Daniel Bessner explains how Cold War liberalism built the national security state and how the collapse of the liberal order helped create an opening for the far right. @dbessner.bsky.social
Thanks to @thedriftmag.com and @erikmbaker.bsky.social for spreading the word about Cold War Liberalism edited by @mbrenes.bsky.social and @dbessner.bsky.social -- a volume that is sure to provoke much discussion. Available now in paperback from @universitypress.cambridge.org
Today in the newsletter: @dbessner.bsky.social and I chat about the book on Cold War liberalism that he co-edited with @mbrenes.bsky.social and to which I contributed, which is out in paperback today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/the-foundi...
This week on the SinicaPodcast, I speak with Danny Bessner about Cold War liberalism, how American primacy became ideology, why the first Cold War was a choice, and what genuine restraint toward China would actually require. Links below!
If you want more of this, in conversational form, I spoke with my friends @dwdavison.bsky.social & Danny Bessner for a very Dead Cheney episode of @amprestigepod.bsky.social:
It’s SO funny
Turns out when someone is making jokes with the word bully in it that doesn’t actually mean they’re having a mental health crisis
To your first question: learn how to understand irony.
To your second question: no that wasn’t me. Do your research
This site is incredible. Apparently there are hundreds of people who think I was truly referring to myself as a “hero” being “slandered.”
This site, and this world, is cooked
Yes most people seriously refer to themselves as a hero. You are a good reader and understander
Lmao people are such dorks, apparently in their world someone would ever seriously say the shit I did
Holy shit
Way to reference Lucifer … the ultimate bully
BARVO … the b is for bully
Wow the bully tries to use reverse psychology … classic bully maneuver
Just what a bully would say
What’s it stand for then
I thought it was healthy for men to express emotions and then you bully me about crying
Is bud short for budly delete the d and replace it with an L
Wow first you accused end of substance issues and then you buy a one way ticket to bully town
Does bb stand for big bully
Bully may
Spheres of bullying … by you
Very relevant reference
I may not be a hero but YOU are a BULLY
Bullies thrive on PAIN
Wow from dad to bully
Way to bully
BULLY
