Ik schrijf voor het schoolkrantje nu meer dan twee jaar over de terreur van de christelijk-conservatieve VSP. Als dit moslims waren geweest, waren er Kamervragen gesteld, had iedereen het er in de talkshows over gehad. Maar het zijn witte jongens, dus niemand geeft een fuck.
interesting parallel between Brexit and Maga: both fundamentally underestimate their country's dependence on the goodwill of its allies, because the very realization of that dependency contradicts their fantasies of omnipotence.
Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.
Prima. De schaamte is volkomen verdwenen bij racisten, die door sociale media geen idee meer lijken te hebben dat discriminatie bij wet verboden is. Burgers moeten, bij gebreke van afdoende overheidshandelen, onderling zorgen dat schaamte en consequenties weer normaal worden.
Gedoneerd. Teller staat op >123k op dit moment. Geld gaat naar generatoren en power stations. Laat Oekraïne en de Oekraïense soldaten niet in de kou staan!
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
‘Criminaliteit onder asielmigranten, blijkt uit onderzoek, is een probleem van een kleine minderheid. En het is niet groter dan onder de autochtone bevolking. Uit de registraties blijkt dat 97 procent van asielmigranten door de politie ‘nooit’ van een misdrijf is verdacht’
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
This week, Europe must choose:
Whether the EU remains a geopolitical object, or chooses to become a subject that shapes its own future.
#DefendDemocracy
#HandsOffOurEU
#EUCO #EUpol
#WeAreEU🇪🇺
www.iss.europa.eu/publications...
A good explanation for why #Russia believes that if people in the West object to being murdered by Russians, then we are Russophobes.
#Russian #Putin #RussiaInvadedUkraine #Ukraine #russiaIsANaziState #RussiaIsATerroristState #Russianarmy #UkraineKrieg #MakeRussiaPay #StandWithUkraine #RussiaGoHome
A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
youtube.com/shorts/t7bCE...
A flow chart shows 17.4 million leave voters in 2016, vs 16.1m remain. In 2025, 5 million of those people have died, and 3 million new voters have come of age. The result (plus some people changing their mind) is 19.8 million voters now back rejoin, versus just 11.7 million wanting to stay out.
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything
"Since at least 2014 we are watching a coup against democracy unfold. It is the combination of hybrid warfare, rise of the far-right, and tech coup.
How long can Europe hold the line if we don’t take defending our democracy as serious as defending our territory?"
defenddemocracy.eu/handsoff-our...
Ze heeft het uitgemaakt en loopt nu achter de bad boys aan. Lekker laten lopen dus. #hetbegintmetzelfliefde #Europefirst
Europe’s psychology of weakness:
When will Europeans decide they’ve had enough?
“There is no way out of this without investing in a stronger EU.”
by @sbeverts.bsky.social
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
WTAF.
Maar GroenLinksPvdA is veel erger volgens de @vvdonline.bsky.social
Yeşilgöz is alleen tegen antisemitisme als het in haar straatje past. #eenvandaag
Where we're at in Georgia:
⚪️ ~170 political prisoners — including 6 active opposition leaders — most facing years in jail
⚪️ Day 330 of uninterrupted protests in 8+ cities
⚪️ 300+ protesters tortured & hospitalized — 0 officers punished
⚪️ 10+ opposition parties facing bans.
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
OBAMA: “Better’s good… we’re not gonna get to perfect. Do I think single-payer with no profit motive would’ve been smarter? Absolutely.”
President Obama tells Maron the ACA was a compromise because he didn’t have the votes for what he really wanted. #MedicareForAll
It's the internet, stupid.
Why has global populism emerged right now?
No single cause explains as well as the internet.
www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...
Omdat het moet
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
White male perpetrator: hardly surprising. Who carried out the assassination of Minnesota legislators? Or the Trump shooting? Or the Pelosi attack? Or 54,4% of mass shootings in the USA?!? But immigrants are threatening your country, m'kay.
Peter Thiel is een engbek.
