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.
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"the dominant technology of war is statecraft, in our age as in Thucydides" is a pretty solid thesis
December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"the dominant technology of war is statecraft, in our age as in Thucydides" is a pretty solid thesis
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Asked to write something about technology in Thucydides and there's a bit on siegecraft and I'm trying not to be snarky here but the core technology in Thucydidean siegecraft is God's own humble Rock. Placed atop another rock.
It's all walls and counter-walls. The tech is literally neolithic.
It's all walls and counter-walls. The tech is literally neolithic.
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Asked to write something about technology in Thucydides and there's a bit on siegecraft and I'm trying not to be snarky here but the core technology in Thucydidean siegecraft is God's own humble Rock. Placed atop another rock.
It's all walls and counter-walls. The tech is literally neolithic.
It's all walls and counter-walls. The tech is literally neolithic.
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if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
if working for ICE is getting you serious pushback in a Kansas City church that I'm guessing is unlikely to be a particularly liberal one, you're losing.
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sometimes The Generally Understood Understanding is just dead fucking wrong
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
sometimes The Generally Understood Understanding is just dead fucking wrong
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means
![occupied Palestinian territory: Jordan Valley and Dead Sea Area - February 2012 [EN/AR]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreihj66x3xh6hfule67tkre2y43xuwovzy5miwmyvqk7heultril7qm@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means
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....moral high ground, CNN?
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
....moral high ground, CNN?
Oh wow thought it was this time of year.
Many thanks to my friend @lucasbutler.bsky.social for reminding me that today is the thousandth anniversary of Basil II's death, which I think is pretty neat.
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Oh wow thought it was this time of year.
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Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
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lmfao the left-NIMBYs are going after zohran now. these groups are truly beyond parody. just a matter of time before they realize they’re actually just republicans
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December 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
lmfao the left-NIMBYs are going after zohran now. these groups are truly beyond parody. just a matter of time before they realize they’re actually just republicans
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I'm legit at the point of considering Russia invading Ukraine to be one of the most fascist actions in post-Industrial Revolution history because of the incredible amounts of inflation, especially with energy costs, that the invasion caused
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm legit at the point of considering Russia invading Ukraine to be one of the most fascist actions in post-Industrial Revolution history because of the incredible amounts of inflation, especially with energy costs, that the invasion caused
This is actually pure evil.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is actually pure evil.
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Trump voters when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do:
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Trump voters when Trump does exactly what he said he was going to do:
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Have oft thought that the thing about the modern radical right is they do not so much have an agreed version of what women's gender role should be so much as they have a consensus that gender roles should be A Thing.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Have oft thought that the thing about the modern radical right is they do not so much have an agreed version of what women's gender role should be so much as they have a consensus that gender roles should be A Thing.
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Much like RFK and vaccines, Trump simply rejects one of humanity’s big breakthroughs. In this case though it’s Ricardian economics
Trump isn't a capitalist he's a mercantilist which throws people's analysis off.
The problem is that Donald Trump sincerely believes that net export outflows are literal wealth leaving the United States which is why he says things in the WSJ like we just need to give it time, it's not some insincere, cynical position covering for some other thing
December 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Much like RFK and vaccines, Trump simply rejects one of humanity’s big breakthroughs. In this case though it’s Ricardian economics
Honestly, it is important to draw a distinction between Welsh Brythonicness and modern Britishness.
well yeah, but only the welsh preserved the true British tongue
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Honestly, it is important to draw a distinction between Welsh Brythonicness and modern Britishness.
More seriously though, to be British, hell, even to be English or Scottish, has *always* been a composite identity. Not always completely or consistently, but when your national project *started* as a union of two peoples (English and Scots), exclusionary nationalism looks totally silly.
This implies of course that Tomlinson believes there is an original group of Brits that all "true Brits" descend from. So who is that?
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
More seriously though, to be British, hell, even to be English or Scottish, has *always* been a composite identity. Not always completely or consistently, but when your national project *started* as a union of two peoples (English and Scots), exclusionary nationalism looks totally silly.
The flipside of the Nagash Party, of this unchanging land of silence, is that only the right people are allowed to be part of the unliving army of skeletons.
This implies of course that Tomlinson believes there is an original group of Brits that all "true Brits" descend from. So who is that?
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The flipside of the Nagash Party, of this unchanging land of silence, is that only the right people are allowed to be part of the unliving army of skeletons.
I'm as liberal as they come and I *love* Paradox games.
The thing is, I am able to distinguish games from reality.
The thing is, I am able to distinguish games from reality.
Fairly incredible that ettingermentum child has managed to trick Spencer into tweeting out a piece that is to be frank so very very dumb that anyone who actually knows anything about gaming will have audibly groaned
This is an exquisite piece about something I know absolutely nothing about. Worth paying @ettingermentum.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm as liberal as they come and I *love* Paradox games.
The thing is, I am able to distinguish games from reality.
The thing is, I am able to distinguish games from reality.
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never forget what Ukraine is up against
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
never forget what Ukraine is up against
This is 70s GRECE rhetoric: far-right blood and soil nationalism coated (barely) in the language of diversity, in which Pakistanis can only be properly Pakistani in Pakistan, in which hyphenated/mixed identities are inherently illegitimate.
Also the screenshotted post is a liar about history.
Also the screenshotted post is a liar about history.
I'm darkly fascinated by how he makes fascist points while using terminology that hints to a familiarity with leftwing rhetoric (eg. using "blood and soil" as a pejorative to insist on his right to also be a blood and soil nationalist)
Tomlinson tells an independent MP they will never be British & that their presence in parliament seems like the equivalent of losing a war. He seems to take a similar view of Shabana Mahmood, and of Nus Ghani, and of Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel, and of Kemi Badenoch, and of Ed Miliband too
December 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This is 70s GRECE rhetoric: far-right blood and soil nationalism coated (barely) in the language of diversity, in which Pakistanis can only be properly Pakistani in Pakistan, in which hyphenated/mixed identities are inherently illegitimate.
Also the screenshotted post is a liar about history.
Also the screenshotted post is a liar about history.
Danny Kruger (who literally shares a surname with and might be related to a Boer who fought the British Empire) is, for those who don't know, perhaps the most socially conservative MP in Parliament.
Reform MP Danny Kruger on pornstar/provocateur Bonnie Blue announcing her support for the party: "We’ll take votes from wherever we can get them, we want all the support we can get. Quite like Bonnie Blue."
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
Says party isn't "going to be fussy, we're not going to be judgemental" about Reform voters
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Danny Kruger (who literally shares a surname with and might be related to a Boer who fought the British Empire) is, for those who don't know, perhaps the most socially conservative MP in Parliament.