In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a Malaysian conspiracy theorist, journalist and social media addict, Ian Miles Cheong (Ian Miles Cheong). He's best-known for his online attention-seeking activities, for his anti-Ukraine stance, and for simping Elon Musk and other techbros. 1/24

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a Canadian psychologist, author and media commentator, Jordan Peterson (Dr Jordan B Peterson). He's best-known for his battle against the "woke culture",and for his strong support for Putin's "Christian values" and Russia's war in Ukraine. 1/26

8 years ago in 🇵🇱, the Law and Justice (PiS) party won the election on a promise that they'll stop the development model that (supposedly) concentrates growth in 5 big metros. Now, we can evaluate if they've delivered on this promise. Spoiler: they have not. A thread 🧵 -->

Have you ruined a tankie’s week yet? #ruinatankiesweek

Last week a small Russian media outlet posted a guide on how to get rid of imperialistic thinking. It mentioned basic stuff like "avoid addressing all people in Russian" and "respect indigenous people’s culture" Let me walk you into the heart of darkness aka the replies. 1/9

Remember how quickly Elon Musk suspended the Elonjet account, claiming that revealing one's real-time location is against the TOS? This account has been doing just that for the last 24 hours, and no suspension. Is there any real person working at Safety?

Shout out for Vatnik Soup who is getting the entire Vatnik community riled up enough to search his home location. Means he is doing a remarkable job at exposing these propagandists who are looking for a quick buck. youtu.be/3E1uqf_ZRy0

China's India policy is a disaster By mishandling India, Beijing created Asia's greatest diplomatic rivalry China has made three mistakes when dealing with India These mistakes caused the 1962 war and the 2020 Galwan clashes 🧵on how China gets India wrong

Nederlandse emigranten die geen emigrant blijken te zijn. Een drieluik.

When you report a tweet for harassing, 'Holocaust denial' is explicitly mentioned as a reason for reporting. And yet X Support responds that such antisemitic, hateful, Holocaust denial post does not break their safety policies. Elon Musk Linda Yaccarino

32 years ago in 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine declared independence. That year I was graduating from high school. The world around me crumbled. I realized that my life was a lie. Everything I had been taught about the world was not true 1/

Eens. Het Oekraine referendum in 2016 was een test van de Russische inlichtingendiensten in aanloop naar Brexit. Nederland was in april 2016 het bolwerk van prominente RU spionnen, zoals Kornilov en Boshirov (van Skripal vergiftiging).

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a Russo-Italian politician, Irina Osipova. She's best-known for her ties to European and Russian neo-Nazi groups like Golden Dawn and Rusich, for her close ties to various Russian officials, and for her new job at the Italian senate. 1/17

Never forget that Elon’s favourite source of “reliable information” didn’t understand the extremely complicated concept of paint.

A prominent figure from state TV admits they produced "worse propaganda" than under communism to support the ruling party's election campaign. But he thinks this "Stalinist logic" backfired and contributed to the negative outcome of the election for PiS notesfrompoland.com/2023/10/18/we-…

Law and Justice party (PiS) lost the election in Poland on Sunday. But they were not the only loser: they've dragged the Catholic church with them. How PiS made Poland rapidly secularizing in the last 8 years? A thread 🧵🧵🧵 -->

Polish security services have just ordered dozens of new shredders A lot of cleaning up to do before the government changes tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7,189571…

Here is a thread of the 100 policies KO (which will lead a new coalition government formed by the opposition) promised to introduce in its first 100 days. I've divided them into the categories used by KO. Translations are in quotes; anything else is a summary. Sorry for typos

Thousands of people marched in #Hungary against rapprochement with #Russia Yesterday, thousands of people marched to the Russian Embassy in #Budapest. At the same time, Hungarian news channels were silent about the rally. Recall, yesterday was the anniversary of the suppression

The Jewish community of Łódź respond to Grzegorz Braun's antisemitic buffoonery in the best possible way x.com/PKitaDziedzic/…