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Joe Stieb

@joestieb.bsky.social
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Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill. Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels. Political liberal, hoop reactionary. Posting goodreads reviews regularly.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 4h
That beard screams fanatic psycho
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 5h
Lol
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h
Every time I’ve tried to figure out what the fuck someone is talking about with this the closest I can get to an answer is either “isn’t Von Hindenburg a liberal, when you think about it” or “there was the one election in 1919 where deputies from a party that was arguably once liberal did this”
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Effy, Walker Among Sunflowers @mseffy.myatproto.social · 7h
Don't people ever get tired of lifestyle roleplay where they pretend to be some hardcore KPD street fighter type? Don't they ever feel it's inadequate without getting live-action with it?
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thee Matador 🇺🇸👟 @flushthechumps.bsky.social · 6h
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American WWII poster depicting a soldier drinking out of a tin cup.  The text has been modified to say:  “How about a nice big cup of Shut The Fuck Up?  Think before you say something stupid!”
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 7h
Hahahhahahhaha
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 7h
He’s wanted ukraine to lose from the jump
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump sounds genuinely upset that Putin didn't defeat Ukraine in one day, which he insists Russia could've done had their generals not taken "a wrong turn"
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 7h
It is amazing what this administration can find to waste our money on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US officials considering ad campaign to urge South African Afrikaners to emigrate
Exclusive: Trump has falsely claimed Afrikaners are facing ‘white genocide’, but very few have applied to live in US
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 8h
Continuing coffee discourse here
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 8h
You don’t need headphones at the trader joe’s.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 8h
💯💯💯💯
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 9h
Oh and they were almost all white men.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 9h
I’ll take this further. They not only claimed this (open to reasonable debate, although i lean towards ‘yes’) but mocked and psychoanalyzed anyone who made this claim.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 15/10/2026
I guess you also have Daniel Bessner-style leftists who are responding to polls saying Trump is a liberal (derogatory). Riff from the Discord "I do not support Trump, because he is a liberal."
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 15h
As I think @lioneltrolling.bsky.social has expertly pointed out, there’s no reason that Bessner, Moyn, Steinmetz-Jenkins, et al should should have any credibility as anti-Trump or anti-authoritarian voices.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Once a day I’m reminded that several leading left intellectuals spent the first Trump term claiming that the admin wasn’t fascist.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 9h
REPUTATIONAL RISKS DEPEND ON SHARED NORMS DO THEY NOT
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reading Jane Eyre and shaking my head the entire time, so everyone knows I don't support locking women in attics
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Why would Mr miller have to worry about prison? Has he done something illegal?
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
the WSJ ever since they tried to fuck with the FED
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I can't believe he'd do this. This is the second time now he's called for his VP to be executed.
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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 13h
To honor all the newly appointed Ukraine experts who say Ukraine is doomed, I want to present you this legendary take. It was really a mainstream belief in 2022 that it is over for Ukraine. 5 years later, we still stand, take ground, destroy targets 2000km deep into Russia 😎
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10h
He would rather abandon Ukraine and taiwan than admit america can do anything positive in the world
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10h
Oh he doesn’t care
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10h
I have so much more respect for the raw balance of power realists
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 10h
It can only cooperation happened
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h
this sounds like I am being unfair or exaggerating, but no I assure you the first point they highlight as their Bold New Vision For International Relations is literally "everyone should doubleplusgood agree to follow the UN Charter, especially Article 51, for real no takebacksies"
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h
"What if everyone agreed to really follow Article 51 for real this time" - big brain sam moyn
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h
lmfao "We think everyone should agree to the current aspirational world order but we just call it something different because USA bad" yeah sure man the CCP will totally sign onto that
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Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 10h
Western Russia propagandists literally do 'our emotional support theocracy is both strong and weak.'
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 10h
What's absurd about this is that Moyn clearly doesn't understand the point of proxy wars. The US has waged a number of them: in Afghanistan during the 1980s, in Israel during the 1970s, and in Southern Africa both decades. In all cases it wanted fast victories, because that best served US interests
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
Let me have this one
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
Slightly more butts
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
I’ve put more butts in seats for book talks lol
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
There's literally no answer anywhere in this report for what Russia is doing in ukraine and trying to do to Eastern Europe as a whole. It just wishes away that problem/blames America.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
I'm noticing a lot of Scandinavian and Eastern European threads liking this critique of Moyn and Bali's conception of a self-upholding world order, and that makes A LOT of sense.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h
The problem is two-fold: committed fascists, and appeasers/enablers. The fascists can’t be deterred by credible threats of consequences, but some enablers can. The sort that takes the path of least resistance, defers to power, or acts out of fear might enable less if they worry about consequences.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
lol perfect
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
because they think every random thought they have is worthy of publication.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
Stephen miller’s wife
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 11h
Lolz
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
No but basically yes
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
That pure, pure bullshit
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
Kansas still being on tour with no original members tells us something about US foreign policy…if you have recently been beaten over the head with a hammer.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h
Lollllllllll
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12h
Alice Weidel is saying that Zelenskyy “is not interested in peace,” and that in order to have peace in Ukraine, “we need to take Russia’s security interests into account.” She is a straight-out Russian asset. Note how Alice recoils and refuses to acknowledge that Russia rejects making peace
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Hey anyone want to check out some art that sucks shit deadline.com/gallery/john...
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Johnny Depp Brings First Major UK Art Exhibition To London’s Halcyon Gallery
Johnny Depp’s debut major UK art exhibition at London’s Halcyon Gallery showing decades of his paintings, drawings, and collages.
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