Kurt Vonnegut said āWeāll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effectiveā and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
David, Historian Martial Artistš„
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David, Historian Martial Artistš„
@DavidLeftyMA
US & Latin American historian, adjunct prof, writer, martial artist (BJJ purple belt & nak muay). Lover of books, movies, combat sports. Hater of fascism.
Joined August 2021
- The broader "left" in this country has a lot to learn from average working class black people when it comes to not letting reactionary bullshit fly
- This must hit so hard if youre stupid
- Reading Mein Kampf for work right now as we study fascism & it is maddening. Not because of the evil content (you get used to that as a historian), but because it is total drivel. Just a bunch of rambling bullshit. It actually scrambles your brain as you read it
Antifa = BLM = Ceasefire Now They are all the same.- The weird thing about answering this question is that, for my money, the best movie made about understanding the post-9/11 US psyche was made in 1997.
- Once you learn that the main base of support for the Nazis was the resentful, aggrieved petty bourgeois, a lot of the modern political landscape in the US starts to come into focus in an alarming way
- Friendly periodic reminder that the favorite lib sentiment that "change is a slow process that requires patience & not rocking the boat too hard" literally has zero historical precedent. None. Every bit of decent reform we've ever had came from agitation, not waiting patiently.
- Man, being this aggressively insecure must be exhausting
- An interesting fact about Grant's visit to East Asia was that he was disgusted by what the West was doing over there, so he met w/ both China and Japan trying to urge them to cooperate so that they wouldn't be overrun by the West. Even tried to mediate a dispute btwn them.Ulysses S. Grant's visit to China with notable Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang. Grant had traveled to China after his term as president during a two-year world tour. 1879.
- Honestly one of the most evergreen tweets ever made
- The most stacked division in MMA isn't bantamweight, or flyweight, or lightweight. It's biggest dumbasssUFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell says he wonāt be vaccinating his kid & wants to homeschool him so he doesnāt end up gay and communist
00:00 - Yes, this is part of a coin called "having correct class analysis"
- Replying to @JPHilllllll and @JoshuaPotash"But there are good cops out there!" sure and they literally experience direct violence from their superiors
