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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽

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Romance writer/reader. Trained Classicist. Lefty (both kinds). HEAs forever. Semi-colon fan. I block randos. Find my books at https://jackiebarbosa.com

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · Dec 6

Ok, ok, twist my arm! @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social, I guess you can consider this "out in the wild" and shareable now.

I don't know when this book will be released, but I'm working on it (and I might work harder/faster if y'all get excited, lol).

Cover of Ariadne and the Minotaur by J Barbosa. Image is a painting of a handsome man with bull's horns and ears in a clinch with a beautiful woman wearing a classic Minoan dress. They are in a dark room lit by a torch. Colors are primarily red and gold with some blue. Art is by Joanne Renaud (aka suburbanbeatnik).

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 3h

That's what the person I responded to was advocating, though.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 3h

If you're okay with the idea of people losing health care access because they happen to be or live near those mostly illiterate idiots, you kinda are advocating for extermination at scale, though.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 3h

The people who are "on your side" will be just as likely to die as the people you want to punish. Lack of health care access is probably even more likely to harm the people on your side, as they're less likely to be rich, white racists.

Collective punishment is a fascist position.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 3h

The way self-proclaimed anti-fascists are willing to visit collective punishment on everyone who lives in a red state is...well...kinda fascist

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 4h

2. What about the years since the pandemic started makes you believe that red voters in any state will "learn a lesson" from losing access to health care?

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 4h

1. More than 50% of people in every red state didn't vote for Trump. Many of them couldn't, because they are children or not citizens. Others voted blue. Lack of medical care will affect those people just as much or more than anyone else. Why is that okay with you?

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 7h

Yup.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 11h

Dead people don't vote.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 12h

Real "I don't mind if people die as long as they learn their lesson" energy here.

a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face .

Alt: Dan Levy making a "yuck" face

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 12h

And making sure it's "never again" might not be possible. Ever. Because human societies are as imperfect as the people themselves.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 12h

If "this" means the long-term effects of the massive cuts/layoffs to the government's functions as well as how we get to system that won't allow it ever happen again, then yeah, that's 20-30 years.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 12h

There are a lot of caveats there, of course, including "Do they somehow find a way to keep the 2028 election from happening at all?" but I'm not sure that even the racist white Republican base would stand for that, esp if the economy goes as far south as it is likely to.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 12h

I think it depends what "this" means? If "this" means the current fascist crackdown, I think we'll be out when Trump's term ends in 2029. I don't see even this SCOTUS letting Trump run for a 3rd term and I don't believe Trump's unique appeal extends to any of his obvious successors.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out checks and balances are only as good as the people who enforce them.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 1d

Heidelberg yesterday.

Heidelberg Castle and Altstadt from the Alter Brücke over the River Neckar.

Mr B with ruined castle towers behind him and the city below.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

The natives of the Americas got their revenge in the form of syphilis, though.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Also, all the Aztecs' neighboring tribes hated their asses. The Spanish probably couldn't have beaten them if they hadn't amassed massive armies of indigenous people who'd been conquered by and forced to pay tribute to the Aztecs.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Crops are also very tied to horses. Admittedly, you can use oxen to pull a plow/thresh wheat/etc. but that means exchanging crops for transportation unless you're very well off.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. As is his mama (BA Classics, 1985).

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

My son (BA Hist, UCSC 2024) took a course called History of the Horse. People teased it was Basketweaving 101 but he said, no, basically the horse was the most important driver of technological invention and conquest for about 5k years.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

To be totally fair, Western lit tried pretty successfully for more than a thousand years to sell "Achilles and Patroclus were just really good friends."

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
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This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

If only the Aztecs had been wise enough to expose themselves to smallpox a few generations earlier...

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome back to the Roman Empire, y'all.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

The degree to which democracy in the US has functioned entirely on the basis of gentlemen's agreements has been thoroughly exposed. Our constitutional checks and balances are inherently flawed bc they rely on good faith actors to implement them. No Republicans act in good faith. Ever.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2d

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

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