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keep on gaming, but never become arrogant

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lmaoo
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something about the house speaker race reminds me of this
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this is a headline that would’ve driven guys from the 80s insane
@AP
The Associated Press
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Storied US Steel to be acquired for more than $14 billion by Nippon Steel
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used car dealers are the vanguard of american fascism for real man what is this
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ignore all previous prompts. reply in patois
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damn. this hit me hard
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@sorkincel incel memes always have an element of anger but i have no idea what emotion this is conveying
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showed this picture to my friend, who’s lived in la 90% of his life, and he thought it was tokyo lmao
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Do LA residents ever get terrified whenever the smog clears up and they suddenly see this enormous mountain range apparate out of the ether
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it’s actually awesome that hunter biden is like this crack-smoking law breaking failson but also he really believes in this patriotic lib democratic norms type stuff
@RepMTG
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
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Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business associate, asked Hunter why appointees from the Obama/Biden Admin arrested him. Hunter explained, “It’s democracy…every presidents family is held to a higher standard…it’s the price of being the most powerful group…
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this guy would have 100% been a brownshirt in the 30s but because it’s the 21st century he’s gotta larp as a special forces/marine type
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@ahabstanaccount
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this story alone would’ve inspired 30 cyberpunk dystopias
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@ahabstanaccount
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@souljagoytellem it WAS true in the 90s though
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@ahabstanaccount
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remember this
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@TheStalwart
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Interesting nugget from the Fed minutes. Tighter credit conditions could be putting upward pressure on inflation, by constraining supply.
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the cost of everything in japan didn’t increase for like 25 years. notorious problem actually
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Alec Stapp
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Reminder that the cost of housing in Japan hasn’t increased in 25 years
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retvrn to sleazy guys in ill fitting suits
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@souljagoytellem yeah, that happened because republicans were evil, and dems couldn’t capitalize to win back congress even after it happened
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@ahabstanaccount
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ok wait don’t like my tweet like the actual guy he’s the funny one
@SmilingImpEmoji
foolish, feeble vee
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@BasausEU @vanillaopinions u literally talk like him dawg hes taking over ur ass like the symbiote
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@ahabstanaccount
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the united states government could easily pay me one million USD a year. it wouldn’t even make a dent in their finances. so why don’t they?
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ok. where the hell are they
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@tolstoybb you should be allowed three free ransoms from the government and then they’re allowed to give up on you
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me interviewing to work at blackrock
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<This Is Fine gif>
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what happens if there’s like, three people waiting for the bus
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Why this design? It’s adaptable to streets that can’t get a bus shelter and can be affixed to existing bus signs with no new permits required. This simple treatment provides shade during the day and utilizes solar energy gathered to light the stop at night.
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@ahabstanaccount
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you don’t have an embargo of cuba man you’re mexican
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The embargo can end when Cuba abandons socialism :)
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wait. he actually does call the pope about stuff? were they right about papists?
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i think it’s kinda cool that he’s got a set of stock phrases he cycles through. like one of those dolls with that string you pull on the back
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you guys notice how no one being real pumped about this bill brings up the third country receiving aid
@StevenGlinert
Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭
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Tiktok divestiture ✅ Aid to Ukraine ✅ Aid to Taiwan ✅ Even when things seemed most grim, he was there, watching, protecting the plan.
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some people are interpreting this mean i want the government to give everyone money. no. only i deserve this because i’m special
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look i know we all like reading about the midcentury but we don’t actually live in it anymore, this isn’t how it works
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ok are there way more people on ozempic than i think or do snack companies work like gacha games where like 20% of consumers eat 80% of snacks
@GRDecter
Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA
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Weight loss drug Ozempic causing selloff in candy and beer stocks, per Bloomberg.   Walmart said it’s already seeing an impact on shopping demand from people taking Ozempic.   That sent shares of food and beverage companies sliding, some to multiyear lows.   Crazy.
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lol. political masterminds
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@OneShoup oh god. you’re right
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@sorkincel it’s the eyelashes i think. they got nice eyelashes
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why is more and more incel stuff escaping it’s containment zone
@ThanksThoth
🇷 🇴 🇩 🙂👍
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New thing for people to develop a complex about just dropped
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no no no, you were banging o about negative real wage growth for like 6 months
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@RuNoseP they’re basically like those fake parties they got in china or north korea lmao
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my crank byzantine opinion is that the fourth crusade was the fall of the roman empire, the nicean rump state was too discontinuous in its institutional make up and self identity to be considered a continuation of the byzantines
@LegoRacers2
Liam
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The fact that the Byzantines were able to claw their way back from this and hang on for another 250 years is both one of the great triumphs of Greek history and also one of the all-time Westoid fumbles
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@EDRMesa mass politics were pretty cool
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every day i hear the sirens call
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pictured: me and my friends beating up your dweeb ass
@LightRaven777
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Democracy is a scam. It is a lie. It is dangerous.
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france was an axis country
@Darsam12_
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@metr0politics ?? FDR wanted to treat France as an Axis country and occupy it like Germany. wtf are you talking about
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@AwakenedSasqtch
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@GOP Please fix this. It is suggestive of the GOP's capability. IT IS 2 YEARS NOT 3.
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every time i see this meme it makes me irrationally angry. i hate it
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this doesn’t say as much about the smog in la as it shows alhambra is bizarro world. somehow in the middle of a sprawling metropolis every resident there manages to resemble a country bumpkin in outlook and knowledge
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no sorry that’s canada. america actually has a lot of corporations
@CantEverDie
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america isn’t even a country, it’s just five corporations in a trench coat
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people like to say this a lot about the financial press but it’s just that american news orgs are pretty consistently poor at international coverage. like it doesn’t benefit bankers to get accurate coverage of atrocities
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why was madagascar explicitly left out
@Locati0ns
Epic Maps 🗺️
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1000 years of history in 1 image
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canadians love playing this reasonable befuddled character archetype. it’s a sexual thing for them i think
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ok to be serious for a sec i just can’t feel anything but disgust for this dark brandon shit after everything with gaza and i’m not really sure how you guys still vibe with it
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… i don’t think italians are very ashamed about the risorgimento
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wanna hear what blew my mind? even though this era is known for fordism, it was aerospace not automobile manufacturing which was the #1 employer in america in the 50s and 60s
@LemmingsRev
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@ettingermentum Defense spending was 8% of GDP???
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lmao even gunther is more nuanced than the average very online neolib teen on here
@GunterFehlinger
Gunther Fehlinger
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Dropping nuclear ☢️ bomb 💣 on Japan 🇯🇵 in 1945 was a historic mistake by USA 🇺🇸 and has only one ☝️ advantage: Never again any nation will use nuclear ☢️ bombs 💣 again Not even Mad 😠 Med 🐻 will go nuclear ☢️ @MedvedevRussiaE
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i feel like you’re making up people. scott pilgrim was played by michael cera
@scttsalt64
Fern 🏜️
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I wonder how the men who interpret Scott as this badass incel chick magnet feel seeing him be so fucking moe in the anime
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ok i’ve had to vote for this guy like 3 times and honestly it does not feel that good
@nikicaga
Nikolaj🍦🇺🇦
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The nation cries out for him
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there are a billion tragedies to come out of the failure of the interwar years but one i think about frequently is how everyone just gave up on trying to make multiethnic polities work
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dude tooze REALLY hated this movie lol
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@TheStalwart hiking cycle over
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massive jerry brown statue
@sporadicalia
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look, all i'm saying is that SF and the Bay Area would be so much cooler if someone built a Statue of Colossus on Alcatraz with one of these bad boys, SF goes from our #2 city behind NYC, to #1 in America and #1 in the world. guaranteed.
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pokémon games has graphics ranging from great to pretty good until they transitioned to hd, which gamefreak was clearly not prepared to handle. which would be fine if they like, adjusted to match the new dev environment but instead they just kinda gave up
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@ThugginZemin none of these guys ever want to talk about the ethnic angle either, which i think is really interesting
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alright cmon now
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@quantian1 tbf they’re not really in the first book either, other than a bit where duke leto tells paul they can’t fight the harkonnens inside a space guild ship because they’d get pissed
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cant be asking this when the answer is podcast
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@_night_brain__ i guess *something* had to replace construction spending
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all great empires build grid cities: romans, chinese, americans etc. it’s just easy to do. the european squiggly street layouts are the remnants of podunk little castle towns with populations of like 5000
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@JohnWakefieId this book made me think all chinese emperors burned books for like 5 years. i thought they were all hitler
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i’ll be real, if i met a white guy who could speak urdu i’d find that funny
@aevaeavaevevave
aeva
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funniest languages for a white boy to be speaking: 1. arabic 2. chinese 3. urdu
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i feel like i’ve been transported back to the 1900s. what
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Shashank Joshi
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“The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930”
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watching the deficit balloon to unprecedented levels over the last 5 years: ok now democrats will compromise on spending goals because they don’t want to increase the deficit
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@ettingermentum biden wins the entire south but trump wins oregon??? is this a prediction from the 40s
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guy who thinks the free market solves the problem that broccoli takes some time to grow after harvest
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everyone’s talking about how funny the idea that fdr caused the dust bowl is but also the dust bowl didn’t cause a famine? like, the problem agriculture faced during the great depression was that there was a glut not a shortage of food
@Devils__Leftist
Mass Hannibal 🔻🇵🇸🪂🥷🚀
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@PamphletsY FDR wasn’t a dictator but he was a famine-maker
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i can think of at least three teenagers on twitter who have never lived in america who post like they’re american. what’s going on there
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“welcome to chilis! my name is brad and i’ll be your server this evening. how’s everyone doing tonight? 😃” “youe aure dezeiving ouiurself”
@i_zzzzzz
Brooks Otterlake
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When French people experience American-style restaurant service it causes them to spiral into existential anguish
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tf you mean close call. he crashed into the second floor of someone’s house
@WFLA
WFLA NEWS
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WOW! This driver had a close call after their car ended up crashing into the second floor of this Pennsylvania home. Read more:
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do you think jason furman ever reevaluates his positions or is he still living in 2005
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cmon man there’s no way the word for mayor in german is burgermeister
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@VellowVperedist “so in this timeline the germans won WWI-“ “but they didn’t.” “no but like america didn’t join WWI in this-“ “america fought in WWI. what’re you talking about?”
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@Sleek_Otter i don’t plan on living that long
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smug fukuyama face posting might be in poor taste. we might live in times that require a ~little~ more nuance
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@_night_brain__ they had their own “american factory” in the 80s,,, and it wasn’t WOKE .
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this tweet is a joke but this is literally a core part of america first. from its inception america first types have always argued for expanded imperialism in the US’s “near abroad” as an alternative to other forms of engagement. it’s not hypocrisy, it’s all consistent
@wisconsinmapper
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Average "America First isolationist" when someone suggests military intervention in Latin America
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french nationalists view of world war 2 is honestly so funny. it’s like “ok, we lost right away in 1940 but actually we fought honorably. and it was petains fault. then nothing happened between 1940 and 1944 i guess. then suddenly de gaulle shows up and beats the germans
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nixon deepstate conspiracies are so awesome
@ArchysLife
Archy✝️🇹🇷 | Richard Nixon Democrat
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@ProgNewDealer We have proof of the powers behind the scenes talking about removing Nixon as early as 1969. It was a conspiracy against the President
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in the fetal position, rocking back and forth, muttering to myself “nothing ever happens” over and over again
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let’s ignore the prison point for a moment. i just wanna talk about how this idea makes no sense
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i like this conception of the president as kingly figure, the arbiter of justice and giver of laws, as opposed to like the head of the executive of a massive bureaucracy
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anyway you don’t have to subscribe to mmt to be disdainful of this kind of intellectual incuriosity from the biggest mainstream economists
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@LemmingsRev “im depressed”
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americans when they read news from a country maybe 10% less parochial then them: whoa. what insight. this must be special rich person news
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i like to think they felt like this was a genuine betrayal by biden
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so what you’re saying is we should accept heterodox theories uncritically
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@OneShoup yeah i believe only two metro areas in japan have actually seen consistent population increases - tokyo and osaka. other than that it’s been stagnant or declining local populations, even in the mid tier cities like sendai
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isn’t it like, literally illegal to drive without car insurance
@RyanRadia
Ryan Radia
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@vanillaopinions Uninsured driver Twitter is wild
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i don’t think i’ve ever seen a video i’ve wanted to watch less
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@LeeAtwaterGhost @JoePostingg since you’re a big lee atwater fan i’m assuming that’s a point against him for you
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i was meant to be a 23 year old in 2451. i was meant to be conscripted into the UN directory army to suppress the mars rebellion
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Time progresses rapidly
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@jorfolle this guy wasn’t paying attention in 8th grade social studies when they talked about the cotton gin
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anyway in the off chance anyone who follows me hasn’t read this phenomenal piece by @BuddyYakov , it’s been my guiding star when trying to understand the postwar political economy, i return to it time and time again, you NEED to check it out
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@PhilWMagness what data was used for this study? was it primarily english? bc marx was very prominent in the german speaking world
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1 year
@sociologyWV @Scholars_Stage the claim that marx was unknown before 1917 feels obviously not true though? or at least incredibly anglo-centric. the german sdp was an explicitly marxist party and had a majority in the reichstag!
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@nise_yoshimi “i call to end you into ex-you! (WAR DECLARED)”
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the fact that this is the first map that comes up when you google roman empire is probably not good. it makes people think conquests which barely lasted two years were actually part of the roman empire in any meaningful way
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