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Darrin

@modpies

Author of Notts County FC and the Birth of Modern Football. NHS Data Analyst. Modernista Antifascista Siempre.

Hucknall, England Katılım Ağustos 2016
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@TruckerSpence My mum gave it to me when i was about 5 and I immediately vomited.
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Spencer j strangward.@TruckerSpence·
I'm surprised they still make it plus I'm in shock that people actually eat the stuff.
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@alexedmi @SarahIronside6 " The files released PROVE he did nothing wrong related to Epstein." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Alex Edmiston
Alex Edmiston@alexedmi·
Actually, YOU are the one who has fallen for the psyops against Trump. The files released PROVE he did nothing wrong related to Epstein. But I bet YOU would still fight against the deportation of a gang of illegals who raped YOUR daughter. That's what you're doing right now. Do you really have to wait for your daughter to be raped and killed by illegals before you wake the fuck up?
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Sarah Ironside 💙
Sarah Ironside 💙@SarahIronside6·
I genuinely need to know what the red line is for maga. Because at this point it seems like trump could break into your home and rape your daughter right in front of you and you would still find a way to justify your support for this absolute monster.
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@Jan51478528 How do you tell what's a parody account and what isn't these days?
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Angry Jan 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Last night me & the gals had a day out in Londonistan. A person on the tube told me to stop eating my Crème egg because it was offensive to her . So Christian chocolates are now harem in my country ?? 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Maitreya Bhakal@MaitreyaBhakal·
Israel is so small that Iran can destroy all of its desalination plants and its entire power grid within just a few hours. Just imagine what will happen to the settler population then, without water and electricity. Ask yourself why Iran is not doing that.
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@linmeitalks "Get Zack to debate with economists who have helped tank the UK economy over the last 20 years and they will embarrass him with their wisdom. Meanwhile, vote for a party that actively supports genocide."
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Lin Mei
Lin Mei@linmeitalks·
Those of you thinking of voting green or like Zack Polanski- get him to debate with an economist and you’ll be embarrassed for him. He doesn’t understand finances or the economy in the slightest - so far removed from reality. I get you may be frustrated with Labour, but we cannot afford to have the greens in government. It would be catastrophic for our economy and who would feel it the most - small business owners , middle earners. Voting for them just because of Israel Gaza is not a good enough reason IMO
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@EricLDaugh 🤣🤣🤣 Starmer is useless but criticism from Trump is only going to make him more popular 😁
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump just ENDED UK PM Keir Starmer's whole career in the Oval Office *Turns around*: "I'm DISAPPOINTED. You see that man right there? Know who that is? The late, great WINSTON CHURCHILL." "Unfortunately, Keir Starmer is NOT Winston Churchill." 🔥🔥
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@wla1103 @ilangoldenberg I know there are a lot of people who just believe what they want to believe but how much more of Taco Trump do they have to see before they stop saying lalala and pull their fingers out of their ears?
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FreeThinker@wla1103·
I am over armchair quarterbacks. I’m not listening to experts who’ve been wrong on everything. Not listening to partisan influencers who have already written the narrative and ending 3 weeks in. It’s easier to debate the future. You don’t get hindered by facts. I’m going to patiently wait for Trump to execute and months from now have yet another proof point of how wrong they are. After 3 yrs of it, their credibility will be shot. We’ve never had an administration so transparent and with X. It’s all exposed now…no legacy media to gate-keep & censor anymore.
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Ilan Goldenberg
Ilan Goldenberg@ilangoldenberg·
Three weeks into the war with Iran, a number of observations as someone who spent years war-gaming this scenario. 1. The U.S. and Israel may have produced regime transition in the worst possible way. Ali Khamenei was 86 and had survived multiple bouts of prostate cancer. His death in the coming years would likely have triggered a real internal reckoning in Iran, potentially opening the door to somewhat more pragmatic leadership, especially after the protests and crackdown last month. Instead, the regime made its most consequential decision under existential external threat giving the hardliners a clear upperhand. Now we appear to have a successor who is 30 years younger, deeply tied to the IRGC, and radicalized by the war itself – including the killing of family members. Disastrous. 2. About seven years ago at CNAS, I helped convene a group of security, energy, and economic experts to walk through scenarios for a U.S.--Iran war and the implications for global oil prices. What we’re seeing now was considered one of the least likely but worst outcomes. The modeling assumed the Strait of Hormuz could close for 4–10 weeks, with 1–3 years required to restore oil production once you factored in infrastructure damage. Prices could spike from around $65 to $175–$200 per barrel, before eventually settling in the $80–$100 range a year later in a new normal. 3. One surprising development: Iran is still moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz while disrupting everyone else. In most war games I participated in, we assumed Iran couldn’t close the Strait and still use it themselves. That would have made the move extremely self-defeating. But Iran appears capable of harassing global shipping while still pushing some of its own exports through. That changes the calculus. 4. The U.S. now finds itself in the naval and air equivalent of the dynamic we faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a recipe for a quagmire where we win every battle and lose the war. We have overwhelming military dominance and are exacting a tremendous cost. But Iran doesn’t need to win battles. They just need occasional successes. A small boat hitting a tanker. A drone slipping through defenses in the Gulf. A strike on a hotel or oil facility. Each incident creates insecurity and drives costs up while remind everyone that the regime is surviving and fighting. 5. The deeper problem is that U.S. objectives were set far too high. Once “regime change” becomes the implicit or explicit goal, the bar for American success becomes enormous. Iran’s bar is simple: survive and keep causing disruption. 6. The options for ending this war now are all bad. You can try to secure the entire Gulf and Middle East indefinitely – extremely expensive and maybe impossible. You can invade Iran and replace the regime, but nobody is seriously going to do that. Costs are astronomical. You can try to destabilize the regime by supporting separatist groups. It probably won’t work and if it does you’ll most likely spark a civil war producing years of bloody chaos the U.S. will get blamed for. None of these are good outcomes. 7. The other escalatory options being discussed are taking the nuclear material out of Esfahan or taking Kargh Island. Esfahan is not really workable. Huge risk. You’d have been on the ground for a LONG time to safely dig in and get the nuclear material out in the middle of the country giving Iran time to reinforce from all over and over run the American position. 8. Kharg Island can be appealing to Trump. He’d love to take Iran’s ability to export oil off the map and try to coerce them to end the war. It’s much easier because it’s not in the middle of IRan. But it’s still a potentially costly ground operation. And again. Again, the Iranian government only has to survive to win and they can probably do that even without Kargh. 9. The least bad option is the classic diplomatic off-ramp. The U.S. declares that Iran’s military capabilities have been significantly degraded, which is how the Pentagon always saw the purpose of the war. Iran declares victory for surviving and demonstrating it can still threaten regional actors. It would feel unsatisfying. But this is the inevitable outcome anyway. Better to stop now than after five or ten more years of escalating costs. Remember in Afghanistan we turned down a deal very early in the war with the Taliban that looked amazing 20 years later. Don’t need to repeat that kind of mistake. 10. The U.S. and Israel are not perfectly aligned here. Trump just needs a limited win and would see long-term instability as a negative whereas for Netanyahu a weak unstable Iran that bogs the U.S. down in the MIddle East is a fine outcome. If President Trump decided he wanted Israel to stop, he likely has the leverage to push it in that direction just as he pressured Netanyahu to take a deal last fall on Gaza. 11. When this is over, the Gulf states will have to rethink their entire security strategy. They are stuck in the absolute worst place. They didn’t start this war and didn’t want it and now they are taking with some of the worst consequences. Neither doubling down with the U.S. and Israel nor placating the Iranians seems overwhelmingly appealing. 12. One clear geopolitical winner so far: Russia. Oil prices are rising. Sanctions are coming off. Western attention and military resources are shifting away from Ukraine. From Moscow’s perspective, this war is a win win win. 13. At some point China may have a role to play here. It is the world’s largest oil importer, and much of that supply comes from the Middle East. Yes they are still getting oil from Iran. But they also buy from the rest of the Middle East, and a prolonged disruption in the Gulf hits Beijing hard. That gives China a real incentive to help push toward an end to the conflict.
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@JeanHatchet You are equating British soldiers with genocidal maniacs. Is that free speech and cool yes?
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Jean Hatchet@JeanHatchet·
If someone shouted “kill kill British soldiers! Woohoo!” It would just be free speech and cool then yes? Or is it just ok when a posh lad with dreads who hates Jews does it? Because you know, in reality Lee Rigby is actually dead and we all know who killed him and why. jpost.com/diaspora/antis…
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@SamanthaTaghoy “We dislike you because you’re arrogant” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 these people have absolutely zero self awareness 😁
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Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith@SamanthaTaghoy·
Dear Hannah, Holding a constituency surgery and giving one (1) speech doesn’t make you MP of the Year. It’s literally the bare minimum And we don’t dislike you because you’re a “working class” woman We dislike you because you’re arrogant and hate our country Hope this helps!
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@jacobncm Jatta will probably start, then I would see how we could utulise Enoru in a position where he only has to spend a minimal amount of time defending.
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jacob@jacobncm·
who do we actually play upfront on tuesday? big rod target man shift?
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@ellemccoole Just as she was becoming one of my favourite people in the world I see this! I'm sending her one of these in the hope that she comes to her footballing senses.
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Satty Mootien@SattyMootien1·
Primark, Lidl & Temu in one pic
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@adam_hassell May be the right decision but in the last home game a Grimsby player tried to get someone sent off by rolling around pretending to have been kicked then just got up smiled and gave a thumbs up when the ref took no notice. If that's not a yellow and this is, the game has a problem
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Adam Hassell
Adam Hassell@adam_hassell·
Also, I chatted to the ref’s assessor on my way out of ML. He was pretty happy that the ref made the right decision to send Norburn off. I personally think common sense should have ruled and it should just been a talking to, but can understand it. What do you think, #Notts fans?
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@ArchRose90 Looks very much like an upgrade to me.
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Chris Rose
Chris Rose@ArchRose90·
The contrast, such decline!
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@AdamLowisz Yeah, the left are well known for their love of billionaires 😂😂😂
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@jessisajew I wonder if people like Jess realise what totally despicable human beings they are.
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Jewish Jess
Jewish Jess@jessisajew·
Fuck off, you self-loathing, Jew-hating shit stirring leftist loonie. Do not refer to 'our Jewish communities' when you have ostracised yourself entirely from anything remotely Jewish and legitimise Jew hatred. Your deputy leader celebrated October 7th. We Jews oust you. Be gone.
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski

Really horrific news coming from Michigan. Yet another attack on one of our Jewish communities. We must all stand together against hate.

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@SamMorshead_ Glad we played them twice before they got their act together.
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Sam Morshead
Sam Morshead@SamMorshead_·
MK Dons are going to romp the League Two title. Everyone else is playing for second. And now Salford are crashing the party. Going to be a rollercoaster 8 weeks.
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@____PM1O No one pays for speedy boarding.
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PM@____PM1O·
Proper sausage if you pay for speedy boarding just to sit on a plane that we are all getting on to leave at the same time anyway
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