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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD

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PhD in History, fiction published by Sea Lion Press and original non-fiction research published by Historical Research. Lecturer in History and Politics at a Nid-Tier University.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · May 28

Royal Air Force Group Captain Adolph Gysbert Malan, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar, "Sailor Malan", South African war hero and Anti-Apartheid organiser and politician.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 7h

Yes.

I can only stand to be insulted so many times for repeating basic historical facts.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 7h

Man I love this photo.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · Jun 6

Gives me a chance to bring up my favourite photo from WW2:

Vincent Bunting left and Adolph Malan right both RAF one Jamaican the other an Afrikaner.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 7h

The Chief Native Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia advocated 'removing' the entire black population in the 30s.

So yes.

andrewtheblueskier @andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do you *still* learn new facts about Rhodesia that make you go "man fuck these guys" to a level you didn't expect?

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 7h

I need to be quicker at blocking people.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

So much of the stuff in the Constitution was either new or hadn't been done on the scale it had been done before.

Also, even the best Constitution can't survive if too many people don't care about it. Anti-constitutional forces are in charge of the Government, and they got there via elections.

debnicktom.bsky.social @debnicktom.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that the beloved American Constitution is absolute shite or this wouldn't be possible. Ditto the revered 'Founding Fathers' who wrote such a flawed and dangerous document, just hopeless twats.

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Christians do not get a monopoly on perspectives on Christianity.

Now, admittedly, this means Jews and Muslims don't get one on Judaism and Islam either. But on this site, Christians being weird is normal, so...

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Oh I blocked them, I'm tired.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Nothing makes the Christian perspective inherently more (or less tbh) truthful than the Jewish one. And the Muslim one too, for that matter, Islam has opinions on Jesus of Nazareth.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, Parliamentary Privilege is a feature of both Houses, and of the US Congress as well.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I often forget, even at my age.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

For the record, a world without nuclear weapons is a desirable goal.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, neither am I tbh. I need to go to bed ffs.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Might put this on the office door tbh.

jennifer sadiston @sadiston.bsky.social · 8h

Dr Charlton Cuntssan

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it was considered normal, and actual historians have to engage with that. We rightfully don't consider them normal today, but 80 years ago they were, as was a whole bunch of heinous shit. This all started because you clearly didn't and don't understand the nature of WW2.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

You've lost me here.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, yeah, sure.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I can name plenty of countries that have destroyed cities since.

You seem to not understand that everyone was destroying cities in WW2, it was understood as a normal way of waging war.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I can name plenty of countries that have annihilated cities, which is what the bombs did.

America used the bomb because they had it, and because it wasn't considered different from the rest of military practice at the time.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

"My issue with your language is the way it manufactures consent for further use of excessive force upon opposing populations." Doesn't have much to do with WW2.

Saying something was acceptable in one time and place does not mean I think it's acceptable in others.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I mean to be blunt if they're not used in 1945, they're probably used in Korea en masse in 1950, and that's so much worse.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

My point is there is nothing particularly American about the atomic bomb.

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I am reading what you're saying. I *disagree* with you.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

No? The necessity debate has everything to do with the particular circumstances of WW2. Which is why Truman didn't use it in Korea, and rightfully so.

The British have had nukes since the 50s and never used them, even when our territory was invaded, again, rightfully so.

Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

You do understand that *every* combatant would have used the nuke if they got it, right?

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, I'm not. I'm talking about WW2.

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