there was a drive towards giving DPRK a bloody nose strike that got slow rolled by Mattis @mikeblack114.bsky.social do you have more links? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Said Anglophillia was a) responsible for why the Dixiecrats were so pro-Allied in both World Wars and b) was generally regarded as really weird by actual British people, particularly those who visited the South.

I've been pretty critical of the left, but this guy's entire schtick seems to be that there were no fundamental problems with American (or European) society and economy circa 2015 and everything would be Fine if the left just shut up and we just copied Bill Clinton.

Person who hasn't updated understanding of economic geography since 1950 award.

The UNCF would probably not like that it's self appointed advocates are bigoted morons.

Fascinating data.

>Wins Democratic primary, then wins general against a splinter Dem candidate >"Sure as hell aren't democrats"

You openly say things far worse than anything Platner's ever said:

The biggest "issue" is that Bernie Sanders is personally popular in Vermont. Bernie would just comfortably win a majority of the vote in a three way race.

The response -- primarily from academics -- to the Mellon piece confirms for me that we really lack the language to talk about the politics of when formerly marginalized fields of study become hegemonic in elite spaces/institutions.

I think a lot of academics seem to have trouble distinguishing between certain groups/people and their cultural production being marginalized in society and the study of those groups/people being marginalized within humanities academia.

Breaking News: Ten people were killed and about 25 were hurt in a shooting at a high school and at a home in British Columbia, Canada, according to the police.

this is just a statement of fact? SDL is right?

Sub-80 IQ moron who can't distinguish between voter registration and paid membership. DSA is fundamentally a pressure group within the Democratic Party and don't work like American political parties do.

Sub-80 IQ moron who can't distinguish between voter registration and paid membership. DSA is fundamentally a pressure group within the Democratic Party and don't work like American political parties do.

it's funny how Canadian nationalism is Liberal/NDP coded

The young are for Takaichi. I think that's really the story.

The only person who seemed able to remain relatively popular and keep the LDP winning elections for 8 years was Abe. And he kept nurturing Takaichi, which people thought was an odd move. Yet now she's quite popular and, if she does well in the election, Abe's gamble starts looking pretty good.

Japan is a typical, developed democracy. Elections take place in an environment where the general public have a range of political parties to choose from, operating in a pluralistic media landscape, with totally free, secret ballots, after which the LDP win.

Japan, NHK: Seat projection national parliament LDP (Conservative): 274-350 (+121) CRA (Centre): 37-91 (-108) Ishin (Libertarian): 28-38 (-5) DPP (Centre-right): 18-35 (-1.5) Sansei (Right): 9-16 (+9.5) Mirai (Centre): 8-12 (+10) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ asiaelects.com/japan

It's hard to have strong feelings about this because saying Hilary was to the right of trump was stupid (even in 2016) but Hilary really did run a very bad campaign and bears a lot of blame for trump getting elected

Which blue-collar workers enjoyed a 25% increase in real wages over the length of the neoliberal globalization epoch, so let's say, from Reagan to COVID?

After the Pretti shooting, one of those guys straight-up suckerpunched me for “filming faces”… as I filmed him and fully-masked friends lighting fires directly in front of the dozens of gathered press crews. Nonsensical; just dudes wanting someone to give them a reason. Not that different from ICE.

Yeah no. Don’t set random fires in my neighborhood. People live here actually

Patriots.

obama was probably the best president of our lifetime and biden the second which honestly says something about the current bar

Working on Book 2 research today, and it strikes me that the most messed up part of leftist reactions to 9/11 as treating it as an act of protest against neoliberalism, which effectively cast Al Qaeda as a spokes-organization of the Global South. Here's sociologist Saskia Sassen from 9/12:

These are the funniest takes since it assumes there was a functional American left prior to 2015.

That's not what will happen lol. Trump will use it as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and promptly deploy NG and federal troops to squash the rioting with extreme brutality. Also the idea that wholesome chungus rioters will only torch property and not harm random people is quite amusing.

You’ll never believe it but the 2020 riots destroyed far, far more than one police station.

i keep thinking about how Trump openly admitted to saying that the Guard should have stolen voting machines in 2020 after he lost in an interview this year whatever happens is going to make Yoon Yuk-Seol look like a genius in comparison

Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️

prediction: Trump is going to either explicitly endorse the Alberta separatists in the next two weeks or double down on the "Canada as a Chinese proxy" claim

The Bush era anti-war movement had many flaws, including deep parochialism, but unlike liberal hawks, it never deluded itself about the nature of the institutions that would be trying to impose democracy on Iraq and Afghanistan. Total vindication by history imo...

"If you had predicted this in 2024, they would have said you have Trump derangement syndrome" is true, but a bit trite. But almost all this is downstream of America's reaction to 9/11, including the creation of ICE and DHS, and if you said this would be the consequences back in 2002, well....

BREAKING: The Minneapolis Police Chief says of the shooting victim: "Based on the information that we have, which is very limited, this is a 37-year-old white male who is a Minneapolis resident." He adds: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

1. Reforming (never mind abolishing) pensions is pretty much the most politically difficult thing any government does. Not even a dictatorship has really succeeded in doing it (Chile under Pinochet is only somewhat of a counter-example but that system is gone now too).

if you look at the Japanese voter demos of younger voters, this is unfortunately true (DPFP/Sanseito/Reiwa/etc)

yeah. weirdly the UK and the US are the two major places where boomer rightism is pulling the polity right while elsewhere it's the opposite

It's a tad more complex than this, I think. In the US it's upper Gen X/lower boomers who are most right-wing, in France it's lower Gen X/upper millennials (18-30s in France are the most *left-wing* group). Only in the UK does there seem to be that linear relationship between age and RW views.

That's Right

E.g. they shifted to viewing Shinzo Abe's NSL reform as constitutional which is a huge, huge shift if both the LDP and the CRA (CDP/Komeito merge party) both think a more active Japanese defense policy is required www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

"Somehow the John Birth Society returned"

This sort of stuff reminds me of a lot of the Brexit process, you know? It doesn’t matter if it’s for a domestic audience or not, other people do have agency. I am one of the frankly hundreds of people who live outside the United States of America but can read English.

i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

This is obviously complete nonsense. The man supported intervention in Kosovo!

one thing to keep an eye on is what the CDP/Komeito merger looks like on Japanese defense politics, because CDP (pre-merger) seemed like it was moving in the direction of thinking about defense more seriously

this is the dumbest diplomatic crisis of my life