geckogamer
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Mostly retweets of (geo)politics and occasional animal or theme park related stuff. Unwilling Anglophile
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"2026th is in one month"
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"Me who lost sense of time already in 2020."
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"Me who lost sense of time already in 2020."
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"2026th is in one month"
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"Me who lost sense of time already in 2020."
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"Me who lost sense of time already in 2020."
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The RU propaganda in Crimea was very Leftist. Trying to appeal to Syriza, Podemos style people. The perception of RU as defender of white race struggling against globalist coalition of cabals trying to genocide the white race with mass migration began in the Syrian Assadist info sphere
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The RU propaganda in Crimea was very Leftist. Trying to appeal to Syriza, Podemos style people. The perception of RU as defender of white race struggling against globalist coalition of cabals trying to genocide the white race with mass migration began in the Syrian Assadist info sphere
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In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
People ignore how much this is led by admin sclerosis and 4chan R interns wanting to brag to their chat buddies in Europe that they are gonna save them from the globalist filth
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
Much of all public online nature of this admin is that all interns are Nazi /pol/ posters
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In a world where much of the current governing US elite has been driven insane through decades of being very online some of the best analysts of US elite behaviour are people like Mihnea who have detailed knowledge of the internet spaces that drove them round the bend
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The US NSS reads like it was written by someone terminally online who wanted to be able to brag he owned Europe but might lead to the US losing its basing rights in Europe and the DoD no longer having a global presence.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The US NSS reads like it was written by someone terminally online who wanted to be able to brag he owned Europe but might lead to the US losing its basing rights in Europe and the DoD no longer having a global presence.
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The funniest bit on that document on Europe is how internationalist it is.
"The goal is to spread the movement comrades. We're sending Radek (Bannon) to organize the comrades in Germany"
"The goal is to spread the movement comrades. We're sending Radek (Bannon) to organize the comrades in Germany"
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The funniest bit on that document on Europe is how internationalist it is.
"The goal is to spread the movement comrades. We're sending Radek (Bannon) to organize the comrades in Germany"
"The goal is to spread the movement comrades. We're sending Radek (Bannon) to organize the comrades in Germany"
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The bigger issue here is not policy right now, the current admin is to sclerotic to have one, means this stuff all online handlers engage in, or the lunacies interns get in documents Trump never reads, but that one of the 2 parties in the US is gonna be run by /pol/acks in the next decade
December 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The bigger issue here is not policy right now, the current admin is to sclerotic to have one, means this stuff all online handlers engage in, or the lunacies interns get in documents Trump never reads, but that one of the 2 parties in the US is gonna be run by /pol/acks in the next decade
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Because it misreads fundamental risks the Trump administration represents. We have this cycle over and over of people panicking over the assumption that Trump can reshape the global order when the more likely trigger for global crisis is Trump generating disorder in America that collapses the US
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Because it misreads fundamental risks the Trump administration represents. We have this cycle over and over of people panicking over the assumption that Trump can reshape the global order when the more likely trigger for global crisis is Trump generating disorder in America that collapses the US
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DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
December 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
DOD: launching Hellfires at boats allegedly bringing cocaine to the US
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
DOD: also paying a shitload of money to this guy
The self-licking ice cream cone always finds new ways to lick itself
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Will they actually follow the NSS? probably not, no. Is it still bad they let the turbo chuds write US national security policy? yes
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Meloni will do her best to stay out of this, knowing that journalists are unlikely to force her to talk about it (the ones who don't play ball, she just ignores...)
By @amykazmin.bsky.social of the @financialtimes.com:
www.ft.com/content/833f...
By @amykazmin.bsky.social of the @financialtimes.com:
www.ft.com/content/833f...
Italian writers decry fascist rehabilitation at top book fair
Authors challenge decision to give stand to hard-right imprint at prestigious Rome literary event
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Meloni will do her best to stay out of this, knowing that journalists are unlikely to force her to talk about it (the ones who don't play ball, she just ignores...)
By @amykazmin.bsky.social of the @financialtimes.com:
www.ft.com/content/833f...
By @amykazmin.bsky.social of the @financialtimes.com:
www.ft.com/content/833f...
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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Inflation is genuinely long term traumatizing. Keep arguing with dad not spend all money on stuff (phones, laptops, IT stuff...etc) but he is still is traumatized by 90's hyperinflation and believes savings are worthless
Still remembers when a cars price doubled over night
Still remembers when a cars price doubled over night
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Inflation is genuinely long term traumatizing. Keep arguing with dad not spend all money on stuff (phones, laptops, IT stuff...etc) but he is still is traumatized by 90's hyperinflation and believes savings are worthless
Still remembers when a cars price doubled over night
Still remembers when a cars price doubled over night
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Just as pizzo provided the basic starting capital for much more profitable mafia ventures like drugs-smuggling or counterfeit goods export, hackers will use a routine collection of ransomware payoffs to fund much more extensive and lucrative operations that destabilise online infrastructure further
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just as pizzo provided the basic starting capital for much more profitable mafia ventures like drugs-smuggling or counterfeit goods export, hackers will use a routine collection of ransomware payoffs to fund much more extensive and lucrative operations that destabilise online infrastructure further
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If anyone from SOCOM is lurking here, I offer some theory for your CO while you get your ass covering in order
Samuel Huntington’s Prussian Paradox
Clausewitz, Military Professionalism, and the Myth of a “Apolitical” Military
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If anyone from SOCOM is lurking here, I offer some theory for your CO while you get your ass covering in order
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Structurally it's also interesting that, as the leak report also notes, the OBR has all these responsibilities but is about the scale of a small to medium-sized business, with a budget of £6.4mn and a team of 52 people, only six in what you'd call 'operations'. Not extending to a full IT department.
December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Structurally it's also interesting that, as the leak report also notes, the OBR has all these responsibilities but is about the scale of a small to medium-sized business, with a budget of £6.4mn and a team of 52 people, only six in what you'd call 'operations'. Not extending to a full IT department.
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How can an OBR that has torched trust in its competence and capacity fulfil a useful policy-making function?
See also the US Supreme Court.
See also the US Supreme Court.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
How can an OBR that has torched trust in its competence and capacity fulfil a useful policy-making function?
See also the US Supreme Court.
See also the US Supreme Court.
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The lesson American military officers have learned today is that under Donald Trump they will always be thrown under the bus to protect MAGA's civilian leaders
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The lesson American military officers have learned today is that under Donald Trump they will always be thrown under the bus to protect MAGA's civilian leaders
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These kinds of high-level resignations also deflect debate away from more fundamental questions about whether an institution can ever realistically fulfill its supposed purpose
This is fake accountability in my view; scapegoating is still bad when it is a senior leader used as the human shield for the organisation rather than a low level employee. It looks noble but it is not actually helping the organisation - when someone says "I take full responsibility ...
NEW: Richard Hughes resigns from the OBR over budget leak.
Along with BBC leadership, a recent resurgence of people in public service jobs taking responsibility.
Along with BBC leadership, a recent resurgence of people in public service jobs taking responsibility.
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
These kinds of high-level resignations also deflect debate away from more fundamental questions about whether an institution can ever realistically fulfill its supposed purpose
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So much weight in UK government economic and fiscal policy-making is put on the accuracy of OBR forecasts that if it completely misses risks that trigger a serious crisis any remaining public trust in the state could evaporate
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So much weight in UK government economic and fiscal policy-making is put on the accuracy of OBR forecasts that if it completely misses risks that trigger a serious crisis any remaining public trust in the state could evaporate
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So Canada can manage to negotiate involvement in the EU's SAFE defence procurement scheme and yet the UK can't
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So Canada can manage to negotiate involvement in the EU's SAFE defence procurement scheme and yet the UK can't
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Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience
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Looking back to when Haider was at the height of his power between 1990-2000, as a Far Right demagogue he still craved cultural and intellectual bourgeois respectability that acted as an incentive to engage with complex policy and politics debate with friends and enemies.
That is gone now
That is gone now
Not just a UK problem either. Even if you look at the populist Right or Left of European politics in the 1990s, the skill of figures like Jörg Haider or Gregor Gysi at engaging in debate would make them elite policy wonks compared to the intellectual standard of debate now
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Looking back to when Haider was at the height of his power between 1990-2000, as a Far Right demagogue he still craved cultural and intellectual bourgeois respectability that acted as an incentive to engage with complex policy and politics debate with friends and enemies.
That is gone now
That is gone now
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply: