I use the term “Third World” here in its proper sense, as the Left has been much more reticent to embrace genuinely anticolonial nationalisms in the Second World, such as in the Baltics or Ukraine. The cosmopolitanism of leftism thus degenerates into campism, where Gaddafi is a hero, not Zelensky.

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“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's comms director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped (published Oct. 2025):

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gonna drop some geopolitics inside baseball: a dictator of a nuclear power is not an “uwu smol bean”

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The ratios upstream of that comment are hilarious.

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Realism is a dumb person’s idea of a smart person’s idea.

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