Dr Alex Cruikshanks
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Dr Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
Historian of the former Yugoslavia and ethnic partitionism. X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
Cool story bro
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Lol, I tried repeatedly upthread to get you to engage constructively and you weren't interested, so don't waste your time trying to feign good faith for a very obvious contrived pretext.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lmao yes that should've been an obvious clue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The commitment to this bit is really getting quite sad now.
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Yeah, even if you were being honest, the anecdotal claims of a random anonymous Bluesky account with no pfp aren't evidence of much at all.

I've followed plenty online. Inevitably they either end up being base reactionary bigots after all, are comfortable with those who are, or fall by the wayside.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"All the major players are left wing feminists."

OK, now you're just obviously straight-up lying and you know it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And there are Lexiters who claimed to believe that Brexit would be a step to socialist revolution. Doesn't make it not obviously the case that Brexit as it has actually happened has been a right-wing reactionary project, and any Lexiters claiming otherwise are bullshitting.
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's a bit like saying the existence of "Blacks for Trump" or suchlike somehow disproves the claim that Trump voters, as a whole, are racist white guys.
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"the prominence of left wing feminists in the trans debate"

Lmao. Again, pull the other one.
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The appropriate comparable analogy would be if there was only one NHS abortion clinic in England, and there were suddenly "concerns" about it being pushed by ideological anti-choice groups. And in that context, yes, a woman who'd had good abortion care there would be a very appropriate inclusion!
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yeah, there's more than one maternity care unit in the country, and there isn't a large number of people ideologically opposed to the whole concept of maternity care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
And pull the other one. Anti-trans attitudes are mostly those of conservative sexist men, Trans-friendly ones mostly those of feminist women. Trying to redwash transphobia won't work here, try an easier mark.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I tried engaging with you for quite a while above. I didn't even explicitly accuse you if bigotry, I gave a description of some of your actions that people would generally see as bigoted. That you know it's accurate is apparent from the fact that you're attacking the conclusion, not the premise.
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's so revealing how you cycle out the feigned pretexts entirely unprompted.
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
People who don't have a bigoted obsession with a particular group generally don't set up social media accounts almost totally dedicated to antipathy towards that group, or regularly share content from people who use crude slurs for that group.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Well, because that's what you've been doing all thread, and because your feed makes pretty obvious your obsession with and antipathy to trans people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What you actually did though is started with an opinion and then retrofitted what to count as "evidence" based on that.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My big takeaway from this is that a lot of people made right decisions for very wrong reasons.
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Lol. "It's needed to provide the conclusion that I already decided I want to reach."
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM