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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

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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.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · May 28

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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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4m

OMG that brings me back.

"Stone Cold" Steve Cobden @stephencobden.bsky.social · 1h

Shades of the infamous D-Day truther

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 26m

The @grok ascends this to another level of stupidity.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes, I think M-L added a new level of ideological ruthlessness to the whole thing.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 2h

We (I think correctly!) understand the USSR as a Russian imperialist project, but the fall of the USSR only makes sense when one considers anti-Soviet Russian nationalism.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 2h

Basically they thought the system was tilted against them (farmers, white people, etc etc) and the reality that it's the other way round means they have actually fucked themselves.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 3h

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 2h

This ends with the first recorded case of Tau pocession by the Chaos gods.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

There was a brief window in the 70s for a transition to high speed rail and nuclear power and most of the world either fucked it totally or only did it partially.

Doug @doug.city · 3h

The standard—and not totally incorrect—narrative is that the US basically abandoned transit after WWII, but there was a real revival underway in the 1970s that stalled out by the mid-1980s as the political winds shifted. Things have improved since, but we've never fully recovered that ambition.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 3h

UMTA R&D spend from 1972-1989. The amounts in the 1980s appear to be overstated as a lot of those projects were commissioned in the 1970s and were finishing up. Dollars are not adjusted for inflation.

New spend by the late 80s was down to $13m/yr, $3m/yr of which went into 'privatization' =>

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

And how Ardenaur managed to be a conservative sort of anti-socialist and even anti-liberal without being anti liberal democracy.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

I was talking to my students on Thursday and Friday about how vital that kind of localist, federalist Christian Democratic understanding of Germany and Europe was vital after WW2.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

Thankfully we found the Konrad Ardenaur, possibly the world's only ever West German nationalist, to lead the FRG after WW2.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

Konrad Ardenaur is based for rejecting this line of thinking.

Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 3h

Germans, on the other hand, think the story of Prussia is merely a story of Germans

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 9h

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 3h

What i find truly spectacular is that nothing in the screenshoted post is referencing policy.

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5h

TIL that making the buses faster is “ruining the city”

fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie
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sam is the east coast version of armand domalewski: he's well connected and wealthy; he's desperate to align with power, marketing himself as "just a smol bean guy;" and he's hellbent on ruining the city in which he *currently* lives for other, long term residents
Sam
@sam_d 1995
just a couple of guys talking about how we can speed up our buses

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

And then it was us in the late 18th Century who unleashed the power of chemistry and engineering on the world.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

From about 1400-1600 you see everything in the modern world really start to become identifiable.

I'd argue that the Dutch, a tolerant diverse Republican society who committed gross atrocities abroad really set the stage.

Like the Spanish and Portugese colonialism was feudal. Not the Dutch.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

Abolish ICE.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

This is basically what white Rhodesians and South Africans felt back in the day.

They constantly complain about how uneducated and lazy and *ungrateful* the Black Africans are, with zero self awareness!

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 5h

WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR THE GUY WHO DID THIS.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

María Corina Machado is not a German Venezuelan and even if she was, so fucking what?

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 5h

BOT citizenship is a tricky, misleading and insane kind of citizenship.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 13h

Abolish the Home Office

Global Issues @globalissues.org · 19h

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is this cruelty the type of British values that Reform, racists and other parties pushing anti immigrant policies are referring to?

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 5h

What?

MyOnlyLemonade @myonlylemonade.bsky.social · 8h

screen shot of Machado's Wikipedia showing that she was born on October 7, 1967

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 5h

That someone acts is more important than why.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 5h

I don't care if you want to save a life to make yourself look good, that's better than not saving a life and feeling self-righteous!

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 6h

The problem with describe what weirdos like Rowling believe is that *you* sound like a lunatic.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 6h

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: i don’t think most people are aware of just how extreme Rowlings views and actions are

Decider @deciderdotcom.bsky.social · 9h

Keira Knightley was "not aware" of 'Harry Potter' boycott when she joined audiobook cast for JK Rowling series: "I'm very sorry"

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

That's not what I said, I said "either that".

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

It's either that or they're eager to repeat the lies.

Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 10h

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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