Yeah, that last point is where I'm coming at this from

Haha amazing

The way its cropped means its not clear, but the inference is he came up with some kind of withering put-down for lanyard culture when its been standard twitter-fare for years?

Yes - the one Trump scandal that I really thought might do him some damage with his base was the whole 'people who served/died for their country were suckers and losers'

Its also quite funny when set against the backdrop of the meta-narrative that the genius of conservatism/populism/nationalism (whatever label you want to stick on it) is that it is rooted in people's real lives as opposed to liberal abstraction

And more often than not, a very rose-tinted version of the past.

It's very old man yells at cloud type stuff. I get progress can be discombobulating and not always overwhelmingly positive, but change is inevitable and it is better to think how to best manage/mitigate the impact of that on the things you care about as opposed to fetishising the past.

The guy who posted that 40-tweet thread about the conclusions that could be drawn about Russia's overall military potential from the way they maintained the tires on their armoured vehicles...

Yeah at its peak it was incredible, from taking the piss out of David Cameron when that story broke to finding out in close to real time what was happening on the ground in Ukraine when Russia invaded, plus all those other bits you mention... RIP

Yeah football is 75% of the reason why I've kept my twitter account even though I don't post on there anymore. Though I have noticed that over the past few years the non-football discourse among my football follows does reflect the wider ecosystem changes...

What I often wonder is, when mainstream, respectable people/orgs who are still on twitter out of habit/for the still nominally larger audience and that's their experience with regards to engagement, at what point do they think, hmmm hang on a minute...

There can be specific circumstances which would lead parties not to contest by-elections or certain seats in a GE but 'we broadly like this opposition MP' isn't a good one. You have to accept there may be short-term cost (Reform government) to getting what you want (Greens displacing Labour)

Yeah especially as they showed with e.g. CMA chair that they weren't averse to bit of institutional hardball