HPR
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I'm HPR. Cool ass dude, I like things, video games & being a cinemaphile about this, Space, and esp Politics
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One thing Trump/Miller/Vance don't grasp is that their concept of "real Americans" (i.e., white conservative reactionary bigots) isn't 50% of the country, it's maybe 15%, with another 20% who are fellow travelers until something affects them. They still think this is mostly paid actors or whatever.
Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.
Insightful point here: Even if you take Trump seriously - he does not like the optics - they rested on an assumption that communities would welcome ICE as heroes, rather than showing the type of solidarity that Trump inherently cannot understand.
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 AM
One thing Trump/Miller/Vance don't grasp is that their concept of "real Americans" (i.e., white conservative reactionary bigots) isn't 50% of the country, it's maybe 15%, with another 20% who are fellow travelers until something affects them. They still think this is mostly paid actors or whatever.
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To be fair, even Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to raise the alarm.
Crowns in gutters across America.
Crowns in gutters across America.
January 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM
To be fair, even Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to raise the alarm.
Crowns in gutters across America.
Crowns in gutters across America.
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Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations.
They won’t say a word.
They won’t say a word.
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Today would be a great day for CNAS, CSIS, Brookings, Atlantic Council, RAND, IDA, CNA, & every veterans’ advocacy group to say an attack on NATO over Greenland would be a crime under US and international law and it would shatter American military capacity for generations.
They won’t say a word.
They won’t say a word.
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This is what happens when your party abandons natsec literacy
To be fair, even Chuck Schumer can’t bring himself to raise the alarm.
Crowns in gutters across America.
Crowns in gutters across America.
January 19, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is what happens when your party abandons natsec literacy
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The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The regime’s paramilitary forces are conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
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WE KNOW GREENLAND IS STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT AND THAT THERE ARE BENEFITS IN MAINTAINING A PRESENCE IN THE REGION. THE POINT IS THAT NONE OF THIS REQUIRES TAKING THE ISLAND FROM DENMARK.
The Arctic is warming around four times faster than the rest of the globe.
The changing landscape created a region ripe for opportunity factors that may play a role in President Trump’s sudden quest to obtain Greenland.
The changing landscape created a region ripe for opportunity factors that may play a role in President Trump’s sudden quest to obtain Greenland.
Melting ice may raise Greenland’s value. Trump’s fight may be just the start.
Trump has said he wants the territory because of its strategic location. Maps show how a melting Arctic is affecting geopolitics.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:12 PM
WE KNOW GREENLAND IS STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT AND THAT THERE ARE BENEFITS IN MAINTAINING A PRESENCE IN THE REGION. THE POINT IS THAT NONE OF THIS REQUIRES TAKING THE ISLAND FROM DENMARK.
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??
January 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??
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We’re the bad guys now.
BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:
January 18, 2026 at 11:37 PM
We’re the bad guys now.
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It feels like a fairly purposeful effort to remind everyone what they’re supposed to feel about me, what the Consensus Correct View is. It’s strange. Look I don’t care if you guys like me. But please focus on the Minneapolis neighbors who are resisting and not these pointless popularity contests
January 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
It feels like a fairly purposeful effort to remind everyone what they’re supposed to feel about me, what the Consensus Correct View is. It’s strange. Look I don’t care if you guys like me. But please focus on the Minneapolis neighbors who are resisting and not these pointless popularity contests
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"passed away"
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"passed away"
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Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends
I have come to understand that Will Stancil was always radical, he just wasn’t (likely, still isn’t) radical about the precise thing(s) a lot of us on here wanted him to be radical about.
I’m hearing people freak about a military deployment to Minneapolis but it doesn’t change much. It’s scarier but the same. We still outnumber them 100 to 1. They have more guns than us either way. They can shoot us either way. They’ll probably be easier to find and follow if they’re in a tank.
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Liberalism is a radical idea of universal liberation, even if most of its modern-day adherents are squishy opportunists who are simply echoing what they perceive as the prevailing ideology of their friends
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Donald Trump's net approval rating right now is currently worse than bush's was after Katrina www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
January 18, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump's net approval rating right now is currently worse than bush's was after Katrina www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
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How it started/how it's going
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
How it started/how it's going
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it is basically impossible to have a reasonable conversation about wwii and various counterfactual scenarios because nobody is actually arguing about the logistics of the red army but rather playfighting the 2016 primary instead
*Staring in Khrushchev and Zhukov saying the Soviets would have lost without Lend-Lease*
January 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
it is basically impossible to have a reasonable conversation about wwii and various counterfactual scenarios because nobody is actually arguing about the logistics of the red army but rather playfighting the 2016 primary instead
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We are now 30 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
We are now 30 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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It's actually really interesting how this stuff has brought out the inner Andrew Jackson of a lot of Americans.
Was this written by Alexei Navalny?
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
It's actually really interesting how this stuff has brought out the inner Andrew Jackson of a lot of Americans.
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
Denmark offers greenland if trump passes free healthcare or something
January 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Denmark offers greenland if trump passes free healthcare or something
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the President is illegally raising taxes because people don't like his plan to illegally spend billions of tax dollars illegally invading allied territory
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
the President is illegally raising taxes because people don't like his plan to illegally spend billions of tax dollars illegally invading allied territory
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$50K after taxes, 401K, and miscellaneous spending, is barely enough to pay for a weekly chipotle delivery
I should be allowed to hunt corporate lawyers for sport
January 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
$50K after taxes, 401K, and miscellaneous spending, is barely enough to pay for a weekly chipotle delivery