Well hopefully the Iranians don’t have some tradition of martyrdom that might complicate this
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Well hopefully the Iranians don’t have some tradition of martyrdom that might complicate this
Not confident that a MEB is going to be able to do Gallipoli 2 with anything less than appalling casualties.
FDR, a man who was born into the absolute top of the social strata and was dressed like Little Lord Fontelroy until the age of 6, understood that normal people will defend a program if they feel like they own it. And yet plenty of normal people don't get that
Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.
But the memes say the boomers were on their second vacation home by 27
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is six dollars a gallon. But at least now they’re not tearing down a statue of a Confederate general that I’ve never heard of in a city that I’ve never been to.
Imagine you're Glorfindel, Elladan, and Elrohir, you're getting ready to go on the most important quest since the elder days, and then Elrond and Gandalf announce you've been replaced by Sam, Merry, and Pippin.
My dream job (after federal judge, I guess) would be running a hobby shop dedicated exclusively to historical wargaming, and i think this would be a necessary prophylactic measure
The attempts to counter argue here are wild. ’Christ was unvaccinated’ is an instant classic.
So they look at pre-Reformation "Renaissance Catholicism" as a humanist ideal, which yeah it could be, but Renaissance Catholicism also gave us plenty of bad shit, too.
And a lot of the Reformed in that period were given to a kind of paranoia (seeing a global Catholic/Jesuit plot everywhere) and millenarianism (despite Calvin and his successors in Geneva rejecting this) that we find embarrassing today
I think a lot of people look at the Wars of Religion, the ECW, and the Thirty Years War and see a lot of misery and death brought on by radical Reformed church hardliners. That's not an entirely unfair reading of the Thirty Years War, anyway
Okay but Charles II made Christmas legal again
The elector of Saxony in 1620:
Zeteo ran an interview with Graham Platner today (paywalled, unfortunately) and I can't get past the fact that someone who literally recommends people watch "Come and See" as the ultimate anti-war movie is trying to pretend he never knew what a Totenkopf was.
"Poor predictable Prussian General Staff. Always takes 'immediate counterattack.'"
"Good ol immediate counterattack. Nothing beats that!"
Yeah but it's just them shooting the mines with beams from occupied DS9 as I recall
I'll note there are a couple of episodes about mines in Star Trek but no minesweepers
Navy leadership is divided between extreme fighter jocks who just want to do topgun and submarine nerds who think they're on an episode of Star Trek. There are no mine sweepers in either
"There is no ethical consumption under capitalism" mfers when they see someone else consuming under capitalism:
Again, we are watching a mirror image of Trumps covid response unfolding in real time: events are spinning out of his control and his response to that is not to figure out what he can actually impact things & act there, it is to assert a fantasy version of events & insist on its realness
Or to put it more bluntly: well educated middle class professionals instinctively recognize, even if they don't admit it to themselves, that the *relative* comfort & privilege of a well educated middle class professional to that of the masses was better off back then, and understandably long for it.
It's cool that we mostly shunted off this capability to our NATO allies, who love us and support this war now
Why is an Arcanum character portrait arguing we should all smoke on the train oh wait it makes a little sense
I cannot believe we have people out here who have negatively polarized themselves against mechanized farming, just terminal affluenza
54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...
"I feel like stealing from Whole Foods is my artists' subsidy" and "redscare podcast listener" venn diagram is just a circle
For 2024, the *household* income quintiles were
Top: 175k+
2nd: 105-175k
3rd: 65k-105k
4th: 34.5k-65k
Lowest: 0-34.5k
Obviously somewhat subjective to living area, but most upper-income folks have very little sense of where they sit.
I remember this one from property law. I think it ends with King Solomon demolishing your neighbor's home to prevent unjust enrichment.
