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"Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof" (Wallace Stevens)

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@moveincircles Davey, extreme centrist par excellence, is not interested in mending the broken roof at all.

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@martianwyrdlord Verbal misdirection and feigned ignorance are the salient features of leftists.
"In order to continue advancing their illogical arguments modern liberals have to pretend not to know a lot of things" (David Mamet).

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@VintageMrHobbes Aaronovitch, who cheerled the slaughter of brown people in the Middle East 20 years ago, is now oddly blasé about the slaughter of white Christians by brown people in the West.

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@WillKingston Regime media, for the most part, lie by omission

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@martianwyrdlord Notice those psychopaths 'standing up to racism' are all white.
Wokeness kills.

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@hector_drummond You can bet your bottom dollar none of those cunts has read the Odyssey.

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@ScottFryer And the Floyd thing didn't even happen in the Yookay!

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@Paul_Heron_ Indeed. Contrary to popular belief, the Dems' neoliberal drift actually began with Carter, not Clinton.
Wrt foreign policy, Carter/Brzezinski were just as hawkish as Reagan -it was them who started arming the mujahideen. Probably a reaction to the McGovern fiasco.

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@admcollingwood @ggreenwald John Pilger used to write for the Guardian

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@shellenberger @elonmusk Completely agree, but Farage doesn't belong there.

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@battleforeurope I never imagined I'd end up living under Estonia's thumb lmao

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In the Bush years, liberals could still pretend to be antiwar and anticorporate and were pretty creative. For ex. Michael Clayton and Syriana (both starring Clooney, btw) are excellent movies. When Obama came along they tightened their grip on all levers of power and became dogmatic and stale. Thus began the woke era.

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@MorgothsReview Net Zero was rammed through by the Tories, too.

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Prominent writers continually do book tours overseas, deal with translators, take visiting professorships at foreign universities, etc. Their lifestyle makes them understandably inclined toward cosmopolitanism -the ultimate "anywheres". All their political pronouncements must be viewed through that lens.

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Free markets, deregulation, mass import of cheap labor from Third World countries and cultural progressivism: these are the core principles of the transnational ruling class, the uniparty in all Western countries.
We therefore get the bizarre situation where the white working class in the UK (ie traditional Labor voters) are socially more conservative than the Tories.

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@GeorgeSzamuely War against Russia and censorship. That's all they ever talk about.

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This NSS argues that for decades, the US has pursued its imperial fantasies at the expense of the American heartland. I'm obviously paraphrasing.
At this stage it's a question of choosing between empire and nation.
I've been waiting for a US administration to acknowledge this my entire life.

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@Glenn_Diesen Her words could be construed as Nazi apologia.

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@77_steeze So jarring to compare this cultural landscape to that of, say, the first half of the 20th century, when the literary avant-garde and the high priests of modernism (Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Stevens, Lawrence, etc) were mostly politically reactionary or even genuine fascists.

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@DavidSacks They'll say neocon Ferguson is "spouting Kremlin talking points"!