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Russia has always been set up so that everything flows to Moscow. St. Petersburg only gets a taste because it's the backup capital & they can't let it slide too much, but every other part Russia controls exists only to feed Moscow. Order something made in the Far East & it comes to you via Moscow.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Russia has always been set up so that everything flows to Moscow. St. Petersburg only gets a taste because it's the backup capital & they can't let it slide too much, but every other part Russia controls exists only to feed Moscow. Order something made in the Far East & it comes to you via Moscow.
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No, you genuinely have no idea how wide this gulf is. Even with, say, Louis XIV's France.
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
Russia starting out as a hypercentralized, absolutist state that could withstand the Khanate *does* have a lot to do with its continuation as, well, a hypercentralized, absolutist state, but our other states were typically also centralized and absolutist prior to the 19th century
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
No, you genuinely have no idea how wide this gulf is. Even with, say, Louis XIV's France.
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
The resistance put up by local aristocratic parlements to Louis' decrees would have been unthinkable in Russia at nearly any time under the Tsars (brief, swiftly crushed exceptions aside).
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France24 is straight up calling the boat strikes war crimes
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
France24 is straight up calling the boat strikes war crimes
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British state logic;
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
British state logic;
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
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how the fuck do you progress as a species when half of us do not get past the core of their ethos being "i want to be able to say slurs to own the libs"
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
how the fuck do you progress as a species when half of us do not get past the core of their ethos being "i want to be able to say slurs to own the libs"
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Can we all just agree to not talk about Your Party? It's not something that is or ever will be relevant to UK politics, whatever lessons we could draw about how to not run a political movement we should already know and every post just confers legitimacy they don't have.
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Can we all just agree to not talk about Your Party? It's not something that is or ever will be relevant to UK politics, whatever lessons we could draw about how to not run a political movement we should already know and every post just confers legitimacy they don't have.
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Maybe we're just not being cruel enough to sufficiently many outgroups? Has anyone in politics or the media even considered this??
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Maybe we're just not being cruel enough to sufficiently many outgroups? Has anyone in politics or the media even considered this??
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There is something unbearably painful in the realization that this is the insurpassable distillation of all current political analysis of the present historical situation.
Maybe we're just not being cruel enough to sufficiently many outgroups? Has anyone in politics or the media even considered this??
November 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
There is something unbearably painful in the realization that this is the insurpassable distillation of all current political analysis of the present historical situation.
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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 8:45 PM
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.
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unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
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Ukraine has once again proved its seriousness in the fight against corruption — after the country's independent NABU and SAPO conducted searches in Yermak's place, he is out now.
A country must be judged not by the problems it faces, but by the response and actions.
A country must be judged not by the problems it faces, but by the response and actions.
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Ukraine has once again proved its seriousness in the fight against corruption — after the country's independent NABU and SAPO conducted searches in Yermak's place, he is out now.
A country must be judged not by the problems it faces, but by the response and actions.
A country must be judged not by the problems it faces, but by the response and actions.
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Whenever Hegseth goes on about "warfighter" it's a euphemism for "guy who shoots a surrendering enemy and then mutilates the corpse to send a message"
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Whenever Hegseth goes on about "warfighter" it's a euphemism for "guy who shoots a surrendering enemy and then mutilates the corpse to send a message"
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This book is great because you'll discover that it is in fact that bad and get jump scared like every other chapter by current members of the cabinet or close advisors to the president who are correctly portrayed as right-wing grifters
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This book is great because you'll discover that it is in fact that bad and get jump scared like every other chapter by current members of the cabinet or close advisors to the president who are correctly portrayed as right-wing grifters
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This book is genuinely one of the best pieces of war journalism produced in my lifetime
One of the vanishingly few modern cases of a journalist who really, truly did care about the work and did so for a righteous cause
One of the vanishingly few modern cases of a journalist who really, truly did care about the work and did so for a righteous cause
This book is great because you'll discover that it is in fact that bad and get jump scared like every other chapter by current members of the cabinet or close advisors to the president who are correctly portrayed as right-wing grifters
November 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This book is genuinely one of the best pieces of war journalism produced in my lifetime
One of the vanishingly few modern cases of a journalist who really, truly did care about the work and did so for a righteous cause
One of the vanishingly few modern cases of a journalist who really, truly did care about the work and did so for a righteous cause
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it's a good thread and i think encapsulate's secretary heghshgeths's's mindset that mindless brutality is a cheat code to battlefield success
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
it's a good thread and i think encapsulate's secretary heghshgeths's's mindset that mindless brutality is a cheat code to battlefield success
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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actually a big reason why i joined socialist orgs and identified with it as i got into college, around this exact time
Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
actually a big reason why i joined socialist orgs and identified with it as i got into college, around this exact time
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“after white development of the land made it prosperous” is a pretty reliable red flag
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“after white development of the land made it prosperous” is a pretty reliable red flag
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Logical end conclusion
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Logical end conclusion
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”multiculturalism” is being framed here as metaphorical cannibalism. a classic colonial fantasy where demands for political enfranchisement are reframed as revanchism. Caribbean plantation owners used to literally frame demands for rights as cannibalistic
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
”multiculturalism” is being framed here as metaphorical cannibalism. a classic colonial fantasy where demands for political enfranchisement are reframed as revanchism. Caribbean plantation owners used to literally frame demands for rights as cannibalistic
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Are we imagining a world where White South Africans are in dire straits and not disproportionately safe and wealthy by South African standards by a good margin
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Are we imagining a world where White South Africans are in dire straits and not disproportionately safe and wealthy by South African standards by a good margin
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Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
November 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Socialist Party of America's platform in 1912 called for abolition of pardon power altogether.
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Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
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What really gets me is the people who claim to be the real Americans are the ones who are part of a movement that defies court orders, tries to overturn elections, weaponizes law enforcement, and sides with Russia over our allies, all things which are quintessentially unAmerican.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
What really gets me is the people who claim to be the real Americans are the ones who are part of a movement that defies court orders, tries to overturn elections, weaponizes law enforcement, and sides with Russia over our allies, all things which are quintessentially unAmerican.
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KOSA will obliterate trans people's ability to have spaces and even communicate online. It MUST be stopped.
Tell your lawmakers to oppose the Kids Online Safety Act- there are better ways to protect kids online without throwing other vulnerable people under the bus.
www.stopkosa.com
www.stopkosa.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
KOSA will obliterate trans people's ability to have spaces and even communicate online. It MUST be stopped.