@RasmusJarlov As a Turk living in England, I see a huge increase in bots pretending to be Greeks pushing anti Turk narratives which started right after Iran war and Israeli officials announcing Turkey is next.
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If you look at the agendas that are being pushed in waves by the fake bot armies on Twitter, who do you think is behind it?
- Make US Americans and Europeans hate each other
- The USA should leave NATO
- The EU must be dismantled
- Orban is a hero
- Ukraine is evil. Russia is our friend
It is so obvious.
And by the way, this is exactly why the EU has fined Twitter for lack of transparency. To protect free speech, we must protect the public debat from fake bots that are used actively by the enemies of the free world to divide and weaken it.
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Update: Cecilia Culver has been terminated by her employer, Ernst & Young.
StopAntisemitism@StopAntisemites
Students like Cecilia Culver of George Washington University are hijacking commencement speeches to spew propaganda, not reflect on their time in college. What a shame for grads who actually earned their degrees while others threw tantrums on the lawn.
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@CaraLisette Few years ago I made £310k; fucked my life/health; not sustainable or worthwhile especially since effective tax rate was 45%. Asked for demotion, on paper salary halved but much lower tax rate means take home is still ok though one fewer person to pay for your benefits.
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Schrödinger's income - £247k a year is not rich, but people on benefits are apparently living a life of luxury.
Pepe 🌹@torysc_mout
Typical of politics of envy. £247k really isn’t obscene wealth after tax if you don’t have assets. You’ll be well off but that’s about it. You certainly wouldn’t feel rich if you had a family in London.
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@HenriLindroos @VFinnishProbs Google yourself the stats and you will be amazed to see how much disinformation you have been subject to here. UK is a far safer country than US by any metric imaginable
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MAGA constantly talks shit about Europe and the UK, while ignoring the reality.
For example, the US is 5% of the world's population yet has 20% of its prisoners.
Around 2 million people are behind bars. An additional 2.9 million are on probation and over 800,000 are on parole. That's 5.7 million under some form of state correctional control.
5.7 million is a larger population than New Zealand, Ireland, Norway or Finland.
Very Brexit Problems@VeryBrexitProbs
Trump, MAGA, Farage, Reform and GB News hate the UK and want us to believe the UK is a failing state compared to the USA. The facts disagree. On practically every measure of quality of life, health, safety, education, environment, the UK would rank as the best state in America. The land of the "free " (where people get yanked off the street by masked men) is also the land of half a million medical bankruptcies a year and the world’s largest prison population. This is the reality.
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@Dave61164 @sequi_simon if one argues moral superiority and makes it the premise on which to attack another sovereign country, the one who does the attacking should naturally attract more condemnation, does it not?
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@sequi_simon No they dont but being selectively blind in condemnation is not justified either!
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US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
("No quarter" means refusing to show mercy, spare lives, or take prisoners during a conflict, often resulting in killing all enemies. It is a war crime prohibited by the Hague Convention of 1907 (Article 23)).
Meanwhile the search continues for missing US airman from downed F-15.
Let us hope that the Iranians have a more "christian" attitude towards their enemies than the Americans do towards theirs.
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@ericmetaxas grew up with my turkish grandpa’s (from drama thrace) memories about how none of the elder men in his family had fingernails (all torne off by bulgarians/greeks), how some were executed in constant raids into his village - but still love greek coz im not a fundamentalist dipshit
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Growing up my dad told me innumerable stories of the evils that Islamic Turks did to Greek Christians. I never dreamt I'd grow up in a world where Islam could still do such things. But Islam hasn't changed -- and neither has Christian faith. Good & evil are still with us.
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Thousands of Greek Christian Monks were massacred in 1822 on the hands of the Ottomans, burned alive, enslaved, and wiped from their homes on the island of Chios. Their skulls still remain in a monastery today. This is a story most people have never heard. Read Forgotten Skulls by @bulutuzay_ idicenter.org/article/forgot…
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@AtticumFloreat @Elijah_D_profit @BiankaB12 Some Ottoman slaves got promoted to the second most important job in the country (after the sultan) too and many more made great generals (and that was the reason why slav boys were being enslaves in the first place)
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@Elijah_D_profit @BiankaB12 The Ottomans castrated the male African and European slaves they purchased and turned the females into sex slaves, but otherwise it was great.
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I agree.
After Bulgaria fought its independence from the Ottomans, the first constitution had a provision that every enslaved person that sets his foot in Bulgaria is immediately a free man / woman. Many enslaved women from Ottoman harems fled to Bulgaria to escape their captors.
If we are to do this, we need to be objective about it. Slavery wasn't an uniquely European or American phenomenon. The Ottomans and the Arabs were arguably much higher on the list in terms of scope and scale. The Arab Slave Trades transported literal millions of Africans across the Indian Ocean and Sahara desert. Not to mention they have slaves to this day, but that is something nobody seems to want to talk about.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
UN votes to recognise slavery as 'gravest crime against humanity' bbc.in/3PnDIe6
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@JamesPearceLFC Hate whataboutism but really have to ask - do you find it despicable that Liverpool fans themselves are throwing racist abuses at Galatasaray fans in the same social media threads?
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Liverpool “appalled and disgusted” by the disgusting racist abuse directed at Ibrahima Konate. He’s been targeted by Galatasaray fans on social media since Wednesday night.
nytimes.com/athletic/71339…
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@phl43 This is jn a similar way Pearl Harbor made US more “powerful” - it freed FDR to ignore isolationists which allowed him to actually use that power in practice - theoretical power doesn’t always translate equally to practical power but the US attack on Iran did precisely that.
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@phl43 Iran is now justified in public opinion to close the strait; if it had done the same before it was attacked, the world, including the chinese, would be involved to force them to open it. So the attack made Iran more powerful as they can now exert that “power” without a constraint
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This doesn't make any sense. Iran always had the ability to close Hormuz, thus indirectly controlling the price of oil, but it wasn't doing it because that's a very risky move.
The reason why it's now using that power is that it doesn't have a choice, because it's getting pummeled by far superior military forces, which is obviously not something that makes you more powerful.
There is a plausible case that Iran will be able to force the US to end the war by keeping the strait closed, you can say that, but the idea that it's more powerful now than before the war is idiotic.
Robert A. Pape@ProfessorPape
Iran is more powerful now than before the war — it controls the price of world oil and more likely to fracture the US coalition than US is to grow it. Stunning gains in 17 days
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@AchillesLegend5 @YusufErim34 No combat troops yes but it is only because of that the turks were not being attacked and could perform patrolling and other non-combat duties safely, to the benefit of all those nato members that did send combat troops
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@YusufErim34 Turkey does not go to war with Islamic countries. It refused NATO requests to send combat troops to Afghanistan. This has got nothing to do with how clever Erdogan is.
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The level of enthusiasm for seeing Türkiye get dragged into the War on Iran is quite shocking. Erdogan is too smart and experienced to let his country get dragged into this fiasco. When Türkiye needs to go to war, it’ll go to war. But it won’t go to war for someone else’s machinations. Sorry, Turkish blood too valuable.
Philip Pilkington@philippilk
Turkey is 100% the “do nothing, win” country in this war. 🇹🇷
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@_ctesiphon @tparsi Int’l law doesn’t ‘shield’ anyone just like criminal law doesn’t shield murderers. it is simple: you can’t take justice in your own hands because you think someone is a murderer. Otherwise you are no better than that other person (since, then, you’ll have both violated the law)
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The infantility of the German gov appears to have no limits. The German FM now says that "regimes like Iran cannot invoke international law.”
The most fundamental principle of international law is that it applies equally to all states. To challenge that is to declare yourself a rogue state.
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@WesternColumn @George50P @BBCNews Pretty rich of you to claim no bombs at muslim schools. after all it’s been a week since Israel puppets killed over 150 girls
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@George50P @BBCNews Kinda wish you would ask the same of Muslims who are the ones that bang on about "Islamophobia", despite no bombs been set off in their schools. Probably because they are the ones making them
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Explosion at Amsterdam Jewish school 'a deliberate attack' says mayor bbc.in/40v8BiY
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@Ijussdontcare turkey and iran have not fought for centuries, and that won’t change just because a bunch of zionists from eastern europe think they should
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@beingstillness @emrahgulsunar Problem Cin’de bunun gercekten yolsuzluk mu yoksa potansiyel rakipleri ortadan kaldırma planı mı oldugundan emin olamamamız. Bu acıdan baska bir ulkeyi hatırlatıyor
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Ben Epstein belgeleriyle ilgili olarak "Batı'da da epey pis iş dönuyor ama bu ülkelerde adaletin yerini bulması için bir mücadele de var" dediğimde iktidar yanlılarından sosyalistlere Batı karşıtı geniş bir kesim bana saldırmıştı. İngiltere'de Kral Charles'ın kardeşi Prens Andrew tutuklanmış. Hadi bana liberal-demokratik rejimler dışında bunun olabileceği bir ülke gösterin?
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC understands bbc.in/3OQ7BmL
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@JacobHorsfall_ personally believe his remarks were racist though if true that would mean he committed a crime for which standard of proof is beyond reasonable doubt not balance of probabilities just some thoughts from a lawyer - this means proof required almost no doubt
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This is exactly why “balance of probability” is required for these cases.
It’s pretty clear that the Benfica player has said something, but he’s covered his mouth to avoid being ‘proven’ guilty.
You’ll never get a “beyond reasonable doubt” verdict in these cases because there’s no way to 100000% verify what was said. Therefore, common sense is required to ensure scumbags like this get what they deserve.
SL Benfica@SLBenfica
Como demonstram as imagens, dada a distância, os jogadores do Real Madrid não podem ter ouvido o que andam a dizer que ouviram.
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@JoeLouis5535447 @GravityLab2023 @ReallyAmerican1 Cant believe how dumb maga is. You’re either under 16 or over 75.
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@GravityLab2023 @ReallyAmerican1 The night before the 2016 election the NY Times had Hillary at 92% and Trump at 8% 🤣
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BREAKING: Trump hits a humiliating new low, now a staggering -27 with Independents. MAGA is melting down as voters keep walking away.
There’s no bottom in sight.
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@emrahgulsunar Bir de su var tabii, sapıklık denen en kucugu 14 yasında olan kızlarla iliski; muslumanların bunu sapıklık olarak goruyor olması ise ironik. Olay sapıklık ama yine o elestirilen batı degerlerine gore sapıklık yoksa biz muslumanlarımızı ve hurilerini iyi tanıyoruz cok sukur
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Epstein vakası Türkiye'de Batı'nın "ne" olduğuna dair ikincil bir tartışma doğurdu. Batı'da böyle korkunç ve mide bulandırıcı bir olayın yaşanmasını birçok kesim kendi anti-demokratik ve anti-liberal ideolojisinin doğrulanması olarak gördü ama hakikat pek öyle değil. Bu haftaki yazımda bu meseleyi ele aldım.
Elips Haber@elipshaber
✍️Epstein vakası ve liberal demokrasiler 🗣️Liberal-demokrat değerlere karşıt ideolojilerden gelenler Batı’da yaşanan kötülükleri kendi anti-demokratik ve özgürlük karşıtı ideolojilerinin bir meşrulaştırması olarak görmeye eğilimli oluyorlar. @emrahgulsunar elipshaber.com/epstein-vakasi…
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@jk_rowling and the fact that you weren’t even ashamed of the memory of all those kids who loved your books and who are dead now to a genocidal army. Speechless.
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"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4
spectator.co.uk/article/why-wo…
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@KemiBadenoch well, love, that vote you’re seeking, that has already gone to reform.
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Every single one of these students will be entitled to claim asylum once they arrive here, because of the ECHR. These students Labour are giving scholarships to never need to return to Gaza.
Our laws are no longer fit for purpose. This is why we need to leave the ECHR and control our borders. It’s the only way we can decide who gets to stay in our country.
Hamish Falconer MP@HFalconerMP
Pleased to confirm a second cohort of students from Gaza with scholarships at British universities arrived in the UK today to begin their studies. They could play a vital role as future leaders in postwar Gaza.
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