@chrisrivers50
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Other countries don’t have them. But Ukraine would like them…
1. Trump claimed it was Iran, not the USA, that targeted a school. Why would Iran target its own school?
2. Then he switched & said another country with Tomahawk missiles must have done it. Other countries don’t have such missiles.
"He was philosophically a little bit different than me," Trump said of his vice president.
Circular holes can be seen in the centre of three of the buildings on the naval base targeted in the US strikes, including a building listed as a clinic & pharmacy.
In addition a school building was hit, killing 165, mainly children. The US was using old pre-2016 maps…
news.sky.com/story/new-ev...
Harry Lambert - on Bob Pape who showed nobody wins by bombing alone. Trump will just reap a whirlwind.
open.substack.com/pub/harrytla...?
Such a disgrace. I support paralympics but absolutely no need to allow Russia (or Belarus) back in. Those athletes could compete as individuals.
If you can understand French it's worth listening to Macron's speech this evening to the crew of the Charles de Gaulle off Cyprus
Not for anything special that he announces but for the measured, intelligent tone
Then imagine what Trump or Hegseth might have said
People in Britain need to be really clear that the reason they are about to be worse off is Donald Trump and his enablers.
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Trump Open to Khamenei Being Killed if Iran’s Leader Doesn’t Cede to U.S. Demands Hits on critical infrastructure were exchanged, with Israeli strikes on Iranian fuel-storage complexes lighting up the Tehran skyline.
What a wild headline.
"Trump open to Khamenei being killed if he doesn't cede to U.S. demands"
Who's ordering the killing? And we just do assassinations bow?
This reads like a Mafia hit. Gross, embarrassing, and, ofc, dangerous.
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“Take Amazon, a company that started out by making it possible to have any book shipped to your door and then became the only game in town for everything else, even as it dodged taxes and filled up with self-immolating crapgadgets and other junk”
Trump now talking gibberish on the Iran war: “We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil.
“And I think you’ll see it’s going to be a short-term excursion.”
celegraph Trump calls Iran war 'complete' after call with Putin
“Mission accomplished” - the (even more of an) idiot’s version.
And he didn’t just call it complete - it’s “very complete”.
Rich people gave us the 19th century's bank panics. They gave us the South Seas bubble. They gave us the Great Depression, and the S&L Crisis, and the Great Financial Crisis. They invented greedflation and created the cost of living crisis.
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And like Epstein, he wants to seed the human race with his babies, and has built a secret compound in the desert he plans to fill with women he has impregnated:
www.realtor.com/news/celebri...
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Like Ford, he buys up media companies and then uses them to push his batshit ideas about racial superiority:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Like Peter Singer, he is a master enshittifier who never met a junk fee he didn't fall in love with:
edition.cnn.com/2022/11/01/t...
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Despite being too cringe to make it onto Epstein island, Elon Musk is the standard bearer for the dangers of billionaireism:
people.com/emails-revea...
Like Henry Ford, he craves company towns where his word is law:
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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Epstein openly discussed his plans to seed the planet with his DNA, reportedly telling one scientist that he planned to fill his ranch with young trafficked girls and to keep 20 of them pregnant with his children at all times:
www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/b...
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And during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, Gates *personally* intervened to kill the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool and to get Oxford to renege on its promise to make an open-source vaccine:
pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/p...
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In the 2000s, the Gates Foundation blocked South Africa from procuring the AIDS drugs it was entitled to under the WTO's TRIPS agreement. The Gates Foundation blocked the Access to Medicines WIPO treaty, which would have vastly expanded the Global South's ability to make life-saving drugs.
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Gates's ideology permeates *all* of his charitable work. We all know about Gates's work on public health, but less well known is the role that Gates has played in blocking poor countries from exercising their rights under the WTO to override drug patents in times of emergency.
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In reality, it's not so much that Gates has forceful views about *schools* - rather, he has forceful views about *teachers' unions*, which he wishes to see abolished. Gates is one of America's most vicious union-busters:
teamster.org/2019/10/team...
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Take Bill Gates, whose charitable projects include waging war on the public education system, seeking to replace public schools with charter schools.
Gates has no background in education, but he spent millions on this project.
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One of the arguments in favor of billionaires is that sometimes, the "good" billionaires take up charitable causes. But even here, billionaires can cause sweeping harm.
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A rich person *could* surround themselves with people who tell them that they're being stupid, but in practice, this almost never happens. After all, the prime advantage to accumulating as much money as possible is freedom from having to listen to other people.
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A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court. Image: Aude (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80th_floor_of_3_World_Trade_Center_-_OHNY.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...
#Pluralistic
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If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing party’s leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such “poisoning of the wells” is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.
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The poisoning of the wells
Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy
This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
discussions when May finally gave in and asked Labour to try to work on a cross-party solution).
