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My Spilled Ink

A weekly(?) digest

Apr 29, 2023
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My writing appears at different places around the internet. This is one reason I have revived the domain. Another is that not everything I might want to write fits at one of the sites where I regularly appear.

Henceforth, weekly-ish annotated link posts will link to my work all around the web, free or paywalled. Also, I plan to start posting paywalled items with a 7-day free reading option here by the end of May. At some point this year, I will begin posting subscriber-only content here, too.

Last weekend, I posted two subscriber-only paywalled articles.

On Saturday, I wrote about supposed victories that end up breaking Russian armies, a theme that resonates in the scenes transmitted from Ukrainian cities like Bakhmut.

Polemology Positions
Catastrophic Victory: The Brusilov Offensive And The Collapse Of Imperial Russia
It was “by most estimates the greatest military achievement of the war” for Russia, Timothy C. Dowling writes in The Brusilov Offensive, his 2008 history of the Imperial Russian Army’s final glory. For unlike most Russian commanders, Aleksei Brusilov had absorbed the lessons of 1914 and 1915. He understood how to fight this new kind of war…
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a month ago · 4 likes · Matt Osborne

On Sunday, I published a digest of recent writing on the topic of gender ideology as an emergent American faith movement. I include a summary of Lucy Tatman’s essay “The Religious Elements of Gender-Identity Ideology: Preliminary Notes” in Issue No. 8 of Radical Notion.

The Distance
The Gnostic Gender Gospel Digest No. 1
Transgenderism has reached the peak of political power, as well as social and economic currency, in less than a decade. Reactions to this change have been diverse, and explanations for it have largely been non-ideological, offering a profusion of narratives that can be demonstrated and tested. Social science, social media, and society all deserve examination as causes and contributors…
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a month ago · 24 likes · 11 comments · Matt Osborne

On Monday, I wrote about our old friend the pedophile ephebophile Ali Akbar/Alexander, who appears to face law enforcement scrutiny at last, having been reported for his sexual grooming of underage adolescent males.

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The Alleged Crimes Of Ali Alexander Will Be Adjudicated By Law Now
The Johnstown, Colorado Police Department has confirmed to the Daily Dot that an investigation of Ali Alexander, born Ali Abdul Razaq Akbar, for soliciting sexual images and video from underage adolescent males, is currently “active.” The Daily Beast reported last Monday that Aidan Duncan was 15 years old when Ali Akbar/Alexander tried to convince him t…
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a month ago · 2 likes · 1 comment · Matt Osborne

Then I wrote about the looming Ukrainian counteroffensive in very broad strokes to explain how Kyiv is setting up conditions for Russian defeat.

Polemology Positions
Everything We Know About The Ukraine Counteroffensive That Is Underway Right Now
Nothing. We know nothing about the Ukrainian counteroffensive right now. Nada. I do not know anything about it and neither do you, dear reader, because we are not privy to the minds of the General Staff in Kyiv. Despite some open source data on Russian dispositions, we have only the slightest inkling of their plans…
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a month ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

I took a break on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I wrote about my great uncle John and his incredible journey home eight decades after he was lost in an infamous bombing mission during World War II. We will be laying him to rest next month.

Polemology Positions
How This American Hero Finally Came Home
Before they shipped out to win the war, twin brothers John and George Thomas met their parents in Walla Walla, Washington to say goodbye. The boys were going separate ways, so they posed for one last photograph together. Only George, who served as an enlisted Marine in the Pacific, made it back …
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a month ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

On Thursday, I posted this paywalled article about a medieval legend of French national resistance and an ambitious king whose decline began with a woman wielding a hatchet, according to legend.

Polemology Positions
Jeanne Hachette Against Charles The Bold
When Charles I Duke of Burgundy, known to history as Charles the Bold, arrived under the walls of Roye in 1472, he “had never had such a fine army,” Philippe de Commines wrote in his memoir on The Reign of Louis XI 1461-83. So intimidated was the garrison by this formidable host of 80,0000 that the next morning, some of the archers on the walls began climbing or jumping down to surrender. He accepted the town’s capitulation the next day, and even graciously allowed the French king’s men-at-arms to leave with part of their baggage, such was his chivalry. Of course, his army had destroyed every town on their way to Roye hoping to incentivize this very response…
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a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

I took a break on Friday after driving to see Riley Gaines speak in Nashville. Today, Julian Vigo published a piece of mine at Savage Minds. It’s an analysis of the “woke” phenomenon as a “brand cult.” Advertisers have used psychology to sell us products for a century, now they are using Dylan Mulvaney as an avatar for beer as salvation for our consumer sins.

Savage Minds
The Great American Gender Spirits Sale
Karl Marx would recognise the cult of gender identity as an episode of mass consumerism and elite signalling. “Educate yourself” is the sneer of our social betters. “I w…
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a month ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Next week will be quite busy, as I am getting ready for a short vacation.

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