@nise_yoshimi Any patriotic lad in 1880 would be glad to see the rascally Boers given their comeuppance
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Slive_Five
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me: the soviet union's gone. china is still communist but it also has better mcdonalds than america. and donald trump president
the man from 1880: a time machine, you said? are you sure you set the correct date?
me: look you wont believe what happened in south africa pal
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@Kholina54321 @3xcalibaneur True, but Russia's economy is already beginning to teeter and that's in war economy mode. Imagine what will happen when they stop war spending and are left with nothing but traumatized vets, complete trade isolation and a partisan infested garden patch
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@3xcalibaneur Eh, they're on track to take Donbass and get mixed terms for the most part, it's more feasible over time insofar as Ukrainian manpower issues are only getting worse and Ukrainian officials are starting to talk about conscription like Solano Lopez
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The real question is whether post-war Russia looks more like a re-consolidated state or more like a late Habsburg situation where the center holds nominal authority while the military power is distributed among semi-autonomous formations with transactional loyalties (Kadyrov)
Alexander Clarkson @APHClarkson
It's kind of fascinating how quickly Prigozhin's mad dash to Moscow was memory-holed even though it is an indicator of the risks to the Russian state if much of the army begins to see itself more as a Wallenstein-style mercenary enterprise than a state institution
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@MattRadarTechn @JaneyIsPresent Keep a surplus of at least 100 at all times, invest into tech, keep corruption in check by investing in state capacity, withdraw from all wars, rush space exploration + GMO tech. Sanction Western aligned countries + political, arms support. You'll take over the world easily
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@TopMontagnard I pride myself on going into the restaurant myself Everytime and picking up my fucking food myself
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Very cool process in the video but if you do the thing in the caption you’re a 8th tier ascended treatler. You’re in the car already, pick it up yourself
KFC@KFCBarstool
When you time the DoorDash to arrive right when you finish your commute home from work
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@wideofthepost It'll be an absolute bloodbath of a debate and she knows it. His voice alone could win a debate against her
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@ArchysLife We need a cultural Ataturk to ban AI video, limit phone usage to 2 hours, and mandate reading
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Democracy requires one to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The lowest common denominator of our age is barely cultured at all due to smartphones and TV.
It is what it is.
Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐@TrueSlazac
For all my hatred of the regime I will say that I am a bit jealous of how cultured the Iranian leadership is, Western democracies simply don’t value intellectualism enough
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@lolopantz It's the most primordial distillation of the world's preoccupations. If it weren't so disgusting it would be fascinating
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@Gaismair Been saying this for years, Emperor Palpatine is just a successful Yuan Shikai
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@alcibiades5410 @HMBrough_ And if that citizen wants to do something about their complaint? If they want to organize other citizens with the same problem? What do you reckon happens then
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@HMBrough_ You're literally quote-tweeting a post about a citizen criticizing the government, so thanks for confirming that China is not "authoritarian."
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“1984” has done immense damage to our assessments of life in authoritarian societies.
In reality, life in authoritarian places is pretty…normal. There were enough punks in East Germany that the Stasi could classify them with charts. There are women complaining today about f***boys on dating apps in Minsk.
The only thing you can’t do is criticize the government.
sugarskullangelic@sugrskllangelic
I was just in China. Proof Pic attached. I saw a Chinese citizen get into a verbal altercation with a member of the government about a traffic light and they were cussing the whole government out in front of an official building. They definitely have free speech.
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@souljagoyteller Real heads have known about libhawk Bernie since he supported bombing Serbia
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@whyvert None of those lie immediately at the end of a narrow, shallow strait through which 25% of world trade passes
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A common criticism of LKY and Singapore: they had it easy because its a port near shipping lanes.
No.
Other places near busy shipping lanes:
-Aden, Yemen
-Somalia
-Freetown, Sierra Leone
-Haiti
🐍@dougburzum
@JohnWakefieId Ohhhh man it's such a shame I couldn't have applied my ineffable genius to a proper country with actual developmental challenges such as "land reform" and "primary product dependence" and "not being entirely situated on the British Empire's most important Asian port"
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@3xcalibaneur At that point Iran will have no choice but to invest every state resource they can muster into rapid development of nuclear weapons and the cycle repeats
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I’m stating to inch towards the idea that Trump is going to attempt to “Neither War Nor Peace” Iran. He’ll claim that we’ve hit all our objectives and pull back in 4-8 weeks. Iran can’t escalate conventionally but refuses to capitulate. Daily drone strikes continue forever.
RAY@3xcalibaneur
It’s actually fascinating that Trotsky’sProgram of “Neither War Nor Peace” with the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk—the idea that Russia would just demobilize their armies and walk away without a peace treaty and hope that the Germans would do the same—very nearly worked!
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@PerseusAccipz @rowanfornow The media will do that with any democratic policy, the right media especially. Only possible way to break through is to do something substantively helpful anyways
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@rowanfornow The media would become a white blood cell formation to ruthlessly attack any economic policy that seems too left leaning or generous. Dems have to “cushion it”. The GOP doesn’t have to do that with mass deportations because the media will give them the benefit of the doubt
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Only tangentially related but why were Kamala Harris's landmark policy proposals so weird. She loves means tested grants so much and I've never met a soul who cared.
Domo Julio@DapperDomo
Kamala Harris wanted to give people grants to buy homes man.
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@ettingermentum The crypto pivot in particular was one of the more embarrassing moves in modern American political history
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Her entire policy platform was so tightly aimed at 20-something small business owners looking to start a family and buy a house that I’ve legit wondered if it was structured the way it was to win over podcasters.
Rowan Fornow 🚵🚉🏙️🦣🇵🇸@rowanfornow
Only tangentially related but why were Kamala Harris's landmark policy proposals so weird. She loves means tested grants so much and I've never met a soul who cared.
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@Miyhnea People don't appreciate how bad earthquakes can be. 700,000 people died in the Tangshan earthquake in 1974
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>10% of Turkmenistan's population died in an earthquake right after WW2
Wew
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@Lord_Beesus Smart enough to know what a disaster this would be, not brave enough to say anything about it
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@YoungerPope @ettingermentum Ro Khanna and Van Hollen were born to be VP but nothing higher
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@ettingermentum Ro just has no juice at all, real bottom tier candidate. He’ll get to the first debate but not the first primary, bet on it
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