Leipzig18
@leipzig18.bsky.social
Rangers fan. History guy. Map man. Video game enjoyer. He/him.
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What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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*supervillain with a heart of gold voice* Well well well
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
*supervillain with a heart of gold voice* Well well well
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An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
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If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.
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this is accurate along multiple dimensions
they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left
they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left
twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
this is accurate along multiple dimensions
they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left
they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left
I'm really not sure I get the anger about the new Game Pass pricing. It was an insane deal before now, and it is still a good deal today. If you play like 3 of the big launches a year it more than pays for itself. I understand the hatred for streaming rises ( I'm there too), but gp is a deal!
October 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I'm really not sure I get the anger about the new Game Pass pricing. It was an insane deal before now, and it is still a good deal today. If you play like 3 of the big launches a year it more than pays for itself. I understand the hatred for streaming rises ( I'm there too), but gp is a deal!
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The truth will set you free, but first, it will get you mad.
October 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
The truth will set you free, but first, it will get you mad.
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I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
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LoL at how just one shell casing has the words "ANTI-ICE" written on it.
Why would someone doing this to "send a message" write it on a single casing... of a bullet you didn't use?
Totally seems real.*
(*real = fake).
Why would someone doing this to "send a message" write it on a single casing... of a bullet you didn't use?
Totally seems real.*
(*real = fake).
Hours after a shooting of ICE detainees, the FBI says “early evidence” of messages on the rounds are “anti-ICE in nature.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
LoL at how just one shell casing has the words "ANTI-ICE" written on it.
Why would someone doing this to "send a message" write it on a single casing... of a bullet you didn't use?
Totally seems real.*
(*real = fake).
Why would someone doing this to "send a message" write it on a single casing... of a bullet you didn't use?
Totally seems real.*
(*real = fake).
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If we serious as a country about tackling violence against women and girls we would be tackling the causes of abuse by partners or former partners and not 100% focus on asylum seekers. According to 2011 census analysis, 96% of white British women have a white British partner.
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If we serious as a country about tackling violence against women and girls we would be tackling the causes of abuse by partners or former partners and not 100% focus on asylum seekers. According to 2011 census analysis, 96% of white British women have a white British partner.
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A regular reader called me authoritarian and intolerant for writing that, which neatly lays out the pattern: the right spirals into unreasonable and dangerous spaces, but if you say so, you are authoritarian and intolerant of their views. That's basically their whole free speech issue in a nutshell
September 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A regular reader called me authoritarian and intolerant for writing that, which neatly lays out the pattern: the right spirals into unreasonable and dangerous spaces, but if you say so, you are authoritarian and intolerant of their views. That's basically their whole free speech issue in a nutshell
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I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
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MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
September 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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All I'm saying is if this happened to someone like Hasan or something Fox would be running a Biggest Hasan Fails edit with fart noises added
They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.
September 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
All I'm saying is if this happened to someone like Hasan or something Fox would be running a Biggest Hasan Fails edit with fart noises added
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As I begin my commute, I once again am reminded how crazy it makes me that people have video calls without headphones on public transit.
September 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
As I begin my commute, I once again am reminded how crazy it makes me that people have video calls without headphones on public transit.
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Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.
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No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
homeschoolers smugmuggin their own outcomes, wild stuff
September 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
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Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work"
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
Hard agree with @davidkr.bsky.social here. Moreover shouting at them that the flags are tainted by imperialism and colonialism (heard in Bristol), while true, hardly wins over the average bystander to our side.
Lessons from an asylum hotel counter-protest: calling our opponents ‘fascist’ doesn’t work | David Renton
When anti-asylum demonstrations have so much support from the mainstream, a smarter, more tailored message is needed, says campaigner and barrister David Renton
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work"
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
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I don't care why anyone still goes to bat for "good cops", they're just doing it because it's easier than confronting the crushing reality that America is owned by the police, who also happen to be the largest and most powerful criminal force in the country.
Waste and abuse:
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"50% of municipal budgets
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"
"50% of municipal budgets
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
August 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I don't care why anyone still goes to bat for "good cops", they're just doing it because it's easier than confronting the crushing reality that America is owned by the police, who also happen to be the largest and most powerful criminal force in the country.
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I am unsurprised by the Hockey Canada rape case verdict. After the acquittal of Bassam Al-Rawi, who was caught raping an unconscious passenger in his taxi, it was made perfectly clear that in Canada the legal punishment for women who get very drunk is that anyone is allowed to rape you.
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I am unsurprised by the Hockey Canada rape case verdict. After the acquittal of Bassam Al-Rawi, who was caught raping an unconscious passenger in his taxi, it was made perfectly clear that in Canada the legal punishment for women who get very drunk is that anyone is allowed to rape you.
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The problem with having snap tariffs on complex supply chains is that it actually incentivizes offshoring production.
July 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The problem with having snap tariffs on complex supply chains is that it actually incentivizes offshoring production.
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Good point from Queen Mary UL Senior Lecturer Richard Johnson to The Big Issue about one of the failings of the Starmer government:
July 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good point from Queen Mary UL Senior Lecturer Richard Johnson to The Big Issue about one of the failings of the Starmer government: