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The revolution will eat its own children, except these terminally online motherfuckers are doing that before they even get to the revolution bit. I'll still say that Hasan is a dangerous grifter.

My guess is that it's because they don't actually know much about the world outside of America, and so you end up with Americanised takes on everything that isn't America. It's ironically a direct consequence of living in the world's singular superpower, being completely isolated from the world.

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some people's brains got cooked by the internet, I swear.

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also like, as a pure rhetorical move, i really don’t think the supposed “defenders of the oppressed” have thought through what the implications of “human rights are liberal propaganda to hold us back” are if deployed in actual practice, because the phrasing could be a verbatim quote from Ben-Gvir

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, at this point I just assume that -online- radical leftists are more or less Nazis but with red paint instead of brown. In real life it does tend to be a bit different in my experience, as a Turk interacting with (rare) Turkish communists, but online? Nah, it's just killpeopleism online.

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"What I enjoyed about Twitter was that there was a community of communists who were not squeamish about mass killing" Yes that's because you people are just red nazis

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tbh even using the term “Zionists” as a pejorative outside of very clearly defined frameworks makes me assume the worst of people, largely, at this point, through long experience.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In theory there may be people who obsess over “Zionists” controlling American politics who aren’t anti-Semites but at this point I pretty much assume anyone speaking this way is one step away at best from going full ZOG.

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Soon it will be commonly understood that opposition politicians winning elections spend their next years in jail - it will be seen as a faintly absurd stunt to even try, like heroic investigative journalism

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06jank.bsky.social @06jank.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

via @huseyinedemir.bsky.social: Status of the mayors of Turkey's largest cities: 1. Istanbul: jailed 2. Ankara: free for now 3. Izmir: switched to AKP 4. Bursa: jailed 5. Antalya: jailed

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

nazis 🤝 tankies

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The phrase "procedure comes before substance" is relevant here. I don't know how often the phrase is used in American (or common) law but it's often cited in Turkish law, for good reason. "Just lock them up" is a can of worms you do not want to open, even for the best of intentions.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we genuinely can't (easily do this)

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Erdoğan's been in bad health since I was 15. I'm 30 now.

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Especially when it leaves capitalists claiming ambition as their exclusive property. They get to promise transformation, the left gets cast as the person explaining why you shouldn’t want things. What a fucking surrender.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've actually used the phrase "mysticism" myself to refer to specifically how political theorists tended to go about their jobs (I was in political science). Thanks, it's good to know I am not alone in this.

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 27/09/2026

And the toxic Silicon Valley culture that currently exists (which is a thing I wrote about in my academic work) is a direct reaction in part to the hardcore mysticist anti-empiricism of academia - the way we got them to believe in the Cathedral was by building it

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think Andor really is one of the most important TV shows of our time. Technically brilliant, so galvanising, each time I find something new in it (just watched it a fourth (!) time). Absolute masterpiece.

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Karami @mobinkarami.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that many of the executions and death sentences in Iran don't make headlines isn't because they have stopped. So far in 2026, the Islamic Republic has executed at least 1001 Iranians, including 41 in September. Currently, more than 100 people are facing the death sentence.

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wholeheartedly agree. One minor criticism I might have is the -relative- diversity of dialogue options...relative to Rogue Trader, which I think is a genuinely high bar.

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 24/09/2026

“And then Donald Trump signed the Greenland deal and locked himself into NATO”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

For all their faults, states at least have the potential for democratic accountability and control. Corporations and wealthy individuals do not, and the state should crush their power before it is too late.

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Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

...that when you go and complain about something you get jailed or whatever. The reality is/was more likely that you'd be given a glass of tea at the municipality and asked what your problem is. Chances are, they'll probably fix it!

Kaan A. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @evcilemu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is why the AKP cling to power, by the way. Westerners are quick to assume that they steal elections and suppress dissent, but they don't know that until very recently, AKP municipalities were incredibly responsive and quick to act. Foreigners (and sheltered Turks) have this impression...

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Maybe art is a response to the times we are living through. Maybe the most-celebrated art is something that is both crafted with excellence and resonates with the moment. (To quote Brecht: "In dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.")

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They say shit like this and then turn themselves into pretzels with the mental gymnastics, and then whine and complain when sane people tell them that yeah, there is some merit to the horseshoe theory of politics.

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This is 100% pure uncut reactionary fear of the newcomer disguised in a purportedly-leftist wrapper, and we must wholly reject it out of hand. America welcomes the newcomer, no matter where they are from or where they choose to live.

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This nonsensical glorification of back-breaking manual labour is the bane of progress. "Fulfilling," my arse. The liberation of mankind from manual labour is possible, and it is a desirable goal. To pretend otherwise is, frankly, just "RETVRN" but leftishly.

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We have exterminated several diseases which claimed the lives of millions of humans prior to modern medicine. We, on average, live healthier and longer lives. We have solutions to dental problems that aren't just "yank it out." Fewer mothers die in childbirth. Yes, these are all technology.

SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Have you ever done laundry without a washing machine or even a dryer?

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Just blocked a long-time mutual account, a big one, because they posted a post using the word "zionist" as a slur and a video of Macklemore praising him as a hero. Fucking antisemitism is insidious folks. It melts brains. It corrodes souls. I'm so sick of it, and I'm not even Jewish. Ugh.

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Ducky @ducklingsmith.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I mean, you're absolutely right, but the kind of people who beat up RNLI volunteers are the kind of people who actually want that power of life and death over individuals, because they *want* to exercise it in favour of their preferred groups and against their perceived enemies

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I'm not sure. Living in it, it's difficult to feel that the darkest of our days are not just beginning.

More about the way of governance and norms than geography at this point, really. I wouldn't accept us (Turkey) into the EU, not at gunpoint.

It's particularly funny to me because the maternal side of my family is Circassian and Crimean Tatar :) But yeah. It's just wild that nobody committed to "guys this does not make sense" in the late 20th century or something, but then again, Obama being elected was also a big deal.

I'm pale as all hell and I'm a Turk. A Norwegian might be pale as well, and yet, there's nothing actually in common with us except perhaps living on the same gargantuan landmass that is Eurasia?

I was going to say, "white" is absolutely inane to me as a Turk. I'm not saying that in an effort to be obtuse. It's one thing about American racial terminology that never makes sense to me. I've always stared at forms while living in the US asking me for my race with a "wtf is 'white'?" stare.

That requires folks to be self-aware so as to know that they do not know about a given subject.