Rick Feingold

In History & Star Trek

[Rick Feingold @Rick_24K]

A very interesting episode of #SingleMaltHistory. It focuses on sectarian violence in Ireland in the 20th century. Listen to it. It is what will happen if we lose the veneer of civility. https://t.co/19TccE9U9P

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

The GOAT.

[RetroScapeX @RetroScapeX]

This playset got me through a lot of boredom in the 80s.

[Sci-Fi World Museum @hollywoodscifi]

STAR TREK 2 THE WRATH OF KHAN did something miraculous.

Of course it's a brilliant film, but it brought people into the movie, who were never fans and had never seen the TV show.

We have met many people who told us that, and later became fans of the TV show.

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

Still from the silent film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), starring Lillian Gish (second from right)

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Joshua Chamberlain's younger brother, Tom, took matters into his own hands to save his older brothers life.

After his wound at Petersburg, Joshua was carried 3 miles to a field hospital. Triage doctors cast him aside as a hopeless case and left him to die.

When Lt. Tom Chamberlain heard the news, he wasn’t ready to give up.

Tom went on a desperate night search through the hospital camps, located Dr. Abner Shaw and Dr. Morris Townsend, and marched them directly to his brother’s side.

Tom then stayed by Joshua's side all night as they performed his emergency candlelight surgery, as I detailed in my previous post.

Joshua later wrote that Tom "stood over me like a brother, and such a one as he was."

Thank you, Tom!

[My World of TOYS @capecoraldwells]

#BattlestarGalactica
#MATTEL

[Darth Thunder ⚡ @XDarthThunderX]

The Phantom Menace (1999)

[Nile Gardiner @NileGardiner]

You can cry at the UN all you like Argentina.

The Iron Lady decisively settled the matter of British sovereignty over The Falkland Islands in 1982.

The Falklands are British. Forever.

[Guillaume Mereb 🇺🇦🇫🇷 @GuillaumeMereb]

Ma position sur la demi-finale Argentine-Angleterre

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

The Falklands ❤️🇬🇧

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

Sure, why not

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Happy birthday to Patrick Stewart, who turns 86 today!

[TCM @tcm]

We say goodbye to the versatile Sam Neill.

Whether he was a despicable villain or a dedicated paleontologist dodging dinosaurs, Neill brought warmth and natural charisma to his characters in a career spanning more than five decades.

Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

[Yakface.com @yak_face]

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[𝓜𝓲𝓪 @BatcatPosts]

Absolute Catwoman #3 by Mike Mayhew

[reason @reason]

Democrats passed over the opportunity to be the sane party in favor of bad people and worse ideas.
https://t.co/QX2fNXANQ5

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

The World Cup has brutally exposed how shallow the "racial solidarity" framework actually is.

Peruvians are openly declaring they'll root for Harry Kane and England in the semi-finals against Argentina because of very specific, very deep historical grudges:

Peru backed Argentina during the Falklands conflict decades ago, only to feel betrayed when Argentina supplied arms to Ecuador during the 1995 Cenepa War, plus the ongoing cultural jab of Argentines using "peruano" as a casual insult.

In other words, there is absolutely no such thing as "Latino solidarity." The whole construct is promoted by leftists in the West and astroturfed hard on Ivy League campuses by actually ignoring the complexities of history. Shared skin tone and shared language don't magically make you into a brotherhood. Ironically, they promote exactly the same race-only lens championed by race realists on the right.

The matchups have been an excellent way to dig deeper into history. I learned for example, that Mexico has zero beef with England because the British sold them arms during their fight for independence from Spain.

Turns out fellow Europeans did more to screw each other's colonial empires and decolonize each other than the subjects ever managed. So it's funny when it gets weaponized by today's third worlders. The ruse becomes clear when you see that they only care about colonialism of a *specific* (read: European white) kind. Everyone else from the Ottomans to the Arabs to the Chinese get a pass.

Populations mix, empires rise and fall, alliances flip, specific betrayals get remembered for generations, and national identity or even regional club loyalty almost always beats abstract racial essentialism.

I've seen people online treat the World Cup like a racial census. Black fans refusing to back any remaining team because they are "white colonizers." White fans abandoning their own squads for having too many non-white players. Cheering for matching melanin levels and broad ancestral categories is just dumb.

There is no such thing as black solidarity, Western/white solidarity, and there's CERTAINLY no such thing as Asian solitary (lol) and Latino solidarity. This is all just activist nonsense.

Yes people are tribal, but the tribes are usually smaller, older, and more specific than skin color or continent. History is messy, grudge-filled, and gloriously complicated.