Actively facilitating Trump lying to his base about european perception of the war. And it's not like it's even needed they're already lying to them about Spain being on board
05.03.2026 18:46
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Actively facilitating Trump lying to his base about european perception of the war. And it's not like it's even needed they're already lying to them about Spain being on board
Stuff like this is why since January I’ve gone from merely considering NATO obsolete and long overdue replacement with a pan-european defence system to the left’s view of it as an active American encroachment on European sovereignty
Actual fifth columnist stuff from Mark Rutte going onto U.S. Regime News to tell them Europe is “on a massive scale supportive of what the President is doing" in Iran
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
The Israeli finance minister Smotrich, who is also a deputy defense minister, threatens to turn Beirut into Khan Younis.
This is such an easy, popular, morally consistent rebuke to American aggression and yet it's hard to imagine any of our other current leaders replicating it
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
things could change but so far all the Americans have done to Sánchez is throw a few insults at him and, bizarrely, lie to their base about him supporting their war
archive.ph/iyaWY
The european public are displaying unprecedented unity in crying out for leadership that will stand up to American belligerence and somehow we don’t have a single national leader whose name isn’t Pedro Sánchez interested in the popularity layup
back to grey skies today but hey it was a nice break
whole of Ireland yesteday walking around wondering why they're in a strangely uplifted mood despite everything, have I been eating different? exercising more than usual? then you remember its the first time you've seen the sun in months
feel ominously meaningful that there's an astonishing lack of alarm among the loudest supposed champions of international law and diplomatic norms while the notable sceptics are all freaking the fuck out
this is the paradox of antisemitism in Ireland: relatively low levels compared to the rest of europe but because there are so few of us here any encounter with one of the small number who have turned their brain to conspiracy mush carries a real risk of harassment or violence
most Irish people have no cause to think of Jews at all but we have a very small faction who have gone down the conspiracy rabbit hole and think about us *a lot* to the point there's a real physical risk should any of us encounter them
Irish government policy is to make us more reliant on foreign energy like LNG, while paying out tens of billions of euros in fines for failure to meet climate targets.
Moving to renewables is the only way for Ireland to develop its own sustainable, sovereign energy source. #speirgorm
I understand the gut response of denial because saying no to someone who is entirely sincere in their belief that your entirely moral endeavour is causing them material harm feels terrible but if we’re going to get anywhere we have to be committed to both our principles and a basic sense of reality
The part that is going to be hard for many of you, is that people who have experienced genuine, even hostile or violent antisemitism are going to ask you to action what they have experienced as a political drop in support for Palestine, and you are going to have to say no to this
If the answer is no, and I would argue the case for a no is insurmountable, then you have no need for kneejerk denials. You already have everything you need for the conclusion you know is correct
Some of you could stand to take a breath and ask yourself the following: Does the existence or extent of antisemitism in Ireland affect in any way the fundamental questions of justice and humanity that undergird the Palestine cause?
rt'ing this without context but I believe people will know where you mean
"Oh you're a newly qualified accountant? Would you like to live in a walled compound, where they let you drink, and launder money, and pay no tax, and have an enslaved domestic servant you literal fucking demon?"
no regrets
there is no evidence anyone in there thinks beyond the immediate effects of any of their actions, there was clearly no plan for what to do after the Venezuela or Iran actions, and they've displayed no long term foresight on the effects of tariffs, breaking alliances, or anything else
Could we get this for Ireland too, please
There is unfortunately a lot of explanatory power in assuming the Trump admin is staffed entirely by people incapable of second order thinking
Easy way to determine whether someone is a bloodthirsty hack or not is to ask them how Ahmadinejad was a military target
Most don't even exist any more but thats probably a coincidence I guess
There are plenty of examples of past big powers who went down this route and guess what, they all ended up diplomatically isolated with no one wanting to deal with them
American officials and boosters are all talking like they're the first empire in history to figure out you can get short term wins by breaking treaties and betraying allies
They keep expanding the concept of legitimate war time targets in very scary ways
last sane man in british politics and they're gonna defame him to hell for it
Yeah exact playthrough