Aden Murphy

I play on excel for a living. Fan of Edmonton, languages and popcorn. Expect retweets of fun facts, international politics and history threads.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@myer80066 @dmarusic @DamonLinker Fuck this and @dmarusic ‘s soulless sophistry. If you demand your allies act like vassals, you’ll end up with neither.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@NateSibley I really enjoyed the “Making a Killing” podcast a few years ago. I would love an episode of you guys discussing this change and it’s implications around the world.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@_TimCartmell It's extremely possibly to say both "we have an ongoing crisis with fentanyl that we're not doing a good job of handling" *and* "these disingenuous bastards in Washington don't give a shit about people ODing in their own country, much less in Edmonton. To hell with them"

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@_TimCartmell Yeah Tim, I also think we should take the guys threatening to smash up our economy totally at face value. What other motivation could they possibly have? Sure they're idly fantasizing about annexing our country, but I'm sure they're totally honest and clear-eyed about this thing.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@laurby Your questions were absolutely fair and I’m glad you were asking them. McFee is a very important public figure, and has to face some level of scrutiny and accountability. His responses were not acceptable.
You did good here; he didn’t.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@RolloFinnback @NukenDuke88 @DarkClintonism @esjesjesj I got through this entire exchange before properly noticing your excellent name pun and profile pic. Cheers!

[Max Fawcett 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @maxfawcett]

Here's my honest answer, Stock: if your loyalty can be bought this easily, you never loved or cared about the country in the first place.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 1917, the Mont-Blanc exploded in Halifax Harbour, releasing a 2.9 kiloton explosion.
The largest human-made explosion in history to that point, it killed nearly 2,000 people and injured 9,000.
Let's learn about this dark day.

🧵1/18

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@Cat_Mom365 @BMarchetich @mehdirhasan I can see how NATO members on Russia’s borders seems provocative, but if we refused to let, say, Lithuania join because they were in Russia’s “sphere of influence”, we’re just accepting that small countries should be vassals of their more powerful neighbours.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@Cat_Mom365 @BMarchetich @mehdirhasan I guess it depends on whether you think the people of the Baltic and Eastern Europe (including Ukraine) have the agency to democratically decide their own futures. You can take issue with US/NATO policy, but no one forced these places to join NATO.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@BMarchetich @mehdirhasan If Palestinians have a right to self-determination (and to not be bombed to death by their neighbour), then Ukrainians do as well.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@BMarchetich @mehdirhasan I’m with you on most of this, but allowing Ukraine to strike military targets in Russia is “escalating the war”? It’s been two years on Russia systematically demolishing civilian infrastructure and terror-bombing apartment buildings and hospitals.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is a real headline. In 2024.

Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs

https://t.co/L25qY00Kaj

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@UbakaOgbogu @CBC I don’t love that sentiment, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t do a great job on this issue. If I can ask, which pieces of theirs did you find so bad?

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@Local_Numbskull @WolfofHobbiton I thought the exact same. I’d never seen it before in all my cumulative time on the internet, then twice in the past month. After the first time seeing it, I legit had it stuck in my head for a week.

[Rosemary McCarney @AmbMcCarney]

When Save the Children, one of the world’s most respected and trusted charities calls it a “war on children”, listen and act. When UNICEF, the children’s agency, we all grew up supporting, reports from the scene on the daily, massive maiming and killing of children, listen & act.

[Aden Murphy @adenmurphy]

@Suboutai_Khan @hollowearthterf @arkadiafarm There are lots of jobs that have real, tangible results from labour. Any number of jobs in trades, industry and construction let you look at a physical thing you’ve created or fixed. Also, if she really loves farming, she could go do that. But you can’t do it from the DC suburbs

[Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield]

From @wallissnow: Alberta Mountie disciplined for telling colleague she was 'trash' for reporting a sexual assault. Will keep his job. https://t.co/3luFwnkSn3

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Doctors without Borders is outraged by the repeated killings of our staff in #Gaza and calls for an immediate halt on attacks of medical personnel, humanitarian workers and civilians.

[Justin T. Pickett @JustinTPickett]

Maybe the most powerful figure I’ve seen this year: the racial gap in tickets from speed cameras vs. officer stops.

https://t.co/LarBFyfeo4