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Mary Harrington

@moveincircles

Provincial mummy blogger. Rep: Matthew Hamilton. Speaking: [email protected]

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Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@eugyppius1 Is it because of guys who write like this that LLM prose sounds the way it does? Or is he just using an LLM to generate his posts
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eugyppius@eugyppius1·
Whenever these guys begin a tweet with "Dear Europe," the audience is exclusively Trump-supporting Americans. First noticed this during the Greenland thing.
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad

Dear Europe, I know you feel outrage. I have talked to many of you on the phone. I know politicians and media on both sides of the Atlantic are furious. I attended a conference with mostly Europeans. The worry and frustration was palpable. I get it too. You are dependent on Middle East oil and aluminum and fertilizer and shipping and LNG. Dubai is a vital travel hub for you. Vital. But don’t worry. Trump will lose the midterms and Congress will flip and side with you. Or maybe not… I live in the bluest town in the bluest state, where protests are practically a seasonal sport. I drove over eight hours across New England this week past the usual corners where outrage normally lives. This time? Nothing. Left, right, center. I’m hearing almost no one talk about this war. MAGA doesn’t even care. Ask someone and you’ll get the expected talking points. But in coffee shops, kitchens, real life? Silence. Hard truth: most Americans just don’t care. And since the weather warmed, not a single keffiyeh in sight. So when Trump says you need to go protect the ships and airports that are vital to YOU, I think he means it. Because the vast majority of Americans don’t care. And it’s not that we want to see you spin into an energy and food shortage. It’s that even the most TDS-inflicted liberal American is getting tired of your BS. Hating Trump is one thing. Almost half of America is OK with that. But your anti-American vitriol and arrogance and weakness is exhausting. Nobody likes a needy person who is angry and thinks they are better than you. It’s literally the worst combination in a person. And you might not want to admit it, but you are needy. You need us to reopen Hormuz. You need our banks and our markets. You need a lot. “We will not participate in this war” is fine. Nobody is asking you to bomb civilians. What’s weak is you won’t surge defensive missiles and planes to protect European-owned ships and property. When exactly did defense make you a participant? Defense of innocent life and property isn’t a “war crime.” And you DO own the majority of ships getting attacked. Ships that you are unwilling to defend maybe because you outsource the labor to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ukraine. You are the wealthy lords who abandoned the mansion but told the help to stick around and defend it. So you might want to send a few warships and missile defense units to protect YOUR property. Or at least leave them at anchor and send the innocent crews home. You want us to defend the Strait because we started this mess? That’s reasonable. Problem is the reaction from most of America to your demands is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@DNLMDY “Non-monogamy” isn’t regular promiscuity though. Its relation to regular monogamy is a bit like vegan sausage, in the sense that it clearly presupposes the original form but eliminates everything that made it pleasant or good
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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
This week’s message from 2018 would like you to cope with your newborn baby by having affairs then making everyone pretend they approve
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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@BijanOmrani @LNJStokes I particularly enjoyed the almost casual way @DrFrancisYoung hinted in his Godlings book that “King Arthur” might have been at least somewhat self-legitimising Norman propaganda Obviously absurd of course, and nothing comparable could ever happen today either
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BijanOmrani@BijanOmrani·
Another thing that is thoroughly irritating about this take is the idea that the origins of Englishness and monarchy can be separated. In the vision of Bede, nationhood arises from the relationship between a people, a king, and God. Kings such as Alfred were fundamental for the development of the idea of England. And as for scrubbing the military out of it, where are the origins of the English and Englishness without the Battle of Edington or the Battle of Maldon?
The Independent@Independent

Author and DJ Zakia Sewell is using British folk culture to challenge far-right nationalism. Sewell has journeyed around the British Isles exploring Britain’s folk resurgence for her debut book, Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain. Finding Albion builds on Sewell’s hit audio series for BBC Radio 4, which saw her seek out a different, more inclusive idea of “Britishness” beyond the usual national myths and symbols. Click on the link in bio to read 🔗

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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@ancerj I guess time will tell whether a sober evaluation of long term necessity really was the frame for this action. Perhaps you also have access to classified information and therefore know better than I But there certainly seems to be a range of views on this point just now
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José Ancer@ancerj·
@moveincircles While I question your factual point - respecting your right as a European to be unhappy about it, of course - the nature of leadership, even with democratic constraints, is to place long-term necessity above short-term popularity.
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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
@AaronJay954127 Because British governments have pursued a policy mass immigration against the repeatedly stated wishes of British voters, I'm not allowed to object when an American president starts a war that is obviously not in European interests? Right you are 👍
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Aaron Jay@AaronJay954127·
@moveincircles You aren’t American. For years you inflicted terrible policy whose main victims were Israel in the mid east. You allowed importation of millions of antisemitic Muslims to Britain. Stop throwing stones.
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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
Another data point for the suspicion that crawled over me yesterday, as I read that essay on "Dinergoth", that the downwardly mobile kids of the Universal Digital Anglosphere look the way they look because they are assailed on all sides by demons thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…
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Mary Harrington@moveincircles·
Unbelievably cursed object left out on the street this morning
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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
I suspect this will be unpopular, but if we want to allow religion in the public square, we should do so consistently. Praying outside an abortion clinic, following @ArchbishopSarah on her pilgrimage to Canterbury or observing sunset prayers in Trafalgar Square - all should be treated as peaceful and lawful acts. Celebrating special occasions in Trafalgar Square is, in fact, a deeply British thing to do. We should be isolating the jihadi extremists, not vindicating their claim that Islam and Western democracy are incompatible.
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Edward Feser
Edward Feser@FeserEdward·
Many thanks to @moveincircles for her very kind words about my book Scholastic Metaphysics, about which she says “I don’t think Professor Feser intended it as a page turner, but I tore through it like it was an airport novel.” As she explains in this lucid and important lecture, she finds in Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics the vocabulary needed properly to understand today’s deepest moral and political controversies. Especially important, as she says, are the distinctions between (a) act and potency, (b) substance, accident, and substantial form, and (c) the four causes. She notes that it was the moderns’ attack on and burial of Aristotle, Aquinas, and Scholasticism that would pave the way for developments such as feminism, contraception, and the trans phenomenon. And she says that these are held in place by a “Thomophobia” (great coinage!) that dismisses traditional metaphysics a priori as a tool of oppression. Give her lecture a listen.
First Things@firstthingsmag

Mary Harrington's presentation of this year’s D.C. Lecture “Our Crisis is Metaphysical” on Thursday, March 5th at 6 p.m. at the Hillsdale College Washington D.C. Campus is now available on YouTube. @moveincircles youtu.be/_hbSLkjdFt4

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TheTransTroll@TheTransTroll·
@LGBAllies_Cymru Trans women are women not men, you just posted something so Irish to hide your transphobia
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LGB Alliance Cymru@LGBAllies_Cymru·
Just to be clear, it's not about transwomen using women's single sex spaces it's about men using women's single sex spaces. If some men are permitted, all men are permitted, not just the ones who may pass as women if they're quick and keep their mouth shut. Men, it's men.
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