Sam Rutzick
@srutzick.bsky.social
Libertarian-adjacent-ish. Jewish. History aficionado.
Don't worry, President Rubio will start Operation National Glory.
January 18, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Don't worry, President Rubio will start Operation National Glory.
That's barely even a tripwire, jeez.
January 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
That's barely even a tripwire, jeez.
(And Mao himself very much thought of Chiang as a 'worthy opponent' sort of thing. They hated each other, but respected each other.)
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
(And Mao himself very much thought of Chiang as a 'worthy opponent' sort of thing. They hated each other, but respected each other.)
And of course the actual CCP is in the process of rehabbing the KMT in service of both present diplomacy and playing up the memory of the Eight Years War of Resistance. See, e.g. Rana Mitter's China's Good War
January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
And of course the actual CCP is in the process of rehabbing the KMT in service of both present diplomacy and playing up the memory of the Eight Years War of Resistance. See, e.g. Rana Mitter's China's Good War
Like how you could go to a thirteenth century tournament and hang out with Tiffany and Chad?
January 10, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Like how you could go to a thirteenth century tournament and hang out with Tiffany and Chad?
Wouldn't Sargon's people from TOS (and the aliens from Who Watches the Watchers) imply that vulcanoid species (copper blood, pointed ears, telepathic) are mildly common in the AQ?
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Wouldn't Sargon's people from TOS (and the aliens from Who Watches the Watchers) imply that vulcanoid species (copper blood, pointed ears, telepathic) are mildly common in the AQ?
Oh, so its Imperial Japan.
January 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Oh, so its Imperial Japan.
Yeah, but I'm happy to spend time with my good friend Payakan.
January 1, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Yeah, but I'm happy to spend time with my good friend Payakan.
Propaganda Due had serious connections to both the CIA, the Peronists and through them Neo-Nazis, and the Vatican. They're the closest we ever got to the Freemasons of the dreams of paranoiacs.
December 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Propaganda Due had serious connections to both the CIA, the Peronists and through them Neo-Nazis, and the Vatican. They're the closest we ever got to the Freemasons of the dreams of paranoiacs.
I mean Kagame pretty clearly is patterning himself on the various Asian developmentalist dictators, yeah?
December 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I mean Kagame pretty clearly is patterning himself on the various Asian developmentalist dictators, yeah?
Her book about the Fantasy!Second Sino-Japanese War made me viscerally angry. Its terrible.
December 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Her book about the Fantasy!Second Sino-Japanese War made me viscerally angry. Its terrible.
It really isn't. This is a perfectly consistent ruling with the 3-3-3 court breakdown that is the driving paradigm at the moment and was entirely predicted by most serious court watchers.
Which Stern is not.
Which Stern is not.
December 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It really isn't. This is a perfectly consistent ruling with the 3-3-3 court breakdown that is the driving paradigm at the moment and was entirely predicted by most serious court watchers.
Which Stern is not.
Which Stern is not.
I assume this is Lyndon Larouche
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I assume this is Lyndon Larouche
I of course support all efforts to bring down the agents of Perfidious Albion. The fight against the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is a big tent!
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I of course support all efforts to bring down the agents of Perfidious Albion. The fight against the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha is a big tent!
Marxist historiography doing very poorly in the future, as it turns out that feudal modes of production do surprisingly well.
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Marxist historiography doing very poorly in the future, as it turns out that feudal modes of production do surprisingly well.
Joseph had a daughter named Napoleone, too.
December 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Joseph had a daughter named Napoleone, too.
I sometimes wonder if the pendulum has swung too far on dismissing the Nazi threat. We want to stop wehraboo-ism, and that's really really good, but I wonder if we've gone maybe too far in dismissing their war machine's strength. Defeating Nazi Germany was a big accomplishment!
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I sometimes wonder if the pendulum has swung too far on dismissing the Nazi threat. We want to stop wehraboo-ism, and that's really really good, but I wonder if we've gone maybe too far in dismissing their war machine's strength. Defeating Nazi Germany was a big accomplishment!
That bit in late 1944 is the most interesting, because it's assuming - not unfairly - that the Nazis can't make a counteroffensive at all. The Nazis just fought remarkably harder then a) was rational or b) could be expected.
December 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
That bit in late 1944 is the most interesting, because it's assuming - not unfairly - that the Nazis can't make a counteroffensive at all. The Nazis just fought remarkably harder then a) was rational or b) could be expected.
That's the kind of thinking that means you don't get included in the Genesis Mission Super-Bunker.
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That's the kind of thinking that means you don't get included in the Genesis Mission Super-Bunker.
I'm sure you know this but I do love that the Walewska's still do kinda look like Napoleon but they aren't even in consideration. Like Nicholas Walewski, if he put the uniform on, resembles Boney!
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I'm sure you know this but I do love that the Walewska's still do kinda look like Napoleon but they aren't even in consideration. Like Nicholas Walewski, if he put the uniform on, resembles Boney!
Irving Kristol's kid running a magazine that does critical literary reviews . . . how the tables have turned...
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Irving Kristol's kid running a magazine that does critical literary reviews . . . how the tables have turned...
Honestly, "teen movie adaptation of classic literature" has a shockingly high rate of great movies. Clueless, Ten Things I Hate About You, She's the Man...
November 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Honestly, "teen movie adaptation of classic literature" has a shockingly high rate of great movies. Clueless, Ten Things I Hate About You, She's the Man...
"Writing a general audience book" is a pretty standard thing for Justices to do. I own both of Gorsuch's previous books; Scalia's legal writing and reasoning books with Bryan Garner are must haves.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Writing a general audience book" is a pretty standard thing for Justices to do. I own both of Gorsuch's previous books; Scalia's legal writing and reasoning books with Bryan Garner are must haves.
Penguin needed to pad their recent hardcover re-release of Carmilla, and put in The Vampyre. And it sure is . . . a story. It uses words and has full sentences.
(They really should have used Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Christabel, which is both thematically coherent and actually good.)
(They really should have used Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Christabel, which is both thematically coherent and actually good.)
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Penguin needed to pad their recent hardcover re-release of Carmilla, and put in The Vampyre. And it sure is . . . a story. It uses words and has full sentences.
(They really should have used Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Christabel, which is both thematically coherent and actually good.)
(They really should have used Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Christabel, which is both thematically coherent and actually good.)