Fuzzytheduck

Physical, sexual, and psychological abuse of prisoners is horrifically an all too common occurrence in the prison systems of most countries on earth and there is no reason to suppose that Israel is an exception.

Jewish media is jumping into the neo-Bundism vs. Zionism discourse and it’s….ahistorical.

It's infuriating. The larger left-lib Punditsphere appears to really want to Make Everything the Interwar Period again too what with anointing Platner Temu Smedly Butler (And gazing lovingly at all the father coughlins in the wings,) couching everything in rusted populist phrasing like the "Working Class" are still Big Tough (White) Men Who Do Metal Banging Jobs and Are All Latent Socialists (Remind me how class-conscious the Teamsters leadership was this last election) so I guess we need to have that same discussion and not update anything because everything is the EXACTLY the 20s/30s, or the 70s, or 2004 when you were young and full of piss and vinegar or when you aspired to the aesthetic of a time period vs actually contextualizing Meanwhile, across the board we have people re-litigating pop history through the use of youtube slop, Wikipedia edit gangs, public pressure and social engineering while different interest groups try to constantly fuck with college academia and even K-12 education so even if you have access to verifiable facts or just want to say "This shit is complicated and does not map 1:1" you're suddenly a bad person for wanting to apply nuance and not try to apply a popular astheticized conception of a 1930s 'solution' to an approaching 2030s problem. Ultimately we're back on my 'favorite' rant which is "It's a Fandom." And that's the problem. It's a Fandom and everyone wants to consume and level up and cosplay and have their little roles and have Bad Monsters to yell at. That's the peak of the theory of mind involved here and it's Everwhere.

someone on instagram just asked me to imagine what bundists leaders were thinking about polish reactions to their ghettoization and i was like "bro as a historian it's not my job to imagine what they were thinking. my job is to understand them within their context. the rest is for novelists." because historical fiction is a fandom. but history? naw son.

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

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The thing is that it is okay to have fun with your fictional characters as if they are real, but once you start believing they're real and treating them like they are, you're standing on the edge of a very steep and slippery slope

“what are the prizes”