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It's been very interesting to see English language news tear up all their planned "far right now rules France, here's how progressives fucked up" stories and hurriedly write "no bloc has a majority, here's why that's bad for progressives" stories.

still can't believe the sensible center spent 9 months saying 'don't criticize biden over gaza or the bad orange man wins' and now they're all trying to trick him into going to the Theatre of Pompey they still love what's happening in gaza, of course

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The perception of an inevitable fascist victory in Europe is largely just the wishcasting of mainstream media publications saying that fascist victory is inevitable. See how the BBC spins National Rally's loss.

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This isn't a plan to replace a presidential candidate, it's a plan to entertain journalists

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

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Lol

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Still remember when they compared a family moving to California to maintain their trans kid's access to health care to a guy who left California because he was afraid of offending liberals at work

I know they get rolled all the time but for the Times to get rolled by “actually they just want to reclaim the values of Western civilization as they see it … with larger families and fewer immigrants” is the Times putting the 14 words in the paper

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Tangential but a pernicious aspect of uk law is it leads to people thinking just this "if you don't sue it must be true" (i am also not meaning to make any defense of gaiman here)

I've been seeing people saying that because JK Rowling routinely uses UK libel law to silence critics, Gaiman's failure to immediately do so shows his guilt. That's incorrect, and I think it's worth talking about why - it goes to important facets of defamation law abuse. 🧵⚖️

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To add to this excellent post by @eschatonblog.com, the shitpost left also wasn't in a position to assess Biden's possible health issues either: it's not like we get many opportunities to meet with Biden (or advise him, for that matter). It was the supposed grownup centrists who let this fester.

Is This Going Wellwww.eschatonblog.com Whether or not Biden should leave the race, it isn't the shitpost left that is loudly and prominently arguing that the president - and curre...

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she was defeated by king arthur pendragon, count binface and captain beany

also, kellie-jay keen/posie parker(?) only got 196 votes! was overall a bad election for candidates running on a transphobia platform primarily

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

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Roger Gathmann could always read the extensive documentation on how Nina Power did not just ‘read[] Mein Kampf’, but numerous esoteric Hitlerist texts, called herself a Nazi, advocated racist conspiracies about Black people, wrote for a fascist website, harassed Jewish people, is rabidly anti-trans,

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ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

i'm pretty on the fence, all things considered, on the 'should biden stay or should he go' question, but the way his people are handling this (even if 'this' is very unfair) is not good!

the much more general issue is people who can't understand having hobbies that you can't monetize somehow. enjoy making your dumb images if it 's fun! (leaving aside the absurd resource uses, of course)

"This app stole my soul and I'm now staring into the void of the thousands of useless, worthless images I've been generating without any purpose. I'm questioning everything about my life and the meaning of it, but I think this app is here to stay."

not disagreeing with the general point but there is another issue here

One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!

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One thing I don't think Americans understand is just how small and incestuous the British ruling class is. There's like 7000 people across politics and the media and certain kinds of business and think tank, who all went to the same universities, who are all married to each other.

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Incredibly revealing paragraph and sentence as to who and which issues count in a democracy with reference to Labour's target voters www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Constitutional Law may now be the VCR Repair of a 1L's core curriculum.

For instance, if a president illegally killed a political enemy.. wait where was i going with this

constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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Seems odd that a well-known UK journo turning out to be an actual fascist, proven in a court of law, doesn't make the news, but hey.

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Never forget Keir Starmer paraded Brianna Ghey's mother around Parliament to score points over Sunak. 5 months later he's saying trans women aren't women + should be banned from women's spaces. It's utterly depressing come tomorrow there will be people inc. from many queers endorsing him as PM.

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“Shouldn’t” is just terrorising my mind i’m not rotating it in my mind it is violently shaking and lurching around outside of my control

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Now that the full extent of Nina Power’s obsessive adulation of Hitler and Nazi ideology has been revealed by Luke Turner, never forget professional transphobes Kathleen Stock and Julian Baggini defended her when it was obvious to everyone else who she was twitter.com/luke_turner/...

The worst ones are like political science profs who spend years lecturing The Left about how Republicans are Fine and Good Actually and people should be Civil and Not Shrill and Engage In The Marketplace of Ideas then one day wake up and demand everyone is outraged as they suddenly are

the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.

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rolling out this gem again

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Me and the girls using the loos once Labour get in

Remember Cuomosexuals? Now you do

The brief 2020 Draft Cuomo movement that was seemingly based entirely on the quality of the Powerpoints during his COVID press conferences was deeply fuckin weird

cuomo needs to move to new jersey or something so we can have my dream Hochul-Cuomo ticket