NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte calls the U.S. a "perfect democracy" on Dutch tv. 🤦 Mark Rutte wouldn't recognize a "perfect democracy" if it hit him in the face. Or care much about it, given his long career of weakening liberal democracy in the Netherlands. www.instagram.com/reel/DPYT4gz...

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Fairly easy to see current anti-immigration politics as a right wing phenomenon mostly pertaining to refugees. But it’s also worth remembering that this is taking place in a context in which the very idea of being a citizen is being dismantled even from people who live in the west

The largest left wing party in Israel is a majority Arab party

ah, well

I have written about this elsewhere, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the three far-right coup attempts over the past half decade in the USA, South Korea, and Brazil; were done by far-rights heavily influenced by Pentecostalism.

So about that “transgender ideology” WSJ report

and this is *after* they filled the fed with terminally online groyper types, c'mon guys if you were gonna be good at one thing you'd think it would be this

We gotta treat paradox games like a controlled substance.

Absolutely shameful hagiographies of Charlie Kirk by “liberals” like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newson. It’s like Fortuyn all over again. It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.

Thus the American years of lard begin.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky & @gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

This is the future the left want

Nem 24h horas antes que as "medidas estrelas" contra um genocídio em andamento resultassem ser todas fumaça. Incrível nível de PSOED.

ES QUE LO QUE TIENES QUE HACER ES DEJARTE DE PURITANISMO Y MISANDRIA PARA QUE A LOS CHAVALES NO LES ASUSTE EL FEMINISMO PORQUE LES ESTÁIS ESPANTANDO Y CLARO SE VUELVEN FACHAS POR VUESTRA CULPA PORQUE EN REALIDAD LO QUE OS PASA ES QUE ODIÁIS A LOS HOMBRES

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

Popularism (talking about your best issues while campaigning) is broadly a good idea. I'd call this strategy Starmerism, which is governing while acting like you're going to have an election in a month instead of thinking longer term. You can see how that's working in the UK.

Democrats seem to have made their decision: they want a (probably short-term) extension of ACA subsidies in exchange for passing a budget bill. In other words, they want something Republicans need in exchange for something Republicans want. From me:

We need a word for attempted lawfare that is a coup in all but name. Like autogolpe kinda works but not quite?

declaring war on a city in your own country, donald trump is easily one of the greatest evils alive today

New Hampshire should be partitioned like Poland

I am once again banging on my "Nobody except me understands how the free marketplace of ideas is supposed to work anymore" drum.

As the far right has successfully claimed the moniker “conservative” (with help from the “center”), conservatives are increasingly claiming the moniker “liberal” (again with help from the “center”).

i’m learning that eric adams is the most easily bribe-able politician of all time, he’s going to get a trump admin role lol

Internet normies: macha Dubai chocolate labubu Reactionary centrists for some reason: you know what’s really cool? The kalafa system; let’s do slavery.

> Not nominating him as ambassador to Turkey Wow the Trump administration are a bunch of cowards.

I legitimately cannot remember the last time I used a taxi outside of the US. We have this revolutionary thing called public transit that does not require us to get into a self driving pile of shit that is going to mow down children and then explode into a fireball.

Imo a certain thing I always see with reactionary centrists is their absolute unwillingness to interrogate definitions. Like I would bet you a lot of conservatives wouldn’t consider it “cutting off” when they refuse to recognize a trans persons name and pronouns. This could be a measurement issue.

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

The Abundance Bros seem to have believe they’ve invented a framework to make Democratic ideas palatable to voters but in fact seem to have invented a framework that often makes right-wing ideas palatable to themselves

What is there even left to say

"This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood." Very, very good piece, highly recommended. This is the dominant ideological tendency in the US elite today and it is *toxic*.

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

America is cooked because you can't rely on hotel breakfast to include the classic hotel sausages anymore and no one is talking about it

Obviously Islamophobia has always been rampant, but I don’t think people have really processed how much worse it has gotten on the right over the past couple of years.

Every time I see this guy pop up again and am reminded he exists, he is doing something a Simpsons character like Moe or Lenny would be experiencing to illustrate a cartoonish level of humiliation that wouldn't seem possible irl

The real black pill is that during the primary for his election, Schmitt was seen by most political commentators as the more normie option compared to former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. (Trump notably endorsed both by simply saying he supported "Eric.")

"I have experienced medical death, and am now deceased. My body has died."

"bluesky is dying" that's cool man. i go on here to make funny posts with my friends

one of the great joys in life is to have a signature outfit like a cartoon character