The island states are down to US pressure (threats/bribes). Argentina & Hungary are currently suffering under the reigns of Milei & Orban, lunatics who latched onto Israel/Netanyahu because they also love corruption and abusive governance. Not sure about Czechia, but probably US pressure there too.

And a special mention of a guy who fumbled the bag there. bsky.app/profile/namm...

nammuz.bsky.socialApr 17, 2024 2:26am

One of the odder stories in the run up to the Iraq war revealed by Sen Leahy in his memoir was when he was directed to intel in the capitol SCIF that severely undermined the Bush administration's case for war by mysterious joggers, and used that intel to do... nothing.

This is made basically impossible by most state and federal politicians not seeing a problem with the police gangs even if a local reformer gets in, they're left to the violent intimidation and retaliation from the police if they try anything.

I think the only way to solve Americas police problem is with coordinated local, state, and federal action where non criminal replacements are trained somewhere with laws like Norway and then the entire department fired with the national guard to make them disarm and feds to investigate the crimes.

If we start holding people accountable for what they do it will not work out well for her.

I don't think it was a brains kind of operation.

They do run together I guess.

I think that was the same one, the New Hampshire libertarian party is exceptionally insane poster. Straight up defending Imperial Japan, which even by the stunted moral understanding of the libertarians is wrong because American business interests were disrupted by the beheading contests in China.

I followed it in the early 2000's and saw some of the TERF stuff from 2014 or so and am still shocked by what it has come too.

ah.