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"Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of ultra-nationalism." - The Nature of Fascism, Roger Griffin, 1991 "The Fascist cries out in pain as they strike you."
If the substantial Iranian supply of light crude-oil/LNG is interrupted, what does Trump suppose that'll do to his own economy? Not to mention the enhanced leverage it'll give to Putin on the intl. markets.
It's poorly calculated, even for him.
He's desperate because of the looming mid-terms.
America has forsaken its positioning as any kind of arbiter of morality.
America has no more moral authority than any superpower.
That's to say – none.
From major powers to middle powers, we all have needlessly spilled blood on our hands. Let's not be dragged into more senseless murder by the US.
You cannot enforce Secularism on a population through violence. They adopt it naturally, or not at all. The harder an external force tries to make it happen, the more resentful and resistant the target population will be to it.
Far-right Zionism and American Evangelical Christianity
are two halves of a Death Cult.
These ppl are monsters and they want all of us to die in an entirely man-made apocalypse.
Could be good. The Greens could use a spokesman who can speak with some credibility on military matters. It's a gap for them which someone like Clive could potentially fill.
An Omani mediator said last night a peace deal between the US and Iran was within reach.
This morning, the US and Israel bombed Iran.
No imminent threat. No legal basis. Another illegal war dressed up as “security” and “democracy”.
Graphic saying: The bombing of Iran by the US and Israel is an illegal act of aggression. It risks inflaming the whole Middle East, with all the death, destruction, chaos and instability that would bring. We must oppose Trump’s reckless ripping up of international law - a dangerous approach that makes the whole world less safe. And we must pursue a path of diplomacy, dialogue and respect for the UN Charter.
1/6 The joint U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran are deeply worrying. My thoughts are with the civilians caught in the crossfire and the inevitable escalation already rippling through the region.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dear America,
How have you survived this long being THIS stupid?
genuinely,
Everyone
The 6 redacted individuals seen by Massie and Khanna:
1. Salvatore Nuara
2. Zurab Mikeladze
3. Leonic Leonov
4. Nicola Caputo
5. Sultan Ahmed bin Sullyam
6. Leslie Wexner
In the remaining Epstein Files the U.S. DoJ have actually left us after their mass-deletion effort,
Ehud Barak (frmr. Israeli P.M. '99-'01) appears 3,988 times.
His wife, Nili Priell appears 2,888 times.
Putin appears 997 times.
A politician threatens global capital at their peril.
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social : "I can just confirm to the House, under my leadership [of Labour] Mandelson had no role, no influence & no part to play"
It was precisely because Corbyn didn't represent the interests of the ruling class (like Mandelson did), that his leadership had to be destroyed
Morgan McSweeney's hard-drive needs checking.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social There MUST be accountability for this. Not only for our own sake, we need to model good behaviour to the Americans, now more than ever.
GET STARMER OUT.
The information Starmer received included Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. Starmer's just admitted it with his own mouth in Commons.
He claims the info didn't have the depth of what he now knows. Surely a superficial knowledge would've been more than sufficient?
He knew and did it anyway.
By this logic we ought to have sent Oswald Mosley to treat with Hitler.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
I want the next person to defend Mandelson's appointment to say, "the pedophilia was worth it".
Say it, or you're a liar.
I want the defenders to imagine they have to justify it to one of Epstein's victims.
What would they say?
The logic of some defenders is that we ought to have sent Oswald Mosley to deal with Hitler.
14/...If Liberals object to having their positions co-opted by the Left, perhaps they ought to defend those positions more rigorously?
13/...defences of multiculturalism, many centre-right Liberals appear to have recently wavered on the subject. This is the same for many ideological projects that previously I typically associated with Liberalism over Leftism.
12/...the defence of Liberal ideals because Liberals are nowhere to be seen. So, in some ways, a modern moderate Socialist is a Liberal with the additional ideological components of Socialism stacked on top of that Liberal ideological core. For example, while I often hear Socialists giving robust...
11/...ideological projects have expanded into the previously well-fortified territory to include Liberal precepts. This is either by natural evolution or necessity. Some ideologies have naturally grown in incorporate some liberal precepts. Other ideological projects seem to have actively taken up...
10/...neither requires nor desires their consent. They want, not merely to be ruled or governed, but to be actively dominated. They want the oppression, they don't know how to exist without the Will of the monarch branded on the backs of their heads like cattle.
It also seems to me that other...
9/...concept upon which the U.S. was founded and is now rediscovering. The Republicans have either totally memory-holed this, or deliberately reinterpreted it to justify their modern hyper-authoritarian tendencies. They believe in Unitary Executive Theory (Führerprinzip). They want a King who...
8/...magic aura, it needs to be continually empirically justified. As much as it pains Liberals, the Democrats (or the UK Labour Party) do not become the default choice simply by existing. People ought not to be expected simply to obey authority no matter the case. This seems to be a central...
7/...toward it). In essence, the belief that we don't necessarily need religion to be good any longer, because people have come to understand ethics sufficiently to form their own ethical frameworks.
Liberalism used to understand that authority doesn't spring forth from a person like a passive...
6/...at their core, humans are rational, compassionate actors, moral agents. In the wake of the rejection of Church dogma that we call the Enlightenment, an entire, fully-realised moral framework was constructed upon the belief that Liberalism is the default state of a human (or at least we tend...
5/...severely". But what is at the ideological core of Liberalism today? Does anyone know? The features I just mentioned could easily belong to another centre or left-of-centre position. What's necessarily Liberal about them now?
For example, Liberals used to actively hold the position that,...
