7. Buckley shifted from isolationism to internationalism after WWII, a process hastened not just by Cold War but Buckley joining the CIA and becoming indoctrinated in the need for USA global hegemony.
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18. I wouldn't want to make too much of a claim for Kirby's Madbomb story except that it does map well with the emergence of an American right that is explicitly nostalgic for aristocracy and can succeed only by divide-and-conquer race war.
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19. One last thing. If you want to hear William F. Buckley read out his sex fantasies about the Queen of England (interspersed with reflections on American power and boarding school stories) do I have a Youtube for you.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1373328678659178500 …
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Just how much do have crammed in your brain and how in gods did you ever find time to put it in there - and how are you able to access it in an organised fadhion? These are real questions.
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Fascinating. Didn’t Larry Hama also say once that Buckley was the model for Cobra Commander in the GI Joe comics?
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Note also that the barbaric co-insurrectionist is aptly named Heshin (ie Hessian), like the "German soldiers who served as auxiliaries to the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. The term is an American synecdoche for all Germans who fought on the British side..."
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Isn’t this basically the plot of the first Kingsman movie?
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Lots to unpack here
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Finally, some Kirby. I was 15 tweets in and getting worried. This really is an old-style Jeet tweetstorm
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