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Who’s going to tell him?
VG🌪️@HelloVyom
From CTO to Software engineer, bros downfall needs to be studied
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Stefan Andreasson
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Stefan Andreasson
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Reader in Comparative Politics, Queen’s University Belfast. American & African politics. Political economy of energy, oil & natural resources. MCB rugby fan ✠
Northern Ireland Katılım Aralık 2008
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Stefan Andreasson retweetledi
Really need this group to expand on what they mean by Epstein class, because I got called an “Epstein democrat” in my mentions last night and I’ve got a feeling about what they really mean.
Ro Khanna@RoKhanna
Massie lost his primary & Chris Rabb secured a big victory. The message is clear: if you take a stand against war, AIPAC, & the Epstein class, you have no place in the Trump coalition. But the future of the Democratic Party that is done with the establishment is yours to shape.
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ENERGY DOMINANCE: Commonwealth's LNG export facility is designed to ship 9.5 MILLION tons of LNG per year.
America is by far the world's largest LNG supplier and will continue to grow — strengthening global energy security and U.S. economic expansion.
forbes.com/sites/davidbla…
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Elon Musk hat ein Vermögen von ~800 Milliarden Dollar.
Würde man es ihm wegnehmen und auf alle Menschen der Welt verteilen, hätte jeder etwa 97 Dollar. Einmal schick essen gehen. Danach ist es weg.
Was macht Musk stattdessen mit diesem Kapital?
Er baut Raketen, die die Menschheit mehrplanetarisch machen sollen. Er elektrifiziert den Automobilmarkt. Er baut Satelliten-Internet für die entlegensten Regionen der Welt. Er finanziert KI-Forschung. Er kauft eine Plattform und stellt sie für freie Meinungsäußerung zur Verfügung.
Das Geld liegt nicht auf einem Konto. Es steckt in Unternehmen, Technologie, Arbeitsplätzen, Innovation. Hunderttausende Menschen haben durch seine Visionen Arbeit. Millionen profitieren von seinen Produkten.
In den Händen eines Visionärs schafft Kapital Fortschritt, Wohlstand und Mehrwert für alle. In den Händen des Staates verwässert es – und finanziert Bürokratie statt Fortschritt.
Woher kommt in Deutschland dieser Reflex, Erfolg bestrafen zu wollen – statt ihn zu feiern?
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This was my experience of the Hebrew University as well when giving a talk there a few years ago, Jewish and Arab students together on one campus. But perhaps the relevant question here is, on how many Palestinian university campuses could a Jewish student walk freely wearing a kippah and speaking Hebrew?
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Today, as I entered the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to speak at a conference, I noticed again a simple but powerful reality: most of the students walking through the gates at that moment were young women — many of them Palestinian students from East Jerusalem, my own city.
For me, this was a living example of something many people have forgotten: Israelis and Palestinians are still capable of coexistence, partnership, and building a shared future together.
Those who believe that October 7 and the terrible war that followed permanently destroyed every possibility of trust and human connection are wrong.
Something was broken. Deeply broken. But not beyond repair.
Every day, in hospitals, universities, businesses, and ordinary human encounters, Israelis and Palestinians continue to prove that another reality is still possible.
The picture below is living evidence.
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@Shteygen @tuber_you80241 So _that’s_ how you people do it! :) On a more serious note, look through the historical record of any marginalised and/or persecuted peoples who have thrived despite the odds and literacy and a commitment to educational advancement stands out.
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@tuber_you80241 אנאלפבתים אצל יהודים?? יש לנו היסטוריה מפוארת של אוריינות
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זו מחברת של ילד יהודי מלפני אלף שנה.
הוא כותב את האלף בית בדיוק כמו הילדה בת ה-6 שלי.
זה מעיף לי את המוח.
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“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution…” George Orwell, 1941
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“By my count, the syllabus assigns roughly 45 pages of canonical Western philosophical writing across the entire quarter, against more than 500 pages of contemporary work organized around identity, oppression and indigenous ways of knowing ... There is no Aristotle, no Augustine, no Aquinas, no Montaigne, no Locke, no Mill, no Newman, no Steiner, no Bloom — none of the writers who built the case for liberal education that the course claims to defend. A course advertised as a defense of liberal education has been built without the thinkers who defined it.” @imarinovic demolishes the disastrous new @Stanford freshman program.
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The truth is research is very imperfect at predicting whether a terrorist or its group in a foreign country will strike the homeland so it’s good to take them out when they’re internationally-minded and the costs are low.
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U.S. refineries are running at high rates to help supply tight jet fuel markets, but there’s limit to how much more they can produce. Typically, about 11% of each barrel of crude oil becomes jet fuel. Operators have been able to make adjustments that boost jet fuel output by 2-4%, but there's limited flexibility in the system to push higher.
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“Once you know what you’re looking for, it’s like finding balls on a dog. This is the hottest play in the world right now because it’s going to catch and surpass Guyana on reserves”.. #Oil majors return to #Alaska as state becomes ‘world’s hottest play’
ft.com/content/269cf8…
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@mishtal It is certainly not normal in any of our churches. But then again, no other religious community in Britain is today routinely harassed and attacked to the extent that are its Jews.
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On Saturday I went to my synagogue.
I was checked by security at the gates. I passed protective railings, and then a guard at the front door buzzed me in. Another guard waited inside.
Just wondering. Is this normal for Christians, Muslims or Hindus in the UK? Or only for Jews?
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Really interesting read from @davidfrum
“It has become an article of faith among progressives that Kamala Harris lost in 2024 because she did not talk enough about Palestinians and Gaza. The actual data available confirm that Harris lost because she was seen as too far to the left of where most voters placed themselves. But beliefs do not have to be based on truth to motivate action.
In the 2026 cycle, Democrats are elevating candidates who have taken positions that would have once seemed politically suicidal: a U.S. House candidate in New Jersey who served as a character witness for “the blind sheikh” behind the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center; a U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan who campaigned with Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer who has said that America deserved 9/11; and a candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine who unconvincingly claimed not to know that the skull-and-crossbones tattoo he had worn for almost 20 years was associated with the Nazi SS.”
David Frum@davidfrum
Progressives are sabotaging the 2026 contest vs Trump's "America First" by perversely attempting to impose the worst possible counter-message: "Gaza First." Latest in @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…
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Rayner: “The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people." But moving #Labour left on issues like #energy, #immigration and "identity" politics, and an ever growing benefits bill won't be supported by working people. ft.com/content/99c877…
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Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want.
paulgraham.com/ace.html
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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@Rainmaker1973 To which the Congolese reply, “hold my beer”… (The Grand Inga Dam project, if completed, would have twice the capacity of the Three Gorges Dam.)
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Watching @ZohranKMamdani's oafish, unprovoked attack on Ken Griffin blow up in his face in real time tells us so much about how contemporary leftism has been reconfigured by its elite practitioners.
Firstly, Mamdani is not a "have-not." He is a Bowdoin graduate, the son of a Columbia professor and an internationally celebrated filmmaker, whose path to a New York City mayoralty ran through exactly the credentialed-creative pipeline that produces most of his voters.
His base is not the working class. It is the downwardly mobile but college-educated, who were promised a particular kind of life by their degrees and are furious it didn't arrive, and who have decided the people standing between them and that life are not the radicalized professors who sold them seductive fictions or the ideologically captured universities that took their money, but a hedge fund manager in Miami.
This is what I'd call Privilege Populism. The aesthetics of class struggle, performed by people whose parents or grandparents technically already won the class struggle, but with the appropriated symbolism recast in the direction of people who won it slightly more.
It is war between the "haves" versus "have-mores," as some others have put it.
The Mamdani's inciting video, gleeful in its innumeracy about about whether a $500 million pied-à-terre tax can actually fund anything it claims to, defiant in its ignorance about the dynamic effects of such taxation on human behavior and wealth outmigration, is the genre's mature form.
Griffin's response is the part worth watching. He didn't argue or issue a statement offering a philosophical defense of capitalism. He simply pointed to his Miami construction project and said: this is the way.
Then he said the part that should make every blue-state mayor uncomfortable: that what's happening in New York is "triggering the trauma I went through in Chicago."
I watched that trauma play out for twenty years. Progressive politicians perform to excite the grievances and resentments of credentialed creatives, the productive class that subsidizes the city quietly relocates, the tax base hollows out, and the people who stay behind look at the resulting societal decline around them and misinterpret it as proof that they must vote even further to the left than before in order to improve things.
In a warped but unignorable way, liberal mismanagement of states like Illinois and New York helped nurse the conservative governance triumphs of Florida and Texas.
The Privilege Populists never figure this out, because the point is never truly to improve the lives of the "have-nots." It's to *perform* therapeutic acts of Resistance for them, on camera, against "villains" who can afford to leave and do.
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This is correct. The test is simple. Duriing the period between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign did we see sympathy that was subsequently lost by the ferocity of that campaign? We did not. what we saw - especially on campuses was the celebration or rationalisation of the mass murder, sexualised sadism and torture and hostage taking as legitimate resistance against colonial oppressors irrespective if they were children, Nova festival goers, elderly holocaust survivors, people who had spent lives working for peace. The slaughter excited a thirst for more not less Jew- killing and not the end of occupation but the end of Israel. Then came the world wide avalanche of Jew hatred and Hamas cosplaying by drum- beating white people guilty about their own colonial history and displacing it on to Jews that gets ever more toxically racist; a virulent hatred so intense it of course strenthens not weakens the case for Zionism,
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen@srodan
There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently. When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies. Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France. The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it. Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined. And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country. Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews. Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.
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The fact that retiring MPs (some after just 1 term) are given a valedictory debate before every general election but the hereditary peers were given no time to commemorate their 50+ years of service and the nearly 1000 years of service by their ancestors is utterly shameful.
Christian Hacking@Chackdubdub
So proud of my Dad for his spontaneous valedictory Speech, following removal of Hereditary Peers from House of Lords. If they won't give you a slot...make one!
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