Thanks; they look utterly insufferable, like they could turn on you and try to upsell you their diet/fitness programme at any time.

In that case, you’d be obliged to dispose of it quickly. Burning it is probably the safest option.

They already have Hungary

CCP offers Fidesz assistance in establishing a modern totalitarian system of control and eliminating opposition.

Never underestimate the Russian people’s capacity for suffering.

Getting a head start on implementing the policies of the Le Pen regime, avoiding the rush

I’ll take it.

IIRC, Orban and Netanyahu are buddies from way back.

The Russians used to bluster a lot like that. They also said that the EU project to build a standard-gauge railway through the Baltic States was an act of war. They probably still say things like that, but now everyone ignores them.

Wait until the EU elections. If the far right sweep them, as many are predicting, we will probably see diesel subsidies funded by scrapping renewable energy and sustainable transport projects.

To the Tories, there’s no difference between someone who doesn’t own enough property to live off the passive income and a beast of burden. It is the fate of both to die in harness.

That’s a lot of Swedish music stars who will not be allowed entry into the US, UK or Germany, where their statements are classified as antisemitism under the IHRA definition. They can still tour Cuba and Venezuela, though.

I’m guessing Orban is on his way to Moscow to seek further instructions.

Musk — who joked multiple times that he considers himself “Jew by aspiration” and “by association”

Every age gets the Julie Burchill it deserves.

A significant proportion of the AfD’s supporters are explicitly Putinist. In the 90s, Germany gave citizenship to hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants who had German ancestry (being descended from Volga Germans who migrated to Russia during Catherine the Great’s reign and subsequent waves). Most of these new Germans didn’t even speak German, let alone have any familiarity with post-1989 German democratic society. Nowadays they get their news from Russian state sources and form a far-right anti-liberal voting bloc that’s solidly AfD.

Let me know when you can have posts visible only to friends (which is not the same thing as “visible only to people who follow you”) and permissions for specific friend lists.

Only without the red shirt, which was a subsequent Disney addition

Especially when the Disney copyright lawyers notice

Matcha bun with mozzarella and olive “eyes”? It’ll work.

Given how strident the author has been about her views, and that she is still a living person, earning royalties and materially contributing to anti-transgender causes, proclaiming oneself a fan of these books is as least saying that the author’s anti-transgender activism is not a dealbreaker. Making part of one’s identity an aspect of the books’ universe is even more so, to the point where there’s a correlation between people proclaiming their Hogwarts house in their bio and expressing anti-trans views. (TERF/“gender critical” activists having suddenly discovered that they were Slitherpuffs or whatever a few years ago, despite not having expressed any interest in YA fantasy novels before Rowling’s statements, is an observed phenomenon, to the point where such a statement in one’s bio is more likely than not to serve as a feeler for scouting out fellow anti-trans sympathisers.)