Steve Negus

@SteveNegusMasr

Currently, developer for Mount&Blade medieval game series. Previously, journalist covering Egypt, Iraq and elsewhere in Middle East. Worked for FT, AP & others.

Joined July 2011
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    12 hours ago

    This is worth contemplating on a lot of levels.

    In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which over 1.2 million were blocked at upload...
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  2. 19 hours ago

    In both cases, you get ultra-radicals who decide you can "wake up" society to its common-sense faith in its own mission and superiority by dramatic acts of violent defiance, before the elites finally quash it for good.

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  3. 19 hours ago

    Was reading some Brotherhood texts recently and some passages are strongly reminiscent of alt-right manifestos. "We once had such pride in our society, that we were the best! Now that's suddenly considered retrograde. This is trickery, trickery by our elites!"

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  4. 19 hours ago

    One reason I think that Western ethnonationalism and political Islam both generated violent subcultures is that they both represent sets of assumptions that were held nearly universally, but are now on their way out.

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    21 hours ago

    These are the names & faces we should be remembering, their stories need to be told #

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  6. 19 hours ago

    Here's what I think is the basic dilemma: If you keep a set of concerns/demands within the ol' Overton Window, they're more likely to become policy. If you push them out, they're more likely to become the focus of a radical, violence-approving subculture.

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  7. 19 hours ago

    Good set of threads comparing how people want to treat nativism in the age of alt-right terror to how people wanted to treat political Islamism in the age of jihadi terror.

    I see more and more calls to basically treat ethnonationalism and nativism as an undifferentiated spectrum, where right-wing populists get lumped in with the Christchurch shooter, and anyone along the spectrum is a potential security risk to be treated as a threat to civilization
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    20 hours ago

    This is pretty typical, so I'm gonna break down some math here as to why pulling the trigger should be the absolute last resort in a bad situation.

    Teen injured inside Dallas home as man was firing shots at suspected burglars:
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    Mar 16

    via ➡️ Atta Elayyan 33, Born in Kuwait, Elayyan, a goalkeeper, recently became a father and was a popular member of the Christchurch tech industry. He was a director and shareholder of a company called LWA Solutions. 💔

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    20 hours ago

    If you’ve never had a country collapse around your ears, don’t come preaching to me about how the U.S. represents an evil system that needs to be immediately dismantled so that [insert some idiocy involving teddy bears raining from the sky here] Seriously, get off my lawn.

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    And Bill Clinton’s decision to bomb the Serbs prevented ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo. But meh. History

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    Mar 15

    Muslim students at meeting for prayer in the Eucalyptus Grove in 1946.

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    Mar 14

    There are a couple of things in there that ring obvious bells. No joke, call somebody fluent in YouTube or alt-right garbage before writing up your pieces on this. Or just ignore it. Some of these thoughts are clearly authentic, others clear traps. It's the nature of the chans.

    Media: be careful with the NZ shooter's apparent manifesto. It's thick with irony and meta-text and very easy to misinterpret if you're not steeped in this stuff all the time (and even if you are).
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    Mar 12

    The most important thing about the Paston Letters is that they show it was possible to buy galangal in Norwich in 1471.

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  15. Mar 12

    If your "encyclopedic knowledge" of a revolution is drawn entirely from sympathetic or apologetic historians, then you don't have an encyclopedic knowledge.

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  16. Mar 12

    Jacobin's blurb on the Terror suggests that maybe 40,000 people died, tops - a fraction of those killed in the Vendée alone - and concludes with a nice approving quote by Marx suggesting that the "death agonies" of the old society can be "shortened" by "revolutionary terror."

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  17. Mar 12

    Yeah but for all that encyclopedic knowledge, they're still capable of writing guides to the French Revolution that forget to mention the Vendée.

    Left-wing magazines: Every article is a series of insults toward other leftists that only make sense if you have an encyclopedic knowledge of the French Revolution.…
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    Mar 11

    The fall of an old ruler and the installation of a new regime are different things

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  19. Mar 11

    So this is a good first step. Just hoping that Algerians now will focus on getting to competitive elections and don't expect an immediate social dividend, as a post-Bouteflika government will face the same economic crunch as the current one does.

    Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika pulls out of race for 5th term, says official agency
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    Mar 10

    Anyone can accidentally kill a bicyclist by opening your car door at the wrong time. Learn the "dutch reach" way to open your door (taught in Holland for 50 years) and save a life.

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