Disappointing from the same party as @greenpartymolly.bsky.social
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Disappointing from the same party as @greenpartymolly.bsky.social
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So true! Brexit has been a disaster and itās time for government to admit it and make serious moves to undo the harm
Guessing he didnāt ask @greenpartymolly.bsky.social to put together his economic platform. His and our loss. But mostly ours.
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Trump et al. have basically created a zugzwang situation for left/liberal Jewish academics and students, forcing them to choose between tolerating actual instances of antisemitism they encounter vs. Trump co-opting their legitimate complaints as a pretext to stifle academic freedom and cut funding
And these truths are, obviously, an utter disaster for Democrats. Apparently.
āA blowout victory for Mamdani would be a crushing blow for {checks notes} Democrats, can they ever come back from this?ā š§
Both these things can be true at the same, errr, Oh, wait. No. No, they canāt.š¤¦āāļø
This.
Hard disagree. Itās a powerful statement that heās ok with the Kremlin targeting her plane with jammers, or missiles, or whatever, because her safety isnāt his problem or his concern.
Yeah, getting big āgangster says it would have been a pity if her plane had been brought down, but things like that can happen {shrug}ā vibes here
But werenāt Garnett and the similar characters in things like Love Thy Neoghbour presented as objects of ridicule, small-minded, and on the wrong side of history? Or was it just me that saw them they way?
It would be good to see you more active here
Yes, and yet not *entirely* meaninglessā¦the accusation is always a confession.
Dog whistle aimed at reminding people of the right wing slur that Starmer was soft on grooming gangs because two tier justice?
Not extraordinary. Terrifyingly unsurprising.
Are you sure? I zoomed in and I couldnāt see much sign of intelligent life š¤·āāļø
Disgusting and shameful: www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/02/s...
Me too.
Vanceās entire political career doesnāt exist without his ties to the Silicon Valley white supremacist and neo-fascist movement. But media systematically ignores the right wing anti-democratic ecosystem (and has a lot of practice with the evangelical fascists).
> *Note: This article advocates for legal actions including state prosecution of federal crimes, constitutional enforcement, and lawful withholding of federal funds by states exercising their sovereign rights.* 3/3 cmarmitage.substack.com/p/blue-state...
> Article VI of the Constitution requires all officials to swear an oath to the Constitution itself, not to any president. Violating this oath constitutes a crime under state lawā¦These are state crimes. Presidential pardons do not apply. 2/3
From @carmitage.bsky.social : > The federal government's ability to function dependsā¦on state cooperation. > History shows us exactly how this works. In 1832, South Carolina nullified federal tariffs. Jackson threatened military force. S Carolina prepared its militia. Jackson blinked. 1/3
this Village People tribute band stinks
Baby donkeys are so underrated... š
Shorter this: For āā¹basically identikit fascist story about Betrayal by disloyal elites who have forgot the True Volk and who must be dislodged by a Strong Leader who will Reaffirm Our Greatness etc etc>ā, read ā*DolchstoĆlegende*ā, and throughout.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
A (loose) translation/summary: āTolkienās work is a relentless denunciation of tyranny [ā¦] Despite this, for several decades the far right has attempted to co-opt the Tolkien universe. Theyāre attempting to appropriate a popular work which in reality stands in direct opposition to their ideology.ā
* (Unless itās my late father-in-law talking about his gratitude to Mussolini for making the trains run on time, because that helped make his job of laying explosives on the tracks and blowing up the trains somewhat easier)
My knee jerk response to that is to suspect that total loathing for Trump is pretty much a necessary (though not sufficient) condition to being a remotely decent person. Iām no more interested in reading about Trumpās saving graces than I am about how Mussolini made the trains run on time * [1/2]
In my view the difference between now and twenty years ago is that now we have mainstream media and politicians amplifying far right voices while in the past they were filtering them out effectively. I may be biased. But for me this began with the Brexit referendum campaign and has not stopped since
This. The failure of Weimar was all about this. Iām *almost* tempted to believe Starmer is deliberately trying to shoehorn Farage in to Downing Street, how is it still possible to be this clueless by accident?
āThere are only 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary & those who donātā
You havenāt got the hang of this publishing lark, have you?
Iām genuinely surprised that populism doesnāt substantially increase inequality
Not seeing the problem, when the promises of āexact same benefitsā and trade negotiations sorted out "in an afternoon over a cup of coffee" proved to be spot on.
Youāve already seen this kind of stuff? www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/let...
But I want to say Nightswimming too
New Test Leper
Unpopular opinion: this is an obvious truth and I donāt understand why it even needs to be said.
Also pretty much everyone with a functioning brain whoās paying attention (and who hasnāt decided to join the war on authoritarianism on the side of authoritarianism)
Yes. Hoping the man himself will confirm: IIRC that was the original ending & it got changed when (obviously mistaken) test audiences hated it. Can we have a directorās cut with the correct ending?
Snowflakes. Presumably white ones, since thatās the traditional colour
Not sure if he still considers himself libertarian, and he was always a ways from others I knew, but his belief in justice & equal treatment and objection to state oppression was always clearly sincere and principled 2/2
Iāll chew on that. Still inclined to think theyāre distinct & incompatible incoherent things, butā¦ Iād be curious to know what you make of someone like Radley Balko, whoās devoted decades to fighting police and legal injustice, especially directed at minorities? 1/2
I wouldnāt disagree, but even on that basis Iām a bit confused to see it attached to Silver specifically.
Yeah, and libertarianism isnāt centrist, itās far right
How Twitter became one of the clearest cases of lawless regression
Why Making Social Media Lawful Again matters to cohesion
Perhaps Sky News (or anyone) can explain why it is hiding the identity of these abusive racists who deliberately chose to speak in a public place in front of a TV camera? Public shaming of racists is good.
Asked and answered, no notes
In what sense is Silver a centrist? Is it centrist to argue as he does (IIRC) āTrump has some good points and many people support himā & leave it at that? I donāt see normalising authoritarianism as a centrist position, unless ācentrismā is to be redefined in each moment by the Overton Window
āThey call it the friend-enemy distinction, folks. Big, strong men would come up to him with tears in their eyes and ask Herr Schmitt, what if I just want to kick somebody and he said go ahead, we can always make up a reason later. Heās being recognized more and more.ā
Reminds me of the Cameron phase of bashing the EU and asking for reform from a third and multilateral party before losing the referendum.
"That middle class has so eroded in size and in purchasing power ā and the wealth of our top earners has so exploded ā that Americaās most important market today is its affluent." Cool cool cool.
To pick one of many possible examples: the Nazis basically went āthose world class nuclear physicists are nerdy eggheads and way too Jewy, not like manly Aryansā while Hitler had people researching the occult. The 20th century equivalent of thinking Putinās military will easily win because pushups.
Nothing is ever his fault. Thereās a whole Law about this, because itās so profoundly true. Murcās Law.
Asking the Black Democratic governor why he opposes the military occupation of urban centers and rejects the white nationalist government's attempt to subjugate blue communities as well as purge the country from anyone the Trumpists deem "un-American"... A proud moment, certainly, for journalism.
> Itās uncertain whether Brussels and Washington are headed for another fight over who gets to police Big Tech *in Europe* Fixed it for you. China polices Big Tech in China & the U.S. is fine with that Ditto Russia in Russia. Trump demands Europe accepts its status as an American vassal
Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlinās latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ā¬ļø
āŖRobin Brooks:ā¬ Lessons from 3 years of Russia sanctions: (i) financial sanctions don't work on current account surplus countries; (ii) you need to hit exports, which the G7 cap does; (iii) enforcement of the G7 cap was terrible, which is mainly about poor EU governance...
EXACTLY. Do you fancy being on a jury, say second week of November?
āI watched Snow White when I was a kid and I ain't gave a b*tch a poison apple yet.ā 10/10. No notes.
āOi! Get Paddingtonās immigrant name and his refugee mate and his refugee-inspired author out of your fucking fascist scumbag mouths. And then *fuck off*.ā {\rant}
So what precisely do the right want to do about the white working classes? Certainly not go to university, as they want numbers down. Nor to have a unionised manufacturing job, as they don't want unions. No, they just want pawns as part of their culture wars. They don't give a toss.
Shepard Smith: "Over there, thereās hope. Over there, thereās electricity. Over there, there is food and water. But you cannot go from here to there. The government will not allow you to do it. Itās a fact.ā New Orleans was not just a catastrophe. It was a prison.
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I remember at the time thinking that in death Diana had destroyed any possibility of Camilla ever being queen. Shows how much I know.
IMHO, these are all inextricably intertwined: 1) authoritarianism 2) eugenics & racism & sexism 3) vandalism of public goods, property, and services 4) pseudo-science & anti-science They feed into one another and they never travel alone. Find one, and you'll find elements of all the others.
This came to me in a vision
Itās an extraordinary coincidence, isnāt it? Iāve no idea what this means.
Itās always a good time to post a Dick pic
Canāt remember if it was you or someone else said it, but it seems true to me that willingness to abandon business as usual and fight back hard is more important and to many people more salient *in this specific moment* than ideological divisions between centrists, liberals and leftists.
> Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Xi Didnāt you forget someone?
it's that narrative - i call it a low agency or reaction narrative, that really alienates democratic primary electorates they don't think its their politicians fault, but they're VERY open to the idea that they should fight harder newrepublic.com/article/1953...
Isnāt there also a distinction between fighting for a leftist candidate in the primary and then voting for damage limitation in the general, vs voting for eg Jill Stein in the general under FPTP because ideological purity (or accelerationism)?
Hope itās ok to revive this; just saw you wrote elsewhere after Test Flight 10 that Raptor āis producing significantly less thrust than Musk intendedā, have you heard any rumours / have any data on how itās performing in terms of TSFC?
Who is going to tell the UK Supreme Court that intersex people exist and that there are documented women who can carry a child to term who have XY chromosomes? Biological sex is a scale, not a binary. This is just ignorant. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Dark. But very dry. Well played.
Nominative determinism at its finest
If it were March 1939, I imagine heād have been celebrating the forced deportation of Jewish refugees from Croydon Airport, congratulating the police on their devotion to duty and professionalism, and comparing them with the ragged, unkempt refugees and their shrill cosmopolitan defenders.
Iām assuming youād agree that in SCOTUS the U.S. has a highest legal body. Are you very gently and politely suggesting that SCOTUS rulings are not materially influenced by law? No disagreement. Just struck by your mild framing of what would in normal times be an extraordinary and radical claim.
Yes, and absent that vandalism is neither a legitimate nor an effective substitute
one of the most concerning things about Reform's polling is that we'd be looking at dozens of other MPs of the calibre of James McMurdock, a piece of human pond scum who served a custodial sentence for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and is now laughing it up with the Nazis over in the other place
Darker thought: Not a deceptively edited video, but an entirely falsified one. If he never appeared in public again, citing ācredible threatsā to his safety, would that also just get normalised?
āā¦I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.ā My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
š“ Brexiteers hate the world they created They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer. š New post šš»
My initial thinking was that heād be a more competent and more dangerous agent of Thielās neo-feudal agenda. But Iām wondering about the argument that DJT has a charismatic appeal that Thiel lacks. The Tea Party succeeded before Trump, though. Can Vance (& Fox, OAN, etc) keep the rubes on board?
How will they staff the level of customs activity required to follow through on this?
Itās a key part of the work of government to tax and subsidise so that externalities are internalised and incentives are aligned with external consequences.
itās not just Babbitt thatās a traitor. Hence the adulation. Game recognizes game.
Ashli Babbitt is the new Horst Wessel.
Oh cool! www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Does that really compare with a range from <0.6m to just under 40m?
