University of Exeter Alumni and Old Framlinghamiam

Joined February 2018
Tom Addison retweeted
The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.
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Mafia boss in the Kremlin. Mafia boss in the White House … Europe has to stand up big time here. This is an epoch making moment. #StandWithZelensky
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Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth: December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia. February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness. July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden. February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically. U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war. ~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff. The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP. America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates. Slava Ukraina.
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Absolute admiration for President Zelenskyy. The guy has balls. He went into the Oval Office and stood up to Russia’s best negotiators.
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I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US.
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Complete abdication of the US from its role as ‘leader of the free world’… and the irony of the US being the self-purported land of hope and opportunity when it’s those very values Trump, Vance and by extension Musk seem so willing to sacrifice is both shocking & appalling
President @realDonaldTrump is the Commander-in-Chief
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Victoria Derbyshire: "What is your message to this government?" Jeremy Clarkson: "Please back down." Derbyshire: "And get the money from where?" Clarkson: "See that building over there? If you don't understand what somebody's job is, fire them."
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Tom Addison retweeted
🏋️ I made a Deadlift ETF with only companies with CEOs that lift weights or do fight sports (not just cardio) It outperforms the S&P500 by 140% or 2.4x over the last 4 years! Lifting weights = $$$
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Tom Addison retweeted
The job centre next week
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30 years ago today, Campbell bottled it and Mick Morgan couldn’t speak. The greatest piece of commentary of all time.
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This is important for anyone under the age of 40 who's never owned a house to see. Including if you already have a Lifetime ISA or Help to Buy ISA.
How to get £1,000s free towards your first home: Lifetime ISAs v Help to Buy ISAs (& will Chancellor lift the £450,000 property cap) Please share with anyone under 40 who's not bought a home. Watch back the full @itvMLshow on ITVX: itv.com/watch/the-martin-lew…
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The darts final could be between a kid who can't drink and a bloke with a BMI in the normal range Game's gone mad
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Magic
Just over 3 weeks until the Paddy Power World Darts Championship begins. Any excuse to get in the mood...
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Tom Addison retweeted
Honestly, that’s a banger. Imagine having to listen to that in the rest of the stadium three down to your derby rivals 🤣😂
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Powerful
🗣️"People before me who fought for the opportunity for people who look like me to be able to play in this team. I've got a job to inspire the next generation." Powerful words from Siya Kolisi #RWCFinal
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Replying to @TightFive_Rugby
Has Jinx had a sight test recently?
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Let the banter begin 😂😂😂
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Gutted for Ireland… but heck of a game
WOW. NEW ZEALAND HAVE DONE IT! 🇳🇿 Ireland are out of the Rugby World Cup. Describe that game in THREE words. Good luck 😅 #IREvNZL #RWC2023 #GBR4
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A basic take, if I may so so. Jews aren't a huge ethnic group. Estimates say around 20 million worldwide, not far off the population of Chile. They've been abused and killed and demonised pretty much everywhere they've gone, so imagine, just imagine ( we're both black men in the eyes of most) our experience replicated every single place we've gone, only to be murdered and harrased everywhere we've tried to settle for 2000 years. Palestine is the ancestral home of the Jews. And Palestinians. And until we Brits turned up, as we often do, drawing arbitrary lines, driving conflict between ethno religious groups ( Africa, India, Asia, Ireland), there's a good chance that left alone, some sort of fluid nation, as was Palestine, could have flourished. The Americans have only added to what the British did by using Israel as a strategic tool. Nothing more. Nothing less. So Jews founded Israel, and yes, in international law which they flout often with many saying justifiably "hold on, where's the accountability for this occupation and land creep?", after 2000 years of being this planet's whipping boy, there are many who see Israel and only Israel as a "safe" ( imagine calling Israel safe, ever) haven for Jewish people. We of African descent have been shit on for 500 years. Enslaved, demonised, had our "home" continent robbed of gold, cobalt, diamonds, oil, everything. But you and I could "return" to Ghana tomorrow for example, where there is a year of return for diaspora slave communities. And if we did, we probably wouldn't have to live behind razor wire or in fear every day. Jews have had it everywhere from Spain to England to Germany to Poland to the USA to the Middle East. For 2 thousand years. I hope one day a flourishing two states of Palestinians and Israelis can have a bloody great relationship and look back 100 years at us and our hate and our tribalism and say, "that was then, never again". Let's hope so. But to demonise Palestinians for not wanting their lands taken bit by bit, which is a just and legitimate claim or to suggest that a people who've been kicked from pillar to post for 2 millenia are all bad, are all evil, are all propping up apartheid is to not add intellect, context, paying attention to YOUR world daily, and frankly, putting yourself on someone else's shoes. I'll be clear to you and anyone reading this. Jews have a right to a homeland. Palestinian have have a right to a homeland. As in Africa where arbitrary lines destroyed tribal communities and turned them into nation states based on colonial powers land grabs, ancient Palestine and a two state solution will by definition have to have give and take. Or it will not ever work. So you asked about the Granny who grew up in a Polish ghetto, been forced to wear a star of David and watch her family anhiilated in the most barbaric fashion and asked "why would she live in and support this country that is occupying others land?". The answer is 2000 years of abuse, stories passed from generation to generation of the need to find "home" , a very human need and sometimes, no, actually often, a mistake filled belief in politicians that we believe that can take us there. Don't blame individual Jews or Palestinians or Americans or Africans or Britons. Blame the people they put their trust in to act in their best, moral and honest interests, and who are lied to by their leaders daily, in democracies and non democracies. A long winded reply, apologies, but unless we add some real empathy towards the people we judge ( we all do it, I do it, I'm not a perfect human being), read history, absorb it and LISTEN to the struggles of others, we'll just continue this cycle forever. When all most of us want is a fucking chance. To live, work, love and enjoy this one time opportunity.
Am I the only one who finds it interesting that there are people who survived the Holocaust, one of the most horrific things that happened to a group of people in modern history, and some of them chose to go to Palestine, take the land, and create an apartheid State?
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Tom Addison retweeted
This is my default position and I think it’s a useful assumption - because even if there is a slim chance it’s true (and we may well never know) then it should focus our collective minds on the task in hand - which is to avoid fucking it up.
The scariest answer to the Fermi Paradox is that there are no aliens at all. They we are the only tiny candle of consciousness in an abyss of darkness.
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