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YouTube video by C. Derick Varn Varn Vlog: What is Politics, The Ancients -- Aristotle part 4

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The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.

Skeleton with brutal injuries identified as duke assassinated in 1272 The identity of a skeleton buried under a Budapest convent has been confirmed as Béla of Macsó, a Hungarian royal murdered in a 13th-century power struggle, and archaeologists have pieced together how...

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Hello darkness my old friend

Pop goes the weasel

All of you need some Zhou Enlai in your life whether he was talking about ‘69 and 1789, it is too early to tell was probably the right answer. So don’t try to call the future today, the past hasn’t even been settled yet

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

Comrade Silwa, stand down, operation Molto Mario has ended, I repeat, operation Molto Mario has ended

MAGA is blowing it so hard that even the milquest toastest Dems are doing better than I predicted in places like GA.

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Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006.

They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents.

The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

YouTube video by C. Derick Varn Varn Vlog: Nicolas Villarreal on Abstraction Domination, Profits, and Maximalist Risk

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I agree but then again this makes the lack of opposition research here seem a little desperate.

YouTube video by C. Derick Varn Varn Vlog: Daniel Tutt and Varn Discuss the Problems of Intellectuals, Part 1

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Some of them aren’t manufactured on this case and I am not talking about the tattoo.

Your support for a campaign you can’t vote for is meaningless except as a cash opportunity. /2

One more time for the people in the back: if a campaign is nationalized by controversy and you are seeing a flash pan cottage industry defending or condemning at candidate you can’t vote for, It’s about getting funds to go into consulting and lists. /1

Totally unsurprising but also a way to build a death spiral

ANGLOFASCISM In 1933, Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss, a short, generally unpopular man, founded a political party. Out of right-wing militias, traditional conservative parties, and landed estates, he put together an organisation called the Fatherland Front, which ruled the tiny, dysfunctional Republic of Austria (rechristened the Federal State of Austria) for five years until 1938, when Dolfuss’s successor Schuschnigg was removed from office during the Nazi…

what is it that makes the fascists of today different from yesterday? who are they? why do they seem to love america so much? the answer is, ANGLOFASCISM. The answer is in Britain and in Austria and in Engelbert Dolfuss. lets learn

A reminder and a paraphrase of Pat Buchanan (of all people): political movements that fail to seize power but also aren’t totally defeated mature from a movement to a business or an academic discipline and rot into a grift.

A reminder and a paraphrase of Pat Buchanan (of all people): political movements that fail to seize power but also aren’t totally defeated mature from a movement to a business or an academic discipline and rot into a grift

Smirks

If you claim to be a social democrat in 2025 you are larping as much as people who think you can bring back the Carolingians. This is also true for: classical liberals, Keynesians, pre-Deng Marxist-Leninism, libertarians, left populists, most anarchists, etc

None of you know how a senator is likely to vote once elected if they have no track record, but you do know they will have to find patrons to keep their seat, which means you know what they aren’t likely to do.

The young people in Democrats speaking as populists are mostly mad at hoarding of power of the boomers”

By young people, you mean 50-year-old professionals

What you are actually seeing that supposedly a debate on the left is just which part of the 20th century project you want to be hoodwinked by which you have no means of bringing about. A lot of people benefit from such a project.

I mean if Gen Z men (and some women) were also blackpilled by the Biden admin on pretty much the same thing. Where do they go now?

If people are concerned about what Chorus and Sixteen-Thirty find was astroturfing, or what the various PACs around the Abundance movement are doing, they should look at what Middle Seat has done for the Justice Dems and Leaders We Deserve, their biggest victory: Fetterman.

You realize when populist write for the New York Times and rail against “elites”—it is an inter elite battle right? Are do you actually think a bunch of Ivy Leaguers have the true pulse of common people because they are mad at rad libs who got tenure in 1990s?