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It's probably not gonna happen so no need to worry, but people shouldn't dismiss this as just a troll move. As Secretary-General, Orban would be able to control hiring and fund allocation to grind the UN to a halt. This should be interpreted as a clumsy attempt by a revisionist power to DOGE the UN.

Flavio is actually so stupid guys, he made this bizarre gaffe near the end of the campaign at the debate when he made fun of Lula for only having nine fingers, and then Lula was like "bro I lost this in an industrial accident when I was a child labourer" and then Flavio was like "oh, sorry".

>Catholic >can speak Spanish >named Cortes >supported by numerous groups tired of being sacrificed >led their forces to a decisive victory in the 20s >be AOC >pic unrelated

What if instead of Double Victory it was Double Vivektory and the Vivek of 2026 goes back in time to 2023 to help his old self lose the presidential primary even harder

Reading Nixonland, I couldn't help but notice how some of the reactionary suburbanites sounded like a reverse Evelyn Normielib; to some degree there has been a personality realignment. The type who rages at perceived moral decay and a world going mad can now be channelled towards woke revanchism.

Just made this, this is what I actually believe

Decided to watch an Israeli parliamentary election debate the other day, and the live comments were something else

And then Otzma Yehudit (Ben Gvir's party) had a surprisingly genial spokesman who put a more civil veneer on the party, and he was basically like "wow, I'm so happy to see everyone agrees with us, so good to have unity 🥰"

Decided to watch an Israeli parliamentary election debate the other day, and the live comments were something else

The Reservists Party (single issue universal conscription party) spokeswoman said that the problem is 'Palestinianism', and that what you have to do is annex most of the strip and then give the rest autonomy after they stop identifying as Palestinian and identify as Egyptian or something instead

Decided to watch an Israeli parliamentary election debate the other day, and the live comments were something else

Other hits included when the spokesman for Yisrael Beiteinu (secular right-wing party, part of the opposition coalition) said that the reason Israel hadn't secured peace was because Netanyahu had assumed too much responsibility for the care and protection of civilians, instead of none at all

People can say "it's childish to expect the state to fix your ennui" and "it's not the place of the liberal state to provide meaning" all they want, but the truth is that if we don't provide it, someone else will. In this age of comfort, the future of liberalism requires us to find an answer.

I mean come on, this should be so easy. The end of history might not be a heroic age, but Donald Trump and his ilk have ushered in a new age of the hero, in which everything is up in the air and everything is at stake. The efforts of those with daring and determination can change the world.

Legal consequences and structural reform are necessary, but there is no substitute for civic virtue and a healthy political culture. The cultural and informational conditions in which politics operates are super important, and haven't gotten nearly enough attention. We have to fight social media.

Execution by lethal injection is not done for the sake of the inmate, but for our sake. It is not to reduce their suffering, but to reduce our guilt. It is so that the people who continue to support the barbarism of capital punishment are insulated from the ugly reality of killing a human being.

If it was really to minimise the pain of execution, then a 50 cal to the head is much more humane. But only the most bloodthirsty would cheer for that. The 'civilised' majority has learned to recoil, because they've grown to hate having blood splattered on their hands. But nonetheless, it is there.

What anti-MeToo pundits don't accept is that freedom requires order, and that this is also true of sex. It's not enough to tear down the old patriarchal sexual norms and leave a vacuum. You have to establish a new ethic of consent. MeToo is nothing less than the completion of the sexual revolution.

Workshopping a revolutionary new political compass based on wokeism and that dog Heidegger: Heideggerian, anti-woke: Standard ethnic nationalists and fascists, i.e. the modern Republican base Anti-Heideggerian, anti-woke: The tech right, 'scientific' racists, reactionary centrists