The way you and your friends handle this sounds incredibly healthy. You’ve basically built a safety net into your relationships, which is sadly way less common than it should be. You all sound like a really solid crew.

The legendary Muntazer al-Zaidi really thought more shoes would be enough. 2004 had no idea what was coming.

I don't think I will ever feel as comfortable as a rat in their favorite hammock! What a cutie.

100%. It could be Nausea 2 and I still wouldn’t touch it with a fire rake if the cover were AI-generated. Fuck that.

Må innrømme at jeg mistet respekten for mange bekjente på venstresiden da jeg hørte alle rasjonaliseringene de brukte for å se fotball-VM i Qatar.

PS: Klarer ikke å se fotball-VM nevnt uten å poste denne: www.youtube.com/watch?v=toND...

Det kjipe med å ikke følge med på OL, ESC og sånt er at jeg ikke engang får gleden av å boikotte det.

Not gonna pretend I’m an expert on Hemingway or his life to begin with, but this was a really unexpected and highly fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.

And of course, give it a few years and, magically, everyone will claim they were against it from the very beginning. Feckless cowards.

That’s an important point you raise: authoritarian regimes can’t function without widespread support or at least passivity and complacency among the population. Not everyone has to actively support them, but there will always be plenty of “useful idiots” willing to enable them.