@Dmuniz231 @ettingermentum He's had the luck to run in all of the worst elections for Democrats.
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@ettingermentum Kind of makes Ron Johnson so much more interesting how does he win. ?
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Republicans don’t even try to win Wisconsin Supreme Court elections anymore they just look at you like this
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@ettingermentum I'd much rather have an Assembly majority and a less politicized Supreme Court, but the Walker-era Republicans decided to play cut-throat so we're here governing the state with the Governors office and Supreme Court shenanigans.
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@yashalevine Just working our way to full autonomy as the solution
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we're gonna be running these things in our cities soon
𝚂𝙽𝙸𝙿𝙴𝙳™@The_Banned_Vids
Ukrainian soldier shows a device that constantly rotates a barbed wire to cut off any Fiber optic cable
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@HotSotin Why is there no data for North Korea during the period when it was wealthier and more developed than the South?
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Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.
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@BN9195 It's not like any one nation in the West had fully autarchic control of all of this technology either. The Soviet Union's problem was that they were cut off and sanctioned from high-end capital goods and technology while also dependent on imports. This lead to financial collapse.
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People need to understand this. Truth is the USSR never got anywhere close to the West in most tech not just chemicals. Even in military they probably only caught up in nuclear missiles and subs, then that’s it. China today is a completely different story of course.
Phryne Astynome@PAstynome
The Soviet chemical sector was highly dependent on Western equipment and technology and even after receiving the equipment/technology, it was a net importer of chemicals from the West. cia.gov/readingroom/do…
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@NoWorldOrder85 @cym27s I love how people jump to the craziest conspiracies because they're somehow more believable to them than the fact that the US has lost control and can't win a war.
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@haravayin_hogh Do you know why this is the case? Is the architecture profession particularly strong and well protected there? I frequently see examples of really nicely designed, but modestly sized buildings there.
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Iran seems one of the only countries that regularly produces beautiful and functional architecture. Contrast is especially stark with modern Arab kitsch or Israeli mass prefrabicated concrete pillboxes, yet Iran has a small fraction of their money.
Philip Oldfield@SustainableTall
More brick arch-maxing from Iran This time proposed for Mazandaran province. By Amin Molaei Architect
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@L0ngbottom_Leaf @buttlover38 @yengyosi_ The Saturnalia thing was postulated by 16th century Protestants who opposed the celebration of Christmas. There was a belief that the world was created on March 25th and one Church father decided that meant Jesus was conceived on that day.
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"jesus wasn't a real guy" is such cope tbh (i say this even as a communist) bc obviously a historical jesus was not the son of god and prophesied messiah but there's enough to support that a 1st century apocalyptic prophet crucified by the romans categorically did exist
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@FithianJimmy @yengyosi_ Have you read the Gospels or are you just basing this off of stuff you heard online? I used to be a mythicist before I learned more and actually read the Gospels. Mythicism is motivated reasoning from atheists built off of motivated reasoning from 19th C. German protestants.
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@yengyosi_ mythicist growing in numbers. Everything about the character in the Bible called Jesus matches the way a myth would evolve. No physical description, no detailed biography, his story immediately goes to him fulfilling prophecy. That’s not a real person
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@WilliamJosephh @ArtsyMarx1st Then there's the absence of the deaths of Peter and Paul, two of the most prominent characters in Acts. Having mentioned the martyrdoms of James and others, to omitt them places Luke and Acts and consequently one or both of Mark and Matthew before Paul's death in the mid 60's AD
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@WilliamJosephh @ArtsyMarx1st The big aha moment for me came when I saw the slips into first person in Acts. Defenders of the late dating have to come up with crazy mental gymnastics to explain them. The Temple prophesy is the strongest evidence for late dating, but in the religious context it makes sense 1/3
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posts like this are funny cuz sure, but jesus wasnt a real guy. theres no evidence beyond anecdotal that he was real, and most details of his life are borrowed from other religions. so its like a bunch of ppl arguing over what hercules looked like.
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@WilliamJosephh @ArtsyMarx1st The Sadducees and their temple were a main target of criticism. In John you see already a metaphorical interpretation of the prophesy had developed, which wouldn't make sense if the Romans had already destroyed the Temple. They'd fit the prophesy to what actually happened. 2/3
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@thetobifaj @PopBase What are you talking about? The angle is different, but that's definitely Africa in the 2026 photo. The South Pole is towards the top of the picture.
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It’s funny how fast the replies turned this into Earth’s official glow-down.
These are actually opposite sides of the planet, the 1972 Blue Marble was Africa-centered while the 2026 shot is Australia and the Pacific, so the cloud patterns and lighting were never going to match.
Modern sensors just capture sharper atmospheric detail than 1970s film ever could. Still makes the whole “pale blue dot” feel a little more fragile when you stare at it.
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@HilarityjaneArt @ApostateProphet Do you know of any good books on the subject?
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@ApostateProphet If you want to know why the Church suddenly went suicidally insane in the 1960s, you need to get in touch with some priests of the Society of St. Pius X.
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Catholics, help me out here.
The Catholic Church teaches that Muslims "at times call on Mary with devotion."
In my decades of living and studying Islam, I have never heard of this. I have asked academics who are equally confused by it. This is just factually wrong, isn't it?
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@DenimFarmer A two week lockdown every decade or two might be a good idea, and easier. Obviously it would have to be a real lockdown not whatever we did for COVID.
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We don't need lockdowns to stop the spread of a virus. Studies have shown that it's possible to eliminate COVID, Flu, RSV and other pathogens that spread through the air if 80% of us wear an n95 mask or better in public spaces.
Mads@MadsPosting
"we should just lockdown for 2 weeks and it will pass"
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@JohnTitor137 It would be hugely popular if they handled the PR right. People would be so happy.
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It would be so easy to do it now. Very little to no resistance
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Do you know what you have the quiet consent of the population to do about this?
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - Pete Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George — Reuters
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@infolibnews @hippyresident Esther is fine, but interpreting it in this way is absolutely batshit insane. You can't apply a story about the Jews in the Achaemenid Empire 2500 years ago to modern Israel and Iran. The story is completely unrelated. If you want to draw parallels the Iranians would be the Jews
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@hippyresident The same story out of the highly dubious Book of Esther is what motivated these insane comments the other day from Chabad of Bel Air Rabbi Chaim Mentz: x.com/infolibnews/st…
Chris Menahan 🇺🇸@infolibnews
Chabad Rabbi Chaim Mentz gives Fox News @ Night host Trace Gallagher a Purim gift in remembrance of the "entire Iran"—"negative people"—being "wiped out" by the Jewish people some 2300 years ago.
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Franklin Graham: "Let us pray… Father, you tell us in the Book of Esther that the Persians—the Iranians—were wanting to kill every Jew…and do it all in one day…"
"Today, the Iranians—the wicked regime of this govt—wants to kill every Jew and destroy them with an atomic fire, but you have raised up Pres. Trump."
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