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Understanding Elections

@Understand_Elex

Hi! I'm Caleb. I write about elections from a socialist perspective.

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Joe Guinan
Joe Guinan@joecguinan·
The speed-running of the arc of Starmerism by Burnham continues apace. He hasn’t even won the seat yet and we’re already at the Sue Gray phase. If he’s not careful Burnham will achieve Starmer levels of public detestation before the Makerfield byelection.
Tom Whyman@HealthUntoDeath

Why in the name of Christ are Labour spending this much energy, and producing this much jeopardy, trying to get Starmer 2.0 into office? theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

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Joshua Bailey
Joshua Bailey@JoshuaBailey184·
If Turkey successfully coerces Kurds into re-acceptance of Ottoman suzerainty, then Israel's inability to fully implement its Periphery Policy (in part because Israel's extreme anti-Arab racism made it toxic to work with) will be a bigger failure for it than the current Iran War
The National Context@NatlContext

The 82-page framework passed by Turkey's parliamentary commission on peace with the PKK reads less as a domestic document and more as a strategic regional doctrine: It treats domestic settlement as the prerequisite for fortifying Turkey's internal front and sustaining a cross-border security posture in a region the report portrays as increasingly shaped by proxy conflict and fragmentation. From that premise the report builds an explicit causal chain. It states that "Terror-Free Turkey" is in essence a vision of a terror-free region. It argues that Turkey's security concept does not permit threatening structures to persist in neighbouring arenas, and that a security approach confined to the border is insufficient. It then introduces a cross-border identity claim: Kurds living outside Turkey's borders are presented as maintaining a bond of emotional attachment toward Turkey, with a shared future "grounded in peace and mutual interest" cast as the natural outcome of a shared civilisational claim spanning Anatolia and Mesopotamia. This is where the report shifts from domestic peace process to regional order proposition. It advances a "natural alliance" of Turks, Kurds, Arabs and "other brotherly peoples" as the antidote to external fragmentation, with Turkey explicitly cast as the integrating pole leading integrative policies against the designs of “global imperial powers”. More: thenationalcontext.com/turkey-pkk-pea…

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Edward Ongweso Jr
Edward Ongweso Jr@bigblackjacobin·
If you work for a tech company and you’re doing shit that sounds like it’s a lore fragment in Cyberpunk 2077, then it’s time to play: Leak That Shit!!
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Mike Jones
Mike Jones@technopopulist·
Andy Burnham's big plan up until recently was to run the country as a left-wing populist - a toned-down version of Jeremy Corbyn, or 'Diet Corbyn' as you could call it. Had he been allowed to contest the Gorton and Denton by-election, that would have been easy given its 'vibrant' left-wing demographics. But with the Labour NEC blocking him, he’s now having to contest Makerfield, a Reform-adjacent, Blue Labour seat. This means the 'King of the North' can no longer run on that original platform; he has to adopt a more socially conservative approach to national sovereignty, law and order, and immigration just to hold the seat, explaining his recent U-turns. The irony of this is hilarious. Burnham was chomping at the bit to lead Britain to the left of Starmer, but the NEC’s shenanigans and his now-adopted political home of Makerfield have made that very difficult. So he is now reinventing himself all over again, for the umpteenth time. Whether he genuinely pivots or ultimately betrays those voters, it’s one of the most fascinating strategic binds in recent British politics.
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Eyup Lovely
Eyup Lovely@eyuplovely·
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Doctor Tom
Doctor Tom@neosovietposter·
the French Working Class every time Blanqui was arrested and imprisoned for Aura Farming yet again
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QNDZY
QNDZY@QNDZYcom·
Forza Horizon 6 is literally unplayable because of this game breaking bug 😡
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Mike Drucker
Mike Drucker@MikeDrucker·
It’s wild how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”
The Tennessee Holler@TheTNHoller

“A.I. is rewriting production as we sit here… deal with it. Like I said, it’s a tool… hear me now or pay me later.” Scott Borchetta, a Nashville record label executive, gets booed by MTSU grads when he brings up A.I.

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B.M.@ireallyhateyou·
Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam
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"Most of us here are guys whose views are extreme right. It's death to Arabs, across the board. For me, a five-year-old Arab child is the terrorist of 20 years from now. Every Arab." A student at Mechinat Lod, a Judeo-Nazi military preparatory program, describes his views, shared by his fellow soon-to-be-soldiers mechinistim. During the 2021 Dignity Uprising, the mechina in Lod turned into a Kahanist terrorist base - hundreds of armed settlers flocked into the so-called "mixed city" (euphemism for "mostly ethnically cleansed city") to attack Palestinians, and the mechina served as their "war room". Clip from a Channel 12 piece aired on January 23.

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gato fumante
gato fumante@KweenInYellow·
You can all forget about AOC ever being president, she genuinely has even worse political instincts than Elizabeth Warren. She won't get the nomination, and if she somehow does, she's going to lose the general. Just let go of that dream and live in reality.
adri ♡@socialistadri

.@hasanthehun thinks that AOC endorsing Maureen Galindo's opponent was a really bad move ‼️🚨

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Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard@kennardmatt·
This is fantastic news Congrats to irrepressible @MrTopple and rest of Canary team Game changer
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John Duncan
John Duncan@Johntheduncan·
You thought your chatbot was a woman after it complimented your novel so i think you might want to sit out these questions of gender
Richard Dawkins@RichardDawkins

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

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Larry Savage
Larry Savage@Prof_Savage·
The reflex to treat strikes as a public policy ‘problem’ instead of a democratic tool to rebalance power shows how Carney sees unions: disruptions to contain, not organizations workers rely on for fair wages, safety, and a voice. thestar.com/politics/feder… #canlab #cdnpoli
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