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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1h

fwiw, even if “Romney was smeared as Hitler” was 100% unambiguously true, very few people make the next inference. “and then the GOP was taken over by reactionaries that retroactively made the original allegation correct”

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3h

the 2012 campaign was extremely tame by even the Before Times standards

Alice’s Restaurant Chainsaw Massacree @reedonly.bsky.social · 3h

I've heard this a thousand times and just now am I understanding it as a stab-in-the-back myth

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 8h

like I'm pretty libertine generally, consenting adults, closed doors, not my problem unless you make it that. but also I think that the potential for this doing that and becoming everyone's problem through externalities is pretty real here.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1h

absolutely begging Americans to show enough intellectual curiosity to understand how 'strong' and 'weak' party systems work and not just count seats

nirgalm25.bsky.social @nirgalm25.bsky.social · 5h

The GOP had 54 Senate seats and 246 house reps in 2016. How is that weak?

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah the "villainous gentlemen" depiction is almost true for the Junker Nobility, but despite their shared love of authoritarianism, they believed different things and also just thought the Nazis were crass lowlifes, which tbf they weren't wrong about

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Anguirus Is A Monster @anguirus.bsky.social · 2h

Even back then that was something of a misunderstanding of the awkward and occasionally bloody relationship between the Nazis and the conservative German aristocracy…

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 2h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 6h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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Peck @ohheckitspeck.bsky.social · 2h

The question IMO isn't "does regime change work". It will if you do it right (and as Iraq shows, even if you do it *really* wrong). The question is whether the inevitable butcher's bill is worth it, because it *will* cause untold death and suffering no matter what, all the more so if you fuck it up.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

goddamnit i am not talking about re-invading iraq here. regime change is high on the list of "don't fucking work" ideas. on the other hand biden pretty decisively prevented a pro-bolsonaro coup in brazil. more of that plz

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Oct 21

There is no blue state alternative to the right-wing attacks on higher education. There is only red state censorship and blue state neoliberalism. (yes, I know what neoliberalism means and am using it deliberately)

Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · Oct 21

Helluva front page at UConn today.

Full story here: dailycampus.com/2024/10/21/a...

Front page of UConn daily campus with big headline “at least 245 academic programs at risk of elimination in provost’s review”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Oct 21

👇🎯 Your regular reminder that unfunded mandate are bad, we shouldn't have them, & the actual solution to nearly <every> problem in 🇺🇸 higher education - both real & imagined - is to...

<taps mic>

<John Facenda voice>

...Fund.

The.

Damn.

Public.

Universities.

Like.

We.

Used.

To.

Do.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 2h

seems particularly on point if we're still banging the poor Charlie Kirk the free speech (shut up about him, you're fire) martyr, what a blessing he was for campuses in particular

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

a real water is wet scenario here

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

Establishing a bunch of colleges based on my bizarre, uninformed ideas about architecture, city planning and the best way to educate young people

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 21h

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 2h

Moral is very valuable….. it’s just not what these idiots think it is

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

how these fuckers think politics works

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🏳️‍⚧️ June Licinio ✡️ @jwlicinio.bsky.social · 9h

are we doing tankie discourse again? I understand that people frequently weaponize that term against anyone who’s a Marxist but it would be nice to have some shared recognition that supporting vladimir putin and hating jews But Leftistly is bad

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

George W Bush and his party were ravenous war criminals and ardent reactionaries. They were not Nazis. *these guys* are Nazis

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 7h

again, the problem with rhetorical maximalism (all Republicans since Barry fucking Goldwater were Nazis) is that you end up believing it and saying absolutely unhinged shit thinking it's normal

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 6h

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 5h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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phoenixqueen12.bsky.social @phoenixqueen12.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a centrist, I believe that both the right(progressive liberals) and the left(anarcho-communists) both make some good points and that we should all focus on some common sense policy (destroying the republican party)

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Emma-Rose DeLeon 🔞🏳️‍⚧️ 4HS Solis Year @emrosedeleon.bsky.social · 7h

It's not my fault that these are the sensible people.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

"BlueSky political spectrum" of anarchist to Pelosi (or Bulwarkers at most) is not the US political spectrum

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