Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD
@charltoncussans.bsky.social
PhD in History, fiction published by Sea Lion Press and original non-fiction research published by Historical Research.
Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.
Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.
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Royal Air Force Group Captain Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, "Sailor Malan", South African war hero and Anti-Apartheid organiser and politician.
Polanski has the fundamental issue that the British Greens have long had quite a nasty anti-humanist Deep Ecology element to them.
You can tell that by how Polanski is clearly trying to triangulate on foreign policy as well
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Polanski has the fundamental issue that the British Greens have long had quite a nasty anti-humanist Deep Ecology element to them.
I mean, there's a lot wrong with British defence at the moment, but the Government does seem to intend to fix things there, and with housing and energy, as you say.
But the bigotry towards immigrants and trans people is fucking grotesque,
But the bigotry towards immigrants and trans people is fucking grotesque,
Yes exactly! On defence, housing and green energy we actually have a leg to stand on.
On civility in public discourse and respect for immigrants' contributions to society, we do not.
On civility in public discourse and respect for immigrants' contributions to society, we do not.
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I mean, there's a lot wrong with British defence at the moment, but the Government does seem to intend to fix things there, and with housing and energy, as you say.
But the bigotry towards immigrants and trans people is fucking grotesque,
But the bigotry towards immigrants and trans people is fucking grotesque,
In Britain's case, it's particularly strange because the far-right haven't been electorally successful!
And yet too many people act like they've already won the arguement and there's nothing to do.
And yet too many people act like they've already won the arguement and there's nothing to do.
The Overton Window has shifted incredibly far, far right during the last 20+ years and a huge part of that is allowing fascists to drive conversations that primarily begin and end with "things are too far left." They're not, nor have they ever been. But too few challenged this premise.
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
In Britain's case, it's particularly strange because the far-right haven't been electorally successful!
And yet too many people act like they've already won the arguement and there's nothing to do.
And yet too many people act like they've already won the arguement and there's nothing to do.
A lot of the worse excesses of 20th Century Europe were driven by nationalist histories.
a lot of "dark academia" stuff is just the author wanting to tell you that they went to a good school but they're not like those other people there, but I think "The Secret History" really does get at the gulf between idealized humanities and moral reality.
But I don't think it makes you a *morally* better person. It might be one of the ways your morality is shaped or the language you use to express it, but it's a vessel, not the substance. We do not, after all, think of professors of English Literature as an unusually virtuous bunch.
December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A lot of the worse excesses of 20th Century Europe were driven by nationalist histories.
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This is unadulterated antisemitism, for the sake of hating Jews for existing and publicly celebrating our holidays.
Under the MAGA hat (literally in this case), with over 18k likes.
Under the MAGA hat (literally in this case), with over 18k likes.
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is unadulterated antisemitism, for the sake of hating Jews for existing and publicly celebrating our holidays.
Under the MAGA hat (literally in this case), with over 18k likes.
Under the MAGA hat (literally in this case), with over 18k likes.
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Lmao the Republican ran on a right-NIMBY platform and just lost by 20 points.
extremely common YIMBY Democrat W!
extremely common YIMBY Democrat W!
December 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Lmao the Republican ran on a right-NIMBY platform and just lost by 20 points.
extremely common YIMBY Democrat W!
extremely common YIMBY Democrat W!
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Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
washingtonmonthly.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now.
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...
And *certain* Arabs and other MENA peoples.
I'm reminded of how 1917-1918 was one of the most pro-immigrant* periods in American political history, and by 1924 immigrants were parasitic morons and anarchists needing the most draconian legislation yet to curb them.
*European, other terms and conditions also applied.
*European, other terms and conditions also applied.
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And *certain* Arabs and other MENA peoples.
There's cuck porn less obsessed with cucking then these racist assholes.
Everyone needs to get off X.
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
Now.
Government. Politicians. Your Aunty Judith.
All of them are fueling this racist extremist billionaire
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There's cuck porn less obsessed with cucking then these racist assholes.
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The strict constitutional order of authority hasn't existed since 1/6, and we need to internalize that
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The strict constitutional order of authority hasn't existed since 1/6, and we need to internalize that
The fact that the NYT did everything it could bar endorsing Trump, and he still hates them, is a silver lining to this insanely evil post by Trump.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The fact that the NYT did everything it could bar endorsing Trump, and he still hates them, is a silver lining to this insanely evil post by Trump.
Ultimately the Israeli logic is that the only safe Israeli border is one which has their troops on both sides of it.
Basically Israeli FP is Realism with brain damage (because it doesn't understand why this pisses other people off).
Basically Israeli FP is Realism with brain damage (because it doesn't understand why this pisses other people off).
People who say Israel's posture towards Syria makes no sense are stupid and just refuse to accept what Israel's logic is
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Ultimately the Israeli logic is that the only safe Israeli border is one which has their troops on both sides of it.
Basically Israeli FP is Realism with brain damage (because it doesn't understand why this pisses other people off).
Basically Israeli FP is Realism with brain damage (because it doesn't understand why this pisses other people off).
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your options are pro technology and anti death or anti technology and pro death. and that is actually and literally true
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
your options are pro technology and anti death or anti technology and pro death. and that is actually and literally true
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Liverpool's fine but the conditions in which the Beatles grew up in the 1950s were far more materially deprived than we think of as England today. Like, my dad is a decade younger, more middle-class, and he didn't live in a centrally heated house till his 20s.
Every shot of Liverpool makes it look like the most miserable place on earth. It seems cold and damp even in summer.
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Liverpool's fine but the conditions in which the Beatles grew up in the 1950s were far more materially deprived than we think of as England today. Like, my dad is a decade younger, more middle-class, and he didn't live in a centrally heated house till his 20s.
"For Liberty all over the World"
Words to live-and die-by.
Words to live-and die-by.
i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"For Liberty all over the World"
Words to live-and die-by.
Words to live-and die-by.
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inshallah we will recover our institutions from the gizmo cult
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
inshallah we will recover our institutions from the gizmo cult
Another great thread from Palmer.
just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...
there is not any particularly strong evidence that study of the humanities make people good people. the elites of many brutal empires were extremely well-read!
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Another great thread from Palmer.
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The Highway of Death is the perfect test case for whether people actually understand the laws of war.
Yes you did. You vaporized an entire coumn of retreating troops in the Highway of Death massacre. You brutalized Koreans, Vietnamese, Laosians, Cambodians, Afghans, Libyan, Pakistanis...the list is pretty long. This is nothing new, it's a feature of US foreign policy.
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The Highway of Death is the perfect test case for whether people actually understand the laws of war.
The state should do certain things and should not do other things is in fact, an entirely cohesive political ideology.
We call it "Modern Liberalism".
We call it "Modern Liberalism".
I don't, actually, think "the state can do things to you because it's the state and you belong to it" is a very good reasoning for why state power should exist, and I say this as a big fan of the muscular state.
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The state should do certain things and should not do other things is in fact, an entirely cohesive political ideology.
We call it "Modern Liberalism".
We call it "Modern Liberalism".
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A tax is a tax. It can only be paid in money, actually. It's not a tax if it isn't.
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A tax is a tax. It can only be paid in money, actually. It's not a tax if it isn't.
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I’m going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good that the federal government is calling people “sodomites”
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m going to go out on a limb and say it isn’t good that the federal government is calling people “sodomites”
Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian-Hungarian-Czechslovakian-Latvian-Estonian Commonwealth when?
Being Eastern European slaps, by the way. Eastern Europeanism slaps. The sense of inherent solidarity born out of being on the operating table of the two unhinged totalitarian empires of 20th century Europe goes hard, idc what you say
December 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian-Hungarian-Czechslovakian-Latvian-Estonian Commonwealth when?
See the thing we can check what you actually posted.
You're a fucking liar.
You're a fucking liar.
Fun: I criticize a post by a Polish poaster accusing Western leftists for not being Russophobic by attacking east European style tribal nationalism.
I'm then accused of being a condescending Western racist - even though it's based on the Finnish left-liberal tradition of national self-criticism. 😝
I'm then accused of being a condescending Western racist - even though it's based on the Finnish left-liberal tradition of national self-criticism. 😝
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
See the thing we can check what you actually posted.
You're a fucking liar.
You're a fucking liar.
Validmir Putin murdered a British citizen a few years a go what are you talking about? He's murdered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Georgians, Chechnyans!
Social democracies need to defend themselves!
Social democracies need to defend themselves!
This is just Snyder's "politics of eternity". The eternal enemy is at the gates, the ethnonational WE is always threatened and one must seek security.
How do you build a progressive or social democratic Poland (or Europe) from these materials? www.theguardian.com/news/2018/ma...
How do you build a progressive or social democratic Poland (or Europe) from these materials? www.theguardian.com/news/2018/ma...
Vladimir Putin’s politics of eternity | Timothy Snyder
The long read: Since consolidating his power in rigged elections at the start of the decade, the Russian leader has pioneered a politics of fictional threats and invented enemies
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Validmir Putin murdered a British citizen a few years a go what are you talking about? He's murdered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Georgians, Chechnyans!
Social democracies need to defend themselves!
Social democracies need to defend themselves!
Once again, the British media is incestuous clusterfucker of weirdos.
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Once again, the British media is incestuous clusterfucker of weirdos.