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Guillaume ANCEL @guillaumeancel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Le RN constitue un parti de « détournement national », détournement de la colère ressentie par de larges pans de nos sociétés, détournement de financements publics, mais pas pour défendre la nation… les dirigeants du RN sont des faussaires de la nation nepassubir.fr/2026/10/02/l...

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No idea what this is, but it sounds like something for one man to wipe another man. If anyone does know what it is, don’t tell me.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After expulsion of 20% of the population for having an immigrant background, they would not have an economy or an army.

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Michael Albert @michlalbrt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wir können uns das Deutschlandticket nicht leisten.

Deutschlandticket im Vergleich. Das kosten Verkehrssubventionen (Jährliche Kosten für den Staat durch Zahlungen oder verminderte Steuereinnahmen in Milliarden Euro):

Deutschlandticket: 3 Mrd. Euro
Tankrabatt: 4,1 Mrd. Euro (Mai-Juni, Oktober-Dezember)
Dienstwagenprivileg: 4,2 Mrd. Euro
Pendlerpauschale: 5 Mrd. Euro
Dieselprivileg: 7-8 Mrd. Euro
Steuerbefreiung Kerosin: etwa 8 Mrd. Euro

Quelle: Correctiv.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd go further and argue Euro membership is an opportunity not a threat whether in trade, financial markets, or how UK personnel could come to shape the ECB. Building a sustainable outcome for the UK in the EU has to look beyond FoM and start engaging with how to integrate in Schengen and Euro

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the reasons cited for Brexit was that the Eurozone countries would forge ahead leaving out the UK. That only applies if there is some reason why the UK can never adopt the euro.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The US that is able to communicate with us is that of the culture industries, of academics, of urbanites and intellectuals. We can easily forget that it is a white settler state

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The RN may pursue French interests à la Meloni, but the AfD won’t pursue German interests. It is all about breaking Germany

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why? You draw your pension from where you have worked and take your health insurance with you. Those don’t move back, only your spending does.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Brexit is more nationalistic than being in the EU. For the English, unionism is more nationalistic than granting independence. Nationalism is not a policy as such it is a quasi religion and culture. The choice for each nationalistic person was to be as nationalistic as possible personally

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quite, I waded in and realised it’s pointless. You can argue against opinions, you can’t argue against a mentality or culture

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is nothing new to be said

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good you’re taking about that because over on UK Bluesky they’re talking about you know what and saying the same things again

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s the “brave romantic country” against “oh well, if we have to join but we’ll get out of as much as possible”

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The wiggle room is all Ireland’s

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is possible that the “I want the EU but not all of it” is perceived as a moderate or consensus seeking option in the UK context and there’s no real conviction behind it, in which case it just has to be taken off the menu.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course, realistically tabloid campaigns against Brussels regulations would never stop and the UK would have to decide to live with them

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Regulations and directives come about after consultation to which anyone can contribute. The interested parties are eg producers vs consumers or polluters vs environmentalists, not so much state vs state. A lot concerns B2B about which there is no reason to have an opinion outside the sector

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Udo Stiehl @udostiehl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Das Ergebnis, dass im Schnitt vier von zehn Menschen Social-Media-Posts glaubwürdiger finden als redaktionelle Nachrichten, ist aus demokratiepolitischer Sicht alarmierend."

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The word is mightier than the sword

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Newnet @madoe2014.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: Panic is spreading more and more among the Republicans

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every evening Hannan disappears in a puff of smoke and next morning a new one is released having grown in a test tube over night. By lunchtime he has read all current right-wing talking points and is ready to make fresh predictions by the afternoon.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At this point, the US military has become a teenage boy who is still insecure about his masculinity. It can do that if it wants, but maybe don’t combine it with an actual war though

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Would the UK as a new member 1) try to advance integration in response to Russian and US hostility or 2) try to prevent something, anything to say “look what we were able to prevent now that we are a member”? I try to imagine 1), I want 1), but I don’t see it on the horizon, I see 2).

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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1) Die AfD plant in Sachsen-Anhalt gemeinsam mit dem BSW, nur noch ihre eigenen Landtags(vize)präsidenten zuzulassen. Damit können alle anderen Fraktionen gegängelt werden. 2) Sie wollen die Ausschüsse so besetzen, dass die AfD überall Blockademehrheit hat. Nur noch AfD-Themen auf der Tagesordnung.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ultimately, the practical stuff is irrelevant. When they say “we will or will not have control of XYZ”, it’s not XYZ that is at issue but “we”.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You’re only not being Islamist so I think you’re Islamist, but I happen to know you’re really not an Islamist, so why are you lying?

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having just listened to R4, I’d put the BBC among those wishing to reduce everything to the EU question

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are essentially very xenophobic people who believed that before anyone told them and would not believe anything else if anyone said it. They are not gullible in other spheres or necessarily dimwits, just xenophobes

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Essentially objections to bits of the EU like Schengen or the euro are the same as the objection to membership, just chauvinism. If chauvinism is overcome enough to think of joining, a bit more and it’s enough to join the real EU

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t suppose it will. If the UK can’t muster the desire to join the real existing EU, it will just put it off until later

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It shows ignorance both of the mentality in Europe and of how to deal with xenophobes and takes no account of changes since 2016 both in public opinion in the UK and the relative economic development of eg the UK vs Poland

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He describes FoM as a dogmatic principle when it’s actually the most popular of the acquis across the continent. It’s personal, not just economic or political. The xenophobia that it exposed in the UK was largely a result of not using the existing option of a moratorium on FoM for new accessions

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In European colonialism, racism had many functions: justification of slavery, different rights for different people, paternalism, preventing mingling and assimilation of Europeans into the colonies, purpose and pride for the colonising nation. Apart from being wrong, it is now useless and weakens us

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s also weird because European racism was created for the purpose of colonialism and it was always US policy to destroy European colonial empires and now they don’t exist.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The new thing is US racists claiming to be the true heirs of a European heritage right back to the Roman Empire and Europeans betraying it by not being racist. It’s weird not just because US racists are pure consumers who know less than a dog about our cultural heritage.

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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ici à 7'57 précisément. Non-ambiguë n'est-ce pas ? Marine #LePen, 29 Mars 2017, BBC News Night « Les grandes lignes politiques que je défends sont les grandes lignes qui sont défendues par M. Trump, par M. Poutine» Interview menée par la journaliste 🇬🇧 Emily Maitlis www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeEH...

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'I am the anti-Merkel': Marine Le Pen on Brexit, EU, Putin and Nato - BBC Newsnight

YouTube video by BBC Politics

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yes, it will. Many people of all ages are spoilt children

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 28/09/2026

Sie sagen Neutralität aber sie meinen Pro-Russland

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Fernando Varela @fernandovarela.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Qué revelador.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think they will accept it. Being far right loons and being the victim and having sensible people ensure everything works is win-win-win for them.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, but people who voted for Brexit and then for Johnson and then for Reform UK were also voting for entertainment, taking for granted that everything would continue working as normal

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have they run this past a representative trial audience of racists? I don’t see this being a winner somehow. Looks like a niche corner of the fashosphere

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The three far-right parties, Tories, Reform and Restore have about 50% together. All want to leave the ECHR and therefore the Council of Europe and blow up the GFA and TCA. It would be a worse crisis than Brexit

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would put it this way: the countries that Russia threatens are more valuable to us than Russia is and they are certainly more friendly towards us

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trivial columnists should realise that their “articles” are actually fish-and-chip wrappers

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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, in Russian-occupied Oleshky, people are boiling soup from grass and eating dogs; there are reports of people starving to death. Russia is completely blocking people from leaving the city and preventing humanitarian aid from getting in. Today it became known that Ukrainian drones...

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Bartosz T. Wieliński @bart-wielinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Czwartą Rzeszą w Europie kiedyś straszył Kaczyński Teraz Czwartą Rzeszą straszy Ławrow Nie wiem, kto kogo inspirował, ale to zbyt podobne, by spać spokojnie

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