Rustam Roy

German-Indian European; pro-EU, pro-PR. pro-Palestine.
Commercial/Tech/Privacy lawyer.
Terrible Typist-sorry
Views my own, etc. 🌏🇩🇪🇮🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is, unsurprisingly, a complete inversion of reality.

Netanyahu says the ICC under Khan went after him to distract from the sexual misconduct allegations against Khan.

But the truth is that the allegations suddenly started surfacing a couple of weeks AFTER Khan informed the US of his decision to seek warrants, and after he was told - in the public record - by US senators (including Marco Rubio): "Target Israel and we will target you."

This is the actual timeline (source: https://t.co/9Y0jsxLVFy):

- 25 March 2024: Khan informs the US administration of his decision and that warrants would be sought by the end of April.

- 19 April 2024: A senior US official warns Khan by phone of "disastrous consequences" if he proceeds; Khan says he rejected this, citing Israel's lack of cooperation.

24 April 2024: 12 Republican US senators (including Marco Rubio) send Khan a letter warning "Target Israel and we will target you."

26 April 2024: Netanyahu publicly criticises the ICC on social media, saying: “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defence.”

2 May 2024: The sexual misconduct/harassment allegations are first put to Khan in person by members of his team, on the same day, per his later ICC submission, that he had been planning to announce the Netanyahu/Gallant warrants.

Draw your own conclusion 🤷‍♂️

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@Hamza_a96 I think anyone who thinks AB will do things differently re Israel and Gaza is barking. This @UKLabour is completely captured by the Israeli lobby and AB is deliberately not engaging on that topic whilst trying to placate potential Reform voters... that's his priority.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Why are we allowing the destruction of a centuries-old legal system to protect Israel's genocide?

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@JohnCleese 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gutsy to admit to respecting a racist knob, but your trajectory has been clear for some time.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@DalrympleWill Better than Dune?

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@NotFarLeftAtAll Plenty of people in Southern England (and especially Greater London) will be similarly affected and the outcome would be unjust. If at all, a different rate needs to apply, perhaps pegged to average house prices in each area.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

Defensive whataboutery. This guy is destroying @FIFAcom's reputation.
https://t.co/dVBXOBKbvb Fifa president Gianni Infantino accuses critics of spreading hate at World Cup

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

Agreed 100%. The Nazis packed a lot into approx 25 and ultimately lost, thankfully. The BE and the EIC before that engaged in crimes against humanity for over 200 yes...but won and managed the narrative.

[Gladio Langford @fearthe_void]

It’s insane that we don’t talk about the British empire like we do the Nazis

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

Why does anyone actually l QQisten to this whiny, prejudiced, attention-seeking fool?

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

“Money won’t matter in 2036,” claims @elonmusk on the latest episode of The Insider. He tells @zannymb, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, how people will live when AI and robots can do every job and why he expects deflation, not inflation: https://t.co/IQwRnHXAXM

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

Whatever the ideological ceap behind this, anyone with this sort of criminal past should be locked up. It never pays to be soft on violent people.
https://t.co/324JkYs4Ef

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Khan's removal lines up neatly with the fight to neutralise Netanyahu's arrest warrant. Coincidence is a luxury intl law can no longer afford.

This proves that justice DOES threaten Apartheid Israel & Co. So if the ICC is paralysed, lawyers and judges worldwide must do more.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@FLCons I got ny first driving licence in the US after taking 3 lessons...back in the 90s. US driving standards are a joke even now and Americans shouldn't be allowed to drive anywhere in Europe without taking a test.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@Fidias0 Please do. The number of Russians and Israelis in Cyprus is nuts.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@NoFarmsNoFoods Simplistic. IHT is bloody complex and not just a matter of fiddling %ges.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@RupertLowe10 Rupes comed acrosd like ome of those homphobic fuckwits who is in fact secretly gay. This level of obsession... there's gotta be some skeletons in this particular closet. Why not just come out with, eh?

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

Old racist dude can't help but lie. What the fuck are Easter and Christmas about?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Muslims are allowed to take their children out of school to celebrate Islamic events without getting fined.

It should be the same rules for everybody.

Under a Restore Britain Government, ALL parents will have five days to take children out of school with no fines.

Fairness.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

If this were a crowd of Muslims chanting "revenge" and burning Jewish homes then it would be all over every western news station.

But it's a crowd of Jews shouting "revenge" and burning Palestinian homes.

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

Ruth Smeeth, aka Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, aka a US intel asset (WikiLeaks), is promoted.
Smeeth infamously accused a black activist, Marc Wadsworth, of using an 'antisemitic trope' against her.
He didn't.
#ItWasAScam

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I'll tell you why people despise Elon:

It's because he punches DOWN.

He's the wealthiest man on the planet, he has a quarter billion Twitter followers (mostly botted, for sure), and he uses his immense power and influence to punch down.

He deprived poor kids around the world of food, resulting in thousands of deaths. He hired a bunch of snot-nosed kids who cut and slashed and didn't have a clue what they were doing, f*cked shit up, and have not an ounce of remorse for what they did.

He stirs up alarmist racial animus -- he loves to post videos of Black and White people fighting, trying to frame it as a race war that's happening now. It's not.

He claims he's not racist because he f*cks a woman of color. Racists LOVE to lean on that bullshit.

You know who else f*cked women of color?
SLAVE OWNERS. You think THEY weren't racist?

And you know what? He and his family lived a privileged life as white South Africans under apartheid. Look it up.

If I had Elon's wealth, I would have already solved world hunger, and had more money left over than my great grandkids could spend in 20 lifetimes.

I would be a damn HERO. I'd solve homelessness too.

But that thin-skinned jackass used his wealth to basically curate the world's largest echo chamber to feed his goddamn ego with his groveling, soulless Muskite fans. He's trump with way more money and a slightly larger vocabulary.

This woman did a GREAT job interviewing Elon. She skewered him, triggered the hell out of Mr. Moneybags. The guy who "doesn't care," he did the old "No, YOU are" arguing method. Real mature.

He couldn't stand that this woman, who he looked at as beneath him, had the audacity not to quiver and bow to his pseudo "greatness."

He's a fucking TRILLIONAIRE whose cuts directly caused the deaths of THOUSANDS of third world children.

When I was a kid, and was about to throw away uneaten food, my Mom would say "Do you know how many kids are starving in Africa?"

As a kid, I was expected to have more empathy for starving kids in Africa THAN THE RICHEST MAN ON THE PLANET has.

He shouldn't do these interviews any more, not if he doesn't want to be completely reviled. He looks like a jackass.

And it makes NO sense: his cars, the Tesla, were meant to appeal to people like me, the Libs, the progressives, people who actually believe that climate change is a thing!

What does he do? Antagonizes the majority of us, having us look at other EVs like the Rivian or whatever.

And I don't give a shit if Space Karen sees this. He's been crushing my signal strength ever since he bought this app, despite his declaring the return of so-called "free speech."

The world's worst secret is that he's been propping up right wing accounts and throttling the rest of us.

Honestly, I saw this video earlier today, and I barely skimmed over it. I haven't normally paid much attention to what he does. I don't follow him on Twitter, and didn't even care about his interview.

But what struck me was how smug and entitled he was in the interview, like he couldn't believe she was talking to him like that. And then I remembered how all those kids died because of him.

Anyway, THIS is how you interview power: be fearless, unafraid, come prepared with facts, push them all the way back. Elon looked like he wanted to jump out of his chair and hit that woman.

BRAVO to her.
We need more journalists like her.

And f*ck the Epstein class.

[Rustam Roy @_RustamRoy]

@MyArrse Now this would be useful but but not half as much as coming up with a concrete proposal to replace it with a different sort of seond chambet.