A political compass in the style of that Macron quotes compass but it's Franjo Tuđman quotes instead

žiūriu per jūtūbą ale Neišspręstus istorijos ginčus ir varge vargeli, bet kaip aš tos Nerijos Putinaitės nekenčiu :)

I would really like some of you to stop speaking on behalf of an identity group you belong to when you are having what is a "no, it's just you" reaction.

You know, it strikes me that this particular form of discourse I have /only/ ever seen happen in English.

i actually have exactly no opinion on the prospective dissolution or lack thereof of the kingdom of spain in and of itself but, and i cannot stress this enough: if we here in scotland never heard from separatist "brothers and sisters" in iberia again that would genuinely be good for us

lemme sum up the Outside World's reaction to the independence movement "oh, how cute"

by the way this is so properly delulu. why are so many people in the scottish independence movement actually delusional about how the world outside the UK looks at them? i am a Nat and an immigrant and i am telling you honestly that they will always, /always/ treat it as an internal UK matter

uncritical support to this thesis

We're headed for a year when a decent chunk of the Russian economy will be optimized straight into the void.

kingly post

Given the high levels of alcohol consumption in modern Eastern Europe, what would be the synthesis here? That the two finest forms of social order worldwide were Soviet socialism and post-Soviet neoliberalism?

My favourite thing about this paragraph is that Hoyer misattributes this to the wrong Thomas Kochan. She's claiming that Kochan is an American management professor at MIT. That's not him though - the actual author is a German schnapps salesman (and, fair enough, an historian) from Cottbus.

what sane person would describe 2015 twitter as anything other than objectively horrible

i will admit that Trump talking about Leaving NATO gives me the same vibes as Brexit did. ok? take your toys and go then, you fucking worm?

him actually extrajudicially /leaving/ (i.e. declaring that America considers itself no longer a party to the treaty) would actually imo be better for nato than him staying in and becoming a tedious obstructionist

put chen jiongming back in the material world, he wasn't done yet

every time i see an argument of this ilk in basically any context i just sort of panic laugh. it's a religious assertion (the religion being a generalised attack on popular democracy) masquerading as common sense

Yes, I basically think that's an illegitimate choice. A democratic mode of government is not an option or a choice, it is a /right/ that you cannot deny to your fellow citizens even if only a minority of them actively desire it.

the book i'm reading on chiang just now is very good /as a historical work/ (genuinely meticulous etc) and also the author is so weird. he keeps intervening with entirely subjective commentary going BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO SAY HOW SOMEONE COULD TRANSFORM CHINA WITHOUT DICTATORSHIP.

Random thing as well, but you know, when I was a kid and I read about figures that, shall we say, fit into a Bonapartist mold (i.e. they helped overthrow a monarchy and then installed themselves as dictator anyway) I actually usually sympathised with them /less/ than the ancient regime

it is unfortunate but people like having fun

"Grok should be up to speed right" What? When has it ever been

Saw your boyfriend had a former life

I assume people have already made the joke that given he's French there is also almost certainly a mistress sandwich too

The lede here is also that she's a huge LLM-head now, which is very funny.

Might develop the position of being agnostic on all supernatural things that /could/ be real, just to feel something.

I love what a blatant crime this is. They really just Stole A Bunch Of Cash that belongs to another government.

i find it really quiiiiiite disturbing that kanye is just... regarded as normal again now

this is now an appreciation post for academics, graph-fuckers, general nerds, and everyone who still provides politically relevant information for Actual Fucking Adults instead of manchildren

By the way while we're building a theory of how Americans (not America; you) ruined the world, you have also completely perverted the conversation about "civility."

Yeah like I don't have a formal diagnosis of OCD but all I can say is that lads, I'm being absolutely honest here, there is no chance I don't have it. If you go through the symptoms list I have all of them.

Personally what pisses me off the most about breathless defence of the We Like Edgy Humour But Leftistly podcaster class is the way people talk about it like it is literally impossible to appeal to young men without these people, because I am a young man and I hate their entire presentation.

You know what, I'm just gonna say it: this is nonsense, because I am goddamned allowed to hate whoever I wish

East Germany apologists have to be the funniest. Lads they had to literally build a wall to keep the population in

why must y’all do this

I am now imagining the reverse where some poor Slovakian man is crying as Labour Together hacks shout at him explaining why having a purple sofa means you aren't a hero voter

Gameshow idea: you send a couple dozen Westerners to Eastern Europe and force them to join Eastern European political parties. The last one to refuse to quit wins a giant cash prize

I know it's relatively minor in the grand scheme of things but there's something incredibly unsettling about someone using the squishy tumblr cadence to calmly and politely tell you your friends need to suffer because it will bring about the downfall of American empire

All the “Don‘t expect Péter Magyar to be a trans ally” articles seem a little silly imo. I don’t think anyone with even a passing interest in Hungarian politics is expecting him to be Pedro Sanchez. The bar is several feet underground here.

The primary rule I would like to impolitely ask you all to subscribe to when visiting me on this hellsite is to simply argue for or against what I am actually saying instead of what you would prefer to argue for or against

By the way, also worth noting Stats for Lefties said "you have no right to colonise Palestine" to me, a person whose grand total complicity in that project is being sometimes lax with BDS until I remember not to be

It's so good how a lady who can't read runs a statistics page

I don't really believe in anyone's right to declare me a racist for having the audacity to believe in both these things.

waow (based based based based)

i like this fella

hey did you all know that there exists a movement of hardalim for a binational state

This is actually so good for many reasons but the key one is that, and I cannot stress this enough, literally no one except the Canaanists has ever considered themselves a "Semite."

ok so you literally dont even know what is in the actual text of the motion you are decrying all opponents of as zionists

every time a car owner tells me they need their car i become a proponent of banning them altogether 1% more unironically