C.H. Kels

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@TrnsTraditional @cabanelmd @crawlings13 @ElPinkFloydian I’m not sure I can think of any country where a Marxist Leninist Maoist party post-1980s was driving any significant social change.. maybe “disproportionate” if the proportion is small already, but let’s be fr

[gatito illichiano @vinedodeltexto]

What trads long for in christendom is not the sanctity of its most exalted saints, but the worldly institutional support that allowed mediocre and semi-savage societies to pompously call themselves "christian."

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@SemperVigilens @LegoRacers2 @mar123456789vin @dystopiangf I understand you’re shadowboxing the leftist in your head rather than engaging me, but I don’t believe in disclaimers or censoring terrible speech

I also just don’t think uncommon disclaimers in a library and people getting mad if you call them slurs is eradicating European civ

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@michaelturton @thocpodcast Also leads to some really crazy downplaying of colonialism and its effect on contemporary Chinese society - turning foreign concessions and the very real exploitation done by European powers into just “some island of 7k conceded in 1842”, which I suspect is part of the motive

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@michaelturton @thocpodcast It takes the truth of nationalism studies observances about the invention of the nation and stretches it so far that you begin denying the existence of shared identities and experiences and equating state power with cultural existence - China “existed” even though not 1:1 w/ Qing

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@thocpodcast Struggling to even comprehend this take - does this person also believe that there was no continuity between British America and the United States? When exactly did China zap into being? Sun Yat Sen is credited with a lot, but I don’t think inventing China is one

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@Frederick7551 I’m somewhat religious myself and sympathetic to Marxism, but the two are not fully reconcilable and anybody who says Marx was actually a believer or saw religion as something other than a essentially a function for class rule is lying to themselves and/or others

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@Frederick7551 You may well believe in what is being said in the clip but it’s incomprehensible to Marx and Marxism - that’s not what he wrote and that’s not what anybody who read and claimed the mantle of Marxism for generations after him understood that he meant, just a streamer saying shit

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@SemperVigilens @LegoRacers2 @mar123456789vin @dystopiangf Deliberate deconstruction is when a book is made freely available to the general public (I have to presume the above is a library book) but a freely disregardable and silly note is attached to the inside cover

It’s definitely emblematic - emblematic of rightoid snowflakeism

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@SemperVigilens @LegoRacers2 @mar123456789vin @dystopiangf “I have been in and out of the hospital with life threatening injuries, the only evidence I can offer is my stubbed toe but it’s emblematic of the trend”

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@The_Clermontian @harrycabbag3 Falling for half baked Entente pamphlets in 2026 is insane, no historian of the First World War even thinks in terms of war guilt anymore because it’s a nebulous concept and every combatant was a repressive colonial empire of some sort and all culpable in the industrial slaughter

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@TunesRank @bornposting Medieval nobles had a range of piousness like ASOIAF characters, surviving chronicles praise real personal piety in the nobility because it wasn’t super common, investments in churches and institutions to cover your bases from your sinful life isn’t different from ASOIAF cynicism

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@pr0fiteer @KarolusWangus They’re just basing this off like three characters from like two seasons of the late stage show lmao, so many characters have some element of sincere religiosity

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@KarolusWangus Guy who insists he knows the Middle Ages forgetting the like fifty times a medieval king or emperor did this to the Pope and Europe shrugged lmao

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@alexalexlexi02 @posta_octavian Kind of overplayed though given that anti-fascist memorial politics and education really only began in the 1990s when religion was already declining, the height of West German Catholic society would’ve been the 50s and 60s when West Germans were largely silent on the Holocaust

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@crawlings13 I think this might be underplaying Leo a good bit, but it’s still much too soon to really tell

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@TrnsTraditional @cabanelmd @crawlings13 @ElPinkFloydian Which countries?

[C.H. Kels @ckels_state]

@JudeMo1041 @friendinrussian No actually I don't think IS was a lesser evil to Assad