I really don’t think what these men want are “positive masculinity”. Hasan Piker flexing while explaining neoliberalism wouldn’t lead them to radicalization.
What these men want are vengeance against a society where they feel they are losing their patriarchal privilege
They don’t like Trump or Andrew Tate in spite of their sexual predation and misogyny. They like Trump and Andrew Tate *because* of it
Mar 8, 2024 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
Borders, as we know them today, being a modern invention is actually the consensus among academic historians. Before the advent of Westphalian sovereignty in the 1640s, the definitions of polities were amorphous; they were all one bretheren of Christendom (1/3)
In the Roman Empire, for example, Emperor Caracalla famously granted citizenship rights to *every non-slave inhabitant of the empire*. Additionally, the Roman boundaries, the Limes, were not very fortified and the purpose of walls was to stop traders from evading taxation
Jan 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
actually insane that for 2 years conservative media has straight-facedly lied about a massive “invasion” of illegal immigrants and they’ve now been fully rewarded by having that lie become the mainstream narrative
for one, there’s no truth to the claim that the constitution describes the current border situation as an “invasion”. using a literal originalist interpretation, invasion can only be declared in an operation of war
