My God, the Weather Underground were disgusting people "How could I possibly support a man who was amass murderer and a racist?" - because he was freaking out the pigs and squares, maaaan, and that's how all Red-Brown degeneration happens www.c-span.org/clip/in-dept...

"The myth of Barrett the Incapacitated comes primarily from his refusal to re-enter the music industry... The idea Barrett didn’t want to go back to something which caused him so much pain never occurs" vaticidalprophet.wordpress.com/2020/03/18/h...

Literally 100% of this crisis with Platner was caused by Yankland progressives convincing themselves the left is too girly now. Maybe deinternalise that thought at last.

Can Nigel Farage actually kill himself with laxative pills?

Kudos for showing accountability

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

You laugh, but it may be happening www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSTM...

NZL 1 - 5 BEL USA 1 - 4 BEL Conclusion: the All Whites will hold their own next time the USMNT come calling

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Absolutely true. I can't be an electoral politician because my authenticity is alternating between being wooden and stiff and talking IRL like I do on Bluesky, and no voter wants any of that

I just realised with a shudder that this means Donald Trump is to thank for New Zealand's only point of the tournament :(

The only thing that surprises me about the Platner debacle is how his polls cratered *before* this happened. A good thing because only that makes it possible to push him out. But it's someone noone predicted - except the Mills deadenders. The rest of us thought he'd roll Collins despite everything

Is there a word for the feeling you get when someone you like and admire has blocked you and you have no idea why? 🙁 Elizabeth Sandifer in my case

HAHAHAHAHA Oh god, it's too on the nose that Jacobin's cheerleading for Platner is given to Branko Marcetic, darling of the NZ podcast Left, Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin's strongest soldier <3 bsky.app/profile/jaco...

Yeah, so, anyone checked in with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social lately

Absolutely not true. Platner can withdraw, and the party can replace him, any time before July 15. If there are credible sexual violence accusations (IF!) this must happen.

It's worse than I thought. Half the apparent US Leftists and liberals on my feed are literally cheering for an act of Trump corruption now. When Argentina won it in 1978 it was a lifesaver for the dictatorship. Orwell knew that Victory was an addictive drug that teaches you to love Big Brother

that's right

Is it possible for the USA to face England in the final? Because that would be the most soul-destroying outcome for the rest of the world. Sorry USA fans but if you win this Trump gains 10 points in the polls

It suddenly strikes me that the way the Right talks about "liberals", queers or migrants is structurally the same as how they've historically talked about Jews, and that includes the Zionist/philosemitic Right

20 year old Kate Bush had to arm-wrestle the record company over this choice; they wanted James And The Cold Gun to be the first single. (Have you heard that one? Give it a listen and tell me what you think, if not)

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

This is problematic reporting. Wagenknecht may once have been a figure of the (Stalinist) far left, but she’s long since left it, literally leaving Die Linke (the Left Party) to create a right wing crossover party, so BSW allying with the far right isn’t news and not a “horseshoe” move.

Amid the fuel crisis, Russians have started saying some interesting things. They still insist, of course, that they're not to blame for anything.

The Cradle of the Best and of the Worst (L. Cohen) www.liberalcurrents.com/america-is-b...

Yeah. In the case of New Zealand, London didn't *want* the white settlers to run amok and steal land and start wars, but they couldn't/wouldn't do much about it when it happened

Instead of "sex-class" : "gender-caste". Is this anything?

also notable that so many cults themselves love Trump. Someone called Trumpism a Cult of Cults and I think about that a lot now

What the fuck No, seriously, what the fuck David Gilmour's wife is 100% correct over which way this guy has gone

If you see yourself as a Western Leninist, you *have* to believe that something fundamentally changed in Russia 1991, that there was a civil war and change in the ruling class, denying the evidence. Bring back the old Maoists who think the Soviet Union went capitalist in 1953

People on the Pink Floyd groups keep yelling at me when I point out that Mad Rog is totally cooked. It's like the reverse of Zionists calling you an antisemite, because Rog is against Israel that means you can't point out that his opinion on everything else is deranged

We had better catch up to this in this country too, we don't want anyone else to face the bulldozer that Ben Doyle did

These guys invented it

SSPX priests who want to get their excommunication lifted have to *handwrite a letter to the Pope* apologizing and promising not to talk shit about Vatican II anymore Pope Leo aka Chicago Bob ain't playing

I legitimately saw a leading Left-wing activist in New Zealand say these near-precise words on Facebook last week and only got mild pushback And then he went on to castigate his fellow socialists as latte-swilling elites

Inshallah, but seriously though mister Allah

"it’s not just about trans people's dignity, it’s also about the dignity of 'real' women and girls.” "it’s not just about the dignity of people who need housing, it’s also about the dignity of existing homeowners who have had their neighbourhoods upended.” www.wonkette.com/p/jd-vance-h...

Gonna run for congress on a platform of "I have dreams about Serbia. I revere Serbia. Serbia has a right to exist as a Serbian nation. First country I visit will be Serbia. The Bay Area is the Belgrade of the United States. No I'm not Serbian." and then absolutely fucking crash out when i don't win

The funny thing is that this is word-for-word the reaction from most of the liberal Left, with the valences switched

This is just Malthusianism this isn’t socialism. Socialism is “homeless near a thousand homes I stood; and near a thousand tables, pined and wanted food.”

"Working Class / Blue Collar" are now gender pronouns for abusive assholes.

education polarization continues to break brains, primarily because "worker" is defined as non-college employees

Not a great sign for the reformed Alliance that they're promoting a public meeting with Matt Robson - a former Alliance cabinet minister who split from the party with Jim Anderton, to *support* sending troops to Afghanistan post-9/11 I mean, I thought they wanted to pose as *left* of the Greens

If TOP really is a huge conspiracy by ex-Labour and ex-Green politicians to nobble the Greens, then they're doing a terrible job, because the Greens are currently polling at near-record levels lol

That's unironically how "movement justice" works in a lot of situations: you willingly walk the plank if "The Party/Movement" decides you have to, even if you did nothing wrong, because it shows "humility and dedication to the movement".

I mean, absolutely, that's inarguable, but a certain kind of American liberal gets VERY upset about that "The colonisers are a majority now so finders keepers" is actually not a very liberal thing to say. So is "some independence activists have wacky politics so their cause is invalidated"