davidswanson.bsky.social
New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd
Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
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you want me to give up *research*? a priceless skill that also leads to all kinds of rabbit holes and the fizzing excitement of satisfying my curiosity? are you bananas
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Gangs of London
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(but thanks for reading!)
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one of the points in the article is that it's not supposed to be taken as factual ("The legend of its invention may be nonsense—I certainly embellished it here for my own purposes").
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https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-89-hot-dog/
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honestly a huge reason american policy towards israel is so bellicose is a) geriatric boomers who remember the 1948 and 1973 wars as transformative political events with israel as the scrappy underdog and b) evangelicals manically horny for the apocalypse, which starts in jerusalem for them