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submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

submitted 1 day ago • 641 comments

This is why isolationist nationalism is inherently imperialist - because no country has all the resources it needs. Since an isolationist nationalist regime does not want to rely on allies and trade partners to get the resources it lacks, it feels compelled to try to secure them with conquest.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If you watch archival footage of like Bernadette Devlin on panels with the most obnoxious smug British twats you could imagine it's enough to make you want to invent a time machine just slap them. Strikes me how similar it is to how US Republicans, or even the NYT, talk about other countries today.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I've mentioned this before, but a democratic system being overthrown endogenously from the left, while not unheard of, is rare. Left-wing dictatorships typically replace other dictatorships or are imposed from outside. By contrast, right-wing dictatorships overthrowing democracies is quite common.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

My biggest worry is if Ukraine digs in, the administration starts floating sanctions against Ukraine or other forms of pressure…because If I were Zelensky I wouldn’t even bother picking up the phone

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Scholz, sees a challenge: but what if instead we did nothing?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Europe doesn't need any more wake-up calls. It's awake. It's just very comfortable in its warm bed and procrastinating on getting up in the hopes something turns up to magically take care of all the chores it knows it should be getting on with.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

government officials in the Idiocracy future, when informed that Brawndo was killing the crops, took decisive action to change policy. In this sense the film was a techno optimist work of art actually

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/crossr...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

As Bernard Woolley so rightly said, “red tape holds the nation together.” Or, if you prefer “administration saves the nation.”

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

also you do not have to think like a political operative, you aren't one and honestly most political operatives are wrong about stuff, just care about what you care about and care loudly

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

There is only one state in North America that has won all of its wars. It’s not the one that arrives late, either.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I think a lesson well meaning western politicians are learning far too slowly in this era of vibes, social media and apathy is that being too slow and careful is just as dangerous and expensive as being recklessly impulsive. Sometimes good politics has to risk being bold and fast too.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

From the 1956 Suez Crisis France and UK drew opposing lessons: London hitched its star to the ‘special relationship’. Paris determined the US was not to be trusted. This has been at the root of European disunity on security/defence ever since. Evidement, Paris avait raison depuis le début

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments

As much as I can understand the outrage over Hegseth's and Trump's statements: None of this really comes as a surprise, does it? To me, it is a scandal how unprepared we are in Europe for what‘s happening.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

You know, I'm having redbush tea, enjoying incense, making shortbread. I should be relaxing, instead of scrolling on my feed of terribleness.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇪🇺 Democratic Europe now has 3 to 5 years to prepare before Russia regenerates enough to go west. The clock is ticking.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

I’m nobody’s idea of a normal person but in the last year I’ve gone from “pragmatic atlanticist” to “europe must forge our own path free from the shackles of yankee tyranny”. Vive l'Europe. Je suis français.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

The impulse to say "the economy can't be good if some people aren't doing well" and "no policy can be implemented if someone is inconvenienced by it" come from the same place of insisting that there aren't trade offs in the world and are both pretty toxic to understanding and fixing problems.

submitted 11 days ago • 22 comments