The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
I'm so fed up with Western politicians acting like Russia isn't acting like Trump
they keep threatening to nuke UK, Poland and Baltics in their media like every month or so
I firmly believe presidents & people with control over medical agencies should understand percentages!
If *you* don’t, no judgment; I will explain in the next couple posts how they work. The short version is that Senator Warren is correct in the clip, and there’s NO interpretation in which RFKJr is
The weird leftist fetish for obvious lifelong criminal thugs like Hasan Piker never ceases to amaze.
This guy tortures his dog and wishes he could rob banks and loot priceless artworks too. He's cut from the same fetid cloth as the ICE goons tear-gassing babies and grannies.
Iran when the American forces deployed to take Kharg Island take Kharg Island:
This is the kind of thing I fear when looking at Magyar's unapologetic housecleaning in Hungary. People are rightly saying this is what Dems should do if/when back in power and I shudder to think how US political media would cover it if they did.
Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.
They think you're stupid.
Also when sweaty dudes with hammers who beat their wives get mad, there is an implicit threat of violence that simply isn’t there when girl job doers get mad. Nobody thinks teachers’ unions will go Nazi but the Teamsters might. This too is gender.
One of the reasons I'm involved in my local socialist library project is that I hope Kids These Days won't fall for meme-tankie bullshit if they could read what happened to the 70s and 80s M-L groups, and then avoid them.
Like the group that banned interracial relationships for being racist.
"Just reach out humbly and respectfully to Republican base voters with policies that will materially benefit them and they'll see reason and stop voting for lunatics, grifters and fascists": it never fucking works and never will. driftglass.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
Complaining about HR is also how capitalist would-be tyrants who resent the strictures of bureaucratic shareholder capitalism launder their class interests into something resembling populism. It's not about being pro-worker, it's about giving men like Elon Musk total control over their companies.
This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam
The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind
it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.
in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.
The thing about Holodomor denial that gets me is like
Who is it for? It was blatantly happening at the time, the Soviets practically admitted it happened after the 50s and after 1991 you could actually go and read the records
Dunno who needs to hear it but the Holodomor was very much a genocide perpetrated by Stalin on behalf of the Soviet version of the Russian Empire against the Ukrainian nation. Half the replies seem to think it didn't happen.
I think the Hungarian left will make a comeback in the next election. The electoral system was almost tailor-made to keep them out of power. Orban just didn't expect a conservative revolt against him that leftwing and liberal voters would join in an electoral alliance.
Russia and China are helping Iran but Trump is angry at... Europe
Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
I wouldn't be surprised if investigators and journalists find some really shady shit on Netanyahu in the wreckage of the Orban government. Remember that Orban and Netanyahu have worked together since the early 2000s, possibly even 1990s.
Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.
We need to stop Andy Masley. This just feels unreasonably greedy at this point. Can someone else get good epistemics too, so I don't have to keep handing it to the same guy?