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Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Wer für Bildung protestiert und dabei mit einer Palästinaflagge herumfuchtelt, beweist: Er hat Bildung dringend nötig. Insofern: Passt schon, irgendwie. Ist ja auch mal ein neuer Ansatz, die Notwendigkeit für mehr Bildung an der eigenen Dummheit zu demonstrieren.
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
clueless german guy who says "it's giving" (es gibt) instead of "there is" and doesn't understand why everyone thinks he's gay
so like a guy hits on him and he says "oh, it's giving misunderstanding"
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I wish I could show this to the American founding fathers. They'd have such a trip.
VATICAN: "Pope Leo XIV has exercised his right to vote as a citizen of the United States, every time he had the opportunity. The Holy See Press Office confirms that, in line with this established practice of civic participation, the Pope has sent his ballot by mail to Chicago. The Holy Father has also confirmed that, during the years in which he resided in Peru, he exercised his right to vote every time he had the opportunity. The Holy Father expresses his conviction regarding the right and duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.”
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
New developments in Sami “Please Bomb My Grandma” Thought
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This looks like something out of a cartoon.
🗣️"I will never step down as ECB President"
*Cut to bruiser rolling up his sleeves*
*Batman-style "KA-POW" graphic*
Then cut to this:
I have just informed my colleagues that I will step down as @ECB President on 7 February 2027.
It has been a source of great pride to serve this institution.
I thank all of those who have supported me on this journey over the past seven years.
Why are people dunking on Anne Carson's new poem as if its "nothingness" wasn't the whole point? It's puncturing the superhuman aura of the Nobel Prize in both form and content. You're *meant* to find it funny!
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Mbappe is another reminder to everyone that you do not want to live in a world where the US or the West aren't the true global superpower.
All our fundamental human rights to free speech and to live freely exist because of that.
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Nothing says a country's not a dictatorship like having to issue grovelling apologies for mentioning that it was in the past.
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
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Los historiadores estiman que entre 1958 y 1962, Mao causó entre 15 y 55 millones de muertes, sobre todo por hambruna. Las cifras más citadas rondan los 30-45 millones. A esto se suman cientos de miles o millones más por la Revolución Cultural y otras campañas.
scmp.com/article/723956…
rfa.org/english/commen…
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I used to be a spiteful, belligerent and unreflective member of one political tribe, but thankfully I've grown and matured and I'm a spiteful, belligerent and unreflective member of another political tribe.
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Something I've been wondering about lately is why with all the money Europe has poured into left-wing Israeli NGOs (Jewish and Arab) to try to move Israeli politics to the left, it doesn't seem to have invested a penny in nurturing a liberal democratic Palestinian movement to create a viable alternative to Fatah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, the latter two of which have no interest in peace, and the former of which is to corrupt and dictatorial to be able and willing to make peace.
Israel is not why Palestinians have little to no interest in doing the institution building required to not be a failed state.
You’d have an even crappier version of Lebanon with a population that 3/4 supports Palestinian Hezbollah antics instead of 1/3.
The Israeli attitudes on this are a response to what is clearly true about the Palestinians. You can’t get the Israelis to back off without fixing the dumpster fires that are Palestinian Nationalism, Palestinian politics, and Palestinian institutions.
Btw, if you're wondering what it would look like if antisemites' notions of Jewish/Israeli influence and control were remotely true, look at what's happening with Mbappe and China.
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I'm not Israeli, but if I lived on a tiny strip of land surrounded by genocidal Muslims, yet managed to win all the wars, become one of the richest countries per capita in the world, and a hub of technology, science, and innovation, I'd be pretty damn proud.
What's the point of being worth 250 million and an internationally adored superstar if you still have to debase yourself like this?
What's the worst that could happen to Mbappe if he said "I'll apologize if Xi Jinping personally sucks my dick in a Sexy Chairman Mao costume?"
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Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
8am: Israel's vote is the "last chance" before becoming a pariah state.
9am: Syria banning women from university courses is "a bad omen."
One country is running a free election, the other is closing classrooms to women. Guess which one gets called a pariah.
Israel's vote today is "the last chance to preserve democracy and pull Israel back from the brink of becoming a pariah state under international sanctions." trib.al/boGxIVQ
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
For those who claim that criticising *Israel* is somehow “forbidden”, this is the President of La Liga making a grovelling apology to China because one of the League’s players made an offhand remark calling Mao a dictator (which is true!)
Desde LALIGA lamentamos profundamente las declaraciones de Kylian Mbappé que han causado malestar y ofensa en China. Entendemos el daño ocasionado y, en nombre de LALIGA, quiero trasladar nuestras sinceras disculpas al pueblo chino.
Durante muchos años hemos construido una relación de respeto, confianza y cooperación con China, sus autoridades, sus instituciones deportivas, sus operadores audiovisuales y millones de aficionados al fútbol español.
No podemos permitir que una actuación individual empañe esa relación ni perjudique a los más de 20 clubes de nuestras competiciones profesionales y a millones de aficionados chinos.
Estamos adoptando las medidas a nuestro alcance y trabajando directamente con nuestros socios e interlocutores en China para superar esta situación.
Nuestro compromiso con China, su pueblo y sus instituciones es firme. Una relación construida durante tantos años no puede quedar dañada por un episodio individual.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Los historiadores estiman que entre 1958 y 1962, Mao causó entre 15 y 55 millones de muertes, sobre todo por hambruna. Las cifras más citadas rondan los 30-45 millones. A esto se suman cientos de miles o millones más por la Revolución Cultural y otras campañas.
scmp.com/article/723956…
rfa.org/english/commen…
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Understand how the narrative works.
Ahead of Brazil’s election, they were gearing up to blame Meta if Lula lost. Now that he’s been declared the winner, we’re hearing about the brilliant use of WhatsApp (Meta) that helped deliver his victory.
When Obama won in 2012, they celebrated his shrewd use of Facebook, voter data and microtargeting. When Brexit happened and Trump won in 2016, we got the Cambridge Analytica moral panic.
When the left wins, it’s brilliant digital campaigning. When the right wins, it’s social media manipulation undermining democracy.
How 'Lula's Army' WhatsApp chat helped turn Brazil election around bbc.in/4zU8c9w
Thomas Stern 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I miss movie trailers when the narrator sounded like he was warning you about the movie.
