My Sister in Law comes from a small German fishing town on the Baltic. The size of their war memorial in such a small town was sobering. The last recorded deaths were 1956 too, as German POWs were st… (View Post)

Yes, I think that the lesson of Mamdani's win is more subtle. It is possible to win in NYC with its large LBGTQ+ community with this sort of "identitarian" politics. Mamdani got 84% of… (View Post)

We could do with an "unlike" button. (View Post)

Sure Mamdani focussed on bread and butter issues but far from avoiding "identitarian issues" he was open in his support of Trans-rights, as listed here. His youtube ad in the link was from … (View Post)

I think people get habituated to their environment very quickly. Whether nuses, doctors, prison officers, police, lawyers, social workers, bankers or the armed forces people rapidly adapt to their co… (View Post)