Blair Graham

I occasionally write. Studying to become a pretend doctor.

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

Fun to see all those embracing and whitewashing Azov suddenly up in arms against the “neo-nazi” AfD.

The problem with these pseudo-liberals is that their value system is confined to geopolitical (that is, imperialist) choices. The rest is for the show.

What’s the real difference between Merz or Green Party warmongers on the one hand and AfD on the other, apart from stylistic?

Both are the product of political and cultural degeneration and both excel in just one thing - promoting polarisation, conflict.

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

You were told that "Ukraine is winning" is pro-Ukraine's narrative. But it is a disgusting lie. It is the most anti-Ukrainain thing liberal minds could come up with. As it means closing eyes for the suffering of millions, ignoring the loss of territories and degradation of Ukraine so that it's future as of independent country is at stakes.
Just a month ago "Ukriane was wiining," now, we learnt it almost lost another big city in Donbas.... Cynicism has never been patriotic

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

Adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity, Russia's economy is about 3 times the size of Spain's, and is, in fact, the 4th largest in the world. You think someone who so obsessively tweets about a country would at least know a thing or two about it.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

What wealth ?

Russia's economy is the size of Spain's

Russia doesn't make anything European wants

Have you see anyone proudly showing off their new Russian car, or watch, or television set, or high fashion

Iranian caviar is better, Polish vodka is better, and we have enough dolls

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

If you have the Ukraine and Palestine flags in your bio, Zelensky would like a word:

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

How about freezing American assets and transferring them to Iran as it is the victim of the exact same crime Ukraine is?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

I still cannot believe that the free world has not transferred Russias frozen assets to Ukraine.

Someday we will know the full story and I’m guessing it won’t be a heroic one for any official in Europe or the US.

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

Piers would never in a million years ask an opposition Russian journalist to say something bad about the "regime" in Ukraine if they were denouncing the war. That's how dumb this is.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I just asked you to name one thing you don’t like about the Iranian regime, and you couldn’t answer…

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

@piersmorgan It takes zero courage for a Western journalist in the West to criticise an Official Enemy, just as it wouldn't take any courage for an Iranian journalist to denounce the U.S. Real journalists are supposed to criticise their *own* govs, especially when they start illegal wars.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

They'll ask you to condemn Hamas when your govt is sponsoring genocide in Gaza

Or to denounce the "Iranian regime" after your govt slaughters scores of schoolkids in Minab, and as it bombs Iran's bridges & ports

But when you flip the "regime" script on them, they end the show

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I'm always astonished how people watch the liberal center in Europe adopt one dystopian policy after another and their non-ironical reaction is "god forbid the wrong team takes over and applies these policies."

They genuinely don't understand how absurd that position is.

Those same people would watch a law being passed to kill half the population and be like "it's fine but let's just make sure the wrong people don't get to decide which half."

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

This is why I don’t take Russian liberal claims of being defenders of human rights seriously. Lindsey Graham being described as a friend of freedom and against dictatorship when he literally cheerled genocide, leveling Gaza like Tokyo and Berlin, blowing up Iran, ‘unleash holy hell’ in Iran, wars, murdering of ‘all the right people.’ You can be grateful for him personally helping you, but the accolades when he was such an evil, despicable, authoritarian politician who respected zero human life that wasn’t useful to him, is just too fucking much!

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

But what's really insane is that it's perfectly legal for a German in Germany to say Germany doesn't have a right to exist but could face up to five years in prison for expressing the exact same sentiment about some far away country in West Asia.

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

Yet more authoritarian insanity coming to the West.

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

What actually is so special about Israel? No country in the world has a "right to exist". It's why the EU foreign policy chief can use her very large platform to publicly advocate for the break-up of Russia. Will this be criminalised speech in Germany too?
https://t.co/YA1jtj07Rr

[Richard @ricwe123]

Here we have that particular moment when Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative (the second most important position in the EU) was openly declaring that the goal of the West should be to break Russia into smaller parts......

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

According to @FT, millions of Iranians have attended the funeral of Khamenei and his daughter and grandchildren. Could go as high as 15m.

The next time the US Govt claims we're starting a new bombing campaign and the people there want us to, maybe we can be more skeptical?

(That said, a majority of Americans opposed the Iran War from the start, and that opposition only grew as it went on).

[Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN]

This is no longer just a failing child safety policy; it is a full-frontal assault on the open internet and online anonymity.

By threatening to restrict VPNs, this is an attempt to age-gate the fundamental infrastructure of the web. It would force millions of adults to hand over their IDs and biometric data just to use tools that keep their browsing private and secure.

A progressive government should protect our digital rights, not build a surveillance state that mimics authoritarian regimes.

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

There is growing speculation about the enforcement of Labour's social media ban for Under-16s involving restrictions or bans on VPNs.

Make no mistake, if this is introduced, it will mean an end to online privacy, and the state will know exactly who is looking at what at all times if they so choose.

The only other states with restrictions on VPNs are China, Russia, Iran, Oman, the UAE, Turkey and India.

This is a dark direction of policy even for the Labour Party.

https://t.co/hQ9cMrPwB8

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Content creators screamed all day about the Adpocalypse (rightfully so) and yet we have governments actively planning to destroy the creator economy via censorship laws and creators (especially on the left) aren’t even covering it. This UK plan is awful

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

A lot of US creators don’t realize that this proposed UK law would have global consequences, and that powerful censorship groups are pushing very similar policies here

[Blair Graham @BlairGraham97]

Really is hard to regret Brexit when the EU keeps trying to prove how fucking mental it is.

[CGTN Español @cgtnenespanol]

El Tribunal de Justicia de la UE ha autorizado el enjuiciamiento penal en los países de la UE de las personas que publiquen vídeos de Russia Today en canales y sitios web abiertos.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.

I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.

And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.

In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.

The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.

It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.

Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.

Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷