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by Anne Applebaum — Reposted by Charles W. Stewart, David Johnson, David R. Miller , and 1 more

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"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart, Dorothy Bishop, Tim Bale

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Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Ah yes, Goldman Sachs. Some of us are old enough to remember this fabulously reassuring report telling everyone to calm down
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Yarvin was extraordinary. And not in a good way. I had, (fortunately) never heard of him before. As one of the panel (McEvoy?) observed, his ideas were essentially a 'gameified discourse'. Not worthy of serious consideration in my view. And delivered in an irritatingly patronising way.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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That's bin night for me too. It's a bit annoying not to know the exact time the rapture gig is supposed to get going. I might leave it until say 10pm to put them out. Pretty much a win-win bet unless it turns out to be a late kick-off.

Reposted by Charles W. Stewart, Albert Weale

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Please consult your outrage calendars for the correct type of fury to display, everyone.

I want you all to be limbering up for poppy outrage, just a few weeks away now.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Reminds me of Lenny Henry's line: "Enoch Powell says he wants to give me £1,000 to go back to where I came from. Which is great, because it’s only 20 pence on the bus from here to Dudley."
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Truth is irrelevant to those Down The Rabbithole. The only thing that matters is whether it supports the desired narrative. See also: posting/failing to delete posts shown irrefutably to be AI generated/images from a completely different time or place or conflict than the one claimed, etc
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Yep, Valencia is another amazing Spanish city!
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Contested, I'm sure, and complicated, but with a good deal of underlying truth, I think. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convive...
Convivencia - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convivencia#:~:text=Jerrilynn%20Dodds%20references%20this%20concept,or%20“attacked%20each%20other.”
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by Charles W. Stewart

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True. There were large Jewish quarters in many Spanish cities including Cordoba and Seville until Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 by Catholic co-rulers Ferdinand and Isabella
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Cordoba. Seville is amazing, Cordoba is even better, in my view,
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by Charles W. Stewart

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And it still provides funding to support young people wanting to do a mini Grand Tour ... ics.sas.ac.uk/awards/award...
Society of Dilettanti (2025)
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Whether or not you agree with the suggested action (I'm inclined to) this is an excellent exposition of just how bad things have got www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Curious lack of Random Capitalisations too.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Far be it from me to be a Conspiracy Theorist, but WHERE ARE the Random Capitalisations???
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · Aug 30
Trump goes on rant about how the limestone he selected for the White House was damaged and how he looked up video surveillance footage to blame a contractor. Trump says he will now charge the contractor for the damage.
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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Trump goes on rant about how the limestone he selected for the White House was damaged and how he looked up video surveillance footage to blame a contractor. Trump says he will now charge the contractor for the damage.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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"quietly" released! Perhaps they should have a quarterly fanfare of buglers outside the Home Office to mark the occasion.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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I know it's a critical meeting but ... the bling. Sums up the man and his attitude to the office.
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by Charles W. Stewart

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · Aug 4
Our life is like a play. In our 20s and 30s we’re hoping to make a grand entrance. In our 40s and 50s trying to stay on stage. And in our 60s and 70s hoping to make a graceful exit
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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Our life is like a play. In our 20s and 30s we’re hoping to make a grand entrance. In our 40s and 50s trying to stay on stage. And in our 60s and 70s hoping to make a graceful exit
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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I miss Valentina & her kiosk. I miss her positivity & warm-heartedness. Valentina has been undergoing cancer treatment. To cheer her up I turned the Valentina’s Kiosk theme into a song & the legendary BBC Singers
have recorded it for her. Here is Valentina’s Song. Conducted by David Hill.
Valentina's Song (Tomorrow Will Be Better Than Today).
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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ME: (fumbling through order) Hola! Un…cafe latte…sin…azúcar, por favor?
BARISTA: Uh-huh. And what size?
ME: (internally) I put up with that goddamn green owl for weeks…
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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My hot take is that if Bluesky continues to expand at this rate, it will soon have the same problem with bots and general unpleasantness as Twitter does now. I can't see that its systems are sufficient to prevent that.
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Reposted by Charles W. Stewart

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One of my favourite passages in literature. From Halldor Laxness, Independent People. A child in Iceland unimpressed with the story of Noah’s Ark.
But less intelligible still was the flood which was caused by forty days’ rain; and forty nights.’ For here on the moors there were some years when it rained for two hundred days and two hundred nights, almost without fairing; but there was never any Flood.
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Ozymandias
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i keep thinking about how much of western diplomacy/defence policy rests on assuming that America will kind of graciously not use the ability it has to win every argument, or if it does will do so ..nicely. & how there isn't a strategy for if they just steamroll everything because they can
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