Man this is like every 1 minute interlude jams or 20 second outtro of every metal band ever.

The outtro to Floods by Pantera, for instance.

The one about the snek bites I remember being rather neat.

Then they signed a deal with the U.S. Navy and they never recovered for me.

L’Espresso is the magazine name. Their cover depicts an Israeli settler as he abuses a Palestinian woman.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/israeli-palestinian-italian-magazine/

And well, Cleetus from the Simpsons just fit the comparison. Saw a few threads of people running hard hasbara about it being antisemitic.

It’s been a tough week for them. First an Italian magazine publishes a photo, and now they’re scrambling to respond to IOF Cleetus memes.

I expect at least a few random bannings and a weeks worth of Kamala 2024 rehash memes to balance things out.

The only thing I am glad my US Public School education gave me were a few history teachers who directly talked about politics, activism, and repeatedly getting arrested for protesting the School of the Americas.

Well since it’s english and we borrow and mash everything around and together: we say that flowers and trees ‘bloom’ when they produce blossoms.

Probably why non EU countries are all trading the US, UK, and China.

At any rate it ignores that trade the EU does with the US, UK, and China is about 10 times the size of the trade deals measured in this map of IMF statistics. It either breaks it down as ‘NL=EU’ or it just omits the EU trade entirely while keeping them comparing with non-EU countries.

Conservatism can easily be a form of liberalism, and can even be considered progressive. It sounds contradictory but conservatism of progressive traditions, customs, and values is a component of many liberal societies. That’s your Teddy Roosevelts, the Southern New Deal Democrats, and the Blue Dog coalition.

there is no necessary overlap afaik.

As long as it is recognized that overlap isn’t a necessity, I think this is fine. The important thing to remember is that none of these terms are wholly exclusive to each other. Discussion just needs to agree to the context of used terms.

Plenty of (big C) Conservatives want to conserve the social institutions of racial segregation or other regressive concepts. But you can also legitimately say Xi Xinping is a conservative in the context of the PRC. So there’s a wide field for the context of the terms to get stretched around and (mis)used and (mis)interpreted.

Liberalism too. It is a concept that has existed and been applied to right wing monarchies and left wing republics. The entire French Revolution is exemplary in how these terms have no strict limit and so a baseline of agreed context is what is necessary.

Debbie presenting this is probably a very intentional optics move, goddamn.

The former starts its life as the latter anyway.

Naturally.

It means maintaining constants through change. So it can be applied way more broadly, actually. The ‘old ways’ or ‘traditional’ ways are agnostic to whether those ways are progressive or not.

‘Progressive conservatism’ exists. Many consider the form (or a prominent one) that it takes to be ‘neoliberalism’. Neoliberalism isn’t specifically used as a defined term political science.

So these terms have a whole lot of room tp be used and misused as needed.

Conservatives aren’t working towards those things, no.

That’s why there was a whole rest of the sentence.

Sure. Nothing is really stopping anyone from doing that when judging a content creator. If you’re deep into wondering why he’s got so many defenders and attackers online though: he’s political. People get wrapped up in that.

There’s not a lesser of two evils argument there, so it makes sense it’d be unconvincing.

This is more of a ‘judge him by his enemies’ type thing.

That’s a better comparison, actually. Mitt very publicly doesn’t like Trump, but voted with him like 80% of the time.

If I were to Americanize it: This is essentially if Ted Cruz, or better yet Chris Christie, beat Donald Trump in the general election. Undeniably a good thing as it’d mean no more Trump and it’s kinda humilating for him.

But it means… yeah. One of them at the helm.

This is barely Sabra hummus.

As far as political streamers with fanbases under 30, he’s one of the few alternatives to the manosphere types and groypers. People can have a kneejerk reaction to defend someone those groups routinely target.