Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]

Former long-time lurker of r/CTH. Just want to chat and post with some comrades. Maybe make some some funny comments along the way.

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I hope he’s doing better with all the therapies he’s going through. I’ve seen too many good people go through that process. I’m always thankful to him for bringing together my great love of history and politics. In a world of narrow- minded specialists, he’s one of the few people with the reach to tell the story of human history as a grand narrative. He showed us that the only way we can ever start thinking about the future again is by starting with a narrative of the past.






  • Lots of trump supporters are also not the rabid chuds we see online. They’re reluctant or quiet trump supporters and remarkably similar to biden’s huge boomer contingent in their class position and ideology. I’ve heard them say that they support trump, “if only he’d keep his mouth shut!” They were also pretty nervous about his troubles with the law and only supported him because biden/killary was worse, etc.

    I saw some people use this as their justification for voting for DeSantis before that petered out. Now they basically ignore how crass Trump is while every other word that comes out of their mouth is about “illegals.” I try to talk to them about the push and pull cause of migration and how to mitigate that and their brain doesn’t even register that “migrants” is another word for “illegal immigrants.” Its stuff like this, the easy proliferation of old fashioned reflexive white people racism, that makes me lose a lot of faith in human progress. They don’t want to listen to any solution other than the horrifying solutions barbarism offers.