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Keir Starmer expresses regret for 'island of strangers' comment

I often think of the 2013 horse meat scandal, and how all these companies were aghast, asking who on earth had committed such subterfuge against the British food supply, only for the chain to be traced to a Romanian abattoir whose owner proudly declared, “Yes, I sell horse meat, that’s what I do.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing is one of the hardest songs of all time.

A few weeks back someone was asking how the US legal system could be so impotent and accommodating of the Trump admin's incursions, and at the time I was reading 'A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet'. This passage, about Chile's courts and judges, was instructive then, and resonates here.

The Democratic Party is staring down a crisis because it has wedded itself to the Israeli/Zionist paradigm in which Jews and Muslims exist in permanent, zero-sum competition with one another, with the former embodying liberal democracy and the latter violent, primitive fanaticism.

Counterpoint: Genocide Joe is a bad person (because being a person also implicates use of power) and he deserves The Hague

Keir Starmer expresses regret for 'island of strangers' comment

"We can't let New York City go backwards," says man so crooked he could have been rolled up in Rudy Giuliani's 1980s mob prosecutions

I often think of the 2013 horse meat scandal, and how all these companies were aghast, asking who on earth had committed such subterfuge against the British food supply, only for the chain to be traced to a Romanian abattoir whose owner proudly declared, “Yes, I sell horse meat, that’s what I do.”

2:12… going back for more compromise

AI evangelists might be the most vapid people society has ever produced.

It’s been a slow-burn reveal over decades, and for those affected it’s probably been clear for much longer, but in recent years it’s become patently clear that the Democratic Party and elite liberals fucking hate Muslims and are just too cowardly to say so clearly.

The difference between this and Nazi propaganda against Jews is that this is AI-generated.

The Democratic Party is staring down a crisis because it has wedded itself to the Israeli/Zionist paradigm in which Jews and Muslims exist in permanent, zero-sum competition with one another, with the former embodying liberal democracy and the latter violent, primitive fanaticism.