Also going to be a test - as easy a test as can be, because it's not just free, but saves money at the expense of a minor inconvenience - of how serious the "Resistance" actually is at its putative mission.

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Resisting MAGA fascism with all the legal avenues at our disposal is a moral imperative.

Most corporations have no inherent ideology. They will go wherever the winds blow by default, be it performative Woke in the 2010s, or submitting to MAGA Gleichschaltung today.

Not to blow my own horn too much, but my article on the logic of Trumpism has aged like a fine wine.

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Looks like systematic defamation and banning victims on false charges of sockpuppetry whenever they try to appeal via RationalWiki's procedures might finally have consequences. FAFO! 😘

I visited Heidelberg in 2003.

If accurate, sounds like the plan is a rollback to 2010s era Putinism: Authoritarian social conservatism coupled with renewed suppression of Russian nationalists (having "utilized" them in the war).

www.kommersant.ru/doc/7344159

Terminally dysfunctional state that was bailed out by Iranian militias, Hezbollah, and Russian air power eight years ago. Now Hezbollah was wrecked by Israel, and Russia has all its attention occupied by Ukraine.

The HTS success is surprising, but not that surprising in context.

Why was the HTS surprise assault on a city of 2 million people - that's well more than 10% of Syria's population - not noticed?

Well, it seems it kind of was. Perhaps two months ago. Relaying it up the "power vertical" that's unaccountable and doesn't care is another matter.

In contrast, it was 19% in MENA as a whole (obviously a pretty corrupt region).

And it seems to have become worse after the civil war began (2018 report).

And obviously neither Russia nor Iran probably had a salubrious influence...

Prestigious!