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You can change your house.
You can even change your partner.

But what you can’t change…
is your football club.

Because they are more than just businesses.
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They represent communities, generations, history, identity, and belonging.

They’re not just about making money.
They’re about what they mean to the people. ❤️

#GlazersAndIneosOut

[酒仙 Dionysus @WildeWongza9i]

现代土耳其是个很有意思的国家。

奥斯曼帝国崩溃以后，凯末尔几乎凭一己之力把一个可能继续被列强肢解的帝国残骸重新捏成了现代民族国家。世俗化、民族国家化、军队现代化、外交现实主义——凯末尔确实称得上20世纪少见的政治、军事、外交全能型人物。

如果没有土耳其独立战争，今天安纳托利亚的地图很可能完全不同，伊斯坦布尔/君士坦丁堡最终归属如何也未必像今天这样无悬念。

但凯末尔建立的已经不再是“奥斯曼人的国家”，而是“土耳其人的国家”。

这带来了一个很重要的问题：
一个失去了大部分疆域的旧帝国，该到哪里寻找自己的历史纵深？
向西，是欧洲。
但土耳其努力了一百年，也始终没有真正成为欧洲的一员。
向南，是曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的阿拉伯世界。但土耳其人与阿拉伯人的历史记忆并不完全愉快，而且一个重新整合中东的土耳其显然会与地区内几乎所有大国发生利益冲突。
于是还有第三个方向：
向东。
从安纳托利亚，经阿塞拜疆、中亚，一直到中国新疆，把广阔欧亚大陆上的突厥语民族重新解释为一个跨越千年的巨大历史共同体。
然后土鸡就同时触碰三个地区：
俄罗斯境内的突厥语民族；
俄罗斯传统势力范围内的中亚；
以及中国新疆。
所以对中国而言，泛突厥主义并不是一个遥远的土耳其民族主义思潮，而是一个能够直接触碰中国领土、民族和安全议题的意识形态。
这也是为什么中国人对土耳其民族主义的感受，和一个法国人、德国人甚至阿拉伯人的感受完全不同。
而泛突厥主义还有一个非常典型的民族主义问题：
它喜欢把语言共同体倒推成政治共同体，再把政治共同体倒推成自古以来的民族共同体。
欧亚草原两千年的历史远比这种叙事复杂。
匈奴、鲜卑、柔然、突厥、回鹘、契丹、蒙古以及后来无数中亚政权之间，有战争、有征服、有联盟、有迁徙、有语言替换，也有大量人口融合。
土耳其的图兰主义者却很喜欢拿着今天的民族地图回去给古人发身份证。
于是你会看到一种非常奇妙的历史叙事：
只要说突厥语，或者曾经生活在某片草原上，就可以被装进一条从古代一直延伸到现代土耳其的民族谱系。
这和有人把“匈奴—鲜卑—柔然—蒙古”全部解释成一个从两千年前延续至今的蒙古民族，本质上是同一种历史叙事方法。
尤其讽刺的是，回鹘汗国当年还是唐朝的重要盟友，曾经协助唐朝平定安史之乱；而回鹘的崛起本身，也发生在后突厥汗国覆亡的历史过程中。
所以真实的欧亚历史从来不是“一个民族从蒙古高原一路西迁到安纳托利亚”的民族史诗，而是一锅持续煮了两千年的语言、部族、帝国和人口迁徙的大杂烩。
当然，这并不意味着现代土耳其政府每天都拿着尺子准备建立一个从伊斯坦布尔到新疆的“突厥帝国”。
现实政治没有这么简单。
土耳其加入北约，却经常和北约盟友发生冲突；它遏制俄罗斯，又购买俄罗斯S-400；它支持乌克兰，同时又不愿彻底与俄罗斯翻脸；它发展“突厥世界”，同时也和中国做生意。
它想成为一个拥有独立势力范围的欧亚中等强国。
问题在于，它寻找势力范围的几个方向——巴尔干、高加索、中亚和突厥世界——几乎每走一步都会踩到别人的脚。
踩俄罗斯的脚，俄罗斯人不会喜欢它。
踩希腊的脚，希腊人不会喜欢它。
介入阿拉伯世界，很多阿拉伯国家不会喜欢它。
而当泛突厥主义一路向东，把新疆也纳入自己的民族主义想象时，中国人当然也很难喜欢它。
所以问题其实不是：
“土耳其为什么那么让人讨厌？”

而是：
一个失去帝国的国家，如果始终试图在旧帝国边缘和语言亲缘地区重新寻找大国身份，就注定会不断进入别人的历史叙事和现实利益范围。

土耳其最大的地缘政治困境，也许正来自这里：
奥斯曼皇冠已经戴不回去了，
欧洲的椅子又始终没有真正坐上去，
于是像吉娃娃一样，不停地向四周寻找一个足够大的自己。

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@Janani_GR_ There are sanghis in all three religions, namely Saffron, White and Green…

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@ChristoMalloo This is true..

[Annu Kaushik @AnnuKaushik253]

“Try being india’s neighbour”

FYI: This was said by your own country’s former President ⬇️

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@theliverdoc The paediatrician I used to take my daughter.
1. Morning 7-9 : At home clinic
2. Afternoon 1-3: At home clinic
3. Evening 5-7: At a big hospital
4: Evening 8-11: At own private clinic.

All this on top of being a full time instructor at Govt Medical college.

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

Lol. We never learn

[utdreport @utdreport]

Eddie Howe is the favourite for the #mufc job. He is admired within Old Trafford, and Howe would be interested in the role as he wants to return to the PL as soon as possible [@reluctantnicko]

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@sumanthraman He said nothing wrong there.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Mishraji, I have seen a fair share of idiots on my timeline, but you really are top of the line. Read this well.

Nothing says "I have a rock-solid economic argument" quite like pivoting from bauxite mining to a conspiracy theory about my religion in the final sentence. If you are going to lecture people on "ground realities," it helps to look at actual government data rather than astrological reading of licked corporate boots.

India’s richest bauxite and mineral belts, like Koraput and Kalahandi in Odisha, or Bastar and Surguja in Chhattisgarh, have been mined for decades. According to NITI Aayog’s National Multidimensional Poverty Index, these exact districts remain among the poorest, most malnourished, and least medically equipped in the country. Mining doesn't turn tribal heartlands into Wakanda. It extracts the wealth and leaves locals with red mud, toxic heavy-metal runoff, and silicosis.

India is not starving for aluminium. We are among the world's top producers and a net exporter of primary aluminium (exporting over 50% of what we produce). Razing ancient forests was never about rescuing tribals from poverty, but always has been about padding private export margins.

An old-growth tropical ecosystem with its groundwater table and biodiversity cannot be replaced by planting rows of commercial saplings on degraded land hundreds of kilometers away. Even Comptroller and Auditor General audits and parliamentary panels have repeatedly exposed that Compensatory Afforestation routinely fails, featuring abysmal survival rates, monoculture plantations, and "ghost forests" that exist only on paper.

Nobody wants indigenous communities kept as museum exhibits. They deserve schools, hospitals, and roads without having their ancestral homes strip-mined first. Under the PESA Act and the Forest Rights Act, local Gram Sabhas have the constitutional right to decide what happens to their land. When given the choice, as the Dongria Kondh famously proved against bauxite mining in Niyamgiri, they overwhelmingly reject having their water sources and hills destroyed.

As for sticking to livers, environmental heavy-metal toxicity, contaminated water tables, and severe malnutrition directly cause diseases, including that of the liver. Public health doesn't stop at the hospital door. Calling out ecological destruction isn't "proselytising", that’s just basic toxicology and high school knowledge which you may not have received in your Shakha...though I understand how evidence can look like a foreign religion when you're worshipping government and corporate greed, instead of human needs.

Go sit down clown.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

My dear friends, please, I hope to demand your absolute attention to this matter:

In 2018, my junior from St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Dr. Randall Sequeira (middle in the pic), trekked up a steep, bauxite-rich plateau in Odisha to hold a monsoon health camp in the indigenous Kutiya Kondh village of Kutrumali.

In a piece he wrote then titled "Kutrumali’s Demons," Randall described sleeping under a dripping school roof in freezing fog, borrowing utensils from a local health worker to cook khichdi, and waking up at 6 AM to a line of tribal mothers. He wrote with heartbreak about treating malnourished toddlers with protruding bellies and visible ribs, listening to stories of stillbirths and chronic fevers, while noticing the shiny new solar lights installed by a mining conglomerate eyeing the aluminium ore beneath the villagers' feet.

Comparing his small medical team to hobbits sheltering in the night, Randall worried about the outside forces coming for that fragile village.

Randall stayed with the tribal/ adivasi community to serve them. After St. John’s and an MD in Internal Medicine from SMS Jaipur, he gave up every comfort of urban medicine to live in Kalahandi, recognizing that clinical prescriptions are meaningless when indigenous communities are stripped of their forests, water, and dignity.

On the night of October 16, Odisha police picked up Dr. Randall Sequeira and Dalit activist Laxman Naik at 11 PM from his home in Bhawanipatna. A gentle physician who has spent years trekking up hills to save tribal children is now locked in Rayagada sub-jail under frivolous but draconian charges (attempt to murder, dacoity), simply for standing with Adivasis peaceful protesting the mining of their sacred hills in Sijimali and Kutrumali.
https://t.co/PsxZZCngyV

Odisha Govt. said it will cut down forests to connect tribal villages. But it was a way to bypass green laws and fast track London based Vedanta’s, and Adani's mining plans. Local organisations estimate that around 45 villages depend on these hills and would be affected.
https://t.co/0pATUIYADm

The state has answered with repression rather than dialogue. In the last three years, at least 43 police cases have been filed and over a hundred Adivasis and Dalits, both women and men, have been incarcerated in Odisha jails. For example, from In March and april 2026, 8, 2026, to April 8, 2026, within one month, 24 people were sent to jail, 217 were made accused, and the number of “others” total 1,140. An activist who was not named in the original FIRs, but has since been implicated in about 12 cases, so that bail in one case is followed by arrest in another. This pattern of capture and releases have been used to crush rational dissent.

Dr. Randall understood that being a good doctor means understanding that prescriptions cannot compensate for the denial of land rights, that surgery cannot undo displacement and that no medical can substitute for the basic infrastructure a government has failed to provide.
https://t.co/fOC9AU3jaR

To my fellow medical fraternity, and every citizen with a conscience: a kind physician who embodies the highest ethics of our profession is being criminalized to clear the way for bauxite mining. Please do not let his voice be buried in a sub-jail.

Amplify this, demand due process, and demand the immediate release. Please sign in this form to show solidarity: https://t.co/cgLIoEXExG

If anyone can help out in this situation please reach out to Medico Friend Circle - https://t.co/OT2D2E3DuW

[Ray @RayFromNYCity]

@Polymarket I’ll believe it when Bezos has hair.

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@MUFC_redarmy99 IMHO, City getting sent to the Championship itself a big punishment. They can’t hide behind “Allegedly” anymore. Everyone know they have bought the titles..

[Premier League Out Of Context @PL__OOC]

Interim Carrick Permanent Carrick

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@ghaid2_A @Lahorewali_ The day will come when all other Muslim nations are going to get together. Then you can’t hide behind your oil wells and the Kaaba. The Arrogance is so getting out of hand

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@ghaid2_A @Lahorewali_ No other religion is chopping off heads for violating sanctity of places of worship like you Arab barbarians. Even the Muslims are enraged by this.

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@PLEKarnataka Lau*e Lag ne wali hai, Coimbatore ki…

[Raagh-ol @Cringecat__]

Kashtapattu en mamanar ta irundhu
ushar pantu vandhen da

Hukhum ku NOC vangitu vaa da nah enna idhu

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@Capoqaana Konjam elaborate pannunga

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@dmuthuk So this is the reason government cut down tax for Diesel export.

[Popeye @vernonfdo]

@UpdatesChennai 💯