Ray Thomas
@raythomas.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student focused on International Relations. Virginia Tech/University of South Carolina Alum.
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Sell your Sherman stocks
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November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Sell your Sherman stocks
Buy George Henry Thomas bonds
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lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
lesson of jay jones (likely) win is that democrats must [redacted]
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THE GREAT PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA HAVE VOTED FOR [TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED]
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
THE GREAT PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA HAVE VOTED FOR [TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][TOS VIOLATION][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED]
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Me when the Virginia Tech football team actually beats a good team and make us 1-0 in Conference play.
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Me when the Virginia Tech football team actually beats a good team and make us 1-0 in Conference play.
Love that every country besides my own seems capable of thwarting (half-assed) authoritarian consolidation.
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Love that every country besides my own seems capable of thwarting (half-assed) authoritarian consolidation.
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It also is like... far from ubiquitous among young men, not a great predictor of political attitudes by itself, and seems to happen for extremely normal and common reasons like "not socializing," "not having a partner," and "being online all day" which is... not just men?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
September 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It also is like... far from ubiquitous among young men, not a great predictor of political attitudes by itself, and seems to happen for extremely normal and common reasons like "not socializing," "not having a partner," and "being online all day" which is... not just men?
www.ymrp.org/polling
www.ymrp.org/polling
This is glib but: Men should simply make more friends and not be repellent assholes. Stop listening to podcasts and listen to actual people. Its actually not hard to make friends if you try to and if you try to be a good person instead of an edgelord.
my take is that the male loneliness crisis is real but also that no one really has either a cultural or political answer that they're willing to back
yeah i think there's a way to have this discussion that is neither "men are lonely therefore the incels are right" nor "this is all fake, get fucked"
September 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is glib but: Men should simply make more friends and not be repellent assholes. Stop listening to podcasts and listen to actual people. Its actually not hard to make friends if you try to and if you try to be a good person instead of an edgelord.
Only doing Suez Crisis discourse from here on out.
can we at least start litigating some different wars? somebody do some wars of the roses posting, that could tie up the timeline for at least two years, you can cross the streams with GoT posting and really deep fry some brain worms
I love how at least once a month we litigate WWII on this website
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Only doing Suez Crisis discourse from here on out.
Unrated aspect is that American hegemony has been so total that when the US began to decline Britain jumped at the chance to decline again as well. That's soft power, bay-bee.
realistically if we see american hegemonic decline in the next couple of years, i don't think china becomes the next hegemon, i think you just end up with a likely more dangerous multipolar world, just out of the fact that the global commons requires a lot out of its hegemon (see Kindleberger)
I think the lesson of the last decade is that when you suddenly remove American leadership the gap gets filled by *nothing*
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
Europe badly lacks capacity, China has domestic neuroses to match the US, and another way of phrasing "prioritizing regional balances of power" is "more small wars"
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Unrated aspect is that American hegemony has been so total that when the US began to decline Britain jumped at the chance to decline again as well. That's soft power, bay-bee.
We need the WPA but for orbital shipyards and asteroid belt mining operations. If elected I will...
September 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We need the WPA but for orbital shipyards and asteroid belt mining operations. If elected I will...
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that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks
Online Progressives be serious about politics for one second challenge (impossible).
Nope, raise a flag of the people, not the flag of the fascists. Why would you waive the flag of a government that built its land base on genocide and has run two concentration camp systems in the past 100 years.
September 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Online Progressives be serious about politics for one second challenge (impossible).
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
American high speed rail is how you tell it's a clear work of fiction.
xXx: State of the Union is a good movie because it includes The Presidential Bullet Train
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
American high speed rail is how you tell it's a clear work of fiction.
Can't believe I'm living through the creation of the Kaiserreich Mod Ideological System.
we've tried authoritarian communism. we've tried authoritarian fascism. it's time for the ideology of the 21st century: authoritarian liberalism
this site boos him but he's clearly right and we need to be able to deal with this phenomenon instead of pretending it's not true
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Can't believe I'm living through the creation of the Kaiserreich Mod Ideological System.
Need to edit this to say "INCORRECTLY think levels are rising." Be serious.
Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...
August 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Need to edit this to say "INCORRECTLY think levels are rising." Be serious.
The lasting impact of the GWOT is that this is actually true. Anti-monarchist rebels threatening your rule? Terrorists. Immigrants in you want to get rid of? Use counterinsurgency tactics to detain them. Even Ukraine's territorial defense against Russia in 2014 was termed an anti-terrorist op.
GWOT, the only war that has, ever, or will be fought in history
Afghanistan or dumbass border theater
July 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The lasting impact of the GWOT is that this is actually true. Anti-monarchist rebels threatening your rule? Terrorists. Immigrants in you want to get rid of? Use counterinsurgency tactics to detain them. Even Ukraine's territorial defense against Russia in 2014 was termed an anti-terrorist op.
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my boomer complaint is that we don't have supersonic bombers like this nation needs if we really want to put some racing stripes on the apocalypse*
*XB-70 hive stand up
*XB-70 hive stand up
July 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
my boomer complaint is that we don't have supersonic bombers like this nation needs if we really want to put some racing stripes on the apocalypse*
*XB-70 hive stand up
*XB-70 hive stand up
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there are far too many mcclellans in the democratic party
This is a childish understanding of politics www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
July 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
there are far too many mcclellans in the democratic party
Are we not going to talk about what's happening with 30-44 year olds here?
Trump now at -40 approval with young people, down from roughly even at the start of his term, per YouGov. The buyers remorse with Gen Z is real
July 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Are we not going to talk about what's happening with 30-44 year olds here?
The usage potential of this image is off the charts
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The usage potential of this image is off the charts
If the Biden administration had let me have that position Ukrainian troops would be parading through Red Square, there would be no student debt, and all shit posting would be exclusively about CENTCOM, but alas.
At the risk of giving it more circulation, I think it's worth flagging for the record that a no-bones-about-it racist who has never been confirmed to any position by the Senate is the most practically powerful decisionmaker in the executive branch--and also spending his time doing this
Stephen Miller is currently quotetweeting fight videos and using them to be racist
July 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If the Biden administration had let me have that position Ukrainian troops would be parading through Red Square, there would be no student debt, and all shit posting would be exclusively about CENTCOM, but alas.