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@Conserv48026994 @GimCandy @davidgobaud @esjesjesj Activists who have access to printing. Back in the days in my home country we just posted on Facebook and crowdfunded few thousand for this stuff in hours

@GimCandy @davidgobaud @esjesjesj Who prints out all the same exact uniform signs? Where do the pallets of bricks come from? Somebody’s funding this. You are willingly blind if you won’t see that.

It is funny how right wingers are genuinely baffled by the concept of caring about something

@suprflux @BlockPaperPets @TrilbeeReviews Without jailbreak?

I cannot believe that 2026 might see the United States sanction the United Kingdom because they're desperate to keep producing more child pornography on the world's richest man's website. The Republicans are the Epstein-party, through and through.

@BlockPaperPets @TrilbeeReviews That’s just false, other AIs have sensible safeguards around it

@TrilbeeReviews You are either missing the point or choosing to miss the point for engagement. Either way it's just sad. 1: all AI can do the same thing. It's the user, not the tool that is at fault. Same as knives, hammers etc. Etc. 2: banning X is due to restricting free speech & reporting

@irishnational10 @lennartreus High cost of protesting is bigger contributor IMO. You can expect 3% on a peaceful demonstration, but it’s unrealistic for what’s happening in Iran

@lennartreus But that's the big paradox, Most Iranians understandbly aren't fans of the ayatollah he's old and out of touch but doesn't mean they want foreign military intervention either.

This sentiment is being shared among other Iranian opposition sources. Mass killings, arrests and repression are ongoing. You can only hold out for so long against a government willing to do everything to quell the protestors.

@IranIntl_En Would be nice to finallly visit Tehran this year

A video sent by a citizen to Iran International on Saturday shows shopkeepers in Shiraz remaining on strike. The footage shows many shops closed across the city, indicating that the strike by local businesses is continuing despite pressure and disruptions.

@Liv_Boeree I’m following the protests from day one and can’t say they’re underreported at all. If anything, I felt they were a bit overhyped on X in the early stage

No wonder the left-leaning media is confused & silent on Iran, how could they possibly make this image fit their previous narrative that the Islamic regime were the good guys

@IterIntellectus Says a guy brainwashed into contrarianism and victim mentality. Fighting not against woke, but against common sense

people keep talking about “the regime” as if it meant whoever won the last election. liberals think they’re fighting the regime. they aren’t. they don’t even know what it is. the regime isn’t a political party and can’t be changed with an election. it’s the apparatus that decides which stories get told, which emotions are rewarded, and which thoughts become forbidden it’s whoever writes the movies, designs the textbooks in schools, sets the moral tone of news coverage, and decides which empathy is acceptable and which is “problematic” those people haven’t changed in fifty years regardless of who wins any election. they built something more effective than a conspiracy: a self-reinforcing system where the right beliefs grant status and the wrong ones make you unemployable. no coordination required. the incentives do the work. every institution that touches culture learned the same lesson: align with the narrative or be destroyed the target is specific: white people (mostly men) they are the only group you can openly mock, blame, and discriminate against while calling it progress (after all “minority” is defined as “any group of people that doesn’t include straight white men) that target is always the population most likely to resist centralized control, most likely to remember what self-governance looks like, most likely to say no. a regime that wants compliant subjects needs that population demoralized, guilty, passive, and hopefully destroyed, so that’s what the incentives produced. the campaign was systematic. first, capture education. rewrite history so western civilization is uniquely guilty, violent and illegitimate. children learn their inheritance is the original sin requiring lifelong atonement. second, capture entertainment. for decades the same archetypes get vilified (traditional fathers, christians, anyone who builds) while the same messaging repeats. writers rooms are ideologically homogeneous so output converges naturally. third, capture the legitimacy layer. make disagreement a moral failure, evil even. make defending yourself proof of the thing you’re accused of. the results are everywhere. people weeping in public because they feel guilty for showing human empathy at a white person’s memorial. religious conditioning producing predictable behavior. millions have internalized the idea that their existence is a problem to be managed. that was always the point. government agencies produce PSAs where every perpetrator is white and every victim is diverse regardless of reality. corporations do the same because HR was captured decades ago the messaging is constant and one-directional: the people who built this civilization are the problem, never the solution. anyone who notices is a bigot. what you need to understand is that power doesn’t flow from elected office. power is held by whoever controls social status, whoever decides who gets to feel like a good person the regime controls that. voting doesn’t touch it. you can win the presidency, the senate, the house, the courts, and your children will still be taught to hate themselves by people who despise everything you believe. win every election for the next twenty years. the regime will still be writing the textbooks, producing the movies, training the teachers, running the HR departments, setting the boundaries of what’s allowed to be thought. the ballot box doesn’t reach the cathedral. never did. there are only two ways out one is simple, quick, and extremely ugly the other is complicated, long, and requires patience most people don’t have the first one is obvious, the second one is building parallel schools, media, entertainment, institutions to replace the current ones the regime isn’t scared of losing elections, they’ve never been and they never cared about them they’re scared of losing the monopoly on who gets to tell the stories. and for the first time in decades, they’re starting to.

@anonimbirdd @RubnA29061 @AMK_Mapping_ @vonderleyen @kajakallas Is the opposite

@RubnA29061 @AMK_Mapping_ @vonderleyen @kajakallas Zelensky?

Following very closely the situation in Venezuela. We stand by the people of Venezuela and support a peaceful and democratic transition. Any solution must respect international law and the UN Charter. With HRVP @kajakallas and in coordination with EU Member States, we are making sure that EU citizens in the country can count on our full support.

@joshmanders @Winterrose @keysmashbandit The claim is so sensationalist, of course the first thought would be that it’s not true. Need more proof than that

@Winterrose @keysmashbandit Not only that but the real cooked part is that when reading such a thing, one's first instinct is "how can I prove this person is lying?" Like OH NO NOT SOMEONE USING AI TO HELP PEOPLE BEING FUCKED OVER TO NOT BE FUCKED OVER ANYMORE!!

30k likes bro we're fucked

@tennis_brand @youneshhamou_ @BBCSport Because it’s more fun if it’s not too one-sided? What kind of questions are these?

@youneshhamou_ @BBCSport Then why did they change the rules - if it were just an exhibition match? Why wasn’t she playing Alcaraz? That would have made a lot more money. Would have really put more eyes on the game. She wanted to win!

"I don't understand how people were able to find something negative in this event." Battle of the Sexes has sure got people talking 😅 Agree with Aryna Sabalenka?

@Qmwnebrvtcyxuz7 @amaldorai @bottleneckloser Most capital on prediction markets belongs to sharks making money rather than biased gamblers

@amaldorai @bottleneckloser This means there's an inherent sampling bias by only sampling the type of people that bet their money on stupid shit

I don’t think that’s how it works, if 100,000 people all bet on the sun turning green forever tomorrow with nobody betting against it that doesn’t mean it’s a 100% chance to turn green tomorrow

@snowalgo @nicksainato @bottleneckloser It’s not a % of wagers

@Tigra8306 @haralabob @MarcNixon24 Я бесплатно протестовал 8 месяцев. Все упирается в то, что вы не можете себя поставить на место этих людей.

@think__again @haralabob @MarcNixon24 Ну что тебе еще сказать! Люди 13 недель бунтовали за свой счет. Ни кто им не платил. Бросили работу семью детей и протестовали за бесплатно 13 недель. А так два американских политолога просто не официально выступали на митинге. Ну детям расскажешь эту историю может поверят.

BREAKING: Mark Carney just announced ANOTHER $2.5 BILLION to Ukraine. Total Canadian aid now: $24.5 BILLION. That puts Canada THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA CONTRIBUTORS IN THE WORLD.

@Tigra8306 @haralabob @MarcNixon24 You don’t speak the language to realize everyone in this video is sarcastic… We’re all prone to confirmation bias, so maybe try to be more diligent with your evidence

@think__again @haralabob @MarcNixon24 Everything leads to that bro. You can’t ignore the reality. x.com/MyLordBebo/sta…

@Tigra8306 @haralabob @MarcNixon24 You can look at the number of demonstrators on both sides in 2013-14 to see which path the majority wanted

@Tigra8306 @haralabob @MarcNixon24 Your mistake thinking the revolution was orchestrated. It was a response for broken promises from Yanukovich. I talked to people as it was unfolding, this is why my friends went to the streets (and in response to violence of course)

@Teoyaomiquu Fantastic post. We need more of this type of discourse

Meaghan I sincerely believe you want to help Ukraine and genuinely believe that discussing elections can demonstrate that Ukraine is a functioning democracy. I do not question the intent. I question the audience and the consequences. Ukraine has not started talking about elections because of internal democratic demand alone. This discussion intensified because of external pressure from Russia and from political actors in the West. Ukraine is being forced to play a game that was imposed on us, and we are trying to play it as responsibly as possible. The problem is that elections during an active existential war are not a neutral democratic exercise. They are a political weapon. Talking about elections in the abstract is fine. Turning them into a signaling mechanism while missiles are flying is not. The moment this shifts from long-term planning to public signaling, it becomes leverage for Russia and for bad-faith actors abroad. This will not persuade Tucker Carlson or stop MAGA-style rhetoric. Bad actors will amplify every irregularity, every delay, every security failure, no matter how small. We already have a clear example. The Republican Party in the United States still has not fully recovered from the 2020 election conspiracy theories, even though Republican-appointed judges repeatedly ruled against those claims. That happened in a peaceful country with functioning institutions. Now imagine how much more vicious this will be against a country at war. Millions of Ukrainians are displaced. Millions are under occupation. The frontline is fluid. Security cannot be guaranteed nationwide. Any vote under these conditions will be questioned, attacked, and delegitimized regardless of how carefully it is organized. What is meant to demonstrate democratic legitimacy will instead open the door to endless accusations, including claims of repression, religious persecution, and foreign interference. There is also a painful internal dilemma. People who understand past mistakes and failures will face a choice between speaking openly and tearing society apart, or staying silent and legitimizing those same mistakes and corruption because changing leadership in the middle of a war is dangerous. Either outcome is corrosive. This would be a tremendous stress test for any democracy. Ukraine has already endured more tests than most nations face in a century. Even the strongest systems can crack if pushed too far. I also do not want Zelenskyy to receive a second term by default and gain indulgence for all mistakes, including failures in preparing for the war. I want the war to end, and I want fair investigations and accountability. But if premature elections are forced, I would vote for him myself, precisely to avoid destabilization. That is not a healthy democratic choice. That is damage control. All of this raises a simple question. To prove what, and to whom? Do we really believe this will silence Tucker Carlson, stop conspiracy theorists, or suddenly change Trump’s position on aid to Ukraine? A bad election is worse than no election. Legitimacy lost during war is almost impossible to recover. Ukraine will play the game because it has to. And in doing so, we will likely demonstrate not democratic virtue, but the absurdity and impossibility of holding genuine elections while Russia continues to wage war and refuses any meaningful ceasefire.

@Tigra8306 @haralabob @MarcNixon24 In short, Ukraine was swaying towards the west simply because the west had more to offer. Russia couldn’t handle it so they started a military invasion taking millions of lives. No ordinary Russian needed or wanted this btw

@think__again @haralabob @MarcNixon24 I didn't say anything about getting my info from X. Tell us what is going on then?

@Gitannamina @haralabob @MarcNixon24 And I sympathize with that. I donate voluntarily, so naturally wouldn’t oppose it to happen via taxes, but I get the other point of view

@think__again @haralabob @MarcNixon24 I've been few times. The response from the dude was sarcasm, Canada is absolute shit hole right now. Almost 0 gdp growth. People are struggling big time . They have no business giving Ukraine billions. Its a fake war with innocent Ukrainians dying for pieces of shit in power

@LLcoolJonn @haralabob @MarcNixon24 NATO wasn’t a threat to Russia, but a threat to their ambitions. They opposed it because they wanted control over Ukraine even back then Remember, they tried to take Kiev and they would have if not for western support.

@think__again @haralabob @MarcNixon24 Russias original demands were to stop NATOs eastern expansion and for Ukraine not to join NATO. Russia now claims: •Crimea •Donetsk •Luhansk •Zaporizhzhia •Kherson And demands: Ukraine demilitarization, sanction relief, and for Ukraine to not join NATO.