The lesson is clear: you can’t outflank the far right by borrowing its language. You only validate its narrative, undermine your own authenticity, and make democracy more fragile in the process.
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Not to mention alienating too many of the "Broadchurch" voters who now have other credible alternatives.
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sep 2, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
The issue lies within the StratCom system: funding tied to intelligence is structured to reinforce the trickle-down model of “God/King/Country.” OSINT requires an AI with quantum-based reconsiliation framework to ensure SCIF data can be held accountable. This will be assembled by Nov17th.
sep 2, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
And you can never win the race to the bottom because they’ll just keep moving it down…
sep 2, 2025, 11:47 am • 6 0 • view
100%
sep 2, 2025, 12:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Same with the left using right wing frames to criticize those they don't like, e.g. "Crooked Hillary", with the 'justification' that "broken clocks are right twice a day." N.B. Stopped (frozen) clocks are the ones that are correct once in the daytime, once at night. Broken clocks are never right
sep 2, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
This is exactly what happened in the Netherlands with the VVD
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Less than 100 years ago Hitler rose to power. In the UK we are frequently taught about how fascism came about. The BBC has a series called "The rise of the Nazis", and yet so many of those lessons are being thrown on the bonfire. The German establishment thought they could control Hitler, WRONG
sep 2, 2025, 12:53 pm • 3 1 • view
We know this now for quite a while. The lesson is clear but unapplied. Ignorance, wilful ignorance or intention??? Same happens in Germany right now. It will not end well.
sep 2, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Case in point bsky.app/profile/youg...
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Don't break up the U.K. it's a bad idea.
sep 2, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
No its not abandoning a sinking ship is a very wise idea, letting it drown you is utter stupidity.
sep 2, 2025, 8:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Mc Sweeney doing a sterling job for Labour should go back to work for his father
sep 2, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
This hits home particularly hard after listening to Starmer’s abysmal comments on the far right flag campaign and then waking up to see my village covered in flags clearly put up in the dead of night. We desperately need some real leadership right now
sep 2, 2025, 1:55 pm • 22 1 • view
Get out on the street and protest. You can change it Don't forget you voted for them last year You can democratic vote them out They represent you.
sep 2, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, but not yet that’s our system isn’t it? They have an overwhelming parliamentary majority even with the MPs, who have lost the whip.
sep 2, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
This IS our system. When the Tories have a dud PM they replace them. Labour supporters and those that voted for Starmer have a duty to the nation to replace them and not complain about doing so. This is your responsibility Ann.
sep 3, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
Doesn't matter. Ann you think you can't do nothing. He is ruling the country with dictator ✊ He is afraid of Farage He makes mistakes affecting people life
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@robjetten.bsky.social goede tips voor D66
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I disagree. Putin weaponized migration. The right helped him making it a crisis. Centrists are not wrong to fight it - the population wants it regulated like it was. In the US they denied it failed to fix it or stop Russia causing it or the Russian and Right wing propaganda amplifying it.
sep 2, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 1 • view
Trying to out-flank the right on immigration runs into a fundamental issue of miscomprehension. People don't change tribes based on issues. They change issues based on tribes.
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
If people were rational, they would have their key issues (e.g., the economy, immigration) and would evaluate and adopt the platform of the party that best aligns with those issues.
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
But that's not how it works in real life. People FIRST decide which tribe they want to belong to (based on vibes or whatever) and THEN decide what issues are important to them and why.
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
People first decide they want to be Republican or Democrat, THEN decide whether the economy is an important issue and whether it is doing well or poorly.
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I recall David Brooks' 2011 book, The Social Animal, where he argues that people very often make decisions based on a bunch of subconscious biases etc. while convincing themselves that they made a 'rational' decision based on reasons they in reality backfill after having made the decision.
sep 2, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
It's just demonization of "the other". Not sure what the cure is, given US education is done at the "holler" level, which doesn't produce anything like a unified state, and in fact encourages demonization. Again, the federalism tension. You want a country, or Yugoslavia?
sep 3, 2025, 1:04 am • 1 0 • view
"If people were rational" *coffee all over my screens*
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Thatcher looked similar in 1980/81. Where does Starmer's Falklands come from?
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