Ian Slater
@iansslater.bsky.social
Scot and new citizen of Germany, living in Cologne. Trying to escape from political economy, passionate about music, interested in literature, photography, travel, and culture generally.
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We must win the war against Russia for the same reason that we had to win the war against the Axis powers eighty years ago.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We must win the war against Russia for the same reason that we had to win the war against the Axis powers eighty years ago.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
In both cases, there could not, and cannot, be a half-victory. That would make no practical or concrete sense, given the nature and aims of the enemy.
Period.
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Russian whistleblowers reveal what it was like to work for a troll farm and spread anti-American & anti-Ukrainian propaganda lies on social media
There are literally thousands of these guys, and you have interacted with them, without realizing it.
worldwar3.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
There are literally thousands of these guys, and you have interacted with them, without realizing it.
worldwar3.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
Russian whistleblowers reveal what it was like to work for a troll farm and spread anti-American & anti-Ukrainian propaganda lies on social media
There are literally thousands of these guys, and you have interacted with them, without realizing it.
worldwar3.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Russian whistleblowers reveal what it was like to work for a troll farm and spread anti-American & anti-Ukrainian propaganda lies on social media
There are literally thousands of these guys, and you have interacted with them, without realizing it.
worldwar3.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
There are literally thousands of these guys, and you have interacted with them, without realizing it.
worldwar3.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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Jen Rubin shares why we should boycott Trump enablers—Amazon, Home Depot, and Target—this Thanksgiving holiday.
A call to action
‘We Ain’t Buying It’
contrarian.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Jen Rubin shares why we should boycott Trump enablers—Amazon, Home Depot, and Target—this Thanksgiving holiday.
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Europe has to shove this Russian "Peace Plan" up trump's huge ass and put a decent deal on the table and give Putin one chance to leave Ukraine. If he refuses drive him into the Siberian wilderness, never to be seen again!
Fuck trump!
Europe has to shove this Russian "Peace Plan" up trump's huge ass and put a decent deal on the table and give Putin one chance to leave Ukraine. If he refuses drive him into the Siberian wilderness, never to be seen again!
Fuck trump!
'Outrage against human decency' – European MPs warn Trump against appeasing Russia in new open letter
The 47 signatories include parliamentarians from countries ranging from Ireland to North Macedonia.
kyivindependent.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Europe has to shove this Russian "Peace Plan" up trump's huge ass and put a decent deal on the table and give Putin one chance to leave Ukraine. If he refuses drive him into the Siberian wilderness, never to be seen again!
Fuck trump!
Europe has to shove this Russian "Peace Plan" up trump's huge ass and put a decent deal on the table and give Putin one chance to leave Ukraine. If he refuses drive him into the Siberian wilderness, never to be seen again!
Fuck trump!
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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The verdict is in:
It's a Russian peace plan.
No one thinks it's weird that Russia dictates US foreign policy now.
It's a Russian peace plan.
No one thinks it's weird that Russia dictates US foreign policy now.
November 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The verdict is in:
It's a Russian peace plan.
No one thinks it's weird that Russia dictates US foreign policy now.
It's a Russian peace plan.
No one thinks it's weird that Russia dictates US foreign policy now.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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There's definitely a consistent theme with the Trump White House
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
There's definitely a consistent theme with the Trump White House
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President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally.
He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough.
Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He was revered.
He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough.
Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He was revered.
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally.
He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough.
Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He was revered.
He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough.
Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He was revered.
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this is increasingly what I believe too, especially regarding fascism: it is the ideology of pure indulgent feeling, unchecked by reason or consistency. that's why so much of it is built around empty aesthetics that feel strong or important but have no substantive ideas beneath them.
This mirrors closely my idea (spurred by reading Robert Sapolsky) that at its core, populism is the politics of gut social instincts - our default social mode, inherited from primates. Baboons have no ideological beliefs but tons of MAGAesque social opinions - xenophobia, pro-hierarchy, etc.
MAGA revels in the idea that rules, standards, norms, mores, and even consistent beliefs are for suckers. It is an ideology of indulgent groupthink - "Why not simply go along with the crowd? It'll feel good"
October 31, 2024 at 4:29 PM
this is increasingly what I believe too, especially regarding fascism: it is the ideology of pure indulgent feeling, unchecked by reason or consistency. that's why so much of it is built around empty aesthetics that feel strong or important but have no substantive ideas beneath them.
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At least one Labour MP seems to have kept a grip on decency and common sense.
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
At least one Labour MP seems to have kept a grip on decency and common sense.
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I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I struggle to see why turning ourselves into a society so unwelcoming that even those afraid for the lives are deterred from coming is something we would actually *want*.
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Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Yes is certainly is wacky but only reason why Trump is saying this is because she wants the Epstein files
He supported her before …..so what has changed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He supported her before …..so what has changed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump ends support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid growing Epstein feud
President turns on ‘Wacky Marjorie’ after congresswoman criticizes effort to block release of key Epstein documents
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Yes is certainly is wacky but only reason why Trump is saying this is because she wants the Epstein files
He supported her before …..so what has changed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He supported her before …..so what has changed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Aside from the cruelty of this, I’d just like to know why it’s ok to ignore and disappoint liberal/progressive voters.
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
Why do governments chase Farage and his voters, thinking that will neutralise them. It’s NEVER worked. He’s leading in the polls and his ideas have ruined us. WTF are you doing?
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In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace.
He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah.
Nobody is defending him.
He's a TOTAL disgrace.
In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president.
Insane.
He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah.
Nobody is defending him.
He's a TOTAL disgrace.
In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president.
Insane.
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace.
He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah.
Nobody is defending him.
He's a TOTAL disgrace.
In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president.
Insane.
He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah.
Nobody is defending him.
He's a TOTAL disgrace.
In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president.
Insane.
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