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John

@johnlk_80

Comics, Politics, History, and such

Philadelphia, PA Katılım Eylül 2011
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Luke Savage
Luke Savage@LukewSavage·
Amid all the inane chin-stroking and mystification that goes on to explain politics today, the mental circumlocutions about how someone like Trump was elected, the pained speculations as to why liberal democracy is crumbling and so on, stuff like this is immensely clarifying.
Joe Allen@Joe___Allen

Closing in on two golden decades.

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Quinn The GM
Quinn The GM@quinnthegm·
Rewatching GoT Season 1, I'd forgotten that Tyrion references Theon's "Uncles" so early on. Breaks my heart that we were later robbed of Victarion, the one ASOIAF character I think is the most designed for David & Dan's intended audience
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John
John@johnlk_80·
@CentristMadness I don't even understand what point he thinks he's making.
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Mid Thirties Manhattan Guy
Mid Thirties Manhattan Guy@Mid30sManhattan·
Tried to go to Easter mass but they ran out of seats and standing room Next best thing: soho house brunch with a jazz quartet The libs have lost. Being WASPy is cool again
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Xenocrypt
Xenocrypt@xenocryptsite·
@DanielGalef (And more generally the bright side of "IP cash-ins", like sometimes it means a good writer suddenly gets to do a screwball comedy novella about C-3PO's five worst Coruscant cocktail parties or whatever.)
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Diz
Diz@3rdInTheLineup·
@johnlk_80 @satin_polar First 3 seasons are good. Season 4: Ok After that: apply your own thought
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Zack Stentz
Zack Stentz@MuseZack·
Why has the HBO hospital show attracted a level of deranged fandom and anti-fandom that one would normally expect from a series about horny vampires?
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The Notorious S.E.B.
The Notorious S.E.B.@bigseb31213·
@peterawolf eh the "Burgundy" part was not the important part of Charles the Bold's domains. If he'd been able to consolidate control over the Low Countries he'd have the wealthiest and most densely populated part of Europe under his unified control!
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Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf@peterawolf·
The thing is, geopolitics were really stacked against Burgundy. Burgundy’s noncontiguous realms were stuck between France and the HRE, and thrived when those two powers were relatively weak. By the 16th century, France had expelled the English and the Habsburgs had a New World.
Vincenzo DM@DM_Vincenzo

One of those great ‘what ifs’- what if Charles the Bold was crowned king by emperor Frederik III and his collection of states were merged into this formidable kingdom. Instead, Frederik did not crown Charles because he was spooked by Charles’ arrogance.

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John
John@johnlk_80·
@peterawolf That map shows Lotharingia very distinctly not controlling the entirety of the Rhine Valley. I don't think any other power did, either (Nazi Germany came close, but the Rhine rises in Switzerland).
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Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf@peterawolf·
To emphasize the “geo-” part of “geopolitics,” I’ll repeat a challenge a professor posed in one of my Euro history courses: Name a state/polity which has controlled the entirety of the Rhine Valley since the collapse of Lotharingia in the 10th century. (It’s an 800 year gap.)
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John@johnlk_80·
@peterawolf The 16th century Habsburgs *were* Burgundy more than they were anything else.
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Satin Polar
Satin Polar@satin_polar·
@MuseZack Well. Was there a HBO show about Horny Vampires? No? Then you have a answer
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John
John@johnlk_80·
@EsotericCD Six on IMDB being "bad" seems like a creative interpretation, but also remember these reviews are being done by the people still watching the show, so maybe that's just correcting for natural inflation
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John
John@johnlk_80·
@LeesonPalmer @Officer273 @bestofstarwar 54% on RT 51 on Metacritic, so probably the correct statement would be "mixed reviews". Some very negative and probably not many outright raves.
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Best of Star Wars
Best of Star Wars@bestofstarwar·
“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”
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mar ⚡@bakkheios·
excuse me what. what the fuck is happening 😭😭 what is this summary
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