Jon Ploug

Historian. Studying historical epidemics & pathology collections at Roskilde University and PandemiX (Center of Excellence).

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@Ashlyn136191 @MadsStrange_ Men hvis de konventioner de facto er med til at gøre det umuligt at leve i Europa for præcis de mennesker, som de blev sat til for at beskytte, så strider de imod deres oprindelige mål.

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Ireland: occupied for centuries by imperial invaders who brutally suppressed their language & identity; endured torture, murder, sexual violence, hunger. They bravely resisted & live free today.

More than anyone in Western Europe, Ireland should understand & stand with Ukraine.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@TheEphemeralMo @BohuslavskaKate So you have no idea what the direct cause of WW2 was, which was appeasement and the Munich agreement, yet you believe that appeasement will avert WW3. That doesnt make any sense at all.

Why do you wish war?

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine.

So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show.

He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected.

Avoidance.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@AmeshAA Every pathogen has an Achilles' heel when it comes to transmission. We should research this more, but it looks like this could be it for Ebola?

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@Danopolitan @berlingske Indtil børn ikke bliver stukket ned foran ungdomsklubber

https://t.co/v0V3tkmikd

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

How gold is driving the spread of Ebola.
Photos by @ArletteBashizi
https://t.co/t1LvOfOgXM

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

Det er jo sindssygt

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

Hvorfor er det her blevet normaliseret? Det er utroligt, hvor meget vi går i panik over helt små ting, der potentielt kan ramme os selv i middelklassen, men at vores børn skal risikere dette, er vi ligeglade med.

[Politiken @politiken]

Dreng stukket ned foran ungdomsklub i Rødovre https://t.co/Ol9XOOdIaN

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@KrutikaKuppalli Governments hold final authority and will never permit unrestricted travel from affected areas. Protecting their populations is their primary duty. The WHO will only further damage their credibility, which they cannot afford, if they persist in promoting this old dogma.

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@TopAlliedAceWW1 @nfergus @Anthropic @GoogleDeepMind @Meta @OpenAI @xai Will you stick to that argument when the first self-operating armed drones powered by “statistical token sequence guessing-by-pattern-matching software” flies around?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING:🔥Katy: “U.S. citizens exposed to #Ebola will NOT be coming home apparently…the Trump administration is sending them to Kenya for for observation and treatment. It is a break from normal practice. Citizens are usually repatriated, especially when their home country can offer a higher standard of medical care…”😢

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@CharlotteBirk @SociologenHD Men de er bare uendeligt meget bedre til at undgå konsekvenserne af deres politiske valg. Ingen af mine fattige akademiker venner bor i ghettoer eller har deres børn på udsatte skoler. En rykkede til Virum, da det var billigt at bo der.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

Correct diagnosis. The modern middle class has about as little self-insight into its own class interests as the 19-cent. bourgeoisie had into theirs.

(Oscar Wilde’s “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” deserves to be read more widely as a brilliant critique of moral self-deception)

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

Forgive me for writing about my own country. But what I have to say is more than a Danish story. It reflects a broader pattern that can be observed across Europe - and probably far beyond.

Today, Denmark is getting a middle-class government. That is to say, a government based on the entire left wing, plus a single party that presents itself as centrist.

“But surely it is a working-class government?” many will object.

No, it is not.

A left-wing government in our time is largely a guarantee that policies will be pursued that benefit the well-educated middle class.

It will pour more resources into the public sector - where many of its own voters work.

Politically speaking, that is perfectly legitimate. Any government is entitled to favour its core voters to a reasonable extent.

But it will also promote as many luxury beliefs - to use Rob Henderson’s term - as it possibly can.

Criticism of Israel. Lax immigration policies. The promotion of identity politics. Passivity in the face of left-wing indoctrination in the education system. Climate activism everywhere - for example, by forcing everyone dependent on the public sector to eat vegetarian or near-vegetarian food. And, let’s be honest, ambitions to phase out a large part of agriculture.

The real working class is going to hate this red government.

Because the working class benefits from a strict immigration policy. It wants a steak on the grill. It wants to drive a car. And it wants to own a home that is not unreasonably expensive to live in.

The working class does not care much about Israel. And it remains firmly convinced that there are only two sexes and that only women can become pregnant.

The middle class’s takeover of the old working-class parties is a phenomenon found throughout the Western world.

It is this takeover that explains why the working class has been shifting to the right in recent years.

Not because the working class has become right-wing, but because left-wing parties have abandoned the working class.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@CharlotteBirk @SociologenHD Men du kan sagtens være en velhavende håndværker og have den første livsstil her. Skellet går på indkomst og uddannelse. Det skærer ikke ved, hvorvidt du har et traditionelt arbejderjob eller ej.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@CharlotteBirk @SociologenHD Nej. Det er meget tydeligt i Brønshøj/Husum, hvor jeg bor. Der er en verden til forskel på at bo i de dyre villakvarterer og have sit barn på de gode skoler og så dem med lav uddannelse, arbejdsløshed og enlig forsørgerstatus, der må bo i eller nær ghetto områderne.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@Noahpinion It seems to work here. We have many types of programs going on in relation to our muslim immigrant communities that have and still cause many problems. Crime rates are going down, but they would have been much higher if it had pursued the same laissez-faire policies as the US.

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@KasperStoevring Jeg forstår ikke hvorfor venstrefløjen insisterer på at dø på den bakke. Jeg ved fra min omgangskreds, at de ofte tror, at ofrene kun er fra arbejderklassen (som eliten historisk altid har ofret, hvis det skønnes nødvendigt) men det er tydeligvis ikke altid tilfældet.

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@EldarMamedov4 Bad take. He is currently a member of the European Parliament. Wouldn't you rather have the members here focus on the business of Europe rather than their own countries' issues?

[Jon Ploug @JonPloug]

@Conorworld @SociologenHD @sinwargobragh Why is the critique of the Irish nearly indistinguishable from the one we see in England, Spain, and the Arab world then. The three biggest colonizers in history. Maybe it's because you don't take the side of the colonized but the colonizers?