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Musa Okwonga Profile picture
@Okwonga
Sep 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Protect Paul Rudd at all costs. That is all.
My timeline is particularly unhappy about politics tonight, so here is a Spotify playlist that I made specifically to raise spirits on such occasions. Nothing worse than an evening spent feeling helpless and miserable. open.spotify.com/playlist/16gBs…
The thing I love most about that Paul Rudd dancing video is that these are ridiculous dances that pretty much all of us have done in private at some point, but he has done them all in public, in front of millions of people. Repeatedly. What an absolute hero.
(I am now wondering which footballer has the biggest Paul Rudd energy - a model professional with a film-star smile, who is strangely ageless and who everyone seems to like - and I am convinced it is Pedro Rodriguez.) Image

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Jul 25
1/ Here in Germany, the AfD are getting so cocky that they have just quoted a Nazi poet in one of their manifestos for a state election this autumn. They're complacent. But they have a problem coming soon. The German birthrate is at its lowest since 2023. . dw.com/en/germanys-bi…
2/ Why's that a problem? Well, the AfD's grand fantasy, like all European fascists, is to kick out all migrants and replace them with white Germans. In other words, they want white German women to breed huge families for them. That's what they mean by ch.6.2 of their manifesto.
3/ The AfD's various pronouncements have been so cruel and their rhetoric has been so nasty that we haven't spent enough time talking about how this policy - and therefore how they as a party - are actually just fundamentally unserious.
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Jul 14, 2023
1/ I was asked yesterday by someone to give examples of men who represented healthy masculinity and I thought, "well, it's men who don't think that being a man ultimately involves dominance over everyone in your surroundings".
2/ A lot of the conversation around masculinity is "get your life together and eventually women are the reward" - that's dominant masculinity, not collaborative masculinity, which I have always found to be much healthier.
3/ I get baffled when I see T@te and P3terson held up as men who somehow have the answer to what boys and men need because the last time I checked there were countless incredible role models for boys and men. It's just that they aren't being promoted as such.
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Jun 19, 2023
Germany's far-right AfD party wants to dissolve the EU, and want to call for a referendum to leave it: of course it does.
An interesting thing about Germany is how little patience so many voters have had with anything remotely progressive, on either housing or climate. The far-right path isn't going to solve those problems, but it will provide lots of short-term catharsis at foreigners' expense.
A big problem the far-right will have, once it has got rid of those pesky refugees, is convincing foreign specialist workers that it is leading a hospitable country (euractiv.com/section/econom…). Foreigners are watching, and foreigners talk, and they are concerned by this shift.
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Feb 13, 2023
🧵Today in Berlin. Was getting a cab to see the preview of a new TV series, on the evacuation of Jewish refugees from Marseille in WW2. Had a great chat with the cab driver about society. Just before he dropped me off, he stated the main problem for the world’s ills: the Jews.
We had been chatting for a good fifteen minutes before that so I didn’t explode at him, I patiently explained why I thought he was wrong, in the same tone we’d been using before. Sometimes this stuff feels like defusing a bomb.
The guy was young, smart, otherwise progressive. It shocked me because of how casually he said it, and also because I have been feeling recently - just this weekend, in fact - that so many of these old cruelties are reviving themselves.
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Sep 27, 2022
Watch how he brings extreme discourse into the mainstream by scoffing at its opponents. Elsewhere on here, actual historians and investigative journalists are warning of Meloni’s long embrace of fascism. But they don’t have his reach.
The left - much to the surprise of a lot of people on here - isn't just sitting on Twitter, it is organising at the grassroots all over the world, and if it was really as useless as many of those people allege then people like Meloni would have succeeded much sooner.
I see a lot of talk of "the left has not provided solutions" and I think of all the progressive journalists and conservationists and other activists who have been murdered just these last few years, precisely because the solutions they presented were in danger of being effective.
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Jun 21, 2022
Short thread.

One thing I have noticed so much recently (more than ever) is how in England we are so conditioned not to speak up even when we are angry about a social issue. It's a very hard thing to shake, this hardwired sense of deference.
I was at a festival in England recently and the subject of the royal family came up. Someone in the crowd, who had worked for the Queen as some kind of advisor, was praising the monarchy's remarkable ability to renew itself. The moderator then asked if anyone had a view on that.
There was a pause and then a silence in the decent-sized crowd and so I thought someone had to say something, so I did. I said something very obvious - that the Queen has a big problem because everyone can see the dual standards of treatment for Harry and Meghan and for Andrew.
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