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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 6m

Kohl was also less corrupt than Reagan (derogatory to Reagan).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 7m

I don't mean internal American political parties. I mean the US's global role.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 49m

The US is the CDU or UK Conservative Party of the world (derogatory).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Britsky isn't run by red-browns.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

This isn't American narcissism, we have these types all over Western Europe. They take positions based on what maximally pisses off people who Did The Right Thing in their lives. They were anti-Deutsch when Germany hadn't yet come to terms for the Holocaust and are anti-Semitic now that it has.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Basically, the French government needs to look at everything the rock throwers demand it do and do the exact opposite. It should rate its success by how pissed off the rock throwers are (and of course mass arrest them; 17-year-olds can still go to prison for terrorism).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Their borders are already decently open to e.g. Eastern European migration. The Ukrainians could come, they just come to Germany and Poland instead because we have lower unemployment. So they need to also make their labor market more flexible to allow hiring outside the usual networks.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

They use Claude Code a lot, and quite a lot of the userbase is anti-AI to the point that someone gets banned for death threats against the mods over this periodically.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 2h

Turkey has one generic liberal party and one party that wants Turkey to be governed the way Putin governs Russia. The latter is in power.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 3h

The poll you're citing from 2024 is impossible (Stein didn't get enough votes). Look instead at this poll: www.newarab.com/news/harris-... There was very little Muslim redshift from 2020 to 2024, less than the Asian and Hispanic redshifts.

newarab.com

Harris won most US Jewish votes, lagged behind with Arabs

Trump’s efforts focused on discouraging both Muslim and Jewish voter turnout, a strategy that may have paid off.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 3h

It's actually very simple. To win, Germany needed not to attack the USSR or US. To do that, it needed not to be run by Nazis. To do that, it needed to remain social democratic in the 1930s. Now let's talk about the WTB plan and how SPD could have invented Keynesianism a few years ahead of schedule.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 4h

And honestly - and this is where Said's analogy of Islamophobia to anti-Semitism shines - it's not too different from how Jews were under permanent suspicion of communism in the 20th century while communists were tarred for being Jewish even while the USSR promoted anti-Semitic propaganda.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 4h

I think they're synonymous, in the sense that the perception that he's far left is really about his Muslim background. (This is also from the left itself - El Sayed supports two states in the Southwest Levant, a position the GPEW and most of the DSA IC treat as Zionist and illegitimate.)

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

That was also true 20+ years ago; the Onion News Network's Bomb New York song was satirizing something real.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Any time up until three years and a day ago, if I'd heard a person on the Elizabeth line talk on the phone in Hebrew about material engineering, I'd complain about loud Israelis. But now, I just noted that he was living in London judging by what he said and felt safe speaking Hebrew on the train.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Don't talk to me like you're a cop interrogating me. I'm not a criminal or a criminal suspect. If you want to say something about Cooper, say it yourself, @ OP, and don't say "you agree with me" when I didn't mention him or the NC race in my comment at all.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, and Wagenknecht left Die Linke out of objections to immigration, gay rights, and environmentalism. She also became more-tankie-than-thou, while Die Linke used her departure to pretend to Linke/Green undecideds that it's no longer tankie (in fact, it's still thoroughly tankie).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

I don't know Rogers enough to know if he's overperforming or El Sayed is underperforming; my vulgar suspicion is that it's the latter but maybe someone from the area can give better reasons why it's not.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

In Germany, activists did manage to do it in the late 2010s; the carbon tax and the ban on new ICEs at the EU level by 2035 were consensus affairs. The right then made a decision in 2022-23 to declare environmentalists as its main enemy in the Ukraine War, for domestic sectional reasons.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 5h

This can't rate the Democratic candidates alone - it has to simultaneously rate both parties' candidates. In Maine we're seeing Collins overperform, as she did in her past election; in Texas we're likely seeing Paxton underperform.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 7h

What do you mean, turning? It's one account with not a lot of followers. Very big accounts, three days ago today and yesterday, cheered Hamas as a liberation movement.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 8h

And so it begins: the very first proposal of the new regional parliament in which the AfD is the strongest faction is about an immediate end to sanctions against Russia and the normalisation of relations. (Which, of course, they cannot decide at the regional level.) www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Sachsen-Anhalt: BSW will mit AfD Ukraine-Antrag verabschieden

Das BSW und die AfD wollen im Landtag in Sachsen-Anhalt den ersten gemeinsamen inhaltlichen Antrag beschließen: Ukrainehilfen sollen eingestellt, Russlandsanktionen aufgehoben werden.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 8h

Do you not remember how SF left-NIMBYs last decade tried to blame the death of a 100-year-old on eviction and not on being 100?

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

Yes they do? "Syria? Homs? Palestine!" was a take I saw in comments from a communist in response to demands that Obama do something about Assad's massacres of Syrians early in the Syrian Civil War.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 17h

I just wish they didn't make up excuses to justify what they did in the second half of 1941. There's a reason 95% of Lithuanian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 18h

Why would it? The sort of people who are most animated by anti-Chinese hate equally hate Vietnam, India, and other alternative trade partners to China.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 19h

Yep. If you're being invaded, the regular army that's attacking is always a bigger danger than domestic morons. Tellingly, its open pro-Russian actions are at this point the biggest reason people call for an AfD ban. But even then, the budget goes to Ukraine aid first. bsky.app/profile/glob...

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, unfortunately, a lot of what I’m writing has to do with health protocol in the US, so I would probably need somebody from the US. That is super cool though!

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 19h

Do any neurologists or neurosurgeons follow me? If so, would any of you be interested in being interviewed/consulted for a project I’m working on? I would give you credit for it, and could pay you for your time.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 19h

There are certain expressions that get a bad reputation because they're used by Nazis (or by communists but that's less common) even when they're perfectly good or perfectly dumb without that context. E.g. "First the traitors, then the invaders" is a stupid ideology even devoid of the Nazi context.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 19h

Germany is my ideal example in that a left-wing party that behaved like the GPEW would be dissolved as an anti-constitutional anti-Semitic party. Even a right-wing party, subject to far more support from right-wing civil society, is in danger of being banned (danger to itself, hope for us).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 20h

Ad "being noticed by powerful people," the Robert Galbraith books are from the early 2010s.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 22h

No PowerPoint slop, only warriors?

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Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon.bsky.social · 22h

In 2024, I sponsored a Stolperstein for Max Otto Neumann, a gay victim of the Nazi regime. It was installed this week. Few folks know that the world’s largest decentralized memorial grows every day. Max’s ist just the 63rd Stolperstein for LGBTQ people out of more than 86,000 across the world. 🕊️

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 23h

Bibi is smart, and people who worked under him in the 2010s found him serious. Yair is basically Joffrey from ASOIAF.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Germany. Judging by how passengers behave on the S-Bahn, it's a barbarism-state instead.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, but that's different - Marine did a lot of work to rebuild the party from 6MWE to 6M Was the Right Amount.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Donald Trump Sr. was extremely famous before he entered politics. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump ???.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This doesn't look expensive! (Light rail extension in the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.)

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a very small comfort that Yair Netanyahu is so repulsive that he can't do this - after Netanyahu goes away, the right will have to go back to being a normal right-wing political party.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey, we started complaining in earnest in October 2023, when AI was nowhere near as mature as it is now.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No political comment, but this juxtaposition is hilarious: >Two of the UK’s most contested current public projects, the HS2 rail line and the proposed Holocaust Memorial in Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens www.hansardsociety.org.uk/blog/hybrid-...

hansardsociety.org.uk

Hybrid Bills and Parliament: History, procedure and controversies

Two of the UK’s most contested current public projects, the HS2 rail line and the proposed Holocaust Memorial in Westminster’s Victoria Tower Gardens, are both underpinned by a rare and sometimes cont...

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Conservatives do, which leads to corruption; liberals sometimes cope and surrender to an illiberal position.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Okay, but I'm talking about specific parties and groups. Mark Carney passed a Buy Canadian law for rolling stock, where some places never had such laws (like BC, which is importing Solaris buses in a contract from before the new law).

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, three years ago today this space was intolerable. As in, worse-than-Twitter intolerable.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not when American liberal politicians support Buy America.

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The problem is that Piker is extreme enough in so many other ways that Sister Souljahing him is a win-win.

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