Tho votes were still being counted Tues afternoon & the Modi-led #BJP could still form the govt, it was projected to fall short of its showing in 2014, when #Modi swept to #power on a wave of national #anger over #corruption, or 2019, when buoyed by #nationalist sentiment over a border clash w/ #Pakistan. Such a result would be rare for the politician who has never failed to secure a majority in a 23+yr political career & cultivates an image as a #populist#strongman & a serial winner. #India
"Do you see what is happening? Do you? Congressmen and women are going to New York for Trump to undermine our justice system and push MAGA to reject a guilty verdict.
Now they’re going after Merrick Garland…the US AG.
The coup is in motion. It never really stopped, but it’s running wide open.
They are conditioning the cult followers to cease believing that our judicial system…or our government, period…has any legitimacy. They are training them to reject law and order…and to disregard anyone but Trump and/or other MAGA leaders.
I don't mean to be all #british#nationalist#brexit on this pencil paper game. But American and French flags are two of the worst flags to use when talking about handing over control of the wields oldest underground train network.
It's even more baffling because the Tokyo version of the game uses the union jack to signify the #English language.
Remember folks, #flags are bad at being #design icons for language selection as they have #political meanings.
Revealed: US professor Scott Yenor
was behind extremist site that spread conspiracies
Boise State University (BSU) professor and #Claremont#Institute scholar #Scott#Yenor was the hidden hand behind #Action#Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that 💥Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D #Klingenstein.💥
He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, #Pedro#Gonzalez, to lead the initiative.
Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about #antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020.
They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal ( #SACR ), a secretive fraternal #Christian#Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.
After 2 full yrs w/o a functioning govt, Northern Ireland’s Parliament Bldgs opened their doors on Sat & lawmakers returned to work — one of their 1st acts was to name Sinn Féin’s #MichelleONeill as first minister.
O’Neill, 47, makes history as Northern #Ireland’s 1st #nationalist leader, from a party that wants north & south to come together, someday, as a single country.
Russia exploiting far-right #nationalism in Europe against Ukraine
Russia is taking advantage of European far-right #nationalist movements’ increasingly vocal claims to Ukrainian #territory, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported
Far-right movements in #Hungary & #Romania raised concern this past week after party leaders claimed parts of Ukrainian territory.
#Texas could vote on referendum to secede from the #UnitedStates States this spring
Leaders of the Texas #Nationalist Movement (TNM) — which openly calls for the Lone Star State to secede from the United States and become an independent nation again — appear to have surpassed the threshold to put a secession ballot initiative on the 2024 #Republican primary ballot this March.
When we decided, earlier this year, to publish a special issue on the #Right, Republicans had not yet elected an avowed #Christian#nationalist as speaker of the House — one who was a key architect of Donald #Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, who had partnered with “two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner,” and who, in the first moments of his speakership, declared God had “ordained” his authority.
#Braverman: "I do not believe these marches are merely a cry for help for #Gaza. They're an assertion of primacy by Islamists, of the kind we are more used to seeing in Northern #Ireland."
#Sunak failed to force the Met to ban a pro #Palestine ceasefire march, so his attack dog Cruella reacted, prompting the #FarRight to tell its supporters to protest against the march.
Why is it wrong to call for peace on Armistice Day? 💢 🤔
What we're seeing is sheer electioneering & #SuellaBraverman jockeying for the position of #Tory leader.
Her article is confusing. The #Tories are in alliance with the #DUP, but her article seemingly attacks them as the one's usually causing grief with inflammatory marches.
The DUP want clarification if she's referring to them, as do #SinnFein, because if #Braverman actually meant the #Nationalist community, it's in bad taste after the #BloodySunday atrocity.
At a recent political rally, President Trump announced that he was a "nationalist" and encouraged his audience to do the same. Since then, liberals have engaged in all sorts of rhetorical gymnastics to exaggerate their differences from Trump. Keep the following points in mind:
1). Nationalism is not limited to the overt racism espoused by the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads, or the Nazis. When ordinary Americans discuss global politics and invoke the pronoun "we" - they are often juxtaposing themselves to a foreign "they" who is typically poor, non-white, non-male, and non-citizen. Therefore, nationalism is not a deviation from Western governance; it is a core principle which shapes the collective sense of being and belonging.
2). Here is a quick, non-exhaustive "Am I a Nationalist?" checklist:
Do you believe that the United States military keeps you safe from harm?
Do you believe that U.S. intervention is necessary to ensure world peace?
Do you believe in the need for a strong national border?
Do you believe that non-citizens are "criminals" who "cheat the system"?
Do you believe that capitalism works?
If you answered "yes" to one or more of these questions, you are a nationalist. There is only a difference of degree between you and Trump.
3). Nationalism involves the violence of dividing the entire world into several arbitrary pieces. We are then told to be "patriotic" and pledge allegiance to the nearest piece ... because it is "superior" to all the other pieces who threaten our sense of peace. We must remember that "nations" are a product of politics, NOT nature. The "border" between the United States and Mexico disappears from a bird's eye view. National borders are fictional.
4). The oppressed vastly outnumber their oppressors - a fact which frightens those in power. To prevent global solidarity among the downtrodden, the ruling class promotes a nationalist agenda to drive a wedge between everyone. Nationalism is a "divide and conquer" strategy which forces us to fight each other as opposed to our common enemy. This is why Marx said "the worker has no country" and "workers of the world, unite!"
...gas-powered mowers and gas-powered stoves in New York City, all under the name of a climate control agenda, we can all see what is really going on here,” said state Rep. Borowicz, in a video posted by Heartland Signal. “The truth is, is in Genesis 8:22, it says, ‘as long as the Earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.’
Bardzo często słyszymy bajeczki środowiska nacjonalistycznego o swojej antysystemowości i ulicznej prawilności. Później zawsze okazuje się, że jakby co, to jednak "murem za mundurem" i chłopaki są pierwsi do pucowania policyjnych butów.
This bears repeating until it sinks in. #Liberal tolerance of #fascism equals support for fascism. Tolerance of intolerance is a privileged position held by those with less to lose from a far-right #nationalist apartheid state. Take a stand against #tyranny or get out of the way.
A whole part of the #media#language deals with the asymmetry of a friend-enemy image, so that the enemy is always the eternally evil of yesterday, and you by yourself always the good progressive.
Those who do not see through this are in principle open to any #nationalist radicalization.
Word examples: Rebel - terrorist (in the case of insurgents), government - regime, cunning - devious, intervention - attack(war of attack), and so on and so on and so on.
Why do we call the #Republicans “conservative.” Call them what they are; #reactionary and #nationalist. They have no interest preserving what they find to be the best of the USA. They are radical nihilists who want to blow up whatever offends them on any given day. Their main goal seems to be to return us to the 19th century, hardly a conservative goal. There is nothing about this crowd that is restrained or respectful of institutions or the #ruleoflaw.
If Stormont is not reformed to do away with the designation system, to allow all of us who aren't #Unionist or #Nationalist to have our vote count. Also to remove the mandatory coalition element of government here.
Then my preferred option is Joint Authority - with Dublin & London; through the British/Irish Council set out in GFA.
I see no problem in Dublin having a say - they after all are co- guarantors of #GFA.