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This post is not from Dan Kaszeta. Yesterday he announced his X account had been hacked and he could no longer log in.

https://t.co/UQKEyv2OxL

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@SarahKe11687664 @jordynscott23 @Ames2420 That's more than triple the total cumulative budgets from every year since this nation was founded, so probably not.

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Of course not. He's going to run again in 2028.

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Baier: Do you view JD Vance as your successor?

Trump: No..

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@xspotsdamark Minor clarification: the French had 3 armored divisions overall, but like most of their forces, the 1st and 5th Divisions became part of the French 1st Army and took part in landings in southern France. The 2nd Division was somewhat unique in that it was part of the US 3rd Army.

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@xspotsdamark This isn’t remotely true. Nobody was handpicked; the push into Paris was precipitated by an uprising in the city. The 2nd was de Gaulle’s only armored division, and one of the few French units in northern France (most landed with Dragoon). It was also about 25% North African.

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@marisolxoxo2

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@johnford @5150mc @GuitarWorld It’s a trademark, which means 10 years, but renewable so long as it is in use by Gibson. Trademarks aren’t about proprietary knowledge; it’s about product identification. Part of maintaining a mark is defending it; Gibson is literally required to take action here.

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@dsherr13 @GuitarWorld You will never find a manufacturer thankful for their trademarks being infringed upon. Gibson is literally required to take legal action if they want to maintain their mark. That’s how trademarks work.

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@SixstringLately @GuitarWorld You don’t approach someone who is already infringing on your trademark. They were supposed to approach you beforehand.

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@PawelSokala @nikicaga That’s because the idiots screaming, “Why die for Danzig?” were loud enough that we let the Nazis roll over Poland… then a bunch of other neutral nations, then our allies and Oops! Looks like not intervening let things escalate to a world war.

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@bendreyfuss The 109 countries myth traces back to a pseudo-Christian group in Australia, who ran a website stuffed full of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. And even then, their list of "109 locations" had to go all the way down to neighborhood and temporary expulsions to get the numbers.

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@faust0karla1re @CremeDeLaLeem @Shinpath @keanfei47 @PamphletsY That is a chart for extreme poverty (about $2/day); the “Rest of the World” in that chart is mainly reflecting the high levels of extreme poverty in Africa.

For moderate poverty ($5/day for an upper-middle class economy), China’s poverty is at 13%.

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@NornQueenKya OK, but where shovels?

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@Karl_Was_Right Russians make up 70% of the population. 20% identify as a minority ethnicity, with the largest groups being Tatars (3%), Chechens (1%) and Bashkir (1%). There are 10 groups between .75% and .33%, 20 between .33% and .1%, and the rest clock in at less than a tenth of a percent.

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@GarlicCorgi Incidentally, you will also see this thrown in the opposite direction, using PPP to try to make smaller economies look bigger. You see this sometimes with people trying to inflate the portion of the global economy controlled by the BRICS.

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@GarlicCorgi Yes and no. Whenever you see random people making wild claims about GDP, they are almost always taking either GDP or GDP (PPP) and applying it to the wrong situation. (PPP) represents domestic purchasing power and is a better indicator of quality of life.

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@theliamnissan “This man peed his pants!”

-some dude shitting the bed over a parody account

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@politvidchannel Yes, please tell enough Republicans to break the majority, the ones least willing to toe the party line, that the administration intends to primary them in 2-6 years.

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@terminallyOL Also Yul Brynner in The King and I, and The Ten Commandments.

Warner Oland in over a dozen Charlie Chan films

Just about every depiction of Fu Manchu (the OG “yellow peril”), including Oland, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Peter Sellers… and so on…

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@dieworkwear