Ben Miller

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage.

We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

Americans really need to make their mind up, what are we the bland spiceless nation with no seasonings, or are we the weird nation with a wall of unknowable spices that are strange of foreign??

Like, I get all of these aren’t super common, but surely everyone should have Zaatar and Sumac??

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I hate to ask this, but Tehran is still on the cusp of running out of water and Iran is running very low on food. Whatever the regime was doing to help is obviously no longer happening, so are we just going to let 7M people die of thirst and 100M starve?

a midwestern girlie named Baysicleigh

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Mass killing of elementary school girls - are they less human bec they are Iranian? Are they legit “collateral damage”? Means to an end? I doubt that this kind of mass killing would be even contemplated for, say, Denmark.

Bibi redux

trying to think of a weaker and more contemptible response than this and failing

Holds up

Hannah Spencer: nationalize water companies
Matt Goodwin: only white people are english
Keir Starmer: those two are the same

If the Berlin film festival ousts its director, there may be no way back Hosting an audience-friendly festival in a highly political capital city has always been a challenge. If Berlinale’s organisers push out Tricia Tuttle over the latest Gaza row, they may as well give u...

Perhaps hosting a major festival that tolerates the world’s contradictions is too much to ask of Germany’s government at this stage."

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Once authorities realised that there are corners of the world that are not on the same page as Germany, for example when it comes to Gaza, they rush to stamp the whole thing down.

"The Tuttle fiasco has ominous echoes of the Documenta art festival in Kassel – another major creative event that was meant to open up Germany to the world and the world to Germany.

Biden staked so much of his candidacy on “I’m the guy who is friends with all the senators i can work with republicans“ and they never gave him a fucking inch while Mamdani is doing Jedi hand waves into a phone

as are the US greens (people who you would only otherwise see at a Phish concert trying to sell you something tye-died out of their van)

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German Greens pretending the UK Greens don't hate them and pretending not to notice what the UK Greens foreign policy platform is

Slowly watching the left still on Twitter cook their brains on nazi slop until they start repeating antisemitic nazi terms.

Jenseits der Absurdität der Aussage kann man 👇 sehen, wie der dt. Entlastungsdiskurs funktioniert. Einerseits rechtfertigt man mit der Singularität des Holocaust die kritiklose Haltung zu Israel, andererseits relativiert man Schuld der Vorfahren, die nicht mehr singulär böse sind

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

eine bekannte deutsche frau ohne parteipolitische erfahrung you say…

and the uk careens towards having its first thingbox prime minister

its actually very simple

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

This is extremely alarming: the emergency is China's alleged interference in the 2020 election.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Take the cable car––the Wankbahn, if you will––to the top of Wank Mountain.

don't come in, mum... I'm summiting

hilariously the decline in the prominence of Berlinale is being spoken about in the German press as Tuttle’s fault, as though German cultural policy has nothing to do with it. denial is not a river in egypt

unless of course, you are willing to make the festival itself irrelevant. Someplace no one wants to go because it’s not actually possible to be there.

if it is a firing offense to run a festival where an invited guest speaks from his own perspective about one of the most important ongoing geopolitical and humanitarian events in the world, there is simply no way to run that festival