so it sounds like Hamas' disarmament (or the perception thereof), combined with Qatari-Turkish follow-through with the White House, might actually put Israel in a difficult spot.

I wouldn't read too much into that. That's just the Ai's rendering of any bus. I don't think this kind of sentiment is specifically British, or even European. There's versions of it in places like Japan as well.

woah, you come on strong for BlueSky

It's almost as if some patterns of 20th century European politics are repeating themselves (with a twist) in other countries!

sağolun :)

benden mi bahsediyorsunuz hocam? :)

Kılıçdaroğlu's CHP lifted Demirtaş's immunity. Still, I think the CHP is doing the right thing here.

I think going would have made the party irrelevant. If they're going to survive, they're going to need to build up a real contrast with the palace.

oh I don't think so. He wrote 2012/2013, which I take to mean before Gezi.

ha, I know about that

I hear of similar things in the UK. Infusing these bureaucracies with technology is very creepy.

people ask me why I'm not going into academia...

I see what you mean. I wouldn't make a monocausal argument, but I do think smartphone-based "social" media hypercharged things. If we could experiment with alternative universes, I'd bet that removing that one thing could make things a whole lot better.
Could that have been done? Hard to imagine.

but of course we can think of the last twenty years as merely the last chapter in the collapse of authority. That's been going on forever. You could add the Protestant Reformation and secularization in the 19th century to the reasons behind the rise of the far-right today. It'd be too broad though.

Radio and TV might have had a slight effect on populations, but they weren't nearly as intrusive.
There's mounting evidence that smartphone-based social media is causing huge cognitive/psychological damage.

I know, but don't think the "similar arguments have been made" argument holds here. We have to look at the actual cognitive impact of the technology.