max “maximilien” well

aspiring baker

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i don't care if you have a "student driver please be patient!" sticker on the back of your car if you're going below the speed limit in the left lane i am rear-ending you

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@NoVa_Jacksonian anti-retributivism is unfair to victims and ignorant of free will. what would the tens of millions of genocide victims think if you tried to convince them it was best to choose blue? of course you should kill hitler. it is good for evil people to be punished.

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"So what's your take"
"This subway should be filled with sarin, a deadly nerve agent"
"100% disagree"

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@BawlmoreMerlin one of the few times where reading history felt like reading literature

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@kendkpowell why is moby dick at 15 laughable? or lolita at 25 unsettling?

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@thechrisknutson no americas message should be that we SUCK and are STUPID and maybe dumb as well and that chairman xi should do us all a favor and press the Big Beautiful Button which I Also Have.

-DJT

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@Kozzist i always remember that rumsfeld was already drafting invasion plans for syria before the army had taken baghdad before bush quashed it. early 2000s were definitely wild

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@kolonyaparfum sure but this isnt a very radical take. history is, in every case, the narrativization of events to create new meaning, and so can never be objective even in theory.

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@MariaFlowersx66 makes sense

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@AlaricTsoni @hellspatisserie see, e.g. the lyon and vendee terrorist policies to see truly horrific acts. the terror in those areas especially was wanton massacre. but those massacres were justified (and tolerated) not by class-revenge but rather military exigencies. i guess thats my point

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@AlaricTsoni @hellspatisserie yes, i meant more generally. the terror began with the massacre of prisoners following the advance of the coalition armies; thereafter it was most extreme in civil warzones, often as scorched earth anti-insurrection tactics. but at the micro level it was highly indiscriminate

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@hellspatisserie it’s very strange that the coalition war is never discussed w/r/t the french rev? it was the direct cause of the execution of louis; the committee of public safety; the terror, etc. Do people think that the republic guillotined people for no reason? it was military expediency

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@hellspatisserie many were in support of the french and the adams admin was very unpopular. the us rev. followed a familiar path of reaction after its culmination. the french/us revs diverge as france faces a multifront war which radicalizes politics beyond the 1792 culmination point

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@hyper_imagine @AstrKnight the switchcon can measure heartbeat and stammered leg movements. the switch microphone also detects panting. it has a very high detection threshold, but it can make a guess with ~98% accuracy. it is only done in extreme cases.

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@JaiBharat47 @TomBFlanagan those civilizations constitute probably >80% of the human population at the time. at its height, rome was probably the most populous polity in history up to that point (with the possible exception of china).

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@Gaismair it’s not the germany economy! the flow of foreign exchange based on imports existed in the entente too as a result of versailles, and it led to increased strain on these economies because of decreased flow of European trade that it significantly exacerbated the great depression!

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@Gaismair yeah because it physically couldnt pay the debts, which were in foreign exchange…

it could only get the exchange through a trade surplus, which could only be so high (because of foreign market demand); so it had to excessively reduce imports, straining the entente economies too

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@jasonwblakely every time someone mentions The End of History and the Last Man without engaging with the Last Man part it’s a good time to stop listening to that person