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“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” -
Mark Twain
John Cocker 🇺🇦 retweeted
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
On this day in 1886, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and then on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she was murdered. Her name was Anna Kohnová
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On this day in 1885, a Czech Jewish woman was born. A single clerk, on 23 Jul 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt, and on 4 Aug 1942 to the Malý Trostinec extermination centre, where she was murdered. Her name was Klára Budlovská.
On this day in 1904, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On 10 Jun 1942 she was deported from Prague to occupied Poland, on a transport routed via Lublin to Sobibór. She perished in the Shoah. Her name was Valerie Neumannová.
On this day in 1941, a 38 year old Polish man perished in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 6 months and 23 days. Before being imprisoned he was a butcher. His name was Stefan Krupski
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On this day in 1895, a Czech Catholic of Jewish origin was born in Žatec. On 10 Aug 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, and on 20 Aug 1942 to Riga. He perished in the Shoah. His name was Ing. Josef Hoffmann.
On this day in 1942, a 7 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother and brother (5) where they were murdered after selection. Her father was placed in a work camp but escaped, went into hiding and survived. Her name was Rita Krammer
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On this day in 1942, a 7 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother where they were murdered after selection. Her father perished in 1944, date and place unknown. Her name was Jansje van Velzen
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On this day in 1942, a 52 year old Dutch Jewish woman arrived at Auschwitz where she was murdered after selection. Two sibling perished in Sobibor and one survived the Shoah. Her name was Catharina Porcelijn
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On this day in 1899, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 30 Jun 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and two sons (17 & 11) and on the 8 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where they perished. Her name was Irma Bauerová
On this day in 1912, a Czech Jewish man was born. On the 3 Nov 1942 he perished in Auschwitz. His mother and four siblings also perished in the Shoah. His name was Vilém Koblitz
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On this day in 1943, a 6 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother where they were murdered on arrival. Her father perished in Tsjechowitz (an Auschwitz sub-camp) in 1944. Her name was Barbara Aal
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On this day in 1941, a 51 year old Polish man perished in Auschwitz after being incarcerated for 10 months and 28 days. Between 1935-36 president of Przeworsk County. His name was Władysław Petzelt
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John Cocker 🇺🇦 retweeted
70 years ago today, thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest demanding freedom from Soviet captivity.
The revolution began with a demonstration of solidarity with Poland, where political upheaval earlier that month had raised hopes for reform across Eastern Europe.
Protesters gathered at the statue of Polish General Józef Bem, a hero of both nations.
As the Hungarian Revolution unfolded, ordinary Poles organized blood donations, medical supplies, and humanitarian aid for their Hungarian friends and neighbors.
Although Soviet forces ultimately crushed the uprising, the events of October 1956 became a lasting symbol of courage and friendship between Poland and Hungary.
On this day in 1905, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband, and on 9 May 1942 to Sobibór, where they were murdered. Her name was Marta Löwyová.
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Please note: Marta's husband, Rudolf perished on the July 6, 1942 in the Majdanek concentration camp. Many thanks to @DoubravkaZelena for this information
