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Some things that I’m totally committed to and also totally understand how people find them incredibly off-putting: Christianity, Liberalism, Jazz Fusion, the EU, the state’s claim to monopoly on legitimate violence as such. Missionary kid.
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Man skulle tycka att det räckte.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Roti, kapla, aur makaan

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

To the Members of the Academy of the US Senate, for your consideration: An amendment available to be proposed to the Short Title of the House-passed reconciliation bill to strike and replace the word "Beautiful". #SRules

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

submitted 4 days ago • 156 comments

lol make sure to watch to the end.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Rhiannon Giddens ftw.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's too wide and too deep and too far from the shore, and too prone to seep and too prone to pour It's not quite transparent what's hidden below, and if you're a good parent, you won't let her go Oh, whatever you do – don't let your daughter near international water

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

submitted 9 days ago • 190 comments

Financial Times editorial on Israel, calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state www.ft.com/content/8856...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

A lot about this that is fascinating, not least what the two politicians involved thinks the “leopards eating faces” pertain to in this analogy.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

The consequences that befall Musk now that he's attacked Trump publicly will be a measure of how well the US fits the competitive authoritarian model. The more severe, the better the fit. I despise Musk, but for the sake of US democracy, I hope his punishment doesn't violate the rule of law.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw7P...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

submitted 14 days ago • 30 comments

Italy Women choosing to play Sweden in Parma, with its yellow and blue seats? Tactically naive

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

So glad to see “latent opinion” enter this conversation. And hear hear to “future opinion is downstream of” leaders’ actions (and non-actions)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Telegraph should surely now run an inquiry to find the mole on the subs-desk who is trying to bring the newspaper into disrepute with their work on its headlines www.telegraph.co.uk/money/earn-3...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely shocking. “A UK Special Forces officer personally rejected 1,585 resettlement applications from Afghans w/ credible links to special forces…MoD told the court the officer may have been connected to the ongoing inquiry into alleged war crimes” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Sleaze Theorem

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Is there a way to bet on both teams to lose this Europa League final?

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

submitted 28 days ago • 188 comments