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You ever consider who your masters are if you reframe believing the number of Palestinians in Gaza should be greater than zero as “slight?”
Way too entertaining.
I'm down with that.
Yes when you treat politics as a purely aesthetic means by which to let everyone know how much better and smarter you are than them it's a bit tiring to be reminded it isn't.
I read the headline as "Warwick Davis not about to pass up a check."
I mean if you actually wanted to make things better by changing policies you'd of course want to get a voter repellent narcissist like Corbyn out of any leadership position. If you're just a poseur though...
I wish we had grown up big boy politics. In lots of places it's doing very well, thanks very much. It would have been nice to have it here and in the states, but it didn't happen, partly because sections of the left decided to act like spoiled children.
Yeah it does look like that if you're determined not to actually understand the world and adopt sub student union politics.
Yeah we could. Because that's not what "the West" was doing or is doing. You know you could just concede he's fucking useless and make your own arguments?
Yeah it's like "she's bleeding out on the floor, do you reality need to fetch a pillow?"
Good comeback. Funny that Corbyn only cares about one of them and his take on the one in Europe is "Ukraine should have the good grace to surrender and let the Russians destroy it."
It's kind of remarkable that Badenoch has been called out telling a ludicrous lie about getting an offer to Stanford Medical and it's not really a "scandal" because no-one really cares enough to attack Kemi Badenoch with it.
Or, and hear me out here, the mark against Corbyn was that he was always willing to get into bed with terrible people so long as they'd parrot some sub-SWP "anti imperialist" nonsense, because he's a vain, morally vacuous poseur, and the people who said it when he was LOTO got him bang to rights.
No, we're still on "he was unfairly maligned by all the people reporting things he had said and done".
Weak source I'm afraid. But we live in hope.
I'm old enough to remember Strom Thurmond being wheeled out to the senate floor to cast votes long after it was clear he was basically a mindless husk who kept getting elected due to his constituents' enthusiasm for his record of racism and bigotry.
Yuriy Andropov has entered the chat.
This is a somewhat economical bio of Parubiy
Depends on the flag. Canadians tend to be quite flag happy without it being "a thing".
The rodent once again very upset Labour isn't led by a group who felt being despised by the electorate was evidence of moral fibre.
I know it's illegal on here to notice that our leaders are actually fighting back in the job we actually elected them to do, but here's the Wall Street Journal bitching about Schumer's "historic" delaying tactics that have left almost 90% of Trump appointee slots empty. archive.ph/2025.08.27-0...
The fascinating thing about Beria is that he knew how bad the nightmare machine he helped create was and what really did him in was taking the first steps towards dismantling it.
Except the idea that there's a meaningful line between Policy Exchange and the Tories is bullshit. It's their bad idea factory.
It remains difficult to overstate how hateful and toxic David Quinn is.
I think we're about 12-18 months away from a right wing political party explicitly embracing Wilhoit's law
This is a positive development insofar as it may allow analysts who depend professionally on maintaining a degree of access to the administration to start publicly noting Witkoff is a worthless clown. ( Cc @aphclarkson.bsky.social )
It's a really horrible situation that largely results from decades of cynical opportunism on the part of the GOP and NRA (as Robert has chronicled). The only way things can start to change IMO is if owning a gun becomes a taboo, and widely regarded as morally obnoxious.
Sorry when I hear "e-bike" I think of the lime bikes currently all over London.
I'm glad you park it in a safe manner! Many are not as thoughtful
Daily occurrence in my neighbourhood.
Of course not. But they're also not going to abolish the legal regulations around operating one.
It's rare enough that a car has made it physically impossible for me to traverse the sidewalk, and basically never has one threatened to topple over onto my child.
If Ozzy Osbourne said "you! Child! You should commit suicide - here's how you create a ligature and what to do to make sure it works" he would a) be sued into oblivion by grieving parents b) be held criminally liable in many jurisdictions.
I don't want to ban them but I sure as shit don't want people to park then perpendicularly on the pavement blocking the path for my kid's pram, or leaving them at an unstable angle so they topple over and hurt someone.
Ozzy Osbourne didn't encourage kids to commit suicide or provide them instructions.
They used "Fortunate Son" as a musical accompaniment at one point. I think the army knew exactly what it was doing.
A rare photo of the resistance high command in session.
Romney ran on anti immigrant xenophobia and voted through trump's judges. He begged for Trump's endorsement. His differences with him are purely aesthetic
The nation elected him once. He and his dad both used toxic, hateful and bigoted campaign tactics, outsourced to underlings so they could pretend their hands were clean. W left with sub 30 approval ratings. While no doubt motivated by preserving his clan, his voice would not be helpful.
Yep - but enabled by decades of the Republican party policy. Well done.
Irrespective of the legal outcomes the bare facts of this case would have, at one point, resulted in OpenAI collapsing and Sam Altman facing professional disgrace just a couple of decades ago. It speaks to the moral decline of America that it will basically be a speed bump.
What will be really fun is when the penny drops that for Farage and co "British" means "English"
Also, Farage doesn't have an Ecuador and probably won't have a Trump.
Waiting for someone to write the take that three most fantastical thing about Alien: Earth is that the evil corporate CEOs are genuine geniuses who are hyper competent and cunning.
Pouring one out for Will Wilkinson.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
Again - just a colossal failure of American media and culture.
There's even an incredible visual metaphor - the increasingly gaudy and tacky decor behind him
Still pulling for Fruit and Nut
Yes, but anyone publishing this in a Rupert Murdoch owned outlet should be forced to replace their regular headshot with one of them in a hotdog costume.
It takes a while for the shine to come off that apple. I would expect that "police state in which masked goons target foreigners" is more of a repellent factor, alongside "shocking levels of violence for advanced industrial economy" and "barbarous healthcare system."
There's a chicken and an egg problem here in that the same market actors who would be slamming the metaphorical red button with both hands to signal how terrible this is are stuck in the same "the US is a competent rational actor so this is all fine" fallacy.
A lot of it is just baked in cognitive bias towards the presumption of stability and failure of imagination. Similar to early stages of COVID when a years long emergency wasn't on the radar of anyone.
Impressive use of "they" as well.
Another category of persons who it will be imperative to professionally and personally destroy in the aftermath of the Trump presidency.
I'm not a woman but Maxwell both actively trafficked women for Epstein and engaged in sexual abuse. It's horseshit.
Also, if you're a hostile foreign power looking for a way to screw with the US economy, the Trump boys getting daddy to use it to enable their crypto schemes gives you a helluva starting point.
The thing is, JD Vance isn't an idiot. He's a lying scummy toad, but not an idiot.
While I think this is generally correct, Carney has specifically and deliberately talked about Ottawa having an America problem rather than a Trump problem. This is not only right analytically but might push Americans themselves to get a grip on things.
It's a bizarre world - I find myself liking Bill Kristol, who has the zeal of a convert, more than Nichols, who is basically trying to avoid facing the fact that his party's electoral dominance was based on unapologetic bigotry.
To make Republicans think like Trump but vote for Bushes and Romneys. They never thought that one day one of the plebs (intellectually speaking) would end up running the show.
There's a curious blend of elitist gatekeeping in all of this that seems to boil down to "we don't want the rubes thinking too much" which speaks to Tom's blind spot over what brought American politics to its current state. From Reagan onwards there was a massive investment in propaganda designed
As silly as the list is, the vibes out gives off are that if it was written in the 1960s it would be arguing that no-one uses "African-American" and that politicians need to use more ethnic slurs.
Trump lost the popular vote by a clear 2mn in 2016
Sorry, additional thoughts - "no one uses that word or knows it - we know that because so many people use it and know it" is the kind of logical absurdity you'd think Tom would recognise while writing it. Also - US conservatives seem to get really upset when others try to humanise minorities...
There are a couple of things wrong with this, the epic scale question begging aside, but remember that just last week Tom was arguing the refusal to confirm Robert Bork to SCOTUS was obviously unfair because right-wingers subsequently made up and used the obscure term "borking" as a shorthand.
Why not criticise what Democrats are actually saying and doing than the imaginary things you think they are saying and doing?
Shades of Ireland 2011...
They do have genuinely good columnists (eg Jamelle Bouie) but they balance it out with absolute dreck merchants like Brooks, Friedman and Dowd. Not to mention Bret Stephens...
It's full on Brooks in other words. And yet they pushed Krugman out.
That article was incredible in that it's a) based on clearly bullshit click bait "research" designed to reinforce conservative victim complexes b) is yet another "liberals need to show deference and respect to Nazis" whine c) features Brooks reading the minds of simple West Virginia folk.
I'm not really familiar with his work TBH, just that he finished Wheel of Time. I fell off that series at book seven or eight when it became clear that Jordan was spinning his wheels pretty deliberately.
I've made the Brandon Sanderson joke on here before but it's a bit different to do it to the guy's face.
The NYT - giving the benefit of the doubt when the Adams campaign hands out literal cash brings to journalists, while providing anonymity to literal Nazis to conduct dishonest smears of Mamdani
I'm not sure that's totally fair - they lean hard on curation (I'm sure you've seen there's new Alien and Amanda Knox series) but I'm also seeing my American Dad binge steer the front window towards similar fare.
There are racist dickheads in Ireland as everywhere. The difference is the Irish media and political elite are largely trying to make sure they are regarded as dickheads, not the vanguard of the People. There's a reason John McGuirk et al remain marginal figures
Still very tempted to join just so I can put forward "Fruit and Nut" for the party name.
That's not entirely fair - I'm sure he'll meet plenty of like-minded people pissing time and effort up the wall on Unnamed Corbyn Sultana Vanity Project.
I dunno about that - we don't have major political actors actively encouraging far right riots.
No I was making reference to your unpleasant personality and idiotic politics.
You would be wrong on multiple counts there, and I'm guessing it's because projection ain't just a booth in a theatre!
I recently saw a huge civil service job advertised for essentially coordinating all intelligence on Russia and Belarus. 80k. I know several people in the private sector who would love the role and do it well but couldn't take the pay cut.
The great thing about dedicating yourself to juvenile ultra leftist politics is that you don't even have to pretend not to be an unpleasant twerp. After all - your motivations are purely aesthetic so it's not like you have to try and build a coalition that can accomplish anything.
Additionally, it says something about how utterly degenerate the UK political discourse is that "we have dramatically reduced the appeal of our country as a place to work and live to outsiders" is seen as a massive win.
just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.
I dunno I think a lot of is that she has good songs and is purdy .
Absolutely incredible that Tim Stanley is the voice of reason here.
Similar processes prompted the near deification of Henry Kissinger,a man who was not actually very good at the job of geopolitical strategic thinking.
Without getting all Marxist about it there's a definite whiff of class interest here - admitting that Steve Witkoff is a bungling idiot and Marco Rubio a vacant shell of a man would say something about the imperfections of the US political elite itself, which NYT leaders see themselves as part of.
Sorry - to clarify you were still far more polite than I would have been while getting the point across.
Was great hearing you on @ozkaterji.bsky.social 's podcast straightforwardly calling out Witkoff as an incompetent moron who should be disregarded.
Oh that's mean
This is a popular myth - he fought them on "literally every other alternative is much less popular and/or discredited."
He's a profoundly unfunny man unless we count "laughing at"
Wholly agreed. But in my day to day existence I (and my kids) are much more inconvenienced/threatened by these bikes than cars. Part of that is because I can't hire a car instantaneously and leave it at a random spot for collection, and I'm linked to it if there's an accident.
That's an equal daily number of Equalizers.
I'm all for these bikes in principle, but I also want swift retribution for the wankers that drive them on the pavement and then leave them there perpendicular to the road.
What's driving it? Chocolate is through the roof obviously but what else is getting really spenny?
trump's fundamental view of international relations is that of a rapist, but the field is extremely hostile to leader psychology and also to gender studies and so has been largely incapable of dealing with him in any realistic way.