Les von Darrow

Apropos of nothing, you do gotta hand it to KKE, whose leaders took one look at Tsipras and said "nope". They were a punchline at the time, but history has looked pretty kindly on the party's political strategy.

"So, what would you have done differently, Les?" I would have voted for Stavros Dimas to become president and let Samaras eat his own shit.

People use the term “Pasokification” but there needs to be a term for when a party is so unprepared for its moment that it shits the bed as badly as Syriza did.

the apologists have actually been almost perfectly split between liberal pundits and left pundits, all united by that one great evil: podcasting

What a people!

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Note the dishonest "has faced pushback" framing. A way to launder a story they know does not pass a newsworthiness test by pretending to cover the existence of the story as itself being news.

Europeans Watch New York's Mayor's Race With Fear Zohran Mamdani's victory would imperil Jews and embolden totalitarians everywhere in the world. By Bernard-Henri Levy Oct. 29,2025 1:33 pm ET

Do you notice how pretty much all of the noisiest and most belligerent War on Terror champions of civilisation have turned out to be bog-standard racist cranks, and mostly enthusiasts for annihilating the Gaza Strip to boot?

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.*

They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets.

Duh.

I was right about her 10 years ago.

Genuinely thought at first that he was wearing a Halloween costume (which to be clear, would have been bad enough in itself)

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

UK fintwit are all over here, barely anyone left there

They're shameless

www.ft.com/content/4ced...

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

“no one cares that she wants you to eat cake, cake is actually good and its just words and theres real issues to worry about” this is you, this is what you sound like

im sorry but if you think “normies” dont care about the white house being demolished for a half billion dollar golden vanity ballroom as the economy implodes then you just arent as plugged in as you think you are

Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy you used to send on a Crusade so he’d stop bothering you and die from incompetence

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Listen, museums have you walking a LOT and offer very little seating. If I saw an empty seat after walking a lot, I'd take it. And probably look at my phone.

I would then, after resting, go back to looking at the art.

Fighter jets against the backdrop of a sky with the Idaho state flag and a quote that should say “everyone is an ally until they aren’t” but the spacing makes it look like it says “everyone is anally until they aren’t”

Local legislator displays the importance of kerning

Bill Kristol: i will personally back the candidate that calls for the demolition of the illegal construction by the evil usurper Trump

John Fetterman: don't be mean by prolonging the shutdown :(

2025, man

Don’t think there’s a better distillation of MAGA than being this upset that your daughter and her husband are the focus of their wedding and not you

Menswear guy is on here too, you’re not safe!

Going back to Alexander’s original post, I find it incredibly difficult to imagine that the RRF would have passed if Brexit hadn’t happened.