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Nuclear proliferation is what keeps me sane
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The degree to which we Europeans are royally fucked, if we don’t act decisively against Putin, authoritarian states in general and their local enablers right NOW, will be gargantuan.
Squandered our democracy away, because we just couldn’t give enough of a fuck or we wanted to get rid of it anyway.
Squandered our democracy away, because we just couldn’t give enough of a fuck or we wanted to get rid of it anyway.
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"Ein randalierendes Wildschwein im Wohnzimmer sollte wie jedes andere Haustier behandelt werden" – ein Kommentar von Jens Spahn www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/komm...
"Ein randalierendes Wildschwein im Wohnzimmer sollte wie jedes andere Haustier behandelt werden" – ein Kommentar von Jens Spahn
Es kommt selten vor, aber hin und wieder passiert es, dass sich ein Wildschwein - etwa durch ein achtlos offen gelassenes Fenster oder eine Terrassent
www.der-postillon.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"Ein randalierendes Wildschwein im Wohnzimmer sollte wie jedes andere Haustier behandelt werden" – ein Kommentar von Jens Spahn www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/komm...
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"Die Europäer müssen verstehen: Das ist das Ende der Affäre. Amerika geht unter. Lasst euch nicht von uns mit in den Abgrund ziehen. Ihr müsst euch mobilisieren. Das Schicksal der Welt – ganz buchstäblich – hängt davon ab."
Historikerin Marci Shore verlässt Yale: „Amerika geht unter"
Droht in den USA ein Bürgerkrieg? Die Osteuropahistorikerin Marci Shore und ihr Mann Timothy Snyder verlassen ihre Universität Yale und die USA. Ein Gespräch über die alltägliche Gewalt und die Rolle ...
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April 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Die Europäer müssen verstehen: Das ist das Ende der Affäre. Amerika geht unter. Lasst euch nicht von uns mit in den Abgrund ziehen. Ihr müsst euch mobilisieren. Das Schicksal der Welt – ganz buchstäblich – hängt davon ab."
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Dass vorgestern 18.000 Schulkinder in Duisburg wegen rechtsextremer Drohungen zu Hause bleiben mussten, habt Ihr mitbekommen? Nein? Dann haben unsere Leitmedien und politischen Verantwortungsträger, die sonst bei jeder kleinsten Kleinigkeit durchdrehen, alles richtig gemacht.
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Dass vorgestern 18.000 Schulkinder in Duisburg wegen rechtsextremer Drohungen zu Hause bleiben mussten, habt Ihr mitbekommen? Nein? Dann haben unsere Leitmedien und politischen Verantwortungsträger, die sonst bei jeder kleinsten Kleinigkeit durchdrehen, alles richtig gemacht.
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[everyone but us getting together in a big room to figure out how to wean off and end United States dependence forever] ART OF THE DEAL CLASS FUCKING DISMISSED
April 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
[everyone but us getting together in a big room to figure out how to wean off and end United States dependence forever] ART OF THE DEAL CLASS FUCKING DISMISSED
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This all points to confidence in US treasury bonds rapidly degrading, and the consequences of that go well beyond a simple recession. The US bond market imploding would make 2008 look like child's play.
For the layman, US treasury bonds have long been the safest of safe investments, meaning when the market tanks, people start buying bonds. In these cases, the 10-year yield goes down because bonds are being bought vs sold.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
If the yield goes up as the markets goes down, that is bad. Very bad.
JUST IN 🚨: 10-Year Treasury Yield soaring above 4.4% for the first time since February - Scott Bessent in Panic Mode
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This all points to confidence in US treasury bonds rapidly degrading, and the consequences of that go well beyond a simple recession. The US bond market imploding would make 2008 look like child's play.
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The credibility of the US government is completely shot.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
April 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The credibility of the US government is completely shot.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
Gone.
Annihilated.
Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration.
Ever.
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A very good negotiating tactic is to threaten to do something extreme and then do that extreme thing and then as soon as you see the negative consequences you back down completely and reverse course. This is how the best do it, it's called the Art of the Deal
April 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A very good negotiating tactic is to threaten to do something extreme and then do that extreme thing and then as soon as you see the negative consequences you back down completely and reverse course. This is how the best do it, it's called the Art of the Deal
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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Yes, prices will skyrocket.
Yes, business will go bankrupt.
Yes, stocks will crash.
Yes, unemployment will rise.
But if we hold on, the tariffs will be worth it. If fully implemented we can finally achieve the true American dream: rich people not having to pay ANY taxes.
Yes, business will go bankrupt.
Yes, stocks will crash.
Yes, unemployment will rise.
But if we hold on, the tariffs will be worth it. If fully implemented we can finally achieve the true American dream: rich people not having to pay ANY taxes.
April 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yes, prices will skyrocket.
Yes, business will go bankrupt.
Yes, stocks will crash.
Yes, unemployment will rise.
But if we hold on, the tariffs will be worth it. If fully implemented we can finally achieve the true American dream: rich people not having to pay ANY taxes.
Yes, business will go bankrupt.
Yes, stocks will crash.
Yes, unemployment will rise.
But if we hold on, the tariffs will be worth it. If fully implemented we can finally achieve the true American dream: rich people not having to pay ANY taxes.
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Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯!
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
"You journalists need to get your balls back"
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„Es ist, wie er betont, nur eines von mehreren möglichen Szenarien, beansprucht also keine Allgemeingültigkeit – und besitzt dennoch eine Suggestivkraft, der sich der Leser kaum entziehen kann.“
www.journal21.ch/artikel/wenn...
www.journal21.ch/artikel/wenn...
Wenn Russland gewinnt
Carlo Masala, Professor für Internationale Politik an der Universität der Bundeswehr in München, projiziert für sein nur 119 Seiten umfassendes Buch «Wenn Russland gewinnt» die Jetzt-Situation ins Jah...
www.journal21.ch
April 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
„Es ist, wie er betont, nur eines von mehreren möglichen Szenarien, beansprucht also keine Allgemeingültigkeit – und besitzt dennoch eine Suggestivkraft, der sich der Leser kaum entziehen kann.“
www.journal21.ch/artikel/wenn...
www.journal21.ch/artikel/wenn...
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my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20
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Meine Kolumne in der taz beschäftigt sich heute mit der Gruppenpolarisierung und der autoritären Linken. taz.de/!6076315/
Ist die Linke kaputt?
Die digitale Öffentlichkeit bedroht die Demokratie, hat aber auf die Linken noch speziell eigenartige Wirkungen – auch über die Gaza-Debatte hinaus
taz.de
April 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Meine Kolumne in der taz beschäftigt sich heute mit der Gruppenpolarisierung und der autoritären Linken. taz.de/!6076315/
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i think this might be true fwiw
April 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
i think this might be true fwiw
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You can probably trace this back to the Nixon pardon, the post-2008 "Too big to jail" decline in white collar prosecutions, and of course more recently the half hearted Trump prosecution. These are fundamentally political, not legal problems
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
You can probably trace this back to the Nixon pardon, the post-2008 "Too big to jail" decline in white collar prosecutions, and of course more recently the half hearted Trump prosecution. These are fundamentally political, not legal problems
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Die Haltung vieler scheint zu sein, lieber zu riskieren, dass Faschisten die Demokratie zerstören, weil sie juristisch, mit legalen (!) rechtsstaatlichen Mitteln zu stoppen ein schlechter Look für die Demokratie sein könnte.
March 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Die Haltung vieler scheint zu sein, lieber zu riskieren, dass Faschisten die Demokratie zerstören, weil sie juristisch, mit legalen (!) rechtsstaatlichen Mitteln zu stoppen ein schlechter Look für die Demokratie sein könnte.
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What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
March 31, 2025 at 12:55 PM
France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you
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Vielleicht liegt die Abwehrhaltung einiger Menschen gegen den Faschismusbegriff darin begründet, dass damit vieles einhergeht, was schlichtweg unbequem ist. Die Einsicht, dass die normalen Spielregeln außer Kraft gesetzt werden. Angst vor der Zukunft. Und vor allem die Notwendigkeit zu handeln.
March 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Vielleicht liegt die Abwehrhaltung einiger Menschen gegen den Faschismusbegriff darin begründet, dass damit vieles einhergeht, was schlichtweg unbequem ist. Die Einsicht, dass die normalen Spielregeln außer Kraft gesetzt werden. Angst vor der Zukunft. Und vor allem die Notwendigkeit zu handeln.
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This is, at its root, nothing more than the revenge of men for being made to feel something less than all-dominant. The fear that, one day, there will be something else in society that takes centre stage ahead of male satisfaction, male rage, male pain.
Every morning we have to wake up to the hugely influential ramblings of a monster who wasn’t even voted into office. Before we have the debate about “this world offers young men nothing” we have to listen to the reasons why you can only do what this monster is doing if you’re a man.
March 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
This is, at its root, nothing more than the revenge of men for being made to feel something less than all-dominant. The fear that, one day, there will be something else in society that takes centre stage ahead of male satisfaction, male rage, male pain.
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Das ist ein wundervoller kleiner Essay über die Standhaftigkeit von Coyoten. Eine ganz tolle Wochenend-Lektüre.
Coyotes do not require our permission to exist. For this, they will never be forgiven
An article about a species that's survived 200 years of poison, traps, and arial machine gunning -- among other things
An article about a species that's survived 200 years of poison, traps, and arial machine gunning -- among other things
The Defiance of Coyotes
How To Survive When Everyone Hates You
www.bannedinyourstate.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Das ist ein wundervoller kleiner Essay über die Standhaftigkeit von Coyoten. Eine ganz tolle Wochenend-Lektüre.
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Wenn die Faschisten mal die Macht ergreifen, unsere Freiheiten, die Demokratie und den Rechtsstaat zerstören, wird es völlig egal gewesen sein, ob wir politisch "fair" zu ihnen gewesen sind oder sie in Talkshow eingeladen haben, wir werden alle genau so leiden.
March 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Wenn die Faschisten mal die Macht ergreifen, unsere Freiheiten, die Demokratie und den Rechtsstaat zerstören, wird es völlig egal gewesen sein, ob wir politisch "fair" zu ihnen gewesen sind oder sie in Talkshow eingeladen haben, wir werden alle genau so leiden.
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didn't really see this guy being one of the only elected Dems who understands the moment but here we are
"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov
March 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
didn't really see this guy being one of the only elected Dems who understands the moment but here we are