rgcollingwood.bsky.social
Historian. Here to revel in bursting your bubble.
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I’m sure he understands assuming a role in the MCU cheapens his amazing skill as an actor.
He’s much too talented to waste it on childish CGI slop made for children and adult children; I hope he doesn’t go for the cash grab.
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A culture of govt dependency, that prioritizes ethnic tribalism over national loyalty, that is more focused on remittances than assimilating into local communities..
Yes, western intellectuals promote these issues b/c they despise their own history—a history they’ve spent 60 years rewriting.
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Already did
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1. Millions (statistically verified) crossed the border during Biden’s tenure. There’s nothing mythical about the open border.
2. Pickers, hospitality workers, and day laborers can’t demand higher wages if employers can just undercut them by hiring fresher, increasingly desperate migrants.
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I really struck a nerve by pointing out Bluesky’s shelf life parallels the very industry to which you’ve devoted your career. Chasing you around my replies goes well with my glass of wine.
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Why don’t you actually engage with the substance of what I said rather than offer a caricature of what you think “my side” believes?
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Immigration and deportation have much more to do with a rapidly changing culture and demography—Trump voters would be the first to tell you that.
But ya, cry about labor shortages like a Southern planter cried about abolition.
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It’s easy to dismiss valid concerns when you cloak the opposing view in cynical hyperbole.
Something tells me you do actually find joy in running your fingers along the wall of the padded room in which you’ve voluntarily locked yourself. To each their own..
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Your own posts suggest otherwise.
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Dave Chapelle is a (hilarious) comedian, he’s made fun of everything.
It’s almost cute (in a belittling way) that you think that’s somehow insulting to me.
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Bluesky and its users prescribe to a dying paradigm. It’s a safe space to mourn the loss of progressives’ moral capital and cultural prestige. It’s as if the French aristocracy had a digital space to lament the Revolution.
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Idk how viewers preferred Maddow’s pseudo-intellectual nightly diatribes over the ReidOut…
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That book is garbage, mainly because it erroneously assumed the American “proletariat” is in esse a socialist body perpetually at odds with a reactionary elite.
Recents events demonstrate the exact opposite is true.
Citing it is laughable in academic circles unless it’s critique.
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I’m glad he feels safe enough to come forward about government meddling. We really were lurching toward an authoritarian state under Biden it seems.
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That’s what I typically tell my wife if you replace “computer” with “sandwich.”
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It’s much better to donate directly to an appropriate charity than a Democratic fundraising organ.
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Men should not use women’s restrooms, regardless of their “gender expression”.
Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, as long as it doesn’t demand the denial of biological reality.
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Her “pivot” was facile, superficial.
Her appeals to patriotism & nationalism were vapid, thus alienating her progressive base without convincing moderates & mutinous Republicans that she meant it.
In essence, voters didn’t believe her.
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Your hubris is showing.
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Idk what this means. I’m a Trump voter.
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Your attitude lost the election champ.
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He’s eccentric and occasionally offputting, but also a genius.
I disagree with a lot of his positions, but the guy has had a prolific academic career.
You can’t understand the evolution of Black history, political science, or sociology in the 20th & 21st centuries without reading his work.
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Definitely agree with your last sentence.
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I think Adolph Reed and Cornel West have very strong criticisms of Coates’s brand of antiracism.
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I said rank and file, not leadership. It’s been widely reported Harris had to handle pressure from below, particularly with the Joe Rogan fiasco.
But, yes, her campaign was a unique tincture of Cheney-esque neolibs at the top and Gen-Z idealists at the bottom.
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The Atlantic is neoliberalism’s flagship publication. Its concern for racial equality & progressivism is contingent upon ad revenue. The Ta-Nehisi Coates model of performative resistance pays well.
My sense is that the rank and file of Harris’s campaign were naive idealists.
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Thanks for your unproductive and vapid input. Cheers.
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This kinda reminds me of this
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I wouldn’t say idiocracy. It is a profound realignment in the zeitgeist, not just political parties.
Progressive liberalism died when Tr*mp declared victory.
The long 20th century has come to a close. Welcome to the new era.