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Rob

@radhistoryguy

1 year

Come find me at the other place, birdsite is cooked

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Rob

@radhistoryguy

2 years

The three genders

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@radhistoryguy

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I once tried to explain to some nerd that it was more historically inaccurate for a blacksmith to become a knight than it was for there to be a black person in medieval Europe and it was like trying to communicate with the Arrival aliens

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@socialaskan

6 months

Hilarious that the liberal/bourgeois cultural victory is so complete that Americans’ base assumption about feudal lords is that they had to work their way up from the peasantry

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8 months

It's always teeth for me

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8 months

Ok then, what’s one of the best. This is still one of my faves.

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

I fired this off without thinking, this is extremely ungenerous to the Arrival aliens

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

Don’t let this consent manufacturing get you twisted, in none of these cities has anyone actually implemented meaningful reform, much less defunding, so any surge in violent crime is an indictment of the police as they currently exist and operate

The New York Times

@nytimes

3 years

A year after the murder of George Floyd, Los Angeles and other American cities are facing a surge in violent crime, forcing cities whose leaders embraced the idea of police reform to reassess how far they are willing to go to reimagine public safety.

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

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@radhistoryguy

1 year

I think it's a very real possibility that everything that dominated our lives for the past fifteen years -- Facebook, Twitter, Uber, AirBnB, all of it -- will vanish in the next ten years and leave essentially nothing behind

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@Pinko_Slime There's nuance to it but your instincts are spot on! There are actually some historical examples of both but moving from peasant to noble is shockingly/vanishingly rare

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

@jil_slander Before our brains were ruined by a neverending firehose of content this was the funniest conceivable thing

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@emrazz @mat_ushh @notsoundmind @OscarFactsOnly How generous of Wall Street to do those things out of the kindness of their hearts

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@Ugarles This guy seems like a real sharp thinker

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

Dang this is really poppin off, Free Palestine

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@adamjohnsonNYC This is mostly true, but we can really fuck up all the hagiographic remembrances and piss a bunch of people off by posting super hard about how much he sucked

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

Some of you never read seven books of a popular fantasy series only to find out that the author was a weird libertarian sociopath and it shows

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@Marengo234 Oh god I remember that, not that the show cared too much about accuracy (which is fine) but that was such a weird detail to include

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

Oh wow, this is doing numbers, check out my SoundCloud: ACAB trans rights workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@teleken @crulge @BrandyLJensen @amyklobuchar @SenSasse I would encourage you to think about health care as a systemic problem that needs solutions that will work for large and diverse populations, not just you

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

girls chat: financial advice, support, mutual empowerment boys chat: big yikes on that 900 mil bro, can we get an F for homeboy’s career

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@ALABSeries

4 years

Judge put internal chats right in the decision 😭😭😭

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@radhistoryguy

8 years

@jennybhill @Myrmecos do you know where the internet came from?

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@medievalhistory @emilyorating Yeah the interesting thing to me at this point is more about ideology than accuracy (history is weird and complicated!), one of these things goes without comment for a lot of people and the other causes GREAT OUTRAGE

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@radhistoryguy

1 year

I love that roughly a billion people played Skyrim, a very generic-seeming fantasy game that is built on a substructure of psychedelic-fueled gnostic mysticism

Find Nome on Bluesky

@NomeDaBarbarian

1 year

Like... this is a diagram explaining the in-universe concept of CHIM, as distinct from Zero Sum, which the Gods are unable to experience (as Lorkhan demonstrated) since the Gods, being infinite and ineffable, are incapable of understanding A) their own limits (as they have none),

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@KRosencreutz Maybe...

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

Imagine sharing this and thinking that it means that Frat Dudes are uniquely suited for leadership

Jeremiah Crespo

@J_CRESPO11

6 years

Fraternity Men account for 2% of the American population. Since 1825, that 2% has accounted for: - 80% of Fortune 500 executives - 76% of U.S. senators/congressmen - 85% of Supreme Court justices (Cornell) Greek life teaches, builds, and prepares its members to succeed

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@draculavoice The first books I ever read on my own were Heinlein, because that’s what the library had and they had spaceships on them, but Stranger in a Strange Land was not a book I was prepared to engage with intellectually as an eleven year-old

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@radhistoryguy

10 years

@wilw @tabletop http://t.co/hgRVvIAoJF

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@PorygonEnjoyer What about this guy

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@radhistoryguy

1 year

Man, I wasn't under any impression that it was a good company, but "Wizards of the Coast hired the Pinkertons to intimidate a leaker" may have permanently broken something in me

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

My column in the New York Times: When Taco Bell tells me to “Live más”, I feel frightened and upset

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@JRubinBlogger Love too call a functioning healthcare system is a “fetish”

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@JackDexterity @Pinko_Slime It's a very interesting question but the historical record doesn't tell us very much at all about this (though it varies wildly from region to region), I think it's possible though

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@CorporaCallosa @teleken @crulge @BrandyLJensen @amyklobuchar @SenSasse I wonder if there is some sort of fundamental difference in terms of availability and pricing that distinguishes health care from food

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

Oh hey folks, what’s up, here’s some photos I’ve got on my phone of the statue of noted murderer of indigenous people Harvey Scott and it’s location in beautiful Mt. Tabor park, so random, ha ha

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

If DSA members keep not buying swords I'm absolutely leaving the org

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

Fighting sucks and no one ever looks cool doing it. Great piece by @ByYourLogic

Perspective | Face it: The body-slammed reporter did just what you would have done

Everyone criticizing journalist Ben Jacobs for calling the cops after being assaulted is, in fact, a huge dork.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@arzE @MeghanMcCain thank u mr weekend

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@radhistoryguy

8 years

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@radhistoryguy

1 year

@jlindy77 @LeavittAlone The mouse will be there at the heat death of the universe

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@mattyglesias Yes

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

@cushbomb Come on man, this sucks. No reason to go after her.

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@radhistoryguy

10 months

@CollieYimby Workers still don't have fair wages, try to keep up bud

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

I know this is maybe a weird opinion for someone who isn’t religious but I genuinely do think that a human life has essentially infinite worth and while it’s not possible to save everyone there is no such thing as “going too far” to save even a single person

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

@flosluteus @PorygonEnjoyer OK, here's a 13th century statue

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

Shoulda known the Portland graffiti shitpost is what I would go viral for

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@antumbral Hugely disappointing, since the infinite Seinfeld thing is incredible as a weird absurdist art thing

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@radhistoryguy

8 years

@sam_kriss @Sargon_of_Akkad Eustathius of Antioch here, video games are art, also reading books or watching plays is degenerate SJW behavior

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

It's kind of amazing to me that you can be a millionaire in the 21st century by playing video games and all you have to do is not say slurs or break any obvious laws and yet somehow that is too hard for a lot of people

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

Also please question the “violent crime surge” in the first place

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@radhistoryguy

10 months

@jesawyer It remains kind of bewildering to me that people think that being interested in something means that you also think it's good

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

@AngryBlackLady @LeahPetersen The DSA just confirmed its unwavering commitment to reproductive rights, which is more than the DCCC was willing to do

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@radhistoryguy

10 years

@SJWIlluminati "Earring ornaments"? They sound like fucking anthropologists describing a lost tribe, that's how foreign women are to them

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

I almost got bamboozled by this tradposting account, this summary of the Civ games takes a WILD turn at the end, be careful out there folks

The Black Horse

@TheBlackHorse65

6 months

The rise and fall of the Sid Meier's Civilization franchise from 1991 to 2018 is both one of the great tragedies of the computer gaming industry, and a window into the massive change in psychology of the US ruling class. This thread will explore both.

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

I am just learning that a trans catgirl hacker leaked the TSA no fly list and also that the list was just stored as noflylist.csv and it's good to know that the the world can still deliver moments of joy like this

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

Tired: not unionizing Wired: unionizing

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4 years

New: Wired is unionizing

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

It’s also wrong for other reasons!

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@CorporaCallosa @teleken @crulge @BrandyLJensen @amyklobuchar @SenSasse The rational solution is to not make people set aside money for essential health services, because it recognizes that humans are not perfectly rational economic actors

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

The first part of this quote is tremendous too: "We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, we can also build. It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities... 1/2

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

Boba Fett, trad icon

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

@THR @BenAffleck

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@jasonschreier My beautiful five year-old son Gunther looked up at me this morning and said "Papa, but how can you play Destiny 2 without meaningful Faction content?" He pledged Dead Orbit though and I have disowned him

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

I was sure this was just another fake idea like the Hyperloop, I didn't realize that they had actually gotten as far as experimenting on monkeys and honestly it fucking sucks

CONSEQUENCE

@consequence

3 years

15 out of 23 monkeys implanted with Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chips have reportedly died:

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

@notch @UnburntWitch Imagine having millions of dollars and wanting to spend your time like this

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@radhistoryguy

1 year

People are dunking on this but I think one important thing to consider re: the "Are men OK?" question is that we don't recognize things like self-harm and eating disorders in men because 1) those are usually feminine coded 2) we've trained men to dress them up as self-improvement

rain (resurrection arc)

@redactedrain

1 year

what did she do to you bro?

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@radhistoryguy

9 months

The funniest part of this is that apparently if you have a four-year degree but make less than 30k then you do not exist as far as class is concerned

William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

@MarxinHell

9 months

I am on my knees, people, begging and pleading — you do *not* need to fall for this extremely stupid bit of flim-flam.

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@sadspacequeer @ineptdotjpeg The book notes that "he preferred the company of soldiers" 👀

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

@Yascha_Mounk America made more progress toward its founding principles in the five years after the Civil War than it has in the last fifty

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@JennyLBoyd22 Just more proof that a race of immortals has infiltrated the upper rungs of our society

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

This (from @Lollardfish and @prof_gabriele ) is very very good

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@radhistoryguy

6 months

I don't think that fascism in America will be identical to German or Italian fascism but it is kind of distressing when it keeps hitting the exact same notes

AZResist🌵

@az_resist

6 months

Happening now. @ASU and the police are using frat boys to destroy the camp at Old Main. This is insane. #Occupy4Gaza

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@radhistoryguy

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@headfallsoff In one of the very early YA novels some imperials go looking for Darth Vader's right glove to crown a new emperor because it is indestructible

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@radhistoryguy

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@MatthewSievert @hello__caitlin @patrickklepek Google “Good Samaritan Act” my dude

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@radhistoryguy

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@varsha_venkat_ They're right though, they never did get past it, people two generations removed from the blitz still talk about it with personal pride

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@radhistoryguy

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@sxsw You could have said nothing but instead you went with "actually arms dealers are innovators"

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

If I can risk being genuine for, the reason why Rogan/Peterson/et al get me so hopping mad is because there are genuinely a lot of lost, well-meaning young men who are (perhaps unconsciously) looking for models of positive masculinity and these dipshits are all they see...

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@matthewjdowd Oh man, why didn't anyone think of this before, you just solved all of our problems bro, great job

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

Remember this the next time someone tells you “Abolish ICE” is too radical

Suave Hellion

@HeWhoLovesWords

6 years

The Trump gov't put out a call, asking legal immigrants to sponsor some of the 1,000's of kids in cages. Desperate to help, 170 kind ppl stepped up, hoping to finally free the kid from captivity. Turns out, it was a sting operation. Then came the arrests.

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@radhistoryguy

4 years

@Patrick_Wyman I feel like every millennial I know remembers this very distinctly but everyone older has completely forgotten how it was, it’s absolutely mind-boggling

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

@NRO @charlescwcooke This kid is in high school, why are you being so weird about this

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@lincodega Uh, isn't that last one just Hydra? Like "super-Nazi villain organization" Hydra?

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

@EliLake @tressiemcphd Log off already buddy, take the L

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

“No more billionaires” is a humanitarian slogan

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

Make her queen

The Local Sweden

@TheLocalSweden

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Eight-year-old Swedish girl pulls Viking era sword from lake

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

A number of gnostic mystics, theurges, wise men, and philosophers have come to believe the argument that the demiurge created a false and flawed world and thus occluded the fullness of divinity is not just plausible, but inescapable

The New Yorker

@NewYorker

3 years

A number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable.

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

@dieworkwear I've got great posture and I've almost dealt with the trauma from all the bullying, thanks for asking

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

Sorry

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@radhistoryguy

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The composition of this list definitely says something about masculinity, sexuality, imperialism, and patriarchy, but damned if I know what it is. Pretty fascinating though!

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@radhistoryguy

5 months

@Bernstein I am begging the New York Times to stop writing stories about what college students are doing. Please. This is embarrassing for all of us.

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@radhistoryguy

2 years

Dropping the veil of detached irony for a moment, please be cool

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@radhistoryguy

6 years

@crulge I’m extremely tepid on electoral politics in general but I was willing to man the barricades for Beto when he was facing Cruz, I think he seriously misjudged what made him popular

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@radhistoryguy

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@mikeduncan It was pretty easy actually? Where is this idea coming from

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@radhistoryguy

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@machineiv There was a funny clip going around from the 2000 movie where Gygax is an extra and Jeremy Irons obviously can't stand being near him

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@livkittykat Ey, gabagool, youse DSA types are gonna be sleepin’ with the fishes see

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

Who decided to call it The Oregon Trail and not

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@jesawyer

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

Dune (2021)

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@radhistoryguy

7 years

There's nothing in the rules that says a teen can't be governor

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@NPR

7 years

Kansas Scrambles To Change Rules After 6 Teens Enter Governor's Race

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@radhistoryguy

3 years

@nytimes Why do this when they could get married in critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime.

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@philipaklein freeing slaves was unfair to those who died enslaved

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@radhistoryguy

5 years

@conor64 My man, what do you think the 1619 project was about

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@radhistoryguy

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@ConnorSouthard He wasn’t a “smart” character so they couldn’t ruin him by making him do stupid shit while trying to convince the audience it was actually genius

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@radhistoryguy

11 months

Are you all fucking new? Axe guy has the high ground AND can use the full range of motion on his swing, that's literally the point of designing stairs this way!

Aaron Shuff

@shuff_bomb

11 months

Who wins this? Axe guy or sword guy. Place your bets.

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