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The Insider @theins.press · 06/05/2025

Migrant Libel: Explaining and debunking the myth about immigration driving up crime rates Despite politicians' rhetoric linking a rise in immigration to an increase in crime, statistics show an absence of so much as a correlation.

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Migrant Libel: Explaining and debunking the myth about immigration driving up crime rates

On April 14, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the new government's plans to limit the number of asylum seekers to 100,000 a year, to increase deportations, and to suspend the countr...

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

It is fascinating to watch how bureaucrats are rushing to make financial cuts that would destroy the very communities that voted for Trump in order to show the president their loyalty and save their own jobs www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Pentagon Prepares Potential Cuts for DOGE

To get ahead of what could be drastic cuts, some parts of the U.S. military are making lists of weapons they have long wanted to cancel.

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It's funny that Trump has made "common sense" as his slogan because common sense is something that pretends to be reason but in reality is the opposite of it. Common sense is a feeling shared by people, not something reasonable. And everything that Trump saya is aimed to tickle these feelings

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I wonder whether Biden's victory in 2020 only made things worse regarding Trump's current presidency. He had 4 years to prepare to the current state capture, and all the blame for his policies was shifted to democrats. If Biden lost then, democrats would have been triumphant now

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's funny that a considerable proportion of the audience of the parties that constantly complain about the left taking over and destroying everything is dreaming about going back to it's great communist past (Germany, Russia, probably Serbia and Georgia too)

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I feel like 10 years ago I was much better at effortlessly doing all the things I have to put much effort in doing today

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨New paper forthcoming @apsrjournal.bsky.social!🚨 How do economic shocks shape politics? We study a plant disease epidemic in Italy🌱—finding it fueled far-right support It’s not just economic loss but how shocks uproot communities and interact with perceptions of state neglect shorturl.at/ntKyt

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What I've learnt from the collapse of Yugoslavia and the USSR is that these empires dissolved when the resources became scarce and their core nation's leaders exploited nationalism to come to power and their nationalist policies led them to stop funding the colonies letting them exist on their own

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So, when the "special military operation" in Gaza began, we were told that it was for the sake of releasing the hostages and because Israel could not be safe while Hamas still exists.

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I feel like Trump's declarations about Greenland, Canada and Panama are just mirroring Putin's strategy of acting insane so that no one would want to deal with him. It's like Trump trying to tell Putin and Xi "Look how insane I can be, look what will start if we all start redrawing the maps"

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Alexander Finiarel @alexfiniarel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I think it's time to finally start moving on here. I used to like twitter when I was a very angry person, but there was lots of fun and enlightening stuff too. Now I'm more calm, and there's nothing but ragebait and divisive content left there. As we say in Russian "the horse is dead - get off"

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