Geradeaus
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this girl literally just asked me, and I quote this verbatim: “if me and your ex switched bodies which one would you date and why?”
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They’re not going to the moon. You’ve not been to Russia if you flew over it. Get real.
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Iran’s one of the few places where Elite Theory unambiguously applies. The regime can mow down twenty thousand protesters every eighteen months without breaking a sweat but you could theoretically reshape its Parliament entirely by bribing seven people on the Council of Guardians
Bovril-Gesellschaft@BovrilG
The ironic thing is that “regime change” in the sense of the State faction actually in power being swapped out is a lot more plausible now than it was in Jan (the Iranian state is easily capable of putting down popular dissent but is factional to a comic extent and we have no idea who’ll step into the vacuum really)
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@JimmyThomist For the countries further away from Russia, e.g. Britain, the small expeditionary forces is what matters. It's still thousands of miles unless you're on the eastern end of the continent.
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NATO’s European armies are more than twice the size of the US Army & Marines.
Europe has about 1.5x the artillery, AFVs and Tanks, and out produces the US in artillery shells.
Europe outnumbers Russia in every ground power category by about 2x.
Europe will be fine.
David D. Chapman@DavidD_Chapman
Withdraw from NATO and withdraw all US troops from US bases in Europe and see how many days it takes Russia to conquer Europe.
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@memeticsisyphus Scientist who can't figure out why the first stage of the moon base program was done before in the moon landing program:
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@BovrilG "Now I would understand by what Authority, (I mean lawfull) I am brought hi∣ther. There are many unlawfull Authorities in the world, as Thieves and Plunderers in high-wayes."
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Apart from no longer being interested in Israel/Palestine, none of my politics have changed since 2022.
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@JoshFerme It seems like a strange move to loudly and publicly accept that your enemies' arguments are correct, when your plan is to immedeately ignore them. What do they hope to gain through such a statement?
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The assertion that they are scrapping non-crime hate incidents is an outright lie. The College of Policing and National Police Chiefs’ Council will be announcing a replacement next week that is just a reformed version of what already exists.
Home Office@ukhomeoffice
Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime. By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.
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New humiliation ritual dropped: Kids Court show trials
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Meet the pupils teaching speeders a lesson in Kids Court bbc.in/3PDJwAa
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@Peter_Nimitz Like in China, where the local governors go over and a over in order to impress the people in London who control promotions.
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It's interesting that Canada isn't particularly repressive even though a third of its police are under the direct control of the federal government. UK's police are controlled by decentralized & elected commissioners, but are far more repressive than Brezhnev.
arctotherium@arctotherium42
Non-US Anglosphere is publicly, explicitly hilariously authoritarian at the state level. UK gets attention because big+low QoL relative to CAN/AUS/NZ, but true of all 4. Doesn't stop people classifying them as liberal democracies or saying liberalism is Anglo Ways of Knowing.
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@Laocailarry My housemates had a basket of shame of dozens of disposable vapes.
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How many times were you expecting to be murdered?
Jack Dart@JackWDart
Do you know what’s mad. I spent all day in central London today and wasn’t murdered once. I’m starting to think these claims about London being crime-ridden might be false.
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"What? Can you say that louder?"
Camski@camski
The Emirati Cabinet meeting looks like it’s coming straight out of a sci-fi movie
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I like how being a social conservative in the year of our lord 2026 means being against penises at your lesbian orgies
Iseult@iseult
Even Aella thinks transwomen should be excluded from a lesbian orgy … we are really breaking through. Most rational people believe there are exceptions to TWAW even while they mouth the words.
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"The right wing of the centre left." They're inventing new parts of the political spectrum that have never been seen before.
Pizza@number_pizza111
In the right-wing of the center-left punditsphere, “electability“ is something they bring up because they’re moderate and want the Democratic Party to be like them. Yglesias is different. He starts with electability, and concludes Dems need to shamelessly pivot.
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How long will it take for the penny to drop that immigration is not a comms issue? This isn’t fixed by having a ‘better story to tell’. It is a substantive policy failure with real world negative consequences. Until this is grasped, things are doomed to get much much worse.
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
Some on the Labour right want a "more welcoming" tone on immigration. - @PronouncedAlva
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@actsmaniac This is only the case for economic policy. The left substituted victories on social issues for victories on economics. The Democrats in particular very much did *not* play to the centre, they focused hard on their base, and mostly downplayed economic issues (except Obamacare).
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elections are usually won in the center, this even goes for center-right parties, the CDU under Merkel got very good election results by taking up all the space in the center.
what has been forgotten is that center-left parties also went more centrist in the 90s and early 2000s simply because they were losing elections and wanted to become more competitive. and it did work, they got big mandates under politicians like Blair, Clinton and Schröder.
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