Unia Europejska jest niedoskonała, irytująca, nudna, ale niczego lepszego w naszej historii nie wymyśliliśmy. Czas pokoju, dobrobytu, wolności, demokracji i solidarności między narodami przez wieki walczącymi ze sobą to cud. Niech trwa jak najd��użej.
Today is Europe Day.
So here is a thread about Europe’s most underrated achievement:
Not that it became perfect.
But that it turned centuries of war, borders and rival empires into one of the most functional civilizational networks on Earth.
A lot of Europe’s miracles became boring.
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Canada turned the Niagara Falls blue for the European Union! 🇪🇺🇨🇦
They also played Ode to Joy, the EU's anthem, an early celebration of Europe Day which is celebrated tomorrow.
Europe & Canada, we are family ❤️
If Reform had won in Scotland/ Wales it wd be an endorsement of detention centres, migrant hostility, austerity & welfare cuts. Question Time panels wd be full of it. But the SNP & pro indy Scottish Greens HAVE won, yet that's not an endorsement of independence. Go figure.
To all my fellow Europeans looking to do the sensible thing and boycott everything US made, here's a platform with European alternatives to US digital services and products: https://t.co/56VHWxuQOO
English is my second language but no-one has ever suggested I can’t speak it fluently. When racism is fuelled by Farage and Reform it is a BIG mistake for the BBC to amplify it. They must correct and apologise. #BBCQT
Here’s what you won’t hear from some commentators on social media: in the year to October, London recorded 10,000 fewer violent crimes leading to injury than it did in the twelve months before I was elected.
More on the progress we’re making ⬇️ https://t.co/A3Xe2pHDr4
The truth: we need migration.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"
"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with European Union countries and we could return people"
"But that's to Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, we tore up those agreements when we left the European Union, and now we have this problem"
"I hope when he's on your program you'll ask him to apologise"
"What Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson did is have a magnet of people, more and more people coming to the UK, because we can't return them"
"So again I ask you please, that Nigel Farage is exposed for his failures and contributions to the small boats crisis"
- Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats
BREAKING: The Colorado school shooter is revealed to be a rabid antisemite and white supremacist who fetishized the Columbine shooters — proving once again that right-wing violence poses the real danger to America.
These details got lost amidst all of the media's Charlie Kirk coverage...
According to The Denver Post, social media accounts seemingly connected to shooter Desmond Holly are "littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views."
Holly, a 16-year old boy, shot two of his schoolmates at Evergreen High School on Wednesday before killing himself. He waited until lunchtime and then opened fire with a revolver.
"He would fire and reload, fire and reload, fire and reload,” said Jacki Kelley, a spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. “This went on and on, and as he did that, he tried to find new targets, and he came up against a roadblock on many of those doors. He couldn't get to those kids.”
Kelley stated that Holly was "radicalized through an extremist network," which is a story we hear often about these right-wing shooters in the wake of their attacks. These individuals flock to online spaces where hateful ideas fester and spread like viruses, and then they take those ideologies out into the real world to deadly results.
In a photo posted to TikTok, Holly can be seen in a black t-shirt with the word "Wrath" emblazoned in red, a reference to the shirt that Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold wore. The post also included a photo of a mass shooter in Wisconsin from December. Other posts include additional references to the Columbine shooting.
Holly's accounts are littered with Holocaust denialism, a putrid strain of thought that has spread like wildfire in right-wing circles, perhaps most notably pushed by white nationalist Nick Fuentes. One account appears to have been a reference to a "prominent white supremacist slogan" according to The Denver Post.
His accounts include additional antisemitic videos as well as videos fetishizing Nazi uniforms. Such behavior has become commonplace in many online conservative communities in recent years, as pro-Nazi sentiments that were once deployed half-ironically are now embraced in an increasingly earnest manner by these monsters.
Meanwhile, Republicans have been pushing the lie that the Kirk shooter was a transgender member of the "radical left." It now turns out that the suspect is a White Mormon male from Utah. Conservatives are trying to gaslight the country into fearing liberals when we all know that right-wing radicals are the real danger.
When asked earlier today by Fox News about what we are going to "do about our country" amidst all this violence and how we can "come back together," Trump gave a truly disgusting response.
“I tell you something that is going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” said the president. "Radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime."
"We don’t want people coming in, we don’t want you burning our shopping centers, shooting our people in the street," he added. “Radicals on the left are the problem and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country.”
The Republican Party is the party of hate. Don't ever let them convince you otherwise.
Please retweet and ❤️ if you know that the real threat is violent right-wingers!
The refugees of today are our doctors, carers, teachers and neighbours of tomorrow.
Above all, they are human beings worthy of compassion, dignity and respect.
Donald Trump is betraying our legacy of defending our allies against tyranny.
Since the President clearly won’t do his job,
In Congress, we damn well better do ours.