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Matt Gabriele
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Professor, medievalist, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), BETWEEN PROPHECY & APOCALYPSE (2024), & OATHBREAKERS (2024) nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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this isn't history. it's fantasy.
headline of ny times about Kemp's book saying, "Are We Headed for Apocalypse? This Book Says It’s a 1-in-3 Chance. In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires."
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Tomorrow
Horse meme “soon”
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Good morning.
Virginia flag with motto “sic semper tyrranis” with lovely autumn foliage behind
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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So didn’t talk about this at the time but this happened a few weeks ago and I’d like to just say Jay Jones is the new AG of Virginia so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bullshit Fox News piece that lies about me
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Matty Y is the living embodiment of this Sinclair quote
Upton Sinclair 1878–1968 American novelist and social reformer It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Hot dog guy meme “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this”
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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And Jesus this is eminently reasonable
“I don’t think Mamdani could win in Arizona, I don’t think I could win New York City, but it doesn’t mean that some of this stuff is also wrong. He cares about the cost of living like many of us; we just take different approaches to it,” Gallego told CNN after finishing speaking at a Mexican restaurant in Alexandria for Spanberger. Democrats “have always been that way,” Gallego said. “Look at the Republicans, look at those weirdos, man. They have a weird span of things.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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THIS IS THE CONTEXT

But Ken just clips the last part without the former
Spanberger is clear about her differences with Mamdani. She spoke to CNN on Friday on her campaign bus, leaving an event in Ashland, Virginia, where the woman who introduced her said sometimes she feels she’s the only Democrat in the area. “Why is it that everybody keeps thinking somebody running in a city, admittedly an enormous city, that that is the deciding race?” she asked. When asked what she made of Mamdani declaring at an October rally in Manhattan that he had already won the battle over the soul of the Democratic Party, Spanberger’s mouth twitched into a smile. Then maybe,” she said, “he should be a Democrat.”
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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look at how Kurtz concludes.

this is an ahistorical (Petrarch was a narcissist who wanted patronage, not a full on intellectual revolution) attack on universities.

we academics are the enemies. we are the traitors. we are the dark ages.

10/10
Petrarch, the greatest scholar and poet of his day, saw a Europe in chaos and decline. We had Covid; he lived through bubonic plague. Petrarch was convinced that moral reformation by way of education was the key to societal recovery, yet he despised the narrowness of Europe’s universities. Petrarch sought a revival of classical studies at first not in the schools but among the literate public in the cities and the princely courts. It worked. Petrarch’s vision was realized, largely because of his efforts, although his triumph came only after his death. In the end, Petrarch’s vision transformed even the seemingly impregnable universities. It’s happened before; it can happen again.
November 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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the point of the straw man though of course is just to allow him to pretend to be a "bold truth-teller." and that truth?

a 5th-column of traitors and heretics - basically, in his eyes, anyone who isn't a white dude - are attacking the foundations of America and "the West."

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Demoting or neglecting our heritage was at first a way of catering to protests by the “marginalized” (who were far more deeply Western than they cared to admit). So-called multiculturalists (who in fact had little interest in non-Western cultures) feared Western history and the West’s great works not because these were hostile or unappealing but because they were profound and inspiring. Purveyors of identity politics had nothing comparable to offer, and they still don’t. In the end, however, Western elites accepted, adopted — and even came to relish — the attacks on their own civilization, turning self-hatred into a perverse form of ritual purification.
November 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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but here Kurtz is making a dumb straw man argument.

like, this is just simply not true. not at all. not even a little bit.

THERE ARE TONS OF COURSES ON EUROPE/ THE AMERICAS IN HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AT LITERALLY EVERY UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE IN THE COUNTRY

(there are ~ 40+ at my uni alone)

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For two generations now, the study of Western civilization at our colleges and universities has lain in disrepair. The old requirements are gone, of course, but so, increasingly, are even electives on Western history and the classics, along with faculty capable of teaching these as anything other than targets of deconstruction. Still more concerning is the caricature of a supposedly oppressive West, which has permeated society at large.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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HOLY SHIT GUYS WTF
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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For example

www.politico.eu/article/insi...
Introducing soon-to-be Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at her final election campaign rally last year, the compère lifted a line from a battle speech in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings: “The day of defeat will come, but not today.” Meloni has made it no secret that the fantasy epic is her favorite literary work. As a young activist she dressed up as a hobbit; after she became a minister, she posed next to a statue of Gandalf for a magazine photoshoot.
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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JOE WALSH is not representative of “the Democratic Party” come on now what are you even doing
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Our local delegate sent this GOTV message to a college student
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Come on you O’s!
Photo of Brisbane Road. The home of MIGHTY LEYTON ORIENT The beautiful field of Brisbane Road A steak and ale pie. Branded with the LEYTON Orientation seal. It was very football pie
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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In this house we don’t do Nazi apologia
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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This is a new one.
October 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I was thinking Star Wars
October 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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It is I have learned Obama’s fault that many marines have Nazi tattoos apparently

Fucking yikes
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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For no reason show me your laptop stickers
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM