[read another book voice] GET ANOTHER HISTORICAL ANALOGY BESIDES FUCKING INTERWAR GERMANY
February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
[read another book voice] GET ANOTHER HISTORICAL ANALOGY BESIDES FUCKING INTERWAR GERMANY
i wonder if this phenomena re: the influenza epidemic factored into the madness in the interwar period that birthed fascism
September 3, 2026 at 4:51 AM
i wonder if this phenomena re: the influenza epidemic factored into the madness in the interwar period that birthed fascism
Burning resentment against Jewish owned businesses in interwar Germany fuelled by inaction on reversing the Versailles settlement.
"The mob violence in Northern Ireland is appalling BUT..."
Shocking stuff from the Times.
Shocking stuff from the Times.
June 11, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Burning resentment against Jewish owned businesses in interwar Germany fuelled by inaction on reversing the Versailles settlement.
old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing
My pleases-nobody sense of Return To Twitter Discourse is that the place can never return to what it was, and can never return to the idealized past version we imagine either, nor can that idealized past version be constructed anywhere else because it was always romantic self-regarding bullshit
December 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing
Trump isn't even the president and the american right is fracturing. People keep comparing America to Weimar but are we ready for it to actually be interwar Austria
December 28, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Trump isn't even the president and the american right is fracturing. People keep comparing America to Weimar but are we ready for it to actually be interwar Austria
i love covered rear wheels!!!
September 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i love covered rear wheels!!!
Ah fuck this is an interwar period
February 5, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Ah fuck this is an interwar period
Can't believe that the left is recreating the interwar years from first principles
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can't believe that the left is recreating the interwar years from first principles
Which way, interwar British aristo?
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July 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Which way, interwar British aristo?
Interwar Germany? 🙅♂️
Interwar Japan? 👍
Interwar Japan? 👍
[read another book voice] GET ANOTHER HISTORICAL ANALOGY BESIDES FUCKING INTERWAR GERMANY
February 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interwar Germany? 🙅♂️
Interwar Japan? 👍
Interwar Japan? 👍
DLSS off / DLSS on
March 17, 2026 at 8:35 PM
DLSS off / DLSS on
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.
@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇
@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.
@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇
@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇
making an interwar british style vehicle like, please, my son, he is very sick.........
March 25, 2026 at 5:48 AM
making an interwar british style vehicle like, please, my son, he is very sick.........
Interwar fascists also hated trans and queer people for the same reasons.
May 11, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Interwar fascists also hated trans and queer people for the same reasons.
Latin American caudillismo is much closer to the mark for describing MAGA than interwar continental Europe, but even that doens't *quite* fit.
August 24, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Latin American caudillismo is much closer to the mark for describing MAGA than interwar continental Europe, but even that doens't *quite* fit.
every authoritarian thinker with a popular audience in the interwar period believed in an industrial state
October 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
every authoritarian thinker with a popular audience in the interwar period believed in an industrial state
Just a nice Bakelite light switch.
One of the reasons I love the interwar era, even light switches were gorgeous.
One of the reasons I love the interwar era, even light switches were gorgeous.
January 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Just a nice Bakelite light switch.
One of the reasons I love the interwar era, even light switches were gorgeous.
One of the reasons I love the interwar era, even light switches were gorgeous.
Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.
The people you can most reliably track as "anti-Zionist who is also antisemitic" are the folks who have also been openly transphobic.
Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson.
Left and right, this is the common thread for many.
Kasparian, Greenwald, Carlson.
Left and right, this is the common thread for many.
Susan Abulhawa shares Marjorie Taylor Greene's hatred of trans people, so they have more in common than just anti-Zionism.
May 11, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Transphobia is the greatest lodestone for today's far-right, because it embodies the far-right desire to claim all identities are natural and biological. Today's fascists hate trans people for the same reason interwar fascists hated diasporic Jews - because they hate fluidity and border crossing.
Liberals, in either a classical or American sense, where always a pretty marginal political tendency in interwar Germany
March 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Liberals, in either a classical or American sense, where always a pretty marginal political tendency in interwar Germany
welcome to the interwar period girls. it's gonna be a bumpy fuckin ride
January 17, 2026 at 8:50 PM
welcome to the interwar period girls. it's gonna be a bumpy fuckin ride
It amazes me that so-called "serious folk" in the US are failing to realise that the next two generations of European policymakers are going to be incredibly more inclined towards anti-Americanism than any generation since the interwar era.
January 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
It amazes me that so-called "serious folk" in the US are failing to realise that the next two generations of European policymakers are going to be incredibly more inclined towards anti-Americanism than any generation since the interwar era.
The thing about Kirk's death being very much Not a Reichstag Fire is one reason I think that while MAGA has a great many fash characteristics, it's fundamentally a dysfunction of America's constitutionalism and looking for interwar central European models ends up going wrong.
A very positive sign that, nearly a year after Kirk's death, many if not most of the people punished for speaking truthfully about him have won legal cases against their former employees and compensation. Again, panicked compliance with Trumpism has only *cost* institutions.
August 24, 2026 at 11:29 AM
The thing about Kirk's death being very much Not a Reichstag Fire is one reason I think that while MAGA has a great many fash characteristics, it's fundamentally a dysfunction of America's constitutionalism and looking for interwar central European models ends up going wrong.
it's interwar fascism, mixed with peronist populism, mixed with USSR-style empire collapse, mixed with aging-monarch personalist court politics...
February 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
it's interwar fascism, mixed with peronist populism, mixed with USSR-style empire collapse, mixed with aging-monarch personalist court politics...
Wife: Alexa play instrumental Christmas music from Spotify
Me: [audible groan]
Wife: [baleful eye]
Me: I’m sorry I was just thinking about the injustices visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses in the interwar period
Wife: Think about them more quietly
Me: [audible groan]
Wife: [baleful eye]
Me: I’m sorry I was just thinking about the injustices visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses in the interwar period
Wife: Think about them more quietly
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Wife: Alexa play instrumental Christmas music from Spotify
Me: [audible groan]
Wife: [baleful eye]
Me: I’m sorry I was just thinking about the injustices visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses in the interwar period
Wife: Think about them more quietly
Me: [audible groan]
Wife: [baleful eye]
Me: I’m sorry I was just thinking about the injustices visited upon Jehovah’s Witnesses in the interwar period
Wife: Think about them more quietly