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Ralph Leonard
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Ralph Leonard
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Writer. Promethean with Dionysian proclivities. Conservative Marxist. Red Devil. Bylines at |@unherd |@NewStatesman | @TheAtlantic
I drink your milkshake!
- Or as in Northern Ireland: Are you Catholic or Protestant? If you reply "Atheist", they'll ask again: "Catholic atheist or Protestant atheist?"
- I've lost patience with this racialised, time capsualised definition of class where "working class" increasingly is synonymous with white male & reactionary. Women, non-white people & immigrants are part of the working class too if you haven't noticed.
- The existence of Indonesia would disprove this thesis, or severely undermine it. It's the biggest Muslim nation on earth, yet their 'flavour' of Islam is rather distinct from what's practiced in the Arab world or in Persia.Islam is, in effect, an ethno-religion. It started with Arabs, and it was unmistakably an Arab thing at the start. To be Muslim was to be Arab[ized]. You had to be adopted by Arabs to join (mawali system). Eventually, after centuries, Persians carved a place, and Islam became an
- With these kinds of takes, I sense an undertone of "Western countries should enjoy the benefits of modernity, but everyone else should be ensconced in their 'traditional' ways of life & be an ethnic circus specifically for the pleasure of the romantic Occidental tourist.
- Don't want to be called Nazi? Don't advocate for Nazi policies.Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
00:00 - This is literally the history of every nation. Well done! You've discovered the history of nationalism. 🙄Ukraine may be in some sense "fake" historically, but it's also possible for a nation to LARP itself into reality, and this seems to be what Ukraine has done.
- Che Guevara reading Goethe's Faust while smoking a cigar.
- When you begin to see "Zionism", a dark omnipotent force, manifesting in areas that have nothing to do with Israel, like US medicine, with a nefarious scheme under its sleeve, then your 'anti-Zionism' is undoubtedly antisemitic, even if it pretends to be anti-racist.
- The irony is the Crusades accelerated the collapse of Christendom in the East - the Crusaders sacked Constantinople & killed Eastern Orthodox Christians as well as killing Jews & Muslims - that eventually helped South Eastern Europe be conquered by the Ottomans.
- For all the ink spilled in academia on analysing Israel/Zionism through the settler-colonial paradigm, it's remarkable few ever invoke Liberia, the most direct historical comparison & likeness. One that would actually illuminate the argument.
- Fukuyama's basic point was that liberal democratic capitalism was the apex of humanity's ideological evolution. That there's no advancing beyond liberalism in terms of freedom as demonstrated by Marxism's failure. Not that bad stuff won't happen or liberalism won't be challengedDoes Francis Fukuyama live in a padded cell at this point how does that work?
- Ihlan Omar is a typical diasporaist in the West: left-liberal on the streets; adamant ethno-nationalist irredentist in the sheets.Breaking 🚨🚨 While speaking to Somalian crowd, US congresswoman Ilhan Omar said "As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories" in reference to somali inhibited regions in Kenya and Ethiopia. Please note Ilhan's father was a military officer in Siyad barre army
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