@AcademicAgent_X All good men, apart from Jenkins and Crossland, who between them set about wrecking the nation, before handing over the baton to Thatcher and Blair to finish the job.
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On the left they have podcasts like this. On the right, no one could name all of the men pictured without looking it up. I can, of course, but I'm special.
One of the men pictured (centre-right) is a Fabian hero to the dastardly Pimlico Journal.
Lee David Evans@LeeDavidEvansUK
🚨 NEW PODCAST: Was this the most talented Labour leadership election ever? In the second part of our miniseries on the 1976 transition of power, @richardmarcj and I discuss the remarkable field of candidates who sought the lease of Number 10 after Harold Wilson. 1/2
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@AcademicAgent_X The steelman argument would be that that is where nuclear research is carried out.
It's not really steelman, more cheap aluminium foil from Aldi-man, but I did my best.
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What was the point of hitting the universities?
Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email@va_shiva
What if Iran bombed MIT, Harvard, Yale & Stanford - killed faculty & destroyed research centers? We’d scream “GENOCIDE!” US-Israel jets just did that to 4 Iranian universities. Iran said: “Every US & Israeli univ. is a military target.” Zionists want a BIG war. -Dr.SHIVA
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@moveincircles In 2015 during the refugee crisis in Hungary the Western press always showed pictures of women and children. I passed through Keleti station every day and it was overwhelmingly young men. I had very little faith in the media already, but that really was the nail in the coffin.
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@DaversPat Don't know if there are as many recorded incidents of refugee women gang-partering resident men as the other way round,,,
or indeed anywhere near as many refugee women, full stop
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This surely ought to win some sort of euphemism prize
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@moveincircles Does it say anything about the willingness among recent female refugees to partner with resident men?
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My glum conclusion is that the writers of this report probably know exactly what they're looking at, but have opted to phrase the whole thing like this because of the risk that if they spoke more plainly they'd be arrested for hate crime
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@eugyppius1 I've never been there. Does anyone post there besides Donald Trump?
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@scandlenjosh @AcademicAgent_X @herimarksoc No. It's that the two apear to be quite highly correlated.
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I don’t “deny climate change”, I just think the mathematical modelling is dubious and the science of renewables just isn’t there. One can’t override facts with ideology.
(Zionist) Marxist James Heartfield has a very good book on this topic called Green Capitalism.
Heritage Market Socialist@herimarksoc
@AcademicAgent_X Why do you, and much of the 'non-Zionist Right', remain climate change deniers? Surely you're suspicious of those who push the 'anti-net zero' line, given the fossil fuel lobby funding?
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An Ashley Madison like website but it just sets you up with your wife again
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@moveincircles I grew up a Catholic in England, and as such always felt a mixture of bemusement, affection and even envy for the literal parochiality of the "Local Church for Local People" of my fellow countrymen.
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Protesting “Christian Nationalism” in a country with an established church is surely as surreally America-brained as chanting “Hands up don’t shoot” at unarmed British bobbies premierchristian.news/en/news/articl…
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@owenbroadcast If the Demiurge isn't the Final Boss, who is?
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this comic changed the course of the internet’s relationship to gnosticism. probably the biggest development in gnostic studies since the discovery of the nag hammadi library itself
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@FistedFoucault The Szekler is my ex-boss.
(until now I didn't know what "székelyi" was in English believe it or not).
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@FistedFoucault I told my family here in Hungary that the Romanians know how to enjoy life better than the Hungarians. They weren't impressed!
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I was there on business around 5 times over the span of two years some 7 years ago. I like the city and I like Romanians overall.
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Bucharest is wild because you have so many gorgeous buildings inspired by 19th century Paris, but they are often interspersed with these communist-era wretches that make for jarring dichotomies
βόρειος βαρόνος@BorealBaron
I think of Romania as the most tragic case of European cultural destruction brought by communism. After WWI, it had doubled in size and possessed a tremendous intellectual vanguard. Codreanu and the Iron Guard built a massive movement with real electoral support, volunteers on the ground, and warriors who were ready to die fighting against communism across Europe (a clear counterexample to the claim that fascism only triumphs in humiliated nations). They would have taken power if the monarchy had not crushed them and killed their leadership. Then Antonescu removed the king and Romania became Germany’s strongest ally on the Eastern Front, providing around 800,000 soldiers, a major contribution that often goes unnoticed, until the war turned against the Axis and the monarchy carried out another coup. By then it was too late. The communists had already entered the country and installed local collaborators who had previously had no popular support. This is how the country ended up being ruled by clowns like Ceausescu. Many of its best people, like Cioran and Eliade, fled the country, and they were only the first wave of talent to leave. After the fall of communism, the country was left in a very disadvantaged position, with a huge distance to recover and rebuild from the damage caused by marxism
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@FistedFoucault Scenes of Bucharest from that era make me think of "The Fortunes of War" mini-series.
I've never been there but I've been to Cluj many times. I like it. It's basically Hungarian but don't tell the locals that!
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@arisroussinos The first Time I ever went to Hungary I witnessed a group of people in a bar singing maudlin tunes while getting drunker and drinker and I thought to myself "Yes, these people are basically Irish".
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This is, btw, another point towards the oft-made claim that modern Ireland is politically a Central/East European country, historically defined by agrarian radicalism, elite cultural revivalism and nationalist revolt, marooned in the Atlantic by circumstance
Aris Roussinos@arisroussinos
Odd to think, walking around Budapest, that Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin for Ireland to obtain a Hungary-like role in an Anglo-Irish dual monarchy, only for WW1 to find both countries taking ostensibly similar paths. Hungary is, of course, today not militarily dependent on Austria.
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@AcademicAgent_X That's the thing - unlike in other areas of public spending, it is almost impossible to know if the money is well spent or not until war breaks out. The opportunities for graft are immense.
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I am now more convinced than ever that the huge US military budget has been a kind of gravy train investing in overbloated tech that doesn't really work and acting as a sort of make-work scheme.
I no longer see it as an unbeatable military.
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@collapsingnew @AcademicAgent_X He was the right man in the right place 10 years ago. Since then, he and his cronies have become jaded and corrupt, running the country into the ground to line their own pockets. I won't be too sorry if he gets kicked out in two weeks' time.
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@AcademicAgent_X I feel bad for Orban as generally seems to have tried to do a good job in unenviable circumstances for a small country. Don't feel bad for Modi, MBS, etc.
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Like Modi, like Orban, MBS is crashing out. This will happen to all Trump allies.
Marc Owen Jones@marcowenjones
"“MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] has lost the bet on all his investments over the last several years,” Ellie Geranmayeh, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations said. “He financially invested in Trump and Trump’s family and his corporation and his White House, but at the end of the day the views of the Saudis and of the whole Gulf have been sidelined by the wishes of Benjamin Netanyahu.”" theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…
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@JeremiahAdrian2 @FischerKing64 @Lukewearechange I think there are easier ways of doing this than launching a disastrous war at the cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
Like just resigning, for example.
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@FischerKing64 @Lukewearechange What if Trump is purposefully losing support. Accepts impeachment and allows MAGA to continue under new leadership. Gives up the midterm but keep the presidency and take back the senate in following midterms
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If President Trump was going to tank the economy to achieve something big for the people - mass deportations was the option. The disruption to the economy would have been serious, but long run the people would benefit massively.
Smashing Iran - doesn’t help a single American.
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@NeckPinch @FischerKing64 Yes, it's Iran's fault for placing it's country so near to US bases
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Can you provide proof that it doesn't help a single American?
Like...not a single one?
Not a single member of a military that's been targeted in hundreds of attacks by Iranian-funded and Iranian-trained and Iranian-order following proxies?
I suppose...Iranian agents should have been able to continue operating freely in Venezuela, hm?
An Iran that can't stop ships from transiting the Strait of Hormuz wouldn't benefit a single American?
An Iran that frequently says "Death to America" wouldn't help a single American? You think they're joking, dipshit?
What a retarded fucking take. Idiotic to an extreme.
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@GentlemanVril @AcademicAgent_X A search engine is something where if you type in a 3-letter acronym, you'll get dozens of potential meanings. Sometimes it's just easier to ask a human being. Luckily, they are often happy to oblige.
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Most Iranian towns and cities are objectively nicer than most US towns and cities including right in the middle of the CBD.
Aleph@woke8yearold
Midwit philosophy phds are not impressive. That’s why they’re dead and Iran is a shithole Their only advantage is favorable geography letting the threaten the oil trade. Otherwise they could be exterminated at leisure
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@AcademicAgent_X I would imagine all military planning over the last few decades has been in single-minded preparation for this the very eventuality.
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The three most surprising elements of this war for me personally have been:
1. The quality of Iranian leadership, underestimated, including by me
2. The hitting of Gulf States as a strategic masterstroke to demystify US power
3. The sophistication of Iran's propaganda effort
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