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RobertPlausible retweeted
Some people need to remember that there are other subjects in the world.
Or is it just easier and tidier to make it all about one thing?
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"international relations student" finds out that all leading parties in Israel are Zionist.
Real galaxy brain moment.
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福田康夫元首相が死去 90歳
news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/nd-2… #nhk_news
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Fukuda Yasuo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008, passed away at the age of 90.
He will be remembered for his strong stance in favor of greater dialogue with Beijing. During the Abe years, he served as a special envoy to China.
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From Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen's English-language interview with @TaiwanCatherine, calmly saying that figures acting for Beijing were know to be following him and his family, including his 5 yr old daughter, in Taiwan in 2025.
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Vučić is out in Serbia. Bolsonaro's family is not returning to power in Brazil. Machado is back in Venezuela. Great day for democracy!
Up next, elections in Israel this week.
Elections in the US next week.
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Brazil: Datafolha has projected that President Lula (PT, centre-left) will be re-elected.
#Brazil #Lula #Bolsonaro
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Huge democratic breakthrough in Serbia tonight, followed by a Lula win in Brazil!
Amazing day for democratic renewal.
Bad day for illiberal populists.
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Lorne Doerksen (@LDoerkson) and the Conservative Party of British Columbia (@Conservative_BC) win a majority government. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Tony Blair joins forces with his predecessor John Major to campaign for a "Yes" vote in Northern Ireland’s peace referendum. (May 1998)
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Tony Blair, John Major, and Gordon Brown chat before posing for a photograph ahead of a Diamond Jubilee lunch at 10 Downing Street. (July 2012)
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Ryan Hart, a legend in the Japanese fighting game community,received a rude reply from a Japanese user telling him he'd be unwelcome as an immigrant.
Ryan, who has great respect for Japanese culture and has helped Japanese companies, replied in Japanese:
今度俺の名前ググってみ！
日本に住んだことはないけど、純粋に日本文化が好きだから、一生懸命文化を学んで、言葉も独学で覚えて、実際に何度も日本に行ったり、文化を尊重して、たくさんの友達を作って大切にしてきた。日本人が海外の俺の国に来たときに、家に泊めて、ご飯をご馳走して、友達として精一杯もてなしたよ。ビジネスでも、自分のバイリンガルスキルと知識を使って、数え切れないほど日本企業をサポートしてきた。
逆に、おまえは僕の国や僕の人々をサポートするために何をしてくれたの？
おまえが誰と話してるかも調べようとしない（たった2分でできる検索すらサボる）人に、偉そうに言われたくねぇぇよ。お前みたいな奴が、解決の邪魔をしてる、問題そのものなんだよ。
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That's not my definition of either free speech or democracy.
Elon Musk has cemented his record as the largest individual political donor in modern American history.
Musk poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress. wapo.st/4igb5Kq
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He denied doing this literally a week ago. Pathetic
Musk says he was behind Starlink’s slowdown in Ukraine
thehill.com/policy/internati…
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ICYMI, the left-wing premier of British Columbia called a snap election when the main opposition party had no leader and was in the middle of a nasty civil war. And he got crushed big time. A lesson for Andy Burnham?
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Carney really doesn’t like being called out on his BS.
He knew what he was doing when he discussed plans to repel an American invasion with the New York Times.
Then a Canadian reporter asks him about that just after Carney spoke to Trump and he gets snippy again.
With a woman.
Carney in Turkey, snippy when a Canadian reporter brings up his own NYT comments:
Reporter: A month ago you told the NYT you were preparing for the possibility of a U.S. invasion. You just spoke with the President — did that come up?
Carney: The New York Times has the transcript. That is not what I said. Quote the transcript, don’t change things
Then he pivots to “we will never be the 51st state… we’re preparing… strong and getting stronger.”
Carney said the “extreme tail risk / irresponsible not to look at it” thing to the Times. He just doesn’t like when Canadian media is asking him about it @MarkJCarney @AbigailBimman
