Thomas Batchelor
@tobbinatorscw
Linguistics PhD Uni Köln
#Syria & linguistics are my thing, sometimes a bit of #auspol الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام Munanga sedla la Eora kantri bat dudei la jemani
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Well apparently I accidentally deleted the main tweet for this thread so to share again; the time I went to Xinjiang in 2017 and wrote about the growing police state visible even as a touristhttps://medium.com/@tobbinatorscw/traversing-checkpoints-in-chinas-new-frontier-1b1ecfed7443…
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Central Tiraspol and the embassy of Abkhazia and South Ossetiapic.twitter.com/5UYYccV0wK
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Ancient trolleybuses to get around (they do have some new ones, though)pic.twitter.com/4wSeMQqtD2
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Soviet larping in Transnistria, according to my guide the president is actually a monarchist and hates the USSRpic.twitter.com/icNiDL2mpS
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We rely on a fire service that's built off donations and volunteers, and then refuse requests to let Aboriginal communities backburn and care for country in ways that preserve the ecology. It's like we want the country to burn.https://twitter.com/upulie/status/1213426831967129607…
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Anyway, the next time you see someone defending Soleimani, remember he sent teenage Afghan refugees in Iran to kill civilians in Syria.
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What actually is the point of tweets like this. Like what's the suggestion, we should have invaded Saudi Arabia instead?https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1213241167229472770…
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Idk who needs to hear this but leading with geopolitical arguments about why war with Iran is bad is gross. The lives of Iranians, Iraqis, and who knows who else are more important than the machinations of regional/global powers. Center the human beings who'll be most affected.
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Boarding music for this flight is Eurovision 2016
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Look if you don't think the archduke was an amazing hero, you probably support the war
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Yall. Sulaimani was bad. Assassinating him was almost certainly dumb and ill planned out. More people will die as a result of this. But Iran is not about to bomb the U.S. mainland. This is not that sort of problem.
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I do not have the energy to argue about his character when actual innocent lives are at risk
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If you didn't know who soleimani was before this morning please stop tweeting about him and just fouus your energy on something useful like avoiding escalation
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When We were besieged in Aleppo under open fire
#QasemSoleimani wanted to slaughter everyone inside and was against any agreement that will let let us out to survive Iranians cut the road on the first convoy and took 800 people hostages to prevent the process of evicting uspic.twitter.com/f9nZ9yge9j
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Was Soleimani a mass-murderer? Yes Are most (non-Iraqi/Syrian) reactions on twitter based on actual knowledge of him? No Are there lots of people just worried of the consequences and believe this was a reckless move? Yes
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We don't have to pretend Soleimani was ever a good person to oppose any war that might come of this. Support the peace not the man.
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WE HAVE TO OPPOSE THE WAR ON MORAL GROUNDS NOT LEGAL ONES. Stop fucking yelling about an illegal war, no one fucking cares. The entire goddamn Iraq war movement got hung up on that liberal teacher teacher this is against the rules shit and it cost Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I'd like to take a moment to remind all the non Australians I know that all those fires you're hearing about? None of the firefighters are getting paid. Some even had their welfare cut because it doesn't count as work. The government refuses to do anything about it.
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Plenty of former nazis in DDR administration too. Both sides didn't just will entire German bureaucracies into existence out of nothing.
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They both did. The Americans just got the better known ones and didn't try too hard to hide it.https://twitter.com/BoughtTheRope/status/1212484147224219653…
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I want to give some perspective for people not from Australia. More Aussie land is currently burning than exists in the entire country of Belgium. The smoke is causing breathing problems in New Zealand, 2,000km away. Half a billion animals have been killed. Eight people are dead.
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People (Assad supporters, more plainly) labeling those they disagree with "Al Qaeda" or "headchopper" endangers individuals but also feeds into a wider Islamophobic and racist narrative in society. We need to have absolutely zero tolerance of this form of racism.
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What do I absolutely need to do in kyiv before I leave tomorrow?
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And they'll refuse to produce any analysis that doesn't centre themselves
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The twitter left discourse on Iraq right now is yet another reminder that the American left only cares about anything when it's about them
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Kaifeng Jewish Community Suffers New Suppression Under the pretext of “religious infiltration,” the CCP’s crackdown against religious groups has hit again the oldest community of Jews in the country.https://bitterwinter.org/kaifeng-jewish-community-suffers-new-suppression/…
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why is
@audible_com including a white supremacist fantasy based on the Turner Diaries in its New Year's sale offerings?pic.twitter.com/nKKRERCNFb
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there were some americans in our tour group today and on the bus on the way back they just.....pulled out cheeseburgers?????? out of nowhere????? americans are not real
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My analysis of Xi Jinping's Sept 27th speech & how his Han-centric cultural nationalism marks a radical departure from the acceptance of ethnocultural diversity adopted by Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang and Xi's own father Xi Zhongxun
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How better to spend the first day of the decade than absorbing copious amounts of radiation at an exploded nuclear plant?
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Couples in hostel dorms are the worst tbh
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Twitter won't let me upload the nicer video so here's a random picture of zelensky to say happy new year from Kyiv!pic.twitter.com/R7jngC6THK
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Idk why you're all here tho I don't have anything useful to say
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Hit 1k followers with only an hour and a half left in the decade and that feels weirdly satisfying
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Update the hot chocolate is not great
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