Tony Dun

Still persisting here on Xitter, and wondering how much longer.

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

Lol. Infantino going the blub on Insta.

'Please don't put in the paper that I was mad. '

[Dokter Gooners @DokGooners]

WOW WOW WOW

Presiden FIFA, Gianni Infantino mengeluarkan pernyataan yang mengkritik para penyebar kebencian, dan hoax yang dia anggap hanya fokus ngata2in FIFA tanpa menonton sepakbola sebagai sebuah kebahagiaan.

Uniknya, postingannya ini tidak dibuka kolom komentarnya. Udah mulai eneg kah? Untung aja gak dikatain Londo Ireng

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Adorable. The Department of War explaining that access to American weapons is "a privilege, not a right" is rather like a landlord lecturing tenants about loyalty while the roof is on fire and the rent has tripled.

Let's review the privilege. Iran, a sanctioned economy running on drones and spite, just spent weeks exposing the flagship American arsenal as exquisite, eye-wateringly expensive, and built for a war that ended thirty years ago. Meanwhile the F-35, your crown jewel, requires a maintenance entourage of roughly a hundred people per aircraft, a spare parts pipeline with a mood disorder, and a software licence that can be switched off from Washington whenever the president wakes up cross. Ukraine keeps ageing jets flying from motorway strips with a fraction of that. Turns out the privilege was the overhead all along.

And the reliability argument. You cannot threaten to abandon NATO on Monday, tariff your allies on Tuesday, and then present a "strong demand signal" on Wednesday as if nobody kept notes. Europe is not buying less American kit because we're sulking. We're buying less because a weapons system with a political kill switch attached to a four-year mood swing is a subscription service.

You say no one can replicate the American defence industrial base. Quite right. Nobody wants to. Why would anyone copy a factory optimised for the last war? Ukraine has shown Europe what the future actually looks like: cheap, fast, and built next door. Short supply lines, fail fast, and weapons that adapt in weeks rather than decades. While you spend twenty years and two trillion dollars perfecting one aircraft, a workshop outside Kyiv redesigns a drone on Tuesday because the jamming changed on Monday.

The “middle powers strategy” isn’t a distraction, and it isn’t a strategy either. It’s just what happens when the shopkeeper starts insulting the customers, doubling the prices, and musing openly about annexing one of them. Yes, we noticed the Greenland thing. Allies tend to remember when you threaten to take their territory. It’s an odd sales technique, coveting the customer’s house while lecturing him about loyalty.

So do carry on explaining that our engagement with you is a privilege. We’ll be over here, building the cheap fast stuff that actually wins wars, and checking the till twice.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Genocide and International Law Scholar William Schabas on the reluctance to call it a genocide:
‘With a lot of the genocide studies, people are (now) quite open about describing what's happening in Palestine as genocide. There’s probably a large contingent of international lawyers who do that as well, albeit less so, since international lawyers usually have a “let's wait and see what the court says” mentality.
But it’s hard for academics, certainly in Western countries, to make this call without paying a potential price for condemning Israel’s genocide. A price in terms of career promotions, appointments, or even the threat of dismissal in some cases. So, for younger people in academia there's a strong tendency to keep your head down.
Part of the problem in the field is the fact that genocide studies are often linked to universities’ Holocaust studies department. I think this has helped fuel reluctance in the field in calling Gaza a genocide, as many of these people’s focus is the suffering of the Jewish people, making them potentially less inclined to be as critical of Israel as they should be…..

..the US government issued statements four years ago condemning China for a genocide against the Uyghurs. The US had no compunction about denouncing it as genocide, nor did the UK, even though China have not even killed tens of thousands of civilians, like Israel has in Gaza.

They will call it genocide when it is politically convenient to them, because China is viewed as a threat and a country to be attacked. But they won't apply it when it's a friend of theirs, like Israel.’

https://t.co/9fMzjGnB1g

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@SandyHorne61 This was Mum in the 50s when she was working at the Gympie Vet. I wonder if our Mums had known each other.

[Bojan Pancevski @bopanc]

US arms manufacturing's broken: Switzerland stopped paying for Patriots it ordered, because they are not coming. And price went up by est.50%. The US simply started taking the cash out of F35s payments . Swiss now reconsidering doing business with the US
https://t.co/25baVzL5eS

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@PipelineH8r Barnaby! Come home! 😄

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

ABC how about you do some checking of the articles you republish. "In fact, surfers are supposed to surf between the flags" is obviously wrong.

https://t.co/5B91u5hELj

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@ABCaustralia at 1455pm, ABC24 cut off a news item to start showing station promos (ads). ABC you have to be kidding. I get the feeling the ABC board is softening us up to eventually sell airtime to private companies for ads and get some $$$. The ads couldn't be any worse.

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@JohnBarronUSA @abcnews
Once again Chas interviews a US conservative who gets to trot out their talking point defences of Govt action, free from interruption or counterpoint

[FightingAnne1 @FightingAnne1]

How Musk is boost the British far right - this shows how. 👇

X has a:
- Political Right wing bias
- 50%+ used extreme or hateful language
- Twice as much right wing content

#Musk's a foreign entity directly interfering with UK politics.

#BoycottMusk
https://t.co/HP4ZyXnMtL

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@aclennell This will not get you one extra viewer/subscriber. You are not winning with this crap

[Mike Kennedy @MikeKennedy1906]

The Australian at the bottom of the barrel as expected. #auspol

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

Brereton has to go

[💧Chelle @simmey88_lucas]

This disclosure failure is far more than a small detail. It comes after a 2024 finding by the NACC inspector that Brereton engaged in “officer misconduct” in relation to a conflict of interest concerning the Robodebt scandal. https://t.co/WQwXgO5VbG

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@WhiteRoseSocAU https://t.co/qIFRjrrEg4

[stranger @strangerous10]

Former head of Neo Nazi movement Jeff Schoep speaks at the Gold Coast Antisemitism conference along with Antisemitism enjoy Jillian Segal.🙄 He insists he’s not racist anymore.

Well guess what, he was also marching at the Neo Nazi-led marches on Sunday.

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@Mumbrellanews I'm wondering if the timing is related at all to the new mergers approval laws (by the ACCC) due to begin in 2026

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@DrCraigEmerson @abcnews I'm not Craig, they have no idea. A while back the weekend sports guy said a field goal was a "one-pointer".

[Helen Bird @Birdsperch]

This is another governance scandal masquerading as a poor supervision scandal. Redirect this squarely at the Co’s board of directors for allowing this through their focus on profit & bonuses for lifting child attendance rates. #corpgov

https://t.co/qCgXQ3ps3E

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

@CellaneousMiss Getting pretty sick of Chas's idea of balance. Platforming Sortor was a mistake, he was able to get out his unhinged talking points, unchallenged
@JohnBarronUSA @abcnews

[Tony Dun @Tony_Dun_]

It's quite clear there is zero proofing at the @abcnews these days