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@lamproterotatos.bsky.social
Classics and IR guy, don't mind me
Congratulations, you have the same conspiracy brain of Elon Musk
Before Trump began his coup plotting, U.S. companies had already been looting Venezuela of billions for years. Now the State Department wants to install a leader the majority of Venezuelans dislike. Maureen Tkacik reports: trib.al/oEszvvE
The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Congratulations, you have the same conspiracy brain of Elon Musk
“Do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
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@cookpolitical.com #Redistrict
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November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”
At this point, the political consensus in the UK is that trans people should be eliminated.
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
At this point, the political consensus in the UK is that trans people should be eliminated.
“So yeah it’s clear that this likely had little to do with him being a Nazi.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“So yeah it’s clear that this likely had little to do with him being a Nazi.”
It’s always so much fun when a right wing populist lets slip that they don’t actually give a shit about American workers and just want to give American companies a blank check
Committing self-harm by reading another Oren Cass oped in the FT, but what always strikes me as stupid about his work is the idea of tariffs as panacea. "If we had tariffs we wouldn't need stringent environmental standards" no Oren actually those two things are unrelated
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It’s always so much fun when a right wing populist lets slip that they don’t actually give a shit about American workers and just want to give American companies a blank check
Another problem with the news having NYC brain is that online commenters also get NYC brain
It’s because they want to stop the progressive Democrat victory momentum last week in its tracks because they can raise more money as perpetual (controlled) opposition to Trumpism
If Democrats do this then the entire shutdown was pointless and a massive chunk of the momentum heading into 2026 will be lost.
How can these people be this fucking stupid?????
How can these people be this fucking stupid?????
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Another problem with the news having NYC brain is that online commenters also get NYC brain
People posting videos of NYC from the 30s as if they should be nostalgic to live when food safety could be defined as “uhhh” and breathing itself was a health hazard
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
People posting videos of NYC from the 30s as if they should be nostalgic to live when food safety could be defined as “uhhh” and breathing itself was a health hazard
I’m really uncertain as to what these people think local government is like.
The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’m really uncertain as to what these people think local government is like.
The thing is if you just followed a program that approximates the Catholic church’s stances, you’d probably make an electoral juggernaut.
But these people can’t help themselves
But these people can’t help themselves
It's quite fascinating how tradcath converts like JD Vance and Kevin Roberts are increasingly at war with much of a more liberal Catholic Church hierarchy in the United States
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The thing is if you just followed a program that approximates the Catholic church’s stances, you’d probably make an electoral juggernaut.
But these people can’t help themselves
But these people can’t help themselves
Yeah Syria when they had the murder cult trampling through the country was actually about oil.
You saw this go down! You know better than to just make shit up!
You saw this go down! You know better than to just make shit up!
Iraq invasion was about oil
Libya was about oil
Syria was about oil
Venezuela is about oil
Nigeria is about gas
Anything else is a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction
Libya was about oil
Syria was about oil
Venezuela is about oil
Nigeria is about gas
Anything else is a WMD, a weapon of mass distraction
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Yeah Syria when they had the murder cult trampling through the country was actually about oil.
You saw this go down! You know better than to just make shit up!
You saw this go down! You know better than to just make shit up!
People just make stuff up on the fly, don’t you?
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
People just make stuff up on the fly, don’t you?
I see American elites are united by their European counterparts in their obsession to prove that the median American is a treatlerite
The educated liberal big city US folks outraged at Trump's renovation of Lincoln bathroom really need to scroll some Facebook of their less established relatives and friends to see what kind of aesthetic resonates with Trump's target audience.
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I see American elites are united by their European counterparts in their obsession to prove that the median American is a treatlerite
But the Tsar would never
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
But the Tsar would never
To be honest, it’s less “the left” or “establishment” when it comes to this guy, but rather the alignment between race and gender.
It’s always the latter and usually the former.
It’s always the latter and usually the former.
Support for the Maine Senate candidate suggests that voters are so sick of what the establishment has to offer, they might look past a Nazi tattoo.
The Left Put Its Faith in Graham Platner. Will He Break Its Heart?
Support for the Maine Senate candidate suggests that voters are so sick of what the establishment has to offer, they might look past a Nazi tattoo.
interc.pt
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
To be honest, it’s less “the left” or “establishment” when it comes to this guy, but rather the alignment between race and gender.
It’s always the latter and usually the former.
It’s always the latter and usually the former.
This is going to go well
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is going to go well
As an aside, “I am not a white supremacist because I covered up my SS tattoo” loses its potency” when followed by “with a celtic wolf”
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
As an aside, “I am not a white supremacist because I covered up my SS tattoo” loses its potency” when followed by “with a celtic wolf”
The issue a lot of these people have is that they wanted to be in the vanguard, but they just don’t have the competence or charisma to actually do something.
Their entire commentary can be understood through resentment.
Their entire commentary can be understood through resentment.
sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.
find your people and build something real.
find your people and build something real.
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The issue a lot of these people have is that they wanted to be in the vanguard, but they just don’t have the competence or charisma to actually do something.
Their entire commentary can be understood through resentment.
Their entire commentary can be understood through resentment.
I know the US and EU dominate discourse here, but the Chinese economy is also in the shitter and is not ready to sustain regional domination in any fashion
Surely this will be the moment they take advantage of American weakness & invade Taiwan!
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I know the US and EU dominate discourse here, but the Chinese economy is also in the shitter and is not ready to sustain regional domination in any fashion
Me hoping that mine isn’t there and it turns out to be the one at the top
Lol, lmao me
Lol, lmao me
what this appears to show is that something is going on specifically with plant-based and vegan protein powders, and in particular there are two that seem full-on dangerous
but there's very little to nothing wrong with any of the dairy- and meat-based ones www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
but there's very little to nothing wrong with any of the dairy- and meat-based ones www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Me hoping that mine isn’t there and it turns out to be the one at the top
Lol, lmao me
Lol, lmao me
The foundation story that the Mexica told *themselves* is that they were expelled from their homeland because a different king found that his daughter he married off to the Mexica was then being used as clothing by a Mexica priest
we talk about the Aztec Empire as though it was an institution of great antiquity, but its worst abuses started in the time of living people's grandparents or great-grandparents. it had been growing more and more extractive and murderous as long as the current generation had been alive.
this is cursed, there's a reason the peoples under the aztecs were willing to help Spain out and it wasn't naivete
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The foundation story that the Mexica told *themselves* is that they were expelled from their homeland because a different king found that his daughter he married off to the Mexica was then being used as clothing by a Mexica priest
Time in Greece when my friend from Iran and I when I was shock blond were both mistaken for Greek.
These phenotypical classifications are absolutely useless if you want to use them as tools to view the world
These phenotypical classifications are absolutely useless if you want to use them as tools to view the world
What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Time in Greece when my friend from Iran and I when I was shock blond were both mistaken for Greek.
These phenotypical classifications are absolutely useless if you want to use them as tools to view the world
These phenotypical classifications are absolutely useless if you want to use them as tools to view the world
The center left natalist position always ends up in this weird pretzel where they do think they should penalize at least certain women for not giving birth, but they realize how psychotic it sounds
Expanding (the already existing) tax transfers from childless upper middle class and above people of any gender to parents is not the same as fining women for not giving birth lol bsky.app/profile/psia...
If women don’t use their bodies the way I want them to they should be fined by the government
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The center left natalist position always ends up in this weird pretzel where they do think they should penalize at least certain women for not giving birth, but they realize how psychotic it sounds
Visit a German medical tent in WW2 and you’ll learn really quickly the extent of their technology.
The people have listed so much superior allied technology that I have been inspired to litigate this year old piece in long form secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Visit a German medical tent in WW2 and you’ll learn really quickly the extent of their technology.