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“Reality ... is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder”

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@ruth_deyermond Infamous trembling hands of the junta leader.

Should have cut down on caffeine!

https://t.co/mZ3J2ANMkC

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@PicturesSoc 1990: Communism out, hyperinflation in.

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@Nayberryk @aed2ieba91722 OK, thanks! There are so many bad things in the world ...

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@Nayberryk @aed2ieba91722 For 1985, Gemini AI gives me a list of communist countries and potentially South Africa. Maybe Iran.

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@Nayberryk @aed2ieba91722 OK, genuine question for @Nayberryk - what are the examples outside of the Soviet sphere of influence?

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@razibkhan Geometric math was "Aryan mathematics".

It was abstract axiomatics that was denounced as "Franco-Jewish".

https://t.co/vYLTqLg23e

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@Qwerty1_1ytrewQ The "Idiots Act" is a much better name than USSR Article 190–1, "Dissemination of knowingly false fabrications that defame the Soviet state and social system".

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@sashamarxhl Drugs were grown in Afghanistan and distributed by Russian and Central Asian mafias, neither of which the US could control.

Style note - you should call yourself "Russian woman", not "Soviet woman" when talking about the 90s. It looks marginally more plausible.

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@sashamarxhl Both an 8-hour workday and a 2-day weekend were Western ideas. Учи матчасть, товарищ.

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@sashamarxhl Nope. Do you also believe that AIDS was a CIA plot?

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@phl43 Brouwer had a weird personal feud with Hilbert, but Brouwer was no Nazi. Bieberbach and Teichmüller, on the other hand, were really into it.

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@logisti00 Some humans are surprisingly good.

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@logisti00 "Most humans" is a very low bar in math.

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@JamesDJBrown Other research by professor Arima: 

"Japan has not surrendered unconditionally"
"The Potsdam Declaration does not condemn Japan" "Even a Black princess makes an appearance: Animated movies are becoming increasingly stateless"
https://t.co/99ny1RJPSj

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@phl43 Suppose that Stalin had not died trying to take Korea, but had gotten it on a silver platter. If he had built enough cheapo submarines to sink the US Pacific fleet and renewed his 1945 demands for parts of Japan, would you agree to his demands or fight?

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@phl43 @GuiveAssadi Is your list of places worth defending entirely composed of white countries? Or is Japan magnanimously included?

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@phl43 @GuiveAssadi South Korea and Taiwan were completely irrelevant to the West in 1951. Were they worth defending?

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@muzikoded Vienna in the 1890s vibes.

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@JacobAShell South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee established mountainous national parks, led a reforestation drive, and encouraged companies to send their employees on hikes.

Win for Park Chung-hee, loss for Mao Tse-Tung.