Much easier to swallow it as all cynical realpolitik
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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There is no conceivable moral or even realpolitik justification for attacking Venezuela. Zero.
October 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Es ist immer dasselbe, kurzfristige Wirtschaftlichkeitsewägungen werden als Realpolitik verkauft
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Fast forward to last week - Washington and Beijing “solved” the Nexperia crisis between themselves, according to the various statements, agreeing to restart the flow of chips seemingly without any European / Dutch involvement
A grizzly bit of realpolitik.
A grizzly bit of realpolitik.
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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the thing about "still gotta win elections" is that sounds all realpolitik until you realize that avoidance lets the other guys define you in your absence and "moderating" communicates that their narrative about you is correct.
I guess this is the savvy take or whatever but as an empirical matter, it doesn't work to reinforce the narratives of your opponents. If Democrats start start saying, "immigrants are the reason crime rates are high!" they won't convince anti-immigrant voters and they'll alienate pro-immigrant voters
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I get the realpolitik but, like, he’s the cost of living guy and this is the cost of living thing.
"I've yet to take a position," Zohran Mamdani says in Hell's Kitchen about the housing-related referendum questions on the Nov. 4 ballot. "I will be sharing that as soon as I do."
Early voting started Saturday & hundreds of thousands of NYers have already cast ballots.
Early voting started Saturday & hundreds of thousands of NYers have already cast ballots.
October 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Yeah, the only option other than apologizing to the rapist fascist was calling him a donkey.
#realpolitik
Are you a stupid?
#realpolitik
Are you a stupid?
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I’d be fine with dropping all of the rest of these for either policy or realpolitik reasons, but increasing EV purchases is good on both the political merits because anything that decreases the political salience of car juice prices is good structurally and the policy ones bc they’re the future.
Here with yellow checkmarks we have five examples of real things that Gavin Newsom and leading California Democrats espouse. Not a straw man.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
My take is Democrats should drop these ideas, ideas that do not sound at all like economic populism to me.
October 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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if I was in her position as the only opposition leader left with any legitimacy or platform I don't know that any of my actions or rhetoric would be at all different.
But that mostly means I don't know if she's completely insane or a rational actor doing realpolitik
But that mostly means I don't know if she's completely insane or a rational actor doing realpolitik
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Omri Boehm on a one-state solution: "It's the only possible moral vision. I'm not aiming for realpolitik ... I'm talking about the realism of ideals: The ideas are implementable, and the cardinal question is whether we want to solve the problem or to preserve it"
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'Israelis need to protect the Palestinians in the name of a shared future'
The Israeli Left, Since October 7, Has Shown Itself No Less Deserving of Criticism Than the Global Left, Says the Israeli-German Philosopher Omri Boehm, a Universalist Who Advocates a One-state Soluti...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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It’s not the perfect attitude, but perfect is the enemy of the good. When we’re up against something like the white supremacist right, I’ll take any port in the storm. Food moves the needle on people and right now that’s really all that matters, it’s realpolitik.
November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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weapons transfers and support primarily driven by ideological realpolitik, also morally correct
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The Witcher novels are, simultanously: sarcastic retellings of fairy tales, the trials of a freelance wildlife mitigation specialist, soap opera, medieval realpolitik, fantasy sci-fi, Multiverse shit, Arthuriana shit, an extremely gnarly hero's journey (for Ciri) among many other things
October 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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"With Every Boat Strike, Trump Exploits a Power Asymmetry. It is a moment of realpolitik for countries ranging from Venezuela to Dominica." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
With Every Boat Strike, Trump Exploits a Power Asymmetry
It is a moment of realpolitik for countries ranging from Venezuela to Dominica.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Doesn't count to me. Even given my "ill gibe anyone the tiniest benefit of the doubt if they try" mentality,I'd still expect him to get the damn thing lasered off, on camera, because that's what you do as a tough-guy working-still realpolitik guy like him in this situation, if you're serious.
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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"Augustus’ conception of peace was far from our own. Augustan pax meant peace on his terms. No amount of propagandist imagery can disguise the underlying realpolitik of pax Augusta."
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How did the Roman Empire view nature and its seasons? | Aeon Essays
The magnificent Altar of Peace celebrates the imperial order of Augustus’ Rome and his place in the fabric of the cosmos
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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I feel like there are so many parallels to chunks of the left and their debilitating refusal to leave political theoryland and crippling idealism rather than the messy grind of realpolitik and getting sh_t done.
Also, appears @alanthefisher.bsky.social is on Bsky.
Also, appears @alanthefisher.bsky.social is on Bsky.
The Flawed Aesthetics of Solarpunk
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November 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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They want to be permanent aristocrats whom the law protects but does not bind.
And they're too stupid to realize that whom the law does not bind, realpolitik *will* bind, and far more cruelly and violently, as in modern day Russia, where their counterparts fall out of windows.
And they're too stupid to realize that whom the law does not bind, realpolitik *will* bind, and far more cruelly and violently, as in modern day Russia, where their counterparts fall out of windows.
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Dunning-Kruger meets Realpolitik.
October 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Yeah and the real cowardly twist is that i think they're using this notional "popularity" to cover up the fact that that's how they actually think.
"We'd *love* to support your human rights, really we would, but you see we're just so dedicated to this realpolitik we've imagined that we can't"
"We'd *love* to support your human rights, really we would, but you see we're just so dedicated to this realpolitik we've imagined that we can't"
neat trick the "centrists" love to pull: just blankly asserting that all of their personal biases are popular and the things they don't like are unpopular and dragging the party down
we see the transphobia, folks
we see the transphobia, folks
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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you know, i can now fully see why Ivalice is so popular, and also why Square is so loathe to return to it much. "what if all the sacred cows of our most popular IP were merely tools in the hands of bloodthirsty realpolitik" is great fiction and bad for merchandising, unless you're gundam i guess
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Idealpolitik : the law.
Realpolitik : how the law is enforced, who it is and is not enforced against, by which bodies, using what mechanisms and in whose interests.
Realpolitik : how the law is enforced, who it is and is not enforced against, by which bodies, using what mechanisms and in whose interests.
October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Deutschland erkennt die Taliban nicht an.
Aber sie haben jetzt ein Konsulat in Bonn.
Und Zugriff auf die Daten ihrer Opfer.
🤝 Bürokratie trifft Realpolitik.
#Afghanistan #Taliban #Menschenrechte #KabulLuftbrücke
Aber sie haben jetzt ein Konsulat in Bonn.
Und Zugriff auf die Daten ihrer Opfer.
🤝 Bürokratie trifft Realpolitik.
#Afghanistan #Taliban #Menschenrechte #KabulLuftbrücke
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I'm a cynical bastard, far from immune to realpolitik. But, aye. We don't improve ourselves by saying, "There. See? That lot are shitter at this government stuff than us. Told you so."
Mainly because, as Brexit has proven, these grifting bastards just find another target to blame for their...
Mainly because, as Brexit has proven, these grifting bastards just find another target to blame for their...
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