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the answer to this sort of insipid bullshit is always to shift focus to the politicians failing to reach those voters. the democrats could have won, laughably easily, with different tactics. they could have not sent bombs to be dropped on kids for a year, for a start. but they didn't want to change

Si jamais le salut nazi d’Elon Musk ne suffisait pas à clarifier la situation : Trump vient de gracier +1500 militants d’ext-droite, dont des milices néo-nazies en armes, qui avaient attaqué le capitole en 2021. Les fascistes sont bien de retour, et il va falloir les balayer.

this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

La dissolution du Rassemblement National doit se poser sincèrement. Des élus ou candidats au cœur de tractations avec Daesh, d’autres liés à des attentats ou même directement auteurs d’attentats. Il est temps qu’on arrête le cirque généralisé dans ce pays.

i often end up talking past americans about their politics because it is hard to penetrate the desire for trump to be an anomaly that will eventually go away so that things can go back to 'normal.' when you say no, he is the norm, they think you're downplaying him, instead of condemning the norm

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

I've been in transit for much of the time people have been scouring Luigi Mangione's internet footprint, unpacking his manifesto, and analyzing his Goodreads. Very few of the takes I've seen seem to glean what strikes me as most salient in all this. Walk with me [thread]

Le travail médiatique, depuis des mois, pour expliquer que Macron est OBLIGÉ de négocier avec l'extrême droite est magnifique. Laisser la gauche gouverner ? Diantre ! Mais vous n'y pensez pas. Pour soutenir la lutte dessinée : ▶️ ko-fi.com/allanbarte

ben shapiro sounds like something a wizard says when he wants somewhere to sit down at the park

Audiobooks don't count as reading because nothing counts as reading because no one is counting