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Putin you fucking piece of shit.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny sentenced to 19 years Navalny wrote this before the sentence was read: Quote:
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i love it:
"please do not show solidarity with me with wails and cries" "To be honest, we always help Putin's strategy of intimidation by throwing hysterics and clutching at our hearts over every arrest, and frightening both ourselves and others even more" "There is no shame in choosing the safest way to resist. There is shame in doing nothing. It's shameful to let yourself be intimidated." this is really really good. i will study and memorize it. |
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I wonder how he was able to express that from jail. There's no way they let him have a cellphone there, and as a letter this would not have passed the censorship, so... in a "regular" phone call to his wife, maybe? |
Speaking of debt and da Krug, here's his newsletter from today:
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Oh this is fucking rich:
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2piOX JEUUNCSHZSWnh4T0RoT0dTZ0FQAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Quote:
THAT guy's gonna get charged RIGHT AWAY with "inciting a riot"? Shit, too bad the NYPD wasn't running the show in D.C. on Jan. 6... |
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To all who say the "founding fathers" never envisioned the current shit:
"The only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. [...] When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, [...] despotic in his ordinary demeanour, known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty, when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity, to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion, to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'" —Alexander Hamilton, early 1790s ![]() |
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i don't know to which one i should reply.
re: the krugman, yes, he's more progressive than, say, larry summers, but summers said fitch was "flailing for relevancy" with the rating. and sure the debt is money we owe ourselves but there's such thing as foreign exchange, and when your currency devalues you might export more but you pay more for avocados from mexico, chilean copper, canadian steel, japanese cars, etc. the founding vaters yeah they saw that and more, they were against political parties even.... hamilton and madison for example. anyway re: demagogues, i'm trying to brush up on my political philosophy but those existed in athens and rome already. i'm looking for a good translation of thucydides but can't find one that i like 100% yet. thomas hobbes did one, and i am not suprised, he has the same view of the "state of nature." as for cannon: fuck her |
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Makes me think of the time Ohio was a swing state. Remember, back in the day...? I want to believe this is a warning to the GQP. SCOTUS may have fucked us, the Republican Legislatures may have fucked us, but keep it up with this shit, assholes, and you're gonna LOSE. |
From Politico, something we already know but is very well stated here, so:
Opinion | Here’s the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can’t Write Homeland Security officials can’t use politicians’ names in their assessments. But I can. |
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Yup, he could see the likes of the Biden Family Crime Syndicate from over 200 years away. |
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that was a good read and i shared it in other places, thanks. you're right that it's stuff we already know but it's very well put together. anyway, in the meantime: democracy won in ohio, and the republican strategy of turning away voters and blocking legislation has blown up in their faces. also in today's news, florida stopped teaching ap psychology (ap courses are high school courses that count as college credit) because it's "against the law" :D lol @ american taliban |
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Not a single mention of the special counsel appointed to the Hunter Biden investigation? This is the politics thread, right? I would say that’s a pretty big political story, no?
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...Aaaaand there goes TangoTown:
Far-right populist emerges as biggest vote-getter in Argentina’s presidential primary voting Quote:
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i think this speaks more of the fatigue with the utter failure of kirchnerism and exhaustion of peronism in general than anything else. argentina has been ruined economically by leftist populism. it's a country rich in resources, with a fairly well educated people, but hamstrung by consumer subsidies and rampant kleptocracy. you say "there goes..." but they've been gone for a while already, their resources wasted, their middle class reduced, their poor multiplying and getting poorer every day, their currency worthless, their debts mounting beyond the stratosphere, their economy stuck in the mud, their international influence reduced to... nothing really, except in football... which is mostly played abroad these days because whoever can flee does so immediately. milei may be a clown, but until peronism arrived in the middle of the last century argentina was a very rich country, and an important one in latin america. sure they had their problems with inequality and a shit history (same as the rest of the continent), but they were extremely prosperous. then, decades of populism, cults of personality, a tragic military dictatorship interim, more leftist populism afterwards, statism and infinite political corruption have pulverized their chances at prosperity. when they had a brief chance at normalizing their economy with macri they just got deeper into debt. that poor country is a walking disaster. crisis after crisis, bank run after bank run, national banrkuptcy always around the corner (remember menem?), and the politicians always thieving. kirchner would be in jail if it weren't because of her current post. so i... understand these sorts of protest votes. argentinians are fucked, have been getting fucked for a very long time now. milei offers no real solutions, just fake libertarian scams, but where are they going to turn to now? they're ready to burn it all down. |
![]() montana utes: "In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. The court determined that a provision in the Montana Environmental Policy Act has harmed the state’s environment and the young plaintiffs, by preventing Montana from considering the climate impacts of energy projects. The provision is accordingly unconstitutional, the court said. The win, experts say, could energize the environmental movement and reshape climate litigation across the country, ushering in a wave of cases aimed at advancing action on climate change." fuck yeah! go utes! |
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Indeed. I meant it specifically in the Trump Tumor Global Metastasis sense. |
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