Jake H
@jakehufstader.bsky.social
History M.A., Star Wars Fan
He/Him. Bi. CP/NLVD
better Blanqui than Bismarck
He/Him. Bi. CP/NLVD
better Blanqui than Bismarck
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No less a figure than Winston Churchill said that if Hitler had invaded Hell, he'd at least give the devil a favorable hearing in the House of Commons.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
No less a figure than Winston Churchill said that if Hitler had invaded Hell, he'd at least give the devil a favorable hearing in the House of Commons.
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You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!
October 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
You have to be willing to walk away from these guys if they let you down, just as a matter of basic self respect. It's not a fandom. You're hiring them to do a job or not.
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The weather is about to get colder. It's the time of year when middle aged men's thoughts turn once again towards WWII history. Preparing for the season by getting a translated copy of Leopold Trepper's 1975 memoir about his role orchestrating resistance networks in occupied France for the Soviets.
October 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The weather is about to get colder. It's the time of year when middle aged men's thoughts turn once again towards WWII history. Preparing for the season by getting a translated copy of Leopold Trepper's 1975 memoir about his role orchestrating resistance networks in occupied France for the Soviets.
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I like and respect Eric. This is not a dunk at all. The counterargument is that without the filibuster, Democrats could have passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. They also could have restored abortion rights after Dobbs and done other important things, and Biden might not have been as unpopular.
Ironically, Democrats can only fight against the Republican spending bills and hold the line because of... the filibuster. I wrote in 2024 that Democrats would realize that Manchin and Sinema were more correct than people realized.
independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Will Democrats apologize to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema now?
The two most controversial Democrats in Congress saw what was coming a mile off, writes Eric Garcia
independent.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I like and respect Eric. This is not a dunk at all. The counterargument is that without the filibuster, Democrats could have passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. They also could have restored abortion rights after Dobbs and done other important things, and Biden might not have been as unpopular.
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You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
October 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.
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This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
September 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric. There’s nothing ambiguous about it. And it didn’t come from a random Bluesky account with 28 followers. It came from a sitting member of Congress.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
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like there is an actual lack of substance, not your more typical totally incomprehensible ideological reasoning or straight school shooter nihilism
September 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
like there is an actual lack of substance, not your more typical totally incomprehensible ideological reasoning or straight school shooter nihilism
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also explains why Patel et al haven't been more explicit about him being a leftist, because it seems like the evidence of his leftist views are more or less him dating a transwoman? and that he just decided to kill Kirk for being hateful
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
also explains why Patel et al haven't been more explicit about him being a leftist, because it seems like the evidence of his leftist views are more or less him dating a transwoman? and that he just decided to kill Kirk for being hateful
Putting this as mildly as possible. Lew is incorrect as a matter of IHL/LOAC. All Children non-combatants count the same. For instance if you were targeting Hamas fighters and foresaw that doing so would kill children, it doesn’t matter if those children are related to those Hamas fighters (1/2)
August 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Putting this as mildly as possible. Lew is incorrect as a matter of IHL/LOAC. All Children non-combatants count the same. For instance if you were targeting Hamas fighters and foresaw that doing so would kill children, it doesn’t matter if those children are related to those Hamas fighters (1/2)
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For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I've been wrestling with the contentious question of whether Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Gaza. I initially rejected the genocide charge, but now I don't. A thread on why I've changed my mind:
August 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I've been wrestling with the contentious question of whether Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Gaza. I initially rejected the genocide charge, but now I don't. A thread on why I've changed my mind:
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So obviously I disagree - there were, I think, 11 US Army colonels from Virginia in 1861 and only one of them betrayed his oath to the United States - but I wonder if Matt Walsh would be willing to extend his logic to someone in LA who shoots ICE agents to 'stand beside' his community in battle?
June 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
So obviously I disagree - there were, I think, 11 US Army colonels from Virginia in 1861 and only one of them betrayed his oath to the United States - but I wonder if Matt Walsh would be willing to extend his logic to someone in LA who shoots ICE agents to 'stand beside' his community in battle?
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The more I look at the prep and legal reasoning behind invading LA, the more it looks like that the administration wants to seize supreme authoritarian power over the corpse of the republic through force of arms but also doesn’t want to do any actual work to do so. Rather surreal.
June 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The more I look at the prep and legal reasoning behind invading LA, the more it looks like that the administration wants to seize supreme authoritarian power over the corpse of the republic through force of arms but also doesn’t want to do any actual work to do so. Rather surreal.
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ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
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The precise peak of the American Empire
Crowds watching the SEINFELD finale in Times Square. May 14, 1998
June 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The precise peak of the American Empire
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tbh my political science brain says Tolkien would be negatively polarized into supporting trans rights after Peter Thiel blew up Cambodia with a killer robot named the Isengard Hobbit Slayer 9000 because negative polarization is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.
the likely in universe cosmology ive arrived on for trans ppl in the legedarium wasnt what tolkien intended and would be reactionary but textually makes sense, i think
June 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
tbh my political science brain says Tolkien would be negatively polarized into supporting trans rights after Peter Thiel blew up Cambodia with a killer robot named the Isengard Hobbit Slayer 9000 because negative polarization is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.
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Elon Musk's drug usage is relevant not just because he's a bad person. It is relevant because someone doing government work should not be high while doing it, someone handling sensitive information should not be high while handling sensitive information. It /does/ impair your judgment.
May 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Elon Musk's drug usage is relevant not just because he's a bad person. It is relevant because someone doing government work should not be high while doing it, someone handling sensitive information should not be high while handling sensitive information. It /does/ impair your judgment.
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you want security in the realm? call clegane. dispatch the kings guard
We are maesters. We forge chains. We locate sparrows, whether they fly from within or have flown in from the outside
We are maesters. We forge chains. We locate sparrows, whether they fly from within or have flown in from the outside
May 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
you want security in the realm? call clegane. dispatch the kings guard
We are maesters. We forge chains. We locate sparrows, whether they fly from within or have flown in from the outside
We are maesters. We forge chains. We locate sparrows, whether they fly from within or have flown in from the outside
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GRRM expressed frustration in his latest blog post that people online say he will never finish The Winds of Winter.
Like most people, GRRM's problem would be solved by getting off the internet and doing something else. Like most of us, he will not do it. An icon of the age.
Like most people, GRRM's problem would be solved by getting off the internet and doing something else. Like most of us, he will not do it. An icon of the age.
May 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
GRRM expressed frustration in his latest blog post that people online say he will never finish The Winds of Winter.
Like most people, GRRM's problem would be solved by getting off the internet and doing something else. Like most of us, he will not do it. An icon of the age.
Like most people, GRRM's problem would be solved by getting off the internet and doing something else. Like most of us, he will not do it. An icon of the age.
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Re: Denise Gough's joke here ew.com/andor-star-d... it'd be really cool to see the New Republic release Dedra from prison in exchange for helping root out Imperial insurgents. Think of the moral complexity. Is the galaxy better off with her rotting forever or thwarting Imperial revanchist disorder?
May 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Re: Denise Gough's joke here ew.com/andor-star-d... it'd be really cool to see the New Republic release Dedra from prison in exchange for helping root out Imperial insurgents. Think of the moral complexity. Is the galaxy better off with her rotting forever or thwarting Imperial revanchist disorder?