Jonathan Edelstein

The artist formerly known as Transit of Ganymede. Yes, that's what's in the photo. Speculative fiction, photography, history, and sometimes still Covid.

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@DanielDiMartino If Fujimori is underperforming in her strongholds, and the diaspora is one of her strongholds... yeah.

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@rhovanielle @agraybee True enough, and they constantly had to close loopholes. But AIUI that was mainly an urban practice, and the agricultural or mine slaves were rarely freed.

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@CraigGurianNYC @admcrlsn Yeah, there's an "Espaillat isn't a repulsive sex pest" intangible here.

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@monadicjordan @agraybee The kind of slaves who were manumitted and wrote books had very atypical experiences compared to most other ancient slaves.

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@LouisAFishman1 @Etanetan23 I don't think any of the Hadash MKs would be able to - even the ones whose identity is ambiguously Israeli wouldn't feel able to march in a parade at this point. Certainly the Balad MKs wouldn't. But, say, Lucy Aharish in a world where she's elected? Identities are porous.

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@Etanetan23 Lapid, Golan, Lazimi and Abbas, for starters.

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@LouisAFishman1 @Etanetan23 Mansour Abbas could.

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@JacobALinker @WSJ The Afro-Omanis were adopted into their former owners' tribes and clans when slavery was abolished. The same thing happened in the UAE.

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@Daniel_Sugarman On the one hand, Judahite/Israelite neopaganism would be wild. On the other hand, _call it Judahite/Israelite neopaganism_.

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@RachelMoiselle As a practical matter, the American model is the only one that can be managed consistently, because any other model involves someone in government deciding the boundaries of racism/terror support/etc., and since ministers and civil servants are human, none will do so objectively.

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@EVKontorovich That might have been the case regardless - the ICJ is slow even by the standard of international courts. We'd have been looking at a 2028 or 2029 ruling before. Now we're probably looking at 2031 or 2032.

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@nobodyknows2322 What makes you think assaulting a reporter would stop him? It didn't stop Gianforte.

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@orwalem1 @JacobL1994_ Sinai is very tough counterinsurgency territory.

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@JacobL1994_ @NiNiNiNickNICK Khmielnitskiy has joined the chat, but yeah.

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@Boxy_FT After the First Dynasty, anyway. The Dyn. 1 tombs contain dozens to hundreds of retainer sacrifices, and then at the end of the dynasty they... just stopped. AFAIK they were unique among Bronze Age cultures in that regard (stopping, I mean, not the retainer sacrifices).

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@sluttyoutspoken Retjenu, the oldest known name and one that none of the people currently living there can claim was exclusive to their ancestors.

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@Boxy_FT but a 40% chance of moving up a couple notches in a very unforgiving class system

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@ParanoidPol otoh he's not actually wrong