Summa Perplexitas
@sperplexitas.bsky.social
Increasingly intolerant of the intolerant.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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For a while I understood the EU institutions remaining on X, as a pure public broadcasting channel. But given it has fully become a radicalisation machine, and an owner who calls for destroying the EU, it is high time to leave also for European politicians.
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For a while I understood the EU institutions remaining on X, as a pure public broadcasting channel. But given it has fully become a radicalisation machine, and an owner who calls for destroying the EU, it is high time to leave also for European politicians.
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This does NOT have to become our horrifying reality! The future is NOT inevitable. It IS within our power change to change this devastatingly terrifying possibility. BUT
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December 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This does NOT have to become our horrifying reality! The future is NOT inevitable. It IS within our power change to change this devastatingly terrifying possibility. BUT
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Russia is, of course, thrilled with the new US National Security Strategy.
The question is, how will Team 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 respond to Team 🇺🇸🇷🇺?
The question is, how will Team 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 respond to Team 🇺🇸🇷🇺?
Kremlin says US national security strategy document ‘largely consistent' with Russia's vision
Spokesman Peskov says Moscow hopes this could be 'modest guarantee' that they'll be able to continue joint constructive work on finding settlement in Ukraine - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
December 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Russia is, of course, thrilled with the new US National Security Strategy.
The question is, how will Team 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 respond to Team 🇺🇸🇷🇺?
The question is, how will Team 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦 respond to Team 🇺🇸🇷🇺?
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Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
"The Kremlin on Sunday welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's new national security strategy and said it largely accorded with Russia's own perceptions, the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe."
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Kremlin says new US security strategy accords largely with Russia's view
It was the first time that Moscow has so fulsomely praised such a document from its former Cold War foe.
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Given that the Russians quite literally drafted our capitulation plan for Ukraine one has to wonder about whether there wasn’t at least a bit of cutting and pasting here.
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There is no alternative. We will not avoid "provoking" Trump by appeasing him. We have not provoked anything with Washington. Like Moscow, the corrupt, authoritarian, criminal bully is picking a fight. Like Putin, Trump WANTS the fight. We ignore reality at our great peril.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There is no alternative. We will not avoid "provoking" Trump by appeasing him. We have not provoked anything with Washington. Like Moscow, the corrupt, authoritarian, criminal bully is picking a fight. Like Putin, Trump WANTS the fight. We ignore reality at our great peril.
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Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader’s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
Japan and Australia urge calm after Chinese radar locks on Japanese jets
Japan and Australia have urged calm after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Japan and Australia urged calm on Sunday after Chinese military aircraft locked radar on Japanese fighter jets, a month after the Japanese leader’s recent remarks on Taiwan that stirred tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
apnews.com/article/japa...
apnews.com/article/japa...
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In other words, our close ally in Washington is coming for the free, democratic, woke EU nations, to pry us apart and ensure the far-right populists win in our elections. Not passively, but actively.
He is making common cause with the autocratic Russia-China.
He is making common cause with the autocratic Russia-China.
If Europe (except far right populists) thinks we can still rely on the US as an ally, the new NSS should disabuse them. No criticism of Russia, but hostility to the EU. And “Managing European relations with Russia will require significant US diplomatic engagement”, rather than military pushback!
December 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
In other words, our close ally in Washington is coming for the free, democratic, woke EU nations, to pry us apart and ensure the far-right populists win in our elections. Not passively, but actively.
He is making common cause with the autocratic Russia-China.
He is making common cause with the autocratic Russia-China.
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If by “nobody else” we should understand large chunks of EU citizens and EU law scholars, I guess you’re right.
December 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If by “nobody else” we should understand large chunks of EU citizens and EU law scholars, I guess you’re right.
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My wife has now had to use her Firm Voice to stop me asking people to use headphones or turn down their phones, so bad are the threats of violence I'm receiving. It's not just Airport Behaviour, people are losing object permanence and a theory of mind that lets them know they might be annoying.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My wife has now had to use her Firm Voice to stop me asking people to use headphones or turn down their phones, so bad are the threats of violence I'm receiving. It's not just Airport Behaviour, people are losing object permanence and a theory of mind that lets them know they might be annoying.
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Trump’s #MAGA militia to the rescue 🤠 #MadHatters
December 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trump’s #MAGA militia to the rescue 🤠 #MadHatters
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The real question this raises is: why are the EU institutions still active on X at all? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...
X axes European Commission’s ad account after €120M EU fine
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”…
www.politico.eu
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The real question this raises is: why are the EU institutions still active on X at all? www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...
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This is a hypothetical scenario Europe is flooded since all glaciers melted. The Bavarian in me isn't concerned about this at all. Source: buff.ly/qFRuZrz
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is a hypothetical scenario Europe is flooded since all glaciers melted. The Bavarian in me isn't concerned about this at all. Source: buff.ly/qFRuZrz
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Bloodstains on the crossing in Staryi Saltiv, Kharkiv region. Fishermen were there when Russia struck today...
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Bloodstains on the crossing in Staryi Saltiv, Kharkiv region. Fishermen were there when Russia struck today...
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Russia's February drone strike on Chornobyl breached the arch built to prevent radioactive release from history's worst nuclear disaster
IAEA now confirms the structure "lost its primary safety functions"
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/c...
IAEA now confirms the structure "lost its primary safety functions"
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/c...
Chornobyl’s protective arch “lost its primary safety functions” after Russian drone strike, IAEA says
The protective arch over reactor four at the Chornobyl nuclear plant “lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability” following a Russian drone attack in February, the…
euromaidanpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Russia's February drone strike on Chornobyl breached the arch built to prevent radioactive release from history's worst nuclear disaster
IAEA now confirms the structure "lost its primary safety functions"
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/c...
IAEA now confirms the structure "lost its primary safety functions"
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/c...
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"We are the only buffer between Europe's cozy 'Russia is weak' theory and reality. When it breaks, your generals will call Article 5 'a political decision.' Your soldiers will refuse to fight. It's your war too. You've just outsourced the dying." euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/i...
It’s your war. You’ve just outsourced the dying.
A Ukrainian's message to Europe from 400 km east of Warsaw
euromaidanpress.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"We are the only buffer between Europe's cozy 'Russia is weak' theory and reality. When it breaks, your generals will call Article 5 'a political decision.' Your soldiers will refuse to fight. It's your war too. You've just outsourced the dying." euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/i...
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"We're defending your freedom 400 kilometers east of Warsaw. While you avoid calling this a war, we are dying in your stead."
Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:
Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:
December 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"We're defending your freedom 400 kilometers east of Warsaw. While you avoid calling this a war, we are dying in your stead."
Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:
Oleksandr Yakovenko, Ukrainian defense tech founder, has a message for Europe:
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☠️🔞 Footage from the ground has emerged showing Russian infantry walking over their own corpses.
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
☠️🔞 Footage from the ground has emerged showing Russian infantry walking over their own corpses.
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Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double-Headed Eagle: Russia, America and the Authoritarian Big Tech Alliance
It’s all in plain sight: Bannon and Dugin preach a pro-Russian “Christian” civilisation, Musk and Medvedev call for the EU’s undoing, while Vance and Thiel’s network shields Kremlin-aligned Big Tech
pdjukes.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Manic week - apologies for multiple posts, but its all in plain sight now
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
The Double Headed Eagle - Russia and America and Authoritarian Big tech
The EU is the enemy of both
pdjukes.substack.com/p/the-double...
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So weird and injustified… but so clearly said.
I am sorry for so many great US citizens and their great commitment to a peaceful better world.
www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
I am sorry for so many great US citizens and their great commitment to a peaceful better world.
www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
Maga’s strange rage against Europe
The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it
www.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So weird and injustified… but so clearly said.
I am sorry for so many great US citizens and their great commitment to a peaceful better world.
www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
I am sorry for so many great US citizens and their great commitment to a peaceful better world.
www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
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Provocative, thoughtful and forward looking piece how Europe needs to take control of its own destiny in a hard power world - and does have the economic means to do so.
Europe Is Not Alone. It Is Geopolitically Asleep.
Europe’s problem is not that it is alone. Europe’s problem Is that it is still in denial about the world it lives in.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Provocative, thoughtful and forward looking piece how Europe needs to take control of its own destiny in a hard power world - and does have the economic means to do so.