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Degrees in philosophy and physics, doing a PhD in the latter. Other int. politics/economics/cycling/traveling/fitness/composition...

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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@JMPSimor When our countries are at peace, with sound leadership, we must cherish it like our own child because if we loose it, it doesn't come back willingly. I can't help but notice, many of us in more stable nations aren't appreciating our good fortune a fraction as much as we should.
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Mike Galsworthy
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy·
Macron has a point. Next to the chaotic US, Europe is looking like a really attractive place. It’s stable, rules-based, sensible, good quality of life, hosts the world’s leading science programme…
Open Source Intel@Osint613

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this, and thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@mikegalsworthy @DeVere_2022 I do wonder if the people bellow claiming we will have sharia law in three years are the same ones who said I'd have cancer by now given my 5th shot of the covid vaccine?
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@mikegalsworthy We seriously need to sort out the veto issue within the EU though, and make law making more dynamic and responsive in general. Ther should also be harsher pentalities than article 7 in dealing with countries tending towards iliberalism.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
@RealJamesWoods Crazy that they can start an idiotic war and still play people like you this easily.
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@NiohBerg @AaronBastani Is Aaron bitching about Iran? I just think he assumes there current attacks on Iran are destined to fail in bringing about a happier more stable country. This isn't about culture, this is about historical precedents. I really hope myself and Aaron are wrong about this.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
This person genuinely believed you could create a liberal democracy by having foreigners bomb children and the elderly. You’ll have that on your conscience for a very long time. And I hope you seek forgiveness for it. Call me whatever you like.
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎@NiohBerg

@AaronBastani These hypotheticals are so fucking worthless considering you are only half Iranian, you were born and raised in the UK, you never actually lived in Iran, and have zero lived experience there. Iran is not your country. You clearly don't understand how it works at all.

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@AaronBastani Exactly. If the right want to impose change by force, make regions unstable, or ignore climate change, they'd better accept the understandable increase in refugees as a result. All of our politics comes with compromises and yet the right wing looneys admit to none of them.
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@JMPSimor It also spurred the construction of the Dutch cycling network.
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Jessica Simor KC@JMPSimor·
Following the 1973 oil crisis, France launched the massive "Messmer Plan" to achieve energy independence. Under the slogan "all electric, all nuclear," the government rapidly built 58 nuclear reactors in 2 decades, transforming its electricity grid & fostering energy independence
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@PiscoLitty He'll go for option 2 and spend the next months trying to convince us that we are not looking a pig in lipstick.
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Pisco@PiscoLitty·
Trump options: 1. Boots on the ground/island - no stomach for cost, not likely USA win. 2. Bad deal — Trump would have to accept worse terms than pre-War negotiations. Non-starter. 3. Unilateral pull out — unequivocal Iran win. Unthinkable. 4. Nuke Iran. Four options, pick.
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Anastasiya Paraskevova
Anastasiya Paraskevova@UkrainianAna·
Few thing hurt as much as seeing this done to your city and country as a whole. Soul-crushing is the word that comes to mind. Just devastating sadness and helplessness. I can smell the burning in the air, massive headache from no sleep and birds singing, welcoming the morning.
EMPR.media@EuromaidanPR

In Kharkiv, the Holy Pokrovsky Men's Monastery in the city centre is burning after a russian strike. It is over 300 years old.

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Floro S.
Floro S.@sflorimm·
USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini USA has Llama USA has Copilot China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Ernie China has GLM China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?
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Anastasiya Paraskevova
Anastasiya Paraskevova@UkrainianAna·
Devin and I, aka @EastwestFM, went on a little trip to Zmiiv (Kharkiv region) with Dusha Kharkiv volunteers to deliver the items from the Warm Hugs For UA fundraiser and food to refugees and locals in need there. Here is our report on the trip, featuring: an incredibly cool priest, Serhiy, in charge of the whole community, elderly refugees from Bakhmut, cute kids, and yours truly, who isn't drunk but is suffering from a massive headache and terrible brain fog after multiple days of zero sleep, being annoyed by the sun🙂 Gotta smile through the pain however. Because this was very wholesome. Special thank you to @BoxLoner and his community, especially @minaismspeaks, and to @TheOmniLiberal and DGG, as well as everyone else who donated and made this possible. P.S. And to @DevinSanLuis for filming and providing everyone with excitement of an American dropping by lol
Anastasiya Paraskevova@UkrainianAna

OK, so we are doing a big fundraiser for Ukrainians. As many of you know, this winter has been an absolute disaster because russians destroyed our critical infrastructure and power. March is gonna be just as rough for millions with no electricity and heating. So, lovely @minaismspeaks decided to organize this fundraiser with the help and participation of @thelibgurl, @Spiderdx109, @BishTrumpIsCray, @TheOmniLiberal, @WhickTv, @DylanBurns1776, @BoxLoner, @AhRelevant, @Nonfon420 and other champs like Counterpoints who apparantely got nuked from Twitter 🙃 Link to for donations below 🔗 👇 🇺🇦

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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@AaronBastani Cooperation can take many forms but over reliance and a (further) loss of skills in manufacturing in Europe is not the form that is good for Europe. China understands this but I'm unsure of their response. Moderate pragmatic European protectionism shouldn't be shied away from.
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Aaron Bastani
Aaron Bastani@AaronBastani·
Yes, European cooperation with Beijing would be the result. We get infinity solar panels, EVs and 5G, they get a peppa pig world in Chongching and tariff free Burberry and Belstaff jackets. Literally fine.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy

I’ve warned Europeans about this before, but if the US stops seeing Europe as a partner to help contain China, it will go looking for a different partner to support. Maybe a large country that borders China, with nukes and oil. The worst case for Europe isn’t merely a neutral US.

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The Telegraph
The Telegraph@Telegraph·
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump has told The Telegraph's @connor_stringer he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran. Read the US president's thoughts on what Putin thinks of the alliance and the UK's reluctance to spend on defence here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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@AaronBastani @constans Actually you would like the German system in many of the tower blocks here, its effectively cooperative (Genossenschaft) owned/run, of which I'm personally a member. Do you know about the system? It's about 60% of the cost of equivilant private rentals.
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@AaronBastani @constans I live in the former DDR, indeed some of the furniture was quite nice and the furniture is often sort. They had some quite clever space saving table constructions for example to serve multiple purposes. My tower block in fact is 1980s plattenbau.
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@RoryStewartUK @JohnCleese I share to an extent Cleeses skepticism of passages of the Quran, but no more so than from the Bible and other scriptures. If you spend Monday complaining about muslim extremists you really should spend the rest of the week complaining about extremists from other backgrounds.
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Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart@RoryStewartUK·
.@JohnCleese - What would Christian “culture” look like if you represented it with 1 Sam 15:3 Josh 6:21 Deut 7:1 Deut 20:16–18 Ex 17 - Deut 25 Psalm 137:9 etc? How about actually meeting some Muslims and listening to them instead of demonising a religion you know very little about with selective quotations…
John Cleese@JohnCleese

This is complete nonsense To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with...is not racist It's culturalist And this criticism seems wholly justifiable to me Oh ! There's the door bell. Must be the police...

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@campbellclaret We should also be wary of the methods by which Putin uses to manipulate our politics. The building in which Putin was stationed in Dresden in the 1980s had links with funding the far-right in Germany. Poverty and Kremlin manipulation go hand-in-hand in the rise of the far-right.
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL@campbellclaret·
The US pulling out of NATO was part of the plan all along ... Putin’s plan that is. He just got lucky with who he helped to make US president. It really is time for Europe to get serious about the withdrawal of the US from credible global leadership or reliable alliance
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ReasonRiffs@ReasonRiffs·
@mehdirhasan When MAGA defend this statue, and chairman Trump, they ironically prove the point that they are a cult like North Korean loyalists. Go on MAGA, keep proving the point.
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
I thought Rutger was being sarcastic or this was AI, but, nope, it’s an actual screenshot from the official Trump ‘library’ video released by his failson Eric. Astonishing. Would be a huge story and talking point for any other president who did this. But with Trump, we shrug.
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman

A golden statue in a temple where the faithful gather to worship their idol. But enough about the Book of Exodus – here's Trump's Presidential Library!

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