Calliope
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Not the Greek muse, just a casual fan. I study the Third Reich. The demands to READ THEORY will continue until you have actually read Christopher Browning and Ian Kershaw.
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Selling out Ukraine to sell out Taiwan so he can get stabbed in the back over soybean sales that China already has new suppliers for.
“.. Japanese officials said the message was worrying: the president didn’t want friction over Taiwan to endanger a detente reached last month with Xi, which includes a promise to buy more agricultural products from American farmers ..”
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November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Selling out Ukraine to sell out Taiwan so he can get stabbed in the back over soybean sales that China already has new suppliers for.
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Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Right-wingers throw the term "civilizational suicide" around a lot
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
Well, cratering your economy by cutting your world-historically trade dependent country off from international circuits in pursuit of a mirage of Merry England, causing ppl to flee for a better life elsewhere, seems a textbook case
By "Third World Countries" I assume he means well-known Cold War neutrals such as Finland, Sweden, and Austria.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 AM
By "Third World Countries" I assume he means well-known Cold War neutrals such as Finland, Sweden, and Austria.
The British Empire is a dismembered corpse, torn apart because of its overweening arrogance and the cruelties it heaped upon its colonial subjects. US hegemony was built in explicit rejection of that form of imperial rule. This is quite simply one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The British Empire is a dismembered corpse, torn apart because of its overweening arrogance and the cruelties it heaped upon its colonial subjects. US hegemony was built in explicit rejection of that form of imperial rule. This is quite simply one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen.
Academia is run on shoestrings so tight it's a wonder they don't cut off the foot they're attached to. For the price of the name change at DoD ($2 billion) you could fund every assistant professorship in America and come out far richer for it. The humanities in particular are mind-breakingly cheap.
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Academia is run on shoestrings so tight it's a wonder they don't cut off the foot they're attached to. For the price of the name change at DoD ($2 billion) you could fund every assistant professorship in America and come out far richer for it. The humanities in particular are mind-breakingly cheap.
I'm pretty sure this is something most people learn in kindergarten. Possibly preschool. It's not some secret graduate school course.
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I'm pretty sure this is something most people learn in kindergarten. Possibly preschool. It's not some secret graduate school course.
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This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This might become my pet issue but it’s crazy how center left parties are hurting because they’re seen as the party of snobbish technocrats when the actual “experts” they go to are lawyers who think anesthesiology and TV manufacturing have seen similar productivity growth
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separate from anything about the specific dumb shit the NSA was doing on Americans he also just happened to burn basically every collect capability the NSA had; Obama was effectively blind for most of his second term
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
separate from anything about the specific dumb shit the NSA was doing on Americans he also just happened to burn basically every collect capability the NSA had; Obama was effectively blind for most of his second term
The history of early 20th century Europe (both East and West) is the history of European intolerance. This was "solved" in the most horrific way possible, and ended with the US playing policeman in the West all the way to the present and the Soviets performing wholesale ethnic cleansing in the East.
Actually wtf is he on about? As if Ireland or Italy are super stoked about becoming multi ethnic states??
November 28, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The history of early 20th century Europe (both East and West) is the history of European intolerance. This was "solved" in the most horrific way possible, and ended with the US playing policeman in the West all the way to the present and the Soviets performing wholesale ethnic cleansing in the East.
People like to project the Third Reich forward, and argue that because the far right are turning into Nazis, they must have been motivated by a new Great Depression.
But even Nazism wasn't solely economic. It was about pride, and the ironclad belief that Germany could have, should have, won WWI.
But even Nazism wasn't solely economic. It was about pride, and the ironclad belief that Germany could have, should have, won WWI.
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
People like to project the Third Reich forward, and argue that because the far right are turning into Nazis, they must have been motivated by a new Great Depression.
But even Nazism wasn't solely economic. It was about pride, and the ironclad belief that Germany could have, should have, won WWI.
But even Nazism wasn't solely economic. It was about pride, and the ironclad belief that Germany could have, should have, won WWI.
All the people involved in this are actually real, with actual lives, and do not exist solely as archetypes in your preferred morality tale.
The word "obscene" comes to mind.
The word "obscene" comes to mind.
If I'm understanding this correctly, the man who shot two national guards in DC was a former Afghan child soldier who fought alongside US special forces and in a CIA-supervised unit and later was granted asylum. The word "blowback" comes to mind.
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
All the people involved in this are actually real, with actual lives, and do not exist solely as archetypes in your preferred morality tale.
The word "obscene" comes to mind.
The word "obscene" comes to mind.
True Japanification has never been tried.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
True Japanification has never been tried.
JD Vance dreams of being Hungary: the rotting carcass of a once-great nation, willingly vassalized to Russia, from which the young flee and the old wither.
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
JD Vance dreams of being Hungary: the rotting carcass of a once-great nation, willingly vassalized to Russia, from which the young flee and the old wither.
There is a reason the US took in Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees en masse after leaving Vietnam. It's not news that Trump has less moral fiber than Richard Nixon, but I wish it had not been confirmed so graphically.
Dear foreign nationals in war-torn countries, terrorism hot-spots, and amidst our enemies:
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
If you help the United States, we’ll fuck you over and abandon you. Not the individual servicepeople or intelligence officers — they’ll fight for you. I mean the depraved, soulless leadership of the nation.
So now they’re going to be doing individualized re-review of tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees’ cases on TOP of the re-review of 200,000+ refugees who entered under Biden?
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
There is a reason the US took in Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees en masse after leaving Vietnam. It's not news that Trump has less moral fiber than Richard Nixon, but I wish it had not been confirmed so graphically.
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Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.
"You are happy with the rape and murder of the third world" sure is a thing for people who have "the abolition of USAID" on their literal party platform to say.
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
"You are happy with the rape and murder of the third world" sure is a thing for people who have "the abolition of USAID" on their literal party platform to say.
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I think this is going to be repeated in a lot of countries. We're going to see years of governments falling over themselves to be hostile to immigration, followed by years of panic at the consequences of hugely reduced migration.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I think this is going to be repeated in a lot of countries. We're going to see years of governments falling over themselves to be hostile to immigration, followed by years of panic at the consequences of hugely reduced migration.
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The self-pitying articles, bemoaning the decline in [country's] attractiveness to migrants, which will appear in newspapers that have spent years whipping up anti-migrant sentiment are going to be particularly hard to stomach.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The self-pitying articles, bemoaning the decline in [country's] attractiveness to migrants, which will appear in newspapers that have spent years whipping up anti-migrant sentiment are going to be particularly hard to stomach.
This is what happened in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist majority began with anti-Tamil Hindu pogroms. When the Hindus had been crushed in the civil war, they began agitating against Muslims. Now they are lobbying against Sri Lanka's (vanishingly small) community of Christians. It will never stop.
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is what happened in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist majority began with anti-Tamil Hindu pogroms. When the Hindus had been crushed in the civil war, they began agitating against Muslims. Now they are lobbying against Sri Lanka's (vanishingly small) community of Christians. It will never stop.
Russia put it in writing that it wouldn't attack Ukraine.
⁉️ Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Putin says Russia can put in writing it will not attack Europe
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has been ready to state in writing that it does not intend to attack Europe.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Russia put it in writing that it wouldn't attack Ukraine.
I will note that current forecasts for British population assume an average net migration rate of around 350,000-400,000 per year and without it the labor force is going to tank, followed shortly thereafter by population:
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I will note that current forecasts for British population assume an average net migration rate of around 350,000-400,000 per year and without it the labor force is going to tank, followed shortly thereafter by population:
I'd like to point out this would be treated as a one-off isolated incident if a 29-year-old white man had shot up a synagogue. Really showcases how hypocritically "just a few bad apples" is applied as an argument.
The current administration dreams of a dying country full of geriatric racists:
The current administration dreams of a dying country full of geriatric racists:
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I'd like to point out this would be treated as a one-off isolated incident if a 29-year-old white man had shot up a synagogue. Really showcases how hypocritically "just a few bad apples" is applied as an argument.
The current administration dreams of a dying country full of geriatric racists:
The current administration dreams of a dying country full of geriatric racists:
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Holy shit you DO NOT announce people's deaths if you aren't actually sure if they've died. What the fuck is wrong with everyone?
The governor of West Virginia is now walking back his initial post, where he stated two National Guard members died after being shot
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Holy shit you DO NOT announce people's deaths if you aren't actually sure if they've died. What the fuck is wrong with everyone?
Hortman and Kirk's murders showed how much the American public just shrugs off random shootings at this stage. Unless it's followed by an actual seizure of power, hard to see it mattering.
The biggest impact (apart from that on the guardsmen and their families) may be disrupting the news cycle
The biggest impact (apart from that on the guardsmen and their families) may be disrupting the news cycle
Like the 2020 protests-turned-uprisings, at the end of the day people don’t like chaos and default to Mandate of Heaven causality
I don't think this shooting will "play into Trump's hands" fwiw
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Hortman and Kirk's murders showed how much the American public just shrugs off random shootings at this stage. Unless it's followed by an actual seizure of power, hard to see it mattering.
The biggest impact (apart from that on the guardsmen and their families) may be disrupting the news cycle
The biggest impact (apart from that on the guardsmen and their families) may be disrupting the news cycle
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the middle class has been shrinking (getting richer) 🥲
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
the middle class has been shrinking (getting richer) 🥲