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i don't care if you have a "student driver please be patient!" sticker on the back of your car if you're going below the speed limit in the left lane i am rear-ending you
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max “maximilien” well
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max “maximilien” well
@maxnotdavid
aspiring baker
lexington va/houston tx Katılım Eylül 2021
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@NoVa_Jacksonian anti-retributivism is unfair to victims and ignorant of free will. what would the tens of millions of genocide victims think if you tried to convince them it was best to choose blue? of course you should kill hitler. it is good for evil people to be punished.
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"So what's your take"
"This subway should be filled with sarin, a deadly nerve agent"
"100% disagree"
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@BawlmoreMerlin one of the few times where reading history felt like reading literature
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Maybe not "popular" per se but Wedgewood was a Real One:
iwsfutcmd@iwsfutcmd
i'm actually more interested in popular history works that historians universally agree "yeah, that's a solid one." first one that comes to mind is "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by @CharlesCMann
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@kendkpowell why is moby dick at 15 laughable? or lolita at 25 unsettling?
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The Guardian has released its list of the 100 best novels, based on the Top 10 picks of 170 writers, critics and academics. Reading is deeply subjective, but lists and reviews can help us discover books worth reading.
writeoutloudblog.com/2026/05/17/tho…
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@thechrisknutson no americas message should be that we SUCK and are STUPID and maybe dumb as well and that chairman xi should do us all a favor and press the Big Beautiful Button which I Also Have.
-DJT
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This needs to be the Democratic message
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_
AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”
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@Kozzist i always remember that rumsfeld was already drafting invasion plans for syria before the army had taken baghdad before bush quashed it. early 2000s were definitely wild
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I always like 2000s style American uniforms, unfortunately it was also 2000s America so
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@kolonyaparfum sure but this isnt a very radical take. history is, in every case, the narrativization of events to create new meaning, and so can never be objective even in theory.
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@AlaricTsoni @hellspatisserie see, e.g. the lyon and vendee terrorist policies to see truly horrific acts. the terror in those areas especially was wanton massacre. but those massacres were justified (and tolerated) not by class-revenge but rather military exigencies. i guess thats my point
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@AlaricTsoni @hellspatisserie yes, i meant more generally. the terror began with the massacre of prisoners following the advance of the coalition armies; thereafter it was most extreme in civil warzones, often as scorched earth anti-insurrection tactics. but at the micro level it was highly indiscriminate
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Like, from a narrative perspective you would think the U.S. would at least have resolutely been on the side of revolutionary France come 1789. We weren’t! We were extremely ambivalent about the whole thing! We fought an undeclared naval war with them even!
𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎@hellspatisserie
Quite hard to square the American Revolution with a lot of grand narratives. Hard to contextualize within the Age of Revolutions because it wasn’t social. Can’t contextualize it within a narrative of British decline because they were on the cusp of total global hegemony
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@hellspatisserie it’s very strange that the coalition war is never discussed w/r/t the french rev? it was the direct cause of the execution of louis; the committee of public safety; the terror, etc. Do people think that the republic guillotined people for no reason? it was military expediency
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@hellspatisserie many were in support of the french and the adams admin was very unpopular. the us rev. followed a familiar path of reaction after its culmination. the french/us revs diverge as france faces a multifront war which radicalizes politics beyond the 1792 culmination point
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@hyper_imagine @AstrKnight the switchcon can measure heartbeat and stammered leg movements. the switch microphone also detects panting. it has a very high detection threshold, but it can make a guess with ~98% accuracy. it is only done in extreme cases.
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@AstrKnight Nah, I don't buy it. Ain't know way they can detect something like that.
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@JaiBharat47 @TomBFlanagan those civilizations constitute probably >80% of the human population at the time. at its height, rome was probably the most populous polity in history up to that point (with the possible exception of china).
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@TomBFlanagan Around that time what other urban civs were even there? China, India, Persia, maybe ethiopia & some small ones like armenia, & maybe smth in Americas.
Not dissing them btw. Great achievement
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Ok, but they had within their borders around 25% of the world's population and an even larger percentage of the world's 'urbanised' population. This matters.
Wylfċen@wylfcen
Reminder that the Roman “Empire” only conquered like 5% of the Earth’s land. 0% of underground or the depths of the sea. If you go by the Earth’s volume, they conquered virtually nothing.
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@Gaismair it’s not the germany economy! the flow of foreign exchange based on imports existed in the entente too as a result of versailles, and it led to increased strain on these economies because of decreased flow of European trade that it significantly exacerbated the great depression!
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@maxnotdavid Have the Germans tried fixing their economy like normal people
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Versailles revisionism delenda est
ً@wynrosei
"Women can't be presidents because they could start WWIll because of their period" A MAN After starting WWIl because he didn't get into art school
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@Gaismair yeah because it physically couldnt pay the debts, which were in foreign exchange…
it could only get the exchange through a trade surplus, which could only be so high (because of foreign market demand); so it had to excessively reduce imports, straining the entente economies too
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@maxnotdavid The reparations which they barley paid any of, then negotiated to reduce, then stopped paying altogether? Those ones? How will Germany ever recover!
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@jasonwblakely every time someone mentions The End of History and the Last Man without engaging with the Last Man part it’s a good time to stop listening to that person
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The "counting citations" approach is part of a general data craze in which people do not consider whether they're counting the same things or even if all forms of relevance are countable. An e.g. of this is Fukuyama's end-of-history thesis—huge citations rates for being so wrong!
John Ganz@lionel_trolling
That claim is based on the fact that Hofstadter used Adorno's work. I don't think even Phil would dare say that Richard Hofstadter was not an important and influential intellectual in mid-century America. This highlights the problem with this 'counting citations' approach.
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@die_rizzen it’s not a metaphysical statement it is an ethical statement
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"Existence precedes essence" sounds fire but its lowkey philosophically untenable.
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