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John C

@badsocialism.bsky.social

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PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960 Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" [email protected] 🏳️‍🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹 Will sometimes write things of consequence here: https://jconcagh.weebly.com

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 5d

Wow what you mean my book about internationalism and pro-democracy agitation in the 1940s has a prescient final point about our times, who could have predicted this

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3h

This is gender because

1. most of the guys who try to dunk on him are men
2. most of their reasoning for why they're smarter than him is "fashion is femme coded"

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing dudes try to step to the menswear guy makes me understand better the mentality of the regular Street Punks who keep hassling Kiryu in Act 3 of every Yakuza game when hes got all the abilities unlocked

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conure 🐦 @conure.cc · 1d

the cost of denying another's humanity is paid with one's own

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

I'm forming a new heresy: universalism with one exception.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)

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SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 8h

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 12h

"There go the people. I must not follow them, for they are too cringe for me to be their leader."

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12h

I submit that the radical Left are paralysed in the face of this mass movement because it contradicts their theory of change - that "Normie libs" are NPC and that change only happens by recruiting to radical ideologies

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 12h

no there is absolutely something to this

Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 12h

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

Americans are generally proud of what the nation did during WWII. A lot of families can tell you how Grandpa Joe was a hero. But you think telling them he was a fascist and so are they will help? Yeah sure that will definitely make them join your reading group.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

One thing I hate about posts like this (besides the bad history) is that in a time of rising fascism its a bad strategy to dismiss, downplay or even lie about the one time America allied itself with communists to kill fascists with bullets and bombs.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

Oh we do but I think if someone went "oh and then we weren't serious about fighting the war" you'd raise an eyebrow

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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 14h

Fuckin' tell 'em, Ashley.

“I think it’s tacky; it’s weird to have something like this in Anaheim,” said Ashley, an Orange County native. “It’s giving big-brother vibes.”

“That’s so fucking lame,” said Xavier, an LA resident, looking at the Border Patrol-branded bullfighter on my phone. “Every person in that arena knows someone affected by the raids.”

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 13h

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/parliament...

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

The political history of several African kingdoms included systems of governance that were variously referred to as national “assemblies”, “councils,” or “parliaments,” which limited the power of King...

www.africanhistoryextra.com

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

Oh no it's basically deliberate ignorance of what Lend Lease actually was

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

This is the opening anecdote to an article in 60 years about the collapse of the American consumer market

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

George Padmore would kill you all with hammers.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

Like if a British socialist went "oh well actually the British government supported hitler and british people were never enthusiastic about fighting him" you would actually be talking to a reform voter

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

I do think it's frankly pathetic that American tankies and fellow travellers are constantly self-flagellating about how their country secretly caused Hitler and WW2 for some reason while British and French leftists, citizens of country with *much* more culpability, don't even go there

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

The Bund was also a profound embarrassment to the German government, there were absolutely pro-neutrality and pro-Nazi forces in the US with official NSDAP support, but the Bund wasn't one of them, Hitler thought they were a bunch of jokes who made him look like an idiot.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

fresh tweet but it will remain evergreen

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19h

it's the americans who are most exhausting

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

who wants to place bets on whether anyone who might come in here to have a go at me bother to read my bio

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway the smug desire to act as if the Government of the United States was not actively plotting the downfall of Nazi Germany through covert, overt and active means from as early as September 1939 is just...well, these are the sort of people who get pissy about the Gulag Archipelago

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

best bit is the confidence of citing the Zimmerman telegram imo

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

It's like a bingo card of bullshit, this

Candy Got Raptured @wormfood-local-510.bsky.social · 1d

… Is it really “Russophillic” to say that we were simply hedging bets with lend-lease??? Is it really “Russophillic” to say that until the Zimm. Tel. we were more or less undecided on whether we were an ally or an axis?? Is it “Russophillic” to say that in 1935 one of the largest nazi gatherings

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