Plato? More like woke-o.

I do my best never to comment on fandom (mine included), but the whole Star Trek "Federation as an aggressive hegemon" stuff is a little like NaTo ExPaNsIoN discourse re: Russia...

Es gibt so viele Level an Niedertracht, an Bösartigkeit und Erniedrigung, die sich da vor unser aller Augen abspielen. Und das ist Faschismus in der Alltagspraxis: die Lust an der Grausamkeit. Die gemeinschaftliche Praxis der Gewalt. Das Johlen und Spaß haben am Leid der Anderen.

The Holocaust was only supposed to be Chapter One, and the war stopped them from going through with even that. Whatever horrible things have already been done, it's always worth stopping the perpetrator - after a certain point, you just never know what else they're up to.

Die echte Vulkangruppe sucht fieberhaft nach dem Wordpress-Passwort. Mitglied Socke (43) hatte es unter die Tastatur geklebt, diese aber vergangenen Herbst einem Genossen geliehen.

let's do that in the baltic

Take Trump's claims about Venezuela as seriously as you take his claims about the National Guard "cleaning up" DC, his tariffs turning around the US economy and his "peace deals" ending wars. It is all puffery. He is the Ginsu Knife president, nothing more, nothing less.

Man sollte offen für die Möglichkeit sein, dass Trump und seine MAGA-Hintersassen die Annexion Grönlands nicht trotz des Schadens für Europa und die NATO vorantreiben, sondern (unter anderem) DESWEGEN.

A second piece of writing appeared where supposed members of the group responsible supposedly 'clarify' things about the original statement. That second statement is written by a German native speaker and has absolutely nothing in common with the one I discussed yesterday.

If Putin was serious about peace, which he categorically isn't, a ceasefire along the line of contact could be sold a sort of victory to his people, and western forces on territory that isn't Russia's should not be a problem unless he wants to invade again, which he does.

Of course this is most obvious with Grok, The Fascism and CSAM Machine, but it is a broader tendency of the technology: if you outsource thinking, values and creativity to a machine, then the fellow who designs and calibrates the machine has a big lever in your mind. Or a boot on your brain.

Here is a German analysis of the manifesto supporting the theory it was written by someone who's native language is not German and that it doesn't have the typical wording used by German leftists... bsky.app/profile/armc...

Trump floats the idea of canceling future elections

"I want a new great masculine idea to challenge that of the Right--" shut the fuck up. the new great masculine idea, and the new great feminine idea, are the same: girls and boys and theys can be exactly who they want to be and not an iota different

youtu.be/qFImghWY_ec Ich habe mir das Lichterfelde-Bekennerschreiben stilistisch und sprachlich vorgenommen. - Verfasser*in sicherlich nicht muttersprachlich. - Stil weicht stark von üblichem linken Jargon ab. - Übersetzung möglich.

(The Christofascists are just one faction in the regime, but still.) The imo salient point: The former role America has occupied int'ly, sometimes well and sometimes badly, is an impediment to the goals of that faction.

20 years or 20 minutes - when you don't have a coherent goal, your military actions will be futile, bloody nonsense.

Berlin had a significant blackout caused by an act of sabotage. While a radical left-wing group claimed responsibility in a confession letter, sources on social media say said letter seems to contain multiple instances of a strange use of words, indicating Russian origin and translation into German.

Threads ist auch nur "things that didn't happen for 1000"

Heute vor 126 Jahren wurde die Lemberger avantgardistische Dichterin Debora Vogel (1900-1942) geboren. Immer wenn ich Zeit habe, arbeite ich an einem Buch über sie. Anbei das jiddische Gedicht "Legende über das Öl 1935" in der deutschen Übersetzung von Anna Maja Misiak.

However, no institution can withstand too many bad people. We can't have functioning institutions without community, while community without good institutions leaves everything to the idiosyncrasies of culture.

Friedrich Merz und Kai Wegener zeigen in den letzten Stunden sehr eindrucksvoll, dass konservative Männer nicht automatisch gute Sicherheitspolitiker sind. Im Gegenteilig, man sucht nach dem, der ins Bild passt, vergeblich. Kein Macher weit und breit.

Die Welt des Hochimperialismus ist zurück. Wie praktisch, dass Hamburg gerade letztes Jahr seine koloniale Forschungsstelle aufflöste. Wer braucht schon krit. Auseinandersetzung mit Imperialismus, seinen Ursachen und Folgen, auch seiner globalen Katastrophe in den Weltkriegen?

Let me sum up the reaction of the German government: International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.

Guys the worst thing, the worst thing is that we are genuinely surrounded by people who do not believe there is such a thing as objective truth.

I am increasingly convicted that context is essential for any constructive resistance. Community is context. Memory is context. History is context. Culture is context. Context is human. It grounds us and orients us, defends us from the "apocalyptic erasure" of neoliberal shock therapy and fascism.

The only proper European reactions to US aggression in #Venezuela is coming from people without influence. It's sickening.

Meine Meinung zu #Venezuela:

Jetzt wird die rechtsextreme Friedensnobelpreiträgerin ohne Wahl installiert werden. Wenn die Realität sich wie platteste Antiimp-Vorstellung verhält.

Wow, those perfidious drug boats managed to drag themselves quite far inland

If you make the environment so it better suits your enemy, you're helping them.

We're lucky that there are all these asymmetric warfare things that would knock us on our ass with China due to inexperience, but Russia just flails around doing those things with no larger plan just because it can do them, giving us actual case studies to learn from and develop some TTPs.

Der zweite Satz macht eigentlich schon einen Stricht drunter. Solange der Kreml sich inhaltlich nicht bewegen will, wird es keinen Frieden geben. In (entmoralisierten) Spieltheorie-Begriffen: Der Unterschied der akzeptablen Kriegsergebnisse der Parteien ist noch zu groß.

"Verbot und Strafe als letzte verfügbare Mittel einer zerfallenden Gesellschaft", Kiepenheuer&Witsch, 2030, wenn ich Lust habe

it is probably worth noting that any serious attempt to reprepare liberalism for the world of today (which as a social democrat I am critically in favour of, because coalitions have to be made with somebody) should probably refrain from overvenerating its 19th century incarnations

Immer wieder wild

Excising imperial attitude from national culture is a difficult, often nasty business. Worth noting: insofar it succeeded after ww2 (it has, to some degree), Germany went through that process at the hands of some fellow imperial cultures. (1/2)

Basement dwelling Internet nazis are not generally known as intellectual titans.

"Waiter, one destructive creativity of the capital, easy on the creativity." "Your neoliberalism will be right out."

They're also colored by an absurd lack of knowledge a lot of the time. Centuries of fanatical propaganda have done their job.

I've actually seen a tankie account, been a while

Geopolitics in 2026 will be the world beginning to grasp how weak a US leadership is that is good at campaigning but comically inept at governing and how fragile a Chinese leadership is that is good at power consolidation but blinkeredly bad at sustainable domestic stability

Do not repost. The supernatural sleigh-capable interceptor inventory is highly sensitive information.

If you study one genre of history and ignore every other one, willfully, you aren't studying, you're a hobbyist, and that's nice, and Barnes & Noble has a stack for you, where the authors are more clever than you are and engaged in more fields of history to write the book you think doesn't.

Targeting a religious gathering because you believe that all Jewish people are responsible for the actions of the state of Israel is center-mass antisemitism.

Wir müssen in Deutschland insgesamt mehr die Fresse halten.

The preponderance of evidence is that the President of the United States likes to fuck little girls. I honestly don't know what to do with that.

Facts don't speak for themselves, what words mean isn't 'defined' in books, and we don't think about the 'meaning of life'.

The Russian lexicon is like that. Words literally mean (for any reasonable definition of 'meaning') different things. Fascism = any attitude opposed to the Russian Empire. Respect = submission Nationalism (in CEE) = you don't wanna be Russian despite Vova saying you are