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Horsehead
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@_Wilsonpilled_ Describing your trans coworker as “my HSTS coworker” rather than “my trans coworker” doesn’t just suggest a familiarity with trans slang (which, given how high-profile these dumb discourses are, doesn’t suggest much) but hints at a particular array of brain worms/mindset
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This performative circling around doing a coup is so hysterical dude just overthrow him, the whole country hates him!!!
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Wes Streeting will meet with Keir Starmer tomorrow to ask how he plans to “get us out of this mess” [@thetimes]
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Stuff like this really makes you wish for the good old days of British politics where a bum leader would be out in a week and there would be no embarrassing rear-guard action
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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has told Cabinet that he will not resign "As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised. "The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and for families. "The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered. "The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet"
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Matt Yglesis and Ezra Klein or whoever is communisms most hated guy of this week generally have been the people hammering that it isn't corporations, that very little housing is owned by corporations, that it's a product of regulations and perverse incentives, etc.
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This thread is correct that major corporations are not behind the housing crisis but it's really funny how the poster is like "I hate liberals why do they think major corporations are behind the housing crisis" as if this is not actually a distinctly left-of-liberal take.
Konstantinia 🇺🇳☭@yaoifakecel
Ok but this doesn't happen. Barely any of the housing supply is owned by massive corporations. It's like. All the fault of small individual homeowners and landlords.
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@KarnesMellagio I really liked his other work, “Indigenous Continent,” so perhaps I should.
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@nise_yoshimi Give Britain a shot. What happens if she loses her empire in 1919? What happens to the “British” national identity, given even less time to divorce itself from imperialism.
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between MANCHUKUO 1987 and my current Austrian writing it seems im slowly developing an alt history setting where the central powers win and everyone wants to be German but all the focus is on stupid loser countries that aren't Germany. Its a subversion of every paradox mod
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when they do a cinematic for vandal in marathon it should just be Meet the Scout. Same voice and all
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@nise_yoshimi Orwell famously noted that “every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered,” but did he consider that alternative history is also the domain of some who is really very bored and has too many ideas and she has perhaps played too many paradox games
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my vice as a writer is my attraction to alternate history, one of the pulpiest and silliest premises in fiction, which I keep returning to no matter how ambitious and long-winded my prose gets. But it keeps me entertained to write it, so
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This choice was met with dismay among the rest of the Jewish world, but my (admittedly limited) understanding is that it’s endured in these ex-Soviet communities past the collapse of the USSR. I also believe it happened with Soviet Muslims, although I don’t know the details.
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In the early days of the Soviet Union, Jews broadly agreed that they would modify the kosher they kept substantially. There were elements of coercion, but it was primarily a voluntary action decided upon by Jewish leaders. It would have been impossible to impose, in any case.
Eight Eyed Eel@8EyedEel
"Wait a moment"
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The collective guilt from the left for not taking the threat of Trump's reelection seriously vs. the collective guilt of Biden-Trump voters for thinking "it's only four years, migrants tho" are both manifesting themselves in interesting ways.
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Sort of hesitant about this conclusion, but it does feel true to me that nation building can be somewhat successful in the right societies.
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
At first it seemed like a shocking revelation that nation-building doesn't work, and for some reason we couldn't replicate what we did with the Axis Powers. But the original consensus was right all along: it does *work*, Iraq sucked because the Middle East just generally sucks.
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@KarnesMellagio Yeah, personally I would attribute that in part to the fact that they win in the broader argument and get Israel in the holy land sort of by accident, and so they’re not politically empowered initially but they’re very vindicated. Also obvious material factors.
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