ratfucking for the sake of a bit is still ratfucking, Tim or Ben or whatever

there are always people who are like, "aha, now how's revealed his true nature, he's going to become a full-on right winger now". and like, no. he has not changed. he is a liberal. he has principles. he's going to have those principles regardless of online nazis or online leftists screaming at him.

It wasn't something he even said directly, it was reported speech about the 1700s

Its the czech Republic in English. The real stupid shit in German is that three countries have a "the" in front of their name for ?????

Do you always lie about what Democrats are doing, or is it just when your girlfriend is losing her #IL09 primary race that you parachuted her into, with your money and contacts backing her?

There we go

They are our natural allies

Yeah, the weird thing is that support for Ukraine here follows an M-curve: high on the center-left and center-right base (Greens, SPD left, CDU right), low on the business-oriented center (CDU and SPD moderates, FDP), very low on the extremes (Die Linke, BSW, AfD).

Ok, you're Brazilian? It's their version of Catholic Canon Law, but preserved next to a record of the conversations that generated that law

And this stuff is objectively less good for you economically, a guy won the nobel prize for economics for saying that over the past 500 years, countries where more people participate become prosperous

Like you’re not reproducing indigenous knowledge and ways of thinking, you’re taking western assumptions and painting it as indigenous, and i’m pretty sure that meets the definiton of cultural appropration.

the weird thing is that a lot of “anti-coloniali” posting you see on social media are profoundly western in their origins.