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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

This is not a question of 'cosmopolitan globalism' or some-such, but a recognition that freedom grows stronger when shared - that liberty is easier to protect alongside friends who are also free.

mar 15, 2025, 5:51 pm • 298 34

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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social

Doesn't "cosmopolitan globalism" mean "Jewish"?

mar 15, 2025, 6:09 pm • 3 0 • view
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Certainly seems to when the Nazis say it, but here I am looking to dismiss the idea that caring about democracy abroad is somehow unpatriotic.

mar 15, 2025, 6:12 pm • 11 0 • view
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Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social

Fair!

mar 15, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
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John Cthulhu @mark1automaton.bsky.social

I can't put it any better myself, so I'll just copy you.

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mar 15, 2025, 9:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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ElJeffo nature lover & budding Luddite. @eljeffo.bsky.social

Who was it that posted the quote from Cicero yesterday?

mar 15, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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kataja @katajat.bsky.social

none of us is free until we are all free

mar 16, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

I support liberty abroad for my own country's sake and so for my own sake.

mar 15, 2025, 5:52 pm • 250 15 • view
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Junta S Thompson @countnumbers.bsky.social

It sucks when moral arguments have to be made in self-interested terms because of what it says about the intended audience

mar 15, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jonas Bertels @axytho.bsky.social

The Poles say "For our freedom and yours" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_our...

mar 15, 2025, 10:39 pm • 20 1 • view
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Casus Belli | 🔱⚒️🌅 @doctoradmiral.bsky.social

Ukrainians too!

mar 16, 2025, 10:42 am • 8 0 • view
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John Sisino @smarmyeod.bsky.social

Fucking THIS.

mar 15, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social

Domino theory (complimentary)!

mar 15, 2025, 6:13 pm • 18 1 • view
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the frass and the furious @apophis426.bsky.social

agreed on all counts though from the way the baddies talk i suspect "cosmopolitan globalism" and "liberty" refer to *almost* one and the same class of things

mar 16, 2025, 6:11 am • 3 0 • view