Tony Riviera

Analyst and policy adviser. Proud Brexiteer.

[Tony Riviera @Mg45Rules]

@QueenAnticommie How about paying waiters a decent salary, quietly including it in the price of the meal, and putting an end to this ridiculous tipping culture once and for all?

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@marcosagusstinn It has already became strategically irrelevant. The main problem is demography. Everything else is secondary. So, relax and move on ...

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@swapnakpanda The guy is in a rush to capitalize on his situation before the bubble bursts. When the bubble bursts, nobody will ever take him seriously, so he’s playing the game while he can. In fact, both he and Altman are just con artists.

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@zuess05 Computer science has very little to do with coding apps. If you studied CS and the only thing they taught you was coding, it’s a scam - and it always has been.

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@D162Michele First and foremost she is a damn good entertainer.

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@nfergus Yes. And where is the problem exactly?

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@amjadt25 And who cares what you think?

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@eihtbeezy Except almost everybody in Europe during WWII...

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@TheLucasToday @IraninSA I hate to burst your bubble, but any military conflict becomes personal the moment you start killing other people’s families. You can rest assured that they’ll want to return the favour - by any means possible, and likely involving your family too. That’s just human nature.

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@ZssBecker That's very true. Coding is far from dead. Low qualified coders are dead. In the nineties literally anybody could become a 'software engineer' and command a six figure salary overnight thanks to moronic management. Now software engineering comes back to normal thanks to LLMs.

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@SenTedCruz That’s a bet. I bet there will be a lot of flag-wrapped coffins coming home to roost.

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@Mojtahed_najran AI.

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@grablekelly05 @georgegalloway Why, exactly, is it such a terrible thing for ME to disrespect YOUR military? What are they to me, anyway? They are just a pack of morons stumbling across the world, leaving disorder and damage in their wake. If anything, they invite ridicule - and deserve every bit of it.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Nobody wants to believe they're the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule the world.

It's much nicer to believe you're the Good Guys. Much easier to sit with the idea that your government might make an innocent mistake here and there, but overall is a driving force for the good of humankind, and is certainly superior to the villains it makes war with.

That's a fiction, though. It's a comfortable lie. A fairy tale that westerners tell themselves to avoid a profoundly uncomfortable truth.

The truth is that we are the villains.

We are the terrorists.

We are the tyrants.

We are the evil regime.

Our soldiers aren't out there defending our country, they're out there murdering people for defending their country. They're not fighting for freedom and democracy, they're fighting for money and power.

Daniel Crimmins from the US Army 3rd Infantry Division wrote the following about the Iraq War in 2015:

"Then you realize you haven’t seen anything to support the idea that these poor fuckers are a threat to your home. You look around and you see all the contractors making six figure salaries to fix your shit, train Iraqis, maintain the ridiculous SUVs the KBR dicks ride around in. You consider the fact that every 25mm shell costs about forty bucks, and your company has been handing those fuckers out like shrapnel flavored parade candies. You think about all the fuel you’re going through, all the ammo and missiles and grenades. You think about every time you lose a vehicle, the Army buys a new one. Maybe you start to see a lot of people making a lot of money on huge amounts of human suffering.

"Then you go on leave, and realize that Ayn Rand has no idea what the fuck she’s talking about. You realize that Fox News and Limbaugh and John McCain don’t respect you or your buddies. They don’t give a fuck if you get a parade or a box when you get home, you’re nothing to them but a prop.

"Then you get out, and you hate the news. You hate the apathy, and you hate the murder being carried out in your name. You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper, a faceless, nameless rifleman, carrying a spear for empire, and you start to accept the startlingly obvious truth that these are people like you."

That's the reality right there, folks. We can wake up and start living in reality, or we can remain asleep in the fiction.

It's time to wake up to the reality that western civilization is a depraved dystopia where most people are sleepwalking in a propaganda-addled stupor under an empire that is fueled by human blood. And it's time to awaken to the fact that as westerners it is our duty to tear that empire down brick by brick, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, and for the sake of our fellow man.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Granny is done with Western propaganda.

An elderly UK🇬🇧 woman’s video urging Iran🇮🇷 to “finish the job” is going viral online.

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@anneapplebaum Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers. If you do not understand why is it a stupid question then you are stupid yourself.

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@WhiteHouse Well, now THIS is hilarious. Good luck there!

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@tedlieu @PressSec It occurs to me he is an idiot... How anybody in their sane mind and at his age could ask something like that knowing what US and UK did in the past 10 years or so?

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@nexta_tv Well, now this is funny.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.