homegirl has the facts on the ground, begging her to stop choking them

Anyway really cool they have to try justifying the Insurrection Act because people are pouring water on the ground.

"Militech against weapon export regulations"

"Police officers who use their sidearm in the exercise of these duties will enjoy my support, irrespective of the outcome of the use of force. Officers who fail to make use of their weapon out of a false reticence, should expect disciplinary action.” - Hermann Göring, February 17, 1933

Lässt sich problemlos auf alle umfelder umdichten.

Ve're only keeping it safe for Denmark, alles klar?

we sure are in a dynamic situation. blanket assessments are doomed to fail in such circumstances.

Aber "härtere Strafen" ist nunmal die einzige Maßnahme, für die eine Einigungschance immer besteht, weil Stafrecht eben wesentlich ein rituelles Unternehmen ist.

Institutions are never enough.

Ich habe gerade einen Gedanken mit "Rache würde ja nur Sinn ergeben, wenn...." angefange und ihn dann abgebrochen.

I distinctly remember Americans with great skepticism of the whole DHS structure, especially ICE recruiting on the far right. Far-left idiots, I'm sure.

love it

...which is why 'go outside and talk to someone' is highly political and very important.

At his peak as a QB, it was a *gift* to see him play. Then he became the posterboy for two very important lessons: 1. Don't stay in spaces where you're the smartest person. 2. Be circumspect about your drug use.

A) "We want the state to guarantee our success but also be lauded as ✨wealth creators✨" B) Turns out among the greatest investment enablers is the rule of law.

If you like democracy in Europe, imho you must be for: 1. Strict regulation of all social media algorithms. 2. Rapid establishment of deterrence re: Russia. 3. Ruthless reversal of wealth and income polarization. Conventional position clusters will break, or democracy will.

Die Altkommis waren sogar in der an politischen Absonderlichkeiten nicht armen linksradikalen Szene der peinliche Onkel.

What you see here is the regime trying to prepare the populace for more killings. They are trying to normalise the killing of protesters not aligned with their fascist political project. That’s what this is.

Das "Innenministergehirn" ist nicht (nur) Paranoia und ideologischer Reflex. In der Sache wichtiger dürfte eine universelle, aber absurde Gleichsetzung sein: Die von Strafverfolgung und Sicherheit. Sie hat eine unglaubliche "Als-ob"-haftigkeit in den deutschen Sicherheitsdiskurs gebracht.

🇩🇪🇺🇸 Just 15% of Germans consider the US a trusted partner — the lowest percentage in this ARD survey's history. At least that's higher than the 9% of Germans who trust Russia?

There's an old lullaby here one of whose many versions include the verse "pray, pray, tomorrow the Swede is coming" (bet, bet, morgen kommt der Schwed'). It's not that Europeans as such are more peaceful than Americans. We just completed the game and decided that yeah, that's probably enough.

The only time journalists get nuanced about violence is when it's a uniform committing it. The tradition holds.

Some Americans seem to be using "socialism" in an analog fashion to how some Russians use "fascism": It is that which opposes their empire.

"Explaining this does not require abandoning concern for the international rules-based system. It requires intellectual honesty." So much comes back to that, so often.

Who Gets to Explain Venezuela?: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/01/06/who-gets-to-explain-venezuela/

So here we have, Pt. 2

Mein Fazit:

Indiscriminate state or terroristic violence is meant to disorient as well as terrify, to make us lose sense of what's actually happening Check in with your people and your principles. Keep your eyes wide open.

the radical position is fun to think about too tho

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"