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And thus they are not, and will NEVER be, leaders.

You have to stand FOR something, not just against everyone—& you have to act w whatever resources you have, not moan how you should be handed more on a platter bc it’s not FAIR your rivals won’t give you their car keys & cashbox & microphone, jfc! And that applies to the Democratic establishment too

Oh, he didn’t get the memo it’s “uniparty” now? lolsob

Yes, but the time to do that was in 2016 & they all groveled instead. At this point it’s Adam Kinzinger & nobody else dares to speak out or rally around him from the GOP. There’s no mass of defectors ready to do the work—there are literally more Russians in the AFU than GOP taking back their party

What really infuriates me is how all this got whitewashed and retconned postwar until about 20 years ago, so they could pretend it was some German aberration that came out of nowhere and not a monster they helped build for years.

His grandson is working for Peter Thiel, I recently learned! And he tried to make a post-war comeback running on anti-black/anti-Asian immigration but lost and became an immigrant in France. Also doesn’t this sound familiar? There are online fansites to him, too, just like Stormfront.

That makes perfect sense, I’ve read that and recognized the types, but it checks out she had actual examples in mind.

They managed to get some local seats years ago in super crunchy northern California, I was told—and then lost reelection by alienating everyone with authoritarianism/incompetence combo

Yup—the anti-democracy forces of kleptocracy think they can ride the fascist tiger this time, and everyone ignored Eco’s warning 30 years ago who was in a position to do something about it

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Stoddard was a Harvard eugenicist—and a Klansman—whose writings influenced the Nazis early on, and who supported them in turn after.

Tom was based on the future director of Texaco, remembered only as a “philanthropist” while an underling gets the blame for them busting sanctions to refuel fascists

The line from Gatsby to Guernica is real—and the NYT was part of it then, too

Meanwhile regular citizens here and in Britain were organizing boycotts and going toe to toe with Mosley’s thugs from the early Thirties, so it wasn’t a totally one-sided landscape of opinion—but the big media guns were clearly on the side of Might and Money then as now

And here’s some minimizing condescension to balance out the sanewashing:

The “Herr Hitler High In The Clouds” is egregious but also notorious, but that’s how they paved the way to passivity in September—not that British media was any better!

I don’t have a NYT subscription or local access to a good library microfilm collection, so it took me a while, but I knew there had to be a specific 1938 instance to go with President Zelenskyy’s burn—but I said “jfc” when I finally found one

I think part of it is that the experience with the old guard chains is just so MID at best, for the price. I can get better food for the same price from a local family-run burger or pizza or breakfast joint with less hassle and getting my order wrong, usually.

I mean…

Also refusing to build coalitions because Purity (really being the kinds of social disasters who end up ruining arts groups & school newspapers & bands w drama or getting kicked out of them) means you will NEVER achieve any power beyond obstructionist-saboteurs at best…by design, or by useful idiocy

If you can’t even put a campaign website together that doesn’t look like a middle school project or a storefront church landing page, and you can’t give a coherent answer to policy questions (but do have pencil cartoons of you as a superhero) it isn’t The Establishment keeping you out of DC, lmao

The Greens in America—unlike the EU Greens!—can’t organize their way out of a paper bag to win City Counselor, and don’t even try. The Libertarians are (or were) very slightly better organized, but now fully and openly coopted by Moscow. Bernie parasitized Democratic infrastructure like a cuckoo.

It also ignores the fact that the parties we have now are not original, that the past major parties imploded and reconfigured in response to historical crises & pressure by minority parties like the Know-Nothings—AND that it takes WORK to become a force, it’s not a prize handed to “the Purest”

Norway to allocate US$7bn for Ukraine's defence needs in 2026 Norway's Defence Minister Tore O. Sandvik has announced that the country will allocate US$7 billion in 2026 to support Ukraine's defence sector.

🇳🇴 Norway to allocate US$7bn for Ukraine's defence needs in 2026

Head of Army Emergency Relief explains how to receive a grant for missed federal benefits The CEO of Army Emergency Relief posted a video explaining how soldiers can apply for grants to cover missed food stamps or child nutrition benefits.

How can soldiers apply for grants to cover food stamps or child nutrition benefits that were missed because of the government shutdown?

Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:

Jack Smith fought to have Aileen Cannon tossed from Trump case — but got silenced: report Former special counsel Jack Smith wanted to file a motion to have far-right Trump appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon disqualified from overseeing the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case agai...

I don't know about anyone else but I REALLY want to know who told him no!

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“Now let him enforce it.”

This is an interesting breakdown from a voenkor of why your drone forces are so much superior to theirs—Maidan spirit, ultimately, versus authoritarianism, apathy, laziness and corruption:

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Inside Ukraine's drone campaign to blitz Russia’s energy industry Ukraine has used long-range drone strikes against Russian energy infrastructure to undercut Russia’s economy and try to bring Moscow to the negotiating table.

Check out this deep dive into Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian oil refineries complete with detailed analysis, accessible infographics, videos, and a breakdown of scale and strategy.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the SDNY was running an active investigation into Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators until January 2025, when prosecutors were directed to transfer the Epstein case files to the Justice Department's headquarters. /

This ignores the fact that it doesn’t matter who votes or how, in a dictatorship such as Tanukovych has already said he plans to turn us into, .
“You won’t have to vote again” (July 28, 2024) etc—and then we choose to stand up like Ukraine or Georgia or Romania—or go down like Belarus instead.