Dr Rob Thompson 🇺🇦

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

It’s easier for these white supremacists to believe their predecessors came tantalizing close to achieving their goals than to admit the truth that they fucking sucked ass.

It’s the same group that still champions the stillborn Confederacy while thinking Rhodesia is still a country.

There’s time for someone to destroy it.

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The Cold War called and said what the fuck old man, take your meds.

What the hell is that?

YouTube video by Kanal13 Ukrainian army launches offensive, recapture key areas: Russians retreat after suffering losses

Hey historians of Rome, the Ukrainians are using caltrops to stop Russians.

youtu.be/Q6XleofILek?...

@fortune.com it can’t be both, so which is it—an AI article or a human author?

Nope, nope, nope.

Snuff porn ought to be grounds for at least dismissal.

China? 🙄

Run, Josh, Run!

My lord and savior is @robert.thecure.com.

Nope, nope, nope.

In grad school you may hear “stay above the trees as to not get lost in the forest.” Well, macro histories tend to make sweeping, broad generalizations that aren’t backed by the evidence used by the author. Keep that in mind.

Ban “a product of his/her/their/its time.”

True. My interactions with Neo-Confederates—all of whom love Foote and see him for a historian—drives my contempt of Burns.

He’d never last a minute under interrogation.

I prefer “hack” over “wonk.” Any idiot can say “look at China!” But it takes a true hack to call for the abandonment of an entire continent to focus solely on China.

He wants to focus on China because that would get him a job with any administration, not because he actually cares. He’s a hack, not a wonk.

See the thing with Colby is he doesn’t even follow his own stated strategy. If you want to put everything into securing the Pacific, that includes supporting Ukraine fighting a Western Pacific power and China ally. But he doesn’t.

A South Park episode about Orange Fart cheating at golf would be fantastic.

I lived in Wien years ago. Neutrality and aversion to the military are local traits from when I lived there. Have things changed that much, @jessealexander.bsky.social?

Not sure what to make of this.

He died digging the hole he always dreamed of.

Film—movies and documentaries included—is one of the best ways to access history.

Presentism is bullshit.