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Abandonment Isles 🌐
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Glasgow bureaucrat, photograher and hiker/cyclist. Participant in contemporary LGBT and anti-racism activism. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇱🇹🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️
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What political activities German soldiers with such an emblem do immediately after WWI?
Its not a good look to go blaming the Jews over the iconography of the regime that shovelled them into ovens.
The state of American Progressivism:
This is true, but it also goes for every other democracy, no government can survive a consistently iliberal electorate.
People blabbing about the “greatest country in the world” bullshit for years when American democracy was held together by this
The more niche a piece of iconography is, the more deliberately the use.

How many people go into a tattoo parlour and roll the dice?
The Deaths-Head insignia is recognisable to anyone who plays a historical Call of Duty and anyone who has watched Band of Brothers.

How elitist are some of the most popular forms in entertainment in the United States?
The gall of a larper to use epiphets like 'white liberal' while excusing the war rape of 1000's of Albanian Muslims.

balkaninsight.com/2018/10/18/p...
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
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A lot of things click into place when you realise that, as much as people try to pretend otherwise, reducing immigration in the age of Ryanair is a significant spending commitment and therefore demands for lowering immigration or reducing migrants' rights are demands for a luxury good
This is a fascinating point, my assumption until now has been that the global dominance of the English language was guaranteed since the Carter administration. Perhaps the future has will get surprise us.
"How the fuck do you undo American cultural hegemony when they speak the world language?" having an answer as easy as "Allow them to fill the English-speaking internet with digital asbestos until nothing that comes from them can be trusted"
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)
The problem with this is that the majority of inter-election polling periods in Britain have wild results that are never reflected on voting day, just look at 2019:
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
I don't think this is going to work when the WH is the one of the most photographed buildings on the planet's surface.
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At first fettermans were spread 2 years apart, then 1 year, then 6 months, we could be seeing a double fetterman event within 7 days
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The whole internet loves buff white populist, who combines left wing ideas with masculine aesthetics prized among reactionaries!

*5 seconds later* we regret to inform you the populist has a totenkopf tattoo
chat it doesn't look good
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It's sociology 101. There were these videos I used to show in class where people would literally ignore actors paid to pass out in a crowd who looked "shabbily dressed". People IMMEDIATELY responded when a paid actor in suit passed out.
This again speaks back to the brilliance behind the Civil Rights Marchers marching in their Sunday best.

Because study after study has shown that society demands people in suits be treated better than people dressed poorly.

So when they see cruelty enacted upon them, they instantly get outraged.
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Curtis Silwa was asked if he felt okay with losing and contributing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory and he responded by laying into Bill Ackman and Andrew Cuomo.
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Simplest cross x advice in the world - never answer the question they asked, answer what you wish they asked.
The other left-of-center American politician who shares Mamdani's incredible message focus is Bernie Sanders, who similarly scores off the charts on "authenticity." Political *reporters* hated Sanders and his tendency to derail questions to repeat talking points about billionaires but voters love it
The answer, by and large is racism.
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