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Lets keep ignoring the whipped up aggression.
Until we get a war.
Make our leaders fear us.
Or will get stuck with these jingoists wankers.
Stop.
Winnie you old bastard – be a populist for once in your life.
https://www.maoriparty.org.nz/gaza_aotearoa_must_support_independent_investigation_into_mass_graves
And what is in the rubble?
One of the truly great cartoons.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/29/a-cup-of-tea-and-a-biscuit-for-the-end-of-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Principled conservatism failed to deliver the preferred outcomes.
It had to go. (Jonathan V. Last freebie)
1. Conservatism
A few years ago my buddy Stuart Stevens wrote a book called It Was All a Lie.
His thesis was that the dogma conservatives had professed for 60 years—the love of small government and free trade; the desire for robust foreign policy; the belief that character and accountability mattered—turned out not to be values but rationalizations.
In Stuart’s view, conservatives had a bunch of groups they disfavored and then worked backwards to concoct an ideological framework to support these prejudices. No, not all conservatives. And maybe not on every single issue. But enough so that the generalization was generally fair.
When Stuart first published his book I thought it was an interesting idea. The preponderance of evidence that has emerged since 2020 has buttressed his case.
Yesterday the Supreme Court hinted that maybe conservative legal theory was always a lie, too.
Donald Trump, as always, is the great revealer.
[…]
I want to be very clear about what Justice Alito is saying here:
The Alito Theory sees a coup as merely an alternate path to power, no more or less valid than an election.2 If a coup is attempted and succeeds, the couper becomes president and faces no consequences. If a coup is attempted and fails, the couper is immune to prosecution and free to attempt another coup in the next election. And perhaps even in the election after that.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/conservative-legal-philosophy-was
The nakedness of SCOTUS being exposed.
Potential criminal acts that a POTUS might commit (before 2003) and again if some Justices revisit a law banning non procreative sex.
Anyone drunk dry in Texas (1990’s while Governor), or Florida.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/politics/state-anti-sodomy-laws.html
If you had any doubt that the Philistines have now taken over the country, read this. An interview with the ACT spokesman for arts and culture (he knows or cares nothing about either).
(Fair warning: it's quite funny if you're in the mood, it's a nightmare if you're not, except it's not a bad dream, it's true).
Act's arts spokesman once watched a musical (newsroom.co.nz)
From the comments section:
Bruce Rogan says:
Hear, hear to that. 😮
anyone else having problems getting twitter to load?
Nah.
mind you
x hates me and everything I stand for.
A developing trend in Spanish politics – for a right wing group that claims to be exposing corruption simply making stuff up (to attack those on the left) and being published in right wing media.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68919354
Vox (Latin for voice) Partico and its Manos Limpias (“Clean Hands” caught red handed lying again) of Miguel Bernad – the false witnessing of Franco's remnant. Birther movement trash in the old world.