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chairman of the overseas committee for the promotion and defence of british interests | fervent nanny-statist | new jersey chauvinist | aesthetic austerian
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thanks i was already planning on it

gonna have to say it: the mere reminder that i share the same society as the author of a piece like this, or anybody mentioned inside this piece, makes me want to crawl into a hole and die

Polarization is the product of information, not misinformation. The least politically aware now see major differences between the parties at the level that only the most involved did in the 1970s--because the parties have drawn much clearer distinctions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

AfD sort of the same position the FN were in the late Panzerdaddy era, which is not very inspiring but hard to see how they get up to the level FN are in now.

People always like to take opinion poll and exit poll results like these and go 'oh the youth are going in X direction' but frankly I think the tendency of young people just to vote against whatever's in power is oft underestimated. The collapse in Green and FDP scores here is a good example of that

🇩🇪🗳️ Le vote des... : ➡️ Cols bleus 🔵 AfD 37 ⚫ CDU-CSU 22 🔴 SPD 12 🟣 Linke 8 ➡️ Cols blancs ⚫ CDU-CSU 27 🔵 AfD 20 🟢Grünen 15 🔴 SPD 14 🟣 Linke 9 ➡️ Indépendants ⚫ CDU-CSU 35 🔵 AfD 19 🟢 Grünen 16 🟡 FDP 10 ➡️ Retraités ⚫ CDU-CSU 40 🔴 SPD 24 🔵 AfD 12 🟢 Grünen 10

as an rpf enjoyer the political rpf on ao3 are not delivering like they used to given the intensity of current events. (where is the chris murphy content.)

the actual lesson isn't really that the CDU/CSU or SPD chased the 'wrong' type of voter it's that there's waning demand for Volksparteien as a category of parties

🗳️ Les principaux enjeux pour les électeurs : Immigration : 44% (+33) Economie : 36% (+30) Environnement 18% (-29)

saw some discourse on hockey being expensive yesterday and now discourse about the arts being full of posh people today and it reminds me that actually i don't know how one would even construct a system where paid-in-prestige and/or high-investment-high-risk industries aren't dominated by the rich

luigi cheerers are fundamentally a minority they can't see bc they think there is a silent majority against the status quo. this is not true if you pit any particular alternative vision against the status quo bc in fact the status quo benefits a lot of americans.

People celebrate Luigi Mangione for essentially the same reason people celebrate Daniel Penny and the society that produces the former will produce a lot more of the latter.

just realised henry viii was just the original catholic convert for social teaching disagreements

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

VIBECESSION VIBECESSION VIBECESSION

really want to check out what a presbyterian service looks like

right wing ideal male body type is gonna be bigballs next