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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 11h

Africa is a big continent. I don't think this will hold for all of 'em. Definitely true that the crisis hitting developed democracies is carving its way through former colonies as well, though.

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, as literally every Christian ever has figured out immediately, you can just invent any Jesus you want.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker

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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’ve never seen a meme that embodies my very essence before.

YOU TRIGGERED MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE
AND PM A FLIGHTLESS BIRD!

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Absolutely wild that EVERYONE across the political spectrum agrees we should be having more sex, from right wing natalists to left wing sex positive feminists, but the discourse STILL, OVERWHELMINGLY, defaults in EVERY CASE to shaming and otherizing anyone who cares to noticeably get their freak on

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Constitution remains vital because we've wisely understood words are empty containers and their meaning changes over time. The Constitution absolutely would be outdated if e.g. the First Amendment were rigidly forced to allow state establishments of religion like everyone agreed it did in 1789.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I agree. We may just not have a really clear picture on how to optimize this stuff against a modern secular social landscape yet. Of course, I think the best evidence is actually for a democratic 1PS but nobody is ready for THAT conversation, lmao

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Obvious solution seems just to use appropriate qualifying language. Monarchy means everything from Saudi imperium to Denmark's meek system. So we use terms like "constitutional" and "absolute" to make sure our referents are clear. So also for "agrarian" or "aspirational" vs. "universal" democracy.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seems like a grasping to center outdated political understandings you would in no way grant for someone who e.g. argues that China's social control system is completely compatible with a robust freedom of speech [as defined by those people in the 18th century you want to credit as full democrats].

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Original point of contention was whether we can really give the 2PS a 200 year track record of success when for 140 of those years the "success" depended in part on not being a full democracy. That seems like a fair point; fewer moving parts permit simpler structures to function efficiently.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It may beg the question to say everyone denying a universal franchise to their population, who wished to portray themselves as nobly democratic, agreed a narrow franchise isn't inherently undemocratic. Kinda feels like polling kings on whether they rule by divine right. :P

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Does it? This cutoff also suggests decolonialization was the start of real democracy in Europe. I don't have a problem saying WWII led to a mostly worldwide mostly democratic spring (great powers do so hate to take their thumbs off the scales alas)

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, in 1776 everyone thought freedom of speech meant not arresting opposition legislators in parliamentary session. Today no theorist calls this even token freedom of speech. It's not really denying historical reality to judge American democracy as aspirational prior to the Civil Rights Era.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

e.g., taking serious interest in facts on the ground, Spain being under Socialist control has been for the past two electoral cycles directly attributable to NOT having a two-party system. As direct beneficiary of that political reality I sure feel bulwark'd even if only in a very limited sense!

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And in some places, like where I live in Spain, renewables have penetrated so much that at least at the household end user level electricity prices are basically level over the past several years.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NO bulwark isn't a fair reading of electoral results relative to strength of various national reactionary movements (to say nothing of how coalition governments have limited the scope of reactionary policy achievements). Just that the problems with lib democracy vigorously transcend party system.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Propose this platform and watch self identifying centrists PRETZEL themselves trying to explain why they're not just unprincipled launderers of reactionary ideology

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! Let the spooky season begin!

A black-and-white cat dressed like a ghost in a white cloth, sitting between two orange Halloween buckets

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SPACELING 🌈👽🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @spaceling.art · 01/10/2026

being trans is so much more than some pronouns and whether or not you take hormones or undergo surgery if someone identifies as trans, then that's it. so what if they don't socially transition, or change their name literally you cannot decide what someone else gender is it's 2026 for fuck's sake

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026

‘How Long Will The Fuel Hold Out’ George Carlson, 1914 archive.org/details/cari...

A massive, imposing head wearing a helm 'War God' representing the insatiable and destructive nature of militarism.
The Figure of "Europe": A woman labeled "Europe" who shovels human skulls and bones from a vast pile into the fiery furnace of the war god's mouth.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 30/09/2026

‘Les Sirènes’ (The Sirens), “Floréal” Henry Chapront, 1922 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

On the left, a scaly, fish-tailed mermaid figure emerges dynamically from the water, leaning backward with long dark hair streaming behind her as she looks up toward the standing figure.
On the right, a powerful, athletic nude figure stands firmly on the shore, gripping a long staff and looking down directly at the siren.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 30/09/2026

‘Lo Spirito Possente’ (The Powerful Spirit), “Emporium”, #98 Bolesław Biegas,1903. archive.org/details/empo...

gaunt, skeletal, crowned figure holding a smaller reclining or falling figure

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Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I prefer Schmitt to Heidegger. Heidegger was a true fascist; he desired salvation from thought in the quiescent ‘Being’ of the Reich, whereas the Nazis got pissed off with Schmitt for being way too much of a hermeneutist of suspicion. He’s one of these reactionaries who almost goes so far in..

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

While this is true, it's also important to understand the elements of Jungian nonduality precluded by too quick of an associative label. My fave example is Carl Schmitt. Nazi-like ideas? Oh HELL yes. Correct and super important observation of tensions and weaknesses in liberal democracy? Also yes.

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Praxis Thoughts Haver @praxisprocess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

High Decoupling: Philosophers do this when discussing figures like Heidegger and my response is usually some form of "If your trade is thinking really hard and you end up being a Nazi then maybe your ideas are Nazi-like." You can decouple idea from source somewhat, but not as much as people think

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Knowing other languages means everyone else sees "ooh, exotic surname!" while you see "written by R. A. Nightingalecrat".

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Arstotzkan Democrats? Could be anticlerical left wingers or just straight up integralists, no way to tell

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

love early 20th-century hebrew typefaces

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We can only lmao

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The year is 2026, you voted for Donald Trump:
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/09/2026

Goodnight. Gustave-Henri Jossot, 1903

skeleton, skull resting on his hand, stars around his head

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As an aside, a legal solution that @surcomplicated.bsky.social is fond of, which I think is very unlikely, but offers a potential rout to this outcome, is post-Trump to declare retroactively that Trump was ineligible under the 14th amendment and so was never legally president a second time.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing about actual Roman damnationes memoriarum is that they didn't really obliterate all memory of a bad emperor. None of our sources are afraid to talk about these figures. It wasn't truly about forgetting the guy, but about abolishing his (positive) public commemoration.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the strict sense of inspiring me to play more video games, probably Glider in 1988 on the Apple Macintosh. The two which convinced me of their power as life-changing art, though, were 1997's Myth: The Fallen Lords and 1999's Planescape: Torment.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ken Paxton deletes his tweet referring to Cypress, Texas as “Cyprus” after James Talarico calls him out.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

weird to me that none of these guys have responded to their belief of companies making a human extinction engine by physically attacking the people responsible. i think they like playing pretend.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 21/09/2026

Japanese Government Railways Satomi Mune, 1937

stylised image, blurred to give them impression of speed on a railway track

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Riddle of Steel: "Steel isn't strong, boy. Flesh is strong."

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Valastrius @valastrius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Steel is not power. Flesh is power.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think those would collectively be solid evidence of a desire for independence with at least a few teeth in it. Let's see who does 'em! I'd bet real money, for example, that no American bases in the EU27 will be closed at EU demand by January 21, 2029.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But let me put it to ya: what do YOU think EU/CN should do about American unreliability, de minimis?

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Both your reading and mine predict and explain the rhetoric we see. The differentiator to falsify will be actual policy followthrough. I suspect you grasp this intuitively and are setting goalposts so you can still feel like politicos are Doing Something re: USA even with minimal followthrough.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is, fwiw, inherently built into the concept of e.g. independence. Reducing dependence requires building the capacity for independent action. If it's not doing that, it's a gestural move and not actual dependence reduction. So far, we've only seen gestural moves even *proposed* seriously.

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Ro. An. Valen. @anrova.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's just it, there can be no notable shifts in reliance/dependence without the infrastructure available for a massive break. It's like saying nations want to address climate change without committing to net zero; that's sure evidence the "solutions" are fitted to rhetoric rather than reality.

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