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Tucker Saglio

@TuckerSaglio

(Adjunct) Professor of History (Not) Michael Diamond in a captain's outfit

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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@OVTweetmarck The most difficult thing I have ever done in my entire life -- harder than climbing Mt. Washington on a broken leg -- is driving my sister around to every fancy shop in the greater Boston area to look at flatware for her wedding gift registry.
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Otto Von Tweetmarck@OVTweetmarck·
Pray for me as I undertake this arduous journey
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@KKriegeBlog My hair has started to do that whenever I get 4 weeks away from my last haircut.
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Dr. Alexander S. Burns@KKriegeBlog·
Otho, I am one of your biggest fans, but your hair is out of control
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@feelsdesperate You are underrating the threat Romney, Ryan, et al posed to the Democrat's welfare state. Indentity politics have risen in importance recently, but generally IDP is to gain votes for social programs and less for its own sake. Romney was attacked for that reason.
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Coddled Affluent Professional
I’ll never understand why libs went after normie Republicans so hard (eg Romney in 2012, the SPLC going after milquetoast pro life groups, etc.). Libs had a defanged, captured opposition who were happy going 60mph in the same direction the Left was heading towards at 90 mph and who just wanted things to be a little more ‘free market.’ Libs should have buttressed Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans. That they didn’t and instead tried to anathematize them was a generational political error.
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Sunny@sunnyright·
I am begging the State Department to find a better video setup for Callista Gingrich
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@Legal_Fil Hey now, the French at least fought on for another 3 weeks...
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@faceuh8 This list must be a troll, or composed by an idiot. No Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, Passion of Joan of Arc, Amadeus, Lust for Life, etc.
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@Historycourses My uncle's family were originally Goldsteins until *his* uncle changed the spelling to "Galdston" because the uncle admired the British PM Gladstone but didn't quite want to go full Anglo.
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Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌
Many are unaware of this, but in Jewish culture being stabbed is viewed as a greater indignity than being represented by a character named "Goldstein."
i tried ⋆ 🇻🇦@Shpow

@jk_rowling @zarahsultana I’m not surprised the illiterate and hateful JK Rowling who called a hypothetical Jewish character “Goldstein” doesn’t understand what globalise the intifada is. You hateful wretch, I regret the sixty or so hours I spent reading your books as a child.

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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@Peter_Nimitz Alexander and Hephaestion fancied themselves to be Achilles and Patroclus. While divine patronage was common, Commodus's worship of Hercules and donning costumes was taken to extremes (he was also a supernal marksmen and warrior while moonlighting in the gladiatorial arena).
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Nemets@Peter_Nimitz·
LARPing, cosplay, military re-enactments, etc have been around since the reign of Caracalla or before
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@ratlpolicy The immediate danger in mid-1940 was that Germany would get its hands on the French and British fleets, and maybe install a British puppet regime as well. Even then conquering the US would be highly unlikely, but fighting the entire world would have been extremely difficult.
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@GiancarloSopo FDR. He beat the Nazis, and he did a better job than anyone else, GOP or Democrat, likely would have.
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Giancarlo Sopo@GiancarloSopo·
Honest question for my Republican followers: Who was the best Democratic president of the 20th century and why? Not limited to these, no wrong answers.
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Dan McLaughlin@baseballcrank·
I have questions
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@nobodyknows2322 Slavery was unusual, but sectional conflict was the norm. Every LA nation I can think of had an extended political conflict over federalism vs centralization. The US Civil War was very similar, politically, to contemporary conflicts in Argentina and Mexico.
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Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322·
Prior? The slavery controversy made us weird, in both its sectional nature and how you had a significant mass of *white people* in favor of emancipation (of various types, not saying they were all Garrisonians) by 1860 After because of our rise to Superpower status
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@aelfred_D I had a conversation with my dad (the world's biggest fan of The Band) about that cover, and it turned into a rambling anecdote about the time my dad met the chicken man, incidentally implicating Frank Perdue in several federal crimes.
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Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith@rkylesmith·
The SPLC was secretly staging a Coen Brothers movie all along
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@Historycourses Funny how the British winning at Brandywine and occupying Philadelphia was a strategic dead end.
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@ZODIAC_MF Dr. Evil as Lorne Michaels by way of Donald Pleasance (which I did not get at the time, and only thought it was some inside, Canadian reference to the Kids in the Hall sketch).
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ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER@ZODIAC_MF·
NOBODY THESE DAYS WILL UNDERSTAND THIS BUT AT THE TIME VIRTUALLY NOBODY TOOK AUSTIN POWERS AS A BOND PARODY. THE DUMBASSES WHO MADE THOSE MOVIES HITS DIDNT KNOW OR GIVE A FUCK THAT AUSTINS OUTFIT WAS A LIFT FROM A GAG IN OHMSS OR THAT DR. EVIL WAS BASED ON DONALD PLEASENCE
Mazer Rackham Jr.@TheNextMazer

@ZODIAC_MF My morning began with someone claiming that Austin Powers was a badly needed corrective to the series' excesses (he seemed to think the movies were heretofore unaware of these)

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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@emzanotti For me that happened last year when my friend told me the story behind Burt Reynold's farewell monologue in All Dogs Go to Heaven and I almost cried. (The child actress from the film had been murdered, so the monologue, composed after her death, is really a farewell to her.)
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Tucker Saglio@TuckerSaglio·
@LiteralSheridan It's dispiriting that I have no idea who half of these people are, I actively avoid most of the ones I do recognize, and Shapiro and Stewart are the only ones I actively seek out (and infrequently at that).
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