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François-Adrien Boieldieu

@AdrienBoieldieu

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“Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season: Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.”

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@GravitysRa1nbow It's remarkable to think of the change some people saw over the 20th century. There were Koreans who were born under a feudal monarchy and died as citizens of a first world industrial capitalist liberal democracy.

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@VeetosBack And then they instituted a military dictatorship that repeatedly invaded and tried to conquer its neighbor the Dominican Republic.

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@vanillatary @kaylapop_ You joke but this was literally the rhetoric official Communist parties used during the Nazi-Soviet pact lol

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@nikicaga Two West Bank settlers approached by a member of Muslim Twitter

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@Sturgeons_Law About 90% of these ridiculous woke takes is having any vague feeling ordinary people have "kids are annoying"/"I love kids!" and rationalizing that feeling into some political statement about bigotry in society. Like you can just have an opinion about kids.

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@AwayBerk Arbitrage is to move there and lobby for lower property tax

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@PopulismUpdates SOON MAY THE FETTERMAN COME TO BRING US RADICAL SOCIALISM

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@alicemazzy @eigenrobot Ancient Mesopotamia in particular is mind bogglingly old in a way that throws the irrelevance of contemporary history into sharp relief. Thousands of years of the same city states in the same region rising and falling and no one today cares or can differentiate any of the period.

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@bombsovrbaghdad @femalekissinger Um, it’s not like you need a particular history to be racist against people from a different continent

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@uhshanti Even new "luxury condos" reduce homelessness. In the absence of even expensive new builds, buyers will instead bid up the price of existing housing, pricing out people lower down the ladder till someone is unable to afford a place to live at all. All housing is good housing.

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@prussianyankee Did Bernie ascend to the presidency without me noticing

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@nykyt0sha @nikicaga Supporting Stalin and Kim Jong Un is acceptable but Biden makes you persona non grata

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@SocDoneLeft Difference in rhetoric is interesting. Left is almost certainly Conservapedia, and you can tell because it's more lowbrow conspiratorial.

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@polishXcellence "Male gaze" was invented to describe a characteristic of cinematography, not RL guys looking at women in public lol.

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@crakkkers >If Biden was even half as ambivalent to the “rules” as trump was Trump literally had to obey a court order that prevented him from ending DACA. Was also prevented by the courts from diverting funds to build a border fence. These constraints are real. Both parties deal with them.

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@varn0v I mean yeah lol, the environmentalist movement is intent on using climate change as a Trojan horse for their pet social agendas (among other things overturning capitalism). It’s painfully obvious and rather irritating.

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@Noahpinion If I thought I morally deserved death for living in place X, I would probably choose not to live in place X, lol. American "decolonial" larpers are truly embarrassing hypocrites.

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@JakeAnbinder @opinonhaver What lmao Bernie spent the 80s calling himself a socialist, hanging out with Noam Chomsky and visiting Cuba. When was he ever a normal Democrat?

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@LinkofSunshine Do...these people think Marx invented the term "bourgeoisie"? Christ.

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@SwannMarcus89 The fetishization of direct democracy is the thing that most baffles me about online communism.The appeal of socialism to them is being permanently stuck in meetings voting on the latest housing application. No wonder as a system it produces petty bureaucratic tyrants like Stalin

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@notkavi Given that he was constantly pissing off the gods, including Poseidon, god of the sea, Odysseus' prowess at sailing is proved in that he managed to get home at all.

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@notthechips @nikicaga Nazis didn't discriminate based on whiteness primarily. They were Nordicists. Germany implemented an apartheid state over Czechoslovakia but no one considered Czechs non-"white". The category just didn't have much meaning for early 20th century European inter-ethnic conflicts.

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@LopezBondi @vanillatary @kaylapop_ Here's one on the activities of the PCF during the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact: The reaction of official Communist parties is also touched on a bit in Moorehouse's The Devil's Alliance (e.g. attached screenshot)

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@vanillatary It's hilarious how the anti-war line is now that the US would be justified in having a imperialist sphere of influence.

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@nikicaga @canderaid Sugar plantation economy using indentured Asian laborers, like before US annexation.

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@SpecialPuppy1 Incredible how big an own goal Obamacare repeal was for Trump.

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@sam_d_1995 @ET_Californian 10/10 thread

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@RomanianLiberal Is that guy a lefty? Egyptian anime fan who's pro-Palestinian, probably just a generic conservative nationalist.

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@Darsam12_ And of course if the Retvrn guys had their way the Eiffel Tower never would have been built in the first place

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@revhowardarson Likewise the people on here who will claim Stalin did nothing wrong when even the Communist Party of the Soviet Union repudiated his cult of personality within years of his death.

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@deadpinata8773 "Build a giant statue of the Pope" lmao come on, say Mary at least...

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@NathanTankus "We should not be taxed and ruled by an unrepresentative oligarchy on another continent" "A minority of individuals who turn up to neighborhood meetings shouldn't have the power to veto what property owners do with their own property" Seems like these are compatible views to me.

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@phl43 The especially frustrating aspect of this debate to me is that they (rightly) point out the problem of ghettoization of immigrant communities, but also have considered attempts by European states to deghettoize immigrants as discriminatory and racist.

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Denmark's so-called "ghetto package" aims to rid the country of immigrant-heavy areas by 2030. Fearing eviction, some residents are suing the government for what they view as blatant discrimination.

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@nikicaga Imagine how citizens of the Republic felt that some self-appointed monastic cult could arrest their elected chancellor at will over some thousands year old internecine religious dispute. Like if the Jesuits could decide to depose the President of France for being a Huguenot.

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@kathbarbadoro This is just a religious argument that enforcing poverty on everyone will be good for our souls. I don’t think we should turn society into a Benedictine monastery.

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@SashoTodorov1 @Sacrobosco2013 As far as we can tell much of Europe was in fact wealthier than Middle East by 1300. The overtaking probably happened around the 13th century or so. And this makes sense, because beginning in that period Italian republics dominated Mediterranean trade, inc. with Muslim countries.

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@MattZeitlin Entirely acceptable if you also agree that British food is good because of its Indian and Chinese imports.

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@femalekissinger This response makes the concept of "profit incentive" nonsensical. Like if you think simply increasing the amount of a good is profit then communism will have the profit motive.

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@nikicaga Am I right in supposing that anticolonial propaganda under communism contributed to positive feelings about Africans in the older generations?

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@yhdistyminen I think the owner of the Taj Mahal would make more money from tourism than they would by turning it into housing.

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@thejb_stan Also be intentionally vague about what "capitalism" means and give no concrete path to removing it.

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@RomanianLiberal ZIS IS KLAUS SCHWAB UND I’M HERE TO SAY YOU MUST GIVE MORE OF YOUR RIGHTS AWAY

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@LinkofSunshine No, slavery was a thing in America because it economically benefited an important and influential elite interest: cash crop landowners. The point is that what economically benefited certain landowners didn't economically benefit the country as a whole.

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@nikicaga Yeah this tweet gets at why, many people in the power structures of Nazi Germany were amoral social climbers and bureaucrats quite happy to help build a liberal social democratic Germany at peace with its neighbors. Allies didn't see point in disrupting it

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@broom_error the SED set up a satellite party for ex Nazis to keep tabs on them and channel their political energies but most Nazis just joined the SED because they weren’t committed to right wing politics and just liked going to meetings for the ruling party.

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@nikicaga That sort of discourse boils down to "Communism is good because I would be charge and make everything I like legal and everything I don't like illegal"

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@worsematt @ChadNotChud But Xinjiang isn't a genocide either. Maybe cultural genocide, but you're right there's been no mass slaughter of people. Since the 90s there has been a rhetorical incentive for every group to call oppression of their ethnicity a genocide bc term grabs attention and opprobrium.

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@lilbabygandhi @notkavi You can join the Amish any time you want. For some reason no one does. Revealed preferences.

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@notthechips @nikicaga The proper response to this is that white/non-white is not the only axis of ethnic discrimination. It's only New World societies like the United States where a melting pot of European settlers defined themselves against indigenous Americans + African slaves that above makes sense

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@Anthrax_In_UK Montgomery was genuinely autistic tbh. I kind of don't blame the American generals for hating him.

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@MingAutocrat These takes mostly just show that prison abolitionists hold to their position because they consider criminals part of their in-group. When a crime threatens their in-group (SA survivors) they have no principles at all. Rehabilitation for me (violent murderers), not for thee.

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@ArmandDoma Brits drew the border so it's a legacy of imperialism. Venezuela is only redeeming their historic land. Doesn't make much sense when you think about it but will work for those who are already pro-Venezuela.

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@LinkofSunshine I've seen many leftists insist that houses aren't private property, so I think they just have an incoherent idea of what communism would entail.

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@mattyglesias To be fair, one of the most baffling parts of American race discourse is that people who in Europe would be considered Spanish or Italian or something are given a separate racial classification from other whites.

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@aquaimperium8 >Quarks aggregating to produce neutrons >Electromagnetic force separated from the weak nuclear force >Spacetime expanding by a factor of 10^78 Did your faith ever waver, anon?

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@GravitysRa1nbow Honestly, western countries had two years and tens of billions in military aid to figure out how to supply Ukraine with basic artillery shells. That they haven't been able to is a catastrophic embarrassment and a terrible indictment of the sclerosis of the entire western MIC.

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@GhettoPanda___ @USA_Polling 1) People confusing it with WWII 2) British propaganda

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@DavidAstinWalsh So historical accuracy is secondary to tone policing and ingroup/outgroup tribalism. Yikes.

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@SpecialPuppy1 Kind of funny the CPC could still just miss out on a majority while crushing the Liberals by 100 seats.

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@ASPertierra I like this rightoid meme that human sacrifice was bad so killing millions of indigenous people was a valid response. Human sacrifice bad, being enslaved and worked to death in a silver mine good

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@PopulismUpdates I think it's fairly likely there will be a "populist right" surge in Ireland if/when SF get into government next. Currently there's an insurgent republican left which monopolizes nationalism in Ireland, deflecting very genuine opposition to immigration bubbling under the surface.

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@AlaskanTzar Armenians somehow allied themselves with every loser country in the Middle East and Balkans

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@1Andrew_J @Lycus_2 @PopulismUpdates Not only was it that left-wing laundry list which you say, but it was also very vague which made it easy for the Reject side to attack. E.g. the constitution created a national public healthcare system but lacked provisions clarifying its relation to existing private healthcare.

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@EruditeDemigod @EmpressThaliaa The country of Argentina is a vestige of colonialism lmao. When are you going to give Patagonia back to the Mapuche?

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@StatisticUrban Yeah this is the real Achilles heel of American leftism, not anything cultural. Even many extremely woke libs will tell pollsters they oppose paying $100 a year more in taxes to stop climate change.

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@worldafropedia @BlackRadAnarcho @HongyuYang14 Wave a Haiwaiian flag and shout "Free Hawaii!" in a public space in Honolulu Wave a Tibetan flag and shout "Free Tibet!" in a public space in Lhasa Compare and contrast the treatment one gets

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@cremieuxrecueil @chribreuer 35% of students in Switzerland have an immigrant background, so I think this take is a generation out of date.

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@heyhwsitgoing @SwannMarcus89 He's the absolute master at posting something as uncontroversial as "I like mayonnaise" and getting thousands of furious QT dunks from mind broken left and right Twitterers.

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@Noahpinion You also get a similar myth that public opinion supported Jim Crow until the civil rights movement convinced everyone via direct action. When in reality desegregation always had majority support and the purpose of protest was to move it up the agenda. (Pic is opinion of Brown)

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@SwannMarcus89 To be fair anti-YIMBY leftists are so negatively polarized that a YIMBY could say sunshine is good and accounts like that would call sunshine fascism.

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@Blackpilldbendr @LinkofSunshine It is important to vote. Electoral politics is the central arena of political contestation in society.

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@YIMBYPoland Secularization really does accelerate rapidly when a faith becomes used as a controversial political football. Similar dynamic in countries like Turkey or evangelicalism in the US.

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@devarbol Tens of thousands of Syrian Venezuelans have moved back to Syria *in the middle of a civil war*, because the collapse of the Venezuelan economy was even worse for people.

Venezuelans in Syria - Wikipedia

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@Peter_Nimitz Bernard Lewis relates an amusing episode where the Italians send a letter to Baghdad in Latin and the Caliphal government has to run around finding a Frankish slave somewhere who could translate it

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@DavidHenigUK “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest.“

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@ShazCoder @abiyotawi @RisenChow

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@nikicaga Well he agreed the concordat with the Catholic Church, restoring the Church after the Revolution. In France Napoleon is more popular with the right than he is with the left.

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@mattyglesias Another great contrarian take appears to be "prosecuting people for committing a crime is likely to lower incidences of said crime".

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@ChadNotChud @LinkofSunshine It's not true. Cotton production at its peak was something like 5% of GDP. It's a claim roughly equivalent to something like "the contemporary US economy is built on the tourism and hospitality sector"

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@lilbabygandhi North Korea received enormous amounts of economic and military aid from the USSR and China until the 1990s, it was hardly isolated.

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@nikicaga Dutch politics is unironically the best argument against PR ever devised

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@Seamus_J_Allen @hykka @ProfBillMcGuire The main cause of poverty is underdevelopment. Trading with poorer countries brings them wealth: giving people there money in exchange for goods. The alternative to global trade is no one buying goods from poorer countries, and people there going out of work and starving.

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@agraybee @Oneoneder Wondering how a prison abolitionist would be anti-lynching. The entire goal of the anti-lynching movement was to end lynchings by passing legislation that would send the people committing lynchings to prison....

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@DunesHermit @Grabthor2 @uhshanti If only. The dominant form of urban development is regulations preventing anyone from building housing. If landowners and developers were really profiting maximally, then housing would be plentiful, rents cheaper and homelessness reduced.

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@MazMHussain The difficult thing to grok as an outsider is the incredible victimisation complex in Hindu nationalism. They genuinely seem to believe Hindus in India up to the present day were like Jews in Nazi Germany. It’s very confusing to people who don’t share their historical perspective

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@EverydayBastiat The stupidest thing about this meme is that they auctioned off all of the property of those guillotined to capitalist speculators in order to fund the revolutionary war effort. Really solving the 1%!

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@PokuPokuStudio @JakeAnbinder Rural France and similar places in Europe are likewise very car dependent also. But we're talking about urbanism in major cities, i.e. Paris vs Atlanta. Not "southern states" as a whole.

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@SwannMarcus89 Extremely right wing French/Algerian Jews who did Aliyah. Zemmour is the most prominent example of how far right that demographic is.

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@GalenMetzger1 …Thermidorians lmao? The Thermidorians were notoriously corrupt and unpopular and had to repeatedly launch coups and fix elections to keep the Jacobins and royalists out, and only ended up paving the way for a military dictatorship that abolished the republic.

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@nikicaga Store terrorized into making more money from consumers.

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@deshmor @TheHasselhoss @mossacannibalis The Soviet occupation force installed a literal major in the Red Army who couldn't speak Korean as leader the north and purged and killed his opposition while the country was de facto run by a Soviet general.

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@adamfc2000 @freddie_poser The difference is that in a planned economy a surge of demand for broccoli would lead to mass shortages, because there would be no way to allocate it. While in a market economy there are no shortages because the price goes up and the people who most want broccoli can have it.

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@BunnySocialism_ The logic here isn't much more complicated than "white people suck, therefore brown patriarchy is progressive"

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@thechosenberg Why I've always asked women out IRL (so I can get a rejection in person)

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@aquaimperium8 This is incredibly obvious to anyone who remembers the period and was more or less the entire rationale behind the base mobilization thesis that bedevilled Democratic politics in the later 10s.

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@CAChalmers_ I think Argentina sold their navy for scrap in one of their recent national bankruptcies.

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@stan_okl But that is how housing works? The government just bans developers from building Kias (1-bedroom apartments) through Porsche mandates (single family zoning). The real issue is that the average person doesn't know zoning exists and they don't like the idea of people driving Kias.

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@Halalcoholism Didn't they specifically kill off Apu for this reason?

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@gamergate2077 @PJ11819211 If American imperialism alone can turn a country of 100 million people into one of the wealthiest in the world in a few decades, then American imperialism is goated and every country should want to abandon socialism for market access and economic aid.

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@gaslightyourmom How is this American? This claim is like a century old from Catalan nationalists. Hoteps are just the African American version of a global nationalist phenomenon, no different to early 20th century Hungarians claiming the Sumerians were Magyars.

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