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Walter van der Cruijsen
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Walter van der Cruijsen
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Interested in current affairs, framing, populism, spin. sarcasm, parodies and satire, politics, art. Alter ego of @wvdc
The World Katılım Ağustos 2010
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If New York City ran its schools like you ran Amazon, the teachers would be on welfare and the students would be peeing and pooping in plastic bags under their desks. What an idiotic thing to say.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
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Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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Just a reminder that Elon destroyed America’s ability to prevent Ebola, then made a big show of admitting it was a mistake, and then he just never fixed it
BNO News@BNOFeed
JUST IN: Number of Ebola cases in Congo reaches 1,000, according to the health ministry
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Because Israel is deliberately targeting them, just like they did in Gaza.
Sky News@SkyNews
Why are medics being killed in Lebanon? Since the ceasefire was agreed on April 17th nearly 700 people have been killed. And out of those, 20 have been medics. Sky’s @AlexCrawfordSky reports trib.al/RR9UhhH
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at this point I'm just going to assume anyone who defends J-6ers has also touched kids.
GOP Ls@GOP__Ls
🚨 Pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionist David Daniel has pled guilty to child s*xual abuse.
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MAGA: “If you’re here legally, you have nothing to worry about.”
Also MAGA: “Just comply and show your ID.”
The reality:
A U.S. citizen. Born in Colorado. Mother of four. Stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana. Shackled. Detained in an ICE facility anyway.
She showed agents her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE reportedly called them “fake,” handcuffed her, chained her ankles, interrogated her, and transported her to a detention center. She was released hours later only after legal intervention.
The lesson is not “show your papers.”
The lesson is that papers don’t protect you when power decides not to read them.
This is not “law and order.”
This is state abuse.
Fight Trump. Fight ICE: gofundme.com/f/PAXIS
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Saudi Arabia will not join the ‘Abraham Accords’ unless there is a binding plan to establish a Palestinian state. Given that the current Israeli government is occupying territory in Syria and Lebanon and bombing other countries, I do not believe this is a realistic prospect. Netanyahu does not want peace.
As a reminder: the Kingdom 🇸🇦 launched the ‘Lasting Peace’ initiative for a two-state solution and the right of the Palestinians 🇵🇸 to an independent state. This is a consistent position that has not changed.
As for the war on Iran: from the outset, the Kingdom has called for dialogue and warned against threatening the region’s stability under the pretext of war. And after it broke out, it stated clearly on more than one occasion: this is not our war. It will respond to militia attacks at the appropriate time and in a manner that protects its national security.
And since the Kingdom’s warnings regarding the war on Iran were ignored, those who made the decision to go to war must bear the consequences of their failure, not shift the blame onto the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش@citrinowicz
There needs to be an end to the false expectations surrounding Israeli-Saudi normalization. Let’s start with the semantic issue. Anyone familiar with the relationship between Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and the broader regional order understands that if normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia ever happens, it will not be branded as an extension of the “Abraham Accords.” From the Saudi perspective, that is not a cosmetic or semantic matter. Riyadh will insist on its own framework, its own terms, and its own political narrative. But that is the smaller issue. To understand just how detached current normalization talk is from regional realities, it is worth reading the recent arguments made by Prince Turki al-Faisal and other influential Saudi voices. In essence, the prevailing Saudi view today is that Israel has become a major source of regional instability, in some respects viewed as even more destabilizing than Iran. At the same time, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who sees himself as a central leader of the Arab world, is unlikely to move toward normalization without significant and visible progress on the Palestinian issue. The reality is that renewed Saudi-Iranian accommodation is far more likely in the near term than Saudi-Israeli normalization. That may be uncomfortable for many in Washington and Jerusalem to acknowledge, but it reflects the region as it actually exists, not as some policymakers wish it to be. Saudi Arabia will not agree to normalization in exchange for cooperation on Iran alone while the Palestinian issue remains unresolved. Contrary to the hopes of some in Israel and the United States, there was never a realistic path toward bypassing the Palestinian question on the road to broader regional normalization. This is also why comprehensive peace agreements between Israel and countries like Lebanon or Syria remain highly unlikely under current conditions. Much of the regional diplomatic architecture ultimately runs through Riyadh, and Saudi Arabia is not prepared to legitimize a regional order that sidelines Palestinian aspirations. From the Saudi perspective, Israel cannot indefinitely hold both ends of the stick, deepening control over the West Bank while simultaneously expecting the political and economic benefits of normalization with the Arab world. The sooner policymakers internalize that reality, the more grounded and effective regional diplomacy can become. And this is true not only under Israel’s current government, but very likely under future governments as well. That is precisely why it is irresponsible to continue selling illusions to the Israeli public on this issue. There is no serious regional pathway to normalization with Saudi Arabia that completely bypasses the Palestinian question. Repeating that promise over and over may serve short-term political narratives, but it does not change the strategic reality in the Middle East. At some point, Israeli policymakers and the public alike will have to confront a basic fact: normalization with the Arab world, especially with Saudi Arabia, will almost certainly require meaningful movement on the Palestinian track. Not symbolic gestures, but substantive political steps. Pretending otherwise may be politically convenient, but it only deepens the gap between expectations inside Israel and the diplomatic realities shaping the region. #IranWar #Iran
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This completely seals the deal for me. It’s dead on arrival. Nobody who actually understands the Middle East would even mention the Abraham Accords with a straight face right now.
Of course the monarchs and royals want to avoid a massive regional conflict. But their absolute worst nightmare is a second Arab Spring knocking on their palace doors.
Look at where the Arab street stands today. If the royal houses try to pivot back to the Abraham Accords and openly cozy up to Israel, they are looking at absolute chaos at home.
There is zero structural substance to this deal. If the plumbing was actually working behind the scenes, they wouldn’t need to blast the tape with this garbage.
#oott #iran
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Ben-Gvir doesn't represent Israel.
The Israeli government doesn't represent Israel.
Polls don't represent Israel.
Israelis on social media don't represent Israel.
Only thing that represents Israel: C-list celebs who took a trip to Tel Aviv and now Understand The Middle East.
Haaretz.com@haaretzcom
Author of 'Reading Lolita in Tehran': 'Netanyahu's government doesn't represent Israelis' haaretz.com/magazine/2025-…
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how stupid does he think everyone else in the world is?
Acyn@Acyn
Blanche: My job is to do the right thing. It's to do the right thing, no matter who is on the other side. And the fact that it was President Trump and his sons and his company played no role in my decision except to do the right thing.
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Omdat zijn aanhang geen azc’s en politie-auto’s in de hens steekt, lampies.
WNL Vandaag@WNLVandaag
VVD en JA21 hekelen label extreemrechts: 'Waarom hoor je nooit radicaal-links over Jimmy Dijk?' #WNL wnl.tv/2026/05/25/vvd…
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We really don’t hate colonialism enough.
trax ✭@traxstarrr
Summary of Dutch colonialism in 1930s Indonesia: Two children, two utterly different lives!
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“the left turned on jews” no, the left turned on a right-wing apartheid state. anyway here’s me and hundreds of other jewish leftists
Batya Ungar-Sargon@bungarsargon
For 100 years, Jews were a cherished part of the Left. They built the Labor Movement, wrote the New Deal, marched with Dr. King. Yet today, the Left has turned on the Jews. Why did Jews become Democrats? And why did the Left turn on them? My new book answers those questions:
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ZOHRAN MAMDANI AS CANDIDATE FOR NYC MAYOR
•Media: Will you go to Israel if you're Mayor?
•Mamdani: I'm focused on NYC and affordability for all New Yorkers
•Media: Lol good luck winning your election
•Mamdani: [Wins election, +38 approval]
ZOHRAN MAMDANI AS NYC MAYOR
•Media: Will you go to Israel day as Mayor?
•Mamdani: I'm focused on NYC and affordability for all New Yorkers
•Media: Lol good luck winning public support
•Mamdani: [Public approval rises to +48]
Protect this man at all costs❤️✊🏽
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“Trump’s old methods will be turned to a new task: trying to deceive the American people and the world into believing that the war he lost was really a big win, the biggest ever, so big you cannot believe it” theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
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"Hace 4000 años, en Jerusalén, dios escogió a los judíos como el pueblo elegido, con el propósito de llenar de luz el mundo. Los que no somos judíos les damos las gracias a los judíos por darnos una base de decencia, moralidad y civilización a todos".
Mike Huckabee, embajador oficial de EEUU en "Israel", de nuevo pidiendo que todos debemos dar las gracias a los sionistas por traernos la moralidad y la civilización... tras bombardear a 65.000 niños en Gaza.
Daniel Mayakovski@DaniMayakovski
"Los libaneses deben dar las gracias a Israel por comerse un tomate cherry, deberían cruzar la frontera, dar la mano a los israelíes y decir "Gracias Israel por hacerme la vida más facil". Mike Huckabee, el fanático sionista embajador de EEUU en "Israel", aseguró que los libaneses a los que bombardean deben dar las gracias a los sionistas por comer tomate cherry. Esta es la clase de dementes que están en los puestos de poder de EEUU, no solo no condenan el genocidio que "Israel" perpetra, sino que pretende que le den las gracias.
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Wat is dit toch voor mensensoort: anonieme toetsenbordridders die op dit medium hun gal spuwen tegen (vooral) politici en andersdenkenden? Informatief artikel over dit soort zelfbenoemde “helden” die hier scheldend door het leven gaan: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…
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