A broad popular front against fascism means a broad popular front against fascism, not “I’ll only oppose fascism if I get what I want out of it.” A lot of leftists are hit dogs hollering on this because Liz fucking Cheney got that and they still don’t.

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I won't believe there is a deal until I see Ben Gvir killing it

can see meat packing plant owner going on fox news to cry for trump to stop deporting his workers or something

Jeg titta litt på tilskuersnitt og årsmøte-stemmer Mot-klubbene hadde et samla tilskuersnitt på 113 678 For-klubbene hadde 26 983 Årsmøtestemmer var litt vanskeligere. Jeg mangler VIF, Aafk og Åsane (gi gjerne lyd om noen finner). Men interessant uansett: Ganske overveldende tall

American journalism created a Watergate-infused culture of uncovering malfeasance that politicians were trying to hide — call it “Deep Throat syndrome”. Trump realized that “it’s not the crime, it’s the coverup” actually means that, if there’s no coverup, then it can’t be a crime.

It had to become, this positions was vacant, apparently.

At best they’re indifferent, on average they they view this as a necessary procedure to “bring Ukraine back to mother russia”, next question

I know we're rightfully yelling at the Biden admin but we also need to bring up how they just discuss this shit with journalists who sit on it for book deals while the "anonymous source due to the sensitive nature of this topic" leaks Ukrainian magazine depth and NYT immediately reports it

"Dette er også hovedårsaken til at vi ønsker å møtes fysisk"

I've also encountered a big issue with the consistency of definitions of disinformation and misinformation, which are used interchangeably, which has allowed bad actors to exploit the confusion for their own ends. I've been using the definitions as per Claire Wardle's work:

My personal opinion is this is at least partly fuelled by a fundamental error in the approach in the counter-disinformation on focusing on foreign actors rather than treating information disorder as a societal issue. An extensive piece on that to come.

Noterer meg at det er mer enn bare de demokratiske spillereglene de nordpå ikke har helt kontroll på for tida?

Duss was a cowardly Chomsky fanboying moron pre-2016. Another moron hire inflicted on us by Bernie, which is his entire career resume

the Ukrainian parliament has just recognized the Circassian genocide committed by russia in 1863-1878. it is one of the worst colonial crimes in human history that made 98% of Circassians refugees, massacred 2 million and erased Circassia, one of Europe’s oldest states.

Well. I just saw the worst possible post on this site. FFS, dude.

Det er mulig jeg er fryktelig hard her nå, men jeg mener det begynner å bli naturlig å sammenligne dette med andre svake demokratiske systemer Narrativer som "demokrati er bra, men...", eller tanker om at man i en maktposisjon vet så mye bedre og er så viktige er relativt vanlig, mange steder

Holy Jesus, “paywalls for relevant evacuation info from fast moving deadly disasters” has been my worst nightmare for over a decade…and here we are

The "subaltern studies/history from below" approach really needs to be incorporated into every single department that covers empires of any kind

Ukrainians talk a lot about "decolonizing Russia studies" and westerners eye roll at it but this is what they're talking about because basically every single guy newsrooms hire to cover Eastern Europe is a russophile shit out by these programs with the expected biases and blind spots

If you look up "Central Asian Studies" you will find departments but if you look a little closer, you'll almost always find that they're a subsection of the Russia studies department because these people believe study of that region cannot stand on its own

For the Slavic studies thing, it is genuinely a problem how "slavic" is used interchangeably with "Russian" and that warps the people these departments attract and the kind of priorities they establish because if you're studying something that was once part of the Russian empire, it's shoved there

When Russia does something bad, it's a cornered dog, It's doing it out of fear. It's for deterrence, and it was forced to do it. When we even contemplate responding in kind, it's highly escalatory, reckless, and shortsighted.

Fukuyama predicted this! (Not even joking - this is the Last Man part of the "The End of History and the Last Man")

One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.

"Why Restraint With Russia Won't Work: Only by imposing real costs on Russian malfeasance can the West expect to prevent further escalation." nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wh...

The really insane thing here, the russian government seems to genuinely believe that governments like those of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Czechia, are controlled by the Americans and have no capacity for independent decision-making.

Historien forteller vel at klubbledere har gjort akkurat som de ville i mange år og nydt godt av passiviteten. Når først noen begynner å bryr seg er det et problem. Slik snakker autoritære ledere.

Jeg setter veldig, veldig lite pris på at forskningsliteratur om autokratisering fremstår mer og mer relevant for norsk fotball

For those who don't know the significance of Hama falling to the rebels, this was Hama in 2011, when millions rose against Assad. They were quickly silenced by Assad's killing machine, these are the people who have just been liberated and this marks the end of the Assad regime.

My grandfather, a lifelong socialist who lost everything for the cause in the McCarthy era, told me that the working people couldn't have it both ways: we are either helpless or we are powerful. We cannot switch between the two at our convenience.

"Se for dere reaksjonene om" og så videre. 9500+ drone-angrep på Kherson og omegn siden juli i år. Den samme byen ble oversvømt da de ødela Nova Kakhovka-demningen Reaksjonene? Ikke noe å være spesielt stolte av. Noen gode reportasjer, og lite annet

I think lying to them that they are uwu smol beans instead of sovereign citizens that can at any point take responsibility for changing their country is unethical, misleading, and even evil. I'm for a left of standing up, not a left of whining.

Here’s the thing: if Biden pardoned his son because he’s scared that Trump will turn the federal government into MAGA Gestapo, that’s actually kinda fair. But: IT ALSO OBLIGATES HIM TO DO MORE THAN PARDON HIS SON. He needs to fight the transition to the utmost!

The degree to which a presidential pardon has become a top news story really evidences the enduring relevance of agenda setting theory, i.e. that the media does not tell us what to think, but they are remarkably good at telling us what to think about.

Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

This held up.

Guess what is the first thing the Assad regime did after it lost Aleppo? They bombed a hospital in Aleppo.

Whoooole lotta accounts that got popular in the last 13 months are about to put their 2015 'that hospital was full of terrorists' hats back on.

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Lately every single polisci related lecture in ukrainian universities just slides into 1,5 hours of collective dooming on global injustice

Average polisci lecture in ukraine (there’s no electricity and there’s an air raid but we gotta talk about the rules-based international order)

There’s no rule saying that the lies the far right is able to spread will only take hold if they’re one-half true or one-quarter true or whatever. There’s no way to build a national political party that literally never takes a position that can ever be attacked at any point in the future.

Like no one really wants to deal with the massive outrage-and-hallucination engine that we’ve hooked our society up to, so it would be really nice to assume Dems can defang it with smart policy positioning or rhetorical positioning or whatever, and win elections anyway. But they just can’t!

Instead of brownshirts, the 21st century has internet mobs edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

This is why Ukraine refuses to compromise on giving up territory. Russia doesn’t treat the residents as human. Ukraine knows what happens. They’ve occupied Crimea for ten years. We can all see it. They are not going to stop killing Ukrainians just because they were forced to take Russian passports.

Back in 2018, serious analysts of Eastern European security knew perfectly well how dangerous and misguided Angela Merkel and her ruling coalition were. This wasn't something that was discovered in February 2022. We knew she was wrong. The critique was there. jamestown.org/program/puti...