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if you say that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bad you get a bunch of history podcast bros in yr mentions with such illuminating basic-bitch takes as "but the Japanese committed atrocities!" and "a ground war would have killed more!" truly God has abandoned Bluesky

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

I am not open to the idea that the US should attack Iran.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

CLAIM: bluesky is a liberal echo chamber where conservative voices are suppressed FACT CHECK: FALSE. conservatives are allowed to post on bluesky. they are just so bad at it that no one engages with them

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

#Juneteenth is a day of paradox for me, a historian of slavery at Georgetown University, since June 19 is also the anniversary of the infamous 1838 sale of the Maryland Jesuit enslaved community, known today as the GU272(+). May they be remembered. slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/1

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Tina Kotek is not a progressive - she’s firmly in the corporate democrat camp and she’s skated on a lot of criticism because of the horrific era we’re in. Make no mistake - the next Oregon governor cannot be more right wing. We need a real progressive governor.

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when cell phones were first invented digimon otis called them "the poor man's bandai wonderswan". clearly he was wrong to have said this .

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

McDonald's Shrimp Salad (1985-1986): A garden salad topped hardboiled eggs and mini shrimp cocktail. This offering made national headlines when improperly stored shrimp led to a typhoid outbreak in Maryland. This salad has popped back up in some European markets in recent years

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

Mike Lee really said socialism or barbarism

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If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 10 days ago • 235 comments

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

incredible things are happening in China

submitted 13 days ago • 134 comments

Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

One of the things you learn reading any of the very good histories of the CIA is that it was insane that they accomplished anything AND that if you throw enough money at enough problems, sometimes you hit it big

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"You need a revolutionized approach to herb cultivation and flavor enhancement tailored to the unique lifestyles of affluent suburban men trying to paper over their questionable political views with shallow displays of culinary affectation."

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not saying Dark Fate was a good movie (it's just OK) but it was an inspired choice to make the bad Terminator dress like a border patrol agent this time

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go ahead, post another "both sides" take. tell me about cafeteria complaints and affinity group graduations at liberal arts colleges set the groundwork for today's DHS. write another essay comparing the domestic mobilization of the military to the social dynamics of leftist group chats.

submitted 13 days ago • 55 comments

Great piece from Nolan here. It's a side point, but no wonder there's a "crisis of masculinity" if our most visible paragons of male virtue are cops and soldiers who get dressed up full battle armor to beat up grandmothers and kids

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United States letter to PSL (party for socialism and liberation)

submitted 14 days ago • 47 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 15 days ago • 311 comments

I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket

submitted 16 days ago • 153 comments

I think of the genAI industry as fundamentally anti-human. They want to replace workers, they want to erode thinking itself. When I first heard about ChatGPT it was obvious to me that it would be a disaster for people with mental illness. But the problem is, the industry preys on people to profit

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

submitted 16 days ago • 95 comments

How can’st thou endure without being mad?

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Well maybe Gavin should suck less if he wants me to not agree with Trump

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People who aren't libs/lefties can use this site too, it's not our fault they can't hack it

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Very cool Elon

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

White folks watched a bunch of white folks sack the Capitol and then most of them be pardoned by the head of the white identity party and now we're supposed to listen to other white people pontificate about non-violence...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

submitted 18 days ago • 403 comments

RT if you love boobs or if you think ICE should be abolished

submitted 18 days ago • 77 comments

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 18 days ago • 27 comments

Greatest democracy in the world! USA! USA!

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Land of the free baby

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The daytime encounter offers an unexpected glimpse into this Texas icon.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

submitted 20 days ago • 105 comments

All of these are overrated except for Texas Roadhouse and the cheddar biscuit, which are both worth killing for

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the crisis over, his wars won, cincinnatus returns to plow flight attendants in exchange for horses

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

This is what they took from us

submitted 30 days ago • 29 comments

The bad news is Bluesky's daily unique liker count is down over a three-month period. The good news is you can just use whatever websites you want to without caring about that kind of stuff for any reason

submitted 30 days ago • 108 comments

short-distance (<1000 miles) air travel is outdated 20th century technology. The Chinese are using 21st century technology (high speed rail) while we're stuck in the past.

submitted 31 days ago • 47 comments