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A logical step in America's determined effort to become a proper *checks notes* medieval society

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pundits: See, American voters realised who Trump really is and they have finally seen sense. American voters:

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This whole thing is why the Butlerian side is so attractive—people who could have been doing something else instead have to do actual work to try to prove that an insultingly inherently absurd use case is in fact worthless

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In fairness, if the author can "deliver a devastating rebuttal to all potential arguments" against their position, including the ones they are not even aware of yet and those that have not even been made yet because they are, well, potential, then they must be very intelligent

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Thank you for providing these numbers. 70-74,000 deaths are a very conservative estimate. The numbers are in fact much higher as reported by various publications including The Lancet. If you remember Western media stopped reporting on the numbers to tone down the sheer volume.

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Aliki Chapple @commonmugwort.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The new roadside safe-driving ad in Flanders is also a decent double entendre for those who happen to speak Hungarian as well IYKYK

Flemish roadside safety ad with the text: Nuni op je gsm - Focus op de weg

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Is it infuriating that the world’s most famous fascist regime used it as a backdrop? Sure. I’m angrier with the slimy subservience of the Greek government that allowed it.

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"Mind-boggling." What an expert

They are wasting no time to get on the issue that is the most important for the voters of Saxony-Anhalt: pay Putin back

She retired so she can now take the mask off. Amazing

Yes, I tried to convey that but my sarcasm apparently doesn't shine through 🙂🤷

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I love how, when discovering that the "vampire" was just a normal, decomposing corpse and they were laughable wrong about it, they still manage to get out of it without losing face 👌

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

"it's lonely at the top" syndrome?

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lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have no strong view on a preferred outcome here - “stop the massacre and destruction” feels like the immediate priority - but I invite readers to note the result of decades of nice libs wishing for two states is their own governments assisting in genocide, ethnic cleansing and massive destruction.

Opinion
The Guardian view on the Green party and Palestine: rejecting two states is no shortcut to peace
Editorial
Zack Polanski must defend Palestinian freedom while reassuring Jewish members and showing that his party can handle disagreements

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The fact that they only found out about it by chance (while working on another of his questionable activities) is the chef's kiss

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Would you possibly have a link?

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Jasper van Kuijk @jaspervankuijk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow. Has such a hinged wax tablet ever been found, or do we otherwise know how it was constructed?

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De dag dat de Nobelprijswinnaars bekend worden is ook de dag dat ik traditiegetrouw om 11.30 random Nederlandse topwetenschappers bel met mijn Zweedse nummer en dan zeg: 'Sorry, verkeerd verbonden.'

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Well, if by Schengen you mean a tightly controlled external borderline with FoM within it, which we already have in the EU - if that is what you mean by "abolishing borders" - I can live with that 🙂👍

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Not if you guys really want to abolish all borders, no 🙂

I appreciate that. But now it sounds like what you want is not abolished borders in general but a system that gives *you more personal freedom of movement and residence. In fairness, I'd like that for myself, too

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What does this point have to do with abolishing borders?

So when you say, as you did, that life with open borders would look like life looked like before 1900, it's a legitimate question to ask whether you'd like that

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It's not meant as a gotcha, either. I just don't think that saying something existed at some point in the past is an argument for it to exist, or to even be possible, today

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On a more serious note, is there a book that thought it through, what would actually happen if we tried to abolish borders starting from today's existing situation? And how would we even do the abolishing? I'd be interested in learning from such a thought experiment by someone knowledgeable

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Gareth0108 @gareth0108.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's a snappy reply, fair enough. 👌 But would you gentlemen like to live before 1900?

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forty years of the same answer to the wrong question by politicians sigh

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In fairness, I appreciate the image of good British folk discovering the smell of food with actual flavour coming from their neighbour's house for the first time in their lives and becoming extremely concerned about it

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