okay, engagement farming time: 1 like = 1 hot take about the Weimar Republic

Hats off to Ed for arranging this - no quicker way to get public support for his campaign to be Chancellor than this kind of intervention www.thetimes.com/article/cc02...

Naoroji also participated in the Second International. Here’s a photo of him (2nd from the right, at the front) at the 1904 Amsterdam International Socialist Congress alongside Kautsky, Luxemburg, Plekhanov, and other socialist delegates.

also fascinating because you see just how many Parsis there were in the late 19th century UK! England's first three British-Indian MPs* were all Parsis, a Liberal (1892), Conservative (1895), and Communist (1922) *there was an early Anglo-Indian one in the 1840s

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

An Idaho Department of Labor employee has been identified as a neo-Nazi propagandist.

UK Bluesky is normally really easy to follow, except the one week a month it descends into incomprehensible screaming because someone from North Flobershire dared refer to themselves as a Galbrilander despite their nan having actually been born south of Brookingsmarch-on-the-Tarrowack.

excuse me the what tent

Johnson used the prospect of restricting food aid, on which India was dependent, to determine Indian economic policy. This is only three steps away from Musk's USAID adventure

I'm not fond of Indira Gandhi but the way that Johnson and Nixon treated the Subcontinent (threatening food aid in Muskian fashion, supporting the Bengal genocide), it's not difficult to see why she made it a Soviet protectorate

Johnson and Nixon deserve to be seen as nothing more than butchers of Asia

in the case of India what didn't help was the US basically aligning with Pakistan which has basically given New Delhi a suspicion of most American foreign policy outreach most indian nationalist news stations are convinced that the US wants to regime change Modi and reign in India

I'm Indian-Canadian, so I'm well aware of how part of the global South treats the Russian state - Indian media is more or less pro-Russian in framing as a result of ties towards anti-Western actors alongside India's longstanding ties to the USSR/Russia

Love how with every new photo he's closer and closer to maxing out the dark side bar in KOTOR. A man who takes his evil grind seriously at least.

What I find fun about this is how much it is an obvious ode to failure. Your keynote speakers are a man who took 5 goes to get into parliament and the UK's worst ever Prime Minister. Your first session is a failed MP and a woman who went to jail for incitement to racist violence.

Terf slot day 1. Fash slots: all of them

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part of this comes back to the fact that his presidential library + organization is a big sponsor of the stuff

Curtis Yarvin making racist, pro-slavery, and genocidal comments🤮 He’s also positively quote retweeting a pedo Nazi incel with an incest fetish who blames Israel for his incest fantasy not being fulfilled.

This law is a real nightmare, creates a legal grounding for the state's assimilationist colonial campaigns

These people are coddled do-nothings clinging desperately to the legacy of their ancestors

Morgan McSweeney ordered himself an 18" pizza, which he then *of course* couldn't even come close to finishing, and for reasons I can't quite put my fingers on that feels extremely apt.

i don't think it's great that the other site seems to want to relitigate loving vs virginia

I have now discovered Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley who was 1) Stanley Baldwin's son 2) A massive socialist 3) A largely open homosexual whose family largely accepted it, apart from his cousin *checks notes* Rudyard Kipling

Does feel like Labour are swapping a PM with a media strategy that's 25 years out of date for one that's 10 years out of date

This is going to be a trainwreck. r/UKpolitics has been infiltrated by fash for over a decade. I remember that subreddit being flooded with UKIPpers in 2015.

Someone in his team has not done even the cursory amount of research needed to discover that choosing this particular subreddit is like doing an AMA on X

2026 is 50% complete.

Stop looking at random womens ’height and gait’ you perverted freaks! Reminder - the Labour government *insisted* that this person be appointed as chair of the EHRC against recommendations of 2 parliamentary select committees.

I continue to believe that in the long-term David Cameron and George Osborne will be seen to have done far more damage to the British state than Liz Truss or Boris Johnson.

Be careful out there.

They won’t teach you this in schools but the Minions were part of the Taiping Rebellion.

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

Across all taxes, small businesses fail to pay between £30 billion and £48 billion of tax. These figures are massive. Enough to fund significant tax cuts or additional expenditure

It's very noticeable that for some people immigrants are just numbers on a spreadsheet that need to go down, for others — including yours truly — the government's decisions mean "my colleague is forced to leave the UK" or "my wife might need to wait longer to settle" and we are never listened to.

As an English person from the same kneck of the woods of Bellingham who is also mixed race and English he is absolutely English - more specifically Brummie - and I’m tired of this shtick which he wouldn’t get if he were white Enough. Meet more Brummies or get out of the journalist kitchen.

Today is Quartidi the 14th of Messidor in the year 234. Messidor is the month of harvest. Today we celebrate lavender.#JacobinDay See today's page

oh my g*d SSPX is rooted in anti-Dreyfusardism and integralism and colonialism, not everything is about America

Maximilian I after 1864

People who talk about how the left needs to ‘avoid getting drawn into culture wars’ - well that hasn’t worked has it? We had a lot of success in strongly pushing cultural change in the past, now the Right has fought back successfully. There’s no ‘avoiding it’.

I also just do not understand how people expect those affected adversely by the culture war to keep shtum about it.

Matt Godwin is a failure who needs to leave my city the fuck alone. Failed candidate. Failed academic. Failed commentator. Failed intellectual. A massive ego wrapped around a shrivelled and scared intellect, poisoned by bile and subconcious awareness of his own inadequacy.

One of the true glories of modern Britain; a Somali refugee can arrive, be naturalised, be elected Lord Mayor and we then force him to dress up in a costume that is almost 700 years old for the lols And he's part of a relatively unbroken tradition going back almost a thousands years.

The lesson of this is the one we learned in the 30s. You cannot appease fascism; you must destroy it.

What I find more concerning is how many other Europeans now say stuff like this ('Too many black people in Paris' is the other one that's becoming more common)

It is now almost 100% of the time that when I do vox pops in rural America I get asked about Britain supposedly being taken over by Muslims and crushed under the boot of Sharia law. I was just asked suspiciously if I am a Muslim myself when I pushed back

The mandate fairies don’t exist. Stop trying to presidentialise British politics.

It drives me mad that commentators who rightly say 'we must find money for defence' never say, and are never asked first up, 'so, taxes up' but the idea that defence spending is being inorganically pushed up the agenda when we have a peer on peer war with 700k dead in Europe is just wrong & dumb.