Benjamin-Ray

Irish woman🍀💪

This woman is so brilliant. So articulate. So educated. She’s a joy to follow. This post about how silence isn’t consensus is spot on. I loved it.

@visegrad24 @ChrisEastCoast8

@KickKingdomClip @Keir_Starmer Two Tier Keir

Whenever I see news reports about migrant crime in Western Europe, it makes me wonder: Aren't people living there like rabbits living in a bear's den? They seem to be huddling in a corner, waiting for their turn to be attacked by teeth and claws. And if they resist even a little, they are attacked by wolves called the police. How did things end up this way in societies that have elections and claim to value freedom? From the outside, it almost looks as if ordinary white citizens have become second-class citizens. Were elections really held? Were they conducted properly? From a Japanese perspective, it feels strange—strange beyond words. The more we look at it, the harder it is to understand.

We gaan lekker in Europa..

@mellow_elephant Congratulations. You are one brain cell away from shittin' in your own kitchen.

@battleforeurope F**k NATO

One step away from the brink: NATO’s march towards all-out war with Russia The risk of an all-out conflict between NATO and Russia is higher than it’s ever been — even at the height of the Cold War — given how deeply the two sides are now entangled in what is, in every operational sense, an increasingly direct military confrontation, even if the fiction of non-belligerence is still formally maintained. Unlike during the Cold War, when the superpowers maintained elaborate protocols designed to prevent direct confrontation, the lines today are blurred to the point of near-invisibility. A war that was supposed to be contained within Ukraine’s borders has steadily metastasised into something far more dangerous: a proxy conflict in which NATO’s role has become so operationally central that the distinction between proxy and principal has largely collapsed, and in which each week brings fresh evidence that the escalatory logic is running well ahead of any political capacity to control it. [...] The risk of war is not some distant abstraction — it is dangerously, imminently real. The mechanisms of escalation that have brought us to this point are well understood: each step up the ladder, taken with the confident assumption that the other side will back down, makes the next step more likely and the space for de-escalation narrower. Western leaders have convinced themselves, through a combination of wishful thinking and institutional inertia, that Russia will continue to absorb provocations without responding in kind. But every week that passes without a diplomatic off-ramp brings us closer to the moment when that assumption is tested to destruction. What makes the current situation uniquely perilous is not just the military escalation but the complete collapse of the political imagination that might arrest it. There are no Cold War realists, no back-channel, no serious European leader with the standing and the will to propose a negotiated settlement. There is only the momentum of the war machine, now distributed across a dozen countries and thousands of companies, producing weapons in Finnish factories, German joint ventures and British workshops — all of them feeding a conflict that, in the absence of urgent political intervention, has no logical terminus short of catastrophe. The responsibility lies, ultimately, with European citizens. Our governments are not acting in our name or in our interests. It falls to us — before the next incident, the next miscalculation, the next drone that crosses into the wrong airspace — to demand that they step back from the brink. Read my latest article here: thomasfazi.com/p/one-step-awa…

Don't go to sleep without saying these 4 things to God

Rita Moreno performing "Fever" on the Muppet Show with Animal on drums which originally aired almost 50 years ago in the UK on September 12, 1976 and in New York on September 20, 1976 which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.

WTF is dit?😂

The biggest deception of all was making us believe that we lived in the illusion that they created.

@Eric32364350 @ExtremeFootbal4 Onsympathieke opmerking, juiste club.

@ExtremeFootbal4 Sympathieke vent , verkeerde club

Only true football fans will remember this baller.🙌🇳🇱

80s and the present. I would prefer the 80s.

They really don’t make films like they used to

No matter how many times I listen to this, I cannot get over how incredible this sounds live!💞❤️

@group_patria Gimme 3 pcs to keep the streets clean of scum your shareholders let in here

When I think of the total shitshow created by corrupt governments and greedy corporations to inflict misery upon millions of people for their own power and greed, I often come back to this clip of Billy Connolly to articulate how many of us feel right now. Take it away Billy…

@BukeBeyond @sciencegirl No guts no glory. (lol)

@sciencegirl my god, what if they fall in there?

Traditional Uzbek bread

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not. Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive. That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt. At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea. Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right. Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

@rallyjef3 youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Roepen jullie maar? Het liefst een met een muziek linkje plaatsen zodat we allemaal mee kunnen genieten