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@BasilTheGreat They won’t win. And even if they did, they’d continue the same policies. It’s all talk.

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@FuentesUpdates I didn’t listen to (c)rap even in my youthful lib phase.

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@FuentesUpdates It’s disappointing that Nick finds (c)rap relatable. And uses its lingo.

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@SamAndrews1017 @nrken19 I was intrigued by the faces, read up on them a little. Lots of researchers think they’re fake. The style is modern. There’s an elephant next to one of them. Those disappeared long before the supposed date of the pics.

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@ArtemisConsort If he’s so macho and dominant, why did he cry after the verdict?

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@EldarMamedov4 I think Armenia is hurt by this much more than Russia.

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@UBERSOY1 Back on Earth, the Russian Empire lost its parts of Poland during WWI, before the revolution. Stalin brought them back, Gorby pissed them away.

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@MatthewParrott @KevinMendezGom1 Who were Vance’s backers? Thiel? And why did he lose them?

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@Tsuranuan @FistedFoucault Large, real states were viable during the age of infantry. They became rare during the age of cavalry. They came back in force during the age of artillery.

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@Tsuranuan @FistedFoucault Did Germany fail to create a centralized state at that time for the same reason? I don’t know. Interesting question. Italy? Maybe that was just local disorganization.

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@ArtemisConsort The latest phase of fertility decline, since around 2015, is due to smart phones. Previous phases had different causes, secularism and the pill among them.

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@ripplebrain Welcome back.

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@MatthewParrott It’s interesting that opening a spreadsheet, making a photo copy, loading screens on a bank ATM is as slow as decades ago.

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@FistedFoucault His grandfather Ivan III was much more important historically, but gets much less press.

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@Tsuranuan @FistedFoucault That situation was reversed by the invention of effective firearms, not by Ivan IV.

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@FistedFoucault But this US-Euro difference is mostly stylistic. The results are similar.

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@FistedFoucault In America politicians present themselves as regular guys. In Britain and France pols are mostly upscale people who don’t hide that. I don’t know the political cultures of other Western Euro countries well, but I assume most are similar to UK and France.