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The Tune has Changed, but the Waltz Continues
Why do we pretend that nothing about America has changed?
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On the recent tariff walk-back, or why everyone is missing the forest for the trees on Canada-U.S. relations
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I don't know you guys, do we really WANT a candidate who panders to this website THIS hard?
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I don't know you guys, do we really WANT a candidate who panders to this website THIS hard?
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Bracing analysis of the rise of the far-right in Germany: "there are widespread right-wing extremist networks within the security services, the police, and the armed forces. Europe-wide networks of fascists are operating unhindered. Something is brewing. If we don't react now, it will be too late."
»Wir haben vor der AfD gewarnt, als sie am Horizont auftauchte. Keine Reaktion. Im Gegenteil – ihre Vertreter:innen saßen in jeder Talkshow, bevor die AfD auch nur ein einziges Landtagsmandat hatte. Mit dem Erfolg, dass sie nun eine einflussreiche Partei ist.« www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...
Rechtsextremismus: Wir haben Euch gewarnt
Ein brennendes Haus in Solingen. Eine vierköpfige Familie stirbt in den Flammen. Brandstiftung. Die Schlagzeilen sind nicht von 1993, sondern von jetzt. Schon wieder.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Bracing analysis of the rise of the far-right in Germany: "there are widespread right-wing extremist networks within the security services, the police, and the armed forces. Europe-wide networks of fascists are operating unhindered. Something is brewing. If we don't react now, it will be too late."
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The Atlantic & Vanity Fair only ever assign RFK Jr profiles to people who want to fuck him because nobody else can stomach the idea of lying to help him. He's an elderly nepobaby on a mission to kill as many children as possible before he dies, to leave the world more plague-ridden than he found it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The Atlantic & Vanity Fair only ever assign RFK Jr profiles to people who want to fuck him because nobody else can stomach the idea of lying to help him. He's an elderly nepobaby on a mission to kill as many children as possible before he dies, to leave the world more plague-ridden than he found it.
One of the most agitating features of living in an english speaking country that isn’t America is that your ruling class is gripped with a deep sense of humiliation at being born outside of it and will do nearly anything to rectify this error.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
One of the most agitating features of living in an english speaking country that isn’t America is that your ruling class is gripped with a deep sense of humiliation at being born outside of it and will do nearly anything to rectify this error.
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ah yes, everyday voices such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
ah yes, everyday voices such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch
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Propaganda works
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Propaganda works
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lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
lol this rocks
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves
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Why are you (as a man) not bumping some MARINA
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Why are you (as a man) not bumping some MARINA
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There is a really bad habit on the left of middle class people trying to dress their concerns up as the views of the impoverished and down trodden, and this basically formalizes it
Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500
Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy
Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
There is a really bad habit on the left of middle class people trying to dress their concerns up as the views of the impoverished and down trodden, and this basically formalizes it
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lots of discourse about this and I think I'll say a) it's fundamentally wrong but b) insofar as it captures anything it's that life in the 2020s requires a much bigger cognitive load to live parsimoniously than in 1990 or 1960. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
lots of discourse about this and I think I'll say a) it's fundamentally wrong but b) insofar as it captures anything it's that life in the 2020s requires a much bigger cognitive load to live parsimoniously than in 1990 or 1960. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Spend less on candles
It's sad what happens when someone thinks numbers on a spreadsheet are real life.
What's your calculation compared to the OP's?
Neither Will or you seem to have an answer.
Have healthcare premiums historically been higher than rent?
What's your calculation compared to the OP's?
Neither Will or you seem to have an answer.
Have healthcare premiums historically been higher than rent?
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Spend less on candles
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I love Knowing Ball because it absolves me from knowing anything else.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I love Knowing Ball because it absolves me from knowing anything else.
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Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 is that. Help us grow our voice. www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Because the Liberal Currents writers have actual values, they are, almost uniquely among media, able to react our fascist moment not by asking “What if all our beliefs are wrong? What if we went too far with all the democracy and fairness stuff?” but by asking “How do we beat the fascists again?”
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okay, really not sure about this one
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
okay, really not sure about this one
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I have a brilliant idea on how to counter Russia and China. We could focus on building up our partners in Asia and the ongoing conventional fucking war in Europe instead of a pointless war in South America.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I have a brilliant idea on how to counter Russia and China. We could focus on building up our partners in Asia and the ongoing conventional fucking war in Europe instead of a pointless war in South America.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
Someone make me a senior fellow. This shit's easy as hell.
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Evropeans will look down on Americans as if the average electoral politics of their countries wasn't:
⚫️Hitlerian Party 35%
🔵Conservatives willing to form a govt with the Hitlerians 20%
🔴Socdems in free fall 14%
🟠Neoliberals 10%
🟢Greens 8%
🟤Radical Left party on historic minimum 3%
⚫️Hitlerian Party 35%
🔵Conservatives willing to form a govt with the Hitlerians 20%
🔴Socdems in free fall 14%
🟠Neoliberals 10%
🟢Greens 8%
🟤Radical Left party on historic minimum 3%
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Evropeans will look down on Americans as if the average electoral politics of their countries wasn't:
⚫️Hitlerian Party 35%
🔵Conservatives willing to form a govt with the Hitlerians 20%
🔴Socdems in free fall 14%
🟠Neoliberals 10%
🟢Greens 8%
🟤Radical Left party on historic minimum 3%
⚫️Hitlerian Party 35%
🔵Conservatives willing to form a govt with the Hitlerians 20%
🔴Socdems in free fall 14%
🟠Neoliberals 10%
🟢Greens 8%
🟤Radical Left party on historic minimum 3%
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the problem with saying that Donald Trump is a fascist but you have to talk to everyone in power is that you’re basically explicitly treating fascism as just another political ideology
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
the problem with saying that Donald Trump is a fascist but you have to talk to everyone in power is that you’re basically explicitly treating fascism as just another political ideology
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how did they settle on this number? was there a meeting where it was like 'well anybody can try to traffic people for sex thirteen, fourteen times, that's just normal. sixteen? dubious. and seventeen is right out'
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
how did they settle on this number? was there a meeting where it was like 'well anybody can try to traffic people for sex thirteen, fourteen times, that's just normal. sixteen? dubious. and seventeen is right out'
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The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
I’ll admit this surprised even me. I’d kind of shrugged off the notion that reactionary accounts are all foreign astroturf but uh…
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’ll admit this surprised even me. I’d kind of shrugged off the notion that reactionary accounts are all foreign astroturf but uh…
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This is a great article. While the PLA is extremely capable, the invasion of Taiwan would be the most difficult landing operation ever attempted. There has never been an amphibious landing in the face of CDCMs. For comparison, Taiwan has hundreds of missiles and the PLAN as eight LPDs.
Taiwan highlighted its efforts in developing area denial capabilities, including anti-ship missiles, attack drones and new coastal defense forces, to counter a potential Chinese invasion of the island in its 2025 National Defense Report 🇹🇼
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
Taiwan Defense Report Highlights Area Denial Progress - Naval News
Taiwan's latest defense report highlighted the development of area denial capabilities that could defeat a Chinese invasion of the island.
www.navalnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is a great article. While the PLA is extremely capable, the invasion of Taiwan would be the most difficult landing operation ever attempted. There has never been an amphibious landing in the face of CDCMs. For comparison, Taiwan has hundreds of missiles and the PLAN as eight LPDs.
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As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
in general the American individuality and distrust of government disappears once criminal justice enters the conversation
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
November 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
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I can't think of what would be the best Hark A Vagrant but everyone should know Kate Beaton
November 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I can't think of what would be the best Hark A Vagrant but everyone should know Kate Beaton