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Mar 1 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
In a few short days, we've moved from pundits mournfully intoning platitudes about the terrible return of war to Europe (completely ignoring the 90s, of course) to shrieking for a great power war and explaining nukes aren't that big a deal anyway.

This is political psychosis.
Actual psychopath in the wild here.
Of course, the eternal weathervane of midwit opinion is on board too.
Boomers want to go out with a bang.
Yeah, let's "risk, everything"; journalists clearly run our clown countries anyway.

This dipshit describes himself as a diplomat.
I'm not even looking for these. Every time I look at my timeline there's a new member of the credentialed classes calling for war to cover up for their own screaming irresponsibility in encouraging Ukraine's delusions in the first place.
This one has 'wisdom' in his handle. Yes, please share some more of your insights, guru, soothe our mistaken handwringing.

#feminist #BLM #DefundThePolice #Antifa #WWIII

I am calling for enforcement of a NO COMMENT ZONE for third-rate politicians who have been in the army and think they're tough guys.

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Feb 16
In the summer of 416 BC, an Athenian fleet of 38 ships carrying over 3,000 soldiers dropped anchor off the small Greek island of Melos, located south of Athens and east of the Peloponnese.

The inhabitants, the Melians, were the descendants of colonists originally from Sparta.🧵 Image
Sparta and Athens were enemies and we call their gruelling conflict the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).

Athens would eventually lose. But in 416, this was still far from obvious; Athens held naval supremacy in Greek waters. /2 Image
Since Athens controlled the seas, it expected islands to take its side. Because Melos was a colony of Sparta, it was expected to take the side of its mother-city, its metropolis. Instead it had tried to remain neutral. /3 Image
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Jan 13
This is a sane explainer worth reading if you're interested in the recent "National Divorce" chatter.

A National Divorce absolutely will not happen in the sense currently discussed. The US will only split as a result of extended, terminal decay in central power, or war.
The US is an imperial state supported by a massive military establishment, arms industry, intelligence agencies and foreign policy blob. Its divison would directly threaten the existence of these institutions and many careers. They will not sit back and let the US split up.
Furthermore, divorce is rarely amicable and divorce of states even less so. The US would be dividing because its liberal and conservative cultures detest each other. Yet any legal, agreed split would require a massive untangling of the legal, political and economic framework.
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Jan 9
I promised the good Herbalist @paracelsus1092 a thread on Byzantine prophecy to mark my recent milestone of 1,000 followers. Since true promises, like true prophecies, must be fulfilled, here is a 12th-century tale of astrology, imperial folly, and blood. /1
All societies seek to peer into the future. The medieval Roman Empire - Byzantium - was deeply Christian. Those living lives of exemplary holiness, often monks, could sometimes be permitted glimpses of the future in dreams or visions by God who, in His omniscience, knew all. /2
But other paths held temptation, particularly for the wealthy whose concerns were focused on the earthly rather than the heavenly. Ancient pagan texts or Arabic imports suggested divinatory practices condemned by the Church: augury, brontology, occult magic to summon demons. /3
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