The communist-led alliance has 6 seats in the Knesset. Their leader, Ofer Cassif, was banned from parliament for 45 days for saying that the current Israeli governement wants a ‘final solution’ for Palestinians. He joined the South-African case against Israel in the ICJ, for which zionist parties are trying to kick him out of parliament permanently. Members of their party are being arrested for their role in trying to organise protests for the rights of Palestinians and the police threatens everybody who’s even vaguely associated with them. They support the right of return for every Palestinian (and their descendants) who fled since the creation of Israel.

So I wouldn’t call them the ‘moderate wing of fascism’. They have done a lot more than most and have done it in circumstances which are a lot tougher then many of us could handle.

Perhaps this is the right time to bring up the fact that Israel gave Ethiopian Jews anticonceptics without their knowledge, to make sure they didn’t get to many children, and Israel could remain a very white state.

several competing flux capacitor prototypes

I’m sorry? The time traveling device from back to the future?

Fight for a socialist future or join organisations/actions which do direct action against large pollutors, I’m thinking for example about Ende Gelände in Germany.

Yeah, that was very strange.

yes, fytoplankton, but those are plants too. THey’ll be extinct in +/-500 years because of the ocean acidification, which is a result of the sea absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.

great work!

I think the claim is that the planning started after the disastrous debate. The inner circle of the DEM party knew he was going out, but was orchestrating a “he isn’t going anywhere, he will remain our nominee”-narrative in the media before and during the RNC.

*Death Metal/Progressive Metal, not Black Metal. (Sorry for being pedantic.)

r/conservative now calls the raised fist “the new MAGA salute” https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1e2qkme/this_is_the_new_maga_salute/

Piketty wrote a book about voting tendencies in medium long term, and everywhere on earth this is becoming a more and more pronounced distinction, which didn’t exist in the past.

He’s talking about the person who tweeted and complains about Jon Stewart.

I’ve read that as well. Heartbreaking. Although I also don’t really understand how someone could’ve missed that Corbyn was kicked out of Labour.

He’s running as an independent in the district which he had represented for decades, and he’s organising a very impressive grassroots campaign but in the one poll which I know about, he’s in second place. People have told me that UK polling is extremely bad, I hope they’re right.

“losses based on data from rural towns”

What does this mean and how would someone be able to verify these numbers?

Barring some unforeseen demographic situation in the electoral college

What do you mean by that?

I recently read an interview with the Serbain president, in which he said that he fears for world war III, because this conflict might feel “existential” to both sides very quickly. Reading this, I can only think that’s a correct assesment.

Fun fact! In the Netherlands, Elsevier publishes a weekly magazine about politics, which is basically the written version of Fox News for that country. Very nice that those people control like 50% of all academic publishing.

protesting over something so insignificant and inconsequential

Yes and no. The thing itself is small and inconsequential, but the subtext is a protest in favour of joining the EU and joining Schengen. The fact that relatively important EU-politicians are there to speech to the protesters makes that all the more clear.

(Imagine the opposite: like the head of the foreign affairs committe of Belarus talking to anti-governement-protsters in a EU-country. They’d be kicked out of the country immediatly and Belarus got themselves some extra sanctions.)

This makes me so incredibly sad. How did opposition to an apartheid state which is enacting a collective punishment on a population which it has locked up in an open air prison for decades become so controversial? There’s really not even the slightest form of humanity in our elite, nothing at all.