Padraig
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You know I’ve always tried to live my life so that I die with a clean conscience. I haven’t always been successful at that, I’ll admit.
But at least I’m not gonna get up to Saint Peter and be like “oh yeah I built an app to allow you to gamble on your massive child support bill”
But at least I’m not gonna get up to Saint Peter and be like “oh yeah I built an app to allow you to gamble on your massive child support bill”
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
The thing is, you can critique Green party policy on NATO, but this is explicitly not what the Green policy on NATO is. This is just a form of wishcasting.
Opposing NATO expansion is a nonsensical policy. If countries want to join it, they can. Nobody's twisting their arms. Not sure what "non-militarised" security involves
The Green Party condemns Russia’s invasion, backs Ukraine’s sovereignty, and urges peace talks. It opposes NATO expansion and supports replacing NATO with a cooperative, non-militarised European security framework 💚
Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence
Hannan becoming more extreme, probably egged on by his old friend, Douglas Carswell.
I don't think they used to be this extreme but they entered into a Faustian bargain years ago: they, 'the clever chaps', could ride/steer the less desirable part of the Right. Now they are steered by it.
I don't think they used to be this extreme but they entered into a Faustian bargain years ago: they, 'the clever chaps', could ride/steer the less desirable part of the Right. Now they are steered by it.
For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
have said this before, but one of biggest changes on social media that few of us are talking about is that LLMs are becoming smarter than the median Internet commenter
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So "liberal democracy" can't win the political argument against fascism and has to resort to violence, is that what you're saying?
If that's the case, it strikes me that, perhaps, liberal democracy isn't such a good way to organise society?
If that's the case, it strikes me that, perhaps, liberal democracy isn't such a good way to organise society?
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
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