Dimitrios Calculus

That's an October 7th necklace. How many more people like this are there in the NHS and other institutions across the UK?

Prediction: @owenjonesjourno won't apologise for spreading this lie. He'll simply pretend he didn't see this. He won't even delete the tweet.

@M_Lansky718 @kamilkazani Is Kamillo a Muslim ? I thought it was just traditional mindless Russian anti-Semitism on his part.

@kamilkazani The Muslim Kamil of course believes the Qatar funded sky news

Beautiful country, beautiful people

@jasonhickel This would make even Goebbels blush with shame. You people that openly wish for a second Holocaust are the lowest sort of vermin imaginable. Putting your money where your mouth is and enlist with Israel's enemies. This sniping from continents away is cowardly.

I'll never forget how the Israelis bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza in October 2023 and the world was shocked and horrified. Israel denied it, saying they would never commit such a heinous crime. Then they went on to bomb every single hospital in Gaza. Now they are doing the same in Lebanon and Iran. The Israelis have bombed at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon. In Iran, the US and Israel have bombed 25 hospitals and medical centres. In Lebanon, they are committing double tap strikes to kill medics and rescue workers, just as they did in Gaza. Medics are forced to delay their responses. These monsters are normalizing war crimes that were once unthinkable.

Ancient men, such as in Caesar's day, had an advantage over us in the happiness game. They had more constraints on their paths in life, from the lower classes inheriting a trade or a small farm, to the upper classes, where war and politics were the obvious avenues. But starting in the 19th century, the industrial revolution and economic/political liberalization opened up a new problem: options without limit. It began among the more privileged classes, but now it is almost universal. A talented person might have the choice of starting a career in dozens of different sectors; then he can also jump from sector to sector. You can start several different businesses over the course of your life. But how do you decide what your true path is? Is there even a right one? Part of us wishes for the certainty of constraint, because the infinite optionality actually makes us miserable. When you keep questioning whether you made the right choice, whether you should keep looking for better options, it's impossible to enjoy the reality of the present. Robert Musil explored this in a classic novel set in early 20th century Vienna. The protagonist has all the talents, all the qualities—intelligence, charisma, good with women... but because he can't choose, he ends up having no qualities at all. So we get The Man Without Qualities. If you're in this situation, to find your way, you have to wrestle with the questions this book poses. (Some good friends of mine happen to be organizing a seminar on this book with a famous Stanford professor, link in the next thread below)

@ClarkeMicah Appreciated your bringing up Rebecca West's marvelous book 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'.

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@jawad_od @alaaelhomsi @KhalilJeries Sorry I disagree. Making excuses for people that target civilians with their rockets, has only perpetuated this conflict. October the 7th had nothing to do with a long-standing grievance. While naive people have been making excuses, the proxies have been amassing a huge arsenal.

@dimavrid @alaaelhomsi @KhalilJeries once again, a stunningly decontextualized take on a context-heavy situation. all things being equal: yes, that is unacceptable. But pray tell... why oh why is this all happening? If your answer is: they hate them because they just do... you need to go back to the drawing board

Hezbollah has claimed that Israeli soldiers are stationed in Christian churches in southern Lebanon in preparation to bomb them. In response, local Christians have filmed videos to demonstrate that there are no soldiers in their churches. Lebanon should restore its sovereignty from Israel and Iranian proxies.

@jawad_od @alaaelhomsi @KhalilJeries It's unacceptable for a society to have to possess an Iron Dome in order to survive, and maintain a half-normal life for its citizens. If Lebanon cannot rid itself from Iran's proxies, it's high time someone more determined tried.

@alaaelhomsi @KhalilJeries huh? I didn't say that. I'm just pointing out that ascribing Israel's meddling and war crimes in Lebanon to the presence of Hezbollah is profoundly short-sighted and ahistorical. Whatever one thinks of Hezbollah, its undeniable that this is just wrong, dude

@DanQayyum It's fake Qayyum. Now that you know, could you please remove the tweet spreading disinformation?

I'm sorry but how on earth is this not front page news everywhere? A child. Cigarettes extinguished on his body. A metal rod inserted into his feet. In front of his father. This is documented, filmed, and handed over through the Red Cross. Where is the ICC? Where is the outrage from those who lecture the world about human rights?

@Kulambq Happy the man whose wish and care, a few paternal acres bound. Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Who's the author of the red (upside-down) book of essays in the picture?

I do consider myself rich - with fields, meadows, and my books.

@Irfuu_ @amjadt25 They could have ended the war any time by giving back the hostages Irfanii. Let alone not started it. If your country had suffered a massacre such as the one on Oct the 7th, how would you react Irfanii? Hamas sacrificed its own for publicity. And you're abetting them Irfanii.

The label ‘terrorist’ has always been a Western tool to neutralize whoever challenges their power. When 70,000+ Palestinians were being slaughtered in Gaza , not a word. But the moment Iran is in the crosshairs, suddenly they find their voice, their morality, and their outrage. That silence over Gaza was not neutrality. It was a choice. A deliberate, calculated choice. Now the UAE beats its chest, calls Iran a “terrorist regime,” dismisses Germany, Britain and Spain as rubbish collectors, and threatens that “this Saturday will not pass quietly.” But borrowed war language from unelected monarchs who normalized ties with the very state that bombed refugee camps does not make a moral argument , it exposes one. You do not get to define terrorism after staying silent through one of the deadliest campaigns against a civilian population in modern history. The world is watching. And it remembers who spoke , and who didn’t.

The UAE stands as a strong partner of the United States. No ceasefire with the Islamic regime in Iran. Not now. You don’t negotiate with terror. You end it. The UAE stands firm. Zero space for terrorists. Germany, Britain, Spain's governments say they want a diplomatic solution with this terrorist regime. Fine. Let it be your neighbour. Take its leadership, as you did with the Muslim Brotherhood. Give them citizenship. They are all yours. If you want the rubbish, take it but don’t ask us to accept it or live with it. It stinks. You can have it. Live with it alone. This Saturday will not pass quietly. It will be marked. It will be remembered.

@darthpenquin @AidanSimardone Apparently he's the 'smartest man in Canada'. Imagine the rest...

@AidanSimardone Jews protecting themselves really bothers you Deal with it goy

Nazi car company ready to support another genocide

@NathanJ5072 @RabbiPoupko He draw a parallel. Germans had flourished in Eastern Europe for centuries. After WW2 they were expelled. They didn't go on to commit 'intifadas' or fund terrorist organizations. You missed his point.

@RabbiPoupko Stop dehumanizing Palestinians you deranged lunatic. They had nothing to do with any suffering in Europe

You know who deserves far more sympathy than the Palestinians of the Nakba? 14 million ethnic Germans were expelled from their homes between 1945 and 1950, with over 2 million of them even being killed. 95% of these German-speaking people were completely innocent and were expelled en masse from countries like Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Lithuania, Hungary, and other countries just because they were German. Thousands of their children wandered the streets of Europe for over a decade and were known as "The Wolf Children". Their homes, in which they often had lived for Generations, were taken, never to be returned. No one demands a "right of return" for them, not even France, which demands a right of return for Palestinians. Poland, which expelled six million ethnic Germans after 1945, would like to recognize a Palestinian state? Then, why don't they return the properties of these millions of ethnic German families?! The truth is that, like Nazi Germany in 1939, Palestinians started the war of 1948, rejected a peaceful two-state solution, even though it heavily favored them, and brought to the world a great deal of violence. They are not the main victims of this all.

@CyrusYari Sadly Taleb has done little to dispel the stereotype of the 'loud-mouthed Arab'. His unhinged anti-Semitism has been a sad unfolding embarrassment on Twitter.

one of the greatest lines to this day: "slavery does not decrease with wealth"

@kamilkazani Brilliant insightful analogy-as always Kamillo.

There’s no hierarchy of trauma — the trauma in Germany, the trauma in Warsaw Ghetto, the same

@NineGreen115 @NikolaCosmi This person has been thoroughly discredited, since he's on record salivating over the video of the Oct the 7th massacre. I'd advise you against taking his word for anything, let alone politics. The hard left in GR is voluble, however it constitutes a small minority.

@NikolaCosmi Hello, thank yoy for this… what I don’t understand about greece is the large gap between the greek people’s beliefs versus the greek state / government policies 1/2

In 2010 crisis-hit Greece signed a deal with IMF, the first EU country to do so. Just 4 months later, for the 1st time in the country’s history, the Israeli prime minister visited Greece, ever since a “strategic ally” of the Zionist state. What did it bring to Greece? A thread!

@Bushra1Shaikh @Eve_Barlow Why didn't Hamas release the hostages ? They had almost 2 whole years, 700 consecutive days during which they decided not to end the siege. They calculatingly let it go on, so dupes like you, would still be talking about it. Show some integrity, stop being their puppet.

@Eve_Barlow And you call yourself a journalist? Have some shame.

Nice try. Hamas did that.

@krystalball Why hasn't the Lebanese army helped with the dissolution of Hezbollah? Apparently they possess an arsenal of half a million rockets. If they couldn't address it let someone else try.

Anyone gonna say anything about Lebanon’s right to exist?

@mamoun_linda Sorry aren't Iran, Hezbollah, the Lebanese army and Hamas also partly to blame? Don't they have agency and therefore responsibility ? What's the rationale behind blaming solely Israel?

Israel has pushed Lebanon into the ranks of the world’s worst displacement crises almost overnight. Syria and Somalia took years to reach this level. Israel did this in three weeks.

@protagonist_xig This was proven to be false. If you have a shred of dignity, delete this tweet. Readers of this tweet should report @protagonist_xig. She's to blame for Twitter turning into a sewer.

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.