Jim Christodouleas
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@RonniSalt
At what point does the public also begin demanding justice for Shane Drumgold, who's suspicious about federal police competence and seriousness are looking increasingly vindicated?
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You once told us to stop hacking at the tree of evil,
@simonahac
, and start striking at the root. A community rose up to do exactly that, realising its power. You’ve earned this rage Simon and
@Mon4Kooyong
- it’s the rage of lost entitlement.
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One reform Australia desperately needs is strengthening of FOI legislation to include criminal sanction for negligent failure to (promptly) comply with obligations.
@VoicesofKooyong
@simonahac
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Fact that
@BrentHodgson
knows his name and
@JoshFrydenberg
doesn't tells you everything you need to know about what's happening in
#KooyongVotes
. And when truth comes out about how a Sydney banker was convinced to remove mural, this smear may be even more embarrasing.
1. Volunteer (singular).
2. He has a name. It's John. A real person with hopes and ambitions of his own - more than a vehicle for your own ambitions.
3. You seem oddly committed to this desperate smear.
4. Thank you for (again) highlighting
@Mon4Kooyong
's huge support base.
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@mattlieb
Of all the crazy things we've learned about this unforgettable phenomenon called Shai Davidai, I still say the craziest of all is the focus of his research.
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@SanaSaeed
@DalrympleWill
As offensive as this is, I’ll never get over intrerview with journalist
@yaraeid_
. After hearing she lost +30 family members, woman pursed her lips, squinted - and with stone cold indifference asked: “What did you expect?” Even roadkill gets more sympathy from normal people.
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@BLACKTIVIST5
@ninaturner
My favourite reactions was
@andersoncooper
’s: “Yes we understand the issue…I just don’t get why it’s a problem?”
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Incumbency begets photo opportunities
@JoshFrydenberg
, and money buys advertisement, but neither earns you excitement or passion.
@Mon4Kooyong
@VoicesofKooyong
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@HeidiBachram
Yes - which is perhaps why neither you nor I nor anyone else has heard this 'eye-witness testimony from Nova massacres.' Nor have we heard eye-witness testimony from released hostages, inexplicably hidden away by Israel itself. All we have is 2nd or 3rd-hand accounts from...
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@RaniaKhalek
I was a student at Princeton ‘88-‘92 and distinctly remember anti-apartheid tents/shanty in the quad between the chapel and McCosh hall my freshman year. (Not that it was big mind you - this was 80s Princeton - but was absolutely tolerated).
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Coming from
#MeToo
@JasonFalinskiMP
. I am a small-L liberal living in
#Kooyong
, and I'll be voting Independent, just as
#RobertMenzies
would do were he alive today.
@simonahac
.
@JasonFalinskiMP
"simon holmes a court: tell us where the money is coming from!"
me: here's the first few hundred of 6000, but please don't start calling them like frydenberg!
cont.
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@fahad_s_ali
To be fair this isn’t what most people learned in school - I certainly didn’t. I learned that everyone is an XX or XY and that’s that.
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@derJamesJackson
75 years of German 'Remembering' - and for what? To give themselves permission to not only *indulge* their Islamophobia (which is about demographics not Israel), but when cloaked in 'support of Israel', to completely let it rip. An entire civilisation missed the plot.
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@DrewPavlou
I respect you
@DrewPavlou
but how many Chinese students in Australia have asked same question about China's critics, including you: "Why do you speak up about X and not Y...? Is it because you really just hate China?"
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The essential and *only* relevant. Whenever you hear a ‘liberal’ Zionist sigh about all the opportunities Palestinians supposedly ‘rejected’ - remember their obligations to every single person under their sovereignty are inalienable - not contingent on anything.
I don’t think enough people realize that Israel does *NOT* have the right to withhold Palestinian human rights. Not for any reason under the sun. Not for a state, nor a vote, nor a law-they are breaking the law every single for moment they are withholding human rights. Daily.
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@IFM_Economist
What if we allowed people to liquidate super, sell their organs and auction their offspring to purchase a home?
Wouldn't that help more people afford a home in this market which is chronically short supply?
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@Istanbultelaviv
So inspiring to see idealistic young Israeli’s standing up to fight for democracy - for themselves.
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@alon_mizrahi
Germany’s behaviour most repugnant of all. They committed original outrage. Spent 80 years telling us they’ve learned. Now cheerily look on as others carry their cross. Watching little Schultz I wonder: is this the kind of man to EVER hear an illegal order, and say ‘I refuse?’
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If Australian politicians colluded with a foreign govt to put vulnerable people onto a dangerous boat purely to be intercepted at sea as election stunt, that’s not just a matter to refer to
#FederalICAC
,
@zdaniel
, it may be one for The Hague.
@Mon4Kooyong
@VoicesofKooyong
Scott Morrison instructed Border Force to reveal election day asylum boat arrival
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Dishonest slander,
@SenSHenderson
, you wouldn’t dare try w/ serious interviewer. Nothing ‘offensive’ about expecting MP to comply w/ s44. What is offensive, especially on
#HolocaustMemorialDay
, is instrumentalising innuendo of antisemitism for political purposes.
@simonahac
Speaking with
@chrissmithonair
on
@SkyNewsAust
about the offensive s44 case by Michael Staindl against Josh Frydenberg.
Staindl, who lost & was ordered to pay legal costs, was given ‘moral support’ by
@simonahac
.
It’s time Holmes a Court came out of hiding & paid the bill.
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Western Civilisation.
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@JKSteinberger
This for me was hardest part. Not the massacres - because world is full of cruelty, and this is what ethnostates do. It’s us - ‘western’ world. How easily we surrendered our integrity. No Gestapo. No Stasi informants. A little bit of peer pressure and career risk. So easy.
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@victorklineTNL
People saying
@victorklineTNL
isn't serious, but I thought this was a cogent discussion about most important issues poisoning our politics today. Love to see you interviewed by a
@latingle
,
@PatsKarvelas
or
@David_Speers
to give Aussies chance to judge for themselves.
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@redruby17
What give me chills as an Australian-American is how easily we've allowed an oligopoly of retailers to convince us that a purely-American retail accounting phenomenon is now, suddenly, a THING.
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@LindyFit
How do you consider fact that grain-eating civilisations all were smashed by ‘barbarian’ pastoralists from steppe who ate no grains? Aryans. Hittites. Dorians. Huns. Mongols. Timurids. Mughals. Manchus. I could go on. Until industrial revolution and breech-loading rifles.
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A lot of people see this as an ominous sign of what's to come. I say this: if Xi thinks he will replace USA as economic hegemon by disappearing the most innovative and entrepreneurial Chinese, well
#GoodLuck
to him.
What happened to Jack Ma? Since the tech billionaire annoyed Chinese President Xi Jinping last year, he has almost vanished. But his disappearance is a sign of something much bigger
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@AJemaineClement
Superficial analysis which ignores cost of lockdown
@AJemaineClement
. In NZ, the price they paid to save all those lives is to destroy the economy and drive unemployment to 4.5%. In Sweden it’s only….8.5%. (I’m a hard-headed rationalist).
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@Istanbultelaviv
I respect you
@Istanbultelaviv
, and I absolutely respect
@gideonle
, but I saw the controversial interview and I didn't hear him deny Oct 7. I heard him say there were questions about fact vs propaganda, such as how many civilians killed by IDF's hamfisted Rambo response.
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I ask fellow
#Australians
, Jew and Gentile alike, what is more ‘grossly inappropriate’: using a term that has multiple historical meanings, or exploiting a coincidence to trigger in one’s own electorate the painful memory of their singular trauma?
@simonahac
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@brian_t_muldoon
@aaronjmate
This was for full withdrawal. Barack offered spaghetti country with IDF controlling border and having ROW to travel through. It was a nonsense proposal. The kind to make anyone ask: do I look like a b*tch?
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@KenRoth
Whatever reality today, there is no statute of limitations on war crimes. Bibi and Biden are old, but
@SecBlinken
will likely be around in 2040s if not 50s.
If he thinks an America run by the kids we are bashing up today will protect him or anyone in Isreali, good luck to him.
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@YousefMunayyer
Aside from insulting sacrilege (and stupid lack of professionalism), is it not remarkable how similar Jewish, Muslim and Orthodox religious chanting is? I wonder who did it first, or how it evolved. This could easily be call to prayer. Lower voice two octaves, a monk on Athos.
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@joshualeifer
One thing never mentioned about
#MuralGate
is that according to artist, the six figures weren’t Jewish caricatures, but actual people: Two Jewish (Rothschild, Warburg) but the other four not. He drew them that way because it’s what they looked like. They were Victorians.
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@PrimeministerGR
Not many know this but
#Greece
’s coal plants are fed by domestic lignite mines that are very low cost. Shutting these down and substituting imported gas is not a small thing for a country like
#Greece
.
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Of all the wonderful photos of
@Mon4Kooyong
signage I’ve seen this last month (including mine!), this is my favourite.
@VoicesofKooyong
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@BetoORourke
No. It’s worse than that. He’s saying it’s because ‘the Biden administration would charge them!’. He said nothing about it being legal or illegal.
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@AviKaner
A reminder to everyone that Jews WERE allowed to visit Western Wall for entire 1,400 years of muslim rule before 1949.
Any idea what happened in 1949?
In fact before rise of Zionism made it political, there weren't even limits on Aliyah in Caliphate. Nobody bothered.
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@MarcoCarnelos
@MiddleEastEye
Even if it ‘recovers it lucidity,’ pending some shock to system (eg China starts unnecessary war), the American Century is over. You can say ‘Yes We Can’, and the world may look past Cheney/Trump. Then you can say ‘America’ Back’, and the world will say ‘Thank God that’s over’…
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@RnaudBertrand
I used to think Democrats were different than Republicans because they at least had red lines. I have been freed from that illusion. Consider me ‘disillusioned.’
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@GreekAnalyst
Whatever you say about
@EmmanuelMacron
, and I know he has his critics, he is the most courageous and unapologetic champion of liberal values on the world stage today.
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@yasmin_poole
My favourite line: “It doesn’t matter how many platitudes the PM expresses, nobody is satisfied.” Sometimes you are THIS CLOSE to an epiphany.
#QandA
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@PeterBeinart
Huge admirer
@PeterBeinart
, but before jumping to pat statements, maybe ask some Palestinians why they might find it painful to see Israeli calling falafel ‘Israeli’ food. Maybe it’s about more than just food - or antisenitism.
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@TonyHWindsor
@TroyBramston
@australian
I respect your views
@TonyHWindsor
, but part of the reason our society is in the state it’s in is this strange view that hard-working journalists should be honoured to share the fruits of their labour for free.
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@parnellpalme
This is interesting - but what did they change in July that made the curve drop like that; what went wrong in August and what did they change again? Serious question - want to know.
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@RaffiMagarik
"Israel is not a tech leader" is an "anti-Semitic trope"? I'll remember that if I ever have a complaint about my Maytronics pool robot.
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@louiseadler
@crikey_news
@abcnews
@antoinette_news
@cameronwilson
For what it’s worth, u stand in distinguished company
@antoinette_news
.
@mehdirhasan
’s show cancelled shortly after aggressive questioning induced
@MarkRegev
to spill embarrassing beans about who burnt all those bodies. Change in tone from rest of
@MSNBC
since then palpable.
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@JamesByrne88
@spenderallegra
Ok
@JamesByrne88
- educate us. In countries like
#Norway
(or even
#Libya
), when oil and gas prices rise to supernormal levels, what % of upside goes to drillers and what % to taxpayers? And how does that compare with
#Australia
?
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@abgutman
Even if it were 0%, preventing someone from returning home simply because of ethnicity is illegal under Geneva Conv.’ and doing so to alter (or ‘cleanse’) ethnic makeup is axiomatically ethnic cleansing. We should stop arguing about ‘Why they left.’ It’s a distraction.
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In a world of cowards, pleasers, and people who just want to get along, behold A
#Man
.
‘I have asked 27 European leaders whether Ukraine will be in NATO .... Everyone is afraid, no one answers,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a late night speech
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@renehan_jim
@RadioFreeTom
I know you say it’s due to feeling of loss of cultural significance
@RadioFreeTom
, but would love to understand how that works. How does a small business owner in, say, rural NE feel or sense such a loss - beyond watching Fox and being told about it?
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Knock yourselves out.
China may send peacekeepers to Afghanistan when US troops leave: experts
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@ryangrim
@davidfrum
@RoKhanna
Have to imagine owners of
@TheAtlantic
are working on training a GenAI to spout these predictable takes. Think of the savings.
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@NathanJRobinson
@LibyaLiberty
Wanna see the absolute best part of this whole story? I swear to God this is real.
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@prchovanec
I’ve never heard anyone blame him for any of that. They blame him for helping Nixon secretly undermine peace talks, destroying Cambodia, making Chilean economy ‘scream’ to help trigger a coup, and green lighting Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in to preserve a NATO military base.
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One of best things about
@Mon4Kooyong
’s historic campaign is way it’s ignited engagement in our community. Neighbours are re-introducing themselves to neighbours - and taking conversation to places it hasn’t been. It’s the practice of democracy.
@VoicesofKooyong
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@Karaofjupiter
@fahad_s_ali
I would never attack your existence, or anyone else's for that matter. No matter what my teacher told me.
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@DrewPavlou
Can't your attorney ask court to subpoena from Google IP history of every login to that account? Even if they use VPN, that can be revealing. For example if someone logged into the account when you were in prison
@DrewPavlou
, then fraud clear. Watcha bet they didn't even do that?
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Imagine being so ignorant of history you can’t hear your ancestors screaming at you for saying something like this.
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@BenzionSanders
I would LOVE to know what people in his district, poorest in America, think of him.
He's always so impeccably-dressed. Skin glowing. That 'back from holiday' vibe always gleaming.
No doubt, like Sinema, he's living his best life and thriving.
Are his constituents?
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@BrentHodgson
Never ceases to amaze me that you can be fined for saying misleading things about a sale on toothpaste, but mislead the public about their government and that's fair game.
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@antloewenstein
@ABCTV
Well done
@antlowenstein
. Your voice is an inspiration. And you too
@abcnews
, though you have a LONG LONG way to go.
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@LibyaLiberty
Someone should tell her that Athens is not ‘the land of the sons and daughters of Spartans.’
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@PeterBeinart
@ADL
Happened to come across conversation about SA in 1985. Startling how comparable - including arguments for defence: Double Standards, Terrorism, Tough Neighbourhood, and that SA are reliable allies - for both USA and Israel.
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@s_molgaard
@fahad_s_ali
I agree. People going crazy from the simple statement of fact about my 8th-grade science curriculum. As if I designed it. Point is simply that not everyone confused about this debate is motivated by hate. I didn't go to the best school in America, but it wasn't the worst either.
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Regardless of how he ‘made us feel’
@simonahac
, those 6 weeks when
@JoshFrydenberg
was moonlighting as state-politics attack dog and taking eye off largest assistance program in Aus history - were precisely when evidence started emerging that
#JobSeeker
was going off the rails.
there's a political maxim that during a crisis, voters don't remember what you did or exactly what you said, but how they made you *feel*.
dearest
#victorian
twitter, how did
@JoshFrydenberg
make you feel during the darkest days of the pandemic?
#KooyongVotes
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@RadioFreeTom
@nytdavidbrooks
This is an interesting thesis
@RadioFreeTom
. Don’t think ur wrong, but if it’s the key explanation for our political decay, then my Q is: why now? Are we more listless and bored now than other prosperous periods in our history? And why is it global?
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@AndrewYang
Been a huge fan
@AndrewYang
so flabbergasted you’ve chosen to slander some of the most courageous and conscientious New Yorkers you’ll ever know. One should always take care when comparing people to
#Nazi
’s, especially when it’s human rights activists.
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@LibyaLiberty
When I first heard someone say: "We aren't freeing Palestine, Palestine is freeing us" I thought that was corny. I cannot believe how wrong I was.
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What is amazing about this diptych is that guy on bottom was celebrated development economist, banker and darling of foreign-policy community, while guy on top was a joke: literally a comic who ran for President. Who would have thought it would turn out like this.
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@PaulBassat
Hold on - I respect Premier as much as anyone, but nobody has been denied presumption of innocence. If someone chooses to resign (or scream that civilisation is ending) at prospect of investigation, that says a lot about many things, but doesn’t suggest system is broken.
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@LaraFriedmanDC
I didn't know you could sue Americans, in America, for 'supporting' an overseas entity that killed your family.
Something tells me that's gonna be an interesting precedent to set.
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@stephenWalt
@PeterBeinart
He is *worse* than Trump
@stephenWalt
, precisely because people viewed him as decent, honest and the heir of
@BarackObama
’s America. Even if Trump were as cruel and indifferent to Palestinians, he could *never* have granted this Israeli govt the blank check Biden did.
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This is true, but when our government tried to change that, they replaced the Prime Minister! Only consolation for
@MrKRudd
is that he wasn't taken out behind Kirribilli and shot - as is tradition in Banana Republics when someone crosses the mining companies.
Australia and Qatar export roughly the same amount of gas, but Qatar takes in at least $26 billion in tax while Australia takes in less than $1 billion. Families battle energy poverty and massive price increases while we export 80% of our gas almost royalty free. What a farce
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@gabriel_zucman
Probably same as argument against 100% tax on royalties from writing books about economics: it would be arbitrary and senseless.
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@BeschlossDC
Question I’ve often wondered - if the 1,000 odd most senior Confederate officers / politicians had been properly tried for treason, how many of the Klansmen, segregationists and crooked politicians of the next 150 years would simply never have been born?
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@IfNotNowOrg
@JohnFetterman
We didn’t really vote for him. It was his wife
@giselefetterman
. Goto her feed and find same voice: compassion, warmth, wit. Listen now to
@SenFettermanPA
in his own arrogant, obnoxious voice and it’s clear: thanks to isolation and SM, she Cyrano de Bergerac’d him into Senate.
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@PeterBeinart
Depends - is it just about tribal loyalty, or are there transcendent values at play? There’s another topic you write about where the same principle seems to apply.
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@Harbpeace
Just a reminder: injustice in one place isn't license for injustice in another. We'll get nowhere with this thinking.
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@bulutuzay_
I’m not sure you know what those terms mean, or if you do, aren’t concerned about using them correctly (in the way you mix up Athens and Sparta).
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Americans must learn that people in foreign countries are just as doggedly, fervently, and even self-destructively, nationalistic as we are ourselves.
Why did America's leaders think invading Afghanistan was a good idea in the first place? Because our deeply nationalistic country finds it hard to understand that other countries are deeply nationalistic too
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@DiogenisSinopis
Cannot understand how any self-respecting
#Muslim
or
#Turk
can walk into first great Cathedral of Christendom and not feel dirty. Look - I get it: you won in 1543. Hurray! You da best! But once feeling passes, and you look up at face staring down at you from dome, what do u feel?
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@bobjcarr
@AlboMP
This morning as I dialled into Zoom meeting that began with Acknowledgment of Country, a short clip crossed my phone. A Palestinian girl was crying as her home in
#Silwan
came down. Lucky for us, it’s easier to pay respects to ancestors past - than to those powerless present.
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@jadaliyya
So many people say to me: "I don't get these protesters: they are *alienating* me, not convincing me"
Hate to break it to you: they're not gonna 'convince' you.
They're gonna create the world that will make you one day *pretend* you never needed convincing.
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@KweenInYellow
@AbbyMartin
He should write a book about it: ‘My Struggle.’ I get the feeling it would do well.
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@MenachemV
@SenatorWong
@MenachemV
now knows how Palestinians felt in 1948.
This is good. Empathy. We're making progress people. Baby steps, but still progress.
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@PowerUSAID
@USAID
@DeptofDefense
@UN
When you wrote ‘A problem from hell’,
@SamanthaJPower
, did you imagine you might one day be a star member of US govt, reduced to humiliation of flying Band-Aid’s to victims as genocide underway, because the courage you were SURE you would have in such situation - wasn’t there?
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@MenachemV
@SenatorWong
Thank you I am referring to history before 1947.
Palestinians rejected a 'Jewish state', yes you are correct. But why?
Perhaps they felt indignant 'rewarding terrorism' by giving Jews a state?
Does that sentiment sound familiar?
Opportunity for empathy?
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@DrewPavlou
I admire your moral courage. Now is the time for us all to focus on the morality of our *own* actions, and the actions of our governments. Dictatorships are dictatorships. Terrorists are terrorists. They do aweful things. We aren't supposed to.
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@The_Real_Joakim
@RogerScerri
@abcnews
They lived there continuously from the time of Arab conquests in 7th and 8th centuries, to 1948. And unlike Jews in Christendom, never suffered large-scale state pogroms or expulsions (England, HRE, Spain, Russia, Germany). Until 1948. Tell me - what happened around 1948?
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@JoshFrydenberg
@JulianBurnside
Indeed tweet was insensitive and ahistorical. I understand why it’s hurtful. But if
#neveragain
is to mean anything, Treasurer, it means responsibility to stand up to more than just insensitive tweets. Subject of discussion was war crimes being committed by major ally.
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@iyad_elbaghdadi
Who should they blame
@iyad_elbaghdadi
? Who’s job is it to defend their country? The President flew off with a helicopter full of money. My money. Supposed to be spent for Afghanistan.
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@ZephyrTeachout
Can we stop calling it ‘packing’, which is corrupting, and call it ‘reform’ which is what one calls the undoing of corruption?
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I’ve heard many stories about this. It’s sad to see the party of
#Menzies
so morally and intellectually drained that it’s left with trivial photo ops and smears.
#HadEnough
?
@VoicesofKooyong
@simonahac
Fascinated to hear that Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been phoning and "monstering" people who have donated to Simon Holmes à Court 'Climate 200' movement.
And yet I'm not at all surprised.
#auspol
#npc
#KooyongVotes
#VoicesofKooyong
#Vote1MoniqueRyan
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