Toby

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

I was crying laughing then he broke the fourth wall 😭😭😭

[John Paul Newman @johnpaul_newman]

Europe rn:

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

BOARD OF PEACE - Season 1

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

An Iranian girl burns a picture of Ayatollah Khamenei and lights her cigarette, a new trend in Iran!

Young Iranian women are leading the revolution against the Islamic regime.

[Simon van Teutem @S_VanTeutem]

The far right tightened its grip in the Dutch elections. But for liberals, D66 offered a glimmer of hope. Here are five lessons from their campaign that liberals everywhere could take to heart.

1. Optimism. D66 understood that a civilisation obsessed with averting every possible ill renders itself incapable of doing any measurable good. For years, the Dutch left has often sounded like a nagging parent – “can’t do”, “won’t do”, “impossible”. Jetten flipped the script. His message wasn’t: “The world is doomed, so we must stop everything from flying to eating meatballs or even having children.” Instead he told people: “This country can do so much better, so why not get going?” It echoed the Yimby philosophy popularised by US writers @ezraklein and @DKThomp.

2. Progressive patriotism. For years, nationalism was considered the preserve of the right. Expressions of pride were ceded to the far-right Freedom party (PVV) and to farmers’ protests. D66 broke with that misplaced self-flagellation. It showed that one can take pride in a country ranked among the happiest in the world without excluding minorities or vilifying outsiders. At the D66 party congress, Jetten stood beaming beneath a billowing Dutch flag.

3. Take off the gloves when you need to. Many leaders have a fear of heated exchanges poisoning the political atmosphere. “When they go low, we go high” remains a mantra for many liberals. But elections are meant to expose policy differences – all the more so in a parliament with 15 parties. Jetten avoided needless squabbles with ideologically adjacent parties and focused instead on his polar opposite.

4. An unapologetically left wing economic story. D66 campaigned for a more progressive inheritance and gift tax, the abolition of a regressive mortgage interest deduction and, above all, higher rewards for work. The party even proposed a millionaires’ tax. And it worked. Voters are not afraid of such policies – polling shows that they want them. No anti-capitalist posturing, no talk of degrowth – just straightforward, good-old social democratic ideas. Liberals misread the public if they think voters fear such policies.

5. Build a big tent. Progressives who agree among themselves on 80% of issues often fixate on the 20% where they differ. Jetten broke that habit, opting instead to triangulate on major issues, including immigration, by building a broad, if imperfect, voter coalition. According to Ipsos I&O figures, 20% of those who voted D66 in this election came from the centre-left GreenLeft/Labour alliance (GL/PvdA), 13% from the centre-right NSC, 11% from the rightwing VVD, 9% were previous non-voters and even 7% had backed the far-right PVV. Since 2012, the overall progressive bloc has steadily shrunk. Jetten managed to reach into the rightwing electorate and build a big tent.

[Toby @TobyKanteman]

@PjotrSauer Mooi geschreven Pjotr! Gecondoleerd en veel sterkte met dit verlies.

[Harald Doornbos @HaraldDoornbos]

Het meest bizarre zijn nog wel de mensen die beweren "dat het allemaal wel meevalt in Gaza." Ja, geloof je het zelf??? Ik loop al vrij lang mee in de oorlogsjournalistiek maar van de vele plekken waar ik ben geweest, komen alleen Kobane, Raqqa, Nahr al Bared, sommige zuid-Libanese dorpen en misschien Benghazi-centrum in de buurt van de beelden die we krijgen uit Gaza. Super veel verwoestingen in ex-Joegoslavie gezien maar bijna nergens was het zoals Gaza nu. Zelfs Vukovar niet op deze manier en deze schaal.

[Wilbert Mutsaers @wilbertmutsaers]

Dua Lipa zingt ‘Bloed, Zweet & Tranen’ van Andre Hazes in Ziggo Dome! @DUALIPA @ZiggoDome #andrehazes #amsterdam

[Willem Treur @Willem_Treur]

Dit klopt, alle ouders zijn pedagogisch goed onderlegd en baseren hun keuzes op gedegen onderzoek en literatuurstudies. Daar kan een door talloze mensen zorgvuldig samengesteld lesprogramma nooit aan tippen.

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

Peace in our time

[Dennis @D3nnis__3]

How did we go from Brat Summer to Hitler Winter

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Millions of innocent lives were taken - but their stories must never be lost.

We remember, so history is never repeated - some of these images are difficult to view, but it is necessary that they are seen

1. Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse towards one of the ovens in a crematorium, 1945.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

Internet Hippo on October 27, 2023:

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Legend David Graeber Exposes the lie that Hitler was a Socialist

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

not 2 be a stickler but if the odyssey movie doesnt give us historically accurate armor im literally walking out of the theater

[Hit Factory @HitFactoryPod]

to watch this develop over the course of the day, hoping against hope that this guy might have actually done what he did for cool reasons, and then to see this headline...what a journey we've been on.

[Marjonne Maan @MarjonneMaan]

Namens het bestuur van de vakvereniging voor geschiedenisleraren schreef ik dit bericht. Laten we elkaar helpen en steunen om ons mooie vak juist in turbulente tijden vorm te geven.