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David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
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David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
@DavidLeftyMA
US & Latin American historian, adjunct prof, writer, martial artist (BJJ purple belt & nak muay), dad. Lover of books, movies, combat sports. Hater of fascism.
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jul 11, 2024
    Alright baby, lets do it: a thread on fiction for socialists to check out. I'll start w/ literary fic, then get to genre fic. First: one of the great American novels, possibly my favorite. Follows the Joads, who represent the dignity of working ppl during the Great Depression.
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    yung hegelian
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    Jul 3, 2024
    trying to de-rot my brain by reading more. recommendations for *fiction* for socialists? homage to catalonia is already on the list
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jan 9, 2025
    Kurt Vonnegut said ā€œWe’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effectiveā€ and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Feb 7, 2025
    The broader "left" in this country has a lot to learn from average working class black people when it comes to not letting reactionary bullshit fly
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jun 30, 2025
    This must hit so hard if youre stupid
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    Adrian Dittmann
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    Jun 29, 2025
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Aug 13, 2025
    Reading Mein Kampf for work right now as we study fascism & it is maddening. Not because of the evil content (you get used to that as a historian), but because it is total drivel. Just a bunch of rambling bullshit. It actually scrambles your brain as you read it
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Nov 17, 2023
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    Marjorie Taylor Greene šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
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    Nov 16, 2023
    Antifa = BLM = Ceasefire Now They are all the same.
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Sep 12, 2023
    The weird thing about answering this question is that, for my money, the best movie made about understanding the post-9/11 US psyche was made in 1997.
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Oct 28, 2022
    Once you learn that the main base of support for the Nazis was the resentful, aggrieved petty bourgeois, a lot of the modern political landscape in the US starts to come into focus in an alarming way
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Nov 14, 2021
    Friendly periodic reminder that the favorite lib sentiment that "change is a slow process that requires patience & not rocking the boat too hard" literally has zero historical precedent. None. Every bit of decent reform we've ever had came from agitation, not waiting patiently.
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Nov 4, 2021
    Man, being this aggressively insecure must be exhausting
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jul 26, 2025
    An interesting fact about Grant's visit to East Asia was that he was disgusted by what the West was doing over there, so he met w/ both China and Japan trying to urge them to cooperate so that they wouldn't be overrun by the West. Even tried to mediate a dispute btwn them.
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    History Calendar
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    Jul 25, 2025
    Ulysses S. Grant's visit to China with notable Chinese Viceroy Li Hung Chang. Grant had traveled to China after his term as president during a two-year world tour. 1879.
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jun 12, 2025
    Honestly one of the most evergreen tweets ever made
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    May 23, 2024
    The most stacked division in MMA isn't bantamweight, or flyweight, or lightweight. It's biggest dumbasss
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    An0maly
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    May 22, 2024
    UFC Fighter Bryce Mitchell says he won’t be vaccinating his kid & wants to homeschool him so he doesn’t end up gay and communist
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    David, Historian Martial Artist🄊
    @DavidLeftyMA
    Jul 31, 2022
    Yes, this is part of a coin called "having correct class analysis"
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