Roberto Barbamas

Recovering lawyer. Post-Keynesian economics. Tech. Sustainability. Sheffield United. Own views.

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@KonstantinKisin But but but Putin will invade Poland, the Baltics if we let him win in Ukraine. That was literally one of your arguments. Now it's fine to try to meet Putin half way. Don't you think it's time for some humility now with half a million totally avoidable deaths?

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@rdrake98 @ClarkeMicah @MailOnline Peter argues historical factors, most importantly NATO expansion, provoked Russia. No such historical factors at play in the Israel-Palestine conflict? Just a vacuum?

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@Mr_J_Burgundy @Danjsalt Large swathes of Spain get regular frosts. Ours have just been neglected for decades.

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@JayWyss @D_Ezell1 @PeterZeihan What happens when Ukraine runs out of men? Your argument is irrational as well as utterly sick since it is a simple numbers game that Russia will wipe the floor with the Ukrainian military. This could all have been avoided.

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

Technically driver at fault by crossing cycle lane without allowing the cyclist to pass. But the cyclist contributes considerably to the accident by not using any common sense. Cycle lane had literally just started and cyclist maybe in driver's blind spot. Cyclist was careless.

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@DougieCritchley @louorns Describing Berge as pivotal to any team suggests you've not even watched him. Hamer will be far more effective

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@DougieCritchley @louorns "Don't know anything about Souza". I could do this football journalism thing, with no qualifications or experience. Lazy. Hopeless

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@GgzKris @McBladey I think Hecky was talking about money we were prepared to offer him in wages v Marseille, not the transfer fee.

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@GgzKris @McBladey The u-turn was made by Marseille. Everyone assumed the deal was off then they offered more money. The timing was not Iliman's fault or the club's

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

So Labour isn’t even in office yet but Starmer/Reeves have already sold out, pre-committing a future Lab government to permanent austerity. Labour isn’t just out of ideas, it’s paralysed by fear: of the markets, of the orthodoxy, of Washington.

A THREAD.
https://t.co/Ag33oXNNzl

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

🧵 The Ukraine war, far from isolating Russia, has hastened the rise of a post-Western international order — comprising 90% of the world’s population — in which it is the West that is looking increasingly isolated from the rest of the world.

A THREAD.
https://t.co/28MjN0nRlU

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“This whole notion that you run government like you run a household…is a complete myth”

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato tells #Newsnight Government’s should address social issues through tax

https://t.co/P0zxS1DNGF

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

During the Cold War, the US made an effort to keep Russia and China divided, despite both being murderous communist regimes. Now we’re pushing them closer together as a result of Biden’s war on autocracy. This is dangerous and foolish.

[Peter Donaldson @PDWriter]

Great thread.

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Fascinating new RAND report urges Washington to get the hell out of dodge in Ukraine, as "US interests would be best served by avoiding a protracted conflict," and "costs and risks of a long war...outweigh the possible benefits"!

https://t.co/YGoFplfrPJ

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Economist Ha-Joon Chang: "[Mainstream] economics has become like Catholic theology in medieval Europe. It has become the language of the rulers"

"They are not going to let you 'speak' it... unless you belong to the priesthood... or are from an extremely privileged background"

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

@RWTaylors https://t.co/8lfKNKBFN0

[lucy woods @LucyWoodslucy70]

Social Security Benefits .....UK bottom of the league

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Please DO NOT RT this video of Stephen Colbert interviewing an Obama supporter about the plan for Ukraine in 2014 as it would be very distressing the mononarrative today!

[Roberto Barbamas @barbamasroberto]

The exact opposite of the truth 🤡

[James Whale MBE. @THEJamesWhale]

Wealth always flows down wealthy people spend their money generally more than the rest of us and if we can attract more wealthy organisations and banks to based themselves in this country the tax take will be immense you’re right we need a trendy little name for it