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Christian nationalist politics is utterly anti-Christian because it alienates some people from Christianity through its hypocrisy, and because it actually makes others friends with hypocrisy under the guise of Christianity.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Christian nationalist politics is utterly anti-Christian because it alienates some people from Christianity through its hypocrisy, and because it actually makes others friends with hypocrisy under the guise of Christianity.
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Hope dies last (and hard).
Viktor Orbán, September 30, 2025: "The American president often asks for my opinion, and I told him: this war is over, the Russians have won, it's a closed matter."
Viktor Orbán, September 30, 2025: "The American president often asks for my opinion, and I told him: this war is over, the Russians have won, it's a closed matter."
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hope dies last (and hard).
Viktor Orbán, September 30, 2025: "The American president often asks for my opinion, and I told him: this war is over, the Russians have won, it's a closed matter."
Viktor Orbán, September 30, 2025: "The American president often asks for my opinion, and I told him: this war is over, the Russians have won, it's a closed matter."
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A Russian operation has been launched recently, in which the Hungarian media and - evidently against their will - the Hungarian intelligence services are being abused to accuse Ukraine with preparing sabotage in Poland/Romania under Russian false flag. More:
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
BREAKING: Russian false-flag operation launched with Hungarian involvement
A Russian false flag operation has been launched recently, in which the Hungarian media and - apparently against their will - the Hungarian intelligence services are being exploited. (If the Hungarian...
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A Russian operation has been launched recently, in which the Hungarian media and - evidently against their will - the Hungarian intelligence services are being abused to accuse Ukraine with preparing sabotage in Poland/Romania under Russian false flag. More:
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
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"In reality, NATO threatens Russia the way a lock threatens a thief."
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"In reality, NATO threatens Russia the way a lock threatens a thief."
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“Inside the CIA, we often joked that, to Putin, win-win means I beat you twice. Putin doesn’t want a constructive relationship with the United States. He just wants to beat us.” (By four CIA veterans, each with some 3 decades of professional experience.)
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
Perspective | Trump wants the CIA to cooperate with Russia. We tried that. It was a disaster.
Putin doesn’t want a constructive relationship with the U.S. He just wants to beat us.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“Inside the CIA, we often joked that, to Putin, win-win means I beat you twice. Putin doesn’t want a constructive relationship with the United States. He just wants to beat us.” (By four CIA veterans, each with some 3 decades of professional experience.)
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020...
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You can't fool history.
David Lawrence, a prominent journalist during World War II, on how Nazi propagandists, including pro-Nazi Americans of the group called “America First Committee,” tried to keep the US from getting involved in the war. (In: Bradley W. Hart, Hitler's American Friends, 2018)
David Lawrence, a prominent journalist during World War II, on how Nazi propagandists, including pro-Nazi Americans of the group called “America First Committee,” tried to keep the US from getting involved in the war. (In: Bradley W. Hart, Hitler's American Friends, 2018)
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You can't fool history.
David Lawrence, a prominent journalist during World War II, on how Nazi propagandists, including pro-Nazi Americans of the group called “America First Committee,” tried to keep the US from getting involved in the war. (In: Bradley W. Hart, Hitler's American Friends, 2018)
David Lawrence, a prominent journalist during World War II, on how Nazi propagandists, including pro-Nazi Americans of the group called “America First Committee,” tried to keep the US from getting involved in the war. (In: Bradley W. Hart, Hitler's American Friends, 2018)
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“Russia, Hungary can join efforts to protect their nationals in Ukraine,” Sergey Lavrov argued in the same Hungarian state media interview, where he made his case for Russia’s military aggression by claiming to protect Russian minorities. Just wondering what was the implication of this statement.
July 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“Russia, Hungary can join efforts to protect their nationals in Ukraine,” Sergey Lavrov argued in the same Hungarian state media interview, where he made his case for Russia’s military aggression by claiming to protect Russian minorities. Just wondering what was the implication of this statement.
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No need for long reports, the whole problem of climate change can be solved in, well, 24 hours. Just like the war in Ukraine.
The Trump administration has dismissed all of the researchers working on the next National Climate Assessment, rendering a crucial report about climate change’s effects unreliable
Trump administration jeopardises key report on climate change
www.newscientist.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
No need for long reports, the whole problem of climate change can be solved in, well, 24 hours. Just like the war in Ukraine.
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"In practice, the lofty principle of ‘defending religion, peace and justice’ has inevitably been accompanied by the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press."
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...?
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...?
A New Holy Alliance on the Horizon?
"Defending Religion, Peace and Justice" by Suppressing Freedom of Expression
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"In practice, the lofty principle of ‘defending religion, peace and justice’ has inevitably been accompanied by the suppression of freedom of speech and of the press."
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...?
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...?
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History is our guide to what happens when politics is sacralised and religion is politicised.
“To say no to President Trump would be to say no to God.”
Meet televangelist Paula White, who Donald Trump just appointed to lead the White House ‘Faith Office.’
This is not normal.
Meet televangelist Paula White, who Donald Trump just appointed to lead the White House ‘Faith Office.’
This is not normal.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
History is our guide to what happens when politics is sacralised and religion is politicised.
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They are literally bathing in the blood of tens of thousands of (Christian) people, and this barbaric monster pontificates about the paganism of the West. Sick bastards.
January 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
They are literally bathing in the blood of tens of thousands of (Christian) people, and this barbaric monster pontificates about the paganism of the West. Sick bastards.
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"In the zone of the ‘special military operation’ … our soldiers are ready to give their lives for values clearly trampled on by Satanists,” said Patriarch Kirill.
Seriously, what kind of deal can you make with someone who presents the war as a cosmological battle against the godless West?
Seriously, what kind of deal can you make with someone who presents the war as a cosmological battle against the godless West?
January 31, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"In the zone of the ‘special military operation’ … our soldiers are ready to give their lives for values clearly trampled on by Satanists,” said Patriarch Kirill.
Seriously, what kind of deal can you make with someone who presents the war as a cosmological battle against the godless West?
Seriously, what kind of deal can you make with someone who presents the war as a cosmological battle against the godless West?
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American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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“Hitler transformed his followers’ anger at cultural and political disorder into moral outrage. In place of the Weimar Republic, which he ridiculed as weak and feminine, Hitler promised the dawn of a resolute masculine order.” (C.Koonz)
We ignore history at our own peril.
We ignore history at our own peril.
January 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“Hitler transformed his followers’ anger at cultural and political disorder into moral outrage. In place of the Weimar Republic, which he ridiculed as weak and feminine, Hitler promised the dawn of a resolute masculine order.” (C.Koonz)
We ignore history at our own peril.
We ignore history at our own peril.
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It's interesting how these MAGA/MEGA folks, who are all about showing off their passionate commitment to defending national sovereignty and culture against outside influences, suddenly become pretty much self-restrained when it comes to the support of Ukraine's fight for its life with Russia.
January 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It's interesting how these MAGA/MEGA folks, who are all about showing off their passionate commitment to defending national sovereignty and culture against outside influences, suddenly become pretty much self-restrained when it comes to the support of Ukraine's fight for its life with Russia.
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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. I don't know why it just occurred to me.
January 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. I don't know why it just occurred to me.
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Wrote a longish post explaining why Bluesky is enshittification-resistant (not enshittification-proof, mind you, but resistant). I expect some people to get mad about this, but for folks who are concerned/trying to understand...
The key: it has a tech poison pill.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...
The key: it has a tech poison pill.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...
The Technological Poison Pill: How ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, even though part of this is cheering on a new entrant looking to build an alternative…
www.techdirt.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Wrote a longish post explaining why Bluesky is enshittification-resistant (not enshittification-proof, mind you, but resistant). I expect some people to get mad about this, but for folks who are concerned/trying to understand...
The key: it has a tech poison pill.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...
The key: it has a tech poison pill.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/21/t...
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My latest on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
January 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My latest on Substack
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
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Yeah, that's exactly how Ukrainians greeted the “special military operation” that was supposed to bring them "traditional values." Like this:
January 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yeah, that's exactly how Ukrainians greeted the “special military operation” that was supposed to bring them "traditional values." Like this:
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The whole point is that this war isn't going to end by making concessions to Russia. It'll just lead to a bigger one.
🇺🇸🤔 "This war must end. Everyone must be realistic: both Russia and Ukraine will have to make concessions," — Marco Rubio.
January 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The whole point is that this war isn't going to end by making concessions to Russia. It'll just lead to a bigger one.
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“If not before, by now it should be clear to all those who thought they had discovered in the Russian regime a defender of ‘traditional Christian values’ that Putinism has exactly as much to do with Christianity as the ideology of Mein Kampf.“
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
January 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“If not before, by now it should be clear to all those who thought they had discovered in the Russian regime a defender of ‘traditional Christian values’ that Putinism has exactly as much to do with Christianity as the ideology of Mein Kampf.“
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
open.substack.com/pub/peterbud...
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While #Nazirussians are funding #Hamas and murdering Holocaust survivors in Ukraine, they call us this word that they actually are. I’m still waiting for justice for when russian Nazi, Anton Raevsky, attacked #Odesa
December 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
While #Nazirussians are funding #Hamas and murdering Holocaust survivors in Ukraine, they call us this word that they actually are. I’m still waiting for justice for when russian Nazi, Anton Raevsky, attacked #Odesa