Sean Linnane

I am a secularist and democratic socialist. Anti Fascist Anti Tankie

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

The Fascists descended upon the revolution, while the Tankies tried to pretend it never occurred, but we shall not forget #SolidarityWithKarim

الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

https://t.co/Bo5trFRSzy I frequently go back to this piece, and feel it's perhaps most prophetic now before the "cold logic of mass graves".

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Bravo @mattczeller.

- "I feel like I watched a different speech than the rest of you guys. I was appalled" -- on #Biden's #Afghanistan's speech.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

Biden's speech was just foul. This is not some necessary outcome, it's simply a very predictable one given the last 13 years of policy. We remember Mosul, and Tikrit, and Sinjar. We remember why that happened.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

This is Progressivism? This is Socialism? Solidarity really is dead isn't it?

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Gradually morphing into a Biden bro as I see all of political media and every wing of the two major parties go after him for the best thing he ever did

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Give the Taliban and their supporters in Pakistan a big applause. Absolutely."

On a day like today, as the Taliban retakes Afghanistan, I can't get these lines out of my head from this @AJHeadtoHead interview that I did with former Pakistani ISI chief Gen. Asad Durrani in 2015.

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

Kabul airport. From @AFP

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Incase you missed it: Today Afghans were clinging to the undercarriage of US planes taxiing along the apron, then falling to their death, one by one, as the plane took off.

The US military aircraft took off with citizens and diplomatic staff.

This happened in Kabul today

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

It's strange to see no recognition of the idea that Afghan people are real. So many are content to believe that activist, participants in suffrage and emancipation, are not but Western constructions, brought into being by invasion, and fatalistically dissolved by withdrawal.

[Mustafa מוסטפא 🇺🇸 Μασταφα @CombatJourno]

I'm hopelessly stuck in Kabul with my wife and child.

Like myself, hundreds of other journalists are also stuck here.

I have an 11—months old daughter.

Please pray for her safety.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

Why go through the shame of saying this? What's the point?

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and his action. The Taliban must know the world is watching its actions. We are concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

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[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

I'd like to say there's some dialectic between this form of fatalistic embrace of failure amongst a lot politically interested people, and the poor policy making that we've seen around the world for over a decade.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Afghanistan was gonna become talibanistan if we left in 2004, 2010, 2021 or 2036. So if you insist we should stay just be honest and say forever

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

Though the proximal cause can be seen as a technocratic one. I.E. the result of the continuation of Obama era "Grand strategy". The lack of punishment is the bitch that bares it once again.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

If you partner with the US you should not just expect betrayal at this point, but moreover recognise that the relationship will transform your potential for security into a constant dependence, and it's only a matter of time until they're gone, and you're buried.

[James Glancy @jaglancy]

The Afghans we were with in February, were all executed outside their homes in Kandahar on Thursday.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

But the real issue is that the fans have zero control. This proves it, and tomorrow they'll still have no control. The premiere league is broken.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

Screw the ESL, and screw Sky Sports, and screw all the billionaires. There's already no competition. It's bullshit.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: #LFC, #MUFC, #THFC and #AFC have followed #CFC and #MCFC in withdrawing from the European Super League.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

@benshapiro This is a level of insight you can't even find in Plato.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

@IanWright0 @SamSholli Kroenke out, fans in. No more billionaires, get em out of the league.

[Sean Linnane @attila_ii]

@Arsenal You mean cause the government was gonna seize your stadium