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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause The “Leftwingers for Trump, because Palestine” brigade really are among the most gullible and stupid individuals on the planet.

(Reminder that the AfD want to ban Holocaust memorials in Germany, and would literally call themselves the Nazi Party and use the swastika as a logo if the postwar German constitution didn’t criminalise it.)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/elon-musk-tells-far-right-afd-rally-theres-too-much-focus-on-past-guilt-in-germany/ Not ominous at all, no.

Watching that episode of The Simpson where Homer has a heart attack but can’t afford surgery was in retrospect one of the biggest influences on my political views for the rest of my life.* I remember my dad explaining, “oh they don’t have an NHS in America, people are hot money there have to go...

There’s no mutual self-defence pact in the Commonwealth like NATO and the EU each have. So I wouldn’t count on that, unfortunately. I suspect worst comes to the worst, most western countries won’t want to be in any conflict with a totalitarian USA.

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3lggm35tsr22p White Power presidency.

Just a random thought here, but if America survives Trump 2.0 as an nation intact, it’s going to need a Second Republic, a whole new constitution and framework, to avoid a Trump every happening again. That’s if the US doesn’t collapse completely, of course.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-german-ambassador-warns-trump-230455588.html "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lft5lq7fpl2u Would I be correct in assuming that Kindly Uncle Joe couldn’t get any of these goals achieved when in office as he led what in Britain would be called minority government?

Oh FFS, that's exactly like Brexit – "vote to leave the EU and they'll bring back manufacturing jobs!" (Yes, and how's that working out now there are trade frictions and tariffs and reams of extra paperwork to trade with Britain's largest export market?) It's the same scam, different country.

It’s basically exactly what the leaks revealed, including the system logo.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/13/uk-low-middle-income-families-poorer-oecd-counterparts-study-western-europe Cheerful news about living standards here on Poverty Island.

Seems to be a whole swirl of different reasons I’ve seen. Climate denialist cope seems to take on all kinds of shapes, from crank pseudoscience to the tired culture war bollocks. Anything but accepting the scientific consensus…

https://bsky.app/profile/mattshort.bsky.social/post/3lfhwzlbzks2z German Neo-Nazi party the AfD gets a bit unsubtle. Next time, we need to get rid of all of them. Too much Nazism and too many Nazis slipped through the cracks to poison future generations.

I noticed the right-wing narrative is blaming the supposed bad management of local water supplies, and mismanagement of forestry as demanded by shadowy environmentalists. It’s like how whenever there’s historically bad flooding here*, the right-wing media always immediately blames...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-panama-canal-greenland I keep thinking about that weirdo fringe of the Left who claimed that Trump was more “peaceful” of the two candidates.

(Tell you what, I’m not happy about Orange Bastard making bizarre rants about annexing other NATO countries, including one sharing the British head of state.) (I don’t think that he would treat the Inuit people of Greenland particularly nicely, given his white supremacism.)

Hot new words for 2025: Anschluss, lebensraum and irredentism.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-cost-statistics-numbers-five-years-eu-b2667149.html (Alternative link.) How ultranationalism makes your country an economic basketcase…

These feel like the last days of the consumer internet as a usable service. I have to admit that I’m thinking back nostalgically to the internet of 2005, when it was still useful, and community-based, and didn’t spill over into real life. Having it as just a niche, hobbyist pursuit at least kept...