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[JonLord1969 @JonLord06091941]

@GRYPRX Marlon Brando had no Italian ancestry. The family name was “Brandau” and they came from Rhineland Palatinate

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@mattyglesias The tweet itself makes no sense, but I don’t think it really makes sense to call Trump a fascist / failed fascist

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@daniels78939511 @PincherMartin8 Diem *was* the “short sighted and corrupt leadership” that we mistakenly backed for years (before we finally turned against him and backed the coup). It was Diem that purged the people who would have been reliable partners against communism

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@NancyMace Probably because no one can spell or say the name Jesus Christ only in the Midwest do you have towns named Hrmbldtckch

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@XMartinsMusicX Lydon is an old, embittered boy-band member with 1/10 the songwriting talent of Billy Joe Armstrong…

Sex Pistols were literally assembled by an entrepreneur who liked their fashion and thought (correctly) he could market them to rubes despite their inability to play music

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@Howlingmutant0 They assumed their viewers *loved* Hillary and would find it powerful, moving, inspiring. I’m sure they were right for many (or most) of their viewers, but I remember thinking it was one of the cringiest things I’d ever seen in my life

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@catehall Recommend this in real life too. Someone baits you once, they are virtually guaranteed to do it again. Ive cut those people off and have zero regrets (none were close friends to begin with)

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@razibkhan That timeline seems right. The Byzantines were arguably the most advanced civilization worldwide in the late first millennium, but you said Western Europe.

Btw I recommend Byzantium Unbound if you haven’t read it. Short read, and engaging

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@naranciagaming What are the 3 acts?

Act 1: 1939-41, Germany’s invasion of Poland up through Pearl Harbkr

Act 2: early 1942-early 43, Midway, through Guadalcanal and Stalingrad

Act 3: through the end

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@PincherMartin8 No, it was doomed from the start because Diem was an extremely untrustworthy partner who purged the South Vietnamese leaders who would have been most loyal to the anti communist cause.

We fought the war well but faced insurmountable obstacles all along.

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@KatieMiller Was she a Chinese spy?

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@annakhachiyan Yes most people agree that if it were just the affairs, it wouldn’t be a reason for him to be fired, but strangely a lot of the “discourse” on X seems to be ignoring the whole espionage / national security aspect, which while unproven is potentially hugely important

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@SCHIZO_FREQ There is an IQ threshold below which you simply cannot deal in concepts.

Years ago my dumbest friend (a HS teacher) and I had a lengthy political “argument” that consisted entirely of me trying to frame and discuss concepts and him accusing me of various prejudices. Total waste

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@FetaEnjoyer @jinijane_ No I won’t

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@CHairs87969 @jess_ann_pin What do you think the odds are she’s just posting insane shit for engagement in the hope of making some money? Looking at more of her tweets, I’m thinking “high”

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@robkhenderson Who’s doing the imagining? The advantaged person, the disadvantaged person. or both?

And there are tradeoffs between, eg, a low-status job and high-status job, eg, with the former make much less money but when you’re off the clock, you’re *actually* off the clock, etc.

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@mattyglesias Coming from a fan of yours, posts like this are a bit self-pitying and in any event unnecessary. You’re very good at what you do, and IMO you play an indispensable role in the left-of-center commentariat.

Ignore the haters! Like children, they need someone to rail against…