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Girkin is an insane weirdo, but he seems to have a lucidity about reality the average vatnik nutjob doesn't.

farce to the tragedy of OG high modernism say what you want about the bolsheviks they at least turned russia into a global superpower, whereas musk seems hellbent on ending americas time as one

One big issue in modern Western democracies is that our elites have been conditioning us for four decades to think of ourselves as consumers primarily and citizens a distant second, if at all. So many of our political pathologies have this root cause.

George Orwell was so passionate about killing fascists that at the very first opportunity, he got on a boat to shoot them with a gun. Seeing internet Nazis share Orwell quotes when, like, Disney fires an actor for ranting about The Jews on Instagram is something I really wish would stop

Federal employee posting racial slurs under their real name so they can keep their job.

Reading a biography of Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five, and it struck me that a distinctive feature of the espionage world of the 1920s-50s or so is how literary it is. Lots of writers who became spies, and spies who became writers. That contributes to the air of fantasy about the whole affair

the hollywood standard for men going from like “modestly fit [well known actor in his late thirties]” to “a body fat percentage that puts you on the verge of death” is probably bad and underpins a lot of rw subcultures i think

i think we could have got a EU level organization between US, Canada, and Mexico going at some point. now?

The Bannonites will probably be purged sooner or later.

It's not just the 'having more money than is reasonable' it's the fact that allowing any individual that much clout and power to move whole economies is a threat to democracy.

The ability of social media to change people's minds on substantive issues just because of who was mean to them online really needs to be studied.

It's their own damn fault, their enemies just helped the process where they could

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You can put Telegraph in the same bracket as the Morning Star when it comes to prioritising the interests of foreign authoritarian regimes over British and European interests