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If you want to know if you are on the right side of history, ask yourself these questions: *am I inspired by kindness to the persecuted? *do I base my views on provable factual evidence? *do I change my mind when I learn new facts that disprove old ones? Yes to all = 👍

@ThereYouGoAgain @nxt888 And I will add to that, that well-known maxim, “trust is like virginity - you can only lose it once”. Trump was exposed to the world yesterday as a blustering bully, a coward, a liar, a cheat, full of hot air but out of practical ideas. He can’t come back from that.

@ThereYouGoAgain @nxt888 We hear a lot about Trump and his deals. We don’t hear a lot about many successful ones. He stiffs others in business and ruins them, but that’s not a deal. Show me some foreign policy deal he has made, successfully and permanently, as president.

Future historians will mark this as the moment the American century ended. Not the financial crisis of 2008. Not the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Not any of the other candidate moments that analysts have proposed as the inflection point. This. The 48-hour ultimatum that became a request for joint control of a strait the United States does not border. The strike on Ras Laffan in a country with American bases. The Haifa refinery burning behind supposedly impenetrable air defenses. Trump calling China. China saying no. The strait remaining closed after the deadline for its reopening passed without consequence. These are not the symptoms of a declining power managing a difficult adversary. These are the documented, timestamped, publicly witnessed moments when the architecture of the last thirty years of American global dominance showed its structural limits. And what makes this different from every previous American setback is not the scale of the defeat. It is the visibility. Vietnam was visible but distant. Afghanistan was visible but long. Iraq was visible but complicated. This is happening in the most strategically important energy geography on earth, in real time, with global markets responding to every development, with every government watching its screens and updating its models. The visibility is the mechanism by which it changes everything. Because the power of unipolarity was never only military. It was always also psychological. It was the belief held by allies and adversaries and neutral parties alike that American power was the fixed point around which everything else organized. Iran did not defeat the United States militarily. Iran defeated the belief. And beliefs, once defeated in front of enough witnesses, do not come back. The witnesses are counted in billions. They all watched. They all know what they saw. The fixed point moved.

@DavidM_Friedman Seriously, I mean it. Please explain it to me. You clearly think you’re making sense and I would like to know why you think that.

@DavidM_Friedman You will have to explain what you mean, because we have all seen the wasteland Israel has made of Gaza, and seen the mutilated, dismembered, beheaded, shredded bodies of regular people with older parents and young children. You clearly see some difference. What is it?

This is what Iran is dropping on civilian neighborhoods in Israel. There’s no army base here, no soldiers hiding behind civilians, just regular people with older parents and young children. Never try to draw an equivalence between this and how the IDF engages in battle.

@RetsofNevets @RedCollectiveUK @Ex_Sm3 @wesstreeting So if they are being loaned 4 ambulances, were these spares? Or does that mean the ambulance service is down four vehicles? I don’t understand how this works. Surely the NHS ambulance service comes first?

@RedCollectiveUK @Ex_Sm3 @wesstreeting So you think that they don’t augment London Amb Service for everyone who needs help . As volunteers , no pay , as a service to the whole area ? Muppet .

To be very fucking clear... No group or community, including Jews, should be given new ambulances at taxpayers' expense. People of all faiths and none should have equal access to healthcare and ALL can access the NHS. Pay for these yourself @wesstreeting! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@NeilFra97674870 @RedCollectiveUK @forumeditor @wesstreeting Were they surplus to requirements?

@RedCollectiveUK @forumeditor @wesstreeting F-wit. They’ve been LOANED by their partners the London Ambulance Service (and will be operated by the Hatzola charity until they can afford replacements).

Absolute psychopath. Trump casually threatens to "literally annihilate" a sovereign nation of 80 million people on live TV if they don't submit to his deal in 5 days. This is how you prepare a population for mass murder and genocide.

Absolute humiliation for the Pentagon. Trump accidentally reveals that US forces shot down THREE of their own allied planes over Kuwait due to sheer incompetence. They are firing multi million dollar missiles at themselves. Total disaster.

"A French woman recounts the Israeli genocide in Gaza: ​We found a single mass grave in Gaza containing 300 people. ​Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs. ​Then they come out and claim that Israeli soldiers are the most moral in the world."!

The sheer horror and embarrassment of what Trump has done to the White House. I’m sure it was expensive, but it makes the average 1980s curry house look palatial. Just unbelievably tasteless.

@DupskeRay @politvidchannel I don’t have to imagine Trump doing it. Unfortunately.

@politvidchannel Bullshit. She spent over a billion dollars and couldn't even win one primary. Can you imagine her trying to deal with muslim dictators around the world.

BREAKING: Election expert thinks Harris was the Real winner of the 2024 Election and Trump won due to massive fraud

@politvidchannel @ChurchAndStateN Didn’t we all know that? Both Trump and Musk have said so publicly. Did everyone think they were joking?

@Australis213 @paulhutcheon CLue - often known as the Daily Rangers. No friend of the SNP and that’s putting it mildly.

@Australis213 @paulhutcheon You don’t know much about PH, do you? Or his newspaper?

NEW: Scottish Labour say Reform Scotland leader Malcolm Offord must consider his position after telling a vile homophobic joke about George Michael. I know what the "joke" was, and it is off the scale awful.

These are the pants of the child, #Jawad Abu Nasser — who was totured in Gaza by Israeli soldiers, a small piece of fabric that stands as powerful evidence of the crime. They bear traces of his blood, reflecting the abuse he endured. A visible hole can also be seen, indicating the insertion of a sharp object, resembling a metal rod, into his foot, with a clear exit point through both the foot and the fabric. The evidence does not end there; there are also marks that appear to be burns, likely caused by cigarettes being extinguished on them. The pants of a child not yet a year and a half old… yet they tell a story that cannot be justified.

@MichaelRosenYes @moodyoldblue @Carl1411c 👏👏👏👏👏

@Carl1411c My son died of it and you're telling me to go and look in books or online. Do you think I haven't looked a thousand times at this stuff? Are you trying to be disgusting or does it come naturally?

1. You're anonymous. 2. You give no indication in your profile that you are medically trained. 3. You have indicated that you don't know that 'meningitis' and 'meningococcal sepsis' are caused by the same bacterium but having different outcomes due to being in different sites.

@BraddrofliT @nickreeves9876 Four years will just be the start of that. Decades more like.

Here’s the part no one is saying: The next president won’t get a real first term. They’ll inherit a repair job. Rebuilding alliances. Restoring credibility. Undoing damage. An entire presidency spent fixing what Trump broke.

@MummyMay58 @meralhece @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News You do seem to be obsessed with race. Every single post. You must bore yourself, never mind others. Goodbye.

@flcro @meralhece @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News Carry on. No one cares because the term “racism” is used too easily and blaming the far right is ludicrous. Now they are totally meaningless.

I wonder why ‘Eid in the Square’ was never a problem when Boris Johnson was Mayor of London & not reported as ‘colonising’ ? ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ ⁦@BBCNews⁩ ⁦@SkyNews⁩ ⁦@Channel4News⁩ #R4today

@MummyMay58 @meralhece @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News To you perhaps. Tht in itself defines you.

@MummyMay58 @meralhece @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News Oh good, I’ll keep on pointing out racism and far right attitudes then, and we will both be happy.

@flcro @meralhece @BBCRadio4 @BBCNews @SkyNews @Channel4News I don’t know anyone who objects to being a racist. This is a badge of honour! Everyone is racist according to Starmer. It is like water off a duck’s back. It has become meaningless. Similarly being called far right.