Bruce P
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@jonkessler20 He could have sent enough to make it a messy fight, but there was no way for an easy cheap win against the Red Army.
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@p_bruce73752 Hungary could have been supplied from Austria, from which all foreign troops had been withdrawn by 1955. Until the withdrawal, the Soviet zone in Austria had barred Western access to Hungary. Eisenhower chose not to work a finagle with Austria to transfer arms on the sly.
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It's terrible, but not the first time. Eisenhower encouraged Hungarians in 1956, but offered no material support. Any other US president before Trump could have assisted rebels, did not. Carter offered Iran to the mullahs on a platter, to what seemed to be universal acclaim.
Matthew Nouriel@MatthewNouriel
As an Iranian, my heart is broken. Torn into pieces. For the first time in 47 years, President Trump gave us hope and did what no American president before him was willing to do—Only to leave us more devastated than all of his predecessors. At least they never pretended to care. At least they didn’t use the people who gave their lives for freedom as pawns in a political game. I genuinely cannot think of anything more cruel.
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@brianluidog Read Georgette Heyer and Barbara Hambly. Smart chicks exist.
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@feelsdesperate How does it not bother him that he just looks like a penis?
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I love when Yglesias tries to pass himself off as a thoughtful and emotionally sober arbiter of reality.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
@mattyglesias as one should. they certainly can’t get astute public opinion analysis from you.
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@ryanscottborman @jamesonhaslam Very skilled cabinet work carpentry.
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@JeffGreason @tonywendice1954 AI can give us a jockey-built Patton with a high voice doing George C Scott's role. Historically accurate.
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@tonywendice1954 I don't like to play the "which is best" game. But I think they're both outstanding WW2 movies -- while being incredibly different from each other.
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Unpopular take: Tora! Tora! Tora! is a better movie -- or at least a movie I like more -- than Patton. Both 1970 releases. I have never really warmed to Patton which is why I'm saving it for near the end of my WW2 watching. I'm hoping it will finally "click" for me.
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@MuseZack Tanya Roberts went topless in THE BEASTMASTER (1982) and full-frontal in SHEENA (1984), and both of those were PG somehow.
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The original Planet of the Apes, which had numerous gunshot deaths, a lobotomy, implied nuclear annihilation, and Charlton Heston ass, was rated G in 1968.
Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁)@RetroMoviesDB
I seriously don't know what happened
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@jonkessler20 He could have a staffer type it into the end of one of his last speeches.
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What would be impressive is if Thomas Massie read these names out after leaving Congress. Then these people could sue him for defamation if it turns out he's lying, since he's immune only for statements made while in office. But Massie's too smart to do something like that.
David J Harris Jr@DavidJHarrisJr
🚨BREAKING: Thomas Massie says he will publicly read the names of Epstein clients before leaving Congress.
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@7why__ydm AIM, Yahoo messenger, MSN, ICQ.
Before that you called their house and awkwardly spoke to one of their parents for a couple of minutes while they came to the phone.
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@dmesg @rubysapphrald Kingsley Amis said in 'On Drink' on claims that hallucinations from Absinthe were from wormwood 'No, it's the alcohol'.
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@rubysapphrald And hipsters are always like "no it's the wormwood" and then I show them what "Vermouth" means.
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i love these paintings because i’ve tried absinthe and it’s hilarious that these dudes are getting fucked up enough to hallucinate green baddies on a drink that straight up tastes like melted licorice
Lancesico 🇱🇨@Bornakang
The Absinthe Drinker (1901) - Viktor Oliva
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@wil_da_beast630 European sex slave trade might have given us white people from white girls.
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Entertainingly, one of the more comprehensive maps of the many very expansive, Iron Age-level empires in historical Africa comes to us from the HARRRD right...which is focused on exactly what commodity funded that growth.
Jared Taylor@RealJarTaylor
African slave empires in the 19th century. A map you won't see in your history book. Blacks had been selling blacks to Arabs ever since the 7th century, when Muslims conquered North Africa. @BonneDroite
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@mwstateofmind @hankgreen Sperm whales still eat the biggest squids. Tasty protein, no big jaws, no speed.
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Well if you believe in the evolutionary process then octopus didn't need to evolve anymore to survive. Probably human intelligence came from constantly moving into new territories which required new solutions to survive. Of course, why did early humanoids do this? Maybe climate or other disruptions forced it
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Primates have existed for 50 million years, octopuses for 100. There seem to be some interesting constraints at work here that we do not really understand.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
🚨: Oxford biologist says that if humans go extinct, octopuses could build the next civilization.
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When I want to lose weight, I lost weight. When I want to gain weight, I gain weight. It is for this reason I can never take glp-1s.
You're telling me it works by reducing want, as opposed of by wanting? You think I WOULD GIVE UP ANY WANTING?
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@Seanchuckle I was making lasagna in grade school for my parents. Flat pasta, meat, tomato sauce, easy. 1980?
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Are you 53....and from an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon?
Stevio@Rothbury01669
I'm 53 poppet. There were no McDonald's KFC or Dominoes when I was a kid When I went to comprehensive school my art class teacher asked who'd had Lasagne. A third of the class put their hands up. I didn't even know what it was You're deluded
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What's apple jack?? I just know it as a cereal.
Blue Aeshnidae@AeshnidaeBlue
@vbspurs One year a co-worker gave me a quart of homemade apple jack as a Christmas gift. It was delicious and packed a punch.
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@pacificjimmy Too bad none of Julius Caesar's pickle jokes survive.
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“Don’t worry boys—if this landing goes sideways, we’ll just swim back to the transports and have a hot cup of coffee!”
— an apocryphal Marine lieutenant going ashore at Tarawa, 1943
Bambulu@Bqmbulu
Your favorite military commander once said:
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@GumSlinger @TANJ_User @redsteeze The opening episode of Dukes of Hazzard was awesome, and the rest of the show was filler. The first episode everyone in the show was smart and doing sensible things given their choices. Then. . . Jackass?
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@TANJ_User @redsteeze Dukes of Hazzard never happens, because Jennings isn't there to narrate and record songs for Moonrunners, the movie which Dukes of Hazzard is based on.
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Biggest music "what if" opinion.
I'll go - Ian Curtis doesn't die and every song is still what New Order did. He's just the vocalist instead of Bernard for all of New Order's songs and it's still Joy Division.
I've already been monetized, calm down, this is pure weekend curiosity slop.
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@wil_da_beast630 Great men are almost always bad men. . . The separation of the Good and the unreformable Great goes back at least to Samuel Johnson.
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How would you categorize Genghis Khan, using only the options below?
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@dsforbesm1 Cheeseburger pizza is great, especially when you see it next to sausage pizza- basically sharp hard slices of maybe used-to-be sausage slathered in annoying spices.
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