I study history through objects and architecture. (No longer) Long suffering Arsenal supporter. Can administer Voight-Kampff test upon request.
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14 Feb 2020
The most enduring lesson of my graduate school experience remains to never read Hegel at 7am.
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Iran is richer, their nuclear program is undeterred, the Strait will not be open soon, they’re forever inclined to close it whenever they like, the regime is not substantially weakened, and the United States’s word is mud. The worst foreign policy choices on our part in 25 years.
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I say this with no partisan rancor at all: these guys just have no idea what the fuck they are doing.
Jun 15
1/I listened to the senior Trump administration officials' call about the latest with Iran. I am in some ways more confused now than before the call. A few thoughts:
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Jun 13
The running joke is that when an American dad turns 40 he is offered the choice to either get really into WWII or really into the Civil War. Two wars that very famously ended with unconditional surrender! Absolute betrayal of The Dads
Jun 12
JD Vance:
If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
Community note
World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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Jun 13
This is excellent
Jun 13
“President Trump himself will occupy an arena-level seat, positioned like a Roman emperor in his pulvinar—the imperial box—and surrounded by senators and dignitaries, if not the traditional six Vestal Virgins” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jun 11
Today I tackle the question of why Pete Hegseth is so cringe-inducingly corny.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Jun 4
Another person who is puzzled by things that are relatively easy to understand, so I’ll repost this article as a public service - because the thing I was afraid would happen when I wrote this at the beginning of the war has happened.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Jun 4
“Losing to Iran” but we have accomplished nearly all of the stated military objectives.
Great analysis from the subhuman professor!
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to this day I do not understand the appeal of shitty, overpriced crumbl cookies except as some weird bougie status signifier
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Jun 2
“Silence, peasants”
Jun 2
To those negatively chirping: quiet. 🤫
It will all work out well in the end - it always does.
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May 30
In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.
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May 26
i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.
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May 18
Captain Pike thought of the day: Allies are not bargaining chips.
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May 17
it's a poem about a thing that never happened, credited to an author who probably never existed, and helen is introduced within the mythology as the daughter of ZEUS, a figure literally nobody in this country even believes in, if you're emotionally invested in the historicity of her pigmentation you need a life and also medication, not necessarily in that order
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May 6
This is some old-school Soviet level bullshit, but at least Russians can mock it
May 6
1/ A senior Russian official has condemned Amazon's 'Fallout' TV series for rotting the brains of the Russian people. He calls for what amounts to an uplifting Russian version of 'Fallout' as a corrective. Russian commentators are scornful about what they call his "nonsense". ⬇️
ALT AI image of Lucy McLean and The Ghoul as WW2 Soviet soldiers
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May 6
.@JeffreyGoldberg: “If confirmed to be true, this would represent an outrageous attack on the free press and the First Amendment itself. We will defend The Atlantic and its staff vigorously; we will not be intimidated by illegitimate investigations or other acts of politically motivated retaliation; we will continue to cover the FBI professionally, fairly, and thoroughly; and we will continue to practice journalism in the public interest.” theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Look everyone, for now no one in the administration will be held accountable, no one will be investigated for their corruption or their treason, no one will stop their stealing and their taking of bribes.
The only way this stops is a massive Democratic victory in 2026. That's it.
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Feb 7
This is the zenith of Dunning-Kruger. This shit-piston is so stupid that he’s actually achieved a kind of subatomic density of stupidity; turning his own skull into a cognitive black hole from which no light or basic reason can ever hope to escape. It's amazing to watch: you can actually witness him de-evolving in real-time. Surely one of the worst human beings that humanity has ever produced.
Feb 6
Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books is the funniest video I've watched all week 🤣
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The Carabinieri has gone toe to toe with Mafia. ICE irregulars haven't got a snowball's chance in the Sahara.
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Diplomacy!
Feb 5
I regret to inform you the American ambassador to Poland is now replying to tweets.
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Feb 2
"I have never heard of Thoreau"
Jan 31
“Civil disobedience” is a made-up term, meaning harassment and intimidation (but only by the good guys).
TV audiences in the 60s had a childlike susceptibility to this kind of manipulation
Community note
The term "civil disobedience" originates from Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay "Resistance to Civil Government" (commonly called "Civil Disobedience"). It was not invented in the 1960s.
gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/… oll.libertyfund.org/titles/thoreau…
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Feb 1
Let's just get you muted there little fella
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