On Twitter, I no longer see the people I follow. Instead, I see:
• It’s OK to be white
• Putin is a great guy, actually
• Vaccines are bad, mmkay?
• Trump may be a pedophile, but at least he’s not a Democrat
• Look at all these attractive young white people in a European city. What do you notice?
Blatant far-right propaganda is pushed 24/7 from faceless bot accounts. Twitter’s algorithm deliberately finds it and boosts it. Anyone who disagrees is shadow-banned.
Musk wants a race war. He wants death camps. He wants all that Nazi shit, because he’s a Nazi. He is using Twitter to foment it.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
BREAKING: The Washington Post unleashes a scathing takedown of Trump after he smeared their murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a playdate with the brutal Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
This is just a taste of what the history books will have to say about Donald...
"The United States government often advances its national interests by working with nasty people, and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is one of the nastiest," the paper's editorial board wrote. "It’s one thing, however regrettable, to deal reluctantly with him. President Donald Trump’s performance at the White House Tuesday was something else entirely: weak, crass and of no strategic benefit to America."
The opinion piece was entitled "things happen," a direct quote from Trump's Oval Office meeting yesterday with MBS. When asked about the assassination — in which Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw — Trump dismissively said that "things happen" and that Khashoggi was an "extremely controversial" man who a "lot of people didn't like."
Trump falsely claimed that MBS "knew nothing about that," when in fact he ordered the killing. The president also chided a reporter for trying to "embarrass our guests by asking a question." The disgraceful remarks were a major PR boon to MBS and are rendered all the more shameful by the fact that Khashoggi was a U.S. resident.
"These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president," the Post's editorial board wrote. They explained that Khashoggi's reporting for their outlet allowed him to stand strong against "the Saudi regime’s repressiveness at home and recklessness abroad."
"The reality is that while Trump advocates peace through strength, he showed nothing but debility," they wrote. "No doubt other dictators took note. Legitimizing and defending Mohammed this way will embolden him and his ilk to mistreat not just journalists but any Americans — knowing that they’ll probably face no real consequences."
The board slammed Trump for greeting MBS "cost-free with an honor guard of black horses, herald trumpeters and fighter jets."
"Forgetting Mohammed’s brutality and Khashoggi’s warnings is a choice, and Trump made the wrong one," they concluded.
At the root of all of this horror is, as usual, Trump's insatiable greed. He doesn't want to upset bin Salman because Saudi Arabia has proven to be an incredibly lucrative personal partner for his family. The Saudis poured $2 billion into Jared Kushner's firm — and that's just one of the deals that we know about. Until a full forensic investigation is undertaken, there's no telling how much the Trumps have made by buddying up to a murderous tyrant.
Please retweet and ❤️ to demand a Congressional investigation into Trump's Saudi connections!
The most beautiful moments in soccer are not the chips, lobs, dinks or dives. Not the screamers, scorchers, panenkas or puskas.
It’s simply watching a team believe in themselves, when their hopes cling by a thread, when they’re far away from home, they’re against the odds and the rankings, and they’re badly needing just one moment of magic or mayhem.
Come On You Boys In Green. 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@AbsoluteBruno Sorry but if you are going to mock and taunt oppositionbfans and players when you score, after they have done nothing to warrant it, you deserve to be in this situation where you get absolutely humbled in your own back yard, and knocked out of a tournament that was yours to take
One of the best quotes this page has ever posted!
“Leadership is very easy when you’re doing something you care about.”
– Seamus Coleman on RTÉ Sport before facing Hungary.
Just think about it…
You’re 37.
Your club barely plays you because they think your legs are gone.
Your country leaves you out early in the campaign because you’re not getting minutes.
Then, when everything is slipping away, they call you back.
And what do you do?
You set the standard, and drag everyone with you from the brink… all the way to a World Cup playoff that looked impossible not long ago.
Never underestimate character. Always back it.
@IrishPropaganda My favourite part was that he did this after getting the yellow card as if to say "look what your baby acting got you" then suddenly stops and turns as he realises there is VAR and there is no way he is getting away with it 😆
‘You said it was about antisemitism. That was wrong, wasn’t it?’
@Lewis_Goodall challenges Lisa Nandy on the government’s opposition to banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from an Aston Villa match, which West Mids Police now confirm was due to hooliganism.
This should be a massive scandal.
Dutch police concluded that violent Maccabi hooligans were closely linked to the IDF - and determined to cause "serious violence".
Your government lied to you.
Your media lied to you.
And they smeared Birmingham to defend Israeli hooligans!
From a Daily Express journalist calling for my deportation to a Reform MP saying it “drives her mad to see adverts full of black and Asian people”, the mask has truly slipped.
This poisonous politics fuels far-right violence against minorities and migrants. We all must unite against it.
"Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters were banned from watching their game against Aston Villa after police intelligence concluded the biggest risk of violence came from extremist fans of the Israeli club."
So @Keir_Starmer, will you be apologizing?
@lisanandy will you be apologizing?
@KemiBadenoch will you be apologizing?
https://t.co/7piLdS5IbF
If there was an image of a Palestinian clubbing an elderly Israeli woman in the head and knocking her unconscious, it would be on EVERY SINGLE NETWORK as a main story.
But the racist & often murderous brutality directed at Palestinians is deemed unworthy of attention.
Your moronic belief that the police shouldn’t be allowed to ban a bunch of notoriously thuggish & racist fans because they’re Israeli reflects why you have actively aided Israel’s genocide, why you are a racist & why you belong in The Hague. You are a disgrace!
If you swapped the word "Arabs" for "Jews" in this video, there's not a single politician or "journalist" in Britain who would be demanding these hooligans be allowed into the country.
And everyone knows it.
So @Keir_Starmer is fine with Israeli fans chanting “Death to Arabs” entering the UK, but an 11-year-old Iranian table tennis champion can’t get a visa to play in Sheffield.
Priorities, right?