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The Web of Evil
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In no way a web of evil
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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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What this site has taught me is that leftists would also get wrecked by a left-coded fox news and it’s a miracle that no one has pulled one off yet
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Blowback is a feature, not a bug, etc.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The democrats will never do anything about this because it would also limit their own war powers. We need real political change or else we will stay on a dark path
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Isn't it refreshing when someone actually does nuance and detail?

H/t @andyverity.bsky.social at the BBC!
November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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They probably fear military reprisal (with the President’s full support) more than they fear the courts
Given how obviously illegal the orders are, why are officers obeying the commands?
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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You can always tell someone's REAL priorities and principles by looking at what they want for their own children.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Hard Work is a fascinating concept to explore.

Comfortables will talk at length about how hard they work and how much they oppose a something for nothing culture then switch to talking about how they've made sure their kids inherit as much as possible.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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You can either believe people get where they are in life solely due to hard work or you can support inheritance, not both.

I mean, if a good hard working person will *always* be rewarded why do your kids need to inherit a thing?
Hard Work is a fascinating concept to explore.

Comfortables will talk at length about how hard they work and how much they oppose a something for nothing culture then switch to talking about how they've made sure their kids inherit as much as possible.
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this.

Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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If you carved "APPEASEMENT DOESN'T WORK" onto the forehead of every centrist, Inglourious Basterds style, they obviously still wouldn't believe it but at least you'd have some fun photos to show the grandkids in the camps.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Why don't they just pay out of pocket, say for a transit card

Oh, right. They can't legally work.

This is, historically, how oppression works. Jerkass people going WAH WAH MINE YOU CAN'T until people are pushed into oblivion which is what they want. Ultimately.
November 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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So the refugee oppression cycle from that article in England is basically

people big mad that refugees are using PRIVATE HIRED CARS (taxis) THAT WE PAY FOR blahblahblah

And you might think why not public transport, but apparently that was kicked off first. WHY ARE ALL THE REFUGEES TAKIN' UP SEATS
November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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I know this is correct, but it’s also really hard to sit with when those of us who STUDIED FUCKING HISTORY WERE SOUNDING THE ALARM THE ENTIRE TIME SINCE GUANTANAMO OPENED UP AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
A running theme of Trump II is cautious, level-headed, mainstream, career professional experts sounding existential alarms about how we aren't panicking nearly enough.
I know you already know, but for other folks who don't, Goldsmith was previously head of OLC, is a genuinely brilliant mind on executive authority and separation of powers, and is usually very cautious about making claims this unqualified and direct. That he is saying it so starkly is v significant
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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It's also an example of the underlying problem being the same cruelty that they now think will solve it!

The reason for expensive taxis is that they restricted bus travel to appease the same people!
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The wealthy have succeeded in making the poor believe they're middle class and it makes class war easier for the wealthy and harder for the poor.
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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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
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even if you are the hawkiest hawk hawk hawke 🦅🦅🦅 china hawk, you have to recognize that Trump II is the exact fucking opposite of "how to win a cold war 2"
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The warning signs just keep on coming.
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

…with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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There's something mesmerising about Badenoch's combination of supreme intellectual confidence and "Jesus? Didn't he play for Real Madrid?" command of detail.

It's like somebody spliced the certainty of Margaret Thatcher with the work ethic of Boris Johnson.
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM