Desillusionist
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Desillusionist
@desillusionist.bsky.social
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FPÖ bekommt in einem einzigen Jahr 61,7 Millionen Euro Steuergeld.
December 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Key Republicans are starting to prepare for the inevitable: the departure of Donald Trump from American politics.

So should Democrats.
December 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I honestly don't understand why any European institution, EU-official, decision-maker of an EU member country etc. is still posting on X. It's owner literally campaigns for your destruction, despises your values and rules and you still provide his platform with reach and relevancy? Anybody home??
X blocks EU Commission’s advertising account after €120 million fine | Euractiv
The move came after a weekend of online attacks on the EU by the social platform’s owner, Elon Musk
www.euractiv.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Excellent article showing how conservatives got fed up with their own ideology as well as its (capitalist) implications. Would be pretty funny if it weren't wreaking havoc...
A both clarifying & terrifying piece that diagnoses why conservatives left the liberal international order.

The author, U. Ottawa politics professor Michael Williams, does not address its economic counter-productivity, or how liberals can recreate coalitions of support for IHL.
What Liberals Don’t Get About the Liberal Order’s Crisis
Liberals often explain today’s disorder as the work of authoritarians or populist agitators. What they miss is that the postwar consensus depended on conservatives, whose defection has left it in cris...
jacobin.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM