Thomas Lecaque
tlecaque.bsky.social
Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque.bsky.social
Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
No but I'll get ahold of it!
January 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Anyway. I'm drafting notes for a book chapter.
January 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Or Red Jacket! Or any depiction that accepts Haudenosaunee adoption of technology combined with incrddible farming skill and diplomacy.

The technoprimitivism is nonsense. The static is nonsense.
January 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
And it's very much a French worldview, mediated through the Jesuit Relations, that seems to survive in the American games--warrior savages, rather than the Dutch or English depictions of castles and strong alliances.

Give us a Joseph Brant as leader and engage with what that means!
January 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
accept that not only are the Haudenosaunee still here but that they don't exist as a caricature of 16th century European fantasies.
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Why, in Civ 3 (which is one of the BETTER portrayals BECAUSE it is so bland) would their special unit by Mounted Warriors? America gets F-16s rather than Minutemen. Why not give the Haudenosaunee Mohawk Skywalkers, for example, as suped up Workers for the modern era? Because that would force us to
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yes, yes they do. It's like fascism has a standard playbook they're following to the letter. I wonder what that says about them?
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
(It was also about hating Black people.)
January 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Every "2A is needed to fight a tyrannical government" advocate should shit or get off the pot and tbh we know they're either cheering or work for ICE now so...
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
(If you think that's alarmist I beg you to consult American history)
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I assume Rhodes is trying to reform Oathkeepers because he thinks ICE needs to move into the open firebombing of neighborhoods phase faster.
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I know my followers know this! But! Don't let bullshit rhetoric go unchallenged! It's White Power all the way down!
January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Felicitations!!!
January 11, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Oooof, I feel this.
January 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM