Rik Sargent

General Sporting Fan. I'm also a boring Structural Engineer

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@ZoeJardiniere @JackBailey2 Also. You. Owen jones polanski et al, anecho chamber for my own political view/twitter feed all coming out insinuating the police are wrong/questionable.... Your making it easy for the right to argue the left are anti police & reconfirming political stereotypes. an own goal.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@ZoeJardiniere @JackBailey2 The strength of a man that big full of adrenaline wud be surprising to you zoe. + he refused arrest/release of weapon. And tasers aren't magic buttons like you'd see on tv. Some can overcome them. It looks clumsy, but given the context. Completely justifiable surely?

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@jonny_castles @unherd @James7Holland @Docstockk Mate. Watch the endless number of young teenage fans scream and run up to the people who are subject of this documentary. If there's one take away we can all take. Young men are influenced.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@grok @RiderLDA @BernieSanders @grok what is the take home pay after taxes for the average person on an average salary for both countries.

[Labour Press @labourpress]

48 hours on, and still no action from Nigel Farage.

What has he got to hide?

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@SexyandAngry @IainDale Iain we fucking love you mate. Come to bedminster

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

To anyone seeing the above replies. They are a scam company pretending to be customer services for see tickets. Please avoid

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@seetickets We have received our tickets for oasis 12th August. Murrayfield. We have sold them via twickets but there is still no option to transfer them over to the purchaser. Please advise.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@FootballTalkHQ Get him to united so we can ruin his career too

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

What just happened in the oval office was a planned ambush, designed to help a brutal Russian dictator and hurt America's security.

Trump has become Putin's lapdog, and America's global power is hemorrhaging as America sides with dictators over democracy. What an embarrassment.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@AJEnglish People who perceived this as disgusting need to get in the bin. Starmer, a former critic of trump. Pulling out the old kings invitation card to the orange toddler like a surprise extra Christmas present. We live in a parody reality. I bet it works tho.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@DanielC90407601 @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret I agree. The American right taking for granted their place in the world. But It's petty, jealous and perhaps an act of jelousy for the UK and EU to gaupe at the behaviour and scream for divorce. All to China/Russia benefit too.

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@didnt_overthink @RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret I agree he believes he's doing the right thing . And enjoy his lack of care towards hurting the right wings definition of "woke culture". To a degree. But he's an ignoramus. And that says more about the American people and the lack of a good alternative at the ballot than me

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Are we all just witneses to the most under qualified unintelligent man to make office (2nd time) and wht does this say about the political establishment who have lost to him agin. And with populist farage on the horizn what can starmer actually do to stop the UK from doing same

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret Is trump really a political strong man. I feel he's a moron who has pulled the wool over the American people. Shooting from the hip, stirring outrage then retracting without actually retracting, all the while his political sycophants scream "genius" and "outside the box thinker".

[Rik Sargent @riksargent6]

@SkyNews I cannot believe what I just watched. Saying this while the man entirely responsible is sat next to him beaming like a toddler. This is beyond parody

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

What's happening Syria is probably the most incoherent geopolitical event I've come across, and the more you look into it, the more confusing it gets.

I mean, just look at this list:

- First of all, the speed of Assad's collapse still makes very little sense: after successfully holding out against multiple enemies for 13 years with Russian and Iranian backing in a brutal civil war, his regime suddenly crumbled in just 11 days with almost no bloodshed.
- The "liberators" of Syria being celebrated by the West are Islamist groups on their own official terrorist lists. The country's new leader, Al-Julani, still has a $10 million bounty on his head as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for founding the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda.
- Biden called this "a historic opportunity for the long-suffering people of Syria to build a better future" while his administration continues to occupy a third of Syria, control its oil fields, maintain crippling sanctions, and bomb its territory... thereby obviously very much compromising this better future.
- Assad's Prime Minister immediately agreed to work with the rebels and they accepted him - despite being mortal enemies in a brutal 13-year civil war.
- Al-Julani, after years of orchestrating suicide bombings and sectarian massacres against civilians, is now suddenly positioning himself as "diversity friendly".
- Russia, despite being in an alliance with Syria dating back to the Soviet era, billions invested in protecting Assad, and their only Mediterranean naval base in Tartus, essentially shrugged it all and let their ally fall.
- Syria's new leaders remain bizarrely silent about Israel invading their territory and the U.S. bombing and occupying their country. They've said nothing about their strategic assets - including the entire navy and air force - being destroyed in U.S. and Israeli air raids.
- The U.S. maintains its occupation of a third of Syria (including most oil fields), claiming it's necessary to "ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS" - despite Trump declaring in 2019 (and the U.S. repeatedly confirming since) that "we have defeated ISIS in Syria". Western media largely ignore this ongoing occupation while celebrating Syria's "liberation".
- Hamas, while in the middle of a war with Israel, took time to congratulate the Syrian rebels - even though Assad was their (and Iran's) longtime ally and Syria's fall significantly weakens their own strategic position.
- The U.S. celebrates the liberation of Syrian prisoners while operating its own concentration camps in the country (https://t.co/VoSHG8bi3B) holding tens of thousands indefinitely without trial - half of them children - but that apparently doesn't count as oppression.
- Türkiye is fighting against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with apparent U.S. approval, while the SDF was fighting Assad (which the U.S. wanted) - meaning U.S.-backed forces are effectively fighting other U.S.-backed forces.
- Iran, normally eager to defend its regional interests, suddenly abandoned billions in investments and a crucial strategic ally in their "Axis of Resistance", evacuating their personnel and citizens within hours.

Truly one of the strangest chapters in modern geopolitical history. Every possible explanation contains its own contradictions, and most players are acting against their own stated principles and interests.

At this stage it looks like the simplest explanation might go something like this: the U.S. welcomes the fall of a longtime opponent; neighboring powers like Israel and Türkiye see an opportunity for territorial gain; rebel leaders seem willing to accept loss of sovereignty and territory in exchange for domestic control over a diminished Syria; Russia and Iran chose to cut their losses given other regional priorities; and smaller players like Hamas are scrambling to adapt. Still, the unprecedented speed and coordination of these events suggests we're missing some crucial pieces of this very strange puzzle.

[Jean-Claude Damn Van™ @ChaosAgent_42]

The more you retweet this, the more Elon will try to deboost it.
It won't go over 5k.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬