On Day 20 of Operation Iraqi Freedom the US took Baghdad and toppled the Ba’ath Republic
On Day 20 of Operation Molokkkh’s Fury the Secretary of Agriculture has revealed there will be rolling food shortages as the country braces for 9 months of war
I am a reactionary particularist when it comes to national pathologies. Every land should have its own spiritual and psychic disorders. Globalization has resulted in a sort of uniformity of freaks. This is something a right-wing student provocateur would do at Dartmouth.
just another month of bombing bro I swear they’ll be done after just like one more month and then a little ground invasion bro that’s all we need bro just 4 solid weeks of bombing and then we invade please bro that’s all I need just a month of war and a little war after that bro
Israel is one of the most prolific sources of foreign interference in governance and democratic elections in the world today, to a degree easily comparable to Russia and China, vastly outpacing other threat actors like Iran. They frequently (and famously) throw their support behind far-right isolationist and ethnonationalist groups who oppose pluralistic democracy and want to replicate the ‘Israeli model’ of ethnonationalism at home.
Their interference is often downplayed because of (1) American pressure on Israel’s behalf, and (2) domestic pro-Israel lobbies who threaten to sink politicians, civil servants, and governments in accusations of antisemitism for raising it as an issue. This is often a thorn in the side of domestic counterintelligence services, including in the US, where pressure from the ADL and others have been explicitly cited as strong deterrents against holding Israel accountable for both interference and espionage (both military and industrial). That the ADL intervened on Jonathan Pollard’s behalf when he was first tried, and Trump was compelled by Adelson and members of his own Administration to pardon Pollard’s handler on the last day of his first Presidency, are some of the most glaring public examples.
Israel’s reputation as an election interference powerhouse is so significant it has spawned an entire cottage industry of private sector “interference-as-a-service” providers who operate both on behalf of the Israeli government and others, while offering a layer of plausible deniability. That their interference is not only allowed to persist but has become so infamous they now sell it as a private for-profit service just shows how much operational freedom they’ve been granted in democratic affairs the world over.
Left: Biden aides talking about building a new coalition to make up for the voters they are losing over Israel, May 2024
Right: Republican hawks talking about building a new coalition to make up for the voters they are losing over Israel, March 2026
@LeBolshevikman european nationalists at least have "defending the cross from the pagan hordes" as a dumb larp founding myth, these guys are just fat entitled pigs oinking at the trough
perfect encapsulation of why nationalism is for people who never grew out of the feeling "this is my pile of toys and it's the best and if you take any of them i'll cry"
fundamentally what's enabled trump to "wriggle out of it" again and again is that when you're president of the united states and say something is so, a great machine is immediately set to work bringing reality into, at the very least, a workable semblance of alignment with it
It's basically because we're all stuck on the internet and don't have IRL political vehicles to get out our thoughts and feelings, so we just percolate and stew in this digital sewer all day.
YES i want crude to reach $1000. YES i want my heating to be unaffordable. YES i want constant brownouts. YES i want to starve to death. who's with me?