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📍berlin, he/er
and Admiral Bradley in the same position. Seems bad!
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
They're perfectly comfortable keeping higher-level party operatives who courts have declared it's not libel to call fascist because of instances where they've appropriated explicit Nazi langugae. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Gerichtsurteil: Björn Höcke darf als "Faschist" bezeichnet werden
Proteste "gegen den Faschisten Höcke" wollte die Stadtverwaltung Eisenach verbieten lassen. Doch die Richter gaben den Höcke-Gegnern recht: Ihr Werturteil fuße auf einer überprüfbaren Tatsachengrundla...
www.spiegel.de
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Not so sure this is an apt comparison. The speaker was immediately framed as an op by one of the questioners, the AFD is labeling him as some sort of dark satirist and emphasizing he's only been a party member for a few months.
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
the long fraying train? iconic i fear. perhaps my contribution to next year’s “i hate gay halloween” discourse if i start knitting and boiling now
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
28) she does a lot here. was perhaps unsurprisingly especially drawn to her centering of the Midwest in the history of both the music scene and the country she inhabits. some great descriptions of berlin nightlife and a really honest portrayal of what it feels like to be betrayed.
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
sounds like a pretty improbable bullet trajectory
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New WotEF book out this year that's supposed to be quite good:
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
bookshop.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM