Woke, politically correct, virtue signalling, latte sipping lefty.
Atheist supporter of free speech and social equity.
Cui bono?
I vet followers = no RWFWs
@Ryan_Parkerrr@rscotroberts Inflation is up under Trump.
He has weaponized just about every govt department and shit canned many oversight agencies
National public safety in the US was statistically increasing underd Biden with violent crime rates declining.
Russia Could Just Be Normal. But Here We Are.
Russia has a choice. It always has. It sits on more land than any country in history, stuffed to the permafrost with oil, gas, and minerals of every conceivable variety. Brilliant engineers. World-class mathematicians. The finest vodka ever produced by human civilization.
And what does it do with all of this? It invades its neighbors. Like a drunk uncle at Christmas.
Because here is what Russians are missing. That first evening in Rome, when the sun drops behind the rooftops and the whole city turns the color of warm honey, and you are sitting outside with something cold and local, and the air smells of coffee and something frying in olive oil, and you think: this is the whole point of being alive. Or New York in October, the light doing something extraordinary between the buildings, eating a pastrami sandwich the size of a small child, feeling genuinely optimistic about the human race. Or a rainy London pub. Nowhere to be. A pint slightly too warm. The irreplaceable comfort of being somewhere ancient and unhurried.
Russians could have all of this. Instead, the Kremlin has turned the largest country on Earth into a geopolitical pariah, weaponizing its own citizensโ futures for an empire that exists mostly in the fever dreams of one increasingly peculiar man in a very large building.
Funny how every American who visits Russia comes home convinced that Putin is misunderstood. Nobody visits France and comes back defending Macronโs right to annex Belgium. France does not do that to people.
The rest of us are just outside somewhere warm, drinks in hand, watching the sun go down, absolutely baffled.
And a little sad, if we are honest. Because some of the finest people I have ever met are Russian. Warm, funny, generous people who deserve that Roman evening and that New York October and that rainy London pub just as much as anyone. People I miss. People a lot of us miss. Who knows if it ever comes back. Who knows if the thing that was broken can be unbroken. But somewhere out there, a table has an empty chair. And the drinks are getting warm.
@marcogiann@LizWebsterSBF You think everything Putin does is a success?
His aim may have been to weaken Europe, but it didnโt work. Europe held firm.
The only thing Brexit actually weakened was Britain.
Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger on Brexit: โPutin would have been absolutely delighted by our decision.โ
โSo would Xi. France has effectively eclipsed us. Brexit has marginalised us.โ Most striking of all: โJust nobody mentions the UK.โ
Very sad that Sir Alex Younger, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, born on July 4, 1963, died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 2026, aged 62
Russia isnโt your enemy. Correct. Russia is just currently bombing hospitals in Ukraine, shooting American soldiersโ allies across the Middle East, arming Iran which is firing ballistic missiles at US military personnel, assassinating people in NATO countries with nerve agents, and running the largest land war in Europe since 1945.
But yes. Manufactured hate. Totally.
The neocons didnโt manufacture Bucha. They didnโt manufacture MH17. They didnโt manufacture the Salisbury poisonings on British soil. They didnโt manufacture the Wagner Group executing African civilians with sledgehammers. That was Russia. Doing that. On purpose.
โIf we just stopped antagonizing them tourism would increase.โ Mate. Iran is shooting at Americans right now with Russian weapons and youโre worried about hotel occupancy in St. Petersburg.
No nation is perfect is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Germany in 1943 was also imperfect. France during the Revolution had some rough edges. These are not equivalent statements.
The difference between you and a neocon is that the neocon at least knows which country he lives in.
@Socceroos@ParamountPlusAU Harper kinda ruins most of the matches he comments on.
If he just focussed on the game he would be excellent, but he often strays into discussing a players uncles next door neighbours football loving cat just as a promising Socceroo attack is underway.
RFK Jr. just showed how reckless and irresponsible he is. Grabbing venomous snakes barehanded while his wife begs him to stop? That's not bravery, rather it's stupidity that could have gotten him killed. The fact he risked his life for a publicity stunt shows how desperate he is for attention, most people call professionals to handle wildlife threats, not play hero like some kind of macho fantasy. This is childish ego trip that proves he's unfit for public office.