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frank furtschool
@osamabishounen
youcels seething at mechads
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
why is nobody pointing out the fact that none of these were built by aristocracies. literally all the impressive stuff here was built by monarchs. countrycels stealing valor from courtchads because they have no achievements of their own MYTH: nobles are warrior elites who earn their fiefs through hereditary military service to the sovereign

FACT: nobles are fat idle parasites who dont train their retainers in foot drill. if you collect the land rents yourself you can raise a better army literally every time


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Sep 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
anglophone academics: while us condescending outsiders might feel tempted to impose our own frameworks on the troubles, the conflict was actually far too Ancient and Nuanced for easy comparison

loyalists, completely unprompted: Taigs Are The Blacks And We Are The Ku Klux Klan 👍


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Image youre required to both sides it to be taken seriously, so once you get into any depth you have to be like "unionists saw free derry as an IRA plot, which it wasnt, but bogsiders saw the RUC as a sectarian force on the brink of a pogrom. the british army determined this was true"
Apr 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
25 paragraphs in they casually drop that actually lots of young people want to become electricians, the employers could train them but theyre raking it in from IRA subsidies and refuse to slow down their guys with apprentices, and then they just act like they never mentioned it ImageImageImage unions offer free classes and training, but naturally small business owners would rather kill every person on their payroll and then themselves than pay a union wage so that wont work Image
Apr 24, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
dont have a point here, but i feel like male posters have spent years reifying this stereotype that every woman's most embarrassing would is like dobby the elf. meanwhile if you look at women's actual responses to that post its 10% the same gif of venom and 90% fictional animals ImageImageImageImage couldnt find a single instance of a woman naming a weird little wrinkly guy like theyre supposed to. yet all the women doing accurate versions of the joke got ignored....men can you please join me in saying sorry to women ImageImageImage
Jun 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
feel like a lot of leftists and younger liberals end up wrongly concluding that pelosi etc must either be morons or believe in nothing, because they cant comprehend these dem leaders genuinely believing in the american system of governance more than any policy goal imo the real difference between elite libs who came of age in the cold war and younger ones isnt xenophobia or whatever. its that they sincerely see the american political process as the highest and noblest ideological end in itself, not just the best means to their ends
Jun 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
you’d think “yeah i post about politics nonstop but im actually pretty detached and not really emotionally invested in it lmao” would be the most obvious lie in the world and yet “you irony bros can afford to laugh and not care because youre insulated by your privilege!” no they are literally just lying. like why would you constantly post about something you find embarrassing to care about if you werent a closeted carelord too. how is this hard to see
Sep 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
for like six months the twitter explore page has somehow decided im a huge khabib fan despite never faving any of the posts and today they finally got me yes its real and no this colombian grandma is not just a casual fan, shes livetweeting ufc vegas 36 ImageImage
Jun 12, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
the el salvador bitcoin story is way more insane than i thought. i said it wasnt a big deal bc the remittance app only converts dollars to bitcoin momentarily, which is true. but theyre not converted back into real dollars, only unredeemable and apparently unbacked stablecoins everything crypto guys have ever said about fiat is actually happening here. people printing unlimited worthless scrip and declaring it's worth a dollar, and then the government forcing hesitant merchants to exchange it for goods so they can keep up deficit spending
Jun 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
6% non-mestizo white country btw, 8% report they can speak english the conclusion you should be drawing here isnt "lol the CIA/NED printed these shirts in langley," its that the people who talk like this are so out of touch with the vast majority of the country that their messaging is literally incomprehensible to anyone outside their bubble
Jun 9, 2021 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
eric adams inviting the press into his brooklyn home to counter rumors that he doesnt live in NYC and then being forced to explain increasingly damning clues that it's actually his son's house is already the best story of the new york mayoral race. how are more people not on this "welcome to my normal home, in new york city. oh him? he's my son, he visits sometimes. and this is my classic new york mini fridge. this salmon? that's my son's, we share the fridge sometimes. and this is my new york bed. yes those are my son's shoes, we share the bed sometimes"
Jun 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
came across a paper on genetic studies in hungary and its blowing my mind. they found 10th century hungarian elites were genetically distinct from commoners, but they also couldnt find a single person in hungary today with an identifiably "elite" male ancestor. its all peasants history nerds and race science enthusiasts may already know that the magyar nomads conquered the carpathian basin and founded hungary in the 9th century. but while the studies proved that a foreign elite ruled the area, they left *zero* genetic footprint ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/…
Jun 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
hey man nobody even mentioned the US military. why on earth would you read "stop pancaking local children with your giant trucks" and immediately think of the US military Image you are talking to a future US air force soldier, and i better not hear any of you civvies - thats what we call you civilians - disrespecting this country's proud martial traditions (drunk driving an MRAP into a middle schooler at 90 mph) Image
Jun 7, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
not to sound like an econ guy here but its pretty funny to realize that at least one of the people voting on federal budgets definitely just sort of assumes the government gets to spend all the new notes they print the crypto guys in the replies are also great because aside from clearly not understanding how money is created, they vaguely know that monetary expansion is bad for libertarian reasons even though its the entire reason for the crypto/blockchain/NFT bubble theyre riding Image
Jun 1, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
glad people are discovering the VP ball, but sad its flattened to "KKK party" and ignoring the part where marxist-led strikers briefly seized st louis in 1877 and every year since the city's elite has celebrated its suppression by crowning the city's richest man as their new god the wiki page doesnt even begin to do justice to how insane the entire thing is. back when i first read about it there was almost no coverage outside local papers, not because its stopped attracting the most powerful people in st louis but because its much more private now
Jun 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
feel like a lot of people who dream of marxism becoming a serious force in american politics never considered that just because normal people start turning on capitalism doesnt mean they'll stop having cringey taste in comedy and stuff im not saying you have to train yourself to enjoy this stuff or pretend its not embarrassing. just warning you that if you genuinely believe the contradictions of capitalism are becoming more obvious and whatnot you should brace yourself for way more of this
May 31, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
come on, youre being ridiculous. a little walk never killed anyone lol, just watch [i veer several hundred feet off the trail and step directly on a landmine with impossible precision] sure she deserved to get backlash for this but google search feeding her "serbia" feels like karma's gone too far. its like a middle school bully went to give someone a wedgie and accidentally pulled the pin on a hand grenade that blew their organs 40 feet across the gym
May 30, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
very funny counterexample to pick if youre gonna complain about inflated deaths, given that the 63 here includes stuff like "old white guy had to go to a new grocery store because his usual one was closed and the korean manager strangled him for dropping corn husks on the floor" he's one of 14 white people on the list including actual murder victims, unsolved deaths, and:

- security guard whose buddy accidentally shot him

- guy fell through a roof while trying to put out a fire

- guy who overdosed while smoking in bed and burned his house down
May 30, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
its already stupid to care what the majority of econ academics think. if you care what one econ professor guesses the majority of his colleagues think you should be lobotomized the entire job consists of making up numbers to plug into a formula and then pretending the results are empirical because it uses math. now theyre getting too lazy to even run the made up numbers through a model. sad
May 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
californian ideology guys have changed their definition of "NIMBY" from "supports redlining" to "supports rent control" to "supports any regulations for developers" to "supports literally any regulation of the private sector at all" in the space of like ten years youre supposed to wait for each successive definition to enter general usage before moving onto the next one. if you keep shifting it before anyone outside the bay area can catch up you just sound incomprehensible to anyone with a real job
Mar 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this seems like an impressively fair and well-intentioned response, but i also absolutely believe the democrats could and would have stamped this story out long before it got this far if they had any serious national ambitions for cuomo look at the replies. the base was all geared up to run the exact same playbook they used for joe biden (timing, just kissing, character witnesses, trump is worse, etc) but the leadership just let him hang. the minute SNL got to joke about it you knew he was done
Nov 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
americans and brits love to clap like seals when the exchange rate goes up because our puny brains hear "strong dollar/pound" and decide that strong = good but when the kroner is even stronger it means norway fucked up somehow Image we love it when our politicians talk about a strong dollar because we're greedy little pigs that want nothing more out of the world than cheap foreign consumer goods and then we cry when nobody will buy our exports