Ideas overrule Identity

Utrecht, The Netherlands
Joined April 2026
Fire-ink-squid! :)
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Please please laat dit de oceaan niet oversteken..
I could not have scripted a better scene. She created him. She doesn't see it.
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In the end democracy trumps oligarchs :)
Elon Musk's X account has devolved into a 24/7 exercise in dumbfuckery. This is what truly desperate shitposting looks like. He's losing, he knows it — and the meltdown has been spectacular.
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Thanks, @elonmusk for turning up again starlink for the sake of human liberty.
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In my experience there is a third 90% before the project even starts :)
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"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales that Americans told themselves, like ghost stories around a campfire. But this alliance now exists." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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More evidence that populist Trump's embrace of incredibly unpopular Russia is entirely personal, not political. The treasonous "Better Russia than a Democrat" sentiment in MAGA was fleeting.
Three important observations from the recent Pew poll: 1. Americans see Russia (-70%) more negatively than not only Saudi Arabia (-55%), but even China (-54%), universally considered to be the chief US adversary. 2. Americans' attitude towards UK (+54%) is less warm than to Italy (+59%) and even to Japan (+65%). 3. Trump's policies towards Canada (confrontation) and Russia (appeasement) are diametrically opposite ones compare to predominant attitudes of Americans towards these two countries(+63% and -70%, respectively). pewresearch.org/global/2026/…
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Leader of free West betrays free West. Again.
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l
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10 years ago today, the third and final Clinton v Trump debate, with the famous “puppet” exchange about Putin:
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Brilliant
Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness. Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution. The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing. That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined. A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
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If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Bill Maher just awarded J.K. Rowling the Cojones Lifetime Achievement Award for refusing to bow to public pressure over her views on biological sex. Bill Maher says Rowling is famous for being endlessly vilified for refusing to cow-tow to the opinion that a biological woman and a trans woman are indistinguishable. Bill Maher: “I’m sorry you had to hear that kids feel free to call a suicide hotline or post an angry TikTok.”
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X is eigenlijk een linkse echoput met wat rechtse radicalen :)
Hoewel ik zelf centrum-rechts (slimrechts) ben zonder partij, lijk ik veel linkse volgers te hebben. Klopt dat? En prima hoor! Hoe sta jij erin?
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John Cleese delivers the eulogy at Graham Chapman's funeral, as only MONTY PYTHON would.
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Niet wéér Nepal :(
The Soti Khola bridge has been completely swept away in Gorkha district, Nepal by the devastating Budhi Gandaki River flood today, October 11, 2026.
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Let’s stop the identity wars - and stop rewarding those who turn our differences into profit and power.
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Replying to @PLoobuyck
Consistency then, consistency now. Only the moustaches have swapped :) @JohnCleese
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Hey Siri! Show me a seven year old in an overgrown body. Siri:
Trump: "The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway. We will not forget, Norway." (note how tepid the crowd response is to this whining)
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Strict seculier beleid. Humaan maar realistisch asielbeleid. Handhaving. Journalistieke pers. Vrije woord. Individu boven groep. Strict feitelijk en wetenschappelijk onderwijs. Iedereen gelijk voor de wet. Religie is een idee, geen ras. Elk idee mag worden bevraagd en bespot.
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