Mey

Bosniak South-East-European muslim.
With some Turkish flavor

[Mey @Haydar_Mey]

@sneako Except snitches

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

WHO ruined Europe?

Yes, EVERYONE did it:

1. Angela Merkel, the physicist who forgot Newton’s Third Law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. She looked at the European energy grid, decided nuclear power was "scary," and replaced it with a direct pipeline to the Kremlin. She basically invited the fox into the henhouse, handed him a napkin, and then retired to write a memoir about "stability." She effectively dismantled the continent’s borders with a single press conference, inviting a migration crisis that broke the social contract, all while muttering "Wir schaffen das" as the infrastructure crumbled under the weight of her moral vanity.

2. Emmanuel Macron, a man who thinks he is the reincarnation of a Roman deity but runs the country like a McKinsey consultant trying to downsize a bakery. He believes he can solve the war in Ukraine by talking Vladimir Putin into a coma with four-hour lectures on Enlightenment philosophy. He is currently auditing the concept of "French culture" to see if it can be streamlined.

3. Adolf Hitler, the failed watercolor enthusiast who took an art school rejection so personally he decided to redecorate the continent with high explosives. He single-handedly ruined the toothbrush mustache, the name "Adolf," and the concept of "German efficiency" for the next thousand years. He set the bar for "bad neighbors" so high that everyone else gets a participation trophy just for not invading Poland.

4. The Habsburgs, the ultimate proof that you should really branch out on Tinder. They treated the gene pool like a private VIP section and turned their family tree into a wreath. Their grand strategy for ruling Europe was "Let’s marry our cousins until our chins are so large they have their own zip codes." They spent 600 years acquiring half the planet through weddings, only to lose it all because their driver took a wrong turn in Sarajevo. They held an empire together with duct tape and aggressive waltzing until it collapsed under the weight of its own genetic defects.

5. Napoleon, who tried to turn Europe into a family franchise (Bonaparte Bros. & Co.) and accidentally invented "Nationalism" because people needed a specific word to describe exactly how much they wanted him to leave.

6. The English, who spent 500 years playing "Balance of Power" (read: sabotaging everyone else), then got drunk, and view the continent not as a cultural partner, but as a place to send stag parties to vomit in historic fountains, proving that while they lost the Empire, they kept the audacity.

7. The Germans, who believe that if you execute a terrible idea with sufficient efficiency, it becomes a stroke of genius. They don't have "individual opinions," they have "factory settings." They marched in perfect lockstep to shut down their nuclear plants in favor of burning brown coal, calling it a "Green Transition"—which is the intellectual equivalent of cutting off your own legs to lose weight, then praising the precision of the saw. They are convinced that running full speed into a brick wall is fine, provided the wall is DIN-certified and everyone does it together.

8. The Russians, who think "international borders" are just typos on a map that need correcting with tanks. They provide Europe with its two favorite historical exports: existential dread and freezing to death. They operate on a political philosophy of "If I can't have it, nobody can," which is why they are currently turning the East into a parking lot.

9. The EU, a retirement home for failed national politicians. It is a Kafkaesque labyrinth where 10,000 people in Brussels spend six months debating the legal definition of a carrot while the building is on fire. It is funded by your VAT, presided over by unelected bureaucrats with excellent dental plans, and produces more paper than a forestry company.

10. The WEF, the unelected board of directors for Planet Earth. They ruined Europe by promoting policies that hollowed out the middle class in the name of "stakeholder capitalism." They fly in on private jets to tell factory workers to lower their standard of living, effectively turning the continent into a feudal system where the serfs own nothing, eat bugs, and are told to be happy about it.

11. George Soros, the currency speculator masquerading as a secular saint. He ruined Europe by treating entire national economies as casino chips, famously breaking the Bank of England for profit and then using the winnings to fund the erosion of the nation-states. He operates the "Open Society" less like a philanthropy and more like a universal solvent, pouring billions into NGOs designed to dissolve borders, traditions, and social cohesion. He is the unelected architect of a post-national Europe, a man with a god complex who believes he can engineer civilization from a hedge fund desk, viewing distinct cultures as "obstacles" to be liquidated like a distressed asset.

12. Immigrationists, who looked at the fall of Rome and thought, "You know what the problem was? Not enough diversity." They believe borders are just social constructs, like manners or solvency, that stand in the way of a vibrant, chaotic utopia where everyone holds hands while the welfare state collapses under the weight of good intentions.

13. Ecologists, upper-middle-class art critics who think the best way to lower global temperatures is to throw pumpkin soup at a Van Gogh. They are fighting Big Oil by creating massive traffic jams on the M25, forcing thousands of cars to idle for four hours.

14. The Socialists, who think "economics" is just a vibe. They believe that if you tax the rich enough, money will magically appear from the ether to pay for free unicorn rides. They ran out of other people's money in 1989 but haven't checked their bank balance since, preferring to pay debts with IOUs and "solidarity."

15. The European Establishments, shadowy clubs of people who all went to the same three boarding schools where they majored in "Condescension" and "Failing Upwards." They decided that "competence" was an outdated concept that interfered with their lunch schedule and are professionally surprised by outcomes that everyone else saw coming five years ago.

16. Weak Men, who turned masculinity into a permanent apology tour. These are men who treat assertiveness as a microaggression and testosterone as a hazardous material. They are so terrified of offending a woman that they have evolved into a species of sentient doormats, viewing their own spine as an optional accessory that might upset the HR department. They smile through their own emasculation, nodding along to policies that erase them, and would rather watch their civilization burn than risk a slightly awkward conversation at a dinner party. They didn't just open the gates to the barbarians; they apologized for the lock being too oppressive and offered to carry their luggage.

17. Feminists, who proved equality is real by showing that women can be just as disastrously incompetent as men. They replaced "The Patriarchy" with "Girl-Bossing the economy into a ditch". They doubled the pool of eligible ruin-bringers, which is statistically impressive.

18. The Woke, the morality police who will cancel you for using the wrong pronoun for a hamster but don't know how to change a lightbulb. They are busy deconstructing the colonial implications of a cheese sandwich while the power grid fails and the industrial base crumbles into dust.

19. Darth Vader. He represents the ultimate bureaucratic dream: a faceless, unelected technocrat who can strangle dissent from across the room without ever raising his voice. He tried to federalize the galaxy through terror, proving that a centralized superstate works perfectly right up until a farm boy in a glorified crop duster exploits a regulatory loophole in your thermal exhaust port to blow up the whole economy.

20. Saruman, the patron saint of Heavy Industry and deforestation. He tried to modernize Central Europe with a sensible policy of "machines over trees" and was cancelled by a bunch of angry walking broccoli.

21. Sauron, the original advocate for a unified Europe under one (literal) eye. He was a visionary industrialist who favored heavy surveillance and deregulation of the orc labor market, but his foreign policy regarding Gondor was a bit aggressive for the UN Security Council.

22. Satan, who is actually in therapy for impostor syndrome. He looked at European politics and realized he simply couldn't compete with this level of self-destructive creativity.

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

Europe doesn't have "a problem". It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe "post-imperial hangover".

First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to "take back control" only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.

The British identity crisis is like watching a retired lion try to adopt a vegan diet. They traded imperial confidence for an HR department’s sensitivity training. The land of Churchill is now governed by a sprawling "nanny state" bureaucracy that is more terrified of offending someone on X than it is of actual decline. The British police, once the envy of the world, now seem to spend more resources investigating "non-crime hate incidents" and painting their patrol cars in rainbow colors than solving burglaries. It is a nation desperately clinging to the aesthetics of tradition—the Royals, the pomp, the tea—while its institutions have been hollowed out by a progressive rot that makes a California university campus look conservative. They want the swagger of the 19th century but are paralyzed by the emotional fragility of the 21st.

Then there is France, the angry, chain-smoking aunt of Europe who refuses to admit she’s been unemployed for decades.

France’s hangover manifests as a permanent state of insurrection masquerading as "civic engagement." Their identity is split between a delusional elite who still think Paris is the capital of the universe and a populace that expresses its "joie de vivre" by burning down bus stops every Thursday. The French suffer from a Napoleonic complex without a Napoleon; they demand the living standards of a conquering empire while working a 35-hour week and retiring at an age when most Americans are just hitting their stride. They preach "Republican values" and aggressive secularism, yet the state has lost control over vast swathes of its own suburbs. France is essentially a beautiful, open-air museum where the curators are on strike, the guards are afraid of the visitors, and the management is busy lecturing the rest of the world on "grandeur" while the electricity bill goes unpaid.

Finally, we have Germany, the neurotic giant that has decided the only way to atone for its history is to commit slow-motion industrial suicide.

Germany’s post-imperial hangover is a moral autoimmune disease: the country is so terrified of its own shadow that it has replaced national pride with aggressive self-flagellation and recycling regulations. Their identity is built on being the "Moral Superpower," which practically translates to shutting down their perfectly functional nuclear power plants to burn dirty coal, all while lecturing their neighbors on carbon footprints. It is a nation of engineers who have engineered a society that doesn't work. The German spirit, once defined by efficiency and discipline, has mutated into a paralyzed bureaucracy where filling out the correct form is more important than the outcome. They are so desperate to avoid being "threatening" that they’ve become essentially a large NGO with an army that has broomsticks for rifles, terrified that showing any backbone might be interpreted as a relapse.

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

🇺🇸 Influencers:

🇮🇱 “I always assumed the big bucks were in backing Jews and hating Muslims.

🇶🇦 But apparently the jackpot is loving Muslims and hating Jews now.

Whatever.

So, what’s the going rate?”

So funny to watch 😂

💰 Follow the money.

There are no principles.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Since the declaration of a Gaza ceasefire on Oct 10, Israel has violated the agreement with near-daily attacks, killing 347 Palestinians and injuring 889 https://t.co/VPYniVo1B8

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“...We're definitely not the world's good guy.”

Political philosopher Roy Casagranda says US history, from the genocide of Native Americans to modern foreign policy, reveals a legacy of destabilising the world.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

A sad farewell to the brothers Fadi and Juma Tamer Abu Assi, who were murdered by the israelis in a drone strike on Al-Farabi School in #Gaza

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You are not "on the right side of history."

You are on the side that always says the same thing, in every century, with a different flag.

"Indians = savages.
Settlers = civilization."

"Vietnamese = gooks.
America = liberators."

"Algerians = terrorists.
France = democracy."

"Blacks = criminals.
America = order."

Now you recycle the script:

"Palestine = terror.
Israel = freedom."

You didn’t invent this.

You are just the latest man cheering for whoever holds the gun.

You scream "Palestine = terror, murder and violence"

While the side you worship drops 2,000 pound bombs on refugee camps, starves children, flattens schools and hospitals, and snipes medics and journalists.

You call that "freedom, culture and democracy" because empire trained you to believe that as long as the victims are Arab, the word "terror" only points one way.

You say "Fuck Palestine" like you are brave.

You are not brave.

Bravery is a boy in Gaza digging his sister out of the rubble with his bare hands.

Bravery is a doctor operating in a tent with no anesthesia.

Bravery is a mother who buries half her family and still says "we are not leaving."

Bravery is standing with the oppressed, not cheering for the ones who cage them.

Bravery is calling a crime a crime even when your allies commit it.

Bravery is letting truth break the propaganda you were raised on.

You are not on the right side of history.

You are the kind of man history buries in a footnote under "those who cheered."

And when this is all over, and the photos of the dead are in museums, and children learn the word "Nakba" the way they learned "apartheid" and "Jim Crow,"

No one will quote your little tantrum.

They will look at the rubble, the mass graves, the satellite images of erased neighborhoods,

And they will know exactly who was Palestine

And who was terror.

Because history always remembers the victims.

It never remembers the cowards who celebrated their death.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“NETANYAHU IS ENDANGERING JEWS ALL AROUND THE WORLD”

"I ask Jews to consider what this man Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government are doing to the Jewish people all over the world,"

—Mandy Patinkin

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You think Islam is the threat?

Look closer.

The countries most bombed in the name of "security" are Muslim.

The people most demonized in the name of "freedom" are Muslim.

The religion most slandered in the name of "tolerance" is Islam.

Maybe Islam isn’t the problem.

Maybe empire is.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You fear Islam because they need you to.

Because if you ever looked past the propaganda,

You would see your reflection in the mirror of their suffering.

You would see the same lies told about you.

The same wars justified in your name.

The same empire feeding off your silence.

Islam is not the enemy.

Ignorance is.

And it has a flag.

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

You are both missing the point.

This isn't about "can I afford the monthly payment?" now that the term is stretched to 50 years.

It's about paying 2-3x the actual price of the house and turning yourself into a 50-year debt slave.

If you laid down extra payments towards principal, say $500 every single month, on a $400k loan at 2%, it still takes 34-36 years to pay off.

95% of people stop the
"extra" payments after 18-24 months when life hits (kid, car, medical bill).

Suddenly you're back on the 50-year plan and just gave the bank free money for nothing.

You're not buying a $400k house.
You're buying a $1.6 million house and calling it "affordable" because the repayments are smaller in comparison.

And 2% is the rumours going around in the finance departments. I’m showcasing that even at this rate, you end up paying way more than a 6% 30yr arrangement.

A realistic rate for a 50-year mortgage is going to be something like 7-8.5%.

Because banks hate risk. And a longer loan means more chance you die, default, or the house floods.

This is generational debt servitude.

A 50-year mortgage isn't a loan.
It's a lifetime subscription to Wall Street.

You don't own the house, the bank owns you for half a century.

The solution to making houses affordable isn’t to stretch out the loan term.

It’s to stop commoditizing houses.

And that’s never going to happen.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

This photo was taken on Oct 29, 2000.

They killed him a week later. #Gaza

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

صباح الخير يا غزتنا

[ADAM @AdameMedia]

Netanyahu: “Eveyone hates us for no reason.”

The ‘no reason’:

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A child cries while carrying his younger sister on his shoulders, walking along the long displacement route from northern Gaza to the south... a scene that captures the suffering of innocent children under the horrors of war.

[Mey @Haydar_Mey]

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Luxembourg’s PM Luc Frieden has said the country will join several other European nations which plan to recognise a Palestinian state during the UN General Assembly later this month.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/lAb7l5oo21

[Mey @Haydar_Mey]

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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Palestinian children who have lost parents were overcome with emotion as they graduated in a ceremony at Gaza's al-Wafaa Orphan Village.

The UN says Israel has damaged 97% of educational facilities in the besieged enclave.