wtf??? thanks for the info i was not at all aware that politico was an axel springer outlet

states are not unitary actors, there can be different arms of the state getting up to different, at times contradictory, shit

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https://proteanmag.com/2025/01/31/beinart-there-is-only-shame/

Critical review of Beinart’s new book by Josh Gutterman Tranen in Protean Magazine.

I have no idea what went on behind the scenes.

What is clear however, is that the Swiss authorities look like pants-on-head morons, as well as fascists, for letting him in at the border and then arresting him 1930s-style less than 36 hours later.

And by the way, so do you. You look like a pants-on-head moron and a fascist for defending them.

Apologies again, but that is nonsense.

The NZZ ran a defamatory hit piece and then this journalist, a 53 year old man mind you, was suddenly plucked off the street by plainclothes cops.

They questioned him at the airport on arrival and then let him in initially.

I’m sorry but the NZZ are full blown fascists and disgusting liars.

impeccable meme chef kiss

i suppose that’s a particular studio?

but in what way is fascism reflected in the porn? like uniforms or what? im struggling to conceptualise it lol

this is sick

wtf? is fascist gay porn really as big of a thing as you imply here?

as a straight im suddenly very curious about the cultural history of fascist aesthetics in gay porn

what an unmitigated disaster

what the fuck are you talking about

European NATO allies have begun hitting 2% targets in recent years and there are heated debates about going way above that in multiple capitals.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49198.htm

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-turning-point-in-european-security-as-uk-set-to-increase-defence-spending-to-25-by-2030

I will note that in the UK case the situation described in the picture is particularly grotesque, if you consider the development of food bank statistics. The Trussel Trust distributed 3.1 million food parcels in 2023/2024, of these 1.1 million to children.

In 2008/2009 the number of parcels distributed was 26’000.

https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382695/uk-foodbank-users/

I’m afraid the political problem you describe is much deeper and more entrenched.

The class of aggregated economic interests that brought the western world the “centrist ditherers”, as you describe them, are increasingly backing right wing politicians to divide and confuse discontent majorities, now that the social contract is in obvious and advancing decay around us, due to decades of aggressive privatisation of public goods like utilities, education, healthcare as well as related but also wider economic slowdown.

Ironically it was precisely this kind of “centrist ditherer” that spent the last half century destroying these public goods and therefore inflaming the social discontent, which capital must now fuel right wingers to quell.

great, thanks!

Further recommended reading?

edit: or sources on the quotes, they’re illuminating

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