Dave Ostridge @dostross

@Firedowser1963 Depends how you define "democracies", I guess. Him and his corporate banker buddies have changed the meaning . He has manipulated his way into power and especially into a majority, while his friends game the system to cling to power with no mandate from the people.

@_InfoGram_ Good luck with that.

@sarobertson_ See this « ally » and its huge, air-conditioned facilities for… nobody. youtu.be/2CukbwPIMNE?si…

@sarobertson_ My family left Europe 400 years ago. Not European. North American. Carney was installed to do this, but he has no mandate from the people.

@TomasZdechovsky Belle façon d’exclure parmi les meilleurs sportifs au monde, n’est-ce pas? Plus facile pour votre pays de chercher des médailles.

@sarobertson_ @Stevyrino If it were hockey, yes.

@WiRoPaPe1208BC @ultras_antifaa Africa was also poor, without being communist. The USSR was an experiment that lost to the US, yes; China was poor BEFORE communism, which brought it OUT of abject poverty. Cuba and NK were the object of sanctions: Communist Vietnam is doing fine. Your point?

⚡️⚡️⚡️I am accused of being “pro-Russian” the moment I state basic facts about the war or express disagreement with Zelenskyy's policies of endless escalation. Often it’s bots, but sometimes also people from the comfortable West who genuinely believe they understand Ukraine and this war better than I do — someone who has covered the conflict since the very beginning in 2014, visited Donbas multiple times alongside Zelenskyy, participated in negotiations, helped craft communications for the President, and remained in the country when the full-scale invasion began in 2022. I was shelled, narrowly survived, traveled across the country helping civilians in need, and reported intensively as a journalist. Yet now some dare to label me pro-Russian simply because I refuse to support the primitive populism that allows Zelenskyy to prolong the war, profit from it, and cling to power. So let me be perfectly clear: Everyone who hurls this accusation is acting against my country. Everyone who buys into Zelenskyy’s illogical drama, who is willing to fight Russia with Ukrainian blood while ignoring the suffering of ordinary people — you are acting against Ukraine. By shamelessly supporting Zelenskyy’s policies, you are defending the current status quo and this means: Ukraine reduced to a permanently bleeding nation where people merely survive under constant Russian shelling and Kyiv’s increasingly authoritarian rule; Massive human rights violations, with men hunted on the streets, forcibly conscripted, beaten, tortured, and sometimes killed in recruitment centers; Rampant corruption — almost every close partner, friend, or high-ranking official around Zelenskyy has faced accusations of money laundering or other graft, while companies run by his inner circle receive billions in Western tax money; Putin started this war, but Zelenskyy figured out how to profit on it greatly; Crushing poverty, including average pensions of just $180 per month; A catastrophic demographic crisis — last year, three times more Ukrainians died than were born; Educational collapse, with at least one-third of Ukrainian children receiving no proper schooling and many fourth-graders unable to read; Brain drain, mass emigration, societal depression, and generational trauma that will take decades to heal. Some people are so eager to see Russia burn and so enchanted by Zelenskyy’s primitive role-playing that they choose to remain blind to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine. To me, that makes you anti-Ukrainian. If you truly want to fight Russia, go to the frontlines. Stop censoring Ukrainians who call for peace. Sitting comfortably in the West and attacking those who demand an end to the slaughter does not make you a hero — it makes you miserable and hypocritical. Remember this the next time your fingers itch to type another offensive comment.

@Kasparov63 Last time I looked, Putin wasn't the leader of these European nations. Meaning what they think is irrelevant.

@johnsmith5xup @Sulkhan And the US? Highest prison population, never-ending wars to topple regimes (democratic or not) most oligarchs on the planet, stripping OTHER countries of wealth that should benefit the OTHER countries... the list goes on.

@Sulkhan I don't 'support' Russia any more than I 'support' the USA or China. They are powerful countries and they do what powerful countries do. Putin definitely improved things for his people after the USSR's collapse, and I see no reason to demonize Russia over, say, the US.

@marcosagusstinn Why? Why can't Europe just do something useful? Like improve the lives of its citizens?

@berlin_bridge Certainly not realistic negotiations for peace, that’s for sure.

@NAFOteacher Obviously someone who isn't likely to get an Oreshnik on the head. What bravery. Sitting across the ocean. Cretin.

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Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb

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We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date. We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then

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This is what $25 billion buys you - lofty praise from a corrupt dictator.

@sarrah_bellus I'm not going to 'scroll on by' and let people disseminate harmful content uncontested. Mark Carney was dropped into the Canadian political scene to finish Trudeau failed at: secure resources for his globalist hedge fund buddies at the WEF/EU and suck Canadians dry.

@compliantvc Now do data centres.

@sarahtexe Even in ‘socialist’ Canada there’s no federal Education ministry. Education is provincial provincial responsibility, so I imagine in the US it’s a state jurisdiction. Nothing to see here.

@mtmalinen @MedvedevRussiaE Worst for you, maybe.