@Michaelgr1011
@AvivaKlompas
The idea that Israelis and their supporters are not sharing these alleged images because of, I don't know, some sense of propriety and decency, is hard for me to accept at the current time.
The IDF infantry has shown itself to be a poorly-trained, pampered, criminal rabble. They've published scores of their own detestable videos that demonstrate this. In every Hamas video I've seen, they're not just caught slipping, they're lounging with no one watching their six.
@JoshuaPotash
Everything I've read and everything I've seen in hundreds of trips over mountain passes indicates to me that blaming a trucking company for this tragedy is as injust as the sentence itself. Aguilera-Mederos was poorly-trained, inexperienced, and terrified.
@RWApodcast
Policy journals and think tanks have no qualms about saying the quiet part out loud. The "hysterical moralistic" component is essential to war propaganda and to emotional investment engaging a different and older part of the brain.
@dunksdeux
@ItsBCJim
I lobbied hard for the goose has hit the first stage of the jet turbine but the overall feeling at the yearly idiom meeting in Montenegro was that something scatalogical would be more memorable
@libertadorzn
I had to explain the conflict to a well-intentioned friend who relied on sources like NyTimes for news about Russia and Ukraine. I began by saying, I have references for everything I'm about to tell you, which is almost exactly the opposite of everything you've read or heard.
🇷🇺⚡The operation in the Belgorod region has been taken over by the FSB.
The border is currently cleared of the Nazis. The Airforce is also working.
100+ terrorists KIA, 6 tanks, multiple IFVs and 20 armored vehicles destroyed.
"Shoоt to к**I" was the order given.
@OwenLaw76
@NeilPHauer
there are losing spectacularly. their army is collapsing after 4 months while the west gleefully sends them obsolete military equipment. the propaganda effort around this has been the biggest in the history of human civilization so you're forgiven for thinking differently
Left are the "top" tweets for a keyword search, with 8 and 3 retweets. Right is the original tweet, with 2410 retweets, which is shadowbanned and does not appear in search results (searches default to top tweets). In case you thought Twitter had reformed itself.
@johnnyjmils
@LeahFarringto14
One potential way around this is subcontracting corp-to-corp if that works in your field. Cheap to set up and you employ yourself. I have a friend with a conviction who has worked this way for years.
@talesfromideath
@JoshuaPotash
Aguilera-Mederos pulled over because his brakes were smoking, then he proceeded down a pass, is on video speeding past a runaway ramp, and was in neutral when he crashed. The sentence is unjust but in no way is the trucking company the proximate cause of this tragedy.
@mtracey
@GarlandNixon
You are being disingenuous. Obviously he's making a sarcastic remark to show there are larger concerns than the volume of a candidate's speaking voice. I wish you would abandon your troll reflex. It's not what anyone follows you for.
This is the Kerch Bridge. Those discs in front of the central truss supporting pillars are independent rock-filled columns called dolphins. Russian civil engineers know their jobs. The Francis Scott Key bridge would still be standing if it had been retrofitted with dolphins.
I bet Russia is scared shitless seeing the Key Bridge collapse after a support pylon was struck by a container ship. Ukraine now sees how the Kerch Bridge can be taken down. It’s just a matter of mathematics of turning ship mass and speed into necessary explosive force.
@SororInimicorum
She is charged for a donation of $51 dollars. Russian telegram claims that she went to pro-ukrainian demonstrations also. She just seems to be an ignorant person full of liberal ideas. The "humanitarian" website she donated to obviously funds the military.
@ArmchairW
I'm guessing it was removed because it's not going to work without access to DOD statellites and they don't trust the UAF with network access.
@gbazov
I guess I don't feel any sense of schaudenfreude about this. This is probably the most heavily propagandized war in recorded history. All of my friends with degrees have it wrong. A mercenary with a high school diploma isn't going to be capable of making an informed decision.
I need to understand how this is acceptable for a US gov't employee, specifically an employee whose job is policy advisor for counter-corruption and sanctions for the Helsinki Commission.
@MyAccou72477627
@Peter_Nimitz
mythical canadian exceptionalism. there was an 8% difference in obesity 13 years ago and it's been shrinking since that time
@MaxBlumenthal
Look at the date. Seems like being raped in the street is something she actually wrote about. Someone needs to take one for the team and read this thing.
@PelmeniPusha
@ArmchairW
I read this and it tells me he knows what he's talking about, both because they made a resume for him and because they're trying to somehow discredit him for 11 years of service.
@ryanlcooper
"hard to see what lasting harm has come to the EU." Yes, just the deindustrialization of Germany, nutricide of the the poor and aged who can't afford the vegetables that used to be grown in heated dutch greenhouses and with fertilizer that is essentially 80% natural gas.
@sumlenny
If it's all about asphalt envy, I could write the same thread about any province in Canada east of the maritimes. I could write it about Alberta, the wealthiest province in Canada, which has both unpaved roads and abject poverty. Sorry I'm not as credulous as your followers.
@semaforben
@zeynep
All he had to do was follow the DRASTIC researchers on Twitter, as I have for years, to know that he had been misled but this simple act of journalism was somehow only possible for a handful of magazine feature writers.
@neil_abrams
@catcontentonly
hello sanctimonious guy whose main ambition in life is to become an Atlantic Council fellow and who wants to lecture everyone else about imperialism
It's been odd to read Yasha Levine and Mark Ames' commentary over the last month.
Sometimes sharp critics, they love the "old jaded pre-soviet nihilist" vibe and don't fight for anything concrete, so they revert back soggy both-sides-ism at the end.
Makes me think of Clevinger:
@freedomrideblog
Azov "soldiers" apparently have no fear of war crimes prosecutions and are posting their atrocities on telegram as trophies. It's not anything you should search for if you are a trauma survivor. You cannot unsee these things.
Someone shot her point-blank in the head in Lviv two days ago. The BBC headline was the following:
Iryna Farion: Ex-Ukraine MP and language campaigner shot dead in Lviv
Iryna Farion, a popular Ukrainian politician at a presentation in Lviv, at the event mentions ethnic minorities including Hungarians in Ukraine.
Compares them to dogs and debils for not learning the language of Stepan Bandera.
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@OurHiddenHistry
At mach 3, the missile reached its destination in 2 minutes. No decision window at all. This is why Russia objects to missiles on its borders and the USA nearly started WW III over missiles in Cuba.
the popularization of the holodomor story was coincident with the creation of the Office of Special Investigations in the US, which revealed the inconvenient truth that Ukrainians were represented in the Nazis it sought to deport
@afshinrattansi
going to interrupt the rhetorical battle in this thread for a moment to post this recent story about the Forest Brothers which links to authoritative source
@simpatico771
Last time I checked, the cost for Russians for 152 mm shells was around 10% of what the US taxpayers are being robbed for 155 mm shells for the former ukraine.
@jessicadefino_
I sometimes wonder how KK manages to keep every detail of her procedures and recovery secret. If you read about other reality shows, things go wrong that reveal the procedures they've had. As far as I know, nothing has ever leaked about KK. Ironclad NDAs maybe?
Shoutout to Hafez Bashar al-Assad for obtaining a Master's degree in mathematics from Moscow State University last year. He's fluent in Russian, English, and Arabic too. What a lovely family.
@KoskovicsZ
@IAPonomarenko
this is one of the worst examples of historiography I"ve yet seen.
are you two competing to win some sort of trophy for historical revisionism?
@banderafella
You know when you lie like this, you only help to prolong the war and to get more ukrainian conscripts killed in a war you don't have the courage to fight in yourself.
@stephondoestech
institutions will do this if they have a favored candidate and need to go through the motions. it also happens when they're trying to justify a work visa but I've never seen that go to actual interviews. I'vee been part of the process and I've been on the receiving end
@RWApodcast
source: Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre by Anne Morelli (summarized in english at the following link). Someone should make this into a fridge magnet.
Hard to say Putin walked into the trap. He drove into it. And it’s wasn’t even a trap, more like a pit of fire—a pit so big it could be seen from space. He drove in it, willingly and with full knowledge of what would happen, thinking he can win.
@CarlBeijer
I will personally contribute to a gofundme so you can go back to Kyiv and do some real war reporting from a socialist perspective. No one else is talking about what's happening to the juice bars, coffee roasters, and gyms of Kyiv.