrial society. I think that’s true.
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Interesting example in this video of the transformation of Islam in Britain - Mothin Ali's mother didn't wear a niqab, but his wife does.
Other than that, I thought it was hilarious that he seems to be claiming that back when the working class had more political power, they didn't see ethnic difference, only their shared 'chains of hardship and debt.' This has always been a left-wing fantasy with very little connection to reality. Working class British people have always strongly opposed mass immigration.
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
It's time to see past our differences and remember what connects us. When we realise where our strength lies - in each other - that's when change happens. Join us - join.greenparty.org.uk
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James O'Brien has been more sensible on this topic than most of the "online right".
LBC@LBC
‘How many lives would he sacrifice to protect his own ego?’ James O’Brien thinks Trump's deployment of troops to the Middle East is the most 'frightening' development yet.
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He speaks for many of us on this. The loss of faith in humanity hits hardest. Losing trust in institutions is one thing, but losing trust in people to ultimately do the right thing is the real body blow.
Ian Solliec@IanSolliec
Lots of good answers here. Thanks to everyone who answered. I won’t. The response to Covid destroyed my confidence in institutions. Worse, seeing almost everyone play along with an obviously idiotic response shattered my trust in humanity. Trust will never return.
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@cordeliers 'Probably correctly' - the mother of all catastrophes is miscalculation.
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It's quite conceivable that Trump will openly nuke Iran because his war planners believe that the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction no longer applies. They assume, probably correctly, that Russia and China will do nothing.
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@nomad_dissident I have a PhD in international relations and know those concepts off by heart. I also know they apply not just to official enemies but to Western states, and that accusations of such attributable to foreign powers is as often as not projection and/or propaganda.
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@Merlin67684223 Do you now? Even though I said that it was partially home-grown activists. Are you aware of information, grey-zone, and hybrid warfare?
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Sometimes it is hard to see a swimming pool full of effluence when you are swimming in it. The West is in the middle of the most critical battle for our freedoms since the end of WWII, influenced by hostile foreign actors and amplified by useful fools. Every time the media or politician presses the fear-button, we seek out comfort blanket of restrictions. We must be bold. We must resist.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
The descent into authoritarian hell. We must never forget.
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@charlotteukcity 'Nobody criticises me more than I criticise myself' is classic malignant narcissism, designed to deflect any criticism on the basis that no one could criticise him more than himself. He is the best even in that dimension. Nothing you could say would top him.
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I really like Keir Starmer. He’s a good man with morals & integrity. You can see how much it means to him to do things right & when he makes a mistake, it pains him. Many previous Prime Ministers couldn’t care less, as long as their mistakes were hidden.
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@nomad_dissident I don't. I think in a time of crisis and decline, it is par for the course to blame external hobgoblins for events and processes that are all too close to home. It was ever thus.
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@Merlin67684223 Who do you think are the hostile foreign actors, Merlin?
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@marksimpsonist @chimeranagy I think spook op of some sort is a strong possibiity, even though of course we know little to nothing. The fact that it disappeared from the news across the board is also a strong supporting factor for this hypothesis, though the same could be said of the 'rent boy' hypothesis.
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@Merlin67684223 @chimeranagy It's a very curious case - more than curious enough without adding in fantasy scenarios/professions. The fact that they're all Ukrainian seems likely to be germane. But at the moment we don't know much more than that. And if this was some kind of spook op gone wrong we may never.
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Odd how angry people get when you pour cold water on the notion of Keith having secret orgies with rent boys.
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@OneQuantumLeap Unspeakably sad, a total tragedy. Anyone wanting war for any side is either a monster, or so uncomprehending of what it means that they still end up doing monstrous things. There but for the grace of God go I or the bastards cheering on sending other young men to their deaths.
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I feel for those ordinary Ukrainians who did not want the war.
But failure to organise collectively to resist being dragged off the streets or from their homes, leads me to temper that sympathy somewhat.
A lesson there for the rest us. Let's be sure to learn it!
Chay Bowes@BowesChay
Look at how excited this Ukrainian man is to volunteer for the conflict against Russia The people have had enough.
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@marksimpsonist @chimeranagy I'm not invested in a fantasy scenario, but it is certainly a curious case. What would motivate these young lads from Ukraine to do what they did, and how did they know where to find stuff to do so?
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@chimeranagy They do appear to be very personally invested in that ghastly scenario.
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@marksimpsonist @MaxBlumenthal Your position on this one is a bit odd. One wonders: what motivated those young Ukrainians do all that stuff, and how did they know where to find the stuff? If it wasn't personal, was it then political? People don't burn stuff down for no reason.
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@MaxBlumenthal The "Ukrainian escorts" and "Queer Starmer" is a popular meme, but there's zero evidence for it - and even less that Starmer is secretly an interesting person. He's also been under 24-7 close protection since 2020. Long before the Ukrainians moved to the UK.
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Were they the same Ukrainian “male models” who set fire to Starmer’s car and house and pleaded not guilty?
George Galloway@georgegalloway
WHY are the British media not pressing for the names of the alleged Arsonists released on bail today?
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@Vniversalexport @jonnytickle Whatever one's views of Russia, it has been under concerted attack from the West for a long time now. Geopolitics in a time of Western decline is a terrible monster.
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@jonnytickle I remember the WC being some sort of pinnacle of life in Russia. I remember thinking to myself, "this is the Victorian Jubilee, isn't it?" Surely enough, in less than a year, Calvey got arrested, then the country very quickly did indeed go to the pits of hell even I didn't expect
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During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, trains were free and included in your match ticket. You could take a 23-hour train from Moscow to Sochi. Sad to see FIFA letting the US get away with this nonsense
Adam Crafton@AdamCrafton_
Exclusive @TheAthleticFC Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) plans to almost quadruple usual prices for return train ticket from center of Boston to Gillette Stadium during World Cup. Up from $20 for NFL games to above $75. W/@mjshrimper nytimes.com/athletic/71501…
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