Christian Kloetzer
@ckloetzer.bsky.social
PhD student in Political Studies at the University of Milan (UniMi)
Working on: electoral behavior, cleavage transformation, European radical-right electorates
But interested in, and posting about, all sorts of things.
Working on: electoral behavior, cleavage transformation, European radical-right electorates
But interested in, and posting about, all sorts of things.
Not sure if harmless kitchenware from Esselunga or a new European far-right party has dropped…
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Not sure if harmless kitchenware from Esselunga or a new European far-right party has dropped…
In Gaza, just as in Lebanon, the ceasefire is the continuation of war with other (but effectively very similar) means.
Israel blocks humanitarian groups from delivering essential aid despite calm in Gaza
New Registration Guidelines Introduced by Israel's Diaspora Affairs Ministry Have Prevented Many International NGOs, Including Oxfam and Save the Children, From Being Able to Coordinate Aid Transfers ...
www.haaretz.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In Gaza, just as in Lebanon, the ceasefire is the continuation of war with other (but effectively very similar) means.
The lesson Israel takes from Gaza is that it can break all international norms and laws and still enjoy privileged relations with the West. So why stop? Europe’s policy towards Israel sacrificed rules and laws for a twisted version of stability, and it will achieve neither.
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 AM
The lesson Israel takes from Gaza is that it can break all international norms and laws and still enjoy privileged relations with the West. So why stop? Europe’s policy towards Israel sacrificed rules and laws for a twisted version of stability, and it will achieve neither.
Lebanon is stalling the implementation of the ceasefire, says the country that has not even fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory despite committing to it and is responsible for the “vast majority” of ceasefire violations (quote from UNIFIL).
November 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lebanon is stalling the implementation of the ceasefire, says the country that has not even fully withdrawn from Lebanese territory despite committing to it and is responsible for the “vast majority” of ceasefire violations (quote from UNIFIL).
Opposition to antisemitism is not a deeply-held conviction of today's far right, but a tactical positioning to facilitate normalization and achieve acceptance of far-right movements in mainstream society. It makes sense that the American far right drops it once it is firmly in power.
The Jewish right discovering in real time that the Trumpist right, and the open bigotries it has unleashed upon the US body politic, is not in fact going to spare Jews, is quite a trip.
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Opposition to antisemitism is not a deeply-held conviction of today's far right, but a tactical positioning to facilitate normalization and achieve acceptance of far-right movements in mainstream society. It makes sense that the American far right drops it once it is firmly in power.
And my next worry is that if Trump won't let Netanyahu pursue the war in Gaza, he will turn to a different front. Last night Israeli ground forces entered Lebanon and destroyed municipal buildings in border towns, killing one employee. Aerial attacks have already ramped up in the last weeks.
L'armée israélienne s'infiltre à Blida et abat un employé municipal, colère dans le Sud
Après s'être infiltrée en territoire libanais, à Blida (Marjeyoun), jeudi à l'aube, l'armée israélienne a ouvert le feu sur le siège de la municipalité et y a abattu Ibrahim Salamé, un employé qui...
www.lorientlejour.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
And my next worry is that if Trump won't let Netanyahu pursue the war in Gaza, he will turn to a different front. Last night Israeli ground forces entered Lebanon and destroyed municipal buildings in border towns, killing one employee. Aerial attacks have already ramped up in the last weeks.
My worry was that the Gaza ceasefire agreement would play out like the agreement between Israel and Lebanon, with Israel unilaterally deciding which terms it adheres to at which point in time, and with continued systematic violations of international law. This seems to be what is happening now.
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My worry was that the Gaza ceasefire agreement would play out like the agreement between Israel and Lebanon, with Israel unilaterally deciding which terms it adheres to at which point in time, and with continued systematic violations of international law. This seems to be what is happening now.
Reposted by Christian Kloetzer
Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.
Someone is auditioning for the role of top diplomat.
Smotrich rejects Saudi normalization tied to Palestinian state: 'Keep riding your camels'
Speaking at a Conference on Thursday, Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich Said That 'If Saudi Arabia Tells Us That It Is Normalization in Exchange for a Palestinian State, Then No Thank You, M...
www.haaretz.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Someone is auditioning for the role of top diplomat.
Reposted by Christian Kloetzer
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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This rhetoric reminds me of an old NPD (fringe Neonazi party) TV commercial where the party leader argued that foreigners in Germany are like spices in a meal, i.e. only to be added in tiny quantities else the dish would be ruined. That’s the intellectual level of today’s UK Conservatives.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This rhetoric reminds me of an old NPD (fringe Neonazi party) TV commercial where the party leader argued that foreigners in Germany are like spices in a meal, i.e. only to be added in tiny quantities else the dish would be ruined. That’s the intellectual level of today’s UK Conservatives.
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Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Where we stand, in long arc of history:
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.
-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.
I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."
Weird how the guy who only knows his own narrow personal interests cannot conceptualize other politicians also only pursuing their own narrow personal interests.
Netanyahu told Trump the Hamas statement was nothing to celebrate, and that it didn't mean anything, US official tells @barakravid.bsky.social Trump fired back: "I don't know why you're always so fucking negative. This is a win. Take it." www.axios.com/2025/10/05/t...
Scoop — Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative"
"I don't know why you're always so f***ing negative. This is a win. Take it."
www.axios.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Weird how the guy who only knows his own narrow personal interests cannot conceptualize other politicians also only pursuing their own narrow personal interests.
Relatedly, when will left (and indeed even mainstream right) parties finally start hammering the radical right with what’s happening in America. Farage, Weidel and so many others are on the record fawning over Trump.
I'd love to see the survey data Badenoch and Salvini are basing their strategic communication on, suggesting there is such great appetite in their countries to be "more like Trump's America"...
October 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Relatedly, when will left (and indeed even mainstream right) parties finally start hammering the radical right with what’s happening in America. Farage, Weidel and so many others are on the record fawning over Trump.
In 2017, a far-right extremist killed six people at a mosque in Québec City. Imagine if the governments of Arab countries had blamed the attack on Canadian foreign policy, say its participation in the anti-ISIS coalition.
Israeli ministers blame U.K. government's 'antisemitic measures' for synagogue attack
Several Members of Prime Minister Netanyahu's Cabinet Draw Link Between British Recognition of a Palestinian State to Yom Kippur Attack on a Manchester Synagogue
www.haaretz.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In 2017, a far-right extremist killed six people at a mosque in Québec City. Imagine if the governments of Arab countries had blamed the attack on Canadian foreign policy, say its participation in the anti-ISIS coalition.
"We're gonna whine so much, you may even get tired of whining. And you'll say, 'Please, please. It's too much whining. We can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much.'"
oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"We're gonna whine so much, you may even get tired of whining. And you'll say, 'Please, please. It's too much whining. We can't take it anymore. Mr. President, it's too much.'"
To me it sounds more like a desperate appeal to Putin. I think Trump believes he has a bond with him that Putin cherishes and reciprocates and wants to maintain. "We both suffered under the Russia hoax" etc.
Trump will be back to blaming Zelensky any day now. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Trump will be back to blaming Zelensky any day now. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
“He’s killing many people and he’s losing more people than he’s killing… He has let me down”, Trump says of Putin.
Sounds like an important shift in tone, having previously blamed Zelensky for the war dragging on and saying he had no cards to play.
Sounds like an important shift in tone, having previously blamed Zelensky for the war dragging on and saying he had no cards to play.
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
To me it sounds more like a desperate appeal to Putin. I think Trump believes he has a bond with him that Putin cherishes and reciprocates and wants to maintain. "We both suffered under the Russia hoax" etc.
Trump will be back to blaming Zelensky any day now. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Trump will be back to blaming Zelensky any day now. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Drugs really are one hell of a drug.
But that aside, I see a lot of people complaining that Starmer is not pushing back on this. I agree, but I also think continental politicians should push back. Musk's reach does not stop at the Channel, so get the message out early.
But that aside, I see a lot of people complaining that Starmer is not pushing back on this. I agree, but I also think continental politicians should push back. Musk's reach does not stop at the Channel, so get the message out early.
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Drugs really are one hell of a drug.
But that aside, I see a lot of people complaining that Starmer is not pushing back on this. I agree, but I also think continental politicians should push back. Musk's reach does not stop at the Channel, so get the message out early.
But that aside, I see a lot of people complaining that Starmer is not pushing back on this. I agree, but I also think continental politicians should push back. Musk's reach does not stop at the Channel, so get the message out early.
Ich hoffe, dass ein Fall wie dieser in Deutschland ein ähnliches politisches und juristisches Echo haben wird wie die Gräueltaten deutscher Staatsangehöriger gegen irakische und syrische Zivilisten im Territorium des Islamischen Staats vor wenigen Jahren.
Ein aus Deutschland stammender Angehöriger der israelischen Armee (IDF) soll an gezielten Tötungen unbewaffneter palästinensischer Zivilist*innen beteiligt gewesen sein. Gegen den Tatverdächtigen haben wir eine Strafanazeige bei der Bundesanwaltschaft eingereicht.
www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Ich hoffe, dass ein Fall wie dieser in Deutschland ein ähnliches politisches und juristisches Echo haben wird wie die Gräueltaten deutscher Staatsangehöriger gegen irakische und syrische Zivilisten im Territorium des Islamischen Staats vor wenigen Jahren.
If I was the Emir of Qatar and saw the lackluster response from my primary security guarantor to an aerial bombardment of my capital, the first thing I'd do is to give a very friendly call to Beijing.
September 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If I was the Emir of Qatar and saw the lackluster response from my primary security guarantor to an aerial bombardment of my capital, the first thing I'd do is to give a very friendly call to Beijing.
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🧵Gaza is on the cusp of being completely destroyed.
Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders. 1/12
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders. 1/12
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🧵Gaza is on the cusp of being completely destroyed.
Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders. 1/12
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased, its surviving people herded into camps or expelled entirely. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders. 1/12
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
Beyond the shocking scene, this is an illustration of how German state policy in the Gaza conflict enables infractions of civil liberties at home. Good on Ireland for taking this up with German authorities.
Ambassador contacts German officials over protest assault
The Irish ambassador to Germany has conveyed her concern to German authorities after an Irish demonstrator was assaulted by police officers during a pro-Palestine protest in Berlin.
www.rte.ie
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Beyond the shocking scene, this is an illustration of how German state policy in the Gaza conflict enables infractions of civil liberties at home. Good on Ireland for taking this up with German authorities.
Another piece that blames the left for Trump ("both Trump terms were entirely avoidable") and exhorts Democrats to shift their policies rightward to capture the median voter. I found this line of reasoning plausible ten years ago – but then the last ten years happened!
Winning elections is the only curb against strongmen
Liberals focus too much on constitutions and too little on politics
www.ft.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Another piece that blames the left for Trump ("both Trump terms were entirely avoidable") and exhorts Democrats to shift their policies rightward to capture the median voter. I found this line of reasoning plausible ten years ago – but then the last ten years happened!
It's weird how many commentators on US politics discuss the upcoming 2026 and 2028 elections as if they will be held free and fair. What in Trump's rhetoric and actions suggests respect for the electoral process, and what in his subordinates' behavior suggests having red lines they refuse to cross?
August 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's weird how many commentators on US politics discuss the upcoming 2026 and 2028 elections as if they will be held free and fair. What in Trump's rhetoric and actions suggests respect for the electoral process, and what in his subordinates' behavior suggests having red lines they refuse to cross?