Ralph Leonard
@buffsoldier_96
Writer. Promethean with Dionysian proclivities. Conservative Marxist. Red Devil. Bylines at |@unherd |@NewStatesman | @TheAtlantic I drink your milkshake!
My latest for @unherd for #BlackHistoryMonth on CLR James and essentialist identity politics unherd.com/2018/10/clr-ja…
Of course its 'natural'. In the same way that non-monogamy is also 'natural'. Human sexuality can be consciously expressed in a variety of ways. That's part of our evolved human nature.
Unpopular opinion: Monogamy isn’t natural. That’s why it requires vows, rings, rules, religion, therapy and threats of losing everything. If it were natural, it wouldn’t need all that reinforcement just to work.
"Jubilee’s Surrounded is a warped caricature of modern debate. It’s more of a game show than a forum for political dialogue." I've written about Mehdi Hasan going at it with semi-literate fascists on Jubilee's "Surrounded" via @unherd unherd.com/newsroom/the-m…
If there’s one thing I associate with the Arabs, it’s close proximity to the sea
If there’s one thing I associate with the Arabs, it’s close proximity to the sea
Considering all the drug use, he did well to die as a septuagenarian. RIP
Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne dies at 76 "surrounded by love", family confirms bbc.in/44YYCEb
"A mass taught not to be deluded is also a mass that cannot be used by Power." On Parvini's The Populist Delusion by @DanielJ63304906 via @SublationMag sublationmag.com/post/on-parvin…
ACs are typically more energy efficient than heaters and yet no one ever insists everyone freeze in the winter
A maimed, brutalised & traumatised Syria was in our future anyway, even in the best case scenario (regime overthrown in 2011). Don't care what culture or religion you have, no society that goes through 50 years of fascism & divide & rule is going to come out of it clean instantly
When a state is artificially held together by a dictatorship, the people, civil society, everything is stunted. Chaos is inevitable when such a regime falls. The longer it goes for, the worse the fallout will likely be. This is not an argument to keep a dictator in place. 1/2
In other words, poor countries can't be expected to leap beyond the realm of necessity.
It is not necessary for [X 3rd world country] to have a socialist revolution to bring about world socialism. It IS necessary for the United States to undergo a socialist revolution to bring about the world revolution
Mehdi Hasan debated far-Right 20 conservatives and nobody learned anything. Just another viral shouting match dressed up as politics, writes @buffsoldier_96 👇 buff.ly/5xm88qi
This isn’t debate — it’s a game show. Jubilee gives us drama, not discourse, writes @buffsoldier_96 👇 buff.ly/5xm88qi
Trump is not an "isolationist". He wants to, and believes he is, preserving pax-Americana. The argument is all about means and recalibrating strategy. Whether it works & what its effects will be is a different question. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/21/mag…
The Far Left and Far Right both agree that America is inherently a "White Man's Country". The difference is the far left hates America for this and the far right hates America for never being this.
Guess the country.
What's next? Matt Walsh vs 20 transgender people or Hasan Piker goes up against Zionists?
No, I don't want to watch Mehdi Hasan and a bunch of hard rightists scream at each other.
Lots of people with conspicuously non-Arabic names do the same thing to Muslims in regards to Islam. So its only fair they do the same back. 😆
Lots of guys with names like "Khalil" and "Firas" and "Zaid" and "Shadi" logging on to explain to American Protestants what Christianity is and isn't over the last couple days...
No, I don't want to watch Mehdi Hasan and a bunch of hard rightists scream at each other.