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Kurt Steiner

2 years

It’s remarkable how much WWII has been filtered through a Hollywood lens for Americans. Americans were “bitter, stoic, grim, impatient, and vengeful.” And the men were cynical and prone to hustling the system for their own personal gain.

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2 months

“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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The Americans, geographically, are arguably the luckiest people on the planet. When people sneer at "providence", they're ignoring how insanely fortunate America's situation is.

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Phillip K. Dick is a great author. But this alternative reality was always ridiculous from a geopolitical standpoint. Very. Ridiculous.

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Russell Crowe keeps beating Joaquin Phoenix.

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"[During the 1950s], the single biggest recreational activity among adults was bowling. The number of lanes doubled to over a hundred thousand during the '50s. The new ones, built in the suburbs, were equipped with...cont.

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8 months

Former American Empire (Bethlehem Steel Works)

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7 months

Just a reminder that when this born-again evangelical came to office, there were around 1.5 million Christians living in Iraq*. Now there are around 150,000.

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10 months

There’s an episode of Star Trek where 2 planets wage war against each other via computer and when casualties come in they agree to send people to a “clean” vaporizer by lot. Kirk destroys the system and declares, “I have given you back the horror of war.” Something to that.

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Kurt Steiner

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9 months

One of the funniest passive-aggressive spats of 2001-2002.

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5 months

Reconcile with family. Life is too short.

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1 year

It’s often forgotten how many women mobilized to oppose women’s suffrage in America.

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1 year

That last line.

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Kurt Steiner

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28 days

"In a large survey of married couples [during the 1950s], over 80 percent of husbands and wives rated their marriages 'above average,' and nearly two out of three saw their own as 'extraordinarily happy' or 'decidedly happier than average.'"

Philosophy memes 🥀

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Kurt Steiner

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7 months

One of the greatest agricultural and industrial hubs in human history coupled with a fiercely independent people and two massive oceans was never going to get rolled by second rate powers like this.

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6 months

Walked through here with a woman who at the end of it said, “Think of how all of that wealth could have helped the poor.” And I’m thinking, “Ok, Judas.”

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Vatican Museum. Just a corner.

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5 months

Regarding America’s messy but decisive B-29 project, one worker had this to say, “This country seems to be able to do more by accident than any other country can do in purpose.” There are layers to that comment.

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5 months

Something happened to American male physique in Southeast Asia between Apocalypse Now (1979) and Predator (1987).

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8 years

@PoliticsJim Kill the machine! Let the old man a try:

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Palette cleanse.

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By contrast, German POWs in USA.

Fascinating

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British POWs after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945

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2 years

It’s always sad to see a dude just become a carbon copy of his liberal wife. Very cringe.

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Sorry Japan and Germany, not sorry.

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The ugliest Americans have been found.

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2 years

The Fury pic is meant ironically. It’s one of the few WWII flicks that gets the anger and depression of the men at the end of the war. It hangs over the whole movie.

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automatic pin-setters. In 1957, bowling took in more than ten times the amount of ticket sales for all major-league baseball games." My grandparents were big bowlers back in the day. Grandpa got a 299 once. Imagine getting that close to perfection and one pin gets you.

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@PicsOrIt Uhhhhh

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My great grandparents used to own a four-lane alley back in the ‘50s and raised their kids (my grandma) in the apartment above it.

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Grandpa, who was a carpenter, died some years ago. Dad was holding on to three of these, had my brother clean them up, and now one is mine.

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2 years

No doubt, there was a great deal of heroism and American ingenuity on display during the war. Incredible stuff. But that makes the dark side (and I don’t mean bad, just ugly) all the more interesting.

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A Confederate Caribbean Empire would have looked more like Rome geographically speaking.

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Roman-American Empire

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Knew a guy and state bought a house in his block to house child predators coming out of jail. Some guy, who was molested as a kid, burned place down. Got caught but minimum time. Neighborhood figured it out: set up a little free library next to house and keep out pervs by law.

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Right before the election in 2016, Trump pointed to a baby at one of his rallies and said, “Look, a future construction worker!” He then grabbed the baby and gave him a kiss and my gut said, “This guy is winning.” In that moment, he told a huge portion of the electorate, “It’s…

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2 years

@more_meat_loaf This is incredible. But it feels like something out of the 90s which isn’t possible because she’s talking Instagram.

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And local bowling league championships would be broadcast on TV. A different world.

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2 years

Why did they fight? The fellas on the bridge have their say.

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11 months

Whiskey Rebellion thread: In 1794, the frontier rebelled against a constitutional federal excise tax on whiskey. The feds had a desperate need for funds and saw the tax as a way to mitigate heavy drinking on the frontier. Farmers in the West, meanwhile,

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@IrishPatri0t Kind of crazy a Catholic won WV in 1960…

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10 months

Published the Federalist Papers anonymously.

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@remnantposting Coward. If your beliefs are so righteous and true, go out and put your name to them and defend them, instead of claiming preemptive victimhood that you're not allowed. "Not allowed?" What, by your mom and dad? Are you an adult? You're "allowed," you're just too cowardly to do it

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Kurt Steiner

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1 year

While Jewish influence in Hollywood has been much discussed, it’s easy to forget that from 1934 until the mid-1960s, the Catholic Legion of Decency had near veto power on Hollywood movies. Why?

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Kurt Steiner

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11 months

Disney's predominate story apparatus is either dead parents or parents who don't get it and their kids convince them of the reality of the world. Parents are dumb. Your intuition as a pre-teen is good. Very rarely does it divert from this premise.

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You have a captive audience of highschool juniors in AP US history at the end of the semester. You can show them two movies. What are you showing them?

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1 year

NYC is one of the worst places on the planet because it attracts people who behave like this.

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1 year

"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!

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Chester Nimitz. A mastermind of the Pacific War. American. Stone. Cold. Empire.

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1 year

It’s still hilarious that a whole team of people thought this was a good idea.

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The sexual revolution didn’t happen in the 1960s. It was in the 1920s.

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@banjopatterson4 Funny, that’s where the founding stock came from. Coincidence?

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Father-in-law: Got this map for you of all the big shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.

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This was one of the most absurdly (unintentionally) funny political cartoons of the last couple of years.

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Unpacking a storage unit.

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The Midwest has no culture. Frank Loyd Wright, Falling Water, 1935

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1 year

Name a more based father. (No, really, let’s build a thread here of the best of).

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College drip in the 1950s was something else.

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On the rise of the Sunbelt. 1) Economics: low taxes, low regulation, right-to-work states that strongly check union power based heavily in the industrial midwest. All of this attracts business post-war.

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1 year

“I cannot raise my hand against my birthplace, my home, my children.” — Robert E. Lee

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1 year

Way, way, 𝘸𝘢𝘺 overdue. Robert E. Lee, a traitor and white supremacist who contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of loyal Americans, never should have been honored at West Point or any US military venue.

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1 year

Say what you will, I’m bullish on Gen Z. All it takes is a couple men to turn tides.

Shelby Foote Appreciator⚓️

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This kid is 17. Homosocial camaraderie and masculine competition helped him achieve this. I’m almost 40 and in the best shape of my life. But one of my biggest regrets is not getting in the gym as a young man. But..

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@JonahDispatch Jealous Jonah only wishes the NSA thought he was worth spying upon.

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@jj_timmins He was 5’10” in an era of 5’6”.

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“God created men, Colt made them equal.”

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My great grandparents owned and lived above a four lane in Wisconsin. Stopped by years ago and there are bottles of liquor on the shelf bought by guys that never came back from WWII.

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Conservatives a century from now: retvrn.

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1 year

And the best picture for 20(2)3 is…

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6 months

Napoleon movie? How about Washington: The guy who wins by not losing badly, keeps his army on the field, and makes a nation?

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GDP stands for goddamn pointless if you don't realize how hubs and hinterlands depend on each other.

Epic Maps 🗺️

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Half of US GDP comes from these 23 orange blotches

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Does anyone know what happens in Baja California? Serious question. Seems like a geographic twilight zone.

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Arizona should have a coastline

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1 year

This is one of the most transformative pieces of tech ever developed that few people talk about.

zantae 🕯️

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@Kurt_Steiner first thing my brother and I noticed upon entering was how cool the temperature was inside

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2 years

Demons are real and hiding in plain sight.

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@juliew38138 @yoopermomma You act as if the pregnant man emoji and feds are unrelated. :p

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I wonder what goes on up there…

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Doing a little 1970 census research on a Midwest state and found that over 40% of men were veterans (WWI through Vietnam). Took me by surprise the number was that high.

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1 year

Imagine having a 90 percent approval rating and The Economist is wringing its hands over “democracy”.

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There’s a grad student in my department who hasn’t finished her PhD but weaseled her way into the bureaucracy. Her job: helping grad students get jobs. Has she ever contacted me? Nope. Not that I mind, it’s just amusing how much waste there is in this system.

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I think people underestimate how the circumstances heading into 2024 are even more pitch perfect for a Trump candidacy than either 2016 or 2020.

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Trump has a solution to looting and rioting: "If you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot when you are leaving that store!"

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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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Happy Fourth

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I've used this as a prompt with students on numerous occasions. It always elicits good conversation. The majority always side with former. “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”—William F. Buckley

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When Europeans ask, “Why don’t the Americans have more public transit and trains,” show them this map.

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Size comparison of Texas and Western Europe

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Spoke with a guy who works for BLM in Utah and we discussed this episode. Basically told me that after the f-ups in the 90s from the feds with this sort of thing, they're now super risk adverse and opt to stand down.

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Every red blooded American should be reminded of the events of April 12, 2014. The day the Bundy family got their cattle back.

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Maybe my only aristocratic desire: the bookshelf that hides the private study.

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@ConceptualJames Statistically the figure on the right should be a black or brown dude. But don’t let the stats get in the way of the narrative.

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One of the best seasons of television ever made.

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Respect to the first season of True Detective for making it look cool and edgy to live in backwater Louisiana

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Democracy is when the majority approve of the human rights that the western elite approve of.

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“As we look at America, we see cities enveloped in smoke and flame. We hear sirens in the night.” But there was another sound, a quieter sound a quieter voice—a silence voice—to which Americans ought to listen: “It is the quiet voice in the tumult and the shouting. It is

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Maybe the greatest chase movie ever made.

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I’d often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.” -Mel Gibson

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The idea that the War of 1812 ended status quo antebellum is so absurd. The Great Lakes get demilitarized and the native peoples of the interior lose their patron Great Britain. The war busts open the Midwest and the South to New Orleans. Highly underrated war.

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@edenamrai If this was implemented in America, people would either not bother and pay the cash or die trying.

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Just finished this for the first time and it’s—very cringe.

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1 year

Also just a reminder the unmarried cat-lady wine-aunt thing has been around for a while.

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One of the most remarkable things about the 20th century is that Germany got blasted not once, but twice, and is still the continental leader.

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Cities and towns with over 1,000 inhabitants.

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My dad left for work and came back 10 minutes later and said, “Turn on the TV.” In our home, the TV was rarely on so this was weird. Saw the second plane hit and my dad says, “Someone is going to fucking pay for this.” That was the first time I heard him swear.

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@shaunking That guy isn’t black.

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Despite immediate dysfunctions, I’m still betting on America moving forward.

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Just your average, rural Midwest Walmart.

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American Empire Covered Wagons N.C. Wyeth, 1938-1939

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1984 followers. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those...

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The American empire was an empire of wood.

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What made you go to the Concord Fight? What did I go for? Were you oppressed by the Stamp Act? I never saw any stamps, and I always understood that none were ever sold. Well, what about the tea tax? cont.

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In my research, one of the more amusing things I've discovered is that political candidates (1960s) often published their home addresses in their promotional material (Hey, I live in a respectable but not ritzy home and you can send me a letter if you want). Just imagine that.

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