I so think among the slightly less-brainwormed of this type, it’s more ”HR are the willing handmaidens of the capitalists”, which still leaves you in “19th-c. RussNat Germanophobia” and “Idi Amin expels the Indians” territory.
Poking about on Twitter, I’ve been seeing even a few Japanese artist accounts sharing nonsense from Euro-fash accounts about how Muslim immigrants are imposing Sharia on everyone else in Europe.
The real divisions are probably in foreign policy, and even that’s more of a spectrum with multiple gradations ranging from Zionist holdouts to “critical support for anti-imperialist comrade Vladimir Putin.”
So what you’re saying is that the DSA needs to infiltrate the Republican Party?
I mean, some of us here are immigrants or from immigrant families, and that “occasional exception” of “international travel” was pretty much my primary experience with planes all the way into college!
Glad you mentioned the international part, because some of us here in, say, the American Midwest have to cross the world’s largest ocean and make at least one layover just to visit family.
Shit, we’re even nearing 60% disapproval on immigration!
Because we’re just one of his online shitposts made for a lark while he was studying for his business degree.
The man was undeniably pretty reactionary, but in a “pity they killed Stolypin before his reforms could take root” sort of way, which I suppose makes him a liberal by Russian nationalist standards. Calling him “Chesterton but crankier and worse” may not be the least apt comparison.
At the very least, no one can accuse him of being a Western stooge, lol.
(Except the part where he was a self-described monarchist.)
As a side note, his parents were apparently the types to display a portrait of Cromwell in their home, so if anything he was the kid who went lib, lol.
political proselytization (and when he did explicitly talk about his own views, it was often in the “I think Marx got a lot of things right” vein). Also, he was a Russian Orthodox convert who nonetheless objected to the canonization of the Romanovs (and saw little to love about Putin).
God, you just reminded me of one of my own high school history/economics/poli-sci teachers (also an *excellent* one) who in retrospect was at least paleocon-adjacent (I think he was actually sympathetic to the 2008 Constitutional Party candidate, lol). That said, he had little interest in
This one is probably up your alley, then:
smh at Illumination stealing ideas from DocuDubery:
The real question then is “Do they defect to the IJA, and when?”
And if you’re the kind of guy who thinks the Guardian is “fake news”, here’s the IDF’s own official twitter confirming it:
I suspect there’s gonna be at least some overlap with reasons why people increasingly distrust experts in general.
And even within height-of-Cold-War-era academia, I think a lot of it was just people going “for all of its faults, it is still better to live in Brezhnev’s USSR than Papa Doc’s Haiti” going on.
Even more ironic when you consider that the diaspora both better represents their ideals and is suffering more from the antisemitic parts of the reaction to Israel’s actions than the Israelis themselves.
At least Hezbollah understands that it literally can’t exist without Lebanese living in south Lebanon. No such internal incentives for Israel, unfortunately.
In my first medieval European history class, one of the main things we learned was that if the Pope is trying to stop people from doing X, they’re probably doing X.
I think at this point, the only guaranteed assumption we can make about a possible Platner vs. Collins race is that it’s probably going to be really fucking stupid on both sides.
Instructions unclear, Gabriel Octasio-Cortez is now king of Mexico and Central America.
Is hijab enforcement (at least circa 2025) kind of like the situation of opposition politicians in late-Nationalist Taiwan, where some unlucky SOB gets occasionally jumped by government goons, but the state now fears doing anything large-scale?
Hell, Goldwater himself already openly hated Falwell and the Evangelical right, so Trump probably would have at least caused him to go full independent.
I will say that with BEAD specifically, it was also because the approval process for applications took so long that none of its broadband projects had actually begun construction by Trump’s reelection.
If shit keeps on being bad, this might just be the first round of what ends up being a long-running Hezbollah cycle: Underestimate Hezbollah, get smacked by Hezbollah, over-prepare for Hezbollah, smack Hezbollah, underestimate Hezbollah, get smacked by Hezbollah, etc.
Don’t forget about Harold von Braunhut, inventor of Sea Monkeys, Aryan Nations leader, and a born-and-bred Jew! (Unlike Gollub, he actually remained a member in good standing even after being publicly outed.)