"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." -- commonly but erroneously attributed to Josef Stalin
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"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." -- commonly but erroneously attributed to Josef Stalin
The White House’s failure to think a step or two ahead—such as what Iran could do with the Strait of Hormuz—is another “reminder of what it means to purge government and decision-making of all the experts.”
@profsaunders.bsky.social dropping some political science with @gregsargent.bsky.social.
The truth is, modest tax increases on millionaires won’t change their lifestyles. But the revenue can make a real difference for working families who rely on public services every day.
Fair taxes help build rich, free, & stable communities and economies. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n...
It's bordering on Baghdad Bob/ Comical Ali-grade propaganda.
A screenshot of a post by Maya Forstater on X (formerly Twitter). The main image is a dark, blue-tinted selfie of Forstater in the foreground, wearing glasses and a patterned scarf. Behind her is a large, crowded concert arena with a brightly lit stage in the distance. Below the photo is a quote-repost from "The Lies They Tell" (@sarahstuartxx) which reads: "Join me tonight as I cover live the thrills and spills of the Trans Mission Live concert. Turns include Zack Polanski, Beth Ditto and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of. Literally hundreds of people attending the #FoxKillersVanityProject"
A screenshot of a post by Julie Bindel on X featuring the hashtag #TransMission. The image shows a candid, side-profile photo of a woman with short dark hair wearing a long-sleeved green shirt. She is leaning against a black metal railing in what appears to be a dimly lit venue with purple ambient lighting.
It's really funny how Maya Forstater and Julie Bindel spend all their time online fearmongering about how trans people are dangers to women and children yet they went to a stadium full of 10k trans people and nothing at all happened to them.
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There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The fate of the Iran War now rests on whether the US can secure the Strait of Hormuz.
If the US can't secure it, Iran will have massive leverage over the global economy & therefore over Trump.
The only other way to overcome this is regime change, but Trump can't do that without huge ground forces.
"Compared to the last maximum disruption during the 1956 Suez Crisis (as a percentage of total liquids demand), this represents the largest oil supply loss in history, by a factor of two
Worse, unlike in past crises, there's zero spare capacity available"- David McNally of Rapidan
“The Strait of Hormuz closure has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history. About 20% of global supply has been disrupted for 9 days, more than double the previous record set during the 1956 Suez crisis.
There’s virtually no spare capacity to address the problem.”
Rethink oil dependency.
#NZpol From a few days ago: New modelling shows renewable electricity can meet NZ’s future demand – without importing gas
- doubts the logic of “imposing a levy on electricity to fund an LNG terminal”, “because New Zealand also has a goal to achieve 100% renewable electricity generation by 2030,”
Nick Mowbray & Elon Musk are far more effective at driving people to communism or socialism than any book by Karl Marx or Fidel Castro.
When Britain went to war with Germany in August 1914, the standard propagandized belief among Brits was famously “the war will be over by Christmas.” It cascaded into the 4-year First World War, killing 384,000 British soldiers and wounding 750,000, and 15 to 20 million other people.
If, like me, you joined InternetNZ last year to ensure your point of view was not overwhelmed when it came to board election (thanks) and AGM voting, then it's coming up time to renew your membership to continue that mission.
If you didn't join last year, maybe you'd like to this year?
@naomiaklein.bsky.social wrote a whole book about it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelg...
bela lugosi's dad @markpopham • Follow keeping track of things with the following rhyme: if the Naomi be Klein you're doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy. Ooooof. 6:18 AM • Oct 23, 2019 8.3K Reply Copy link Read 64 replies
surely you remember the helpful pneumonic from when you were [squints] 17 years old
Evangelicals have created the corrupt pedophile-protecting deep state their political crusade was supposed to expose
No surprise here
Reading about how we could have fuel rationing in 6 weeks time and thinking about how different the present might be if the 'Green New Deal' that was talked about after the 2008 financial crisis had actually happened
That, or the rest of the world can keep buying Hiluxes instead of F-150s.
Is this two ships? I think I see two
Also, holy shit what an awful nightmare for the crew! I hope they were able to escape!
All this was very predictable and entirely avoidable.
And the reactionary centrist crowd aren't much better. The ADL wilfully downplay actual Nazi salutes by Musk et al, while they blow mild statements by Mamdani way out of proportion. It's all doing more harm than good for efforts to combat antisemitic violence.
"Once you cheapen a phrase like antisemitism… when you call Miss Rachel an antisemite, you're completely undermining the very important common struggle we should have against antisemitism.”
Piers Morgan & I discuss Ben Shapiro's attempts to cancel anyone who criticizes Israel.
I thought his rockets were a lot bigger than that.
Nothing much has changed in almost 60 years.
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
One thing right-wing governments have in common around the world is the inability to think through the consequences of snap decisions involving straits.
In 1952, New Zealands population was 2 million. By 2033 Auckland alone will have 2 million people.
The city (on an ismus!) can't keep living in a perpetual 1952 with its post-War ideals of quarter acre homes and private motor vehicles
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Here in the UK, serial predator Jimmy Saville did charity work and slimed his way into the orbits of establishment figures in order to get access to vulnerable women and girls he could abuse. Epstein seems to have done something similar but distinct, not least with his 'intellectual' projects.
Who could've seen this coming?!?
Me (and a lot of others), such as here in 2018: medium.com/arc-digital/...
The always-wrong insistence that the Iranian govt is on the verge of collapse and would topple with a push—and then a better govt would rise in its place—has been driving policy. Seriously.
With Venezuela, going "hey oil companies, go get oil that needs a lot of refining, lacks infrastructure, and is in a volatile security situation" didn't work.
Going "hey shipping and insurance companies, take your flammable commodity through a strait where things are blowing up" won't work either.
This week: 200+ service members complained after commanders framed the Iran war as God’s plan for Armageddon; a bill to bar undocumented children from public schools was introduced; and a proposed book ban could let a Christian homeschooling site help decide what books are allowed in libraries.
