@MattyProfits Well there would be less reason to understand why she was behaving so. Not the case with Ukrainian players
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Shifting Sands
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Shifting Sands
@ShiftingSands2
Politics, Economics, Culture Wars “We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” Orwell
Katılım Aralık 2018
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Let Aryna Sabalenka Act the way Kostyuk did today after beating Andreeva and the whole entire world would be coming for Sabalenka’s throat.
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@Liz41525875 @alltennis7 What would you do if your country was being torn apart?
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@alltennis7 Sorry but the Ukrainian chick is coming across as quite the bitch.
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Andreeva wore the Ukrainian colors, and I do not believe this is a coincidence
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@heterodoxan Pax Americana. If Europe tooled up America would lose reach.
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The US does also benefit from having bases in Europe but this sort of kiss-off attitude really makes one wonder why we should bother.
We put up with lopsided tariffs for decades, get sneered at while we fund pharmaceutical research and your lavish welfare states, for what?
Andrew Neil@afneil
Good luck continuing to wage your war against Iran without your German bases. Well nigh impossible. US troops aren’t in Germany to protect Germans. They’ve been there to project US power. Bye bye.
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@recouso Use portable starlink, do some push-ups and take a run.
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Okay guys, had a few cultural shocks in Spain:
> Go to the gym, opens 10am on a Sunday
> Go to work from a coworking, closed
> Go to a coffee shop, no wifi
Absolutely unthinkable in a barely productive economy like the US, yet alone UAE.
Europe is a daylight museum.
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@heterodoxan You need to remind yourself what NATO is for.
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It's actually absurd how many Europeans fail to grasp that denying us the use of those bases for operations in Iran, which is a more immediate threat to Europe than to us, made even a lot of US fans of NATO wonder what we're doing in Europe anymore.
Andrea Junker@Strandjunker
US troops are not in Germany to protect Germany. They’re there because the US needs bases to conduct operations beyond the North American continent. If Trump withdraws them, he will harm the United States, not Germany. It’s absurd how many Americans fail to grasp this.
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When did Hong Kong ever had democracy prior to the handover?
Shifting Sands@ShiftingSands2
@basq0x @D162Michele Is democracy in Hong Kong stronger or weaker since the handover?
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@pavyg Ukrainian players know some of the Russian players feel they can’t speak though at least one did denounce the war. All the same, look at what’s happened to Ukraine and consider the humiliation if they have to then make nice with Russian players ‘for unity’.
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Important reminder that it's not a Tennis players fault where they are born. Many people don't agree with their governments all over the world but in certain countries it can be dangerous publicly speaking against their governments.
I hope all players promote unity not division.
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@tbe123123 @TheTennisLetter It’s as old as the war Russia launched on Ukraine
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@TheTennisLetter The performative act by the Ukrainian women by not shaking hands is getting old. It’s embarrassing.
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Mirra Andreeva after losing to Marta Kostyuk in the Madrid final
“I’d like to congratulate Marta and the team for this amazing win today and for how your clay season is going as well. You won two tournaments in a row. You’re playing very well. Congrats for the win today as well” ❤️
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I'm crying , the balconies in these Chinese apartments are bigger than my whole apartment 😭
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@thomaschattwill @CathyYoung63 Lefty logic is always to be more lefty
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This makes no sense.
Bill Clinton won twice running as a centrist in 1992 and 1996
Barack Obama won twice as a centrist in 2008 and 2012
Joe Biden won—again, running if not governing—as a centrist in 2020.
How is centrism the problem?
@adammanross.bsky.social@adammanross
Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left
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@pavyg It is what it is. You can’t expect Ukrainian players to ignore what’s happening in their country when playing players from Russia.
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Not a good look in my opinion, Tennis and sport is a way of promoting unity not even more divisions.
Sportskeeda Tennis@SK__Tennis
No photo, no handshake, no mention of Mirra Andreeva & Glory to Ukraine: Marta Kostyuk's unwavering Madrid Open final stance #key4=sktennistwitter" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sportskeeda.com/tennis/news-no…
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@DrKinKam @D162Michele Anyone who worked in HK contributed
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Typical ignorant racist would say that. Racists basically talk about the best that they help achieved, but never talk about the worst they help along as well, or the Chinese who made HK an economic success.
Britain can be proud of HK only because its majority people (the Chinese) and China subscribed to let's make HK successful instead of hacking to racism and nationalism of simply regaining HK which China could easily achieved pre 1997.
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I’m pretty sure the Brits did exactly that in China with Hong Kong.
Sir James Britain🏴@SirJBritain
If 50,000 English people all moved to China, creating a 95% ethnic English town and set up their own Christian schools and English only emergency services… I would not consider them to be integrated into Chinese culture.
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@guoguo99482156 @D162Michele Is view it more as a form of creative destruction. Not every democratic act is successful in the end. More Chinese come to live in democracies than the other way around of course
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It's more democratic under CCP rule obviously you dumdumb. At least HKers are no longer 2nd class citizens like before 1997.
Shifting Sands@ShiftingSands2
@basq0x @D162Michele Is democracy in Hong Kong stronger or weaker since the handover?
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@EthanLevins2 China has been a superpower for a while now dear
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Do you understand how big this is?
This is Superpower status.
Current Report@Currentreport1
China says it does not recognize US sanctions on Iranian oil purchases and will not comply with them.
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@tencentdave @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele Consider the need to cater to the relationship with China long term, the approaching handover, and CCP preferences in terms of what it would take over, which were expressed well before 1997. Why were there huge protests there?
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@ShiftingSands2 @fhcluk @basq0x @D162Michele “It was getting there”. The British ruled Hong Kong with an iron fist for 156 years but suddenly decided that democracy was a great idea just as they were about to leave. Let’s face it, “democracy” was their poison pill for the Chinese government to swallow post-handover.
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@Rainlord137 @basq0x @D162Michele What is the direction opposite the limited electoral representation that was in place by 1997?
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@ShiftingSands2 @basq0x @D162Michele Well, HK never had democracy under British rule in the first place
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