Gerben1969

Vroeger noemde men mij links. Mijn denkbeelden zijn niet wezenlijk veranderd, maar nu ben ik opeens alt-right hoor ik.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I have just finished reading The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

It is, without a doubt, the most horrifying document I've ever read in my life.

There is no close second... and it's worse than you could ever imagine.

Here's everything you need to know 🧵

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[Strijder124 @Strijder124]

Op de A12, bij de blokkade van XR, staat een man met een vlag van een verboden Palestijnse terreurorganisatie - zonder dat de politie ingrijpt.

Ondertussen worden burgers die in Loosdrecht protesteren tegen een AZC wél keihard aangepakt. Hoe valt dit nog uit te leggen?

[Roderick Veelo @RVeelo]

Het Iraanse regime bereidt zich voor op de executie van Bita Hemmati, de eerste vrouw die ter dood veroordeeld wordt vanwege haar deelname aan de massale demonstraties van januari.

Niets dan stilte uit de muilen aan de 'goede kant van de geschiedenis.'

[Harry Pater @HarryPater62]

Dus....

[Strijder124 @Strijder124]

De Iraniër Keyvan Shahbazi over de Europese houding: "Die deal van Obama. Die heeft twee miljard dollar op pallets via Zwitserland naar Iran laten gaan. Weet u waar dat geld aan besteed werd? Die tunnels van Gaza werden daarmee gefinancierd."

"Internationaal recht is een achterhaald mantra van Europese lafheid waar geen mededogen is voor mensen die onder totalitarisme lijden."

"Voor wat ik net heb verteld, mensen die bij het graf van hun zoon gaan feestvieren dat Khamenei dood is. Die hebben niks aan dit internationaal recht."

[Oscar Hammerstein @HammersteinO]

Volledige stilte over Iran. Geen woord. Geen enkele post.

Sinds het massaal doden van Iraniërs begon — met 12.000 tot 20.000 afgeslachte burgers, neergeschoten kinderen, geëxecuteerde demonstranten, achtergehouden lichamen en een land dat in duisternis is gestort — hebben de volgende luidruchtige Gaza-pleitbezorgers, “mensenrechten”-stemmen, beroemdheden, activisten, kunstenaars, sporters en publieke figuren absoluut niets gezegd:

Dua Lipa,
The Weeknd,
Angelina Jolie,
Jennifer Lopez,
Selena Gomez,
Billie Eilish,
Ben Affleck,
Bradley Cooper,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Emma Stone,
Cate Blanchett,
Cillian Murphy,
Pedro Pascal,
Lewis Hamilton,
Mohamed Salah,
Gigi Hadid,
Bella Hadid,
John Legend,
Mark Ruffalo,
Benedict Cumberbatch,
Javier Bardem,
Judi Dench,
Olivia Colman,
Brian Cox,
Malala Yousafzai,
Greta Thunberg,
Roger Waters,
Patti Smith,
Billie Joe Armstrong,
Annie Lennox,
Damon Albarn,
Brian Eno,
Robert Smith,
Yusuf Cat Stevens,
Gary Lineker,
Eric Cantona,
Paul Pogba,
Kyrie Irving,
Ons Jabeur,
Rafael Leão,
Ava DuVernay,
Guillermo del Toro,
Ken Loach,
Mike Leigh,
Nan Goldin,
Gael García Bernal,
Mahershala Ali,
Riz Ahmed,
Florence Pugh,
Ramy Youssef,
Ayo Edebiri,
Kehlani,
Macklemore,
Kid Cudi,
Hozier,
Zara Larsson,
Phoebe Bridgers,
Julien Baker,
Lucy Dacus,
Victoria Monét,
Renée Rapp,
Rachel Zegler,
Hunter Schafer,
Bella Ramsey,
Nicola Coughlan,
Joseph Quinn,
Emma D’Arcy,
Bo Burnham,
Elliot Page,
Alan Moore,
Ilana Glazer,
Abbi Jacobson,
Alan Cumming,
Debra Winger,
Wallace Shawn,
Amandla Stenberg,
Kingsley Ben-Adir,
Ncuti Gatwa,
Kareena Kapoor Khan,
Priyanka Chopra,
Alia Bhatt,
Varun Dhawan,
Sonam Kapoor,
Samantha Ruth Prabhu,
Swara Bhasker,
Huda Kattan,
Mona Kattan,
Steve Coogan,
Charles Dance,
Liam Cunningham,
Miriam Margolyes,
Juliet Stevenson,
Maxine Peake,
Frankie Boyle,
Stewart Lee,
Paloma Faith,
Beth Gibbons,
Robert Del Naja,
Primal Scream,
Young Fathers,
Bikini Kill,
Fontaines DC,
Nadine Shah,
Nilüfer Yanya,
Celeste,
The Blessed Madonna,
Ben UFO,
Kode9,
Loraine James,
Lee Gamble,
Tony Shalhoub,
Cynthia Nixon,
Lena Headey,
Melissa Barrera,
Hannah Einbinder,
Megan Stalter,
Khalid Abdalla,
Asif Kapadia,
Michael Rosen,
Peter Mullan,
Daniel Scheinert,
Jeremy Deller,
Tai Shani,
Oreet Ashery,
Rosalind Nashashibi,
Larissa Sansour,
Tanita Tikaram,
Tanika Gupta,
Inua Ellams,
Shazia Mirza,
Nish Kumar,
Deborah Frances-White,
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Rebecca Hall,
Gustaf Skarsgård,
Ruth Negga,
Paapa Essiedu,
Tobias Menzies,
Vijay Iyer,
Francesca Martinez,
Grace Petrie,
Robin Ince,
Salena Godden,
Susan Lynch,
Suzi Ruffell,
Eugene Lee Yang,
Lolly Adefope,
David Morrissey,
Swann Arlaud,
Quannah Chasinghorse,
Kaouther Ben Hania,
Selma Dabbagh,
Malak Mattar,
Nadim Cheikhrouha,
Sofia Karim,
Alanoud Badr,
Karen Wazen,
Mina Al-Sheikhly,
Natasha Aris,
Zainab Hassan,
Rida Hamidou,
Sara Masry,
Vivian Munn,
Edward Davis,
Emma Seligman,
Esther Freud,
Esther Manito,
Chris Perfetti,
David Calder,
Milo Machado Graner,
Roger Hartley,
Peter Wyer,
Frederico Gaggio.

Wanneer de daders jihadisten zijn en de slachtoffers Iraniërs, is de stilte oorverdovend.

Mensenrechten hangen niet af van ideologie.
Onderdrukking wordt niet onzichtbaar omdat het ongemakkelijk is.

Zwijgen is een keuze. En de geschiedenis registreert keuzes.

#IranMassacre #StandWithIran #HumanRightsAreUniversal #SelectiveOutrage #SilenceIsComplicity

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2008. Obama slams the Bush Administration for not doing enough to combat the problem of illegal immigration. 😂

[Dumpert @dumpert]

Ping ping ping ping ping! Wat ik niet wil horen ping ping ping ik, aldus PvdA. #ping

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Watch this. During the Obama years, CNN did a ride along with ICE as they arrested illegal aliens with criminal histories—and it’s overwhelmingly positive.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

Hello @BBCBreaking - why do you pretend to be a news organisation but refuse to cover the Iranian revolution? Is there something you need to tell us?

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

This wins the internet tonight! 😂😂😂

[JOODS.NL @joods]

Een uitgelekt BBC-memo onthult dat hun virale bericht over massagraven in Gaza volledig verzonnen was - en dat ze dat wisten. Wanneer worden de NOS en andere omroepen eindelijk onderzocht?

[Gerben1969 @Gerben1969]

@wierdduk Het is toch heel duidelijk dat Nederland voor een rechts kabinet heeft gekozen. Als je bij de midden partijen D66 en CDA, de rechtse partijen optelt kom je op 115 zetels. Tel je bij de 2 midden partijen de linkse zetels op kom je op slechts 79 zetels. #verkiezingen2025

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪
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[Gina @ginnydmm]

I always say Israel is losing the PR war, but have a read at this...…….

Mitch Schneider

October 10 at 12:09 PM

“I keep hearing that Israel "lost the PR war."
And you know what? Fine. Sure. Whatever.
The world thinks we're monsters. The UN passed over 30 resolutions condemning us. College campuses exploded with protests. "Genocide" trended on Twitter for 700 days straight.

We lost the PR war. Congratulations to everyone who won it.

Now let me tell you what we won instead.
Two years ago, my country was surrounded. Hezbollah had 150,000 rockets aimed at us from the north. Hamas controlled Gaza with an army in tunnels beneath it. Iran was months from a nuclear weapon. The Houthis were firing missiles at our ships. Assad's Syria was an Iranian highway. Iraqi militias were itching for war.

We called it the "ring of fire." Iran spent 40 years building it.

Billions of dollars. Endless weapons. Thousands of fighters. All of it designed for one purpose: to destroy Israel in a coordinated attack.
October 7th was supposed to be the beginning. Hamas attacks from the south, Hezbollah from the north, militias from the east, Houthis from the sea. The final war.

You know what happened instead?
Israel dismantled the entire thing. Piece by piece. Threat by threat.
Not in some distant future. Not "eventually." In two years.

Nasrallah spent 32 years building Hezbollah into the most powerful non-state military in the world. Israel killed him in his bunker and took out his entire command structure in weeks.
Hezbollah isn't weakened. It's finished.

Iran built a nuclear program for decades. Israel set it back years. Killed their top scientists. Destroyed their facilities. Made the regime so weak that its own people are revolting.

Assad survived a civil war, Russian intervention, and American strikes. He couldn't survive losing his Iranian backers. His regime collapsed. The land bridge is gone.

The Houthis thought they could close the Red Sea. Israel crippled their long-range capabilities and neutralized the threat.

Hamas? Sinwar died in rubble clutching a stick. Haniyeh was eliminated in Tehran. Deif is gone. The tunnels are destroyed. And this week, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and the release of all hostages.

Read that again. The terrorist organization that started this war by massacring 1,200 people just agreed to release every hostage and accept a ceasefire on Israel's terms.

So yeah. We lost the PR war. I'll take that loss.
Because here's what we gained:

My kids don't have to run to bomb shelters anymore. The north is being rebuilt. Hezbollah's rockets are gone. Iran's nuclear threat has been pushed back years. The tunnels under Gaza are rubble. The "ring of fire" is extinguished.

And now? The hostages are coming home. There's a ceasefire. The fighting can finally end.
Two years ago, we were facing an existential threat. Today, we're the dominant power in the Middle East.

Here's the thing about the "PR war" - it's a luxury. It's what people with security worry about. It's optics. It's perception. It's whether someone with a blue checkmark likes you.

Israel doesn't have that luxury. We never did.
When people scream "genocide," we're preventing one. When they cry "disproportionate," we're stopping rockets. When they demand "ceasefire," we're rescuing hostages.

While the world was busy judging us, we were busy surviving.

And not just surviving. Winning. Fundamentally, decisively, historically winning.

Iran's 40-year plan to surround and destroy Israel? Over. The axis of resistance? Shattered. The greatest coordinated threat in our history? Defeated.

So let me ask you something:
Would you rather win the PR war and lose your country? Or lose the PR war and secure your existence for the next 50 years?
Because that's the actual choice.
And Israel made it. Again.
The world can have its hashtags. We'll take our sovereignty.
They can have their protests. We'll take our security.

[NPO Radio 1 @NPORadio1]

Satirisch verslaggever @DiederikSmit vond bij het opruimen een oude krant van donderdag 30 oktober 2025. Met op de voorpagina een analyse van de grote rechtse overwinning: 'De tweede week van oktober was het keerpunt van de campagne.' @DIT_eo

[Matthew Nouriel @MatthewNouriel]

Footage coming out of Gaza after the cease fire took effect vs footage from the holocaust when the concentration camps were liberated.

Spot the difference? One was a genocide and one wasn’t.

[Eddy Terstall @eddy_terstall]

Amerikaanse campusgekte importeren en dan nog zeuren over polarisatie.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Oh, and while I’m at it, why is this shocking story that dropped yesterday not getting the same attention as Kimmel’s 48-hour suspension? It’s far more egregious but the U.S. mainstream media doesn’t seem to care. Why?
(Obviously, I know why… )