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Harry Sargent

@harrysargent2.bsky.social

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Former contributor to Areo Magazine, currently in Liberal Currents. Feeling good these days. Writes about history, philosophy and international relations. If i’m acting like a jerk tell me to log off! Enjoys 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️perspectives…

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · Nov 14

“I left Twitter”

“So you will finally reconnect with your friends and family?”

“No, I joined Bluesky”

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 23h

my mate is a big tennis fan…

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 1d

Going as a bad Wimbledon line judge to my friend’s halloween party…

four items making up a tennis line judge outfit: grey eyebrows and mustache, white flat cap, blue shirt with white collar, wimbledon tie…

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful Donald Trump bug spotted!

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 4d

Better to focus on the people speaking truth to power. There’s plenty of those people and lots of hope still…

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 4d

I have noticed that some academics are much quieter than they used to be. I think for those outside the US, they are worried about having travel impeded. Authoritarianism relies on this: even if people think they won’t be personally affected, they worry that someone they know will be.

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

I have a writer friend who says all writing advice is terrible. There are no aesthetic rules anymore…

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

My old supervisor used to say writing a thesis is like drinking an ocean and peeing into a cup…

He meant you were supposed to read vast amounts and whittle down your writing mercilessly…

This was terrible writing advice, but it is a good description of having an overlarge prostate…

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

I came up with night of the butter knives, but i like that too :)

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

That’s good, i like that

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah deTocqueville is good fun. Think I’d recommend the philosphes first though :)

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

i’ve read a of k, but it didn’t hit me like h of s hit me…

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

Only read some gramsci out of those.

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

ah ok, I’d like to read Weber myself. I skipped that one. Why do you like Weber?

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

Not read Rousseau for a while, would that be quite heavy going for a teenager?

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah i was thinking that too, Plato first for sure, then the Prince, then maybe Foucault. But some of these books you need to read at the right time in your life, or to get yourself out of a particular impasse.

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 7d

So my daughter (17) wants to get into political philosophy. I pulled some books off my shelf. What order should she read them in? (Going to pick up The Prince too, don’t worry).

Stack of books including keynes and after Stewart, the hedgehog and the fox berlin, history of sexuality Foucault, de beauvoir second sex, Marx communist manifesto and the republic of Plato…

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 8d

The correct response to being called a fascist is to say “no, i’m not a fascist for the following reasons…”.

Having fascist ideas/policies is not an immutable condition and should be up for discussion…2/2

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 8d

It’s hard to have a political conversation without discussing the similarities/differences between current governments and known dystopias, whether they be Stalinist/fascist or whatever. They know this. They don’t want us to have political conversations in public. 1/2

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 10d

So i saw One Battle After Another last night. I guess we are still in the “no spoilers” period, but go see it, you’ll love it…

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 12d

What kind of complex is it when you plan to wed your own mother, but for tax purposes?

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Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 14d

There’s much to agree with here but i still think realists miss a trick. Values aren’t just preferences. If Australia, say, were to align itself with an overtly authoritarian power that could have a destabilizing impact at home.

Patrick Porter @patporter76.bsky.social · 23d

My piece in The Critic, "Alliances are overrated." Some anti-Trumpists revere them as an overcorrection. While they can be valuable, they are not a reliable substitute for self-help. And they are best managed without sentimentality as a means to an end.
thecritic.co.uk/alliances-ar...

Alliances are overrated | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine

Appalled by President Donald Trump and his overt contempt towards U.S. alliances, offended national security officials, commentators and scholars have fallen prey to an overcorrection.

thecritic.co.uk

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 14d

Looks like it’s coming out in January in Australia?

Harry Sargent @harrysargent2.bsky.social · 17d

To move with the times they should do a new version of the Monopoly board game…

Monopoly was invented in 1903 to demonstrate the dangers of unfettered capitalism…

But we desperately need to educate about the effects of monopolistic ownership of the information sector….

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H. E. Bibbs @wordsbybibbs.bsky.social · 21d

The two words that sparked this “Hate Speech” crackdown, were not “Charlie” and “Kirk.”

It was vocal comparisons to “Nazi” and “Hitler” that sent Trump over the edge, and the media has wiped these words from their coverage.

Read more @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/hitlers-shad...

Hitler’s Shadow, Trump’s Shield

How calling Trump the “N-word” sparked the free speech RICO.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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