Tom Choo

easygoing
retired. No Right, Left or Center ideology! Just what's right or wrong, good or bad!

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Trump: "EEUU vive en la época de oro, somos la mejor economía de la historia".

Mientras tanto así se ven las calles de la ciudad de Berkeley, llenas de personas en la miseria tiradas en las aceras.

Bajo el capitalismo en EEUU, el 50% de todos los inquilinos en EEUU, 22, 7 millones de personas, no pueden apenas pagar para tener una simple vivienda.

[Queen Mannie @DollyArmy2000]

Fuck off. We're not stupid. We understand geopolitics. We know when we're being played. It's an unwinnable war for the west and NATO. Pack up. I want a trade deal with Russia and cheaper gas bills and I'd quite like an end to war without escalation which will wipe us off the map.

[Brydon Parker @parker_brydon]

Skip the US this summer. Canada has the better version. 🇨🇦

Texas → Calgary
California → BC
New York → Toronto
Maine → Nova Scotia
Vermont → Quebec
Florida → Okanagan
Hawaii → Tofino
Colorado → Banff
Alaska → Yukon
Michigan → Muskoka
Napa → NOTL

We have world-class travel at home.

We just don't market it well enough.

What pairing would you add? 🇨🇦

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Pretty huge. Canada now has a current accounts surplus for the first time in 4 years. The current account is how much money a country earns from exports and investments vs what it pays out abroad. Canada is bringing in more foreign currency through trade than it's sending out.

[SlavicPatriot @infantserbian]

My take on the CIA director's Moscow trip is different from everyone else's.

Media says Ratcliffe flew to Moscow to warn Russia. I think that's backwards.

He was called in to be warned by Russia.

Think about it. If America wanted to warn Russia, they'd do it publicly. They've been escalating openly for months. Kursk incursion. Attacks on nuclear bases. Strikes deep inside Russia. All announced. All celebrated.

Why fly the CIA director to Moscow in a military plane for 30 minutes if the goal is just delivering a warning? You don't need face-to-face for that.

The military plane signals something different. Caution. Not strength. He arrived like someone who knows he's walking into a serious conversation he didn't initiate.

Russia called him in. Told him something. Something serious enough that it required this kind of meeting.

I can only speculate what Russians said. But my gut tells me it's not good. Russia's real red line is approaching. Not the fake ones Western media keeps celebrating crossing. The actual one.

And even this meeting is being spun as a US win. As if America flying to Moscow on short notice for a brief meeting shows dominance instead of what it actually shows.
Anyway, thats just my opinion.

[Kat Kanada 🏴 @KatKanada_TM]

"How DARE Trump rename it to Lake Lake America?!"

Anyway, have you ever to been on šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street in Kitsilano?

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

SO AWESOME.
🇨🇦 THIS is how Canada responds.
Chapman’s is replacing more than 70% of its U.S. ingredients and components with Canadian or other non-U.S. suppliers.

Canadian dairy, Canadian cones, Canadian wafers, and Canadian jobs.
Plus what Canada can’t make here, we can buy from reliable partners around the world.
Trump wanted tariffs to make Canada more dependent on America... Instead, he gave Canadians a reason to build, buy and trade WITHOUT America.
Keep going, CHAPMAN'S. 🇨🇦
https://t.co/o1ohwVv8Sq

[MaryMary🇨🇦@mmofcan @marymary686868]

Howard Nutlick is a violent, pedophile rapist. He belongs in jail and then the lowest levels of Hell. He should never get one ounce of respect from anyone with morals or a conscience.
He is an evil pig.

[Barbara Levesque @belle_levesque]

Listen for the guy in the background screaming “shame shame shame”.
@howardlutnick is a liar and one of the worst human beings on the planet.
He stole govt funds from the families of his employees who died on 9/11.
He is scum.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Everything - and I mean everything - Chellaney is saying is a bald-faced lie.

Which is absolutely disgusting: using such a tragedy - which killed hundreds (if not thousands, we don't know yet) of Nepalis and Chinese alike - to manufacture an entirely fake geopolitical narrative is genuinely beyond the pale.

1) The collapse happened on the Nepal side, not the "Tibetan side": as confirmed by Nepal themselves (https://t.co/hVvGlMNzSP) and as obvious from satellite imagery (https://t.co/B6SRZ6dkOr), Langtang Lirung, where the glacier collapsed, is entirely within Nepalese territory - this is not even a borderline case.

2) There is exactly zero "Chinese hydrological modifications and infrastructure footprint" in this area. You just need to check satellite imagery around the collapse side to check it out: https://t.co/TKvdc0PKgO. It's an extremely wild and unpopulated mountainous area.

The only "infrastructure" there is a border checkpoint, a road, and a bridge that have existed in some form since the 8th century (https://t.co/pkZVW8xPZe). There are no dams. No hydrological modifications. Nothing.

3) On the "no warning" claim: this one is probably the most egregious of all because Chellaney is blaming China for not warning Nepal about something that happened **inside Nepal**.

And, in any case, once the mountain collapse, warnings would unfortunately not have changed people's fates: the mudslide reached the border crossing - just 25km away - within just 7 minutes and 40 seconds (https://t.co/eKzfNAzNn7). There is no conceivable warning system that would have enabled a meaningful evacuation in under eight minutes.

4) If anything, one of the lessons of this terrible tragedy is that you actually WANT more infrastructure footprint in that area, Chinese or otherwise, if only to monitor if nearby mountains or glacier are showing signs of instability.

Entire mountains just don't collapse from one day to the next without showing early signs of weakness that the right sensors could pick up days or weeks in advance.

So the right answer to save lives in the region in the future, which I strongly suspect Chellaney doesn't give the slightest damn about, is more Chinese-Nepali cooperation on joint monitoring infrastructure.

This is unfortunately not Chellaney's first rodeo with anti-China narratives designed to sow division and hatred between developing countries.

He is the man, for instance, who infamously coined the "debt-trap diplomacy" narrative (since thoroughly debunked - see https://t.co/y1EaERG0R5 - but still widely believed) to poison developing countries' relationships with China and thereby deprive them of infrastructure investment they badly need.

How many roads, ports, and railways were delayed or canceled across Africa and Asia because governments were scared off by a narrative that turned out to be false?

It's exactly the same pattern here: a catchy lie designed to sow division and hatred between countries at the exact moment they need each other most.

I hate to say this but, behind all this, there is also a wider India angle. Anyone who's followed posts on X about this tragedy know that the overwhelming share of the disinformation about it - all aimed at weaponizing the tragedy to blame China - has come from thousands of Indian accounts like Chellaney's.

And, given how aggressively India censors social media (shutting down up to thousands of X accounts a week: https://t.co/Se02KGlAYX), the tolerance about this anti-China misinformation campaign unfortunately speaks for itself.

All the more, in this instance, since Chellaney is deeply connected in the Indian government and was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board (https://t.co/DbRh142dNx).

At the risk of stating the obvious, it's pretty pathetic and deeply short-sighted.

This is the case for this specific strategy: every glacier that threatens Nepal threatens northern India just as much: the next collapse could just as easily send a wall of mud into Uttarakhand. And if it does, India will need exactly the kind of cross-border China-Nepal monitoring cooperation that narratives like Chellaney's are designed to destroy.

And it is the case more broadly too: when your strategy consists of turning your neighbors against each other based on lies, sooner or later they realize that the one thing they actually have in common is being deceived by you - and that makes you, not China, the common threat.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

je pense profondément la victoire de la chine ne sera pas purement technologique, elle sera avant tout culturelle et axiologique

pour moi le véritable tournant n'est pas seulement que la jeunesse chinoise diplômée du MIT ou de Stanford rentre à Hangzhou pour bâtir l'écosystème local, c'est que le centre de gravité des valeurs est en train de basculer

pendant que l'occident s'épuise dans la polarisation et le cynisme institutionnel, la chine vend une narration d'ambition collective, d'exécution disciplinée et d'optimisme civilisationnel et à terme, les meilleurs cerveaux et les capitaux rejoindornt un projet de société auquel ils croient…la bataille de l'attractivité se jouera précisément là

ceux ceux qui rejoindront ce pôle à l'avenir le feront par alignement de valeurs : l'éloge du long terme, la pensée par les premiers principes, la rigueur technique, la compréhension des systèmes complexes, le respect du pragmatisme et la foi absolue dans le progrès matériel... l'occident pense qu'il s'agit d'une guerre de puces et de algorithmes alors que je pense qu’il s’agit d’une guerre de désir et d'adhésion

sachez que quand un système parvient à incarner l'action, la souveraineté et le progrès face à une technocratie occidentale fragmentée, il crée une force d'attraction irrésistible

on ne gagne pas la guerre du futur avec du capital-risque, on la gagne en devenant le sanctuaire des bâtisseurs qui cherchent du sens et cnest ce que propose la Chine à tous les talents du monde entier

[🇨🇦🍁SillyRabbitFaFo🍁🇨🇦 @sillyrabbitfafo]

You 100% mentioned French because printing both official languages on packaging costs you more money. Spare us the lies and BS. And while we're at it, weren't you on Epstein Island? @howardlutnick

[Tom Choo @TomChoo4]

@sillyrabbitfafo @howardlutnick The camera should swing around the back and watch his pants on fire! 😁

[Empire Of Lies @berningman16]

Future generations will condemn us for allowing this horror to happen.

[Tom Choo @TomChoo4]

@jengerson These crooks lie ALL THE TIME! Why would it be different now? The Americans sign all deals with a pencil!

[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

What's also fascinating here is the projection. They think Canada's only motivation is the most short-sighted and immediate political interest -- because that's how *their* internal incentives are structured. Every accusation is a confession.

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

NBA retired star talks about "Chinese education" Chinese education of children and a century of humiliation and American educational hegemony and racial discrimination

[Andrew Johns @AndrewNJohns]

British Columbia has had over 50 street, parks and plaza name changes, including:
▪️Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza → šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn
▪️Cardiff Mountain Ecological Reserve → Tŝi ʔEẑɨsh Ecological Reserve
▪️Trutch Street, Vancouver → šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street

I guess the good news is we can at least pronounce and spell Lake America.

[Tom Choo @TomChoo4]

@AndrewNJohns 👍😁

[LittlePinkie @Allya10X]

"Japanese Devils" (2001) — a 160‑minute documentary by Japanese director Minoru Matsui.
14 former Imperial Army soldiers, then in their 70s and 80s, sat in front of the camera and confessed what they did in China between 1931 and 1945. Listen and learn.🦋