"Brahmins" Charltons "it's all caste more than race" theory strikes again.

God I wish we'd followed the French example in the 70s.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social in HBO's Rome Caesar says the Senate declaring him an outlawed criminal also means his army has been declared outlaw criminals. Is this true to real life? When he was declared enemy of the state and the Senate issued it's final ultimatum did this apply to his army too?

A most fascinating thing about 21st Century America is how caste and clique have overridden race and class as forces on the *right*. A global movement of bigots who hate each other only a bit less than they hate people below them, who hate science because it ruins their dreams (nightmares).

"Suspect" its history can can check the sequence and escalation of Nazi crimes and the global response to them! The Western Allies, hell the allies generally, condemned the Holocaust as soon as it became apparent it was a thing.

Three isn't physically enough housing!

I can name several people who were really good at combat who came out of it as notable defenders of democracy.

A united Ireland will be default have to deal with the Orange Order!

The Levellers were having conversations about liberty and democracy that wouldn't happen elsewhere for a century.

One of my favourite facts is that Roman Army Diocletian created was effectly destroyed during the reign of Alexis Kommenoi- and yes that army was the same even with the Themes and Tagmata.

Fucking Leonard Cohen man, a prophet for our times.

Yes, but that's because swapping in A for B in an arguement is morally and logically absurd.

I once noted that there's a common misconception that weapons cause wars.

You're going to ask us to stop defending your airspace then? Irish neutrality is so cool, I wish it were real.

Constant was writing to refute Rousseau, to clarify.

This wasn't always consensual on either count but it always happened.

Benjamin Constant argued that the only way modern democracy and modern liberty can work is if you are not obliged to care about stuff at gun point.

I have read Blair, I have read Bookchin, I *disagree* with them.

And not just occasionally doing a spliff. We're talking drugs of an effect and in a quantity we normies can hardly imagine.

All of his bullshit has been disproven by countless liberal, socialist and even some conservative thinkers.

Yeah the killdozer guy was an evil bastard.

Cromwell was basically the prototype for British global power. This was good for the British and bad for a great many other people.

Or Kaiser Wilhelm.

This is why both Iran and Saudia Arabia having nuclear weapons would be insanely dangerous fwiw.

I like knowing random American stuff but I shouldn't know what a random racist Republican State Senator in Idaho thinks.

Or to the honest the person telling the anecdote, because those are actual specific things! Some people just act like wankers sometimes! You don't need to pathologise everything.

Time-travelling US Navy Zoomers from 2042 fight Nazis in 1942. It features Mecha FDR. David Stirling with a Colt Commando. Royal Scots Greys in Huey Cobras. An all-women fighter squadron flying F-106s. WW2 ending in a small nuclear exchange. And much more from the mind of @unavaleable.bsky.social!

Angela Merkel was in retrospect a disastrous Chancellor, but her moral clarity in accepting refugees was and is a noble thing.

Strategic grand level BMD is the economic calculation problem of military affairs.

the correct response to the authoritarian internationale is not isolationism--whether of the "america first" or "hair shirt" varieties--but the founding of a counterforce liberal internationale

We're in a golden era [derogatory] of elite and popular weakness to woo bullshit.

Is anyone monitoring the money?

Beyond being uh, totally wrong, this is also white man's burden/civilizing mission shit.

A single Pact which divided Poland with Nazi Germany?!

As I always feel obliged to point out, this isn't Dutch, it's Afrikaans.

Okay, then we work on integrating migrants and reducing ethnic tensions. And to be honest, we've never needed immigration to produce ethnic tension in this country. NI has seen very little immigration, and they have fucking "peace walls" dividing communities.

Also, another point for the fact that we can occasionally still accomplish wonders in Britain.

More people need to read Adam Smith.

Harry Schwarz is a personal icon to me.

Embrace Millism, Kristollism, Schwarzism and Humphreyism.

Someone needs to Op Chariot Kaliningrad.

Understandable, @unavaleable.bsky.social has expressed opinions about the Sea Harrier [based] and I haven't heard @petebuttigieg.bsky.social do the same.

Rewatching Misfits and Magic S2, and Americans cannot be trusted to pronounce burgh or borough

Honestly insane and depressing.

How bad do you have to be to adopt a “let’s deport all the Gurkhas” policy?

This is a hundred percent true btw.

1) Protestant Franco is just Cromwell. 2) Franco would kill you for writing that. 3) What the actual fuck.

Why is this phrased as a question?!

A lot of the examples on the left hand side are just actual wars.

It was a really bad day at work for me and my students.